Read this carefully before registering for the GC5 TMN Edition.
The GC5 TMN is a Rounds mode competition. There are 4 seperate tournaments to qualify for the playoffs.
The dates of the tournaments are as follows:
Tournament A - 3 week tournament played on Monday July 16, 23, 30. Tournament B - 1 day afternoon tournament played on Saturday July 28. Tournament C - 3 week tournament played on Monday August 13, 20, 27. Tournament D - 1 day afternoon tournament played on Saturday August 25.
Registration rules:
You can only register for one of the qualifying tournaments. So you will need to pick carefully which tournament you register for.
64 spots will be open for each of the individual tournaments, and a waiting list will be open on the forum for late registration.
You NEED to use the forum to unregister in the case you cant make the date(s). The message on the forum has to be posted 3 days before Tournament day. Failing to show up to a tournament for which you registered will cause you to be ghosted and disqualified.
Furthermore, we will prevent people from abusing this system (registering for multiple tournaments).
You NEED to register to the competition using this format: Tournament (A/B/C/D) - Name which you will use to play the match. Players not registered in this format will be replaced with a player from the waiting list.
When you accept to join the GC5, you also accept the rules, the maps and every admins’ decisions.
Tournament Rules
--------- Before the match -----------
Servers A/C: It is up to players to arrange in the match comments the server hoster etc 3 days before the scheduled match.
Servers B/D: For the first round, players arrange the same as before on the match comments page. In rounds 2/3 Players will need to be on IRC to allow the server to be organised and set up in time for the next round.
Meeting: All the drivers are supposed to meet on their arranged servers 10 mins before the start time. There will be an admin present on IRC.
Start hour A/C: For the weekly tournaments (A/C) the match start time is set at 19:30 CET. Players can delay the match only if all agree. Else the match is played at the standard time. Allow 15 mins for everyone to get into the server after the start time.
Start hour B/D: For the 1 day tournaments (B/D) the start times for each round are set up as Round 1 - 14:00 CET, Round 2 - 15:30 CET, Round 3 - 17:00 CET. These matches can Not be delayed to keep the strict time schedule.
Map pack: For the weekly tournaments, 3 new maps will be made avaliable the week before and the order they will be played in. For the one day tournament the maps will be the same maps as in the weekly tournament. The order will be posted when the 3rd Map pack is released. Additionally each month will have 9 different maps.
Delays: Each match that is played will have a 15 min grace period for late arrivals. If not all players are present after the 15 mins are up that player will be disqualified. In the case of only 2 players being present they will automatically qualify for the next round.
--------- During the match -----------
Rounds: The 4 Players will drive the maps until one player reaches 41 points.
Scoring system: The standard Rounds sytstem will be used. After 3 maps is played the results will be tallied and each player will be ranked for that match.
Map order: The map order will be posted a week before on the main news page.
Shortcuts: CAUTION: "Shortcuts are allowed as long as they're taken between 2 CP and in the good order/way of the original track".
In game: The matches start at 19:30 CET for tournaments A/C and 14:00 CET for tournaments B/D.
End Round>: Players will be required to take screenshots after each round.
Upload/Download Limitation: It is NOT allowed to put the download setting to 0 during a game, in order not to have your vision blocked by other cars. It is also strictly forbidden to put the upload setting to 0, forbidding other players to see you during the game. The main reason is that such a behavior is unfair, because your car does not appear on replays taken by others, and therefore is a gate opened to cutters and cheaters of all kind. A player caught using the 0 UL setting (not appearing on replays, but well on the score page) will be forfeited for the Tournament for which they used the trick. If the player is caught a second time, he will be banned from the league and from future competitions.
Conflicts: Laming, Cheating, Abusing, Moaning and all other bad attitudes will be stopped right away by kicking the player out of the competition. Report bad attitudes to Admins. Do not forget to send replays that could proove your accusations.
--------- After the match -----------
Results: The admins (Rax, Vautour, Bergie, Zell and Maxou) will gather all the scores and screenshots. The top two players in each match will go through to the next round. At the end of the 3 rounds, 8 players in each tournament will be qualified for the playoffs.
Playoffs
The 32 drivers at the top of the Overall Standing at the end of each tournament will qualify for the playoff stage
A pack of the 12 playoff maps will be released on August 27.
Rounds 1 and 2 will be played on Saturday September 8 at 15:00 CET and 16:30 CET.
The Semi and Final will be played on Sunday September 9 at 19:00 CET and 20:30 CET
Admins reserve the right to change/add rules to improve the leagues at any time
