Starting date: Monday the 1st of April 2012

The tournament is to launch the 1st of April 2013 and last untill all rounds are completed, with one round lasting one week.
Sign ups open 18th of March and last untill 30th of March - 23:59 GMT.
There are 256 spots open for players to sign up. Any player of any level are free to participate.

The tournament will be played in the following Lounge VCOM Tournament Lounge

Format:

The tournament will follow a format of Single Elimination untill 16 players remain. The 16 players will then enter a Double Elimination stage, meaning there will be one Winner's Bracket and one Loser's Bracket. In the Grand Final, if the team coming from the Loser's Bracket wins the initial Best of 7, they will enter a new Best of 5 in order to determine the final winner.


Game Settings:

Game : Random Map
Map : Arena
Size : 2 player map
Difficulty : Standard
Resources : Standard
Population : 200
Game Speed : Normal
Reveal Map : Normal
Starting Age : Standard
Victory Condition : Conquest

Team Together : [X] Yes
All techs : [ ] No
Allow Cheats : [ ] No
Lock Teams : [X] Yes
Lock Speed : [X] Yes
Record Game : [X] Yes

Round 1 to Quarter Finals: Best of 3 Setup:
Game 1: Random Civilization
Game 2: Switch Civilizations of game 1
Game 3: Random Mirror Civilizations

Quarter Finals and Semi Finals – Best of 5:
Game 1: Random Civilization
Game 2: Switch Civilizations of game 1
Game 3: Team Random (Mirror) Civilizations
Game 4: Random Civilization
Game 5: Switch Civilizations of game 2

Grand Final and Winner + Loser Bracket Finals – Best of 7:
Game 1: Team Random (Mirror) Civilizations
Game 2: Random Civilization
Game 3: Switch Civilizations of game 2
Game 4: Team Random (Mirror) Civilizations
Game 5: Random Civilization
Game 6: Switch Civilizations of game 5
Game 7: Team Random (Mirror) Civilizations

Scheduling:

Every round will last 1 week, meaning each team has 1 week to schedule and play the games before the deadline of the round which is Sunday 23:59 GMT. Your team is encouraged to provide your best times and schedule as efficient as possible throughout the whole week in order to get the games played in time.
The staff will be very strict regarding scheduling, and difficulties might end up in Admin Times or Admin Wins.

Tournament Rules:

Map Bugs:
If a player has trapped ressources, he can ask for a restart during the first 8min. The game must then be replayed with the same civilisations.
If a player has no door to the middle field, it also fits in those conditions.
Any lie about a bugged map may lead to an admin loose for that map.

Dropping:
Dropping will be determined based on current game state:
- If the winner dropped, then the match will be restored.
- If the game is still undecided at time of drop, match will be restored.
The winner of the restored game will take a screenshot at the end of the game and upload it as the result.
Those dropped games have to be restored within 15min, else the player having a technical issue will be DQ'd. Then
- If the loser is dropping (and it is clear he is losing), then the other person will move on and the dropped will be DQ'd.

All aspects, plus others not listed, will be analyzed before making a decision by tournament runners and others as they see fit.

Third Party Tools:
The use of any third party tool is prohibited. Examples are, but not limited to: Modified game files, syncers, crashers, network throttling devices (purposely lagging programs), and other such tools. Violation of this rule will not only result in disqualification from tournament, but termination/punishment as the Voobly staff team seems fit.

Misc:
Any issues with the client that may arise will be dealt with by the VCOM tournament mods/admins as they are presented.

You may only play on your account, and may only enter the tournament with one account. This also includes playing for someone else if your account was eliminated. Failure to follow this rule will result in disqualification of all involved accounts.

Once you and your opponent confirmed a time to play in the Scheduling Forum, the maximum waiting time is 30 minutes. More than that, the player that came and is waiting must take a screenshot showing [You must login to view link] (so the current time is clearly visible) and VCOM Tournament Lobby Game Room, and post the screenshot in Admin Win Requests topic, with a link to the post in the Scheduling forums where the game time was arranged and confirmed.

Any rule can be added/modified at any time as seen fit by a Voobly tournament mod. This rule exists to stop and punish potential exploitation of loopholes in current rules.

All matches must be recorded and uploaded in this topic before advancing to the next round there will be NO exceptions. The games may be uploaded to [You must login to view link]

Brackets: tba

Prizes:

1st) 1 year platinum membership
2nd) 6 month gold membership
3rd) 6 month silver membership
4th) 3 month silver membership

The length of the memberships might be smaller, depending on the number of the starting players, to be fair with the previous tourneys prizes.

In addition shields will be put on your profile to show your achievement:


Signups:
To sign up you must agree to the rules and state your full user name for the the tourney in this topic. Signups will close Saturday 30th March, 23:59 GMT or earlier if the maximum players limit (256) is reached

Yeah, i prefer the idea of single maps tournaments, i think we can do 3-4 tournaments each year, i was thinking about masters of arabia / masters of arena / masters of islands (that one might be boring though) / masters of fullrandom ...

Well i'm fine sofar, the help was really needed when it was about checking accounts after signups, or managing the tourney during my holidays next week, as you will do

btw i chatted with feage, he will sneak into the "bottom" semi final (most likely jordan vs tim) to stream it, however he may reach himself the other semi-final, i left messages on msn to dreams but he has not answered to me yet.

Some help would be nice still, but i don't really know who to ask, aoczone tourney admins seems to be very busy managing the ln tourney, aoczone even recruited some journalists to publish news but none of them did the work. rtsleague & aocliga administrators are also using a lot of their time already.

Maybe publish some announcement, but don't recruit people with senseless idea like **** civs wars on **** maps, imho a tourney must determine who is the best on the standard settings, not on the weirds ones. and most stream spectators and rec. games watchers prefer that too.