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League Season 5
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ALTTPR League Season 5
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LEAGUE FORMAT

• The  INVITATIONAL League consists of 2 conferences with 2 divisions each

Light World Conference
        Lost Woods & Kakariko with 8 teams per division.

Dark World Conference
        Misery Mire & Skull Woods with 8 teams per division.

• The  OPEN League consists of 2 conferences with 4 divisions each

Pendant Conference

Eastern Palace, Desert Palace, Tower of Hera, and Castle Tower with 7 teams per division.

Crystal Conference

Palace of Darkness, Thieves’ Town, Turtle Rock, and Ganon’s Tower with 7 teams per division.

• Each team must consist of exactly 3 players, each with a specific designation of Courage, Wisdom, and Power chosen at registration. Members may swap designations by request to a mod at any point until the season begins. Each team must also submit a team name at registration and a team logo by September 11th, 2022, at 11:59pm EDT.
        (logos should be in .png format with 300px x 300px dimensions).

• Teams can replace one player per season.

After divisions have been revealed, players who have previously won an Invitational League championship are ineligible to be used as replacements.

• Each week teams are responsible for scheduling two races with their designated opponents.

Scheduling threads will be automatically generated in the division Discord channels. Use of these threads is recommended for communications, though not required.

• Each of the week’s two races must be completed by a different team member.

Exception: Co-op races may be run by the same 2 team members if desired.
Note: With two races scheduled each week, one team member will not compete during any given week. Exceptions could be co-op weeks.

• Every team member must race a minimum of 5 times per season.

• At the end of the season, each team who has a member that has not raced the minimum of 5 races will be deducted 4 points for each race below the minimum that player did not participate in.

• The race week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday.

REGISTRATION

32 Teams will be invited into the Invitational League.

The 32 teams that are invited will be the 28 teams that weren’t relegated from Season 4 and the Top 4 Open League teams from Season 4.

A returning team must have 2 or more of the same runners to maintain their invitation for the Invitational League.

Any additional Invitational slots that may be open will be filled at the administrators’ discretion from among teams that register as new teams for the Open League.
Registration for the League opens August 28th, 2022, at 12pm EDT and ends September 4th, 2022, at 12pm EDT.

• A full, 3-person team must be assembled at the time of registration.

• If there are an odd number of teams registered at the scheduled end of the sign-up period, registration will remain open until an additional team registers. If no additional team registers within a reasonable time as determined by the admins, the last team to register for the Open League will be cut.
• Registration will be limited to 116 teams total between both leagues. If this limit is reached before the scheduled end of the sign-up period, the sign-up period will end early.

• The ALTTPR League Discord #looking-for-a-team channel is available to use to recruit and build your own team.

SCHEDULE

Season 5 Regular Season

• The regular season lasts seven weeks with two races per team per week.

• Invitational League Only: The top 4 teams from each division qualify for an eight-week playoff. There is a week off after the regular season ends.

• Open League Only: The top 2 teams from each division qualify for a ten-week playoff. Additionally, 4 wild card teams will be picked from each conference to bring the total number of playoff teams to 24. All division winners will receive a bye. For teams not receiving a bye, the playoffs begin directly after the regular season ends.
• Weeks start on Monday

RACE FORMAT
Each week the racing format rotates.
*Hints will NOT be enabled in Season 5
*Item Placement will be Advanced and 100% Inventory Accessibility for all weeks
*7 Crystal Open Ganon’s Tower, 7 Crystal Ganon Vulnerable for all weeks in both regular season and playoffs unless otherwise stated

SEASON 5

Week 1 - Week of October 3rd, 2022

Co-op Info Share, Open, Random Sword, All Dungeons (Co-op AD)
Week 2 - Week of October 10th, 2022

Inverted, Assured Sword, Boss Has Item, Big Key Shuffle, Defeat Ganon (Invrosia)
Week 3 - Week of October 17th, 2022

Standard, Assured Sword, Starting Boots, Defeat Ganon (Casual Boots)
Week 4 - Weeks of October 24th, 2022, and October 31st, 2022

Co-op Info Share, Retro, Assured Sword, Fast Ganon, Crossworld Entrance, Keysanity (Retrance)

Week 5 - Week of November 7th, 2022

Open, Swordless, Defeat Ganon, Bow+Silvers are a single item (League Swordless) 

Week 6 - Week of November 14th, 2022

Open, Random Sword, Fast Ganon, Starting Pseudoboots, Crossworld Entrance, Keysanity (Pseudoboots Xkeys)

Week 7 - Weeks of November 21st, 2022, and November 28th, 2022

Co-op Info Share, Open, Defeat Ganon, Enemy Shuffle, Full Boss Shuffle, Starting Boots (Co-op Enemizer)

SCORING

Win - 3 points

Loss - 0 points

Tie - 1 point (Finishes within 2 seconds will be retimed. For co-op races, the retimed race will be declared a tie if the teams’ average times are within one second. For 1v1 races, the retimed race will only be declared a tie if the admins determine that a reasonable person would not be able to tell which runner finished first.)

 • Note: For the co-op weeks, winners will be determined by averaging the team members’ times. A forfeit counts as an automatic loss for that team, regardless of the partner's time.

When two or more teams finish the regular season with the same number of points, tiebreakers will be applied as follows:

TIEBREAKERS — INVITATIONAL LEAGUE

Division Tiebreakers

1) Head-to-head

  1a) If the tie is among 3 or more teams, best aggregate record against other teams involved in the tie

2) Record against other playoff teams from their own division during regular season (i.e., teams that have clinched playoff position but are not involved in the tie to be broken)

3) Record against non-playoff teams in order from 5th to 8th.

4) 1 Game Race-off (Open, Defeat Ganon, 7/7)

Note: The Race-off only applies if some of the tied teams will not qualify for playoffs. If all of the tied teams have qualified for playoffs and the tiebreaker is only for seeding, a coin flip will be used instead.

Conference Seeding/Finals Tiebreakers

1) Division Winner

2) Record against other playoff teams from their own division during regular season

3) Record against playoff teams during playoffs

4) Record against non-playoff teams in order from 5th to 8th.

5) Coin Flip

TIEBREAKERS — OPEN LEAGUE

Division Tiebreakers

1) Head to head

  1a) If the tie is among 3 or more teams, best aggregate record against other teams involved in the tie

2) Record against all other teams from their own division during the regular season

3) Record against other playoff teams from their own division during regular season (i.e., teams that have clinched playoff position but are not involved in the tie to be broken)

4) Record against non-playoff teams from their own division in order from 3rd to 7th.

5) 1 Game Race-off (Open, Defeat Ganon, 7/7)

Note: The Race-off only applies if some of the tied teams will not qualify for playoffs or if the tie is for 1st place and therefore determines a bye. If all of the tied teams have qualified for playoffs without a bye and the tiebreaker is only for seeding, a coin flip will be used instead.

Wild Card and Bye Tiebreakers

1) Head to head (if applicable)

2) Record against all other teams from their own division during regular season

3) Record against other playoff teams from their own division during regular season

        For bye tiebreakers this excludes wild card teams

4) Record against non-playoff teams from their own division in order from 3rd to 7th.

5) 1 Game Race-off (Open, Defeat Ganon, 7/7)

Conference Seeding/Finals Tiebreakers

[Note that teams with a bye are guaranteed seeds #1-4 in their conference]

1) Head to head (if applicable)

2) Division Winner

3) Record against all other teams from their own division during regular season

4) Record against playoff teams during playoffs

5) Record against teams from their own division in order from 1st to 7th.

6) Coin Flip

INVITATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS

The top 4 teams from each division qualify for the playoffs.

Format: Each member of the team will race against their opponent’s counterpart in games 1, 2, & 3.

Ex. (Courage will race Courage, Wisdom will race Wisdom, Power will race Power.) No team member can race more than 2 times per round.

Game 1: Courage Players
        Mode: Standard, Assured Sword, Starting Boots, Defeat Ganon, 100% Inventory (Casual Boots)

Game 2: Wisdom Players

Mode: Open, Random Sword, Fast Ganon, Starting Pseudoboots, Crossworld Entrance, Keysanity, 100% Inventory (Pseudoboots Crosskeys)

Game 3: Power Players 
        Mode: Higher seed chooses one of the modes below*

Game 4 (if needed): Each Team Selects a Representative 
        Mode: Lower seed chooses one of the modes below* that wasn’t picked for Game 3

Game 5 (if needed): Remaining 2 Team Representatives

Mode: Co-op Info Share, Crossworld, Keysanity, Retro, Assured Sword (Retrance)

*Mode choices:

ROUND 1

Weeks of December 12th, 2022, and December 19th, 2022

Note that Invitational playoff teams will have a bye the week of December 5th, 2022

The 8 teams from each conference qualifying for the playoffs are seeded with tiebreakers applied according to the “Conference Seeding” tiebreakers above. Seeds are matched up against each other as follows:

#1 vs #8
#2 vs #7
#3 vs #6
#4 vs #5

The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will advance to round 2.

ROUND 2

Weeks of December 26th, 2022, and January 2nd, 2023

Teams are matched up as follows:

Highest Remaining Seed vs Lowest Remaining Seed
Second Highest Remaining Seed vs Second Lowest Remaining Seed

The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will advance to the conference finals.

CONFERENCE FINALS

Weeks of January 9th, 2023, and January 16th, 2023

The two remaining teams in the conference are matched against each other. The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will advance to the Finals.

FINALS

Week of January 23rd, 2023, and January 30th, 2023

The conference champions in the invitational league are matched against each other. The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will be crowned Invitational League Champion.

OPEN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS

Note: Open League playoff structure is tentative until after registration closes.

The top 2 teams in each division qualify for the playoffs. Wild card teams will be picked for each conference in order to bring the total number of playoff teams in each conference to 12. The wild card teams will be the teams in each conference with the most points who did not finish 1st or 2nd in their divisions (regardless of whether they finished 3rd or further down), subject to the tiebreakers described above. The top 4 division winners in each conference receive a bye. The format and available mode choices for each round of the Open League Playoffs will be the same as the format for each round of the Invitational League Playoffs (see above).

Format: Each member of the team will race against their opponent’s counterpart in games 1, 2, & 3.

Ex. (Courage will race Courage, Wisdom will race Wisdom, Power will race Power.) No team member can race more than 2 times per round.

Game 1: Courage Players
        Mode: Standard, Assured Sword, Starting Boots, Defeat Ganon, 100% Inventory (Casual Boots)

Game 2: Wisdom Players

Mode: Open, Random Sword, Fast Ganon, Starting Pseudoboots, Crossworld Entrance, Keysanity, 100% Inventory (Pseudoboots Crosskeys)

Game 3: Power Players 
        Mode: Higher seed chooses one of the modes below*

Game 4 (if needed): Each Team Selects a Representative 
        Mode: Lower seed chooses one of the modes below* that wasn’t picked for Game 3

Game 5 (if needed): Remaining 2 Team Representatives

Mode: Co-op Info Share, Crossworld, Keysanity, Retro, Assured Sword (Retrance)

*Mode choices:

WILD CARD ROUND

Weeks of December 5th, 2022, and December 12th, 2022

The playoff teams in each conference not receiving a bye will be seeded 5-12 by regular season record, with tiebreakers applied as described above. Seeds are matched up against each other as follows:

#5 vs #12
#6 vs #11
#7 vs #10
#8 vs #9

The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will advance to round 2.

ROUND 2

Weeks of December 19th, 2022, and December 26th, 2022

The division champions in each conference that received a bye will be seeded 1-4 by regular season record, with tiebreakers applied as described above. The #1 seed will play the lowest seed that advanced from the wild card round, the #2 seed will play the second-lowest seed that advanced, the #3 seed will play the second-highest seed that advanced, and the #4 seed will play the highest seed that advanced.

The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will advance to the conference semi-finals.

CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS

Weeks of January 2nd, 2023, and January 9th, 2023

Teams are matched up as follows:

Highest Remaining Seed vs Lowest Remaining Seed
Second Highest Remaining Seed vs Second Lowest Remaining Seed

The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will advance to the conference finals and will receive an invite to Season 6 of the Invitational League (see below).

CONFERENCE FINALS

Weeks of January 16th, 2023, and January 23rd, 2023

The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will advance to the Finals.

FINALS

Weeks of January 30th, 2023, and February 6th, 2023

The conference champions in the open league are matched against each other. The first team to win 3 races during this week of the playoffs will be crowned Open League Champion.

PROMOTION AND RELEGATION

• The top 7 teams in each division in the Invitational League will be guaranteed an invite to participate in the Invitational League in Season 6.

• If there is a tie for last place in a division, the Division Tiebreakers listed above will be used.

• The top 4 teams overall from the Open League will also be guaranteed an invite to participate in the Invitational League in Season 6.

• For these purposes, the top 4 teams are defined as the 4 teams advancing to the Conference Finals, regardless of regular season standings.

• If there are additional spots available in the Invitational League in Season 6, it will be at the League Admins’ sole discretion whether to give preference for those spots to the remaining teams from the Season 5 Invitational League, additional teams from the Season 5 Open League, or newly created teams.

RACE PROCEDURES & RULES

• By registering to race in the ALTTPR League, you consent to being restreamed on either of our associated networks: SpeedGaming or TheALTTPRLeague1-4.

• If there is no official restream for a match, community members may set up their own restreams of matches, with the runner's consent (in accordance with Twitch's ToS).

• We ask that there only be one (1) restream of any given match, with the exception of alternate language restreams (official or otherwise). If you would like to join our restream team, we promise a very easy experience that is much higher quality of restreaming that is easier than home-made restreaming.

• You may request to have your match not restreamed. This must be done on a case-by-case basis (please provide reasoning, i.e. poor connection, etc).
• The ALTTPR League follows the ruleset defined by the ALTTPR Racing Council.
        • ALTTPR Racing Ruleset
• We will be using the ruleset as set out by the ALTTPR Racing Council, as of the day before the beginning of the regular season, with the exception that any glitches with rulings that are temporary and have not had a final decision made will be disallowed in the League. Any ruling made by the council during the season will not be allowed until announced by League Admins.

• Auto tracking for Items, Keys, and Cleared Map Locations is permitted.
• Races will use RaceTime.gg. You must be registered and be familiar with joining race rooms and racing with RT.gg prior to the start of the league.
• If RaceTime.gg is down, SRL will be used as backup.

• All races must be streamed on Twitch and VOD saving must be enabled.

• Racers must enable a 10-minute delay on their broadcast.
• Players may not be in a restream channel or chat during the race.
• Watching other racers' streams before the race is completed, including your own teammate’s streams, is not allowed.

• All races will have a room created 30 minutes prior to the race's starting time by SahasrahBot. You will be sent a Direct Message on Discord inviting you to the race room. Restreamed races will begin 10 minutes prior to the scheduled starting time so you must be ready to start prior to that. You should start your stream with a 10-minute delay approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of your race. The SG Helper/League restreamer will generate your seed 5 minutes prior to the start of your race. If your race is not restreamed you will generate your seed 5 minutes prior to the start of your race.

• The League Bot will directly message you the seed for your race.

• All races for the week must be completed by Sunday Night 11:59pm Eastern Time. Any races not completed by this time will be counted as losses for both teams.

• Players who do not stream their entire race will be requested by the admins to provide a VOD. Failure to provide a VOD accounting for all missing segments from the stream will result in disqualification from that race.

• Players are expected to be on time for races. If you do not join the race room by 15 minutes after the scheduled start time, another eligible member of your team (i.e., has not yet raced that week, except for co-op weeks) may replace you. If no eligible member of your team is available, it will be at your opponent’s discretion how long to wait for you before disqualifying you from the race.

• In the event a player is disqualified for either of the above reasons, their opponent may offer a rematch, provided the rematch is completed by the normal deadline for that week’s races.

• All races that have been completed on racetime.gg will have their results stand. Any requests for rematches of completed races will require admin approval.

• If both runners forfeit a race for any reason (or at least one runner on each team forfeits a co-op race), they must reschedule the race within the allotted time for that week or playoff round. If they are unable to do so, both teams will be credited with a loss for that race, but both runners will be credited with one race toward their minimum requirement of five.

• For co-op, team members will communicate and share information verbally using one of the co-op voice channels in the League discord. Screen sharing is not allowed. Sharing information via a shared document is permitted. Shared documents are only allowed for the weeks marked ‘Co-Op Info Share’.
• All races that end in a tie in the playoffs will be re-raced by the same runners with the same game modes.
• Quickswap menuing is permitted for all matches

• We take cheating seriously and public accusations of cheating will not be tolerated

• Use this form to report suspicious play: https://goo.gl/forms/pMo4RlWFgxwLtXpD2

• Players are expected to abide by the spirit of the rules. Attempts to game the ruleset may result in disqualification from the league.

• Players who are removed for conduct violations will be banned from future league seasons

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