Read this carefully before registering your team for a championship
Registration rules:
You must enter 5 players/team minimum, give the email address where we can contact you anytime.
You can add or remove players by writing on the “Roster Change UL4” topic on the ET Forum. This allows all the admins (and your opponent of the week) to see that the player is indeed eligible to play. The players will be added only once a week: on Thursdays. If your player has not been added in time by the admins, just use the forum post as a proof your driver is eligible to play.
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 (unless a player had never played a single round for one of the team).
All registrations will be studied. Admins will mainly check the structure of the teams (website, number of members, attitudes, reputations, and so on) before deciding to allow one team in.
World Wide Teams are welcome to register our leagues. So the official language is English on the forums or on the news comments. Use of other languages is nevertheless tolerated on game pages or on the game servers, as long as your opponent speaks the same language as your team.
When you accept to join the leagues, you also accept the rules, the maps and every admins decisions.
League Rules
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Poules: Teams will play versus each other. 1 round/week on WEDNESDAY at 20h30 PM CET. 20h30 CET is the meeting hour. Games are supposed to start at 21h at the latest. If your opponent is not showing up on IRC before 21h15 without a warning at least 48 hours before the game hour, you win your game by forfeit.
Match Page: 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 pages are the PRIMARY way to communicate with your opponents before Wednesday, and we most of the time base our arbitrations on what is written on the game page.
Rescheduling: If one team asks soon enough (48 hours before the game, on Monday 8h30 PM CET) on the match page to reschedule a game, both teams should try to find an agreement to postpone the game at a later date, a date which will be convenient to both teams. Wednesday is only the DEFAULT date, at which a game should be played if no team has expressed his interest about moving the game. The new date MUST satisfy both teams. The team _who accepted to had to move a game because the other teams asked for it_ should not be penalized. Since there is usually a break between seasons, a solution is usually to postpone the game after the season end, when you will usually get 2 weeks.
Promotions: All the divisions will be ranked, the D1 gathering the best teams, while the newest teams will be placed in lower divisions. At the end of the season, the TOP 2 teams will be promoted to the upper division, while the LAST 2 teams will go down to the lower division. This being said, depending on the number of teams giving up from one season to another, one team might move up by more than one division from one season to another. On the same note, the number of divisions might expand or shrink from one season to another depending on the number of registrations. Check the division proposal topic (which usually open the week before the league Round 1) on the forum to discuss the initial positionning of your team in the divisions.
Regular season: We will make divisions of 8 teams, leading to a 7 rounds competition, with the Round 1 on Oct 1st and the Round 7 on November 12th.
Map Schedule: A 7 Rounds competitions means that every TMU environment will be played 3 times.
Round 1: Rally Coast Stadium
Round 2: Snow Speed Island
Round 3: Speed Coast Bay
Round 4: Stadium Rally Bay
Round 5: Snow Speed Island
Round 6: Rally Coast Bay
Round 7: Stadium Snow Island
Champion: A the end of the regular season, the first in the D1 standings will become the new UL Champion. Former champions of the UL are: LM (UL1 & UL2) and CMC (UL3)
Map pack: map packs will be available in the download section . Admins are doing their best to choose the best maps possible. Release of the complete UL4 pack will be on Sept 24 at around 20h CET.
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Rounds: Each Wednesday at 20h30 CET, challenges consist in playing on 3 maps, one after one. 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.
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 21h15 cet and report the situation to the admins. Your TEAM wins 3-0 by forfeit. 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 three maps played in Round with a 7 points limit. The team with the lower rankings will have the choice of the first map. The team with the higher ranking will then chose the second map. The remaining map is 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 have a good connection when you host a game. See our tutorial in forum if you have any difficulties setting up the game server correctly.
"O" Button: Make sure, you have the <forceshowopponents> setting enabled, if you host the match on a dedicated server. This setting will disable the "hide all cars" button (default: "O") for all players. It may only be changed, if both teams agree to play with invisible cars.
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 intentional 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). We prefer if you come to us before the game is played than afterwards, since it’s always easier to arrange things when no map has been played.
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 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 Tuesday.
Bonus point 1: A bonus point will eventually be awarded to the team losing 2-1 while winning a 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.
Bonus point 2: A bonus point will eventually be awarded to the team losing 3-0 while scoring more than 11 runs. So, for instance, a 3-0 (7-6 7-6 7-1 or 21/13 in runs scored) scoreline will result in a 3-1 score. Therefore, when communicating the score to the admins, always give the complete scoreline when the score ends up on a 3-0.
Scores: With the addition of the newest bonus point, the only possible scores will be 2-1 3-0 3-1 or 2-2 (bonus point). Report the scores to your admin on IRC as soon as the game is over.
Standings: Only the maps wins (and bonus points awarded) will determine the standings.
Overdue games: 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.
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. Do not forget to join replays that could proof your accusations
Admins might change/add rules to improve the leagues at any time
