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Nation's Cup 2023
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Introduction
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Nations' Cup is a team tournament, but only 1v1 games are played. And a 2v2.
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In here players represent not their clans, but the countries they are linked to in real life.
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Players are not supposed to receive help from their teammates during their games or share accounts.
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Registration rules
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1. Players organize the teams themselves, then sign up the whole team. Sign-ups of individual players won't be considered.
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2. Players must be at least level 51 to participate.
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3. Every team must have between 3 and 6 active players and must represent some real country or geographical region. You should aim to fill a full 6-player team to avoid score penalties.
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4. It is possible for small countries to form a team together. For example Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are free to sign up a joint team.
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5. Big countries can field multiple teams if they have more than 6 players who want to play, but they should aim to put their best players into one team. Also there's a limit of max 5 teams from the same country.
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Format
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1. Two days boot time, with seven days banked. Vacations are NOT honoured.
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2. Games will be played in a Swiss-style tournament format. Each round your team will be matched up against some other team and you will play 1v1 games against each other. It will be 6v6, with each player playing two players from the opposing team, for 12 games total per round, per team.
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3. The total number of rounds is yet to be decided, it will depend on total sign ups. Each round your team will play 12 games total. The first round starts on July 14th 2023, the next rounds start every 3 weeks up until the end of October.
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4. Depending on the size of your team, players will usually play 2 or 3 games each round, for a total of 12 games per round.
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5. A player can be put on a bench and skip a round. Players can play 4 games each only if their team has exactly 3 players available for that round.
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6. The team with more wins after 12 games wins the match-up. Draws are possible.
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7. Teams that field less than 6 players in a round receive a score penalty by starting each round with minus one win per missing player.
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8. Winning a round gives your team 1 point to the final ranking, losing gives 0. Draws give 0.5. Close wins, meaning wins by exactly one win difference give 0.75 points to the winning team and 0.25 to the losing team.
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9. It is allowed to put new players into your team after each round, but only if they didnt play for another nation in this competition. Movements between teams belonging to the same Nation are allowed.
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10. Teams are ranked by number of points (rounds) won. First tie-breaker is head-to-head record. Second tie-breaker is number of individual games won.
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11. I'll repeat. Players are not supposed to receive help from their teammates during their games or share accounts.
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While it is hard to police, it's not impossible, and if caught your team/country will look like bigger losers than if you were to simply lose your games, so please think twice before attempting to break this rule.
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Templates
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Total number of rounds are yet to be deicded. Each will be played on a different template. Exact templates will be announced later.
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Detailed scoring example
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Team X fields 6 players in a round. Their opponents, team Y, field 5. Like last time, there's 12 games each round. So every player in team X plays 2 games. Team Y designates two players that will play 3 games, and the remaining three players play 2 games. Both teams win 6 games. But Team Y started with -1 win for missing a player. So the result is a 6:5 for team X. Since it's just 1 point difference, Team X scores only 0.75 "big points" to the final classification while team Y scores 0.25 Note that close wins can't happen between full teams. With no penalties for missing players, a normal 7:5 is a full win.
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You reached the edge of this world. Get outta here.
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