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Whirled Cup

Players’ Guide to the

$24k 3v3 Tourney

Sign ups

Any team of at least 3 (with 1v1 RM rankings can) can sign up from Monday, 1 May 12GMT to Sunday, 28 May 20GMT. Each team is required to submit:

• Team Name and alternate team name (higher seed receives team name preference)
• Team Captain Discord handle to coordinate games, recs, etc. with admins
• Team Roster (up to 5), with 3 players identified as the “main roster”
• At least 2 of any of those 3 players must play each game
• Players may join one team, and no roster changes are permitted following sign-ups
• Working links to 1v1 RM elos for the main roster
• This is for seeding purposes - Broken links may result in assuming the lowest elo among players
• Attest that the team is able to play all matches during the qualifiers and the 4-week main event

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Qualifier Summary

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Open sign-ups for 36 teams

Top 4 auto qualify

Next 32 in 4 groups of 8

8 advance to Main Event

Bo3 Week 1

Bo5 Weeks 2, 3

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Qualifier Timeline

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Main Event Timeline

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Getting to the Main Event

How to Qualify

• If you have been deemed a top 4 team (of the 36 sign ups), you are placed into the main event
• The next 32 teams are split into 4 groups of 8
• 2 teams from each group will qualify through 2 weeks of Single Elimination
• Week 3 is a placement series between the 2 qualified teams

Format Summary

• All maps are 6 vil starts
• The first week is Bo3, 5 map pool
• The second week is Bo5, 7 maps
• Third week is Bo5, 7 maps
• In all series, each team bans 1 map each before the civ draft
• Delicious Civ Draft (next slide) applies, a type of restricted hidden pick no repeat

Coordinate with your Admin

• By default, each week’s match is scheduled for Saturday 14 GMT
• Practically, work with your admin to free schedule prior to that time if desired
• Submit all recs (and results) to your admin
• If you make it, send one or more pictures of team member(s) with food (in lieu of webcam)

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Delicious Civ Drafting

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Bo 3

• 4 Global civ bans in BAAB order (higher seed choose A/B)
• Teams draft 6 exclusive civs each in A, BB, AA, BB, AA, BB, AA, BB, A order (essentially bans for just the other team)
• Hidden pick no repeat (with 10 civs unpickable each)

Bo 5 and All-5 played

• 4 Global civ bans in BAAB order (higher seed choose A/B)
• Teams draft 4 exclusive civs each in A, BB, AA, BB, A order (or thought of bans for other team)
• Hidden pick no repeat (with 8 civs unpickable each)

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Qualifier Match Settings

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• Game 1 will be on the set map
• Teams ban 1 map each
• 4 global civ bans
• Loser picks next map

• Bo3 Series
• 5-map pool
• 6 exclusive picks each
• Hidden Pick no Repeat with 10 civs banned

• Bo5 Series
• 7-map pool
• 4 exclusive picks each
• Hidden Pick no repeat with 8 civs banned

• Record All games
• Pick 1, 3, 5 vs 2, 4, 6 as colors
• No Restrictions on Laming (go for it)
• No sling rules, but cost increased to 50% with research prices up too

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• Can be found in Mod center
• See Map Atlas
• Fixed pool of 5 maps for Week 1
• 2 additional maps added for Week 2

Main Event Group Selection

The Drama Commences July 1^st

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Groups organized as AA (Seed 1), BB (Seed 3), CC (Seed 2), and DD (Seed 4)

1. The top 4 teams (seeds 1 to 4) give admins their preferences of opener opponent from the bottom 4 qualifying teams (seeds 13 to 16)
2. Simultaneously, seeds 5 to 8 give preferences of which of the top 4 to be grouped with as well as their opener opponent from seeds 9 to 12
3. Admins then input choices, higher to lower seeds, to complete the groups

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Group Stage

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Day 1 Live July 8^th

• Opening match is 1 game on set map
• Winners play a Bo3, Losers play a Bo3, 7 maps, 4 banned
• Winner of Winners’ Match advances to Quarters
• Loser of Losers’ Match is out

Day 2 Live July 9^th

• Delicious Bo5 to decide Quarters seed 2
• Same 7 maps, but 2 total banned
• Constrained hidden pick no repeat once again, with loser of each game picking the next map

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Quarterfinals

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July 15^th and 16^th

• While there are set broadcast times for each of the 4 quarterfinals, teams are welcome to play in advance and send in the recorded games
• The matches are set and scheduled as follows:

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• Bo5 series with ALL 11 maps available
• Teams ban 2 maps each, leaving 7 to be played
• Custom map draft, then Seed 1 picks the game 1 map
• A Delicious Civ Draft commences (4 global, 4 exclusive bans), and series is hidden pick no repeat
• Loser of each game picks next map from any remaining

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Round Robin

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July 22^nd, 23^rd, 29^th

• Again, teams are welcome to play prior to broadcast times and send in their recorded games
• The Final 4 teams are randomly assigned a food name: �Butter, Honey, Pepper and Salt
• Each match is play all-5 (rather than Bo5) with otherwise identical settings to Quarterfinals
• Broadcast schedule is as follows:

Jul 22^nd and 23^rd:

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July 29^th:

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Round Robin Tie Breaker Rules

1. # of Sets won in the round robin stage
2. # of Games won in the round robin stage
3. Fewer # of games lost in the quarterfinals stage
4. Fewer # of games lost in the group stage
5. Head to head record in round robin stage

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Grand Final

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Live Bo7 at 14GMT Sunday, July 30^th

• Rank 1 by RR tie-breaker is team A, while rank 2 is team B
• Both teams ban 1 map each from the 11-map pool before Team A (rank 1) picks. Once the map draft completes, Team A then chooses the game 1 map
• The teams then conduct a Delicious 7 draft
• 4 global civ bans in ABBA order
• Teams draft 2 exclusive civs each in A,BB,A order (6 bans total for each team)
• Series played out constrained hidden pick, no repeat
• Losing team picks the next map from any remaining map
• The teams are allotted up to a 5 minute break between each game

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You’ll have plenty of food if you forget to make vils.

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-Dragonmilk

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