Ursasaurus Cup - Rulebook
The sum of essential guidelines for a smooth and fun competition.
Foreword
This document outlines key aspects for the Ursasaurus Cup, in order to be a place to find everything you need for the ongoing activities in the tournament, whether as a player, staff, and caster alike
Good luck, have fun.
Table of Contents
2.3. Competition Manipulation 8
2.4. Unsportsmanlike Behavior 8
2.6. Instructions from the Admins 9
3.6. Compliance to platform’s guidelines 10
4.1. Points of Communication 12
4.2.1. Sign up and match procedures 12
4.2.3. Punctuality and Walkover 12
5.1.6. Providing Match Media 16
6. Server Choosing and Veto Process 17
6.1. Options for deciding the Servers 17
6.2. Playing from outside the Americas versus a player inside 17
6.3. Match between two players from the outside 17
Event Details
Initial Purpose
The initial purpose of the Ursasaurus Cup is to provide a tournament during Monday nights over the “Off-Season” on the ESL Pro Tour Circuit. There are a total of four tournaments planned. Once those are done, the Staff will discuss whether it keeps up or not. If a new ESL Pro Tour is announced during that time, depending on schedule reasons, tournaments might have changes.
Places to gather
In-game Region: Americas
In-game chat: ursasaurus
Discord Server: Ursasaurus Cup
Dates and Signup
Ursasaurus Cup #1
Date: September 9 - 8 PM EST / 4 PM PDT
Challonge: https://challonge.com/ursasaur1
Ursasaurus Cup #2
Date: September 16 - 8 PM EST / 4 PM PDT
Challonge:
Ursasaurus Cup #3
Date: September 23 - 8 PM EST / 4 PM PDT
Challonge:
Ursasaurus Cup #4
Date: September 23 - 8 PM EST / 4 PM PDT
Challonge:
Event Rules
Formalities
Range of validity
The validity of these rules applies to the Ursasaurus Cup, the games played on its behalf and
the places that players and casters gather in order to perform their activities.
Agreement
All competitors interested in the tournament, once decided to sign up, confirm presence, and compete hereby declares that they accept the rules written in the Challonge Page and on this Rulebook.
All casters interested in providing live coverage to the tournament also acknowledge the rules stated.
Terminology
- Player: the person interested in competing in the tournament that signed up and agreed to the rules
- Caster: the authorized person with their channel and platform of choice that agreed to the rules and has rights waivered to live broadcast the event
- Admin: the #1 figure of authority within the deliberations required to provide the best assistance for the tournament’s competitive spirit and purpose to fulfill.
- Staff: the group of people behind the organization of the tournament
Expected Conduct
Eligible Players
This is an open tournament. So all players without past displays of serious breaching to rules and conduct are eligible to participate.
Player Conduct
- It is expected that players compete in the tournament showing the utmost respect to their competitors.
- Any evidence of racism, hate speech, harassment, threats will not be tolerated. The staff reserves their right to outright ban a competitor should evidence is enough.
- Once the lobby is created, players should post the lobbylink for the authorized casters to join. It is recommended to wait no more than a minute if there’s no sign of latecomers.
- Unless explicitly asked by the Admins, Players should not hold the game for a period more than 2 minutes if they already have others in the lobby.
Competition Manipulation
Any attempt of manipulating scores known as match fixing are not permitted with no exceptions.
Unsportsmanlike Behavior
It is considered UB (Sportsmanlike Behavior):
- Spamming, threatening, reporting fake results
- Delaying matches to happen after the 15 minute period without consent from the Admins
- Delaying games in clear situations that the participant has no shot at all to win, such as floating structures on the map borders, building structures to force the clear winner to delay the outcome
Non-Compliance Cases
In case any of the referred above shows inadequate behavior, the Staff will incur with penalties such as disqualification, escalating up to full ban from the tournament.
Instructions from the Admins
The Admins are the authority on the tournament matters. Their orders should always be followed.
Broadcasting
Authorized Casters
The tournament has a team of authorized casters allowed to join lobbies at their leisure. Any non-authorized or unidentified persons joining lobbies as Spectator are not welcome and their clearance should be questioned to the Admin.
Caster Behavior
It is expected that casters show proper respect to the players they are covering their games. A player has the right to ask for the administration to not be casted by someone that offended them, after due revision from the staff.
Stream Delay
No delay is enforced to the casters for this tournament.
Lagging in-game
It is expected that casters do not lag in game as it can cause disruptions of the match outcome of any sort. Players have the right to report those disruptions to the Admins. In case there’s enough recurrence, the Administration reserves the right to forbid the caster from covering the remainder of the event.
Logo usage
Casters must use the media assets provided by the Staff. The size of the assets should be visible and not bump into the game interface. Gigantic size logos are also not advised.
Compliance to platform’s guidelines
Casters must comply with all guidelines stated by the platform they’ll be using to broadcast the event.
Tournament Procedures
Points of Communication
The main Point of Communication is the in-game channel, listed in section 4.3.1. Alternatively, players and casters can look for support over the Discord
Tournament Procedures
Sign up and match procedures
- Players are responsible for checking in. They can ask the Admins to check in on their behalf
- Players are responsible for asking for help from the Admins in case they need it.
- Players are encouraged to report correct scores on Challonge. They can also do so ingame
Seeding
The Seeding procedure for the tournaments is the outcome of the following considerations:
- EPT Standings
- Aligulac Standings
- OSC Standings
Punctuality and Walkover
It is expected that players are inside the in-game channel 5 minutes before the tournament starts. Once a match is set, which means players have their opponents set on the bracket, they both have to look for the veto process. In case of absence or failure to be ready in time to play, considering technical difficulties and other matters, there is a maximum of 15 minute tolerance for absence. After that time has passed, the player that is present and ready has the right to request the walkover for the Admin.
Forfeit
Should the player wish to forfeit, they must contact the Administration to proceed to eliminate them. A forfeit means that you will forfeit any prize won in this tournament, in any round. Additionally, Admins might look for the forfeiter’s previous opponent to replace for the upcoming match.
In-Game Specifics
In-game channel
In the Americas Region, the in-game channel for the event is ursasaurus .
Race
Players may choose which Race they wish to play at any time during the match. Switching races are allowed at any point, except when there’s a rematch due to a Draw or any other consequence.
Picking Random is allowed. If a rematch is appointed, the player will not choose Random but the Race that has been rolled on the previous match.
Map Pool
The current map pool is:
- Alcyone LE[1]
- Amphion LE
- Crimson Court LE
- Dynasty LE
- Ghost River LE
- Goldenaura LE
- Oceanborn LE
- Post-Youth LE
- Site Delta LE
Lobby Settings
- Custom Mod: Observer PlusPlus
- Game Duration: Infinite
- Game Speed: Faster
- Locked Alliances : Yes
- Game Privacy: No Match History
Pause
Pauses can be requested. The reason should be informed. Any delay longer than 2 minutes without reasoning provided by the one that paused are eligible to be unpaused.
Reporting Scores
Once the match is over and before the next one, the player should report the correct scores to the Admins. Fake results are not allowed and prone to penalties.
Providing Match Media
Once requested, players should send their replays to the Admins for purposes of investigation or sharing the replaypack for content purposes.
Server Choosing and Veto Process
Options for deciding the Servers
We encourage mutual agreement as the first and most important option for server choosing.
Should no agreement take place, it is best advised to go for the Default Server Cross-Table option.
Default Server Cross-Table
Playing from outside the Americas versus a player inside
Should players outside the Americas compete against players from inside the Americas, they will be considered being closer to the best server inside the Americas.
For example:
- Players in the Asia region should be considered playing better in the US West server
- Players in Europe should be considered playing better in the US East server
Match between two players from the outside
Players can choose whatever servers they prefer. Within reason.
Veto Process
Once servers are decided, the Veto Process should start.
The veto process is as follows:
- The higher seed decides who is A/B. The higher seed is the player on top of the match in the bracket.
- The veto/pick order depends on the match length
- Best-of-3: Veto ABABAB Pick AB C
- Best-of-5: Veto AB, Pick AB, Veto AB, Pick AB C
[1] [ESL] or [EWC] Alcyone is advised until Blizzard fix the bug on the Xel’Naga tower