TD Tournament

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Introduction
Name is a 1v1 Tiberian Dawn tournament that consists of two stages: Groupstage and Finals. In Groupstage players while hopefully play 5 rounds, depending on player count.

Registrations
Registration for the tournament is open until Thursday 26th. When registering for the tournament, players will have to decide their faction to play for entire tournament. Available factions to choose from: Nod, GDI, random. If player registers for the tournament and doesn't state his faction, it will be random by default.

Tournament logistics
OpenRA Tournaments Discord group will be used for handling logistics of the tournament. Judges will post brackets for group stages on Discord server and players will report their matches on Discord server as well. Players also use Discord server for contacting the judges in case of a rules problem. After games, players post replay of their game(s) in replay section of the Discord server.

Explanation of the groupstage and gridstage
Groupstage: For the group stage, all entrants will be divided into 2 groups, Group A and Group B. Players will play a round against every member of the their group and the 2 players with the most wins will advance to the Finals
Finals: The Finals will a consist of a semifinals and grand finals. The semifinals are a best of 5 with the players first in their respective groups will face and the players second will face each other. The winners of these matches will advance to the Grand Final and play a best of 7.

Maps – Maps for the rounds are:
1: Avocado
2: Pirates and Emperors
3: Badland Ridges
4: Matchpoint
5: Deterring Democracy

Maps – Semifinals and finals
1: Avocado
2: Pirates and Emperors
3: Badland Ridges
4: Matchpoint
5: Deterring Democracy
6: Twisted Ichor
7: TBD

For the semifinals, players, after flipping a coin, will be allowed to ban 1 map each and pick their respective matches from the rest. Winner of coin flip may choose to go first or force the opponent to go first. Player who goes first permanently bans a map from the map pool. Then the other player permanently bans another map from the map pool. Then the players pick their respective maps in this order.

Game settings
Explored Map: On
Short Game: On
Fog of War: On
Crates: Off
Debug Menu: Off
Starting Cash: $5000
Tech Level: Unrestricted
Starting Units: MCV Only
Game Speed: Normal

Player spots have to be random. Players will have to pick faction they chose during registration.

Spectators
Players should always let streamers spectate their games. Players are free to decide if they want to have their games enabled for non-streamers. Tournament organizers support players to play with no spectators allowed or with low amount of spectators because of less lag and therefore better quality of games.
Streaming and casting
Anyone that wishes to stream and cast games may do so. However, streamers are required to add minimum of 2 minute stream delay.

Disconnecting during a match
Players decide between themselves the outcome of a disconnected game. Players should always report a disconnect to a judge. If players cannot come to an agreement, judge will watch replay and based on replay, choose winner of the game or if the game will be restarted.

Rules penalties
If a rule has been broken, it is also the opponent's responsibility to spot the mistake. If a mistake has been made and game has been played for more than two minutes, players keep playing. Example: players accidentally have crates on in options but they don't notice it during the first two minutes. Players tell judge about rule incident but keep playing the game as if nothing happened – it would be too late to correct the mistake at this point. Players can always pause the game, contact a judge and wait for judge call before unpausing if they are hesitant.

If you break a rule, you will get a warning. If you break the same rule second time during the same tournament, your opponent gets a single free win. All rule incidents will be recorded on “black book†document. If judges notice that a player is trying to abuse same rule constantly in black book, action can be taken.

Stream sniping or “ghosting†of any form are extremely forbidden (watching a stream of your game or having a friend spectating your game and helping you “map hackâ€. Stream sniping or ghosting will result a permanent ban from OpenRA Tournaments.

Players are expected to have good manners at all times. Judges' word is final and judges have the power to use their supreme power and disqualify and/or ban players from future OpenRA Tournaments.

Prizes for winners
A Special tag on OpenRA Tournaments Discord server and maybe a packet of Tim-Tams if you're lucky.

Games will be streamed on ZxGanon's twitch stream.
https://www.twitch.tv/zxganon_

Comments and criticism is appreciated from players and spectators of the stream.

Players