Signups  --  GCX 2025: Wildgate Cosmic Clash
Note: This tournament is held in-person in Orlando, FL. You must physically be attending to participate!

Hey all! Welcome back for another year at Gaming Community Expo in Orlando, FL.

For 2025 we have an exciting surprise for you: The first ever open tournament for Wildgate! Come be one of the first to escape with the Artifact and cause havoc on enemy ships. Warp your way towards the GCX main stage on Saturday by being the last team standing or by jumping to victory through the Wildgate!

As usual with GCX open tournaments you may sign up with a full team (4 players), partial team (2-3 players), or as a Solo player. Partial teams and Solo players will be subsequently paired together.



Below is further information on Signup Requirements, Dates, Format, and Prizing!

---SIGNUP REQUIREMENTS---

Teams will be accepted based on the completion of the below action items by all members of the team:
  1. You must be in the GCX Community Discord. All further mass communication will occur there.
  2. Players must read and agree to follow the GCX 2025 Wildgate Cosmic Clash Rulebook.
  3. All indicated team members signing up as a group must fill out this form. 
You will receive confirmation from an Admin via a private team channel in the GCX Discord once all members have completed the above. Initially, all signups will be marked as waitlist until we reach certain thresholds of teams. 

If you have any issues regarding signing up please drop a message in the GCX Discord server or DM @Lorence on Discord.



---DATES---

PRE-EVENT
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Application Deadline: [Fri] Jul 18th @11:59pm ET
Pre-Event Confirmation: [Mon] Jul 21st @11:59pm ET
   - This serves as our check-in with teams to ensure all teams are good to play prior to the event
   - Failure to confirm with admins at this time may result in your spot being forfeit to a waitlist team

EVENT DAYS
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Day 1:
    - On-site Check-in Start: [Fri] Jul 25th @9:00am ET
    - Check-in Deadline: [Fri] Jul 25th @10:15am ET
    - Play-ins (Tournament Start): [Fri] Jul 25th @10:30am ET
Day 2:
    - Last Chance Qualifiers [Sat] Jul 26th @11:00am ET
    - Stage Finals [Sat] Jul 26th @2:20pm ET

Note: Day 1 is estimated to finish around 5pm with around ~2 hours of play per team depending on total signups. If any delays occur there could be an extension to these timeframes.



---FORMAT---

There will be (3) separate Phases for this tournament:
   - Play-ins
   - Last Chance Qualifiers
   - Stage Finals

Play-ins
Depending on total signups teams will play 2-3 Games. From these Games the following stats will be tracked and used, in order, for advancement tiebreakers:
    - Games Won
    - Ships Destroyed
    - Ship Damage

After the completion of Day 1 the following teams will advance to Day 2:
    - 1st overall: Direct advancement to Stage Finals
    - 2nd-11th overall: Advancement to Last Chance Qualifiers

Last Chance Qualifiers
The 2nd-11th place teams from Play-ins will be seeded evenly into separate groups of (5) teams to play a single Game each. The winner of each Game will advance to Stage Finals!

Stage Finals
The (3) teams advancing from the open portion of the tournament will be placed against (2) teams of creators to decide the Wildgate Cosmic Clash Champion!

More in depth explanations of this format are contained in Section 2 of the Rulebook, linked above.


---PRIZING---

This event will have trophies for the winning players at the conclusion of Day 2 Finals!

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