Tournament Rules

[Mitoe]

[font size="4"]Civilization Restrictions[/font]

This civilization restrictions have the purpose to bring variety to the game series for the community.
We do ban Iroquois and Ottomans simply because we think they unbalance the game series.

? Iroquois and Ottoman may not be played in the tournament.
? You must play X different civilizations, then you can play any civilization one more time:

In a Best-of-3, you must play 2 different civilizations, then you can play any civilization one more time.
In a Best-of-5, you must play 3 different civilizations, then you can play any civilization one more time.
In a Best-of-7, you must play 4 different civilizations, then you can play any civilization one more time.
In a Best-of-9, you must play 5 different civilizations, then you can play any civilization one more time.

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[font color="#b12525"]example for BO3: You must play 2 different civilizations, then you can play any civilization you want one more time.[/font]

Game 1 (Best-of-3)

Player A plays [font color="#1979e6"]British[/font]
Player B plays [font color="#2119e6"]French[/font]

Game 2 (Best-of-3)

Player A may not play British
Player B may not play French

Player A plays [font color="#1979e6"]Dutch[/font]
Player B plays [font color="#2119e6"]Russians

[/font]Game 3 (Best-of-3)

Player A may play any civilization [font color="#b12525"](he may either pick British or Dutch)[/font]
Player B may play any civilization [font color="#b12525"](he may either pick French or Russians)[/font]

Player A plays [font color="#1979e6"]British[/font]
Player B plays [font color="#2119e6"]Russians

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[font color="#b12525"]example for BO5: You must play 3 different civilizations, then you can play any civilization (again) if you want.[/font]

[font size="3"]Game 1 (Best-of-5)[/font]

Player A plays [font color="#1979e6"]British[/font]
Player B plays [font color="#2119e6"]French[/font]

[font size="3"]Game 2 (Best-of-5)[/font]

Player A may NOT play [font color="#1979e6"]British[/font]
Player B may NOT play [font color="#2119e6"]French[/font]

Player A plays [font color="#1979e6"]Dutch[/font]
Player B plays [font color="#2119e6"]Russians[/font]

[font size="3"]Game 3 (Best-of-5)[/font]

Player A may NOT play [font color="#1979e6"]British or Dutch[/font]
Player B may NOT play [font color="#2119e6"]French or Russians[/font]

Player A plays [font color="#1979e6"]Germans[/font]
Player B plays [b style="color:rgb(33, 25, 230)'"]Aztecs[/b]

[font size="3"]Game 4 (Best-of-5)[/font]

Player A may play [font color="#1979e6"]any[/font] civilization [font color="#b12525"](Including British, Dutch, or Germans)[/font]
Player B may play [font color="#2119e6"]any[/font] civilization [font color="#b12525"](Including French, Russians, or Aztecs)[/font]

Player A plays [font color="#1979e6"]Dutch[/font]
Player B plays [font color="#2119e6"]Aztecs

[/font][font size="3"]Game 5 (Best-of-5)[/font]

Player A may play [font color="#1979e6" style="font-weight:bold'"]any[/font] civilization [font color="#b12525"](Except Dutch)[/font]
Player B may play [font color="#1979e6"]any[/font] civilization[font color="#2119e6" style="font-weight:bold'"] [/font][font color="#b12525" style="font-weight:bold'"](Except Aztecs)[/font]

Player A plays [font color="#1979e6"]French[/font]
Player B plays [font color="#2119e6"]Japanese[/font]

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Gameplay Rules[/font]

1.1 - Every player must respect their opponent, casters and organizers. Misbehavior will result in a warning and can lead into disqualification. Racism and/or insults will not be tolerated.

1.2 - Every game must be recorded. You will need to be able to prove whether your game was played within the timeframe and won/lost.

1.3 - When a player disconnects from the internet BEFORE 2 minutes, the player can (when both agree) restart and replay the game. When the opponent does not agree to restart, the outcome of the game will be determined by the tournament staff.

1.4 - When a player disconnects AFTER 2 minutes, the players can (when both agree) restart and replay the game. When the opponent does not agree to restart, the player who lost connection will be given a loss.

1.5 - Every player may restart a game BEFORE the 2 minute mark when necessary. This is allowed ONCE per match-up (game of a series) when the game is NOT casted by an official caster. Restarts for CASTED games will be determined by the caster him/herself.

[font color="#e61919"]NOTE: The maximum number of restarts per bracket stage (WHEN NOT CASTED) is as follows:[/font]

? Group Stages: 1
? Round of 32: 1
? Round of 16: 2
? Quarter Finals: 2
? Semi-Finals: 3
? Finals: 4

1.6 - The caster is allowed to restart a game as many times as necessary for optimal play.

1.7 - All games must be submitted to the "Record Games" forum.
(esocommunity.boards.net OR eso-community.net)

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Casting Rules[/font]

2.1 - For each stage of the tournament authorized casters will select matches for the purpose of streaming. This will be posted in the 'CASTED GAMES' scheduling dedicated page on the website. It is every players responsibility to check if their match is selected for streaming (but the casters themselves should try to notify the players.)

2.2 - If the players and caster(s) determine that a selected match cannot be streamed due to lag, in order to provide an optimal environment for competitive play, the match may be streamed from the replays instead.

2.3 - Only casters that have been authorized by the tournament staff will be permitted to stream matches. However, the players themselves may stream their own gameplay so long as rule 3.8 is applied.

2.4 - The players in casted matches will be required to schedule their matches with their opponents and with the authorized caster(s), except in the event that rule 3.2 proves an issue.

2.5 - All streamed games must have a time delay of 2 minutes.

2.6 - If a selected match cannot be casted due to game delay issues after correct measures, the staff reserves the right to have the match rescheduled within the deadline of that stage of the tournament. The tournament staff reserves the right to extend the deadline of the match if deemed appropriate.

2.7 - All tournament streamed matches must be recorded.

2.8 - Observers who are not official casters and are not selected for streaming may NOT observe the game.

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Disqualification Rules[/font]

3.1 - If you suspect your opponent has some sort of unfair external advantage or has modified their game to input/enhance their play (cheats, hacks, map visibility, trainers, etc.), finish the game and submit it for review with an explanation of why you think the game was unfair. If the tournament staff members find someone to be guilty of cheating, the cheater will be disqualified from the tournament. Building rotator modification is allowed.

3.2 - In the event a player uses the explorer revival exploit, the participant will be given a warning or direct disqualification.

3.3 - The registered account name must be the main account of its owner for proper seeding. Only the sole owner of that registered account name is permitted to use the account to complete tournament matches. The tournament staff reserves the right to issue a warning or immediately disqualify players who tamper with this rule and the right to force the undeviating removal of these players from all associated websites.

3.4 - Should a player/participant be deemed unco?perative in this event by the tournament staff, he may be issued a warning or direct disqualification when agreed upon by all members of the tournament staff.

3.5 - When a player is disqualified, he/she has no right to claim any prize money.

3.6 - A disqualification may only be commited if all tournament staff agrees.

[chusik]

Japanese, Indian and Sioux Players will be very very happy about these unjustified otto/iro civ rules.

[spadel]

If you start banning Japan and India you may also ban Brits and so on. I think it's fine! ')

[fard]

Hello everyone. Its kinda sad that civs even get banned like u do now woth otto and iro. U play this tournament on RE PATCH! did u thought about sioux india and japan? Lolol i dont know who made this decisions but its funny to hear" hey fard these guys banned otto iro and let the other civs b played" i dont care at all but i think the guys who made this decisions are brainless and got some cry msgs from ppl who cant deal with that banned civs. Anyway have fun for destroying that game/tourney by making several civs now even more stronger..

[WickedCossack]

Civ rules are always super annoying to make cause of how bad RE left the balance of this game. FP would be obviously be the best choice but then you probably wouldn't get nearly as much interest in the tournament which sucks ...

At the very least (regardless of whether you think its good/bad to ban iro/otto) we're going to see some different matchups than we saw at pk tourny which as just a veiwer I'm looking forward to I really can't muster up much interest to watch another tournament of iro games doing the same strat over and over again ... I just can't x_x

[Garja]

Civ rules are indeed the most controversial part in aoe3 tourneys.

People have different opinions on what the best civs are, so they won't agree.

The current rules are a compromise between competitiveness, balance, and variety. You are required to play a number of different civs but then you can play what suits you the best.

Iro and, to a lesser extent, Otto have proven to be the very favourite civs in the past, leading to the first 2 games of any series being pretty much always the same. That's why they got banned and other civs didn't.

Clearly, a number of civs are now the top ones but that would be the case with any civ if they started banning more. Again, it's a compromise.

[_H2O]

Sorry to hear you are disappointed Fard. The decision was not made due to any complaints from anyone. There are 3 reasons for this decision


1. There are 4 distinctly op civs all free to play at least one time the opening order would be Iro ->' Otto ->' India->' Aztec. By removing those two civs we believe there will be more diversity in the civs played since less civs are op and the gap between the top civs and the generic euro civs is much smaller when Otto and Iro are removed.
2. Iro is so far ahead of every civ it is not winnable on many maps, Otto are also incredibly over powers and have a super low skill cap which is not exciting to watch or play at a high level.
3. Every event has had plenty of G1 Iro G2 Otto, this way new things will be available to the viewers so it should be a positive for everyone.

[Goodspeed]

Hello everyone. Its kinda sad that civs even get banned like u do now woth otto and iro. U play this tournament on RE PATCH! did u thought about sioux india and japan? Lolol i dont know who made this decisions but its funny to hear" hey fard these guys banned otto iro and let the other civs b played" i dont care at all but i think the guys who made this decisions are brainless and got some cry msgs from ppl who cant deal with that banned civs. Anyway have fun for destroying that game/tourney by making several civs now even more stronger..

Found the Otto player

[iNcog]

excellent civ rules, keep it up

[bugattivitesse]

What if you could only mirror OP civs?

[Mitoe]

What if you could only mirror OP civs?

As it stands right now, mirroring the OP civs is the ONLY way to have a chance of beating them, and that''s the main reason we decided to ban them: their existence disallows for matchup diversity. If we were to make a rule which forced players to mirror "OP" civs, this would strongly favour players who better understand the civ and mirror matchup, which is something not all players want to be forced into learning.

The general philosophy behind the civilization restrictions in this tournament was both to promote civ and matchup diversity, and also to give players more freedom when choosing their matchups because, let''s be honest, no one can beat a strong Iroquois or Ottoman player with other civs The same cannot be said however, of Aztec or India, for example.