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WarCraft III : Frozen Throne Competition Rules

General

- Walkover

A walkover will be given if one of the players has not showed up 20 minutes after the match was supposed to start. Every round has a specific time set to it, which is when the match should start. Both teams shall be ready to start by the start of the round. If a team is close to be 'walkovered' more than once he or she might be given a warning.


- Competition Method : 1 vs. 1 - Double Elimination
- Match Length : Until the winner is determined
- Match Winner: The player who completely destroys the opponent or if the opponent surrenders

Game Settings

- Race Selection: Free Choice, Random is allowed.
- Maps : Terenas Stand, Twisted Meadow, Turtle Rock, Echo Isle are suggested maps. players may agree to different maps between each other.
- The map selection may be changed prior to the tournament. Players will be informed of any such changes before the tournament, or if a mutual agreement is made to play a certain map by the players that map may be played instead.
- After the match is over, the players must inform the Admin of the winner and save the replay file. If the replay file is not saved, the player may be given a warning or lose by default at the Admin’s sole discretion. At the end of the tournament the reply files may be kept or removed at the players discretion.

Tournament Server Settings

- Lock Teams : Yes
- Teams Together : No
- Full shared unit control : No
- Random races : No
- Random hero : No
- Observers : Full Observers
- Visibility : Default

Disconnections

- Disconnection: Any disconnection of the connection between match players due to System, Network, PC, and/or Power problems/issues
- Intentional Disconnection: Upon judgment by the Admin, any offending player will be charged with a loss by forfeit
- When any disconnection occurs:

1) If disconnection occurs within 3 minutes of start of match: match restart
2) If disconnection occurs after 3 minutes of start of match:

- If both players agree to a match restart, the match will be restarted.
- If the players cannot reach an agreement, the winner will be determined by a Admin after the analysis of the match replay file.
- If the winner can not be decided by analyzing the match replay file, the players must agree to a match restart or forfeit the match.

Intentional Use of Game/Program Bugs: A warning at the minimum or loss by default

- Intentional use of any program bugs will result in a warning at the minimum or loss by default for the offending player.

Penalty for Unfair Play

- Unfair Play

1) Use of any map hack program
2) Intentional disconnection
3) Use of any settings exceeding standard and permitted settings
4) If the match is disrupted due to unnecessary chatting, the player may be given a warning or lose by default at the Admin’s sole discretion.
- Upon discovery of any player committing any violations regarded as unfair play, that player will be disqualified from the competition.
- During the course of any match, the Admin may determine other actions to be unfair play at any time.
- Three warnings constitute being disqualified from the tournament.

Was very dissappointed in arriving on time, at 1.00pm and not being allowed to play in the 1v1 wc3. I have attended every respawn to date to play in this event and it has always started earliest 2.00, usually more like 2.30. About 4 other players also had this same problem as we all arrived roughly the same time.

Im not to upset about what happened, i would just like to know that for next time if there are time changes to competitions, please announce it on the website like at Game1 which had a full schedule of when competitions are running. Paying $25 to play in a competition and not even being allowed to play in it is abit unfair.
In the end respawn has always been great to play in, i thought i would just mention this to improve the quality of the next one

Thankyou

Arriving on time would have been 10am

Last time the competition was set to start at 12:00PM just like it was this weekend and this was mailed out before V3, however last time we had power problems on a couple of tables which had people with laptops that play with you Evilgummiebear and I needed to sort out their power and network problems so they could play as well. Because of that we ended up not starting till 1:30 to 2pm. This event we didnt have any delay's so we were able to start the competition at the scheduled time which was 12pm.

I'm sorry about the incovinience this caused as, as far as I'm concerned the more playing the better. At the next even we'll mail out the timetable again but it will most likely follow the same plan as V4 did.