Rules

• Match Statement - The manager of each team must take responsability of entering the match statement at least 24 hours before the match is due to start (failure to do this will give the manager penalty points, and as you have not entered a map, the enemy will choose your map for you). The statement MUST contain the following information:
  - Line up: It must clearly show the 4 people who will be playing in the match, you are also allowed to name 3 backup/replacement members
  - Map: You must post your map in the statement, once you have posted it, you are not allowed to change it (unless opponent agrees)
  


• Allowed Players - As always, this is a Nations Cup, not a clan cup. In each match no more than 75% of the players are allowed to be in the same team, it must consist of a mixture of players from your country that are in different teams


• Players crashing/disconnecting/leaving - If a player crashes, disconnects, leaves etc, then you must finish that round (unless it happened at the begining of the round, less than 10 seconds), someone from the team must type in the match chat something similar to 'remake after this round' 'player crashed remake' etc, but remember to finish that round! Once a player has crashed, he or a replacement player has 10minutes to come back, if the team can't find a 4th, then they must carry on 3v4 until a 4th player can play. To avoid teams abusing this, each team is only allowed to pause the game once per map


• Wild Card - Each team is allowed one wild card per group stage. This is when the team makes a protest in advance (preferably more than 3days notice) saying they cannot play on the forced time Sunday 21:00. And then both teams will have to find a new time to play


We reserve the right to change/update rules at any time

Structure

Firstly, there will be two groups, one group will have 6 teams, one group will contain 7:

Group 1 : A,B,C,D,E,F
Group 2 : G,H,I,J,K,L, M

In this group stage you will all play against each other, making this a total of 5 matches if you're in group 1, 6 matches if you're in group 2.

In order to make this easy for you guys to understand, here is an example (this example is shown with 12 teams, not 13!):

Rankings after the group stage:
A - 15
B - 12
C - 9
D - 6
E - 3
F - 0

G - 12
H - 12
I - 12
J - 3
K - 3
L - 3

Top 3 from each group is qualified for the Final group so A,B,C, G,H,I are through. Now this might seem tricky at first to understand, but you will realise how easy it is to understand

The teams will keep the points they won against the teams in their group which also qualified with them
So for example if the results were:
A win B and C
B win C
G win H
H win I
I win G

They start the final group with this ranking :

A - 6
B - 3
G - 3
H - 3
I - 3
C - 0

Now they play ONLY against the team from the other group, they don't play a second time against the same team (match will be close with the same score as the previous match).

As you have already played against 2 teams you will only have to play 3 matches in the final group. So there will be a total of 8 matches played by each team.

There may be a loose group too with the same structure, so every team still continues to play after the first group statge.

Unsure?

Remember, if you are unsure about anything that was said in this news, then please ask the admins! Questions?

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If you have any question or doubt, you can contact the following admins: nohope92, Desit, Masnak, Clinton05x, Starrplaya, Chackiwinja,Defqon,

Best Regards, your Staff Europe