Post by Evitman on Oct 30, 2009 16:07:26 GMT -5
Season Details
Will begin with a 3 week “regular season”. The participating teams may be put into divisions depending on the number of clan sign-ups. A total of 8 matches will be played over the course of the regular season. The overall win/loss/tie record of each participating clan will determine its seeding for the single elimination “playoff” bracket which immediately follows the three week regular season.
A: Each week of the 3 week season will consist of 2 matches for each team. Matches will occur each Monday and Wednesday at 9:00pm Central Standard Time. Both teams have the OPTION of choosing to move their war to 9:30pm CST or 10:00pm CST as they prepare their war in the appropriate section, but ONLY if both teams agree to it. If no agreement can be made on an alternate time, then the war stands at 9:00pm CST by default.
B: Each match will consist of the week’s preselected map (as chosen by the creators). The designated HOME team (as listed on the schedule) will choose which side it wishes to play on the map. The AWAY clan will play the other side and then decide if the map is to be played during the day or night. The winner is determined by TOTAL rounds won. If there is a TIE in rounds won, the match ends in a draw.
You will have to continue to play with the midway team switch on automatically. In this scenario, since both teams will be playing both sides before the map is over, the HOME TEAM chooses which side they wish to play on first in the lobby. The AWAY TEAM will still choose whether the map will be played during the day or night.
C. Each week of the 3 week season will see all players using whatever weaponry is made available to them, including all grenades and rockets. NO GRENADE LAUNCHERS ARE ALLOWED.
Playoff Details
Immediately following the 3 week season, a single elimination bracket will be played to determine the winner of Tournament. All teams will enter this bracket but will be seeded based on its performance during the 3 week season.
For the purpose of determining the playoff seeding, wins, losses and ties will be assigned point values. For each win, a team will be awarded two points, a tie, one point and a loss, no points. The first seed for each league will be the team with the most number of points after the 3 week season is over. A maximum of 16 points (8 games x 2 points per win) are possible.
Tiebreakers are (in this order): Head to head record, total rounds won, inner-league record, home record, away record, inter-league record.
Playoffs will see all teams competing on set maps as the bracket advances. Each new tier of the bracket will have a map assigned to it with all clans competing on that tier playing the same map. The higher seeded team chooses side to start on, the lower seeded team chooses if the map will be played during the day or night.
Playoff matches will consist of 1 map with no tie-breaker. The winner is the team with the most rounds won over the course of the map. If the match ends with both teams winning the same amount of rounds, then regardless of which team the game declares the winner, the map is to be restarted and a SUDDEN DEATH round will be played to declare the winner. In this scenario, when the first round of Sudden Death is finished and there is a winner, the game is over and players may leave the room. If the first round of Sudden Death is a DRAW, then the teams will continue to play the following rounds until one round is won by either team.
The single elimination bracket proceeds until there are just two teams left, one from each division.
Your players do not have to be in the same actual online Socom clan, as this tourney allows for cross-clan pairings.
Discouragements While In-Game
A: There will absolutely be NO threats, remarks, insinuations, posts, messages, images or quotes involving the use of racial, religious or disrespectful sexual slurs. Any record or instance of this kind will be dealt with swiftly from a player disqualification from the tournament to the elimination of the entire clan, depending on the severity of the incident and the number of players involved.
B: I discourage the use of taunts and dancing in game against others. If your team feels the need to do this, do it in another tournament. While engaged in combat against another UF team, there is to be NO dancing on dead bodies and NO overhead taunts from one team to the other. This tourney is based on and built upon a foundation of respect. We expect all to adhere to the ideals whilst playing.
C: For the sake of temperament, there will be no typing (ALL) in-game so that the other team may see what you are typing, no matter how cozy the teams are together. This may lead, down the line, to some questionable ribbing that a team may eventually take offense to. There is much more reward in "winning with honor and losing with dignity" in this community than there is in cheating.
D: With the proximity chat offered in SOCOM, we also ask that vocally projected disrespect not be practiced by your team mates towards the other team. "Sorry for killin' ya" is not so much disrespectful as "sit your motherf***in' punk a** down you bi**h" is disrespectful.
Player Drops, No-Shows & Forfeits
The following rules pertain to proper procedure for DROPS and NO-SHOWS during war.
A: At ANY time that a MASS DROP occurs at the BEGINNING of the first round of a war, the map must be aborted and the HOME team must make the new room again.
B: A "MASS DROP" will be categorized as such an event when HALF of the players from at least one team gets dropped from the onset of the first round. When this happens, all remaining players are to abort, meet in the same server's lobby, and re-make the room.
C: The Mass Drop must be recognized immediately. Teams seeing that only one player got dropped from their team and decide to unplug half the team to restart the match evenly WILL be disqualified from the war. This is an honor system and the rules for restarting after a legitimate drop were created for YOUR benefit. Please do not abuse them.
D: AFTER the first round of a war, all drops, no matter how small or large, are to be PLAYED THROUGH. Basically, there can be, from time to time, server problems that we have to work through. You're seals...deal with it. Also, just make sure that the players you walk into the war with have reliable connections so they don't get dropped (ie, quit the downloading while warring. Be courteous to your opponents as well as your teammates).
E: No matter HOW MANY players from a team show up, a scheduled match MUST be played at the designated time and cannot be rescheduled for any reason. If a sorely outnumbered team wishes not to go through with their war, they can opt not to show at all and forfeit their match. The winners will receive full points for the win and the no-shows will receive no points.
F: If a team knows that one of their members will not be able to make a war, that team must make arrangements and switches.
Rule Set 9: Regular Season Schedule
WEEK 1 (two wars): KASBAH - SMALL - ELIMINATION
All weapons, with exception to GLs, are legal.
(Point of execution: Main Floor, Center Building)
WEEK 2 (two wars): DESERT GLORY - SMALL - ELIMINATION
All weapons, with exception to GLs, are legal.
(Point of execution: Small Crater, Base of Center Building)
WEEK 3 (two wars): FALLEN - SMALL - ELIMINATION
All weapons, with exception to GLs, are legal.
(Point of execution: Middle Pillar Room, Center Temple)
Rule Set 10: In-game Etiquette & Elimination
10: Rules DURING war play that MUST be followed:
A: All primary weapons (with the exception to GLs) are allowed, unless otherwise specified. All pistols are also allowed, unless otherwise specified.
B: With the proximity chat offered in SOCOM, we also ask that vocally projected disrespect not be practiced by your team mates towards the other team. "Sorry for killin' ya" is not so much disrespectful as "sit your motherf***in' punk a** down you bi**h" is disrespectful. This tourney isn't about that kind of play. We cultivate honor and maturity here, and with that come respecting your opponents. An infraction of the above will result in a warning to that player. Any second infraction of the above will result in that player's suspension from the rest of the tourney.
C: At the END of the war, one representative from each squad will report in to the forums and report the match results in the War Report Section. This needs to be reported AND confirmed within 24 hours of the scheduled war (typically by 9pm CST the following night). If it is not confirmed by the second team, then the results will be taken as reported. Frequent inaction in either reporting or confirming your wars will result in penalties incurred by your entire team.
The information should be posted as such:
Subject line should read as: [AWAY TEAM] @ [HOME TEAM, Week [Insert Week#]
And the posts should include:
1: The HOME team: NAME
2: The HOME team MVP: NAME
3: The AWAY team: NAME
4: The AWAY team MVP: NAME
5: HOME TEAM Rounds Won
6: AWAY TEAM Rounds Won
Will begin with a 3 week “regular season”. The participating teams may be put into divisions depending on the number of clan sign-ups. A total of 8 matches will be played over the course of the regular season. The overall win/loss/tie record of each participating clan will determine its seeding for the single elimination “playoff” bracket which immediately follows the three week regular season.
A: Each week of the 3 week season will consist of 2 matches for each team. Matches will occur each Monday and Wednesday at 9:00pm Central Standard Time. Both teams have the OPTION of choosing to move their war to 9:30pm CST or 10:00pm CST as they prepare their war in the appropriate section, but ONLY if both teams agree to it. If no agreement can be made on an alternate time, then the war stands at 9:00pm CST by default.
B: Each match will consist of the week’s preselected map (as chosen by the creators). The designated HOME team (as listed on the schedule) will choose which side it wishes to play on the map. The AWAY clan will play the other side and then decide if the map is to be played during the day or night. The winner is determined by TOTAL rounds won. If there is a TIE in rounds won, the match ends in a draw.
You will have to continue to play with the midway team switch on automatically. In this scenario, since both teams will be playing both sides before the map is over, the HOME TEAM chooses which side they wish to play on first in the lobby. The AWAY TEAM will still choose whether the map will be played during the day or night.
C. Each week of the 3 week season will see all players using whatever weaponry is made available to them, including all grenades and rockets. NO GRENADE LAUNCHERS ARE ALLOWED.
Playoff Details
Immediately following the 3 week season, a single elimination bracket will be played to determine the winner of Tournament. All teams will enter this bracket but will be seeded based on its performance during the 3 week season.
For the purpose of determining the playoff seeding, wins, losses and ties will be assigned point values. For each win, a team will be awarded two points, a tie, one point and a loss, no points. The first seed for each league will be the team with the most number of points after the 3 week season is over. A maximum of 16 points (8 games x 2 points per win) are possible.
Tiebreakers are (in this order): Head to head record, total rounds won, inner-league record, home record, away record, inter-league record.
Playoffs will see all teams competing on set maps as the bracket advances. Each new tier of the bracket will have a map assigned to it with all clans competing on that tier playing the same map. The higher seeded team chooses side to start on, the lower seeded team chooses if the map will be played during the day or night.
Playoff matches will consist of 1 map with no tie-breaker. The winner is the team with the most rounds won over the course of the map. If the match ends with both teams winning the same amount of rounds, then regardless of which team the game declares the winner, the map is to be restarted and a SUDDEN DEATH round will be played to declare the winner. In this scenario, when the first round of Sudden Death is finished and there is a winner, the game is over and players may leave the room. If the first round of Sudden Death is a DRAW, then the teams will continue to play the following rounds until one round is won by either team.
The single elimination bracket proceeds until there are just two teams left, one from each division.
Your players do not have to be in the same actual online Socom clan, as this tourney allows for cross-clan pairings.
Discouragements While In-Game
A: There will absolutely be NO threats, remarks, insinuations, posts, messages, images or quotes involving the use of racial, religious or disrespectful sexual slurs. Any record or instance of this kind will be dealt with swiftly from a player disqualification from the tournament to the elimination of the entire clan, depending on the severity of the incident and the number of players involved.
B: I discourage the use of taunts and dancing in game against others. If your team feels the need to do this, do it in another tournament. While engaged in combat against another UF team, there is to be NO dancing on dead bodies and NO overhead taunts from one team to the other. This tourney is based on and built upon a foundation of respect. We expect all to adhere to the ideals whilst playing.
C: For the sake of temperament, there will be no typing (ALL) in-game so that the other team may see what you are typing, no matter how cozy the teams are together. This may lead, down the line, to some questionable ribbing that a team may eventually take offense to. There is much more reward in "winning with honor and losing with dignity" in this community than there is in cheating.
D: With the proximity chat offered in SOCOM, we also ask that vocally projected disrespect not be practiced by your team mates towards the other team. "Sorry for killin' ya" is not so much disrespectful as "sit your motherf***in' punk a** down you bi**h" is disrespectful.
Player Drops, No-Shows & Forfeits
The following rules pertain to proper procedure for DROPS and NO-SHOWS during war.
A: At ANY time that a MASS DROP occurs at the BEGINNING of the first round of a war, the map must be aborted and the HOME team must make the new room again.
B: A "MASS DROP" will be categorized as such an event when HALF of the players from at least one team gets dropped from the onset of the first round. When this happens, all remaining players are to abort, meet in the same server's lobby, and re-make the room.
C: The Mass Drop must be recognized immediately. Teams seeing that only one player got dropped from their team and decide to unplug half the team to restart the match evenly WILL be disqualified from the war. This is an honor system and the rules for restarting after a legitimate drop were created for YOUR benefit. Please do not abuse them.
D: AFTER the first round of a war, all drops, no matter how small or large, are to be PLAYED THROUGH. Basically, there can be, from time to time, server problems that we have to work through. You're seals...deal with it. Also, just make sure that the players you walk into the war with have reliable connections so they don't get dropped (ie, quit the downloading while warring. Be courteous to your opponents as well as your teammates).
E: No matter HOW MANY players from a team show up, a scheduled match MUST be played at the designated time and cannot be rescheduled for any reason. If a sorely outnumbered team wishes not to go through with their war, they can opt not to show at all and forfeit their match. The winners will receive full points for the win and the no-shows will receive no points.
F: If a team knows that one of their members will not be able to make a war, that team must make arrangements and switches.
Rule Set 9: Regular Season Schedule
WEEK 1 (two wars): KASBAH - SMALL - ELIMINATION
All weapons, with exception to GLs, are legal.
(Point of execution: Main Floor, Center Building)
WEEK 2 (two wars): DESERT GLORY - SMALL - ELIMINATION
All weapons, with exception to GLs, are legal.
(Point of execution: Small Crater, Base of Center Building)
WEEK 3 (two wars): FALLEN - SMALL - ELIMINATION
All weapons, with exception to GLs, are legal.
(Point of execution: Middle Pillar Room, Center Temple)
Rule Set 10: In-game Etiquette & Elimination
10: Rules DURING war play that MUST be followed:
A: All primary weapons (with the exception to GLs) are allowed, unless otherwise specified. All pistols are also allowed, unless otherwise specified.
B: With the proximity chat offered in SOCOM, we also ask that vocally projected disrespect not be practiced by your team mates towards the other team. "Sorry for killin' ya" is not so much disrespectful as "sit your motherf***in' punk a** down you bi**h" is disrespectful. This tourney isn't about that kind of play. We cultivate honor and maturity here, and with that come respecting your opponents. An infraction of the above will result in a warning to that player. Any second infraction of the above will result in that player's suspension from the rest of the tourney.
C: At the END of the war, one representative from each squad will report in to the forums and report the match results in the War Report Section. This needs to be reported AND confirmed within 24 hours of the scheduled war (typically by 9pm CST the following night). If it is not confirmed by the second team, then the results will be taken as reported. Frequent inaction in either reporting or confirming your wars will result in penalties incurred by your entire team.
The information should be posted as such:
Subject line should read as: [AWAY TEAM] @ [HOME TEAM, Week [Insert Week#]
And the posts should include:
1: The HOME team: NAME
2: The HOME team MVP: NAME
3: The AWAY team: NAME
4: The AWAY team MVP: NAME
5: HOME TEAM Rounds Won
6: AWAY TEAM Rounds Won
