Rules & Details

Gamemodus & System

All matches will be played in 5on5 Domination mode. The Groupstage matches will consist of one map, which is played twice, with changed factions. While the playoffs matches will be Best-of-Three, if a game is died after the first two rounds of the map, the map has to be replayed until a winner is found. The best two teams of each group will advance to the playoffs.

Mappool

The following maps will be played in the tournament:
Farmland, Hometown, Seaside, Rivera, Quarry

Mapchoice

For each match the map is given by the ESL, but both teams can agree to play a different, but have to state it in the match comments on the matchdetails site.

Screenshots

Every player has to take a screenshot at the end of each map and has to keep it for at least 14 days. For every match at least one screenshot per map and per team has to be uploaded after the match, both teams are responsible for making sure their screenshots are uploaded within 24h of the match. The screenshots must be in the .jpg format and have to be named meaningfully ( e.g.: Round1 USSR, Round2 USA…).

Replays

All players have to record replays of each map and have to keep them for at least 14 days. For every match at least one replay per map and per team has to be uploaded after the match, both teams are responsible for making sure their replays are uploaded within 24h of the match. Individual players have 48 hours to upload the replays after an admin's request. In addition, every team is obliged to upload the replays from one player after every game/match. Which player uploads the replays is the team’s decision. Replays must be in the .wicdemo format. Zipped files are not valid.

All players playing have to add the parameter “– quickreplay” to their World in Conflict shortcuts. The game has to be started with this parameter!

Q & A Section

Is it possible to move the match date?

Yes, it is possible to move every match for a couple of days. All groupstage matches have to be finished until 22. March 2009. For the playoff matches there will be fixed schedule, but it will be possible to move matches within 3 days.

Both teams don't have a server?

No problem, Massive Entertainment will provide servers for the tournament, the server details will be found here, as soon as the tournament has started.

My opponent didn't showed up or I couldn't reach them ?

If your opponent didn't show up to set matchdate please open a match protest. You can create a match protest by going to the matchsetup / enter results site in your open matches. Please do the same when you can't get in contact with your opponent!

Problems with the ESL or Questions?

If you have any problems with the ESL feel free to contact our support team. You can easily reach them over our support form at: http://www.esl.eu/eu/wic/support/

Pointsystem and draws?

The percentage at the end of each round decides who wins a match. That means if a team wins the first round with 70% to 30% and looses the second round with 40% to 60%, they still have won the match. During the groupstage a draw can happen when teams have the exact same percentage rating after both rounds. In the groupstage rankings a win brings three points, a draw gets you one point each and a loss gives you zero points.

However in the playoffs there must be a winner, so if the match is draw after the two first rouds another map is played twice, with both teams playing each faction once. The second map is decided by elimination maps from the map list until only one map remains. The team on the left side of the matchdetails starts deleting maps, after they deleted the first map, the second team deletes a map and vice versa until only one map remains. That map will be played, but of course both teams can also agree on a map, before they start deleting maps.

Prizes

Pro Tournament

1. Place: 5x Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition Processors
5x 12 Months ESL Premium
2. Place: 5x Intel Core i7 Processors
5x 6 Months ESL Premium
3. Place 5x Intel Core i7 Processors
5x 3 Months ESL Premium

Fun Tournament:
World in Conflict Merchandise, like T-Shirts, Hoddies and more for the Top 3 + ESL Premium Accounts