Road to Mexico - Week 3

Tournament open to players in the NA, LATAM and EU regions.

STREAMING

Streaming any tournament match that is on the official tournament channel https://www.twitch.tv/gearscommunityseries is prohibited.

Any player that streams an official match using any live stream platform (Twitch, Beam, Hitbox etc.) will be subject to a DQ.

We reserve the right to stream any match and players must allow broadcasters and staff to join their game. We also reserve the right to enter any Xbox Live party or communication program (Skype, Discord, etc.) in order to do “listen ins” for the duration of the league.

** Players MAY stream their matches when twitch.tv/gearscommunityseries is not live.

Teams must be ready to launch the game at a MAXIMUM 15 minutes after start time. A game can be started with no fewer than 4 players on a team. After the given time, a team will be DQ'ed and their opponent will be advanced.


ESCALATION OPTIONS

Fill With Bots: Off
Bot Difficulty: Casual
Round Score Limit: 210
Respawn Escalation: Normal
DBNO Time: 15
Friendly Fire: On
Weapon Respawns: After Pickup
Weapon Tuning: Competitive


WEAPON SUBSTITUTIONS

None


STARTING LOADOUT

Lancer
Gnasher
Snub Pistol


SPECTATOR SLOTS

Locked (if an outside player joins due to unlocked spectator slots then the hosting team would be subject to incorrect settings penalties)


GAME TYPES

Escalation - Forge Blitz
Escalation - Dam
Escalation - Foundation
Escalation - Harbour
Escalation - Impact
Escalation - Lift
Escalation - Diner
Escalation - Slab
Escalation - Old Town

MAP AND HOST SELECTION (Games to be hosted on NA servers if it's a NA/LATAM or EU BO1)

BEST 0F 1

The Higher Seeded Team (team on top) will choose to act as Team A or Team B during the Map Ban process.

The Map Ban process is as follows:

Team A bans 1 Map
Team B bans 1 Map
Team A bans 1 Map
Team B bans 1 Map
Team A bans 1 Map
Team B bans 1 Map
Team B bans 1 Map
Team A picks Map 1 from remaining 2 Maps
Team B picks Faction and Dedicated Server Location for Map


BEST OF 3

The Higher Seeded Team (team on top) will choose to act as Team A or Team B during the Map Ban process.

The Map Ban process is as follows:

Team A bans 1 Map
Team B bans 1 Map
Team B picks Map 1
Team A picks Faction and Dedicated Server Location for Map 1
Team A picks Map 2
Team B picks Faction and Dedicated Server Location for Map 2
Team B bans 1 Map
Team A bans 1 Map
Team B bans 1 Map
Team A bans 1 Map
Team A bans 1 Map
Remaining Map becomes Map 3
Team B picks Faction and Dedicated Server Location for Map 3
Team that picks Region will Host match.

CHARACTER RESTRICTIONS

Each team is only allowed one iteration of any character on the team at one time irrespective of character skin. For example, “Vintage Kait” is the same as “Armored Kait”.

A single COG team is only allowed 2 female characters.

Color Blast character are banned in all competitive play.

A single team may only use one Day of the Dead Character and/or one Spectre Character Skin.

A single COG team is only allowed one Zombie character. If a Zombie character is used, a non-Zombie iteration of that character may not be used as well. Ex: Zombie Dom and Commando Dom cannot be used at the same time.

The following characters may not be used in broadcasted matches:

Swarm Imago
Luchador/Wrestler Character Skins
Festive Character Skins
Day of the Dead Character Skins