I and Venom are organizing a punaball tournament called OIPC#1. The tournament will begin when there are 20 teams in.
TOURNAMENT RULES
The rules are same as in my previous cup, except that this time the groups will be totally randomly determined and some other little things are changed.
- Game-play/Time Trial -
Games will be played in a time trial (best of two legs of 10 minutes each).
You will all play 2 legs of which one is played on the server of team 1 (or another server chosen by team 1 if team 1 cant host himself) and the other leg is played on the server of team 2 (or another server chosen by team 2 if team 2 cant host himself).
The server may not have a higher race-ping than 160 ms for the other team.(which can be checked with the F10 function).
After the legs have been played, you will add up your score from leg 1 and 2 and a winner is drawn from it(first leg 5-8 and second leg 6-4 will result in 11-12 overall and the team with 12 goals wins.)
If after two legs the score is even (for example: 8-6 and 5-7) then a third leg is held on a neutral server and will be a best of 9 game (who ever reaches 5 goals first, wins. So no time trial in a third leg).
The neutral server could be the Auto-server or a server set up by someone else on which both teams have less than 160 ms race-ping.
(You can also ask me or some other Community server administrator to arrange your match in Community Server
)- Team Composition -
Each team must be composed by 2 players, a team is also allowed to have a substitute player.
- Pointing System -
If a team wins a match in the 2 legs that team will be awarded 3 points and the opposing team will get none. If you need to play three legs and you win the third leg, your team will get 2 points and the opposing team gets 1 point.
First Round:
All teams will be set up in a group. (If we get 16 teams there will be 4 groups with 4 teams in each group.)
After the teams have played one game against all of the teams in it's group, the two teams with most points will proceed to the next round.
This will be the order to determine the better team if they have a tie in points:
1) The winner of the match between the teams that have a tie, wins. (Example: Team 1 and Team 2 have both 4 points and have joint 2nd place in the group after playing their matches. The match between these teams has ended Team 1's win, so Team 1 proceeds to the next round.)
2) The team with higher goal difference wins.
3) The team with more goals wins.
4) Rematch between these teams to determine the winner.
Playoffs:
2 best of each group will proceed to the playoffs. They will be placed there like this:
Quarter-Finals:
A1 vs D2
B1 vs C2
C1 vs B2
D1 vs A2
Semi-Finals:
A1/D2 vs C1/B2
B1/C2 vs D1/A2
Final:
The winners of Semi-Finals.
The tournament structure will change a bit if we get more than 16 teams.
RULES:
Because we do a time trial, it is important to keep in mind certain rules.
After a goal, the team that is taking out must pass the middle line with or without the ball within 10 to 12 seconds. If they don't do it, the opponent team is allowed to get the ball passing the white line.
We have this rule so u cannot wait out the playing-time when u have a comfortable lead.
We recommend you to record all your matches, because if your opponent is braking this rule on purpose, u can send in your recording to us so we can decide to disqualify the game and perhaps also your opponent. In special circumstances we can also decide to have the game totally replayed.
The color of the players is fixed. One player must use black colour and another must use white. (That's because last time some teams used same nicks and same colours so you wasn't able to identify players)
Furthermore you are bound to the normal playing rules which I think you all know.
Settings:
I suggest to make it impossible for spectators to join your server because having more people on your server may cause lag to the other players. You can adjust this setting in sliders.ini (spectatorsallowed 0)
Additional commands:
/master 0 (especially if spectators are allowed)
/players 4 (to avoid other players' connections)
/time 10 (in third leg /time 0)
/goals 0 (in third leg /goals 5 0)
/fixedcar 1
/car antislider
/ghost 0
Please remember to activate your msn-accounts if you haven't got one. All email addresses and msn-passports will be placed somewhere on this forum so everyone can contact everyone.
Registrations:
Send a mail to jylha_janne [at] hotmail [dot] com or reply this topic.
In the post you have to inform these things: Team name + Team members + E-mails or msn-accouts of all the players.
Max teams are 18. The registration is closed!
All the things about this tournament will be updated in this topic.
I hope we will see 20 teams in!
