TAW Open II Hosted by NGS

The Art of Warfare Open II Hosted by Nexus Gaming Series

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Eligibility:

The TAW Open II is open to any teams from the TAW or NGS Community

Discord:

All players are welcome to join Discord, however team Captains must join and be identified as such.

Team Captains must join the TAW HOTS Open Discord when they sign up their team for the tournament in order to receive notifications from tournament admins.

Team Captains must be on the Discord at the start of the tournament for check in and remain in the Discord as long as their team is in the tournament.

Check in Starts at 12 PM EST and will last until 12:45 PM EST The day of the tournament. Tag the Tournament Admin stating your team is ready to go and that will suffice as your team’s check in. The Tournament Admin will be labeled as such within the Discord Chat

Maps, Skins, and Mounts:

The tournament will follow the HGC Map Pool

Hero skin and mount bans will directly correlate with the HGC bans.

Each team has 2 minute to address a banned skin or mount. If a team is caught using a banned skin or mount within the 2 minutes on the game clock, the game will be reset with the same draft picks.

If neither team addresses the banned skin or mount within the first 2 minute the game will continue without penalty to either team.

For mounts: if the opposing team sees that a team is using a skin that does have a banned mount, they should pause the game and ask what mount is being used in case they do not see the mount by the 2 minute mark.

Disconnects and Pauses:

Game pauses should only be used in cases of player disconnect, emergency or technical difficulties.

Each team is allowed a total of 10 minutes of pause time per series. Once that team has reached 10 minutes of paused game time, they will have to play with a bot or they may forfeit that game if they prefer.

Teams may pause a total of 3 times per game due to disconnects or technical issues.

Teams (or the caster, if there is one) will announce an unpausing before actually
doing so. This contains a countdown from 3 after both teams have confirmed they are ready.

Any team abusing pause will be punished. The abuse of pause will also result in a default loss in the ongoing match. Tournament admins will review any abuse of pause concerns.

Match Setup:

Teams will compete on the NA servers.

Teams will use the Central server unless both teams agree to play on a different server.

Map bans/picks are done by a "digital coinflip" on the Discord server. A tournament admin or caster will perform the coin toss.
-Coin flip winner chooses first map OR first pick
-Map ban order: Map Ban 1/Map Ban 2
-Map pick order: Map pick 2/Map pick 1

For the Best of 3 and Best of 5 series: the losing team of the previous game will have the choice for battlegrounds selection or first hero pick in the draft.

Battlegrounds may not be repeated during a match. Teams are required to inform the referee or opposing team of their selection within 1 minute of the previous game ending.

Only verified spectators are allowed in game: NGS/TAW broadcasters, Tournament Admins, Blizzard)

Teams:

One team captain specified

Each team must have a minimum of 5 players and a maximum of 6

A player may not play for more than one team during the tournament

Teams are allowed to swap in players from their roster in between games so long as all players in both games of a match are on their current rosters.

No roster changes can be made once the tournament starts

Player Guidelines:

Tournament members are expected to maintain a level of civility and respect toward other community members and the tournament staff and Administrators.

TAW and NGS will not tolerate any toxic behavior. Swearing, derogatory and hate language will not be tolerated within the league.

Players found to be harassing other members of the tournament or causing disruption of matches will be removed from their match. If the behavior continues, action may be taken ranging from a silence to a ban from the league.

Any attempts to deceive the league administration or players; including smurfing, playing on a non-registered account, allowing someone to play on your account, giving false information, etc. will result in an immediate match forfeit and will be considered grounds for a suspension or ban from all from tournament activities.

Cheating or using any known exploits or bugs to your advantage during a match will result in a forfeit of that match and will be considered grounds for a suspension or ban from all from tournament activities. .

Ignorance of the rules is not an excuse to break them.