1. It is required that everyone (team captains and all players on the team) join the GGtoor discord for ongoing updates about the event:
https://discord.gg/GUhyZxFH8Q
2. The rounds of the event will be played over several days. See the schedule below for dates, times, and details for advancing each round.
3. Check in will be required. Check in will open 48 hours before the event starts, and run from Sep 3, 18:00 IST - Sep 4, 18:00 IST/8:30 EDT. It closes 24 hours before the event starts to leave the final 24 hours as time for the admins to create the brackets and give the teams permissions.
The Team Manager/Captain can check-in the team by posting the team name in the #gff-check-in channel of the GGtoor discord. If you do not check in this way, your team will be dropped from the event!
4. Age: To be eligible to participate, a player must be at least 13 years old (or such other age, of greater, as may be required in such player’s country of residence). Players between the ages of 13 and 17 must have written permission from a parent or legal guardian. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18, THE REQUIRED FORM CAN BE FOUND HERE:
https://discord.com/channels/708790719015551017/761211030927441940/786226171864023050
5. Cheating of any kind (mods, emulator, any third party software, cheats, etc) will result in disqualification without prizes from the event, and being banned from all future events. If you believe your opponent cheated, please send any evidence you may have to the tournament staff. In addition to Hacking, "CHEATING" ALSO INCLUDES USING ANY BUG OR UNINTENDED EXPLOIT THAT EXISTS IN THE GAME, intentionally or unintentionally. If this somehow happens to you unintentionally, you should immediately alert your opponent and tournament staff - if you don't, you will be deemed to have been Cheating, and you may be disqualified without prizing and/or banned from all future events.
6. Sportsmanlike conduct is expected. You are NOT allowed to be disruptive or grief your opponent in Real Life, such as in any Discord or Twitch chat (or any other actions that could be considered unsportsmanlike conduct except for actions intended to be allowed within the game itself as part of normal game-play.) If you do, your actions may result in a game loss, match loss, or disqualification from the event without prizes, solely at the discretion of the Tournament Staff.
7. Select matches for this event may be streamed on a one of our designated Official Twitch channels. Competitors playing in the event may live stream the event from their own POV as well (and are strongly encouraged to do so!) with #GGtoor in the title. By registering for this event, you agree that we may live re-broadcast your live stream from our designated Twitch channels and commentate any game-play during the course of the event, as well as create VODs of this Content, which we may choose to make available on our official Youtube channels and other platforms, so others may marvel at your awesome plays (or epic fails!)
8. The schedule is as follows:
Registration closes: Sep 3, 23:59 IST/14:29 EDT
Check in period(/start building brackets) Sep 3, 18:00 IST - Sep 6, 18:00 IST/8:30 EDT
Final Admin/setup round 1 discord permissions (/finalize brackets): Sep 5, 18:00 IST/8:30 EDT - Sep 6, 18:00 IST/8:30 EDT
Open division
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round 1: Sep 6, 18:00 IST/8:30 EDT: up to 288 teams, 24 groups of 12 (each group plays 1 game.) 6 from each advance = 144 teams advance
(If the number of starting teams is different than that, rounds will be adjusted however staff deems fit, though most likely by only adjusting round 1 in a manner to best to result in 144 teams advancing to the next round.)
round 2: Sep 7, 18:00 IST/08:30 EDT 144 teams, 12 groups of 12 (each group plays 1 game.) 3 from each advance = 36 teams advance
round 3: Sep 8, 18:00 IST/08:30 EDT 36 teams, 3 groups of 12 (each group plays 1 game.) 4 from each advance = 12 teams advance
round 4 (Open/semi-finals #1): Sep 9, 12:00 IST/02:30 EDT: 12 teams, 1 group of 12 (plays 6 games.) 4 advance to Grand Finals
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Influencer/Invite division
Semi-finals #2: Sep 10, 15:00 IST/05:30 EDT: up to 48 teams, 4 groups of up to 12 teams (each group plays 4 games.) 2 from each advance = 8 advance to Grand Finals
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Grand Finals: Sep 11, 10:00 IST/00:30 EDT:12 teams, 1 group of 12 teams (plays 6 games) for the cash prizing
ALL DECISIONS BY THE TOURNAMENT ADMINISTRATOR OF THIS EVENT ARE FINAL.