Read this carefully before registering your team for a championship
Registration rules:
You must enter 6 players/team minimum, give the email address where we can contact you anytime.
You can add or remove players sending an email to mazzyfred@hotmail.com but your players will be added only once a week: on thursdays.
A player can play for only 1 team. A player, already playing in the league, is allowed to change team only once during a single season.
If a clan has 2 teams in the league, no switching will be allowed between the 1st and the 2nd team of the clan.
All registrations will be studied. Admins will mainly check the structure of the teams (website, number of members, attitudes, reputations, and so on)
World Wide Teams are welcome to register our leagues. So the official language is english.
Maps: Admins are doing their best to choose the best maps possible. When you accept to join the leagues, you also accept the rules, the maps and every admins decisions, wether you understand them.. or not.
League Rules
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Poules: Teams will play versus each other. 1 round/week on WEDNESDAY at 8h30 PM CET. 8h00 CET is the meeting hour. Games are supposed to start at 9h at the latest. If your opponent is not showing up on IRC before 9h, you win your game by forfeit.
Rescheduling: One of your team members MUST check the game page EVERYDAY if an opponent is asking you a question (to reschedule the game at a later date, to allow one driver to play, to play earlier or later than 20h30, and so on). Games page are the PRIMARY way to communicate with your opponents before Tuesday, and we most of the time base our arbitration on what is written on the game page.
Promotions: The two lower ranked teams of each division will be relegated downwards at the end of the season. The first two will be promoted.
Cup 3 vs 3: After the regular season, all the teams will be involved in a 3 vs 3 cup with a random draw.
Winners: The winner of the D1 league will be LE8 Champion. The winner of the Cup 3 vs 3 will be the Cup Winner.
Map pack: map packs will be available in "Download" every 2-3 rounds.
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Rounds: Each Wednesday at 19h30uk time (20h30 cet) , challenges consist in playing on 3 maps, one after one (RALLY+SNOW+DESERT). Meet your opponents on IRC, 30min before the match. The games are played 3 vs 3. Players can be changed between the maps, but not during a map.
Game versions: If both teams (that means ALL available players) agree to play on Trackmania United, you can move your match there instead of playing it on TMO.
IRC & meeting: be sure one of your players (preferably the captain) is connected to #ET.TM on quakenet before and after any challenges, so you can decide who host, what are the servers and password names. If your opponent doesnt contact you, wait until 21h cet and report the situation to the admins. Your TEAM wins 3-0 by forfait. We would like to remind all the teams that msn or icq is not the way to contact your opponent. Presence on irc during league games is MANDATORY.
Map order: Every week, we will have two maps played in Round, and one Lap map. All the maps (including the Lap map) are played with a 7 points limit. The team with the lower rankings will have the choice of the first map. The other round map will be played in second. The Lap map is always played last. If two teams have the same ranking, they will need to find an agreement regarding which map will be played first. If they are unable to find an agreement, the league admins will "force" the map order of the game.
Server Settings: Use the Team mode, alternative rules. Be sure you’re using a good connection when you host a game. See our tutorial in forum if you have any difficulties setting up the game server correctly.
Shortcuts: CAUTION: "Shortcuts are allowed as long as they're taken between 2 CP and in the good oder/way of the original track". But in the case of a player getting out of the track after an accident, it is allowed to get back on the track taking the CP in the wrong way and respawning, since the first intention was not to use a shortcut. A player getting out of the track and having to get back to the CP is in no way gaining time, so this is allowed. Only the intentionnal shortcuts are prohibited.
In game: Always do a few warm-up laps (2-3 laps at least). If you notice a lag during the warm-up, tell it. You are not supposed to start a round if you experience problems. Once everyone agrees to start the map, the map has to be played until the end. No change of players is allowed when a map is started. If a problem occurs, always take screenshots or replay as a proof and report immediately to an admin (there will always be 5-6 of us on irc during the games).
Upload/Download limitation: It is allowed to put the download setting to 0 during a game, in order not to have your vision blocked by other cars. But on the opposite site, it is 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 team caught using the 0 UL setting (not appearing on replays, but well on the score page) will be forfeited for the game for which they used the trick. If the team is caught a second time, it will be banned from the league and from future competitions.
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Results: The 1st team to 7 points wins the map. The 3 maps have to be played every Wednesday.
Bonus point: A bonus point will eventually be awarded to the team losing 2-1 while winning an equal or superior number of runs. So, for instance, a 2-1 (7-6 7-6 1-7 or 15/21 in runs scored) scoreline will result in a 2-2 score. Therefore, when communicating the score to the admins, always give the complete scoreline when the score ends up on a 2-1. So the only possible scores will be 2-1 3-0 or 2-2 (bonus point). Report the scores to your admin on IRC as soon as the game is over.
Standings: Only the maps win and losses will determine the standings. A 3-1 defeat will give the losing team 1 points. A 2-2 draw will give each team 2 points. If a game is postponed to a later date, and both teams cannot find an agreement to play an overdue game before the season end, both teams will receive 0 points.
Reports: Players are invited to write a report on the forums after their matchs, sharing their best moments, their points of vue and other screens & replays. It's always a pleasure to read them !
Conflicts: Laming, Cheating, Abusing, Moaning and all other bad attitudes will be stopped right away by kicking the player or the whole team out of the league. Report bad attitudes to Admins. Don’t forget to join replays that could proof your accusations
Admins might change/add rules to improve the leagues at any time
