Nations Cup Rules 08

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1. NC is a competition for National teams

2. Players who live, study or work in country A and have nationality B may play for either A or B.

3. Players with a double nationality may choose for which country they play.

4. Players to whom 2. and 3. applies have to decide in the preregistration phase for one nationality

5. A team formed by players working for DoW may be transnational.

6. Guests are not allowed to play. Players that are not registered players at the end of registration phase cannot play. Players are not allowed to change their names during the tournament.

7. Base for national/transnational teams is a player/country list down to rank 500 posted 6 weeks before the end of the registration phase

8. Players of the same nationality (or chosen nationality as in 2./3.) have to play together

9. Any country that has 6 or more players listed in the player/country list HAS to try to form their own national team. No team can reject a player of the same nationality unless they register a full team. If they fail to get 6 players together - see 11. 9.1 several teams per country are allowed.

10. No player that rejects to play for his nation can play for any other team.

11. Players that are not able to form a full team under these conditions may join with other nationalities regarding 8.

12. Players that are overhangs of registered nations may join transnational teams as in 11 regarding rule 8. In special cases a NC board may allow these players upon request to join a registered nations team (language problems i.e.). No national team that has declared itself 'complete' (= has rejected one or more players of their own country) may ever be joined by a player from a different country. There will be a "Split registration" in two phases, part one for the national teams, part two for the TN Teams and overhangs. In phase one only national teams can register. Two weeks before the start of the NC phase two will be opened to leave the remaining players possibility to form transnational teams regarding the rules.

13. Organisation of play

13.1. Explanation Tournament > Round > Clash > Match > game Clash = encounter between two teams Match = encounter between two players Round robin: if a group plays a round robin, each team plays against each other team in that group once.

13.2 Team's rank is decided by the sum of ratings of best 6 players as of Sunday 7th of September at 11:00 PM (GMT).

13.3 Captains Captains can be either playing or non-playing. The captain acts as the spokesman/woman of the team in the following way:

- He/she registers the team by posting a reply on the REGISTRATIONAL thread; - The captain sends the TD a PM WEEKLY with the five-player lineup no later than Wednesday, 11:00 PM (GMT) (the week before the start of the next round). If the TD doesn't receive it in time, she/he will use the lineup of the round before; - Each Sunday before 11:00 PM GMT, the captains edit their post in the REGISTRATIONAL thread with the result of last round in matches and games (game scores are not necessary, just the number of victories per team).

The players play their games (they can make arrangements by PM) and pass the results through to their captains, all within the time limit.

It is allowed to start arranging and playing a new round right after the TD has posted the pairings for the next round, even if the previous round hasn't been finished.

13.4 Board representatives every team nominates a representative for the NC Board when registering. The board representative will represent the teams decissions and wishes in cases of dispute or rule discussions. The team captain may but must not necessarily be teamrepresentative.

13.5 Tournament overview The tournament will comprise 8-12 weeks including a break of a week in between round robin and knockout phase. Below the division in groups and continuation in knockout phase is shown, based on team's rank, with various numbers of teams:

6-10: Full round robin with SF and F. #1 chooses opponent in SF 6: 8 weeks 7: 10 weeks 8: 10 weeks 9: 12 weeks 10: 12 weeks

11-16: Round robin, 2 groups, with QF, SF and F. #1s choose opponent of other group in QF; cannot meet other #1 in SF, cannot meet best classified of own group in SF. 11: (1,4,5,8,9) and (2,3,6,7,10,11), 9 weeks 12: (1,4,5,8,9,12) and (2,3,6,7,10,11), 9 weeks 13: (1,4,5,8,9,12) and (2,3,6,7,10,11,13), 11 weeks 14: (1,4,5,8,9,12) and (2,3,6,7,10,11,13,14), 11 weeks 15: (1,4,5,8,9,12,13) and (2,3,6,7,10,11,14,15), 11 weeks 16: (1,4,5,8,9,12,13,16) and (2,3,6,7,10,11,14,15), 11 weeks

17-22: Round robin, 3 groups, with QF, SF and F. Best 2 numbers 3 qualify too, on the basis of scores against rest of top-5 (17), top-6 (18-22), top-7 (23), top-8 (24), respectively. In QF, best #1s play against #3s (classification: different group), other #1 plays against worst #2. In SF, classification = different group. In the case that #1, 2, and 3 of same group qualify for SF, #1 and #3 play against eachother. 17: (1,6,7,12,13), (2,5,8,11,14,17) and (3,4,9,10,15,16), 9 weeks 18: (1,6,7,12,13,18), (2,5,8,11,14,17) and (3,4,9,10,15,16), 9 weeks 19: (1,6,7,12,13,18), (2,5,8,11,14,17) and (3,4,9,10,15,16,19), 11 weeks 20: (1,6,7,12,13,18), (2,5,8,11,14,17) and (3,4,9,10,15,16,19,20), 11 weeks 21: (1,6,7,12,13,18), (2,5,8,11,14,17,19) and (3,4,9,10,15,16,20,21), 11 weeks 22: (1,6,7,12,13,18), (2,5,8,11,14,17,19,22) and (3,4,9,10,15,16,20,21), 11 weeks

23/24: four groups (1,8,9,16,17,24)(2,7,10,15,18,23)(3,6,11,14,19,22)(4,5,12,13 ,20,21) - groups split according to ELO team rank.

1/8, QF, SF and final (16 teams advance to KO phase)

Each group gets assigned a letter A-D randomly (using toutoune`s suggestion of startng a 4 player game with 1 member of each group and seeing who is the start player - that group becomes Group A, then do it for 3 players to figure out Group B, etc.). Once a letter is assigned then the matchups are fixed.

A1 plays B4 (i.e. Group A 1st place Team play Group B 4th place team) A2 plays B3 A3 plays B2 A4 plays B1 C1 plays D4 C2 plays D3 C3 plays D2 C4 plays D1

Quarter Finals: A1/B4 winner plays C2/D3 winner A2/B3 vs. C1/D4 A3/B2 vs. C4/D1 A4/B1 vs. C3/D2

Semi Finals: Still to be decided: Done Randomly (This is different than a previous suggestion, but I think is more fair). Randomize each remaining team just as group were randomized at the beginning of the KO round. Have Team A play Team B and Team C play Team D.

Finals

To decide upon rank in the round robin, number of clashes won is the first tiebreaker, then number of matches won, then difference between games won and games lost, then the round robin result between the relevant teams.

13.6 Clash pairings in round robin stage Pairings by number of teams in a group, team number according to team rank.

5 teams Round 1: 1-3, 5-2 Round 2: 4-1, 3-5 Round 3: 2-3, 4-5 Round 4: 5-1, 2-4 Round 5: 1-2, 3-4

6 teams Round 1: 1-4, 2-5, 3-6 Round 2: 5-1, 2-3, 4-6 Round 3: 1-3, 6-2, 4-5 Round 4: 6-1, 2-4, 3-5 Round 5: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6

7 teams Round 1: 7-1, 3-5, 6-2 Round 2: 1-4, 2-5, 6-7 Round 3: 5-1, 2-3, 4-7 Round 4: 7-2, 4-5, 3-6 Round 5: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 Round 6: 6-1, 7-3, 2-4 Round 7: 1-3, 5-7, 4-6

8 teams Round 1: 6-1, 2-5, 3-7, 4-8 Round 2: 1-3, 2-4, 5-8, 6-7 Round 3: 7-1, 8-2, 3-6, 4-5 Round 4: 1-5, 2-6, 8-3, 4-7 Round 5: 1-4, 7-2, 3-5, 6-8 Round 6: 8-1, 2-3, 5-7, 4-6 Round 7: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8

13.7 Match pairings Captains choose a lineup per clash. EACH CLASH, THEY ARE FREE TO CHOOSE PLAYERS AND SLOTS THEY PLAY IN.

14. Schedule of play Once the draw for the next round is posted (on Thursday or Friday in the week preceding that round) the players can play their games (they can make arrangements by PM). The captain must have the results of the match before the end of the week of that round. Example: the second round, of which the draw will be posted not later than Friday, 19th of September, must be finished latest on Sunday the 28th of September. It is allowed to start arranging and playing a new round before the previous round has been finished. The draw for the first round will be posted on Saturday 13th - round ends Sunday 21st.

15. Duration of a match

A. Number of games per match during round robin Best-of-five, i.e. match is over when a player has won 3 games. A tied game doesn't count for the match. Possible results are 3-0, 3-1, and 3-2.

B. Number of games per match during knockout Best-of-seven, i.e. match is over when a player has won 4 games. A tied game doesn't count for the match. Possible results are 4-0, 4-1, 4-2, and 4-3.

16. Anti-Cheating Trust: - Each player plays with his/her personal, unshared account. - Each player plays with his/her strongest account (overall). - Each player plays alone. Any contact with others (other than one's opponent) during the game that has to do with that current game is forbidden.

17. Nature of the games A. 1v1; B. US map; C. Rated; D. Observable.

18. Pairing of teams for KO-round group winners pick opponents

19. Anti-Bot Trust In a game between player A and B, if B is replaced by a bot, A waits till B returns and after that the game resumes, no matter what the bot did. Special cases:

19.1. After about 5 minutes (give or take), if B hasn't returned, A leaves the game. B has to make sure the game is resumed within 24 hours. If not, the TD rules: A. A wins if B hasn't put enough effort in rescheduling the game; B. The game is annulled if both players express the wish to do so, or if the TD rules that no one can be blamed (if neither of the players could find time, for example); C. B wins if and only if the TD is convinced that A deliberately procastinated the resuming of the game.

19.2. In case A continues to play against the bot, the game is annulled if A can convince B or the TD that he didn't play on deliberately. Player A can't win the game anymore.

19.3. In case both players are disconnected, the game has to be resumed in 24 hours. If not, the TD rules according to the situation where only B was disconnected. In this case both players are treated equally.

20. Miscellaneous A. It is not allowed to add players to a team after the start of the tournament unless the TD decides otherwise (mostly in case of emergency). A player can only be registered to one team. This emergency registration has to be according to rules 2./3./6./8./12. B. In case of a dispute, one of the involved captains sends a PM to the TD with a copy to the other captain. The decision will be under the discretion of the TD. The TD will inform both captains by PM about the decision and post it in the organisational thread if necessary. The TD may request support from the NC board to cover her/his decision. C. If a team is not able to finish a round, it forfeits all unplayed games and loses therewith each unfinished match. D. Captains can temporarily or permanently resign during the tournament by adjusting their posting in the REGISTRATIONAL thread, in which they appoint a new captain. E. Every team is free to choose a name; by default, every team gets the name of the team members' country.