February 2018 CSGO Showcase presented by the NSG Academy

General format and rules for CSGO 5v5 Competitive Tournament

Map pool:

de_mirage
de_cache
de_overpass
de_cbble
de_train
de_inferno
de_nuke

The tournament will start off with group stages which will be used to determine seedings and placement into an upper and lower bracket.

Group stages will consist of map veto's and knife for sides for a round-robin style matching.. There will not be overtime during group stages and matches can result in a tie. At the end placement is determined by overall score. A win is worth 3 points while a tie is worth 1 point.

The top two teams from each group will go directly to the upper double elimination bracket. The bottom two teams of each group will go into the lower bracket with a chance to play through to the grand finals.

It will be bo1 all the way until semi-finals which will be bo3. Grand finals will also be bo3 with the upper bracket team having a map advantage over the finalist of the lower bracket.

Servers will be using the competitive CEVO config to determine round time, start money, bomb timer, etc. Overtime in the playoffs is 16,000 start money, max round 3.

Map Veto Process:

Bo1 will be alternating bans until a final map is chosen. Rock paper scissors OR a coin toss will determine who bans first.

Team 1 - Ban
Team 2 - Ban
Team 1 - Ban
Team 2 - Ban
Team 1 - Ban
Team 2 - Ban
Remaining map is picked.

Bo3 will work as follows:

Team 1 - Ban
Team 2 - Ban
Team 1 - Pick
Team 2 - Pick
Team 1 - Ban
Team 2 - Ban
Remaining selection is decider map.

The team that did not pick the map chooses sides.