S20 Playoffs Week 2 - Ashville & Platinum Playoffs Week 3 - Best of 3

Wed, Nov 23, 2016 by Kumori

Congratulations to the teams that made it to the Semifinals! Only the strongest will prevail and move on to the Grand Finals!

For divisions playing a Double Elimination bracket, remember this is your first week of Lower Bracket Thursday matches. Matches from Monday need to be played on time and reported quickly so we can get the Thursday matches scheduled on time. The latest you can play Monday matches is Tuesday night. The latest you can play Lower Bracket Thursday matches is Saturday night.

For our NA Platinum and EU Platinum divisions playing their Double Elimination bracket, remember that your Lower Bracket Finals are this Monday, November 28th. POVs will also be collected from everyone playing in the Lower Bracket Finals, more info in this news post...

Official Playoff Brackets

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Map & Matchplay
  • Map: koth_ashville_rc1
  • Config: ugc_HL_koth.cfg
  • Download the map here.
  • Match Date: Monday November 28th
  • Match Play:­ The winning team is the first to score 4 TOTAL round wins. The match is played in two halves. The first half is over when one team scores 3 round wins. The second half is over when one team scores their 4th cumulative round win (including round wins scored in the first half) or when the other team scores 3 round wins. If scores are tied 3-3 after two halves then another round is to be played. The first team to win the tie breaker round will win the game.­­ For more details and guides on how to play KOTH maps ­please see ­this forum thread.

 

Best of 3 Maps & Matchplay for NA Platinum and EU Platinum ONLY

NA Platinum and EU Platinum are using the Pick/Ban System for choosing maps for their Playoff Week 3 - Best of 3 match.
Playoff Matches are played Best of 3 Maps (with each map played as 1 half only)

  1. Home Team bans 1st map (7 choices)
  2. Visiting Team bans 2nd map (6 choices)
  3. Home Team picks Map #1 (5 choices) - Map is played on Home Team's server.
  4. Visiting Team picks Map #2 (4 choices) - Map is played on Visiting Team's server.
  5. Visiting Team bans 3rd map (3 choices)
  6. Home Team picks Map #3 (2 choices) - Map is played on Home Team's server.

Remember that during Best of 3 matches we play each map a little differently than we did during the regular season. Please read below.

  • KOTH Maps - Played to 3 wins. This map type cannot be tied.
  • CP Maps - Played to 4 wins or highest score after 30 minutes.**This map type can be tied after 30 minutes. If this occurs then you MUST play 1 additional Overtime round to determine the winner of the map. Whichever team caps all the points first in the OT round will be declared the winner of that map. *If neither team manages to capture all points during the first OT round, a second special OT round is to be played. In this round, whichever team caps the center CP first wins the game. Note: This ONLY occurs if a 2nd OT round is actually needed.
  • Payload and Attack/Defend Maps - Played as *1 half (i.e. each team attacks and defends once).* These map types cannot be tied. Optional: Teams may agree to play Payload/AD like a normal match instead of just 1 half, but both must post their agreement in Match Comms prior to match.

Only maps played in regular season or playoffs of the current season can be picked. Product is excluded because it wasn't part of Platinum regular season.
Once a map is picked, it can't be picked again.
Map choices must be made in Match Comms and will be reviewed by an admin.

Map choices must be made and posted to the Match Comms by 11:59 PM (your local time zone)­ on Saturday November 26th.
Teams cannot agree on map changes after Saturday. Once maps have been picked and banned they are considered to be locked-in!

 

Compulsory Collection of POV Demos

We are collecting POV demos from all players involved in the Grand Finals, Bronze (3rd place) matches and Lower Bracket Finals. This is a no-give and teams must cooperate. If you have a player who does not or cannot record POV demos, do not play them in your match. If you get ringers and they are approved, they must also have POV demos recorded and we will request them. We will collect all of them from members of both teams in your match. Failure to provide a POV demo will be grounds for player suspension and/or your match being thrown out, overturned or replayed.

Teams are required to provide the materials via Dropbox or Google Drive. POV demos MUST be tagged with the players name and what class they played. You may send the materials to us through a support ticket, as a message through Match Comms or to your division admin. You have 48 hours to provide all the materials after the conclusion of your match.

 

Reminders for Team Leaders:
  • You are ­­­required­ to use the Match Comm panel every week to coordinate your match date, time and server. You can access this by logging into the site with your leader username and password that was sent to you when your team was created. Click on the "Match List" tab to find this week's matchup.­
  • All discrepencies will reference the Match Comms as the official form of communication between teams!
  • Forfeit matches will not be accepted if there are no posts in the Match Comms panel!
  • If you need to rent a UGC server for your match, please go ­­here.
  • The leader of the winning team should report the match score as soon as the match is over.
  • If neither team reports the match score the match will go as unplayed and your teams will be moved to Not Ready.
  • Teams are not allowed to change the map under any circumstances.
  • For a full list of banned map and weapon glitches, please go here.
For any questions or concerns please contact an admin via the steps located on the


GOOD LUCK TO ALL TEAMS!
- Kumori
UGC Head Admin

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