ESOC Underused Cup - Tournament Rules & Information

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ESOC Underused Cup - Tournament Rules & Information

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The ESOC Underused Cup
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Tournament Schedule:
- The tournament will begin at 15:00 GMT on Sunday, June 9th.
- All times are in GMT.
- Round of 64: 15:00 - 15:45
- Round of 32: 15:45 - 16:30
- Round of 16: 16:30 - 17:15
- Round of 8: 17:15 - 18:45
- Semi-finals: 18:45 - 20:15
- Finals: 20:15 - until we get a winner!
- You can watch the tournament this Sunday on ESOCTV and EscapeAoE!

Sign Ups:
- Sign ups are open now! You can sign up using your My ESOC tab with your ESO username.
- Sign ups will close Friday, June 7th at 23:59 GMT.

Prize Pool:
- $100 USD baseline, +50% of on-stream donations to ESOC received throughout the day.
- Exclusive forum badge.
- 1st place will receive 50% of the prize pool, 2nd place 30%, and 3rd/4th place 10% each.

Civilization Rules:
- France, Britain, Germany, India, and Russia are banned from play.
- This leaves the available selection of civilizations as follows: Dutch, Ottoman, Portugal, Spain, Aztec, Iroquois, Sioux, China, and Japan.

- Once you have won with a civilization, you may not use it again for the rest of the series. Losing a game does not disable a player’s civilization from being played again.
- For the 1st game in a series, players will agree on a civilization matchup. After that, the winner of the previous game will select their civilization first. This pick is final and will be locked in. Their opponent will then pick their civilization afterwards.
- In a Best-of-3, you must win with 2 different civilizations.
- In a Best-of-5, you must win with 3 different civilizations.

Map Pool:
All maps are listed in the order they are to be played in. There will be no map vetoes.

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Rules:
- All games must be played on the ESOC Patch.
- All games must be recorded.
- All results and recorded games must be reported using the match results submitter.
- All players must respect the tournament schedule. If a series is not in progress by the time a round is scheduled to end, the admins reserve the right to make a decision on the winner of the match.
- All players must coordinate with the admins to ensure smooth scheduling of casted matches.
- All other applicable ESOC tournament rules apply.

Additional Notes:
- Games will be played primarily on ESO; games that need to be played on GameRanger must be authorized by a tournament administrator. In case of unforeseen circumstances, casted games may need to be played on GameRanger.
- In case games need to be played on GameRanger, please have home cities and decks prepared!
- If you think your opponent somehow had an unfair advantage by using any exploits or mods, please PM one of the admins with the recorded game and screenshots.
- Admins reserve the right to disqualify any player(s) for failure to abide by the tournament rules. All admin decisions will be final.
- If you have any further questions, please ask in this thread!

ESOC Grand Tour
- This is the 1st event of five in the ESOC Grand Tour Season 2.
- You can read more information about the ESOC Grand Tour Season 2 here.
- Here you can view the the current standings of Season 2.

Donate
- If you would like to contribute to ESOC's tournaments, you can donate here!
- 50% of donations received on the day of the event will go towards the prize pool of the Underused Cup. Make sure to support your favorite players!

Tournament Staff
- Admins: @Cometk, @BrookG, @Mr_Bramboy, and [mention]g48[/mention]
- Casters: @Interjection, @chrisie, @bwinner, @loloekie10, @deleted_user4, & @Vinyanyérë

Thank you everyone and enjoy!
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Can noobs sign up also? (only planning on doing if queue isn't full an hour before the deadline)
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Tim010 wrote:Can noobs sign up also? (only planning on doing if queue isn't full an hour before the deadline)

Of course! (good strat too, even some pros sign up at the last minute like Aizamk, to a tourney admins chagrin :P)
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I don't understand, how can all of these matches stay on schedule in such a short amount of time. What if one games takes an hour?
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sheckler wrote:I don't understand, how can all of these matches stay on schedule in such a short amount of time. What if one games takes an hour?

Keep in mind that the RO64, RO32, and RO16 are all 1 game each. In a standard major tournament, we usually schedule best-of-3 matches on ESOCTV for an hour. ~2h15m should be plenty of time for a player to complete the 3 games it takes to make it to the Round of 8 ^^

Either way, I'll have my eye on things. You can count on me to keep things running smoothly!
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