Elite Mod Championship Rules

Dates & Starting Time

You can find the Date and starting time of each Elite Mod Championship in their respective announcement threads and on the Monthly Rumble tournament Steam group event page.

Prizes

This is a crowd funded tournament, which means the prize pool will consist of everyone's donation to the prize pool.

Tournament Rules

Host Settings

• Victory point control: 500 VPS
• Random starting location
• Standard resources

Commander picks

• Players are allowed to play any commander they want at any point of the tournament.
• (!!IMPORTANT)Should someone pick random, they MUST announce their commander at the start of the game (first 10 seconds)!
• The player in the top bracket (or higher position in the group) will lock in his commander first for the first round. In the next game the player in the bottom of the bracket will lock into their commander first.
• In the final game (game 3 or game 5 depending on the format), victory points left from all the previous games will be summarised and based on them, the player who had less victory points left will be choosing his commander first).

Maps

• The first round of a match will always be a fixed map as shown in the brackets.
• No map can be played more than once within a match.
• Each player will have the option to veto a single map during a match, excluding the first round map.
• The rounds that follow will be "loser's choice".
• The loser will pick a map.

Observers

• No observers are allowed except for referees and/or streamers.

Results

• Both players are responsible for contacting a referee and giving the correct results.
  The confirmed results will be updated in the brackets.

MAKE SURE TO SAVE SCREEN SHOTS OF THE SCORE SCREENS IN ORDER TO COUNT THE VICTORY POINTS, SHOULD THE 3rd OR 5th GAME HAPPEN!

Replays

• Replays MUST be saved by both players. Should there be a dispute where neither player has saved the replay(s), the game(s) will have to be replayed.

Disconnections

        When a game ends prematurely for whatever reason, two things can happen:

• Either the players agree on a winner or agree to replay.
• If the players don't come to an agreement a referee will make the decision for them after watching the replay.
• The referee's decision will be final and without discussion so the tournament can go on as smoothly as possible.

Additional Tournament Rules

Be respectful. Inappropriate or disrespectful behavior will result in disqualification or other disciplinary actions as the referees see fit.

Community Help: Referees
Any volunteer referees are welcome. Contact Eerie for this on Steam.

What should a referee do:

• Be in the tournament chat room some time before the tournament starts.
• Help people find their opponents.
• Resolve disputes between players after watching the replays.

Referees can't play in the tournament.
*With the exception of eliminated players when there would be a lack of referees.

Streamers

Every streamer out there is welcome to cast the games they want. Please do not crowd a lobby with too many streamers.

Group stage rules

• Groups consist of 4 players.
• 2 players on the top of group ladder pass to the bracket stage on day 2
• Each player scores 1 point for a won bo3.
• In a situation, where 3 or more players have equal amount of points, win-lose game ratio will be taken into consideration.
• In a situation where only 2 players have equal amount of points, the player who won the match between them will be put on top
• Should a situation arise, where 3 or more players have equal amount of points and same win-lose ratio, a tie-breaker bo1 games will be played between them
• Please see THIS SKETCH to further understand how group stage looks.

Qualification rules

      1. Monthly Rumble Tournament Ladder

• 16 players from the top of the MRT ladder will qualify to the tournament.
• Top 8 players from the MRT ladder will qualify directly to the bracket stage (see THIS SKETCH)
• 9-16 player from the MRT ladder will qualify to the group stage (see THIS SKETCH)

      2. Direct qualification tournament

• Direct qualification tournament will be held in the same month as EMC, during the first 2 weeks of that month
• The Direct qualification tournament will be played until 8 players are left, who will be awarded with their spot at the group stage (see THIS SKETCH) of EMC
• Rules of the direct qualification tournament will be disclosed in the corresponding forum thread for each of those tournaments.

Elite Mod Championship map pool

• Ashes of Typhon
• Calderis Refinery
• Fedrid Folly
• Green Tooth Gorge - Pale Tooth Gorge*
• Ice Station Obelis
• Judgment of Carrion
• Leviathan Hive
• Quest's Heresy
• Siwal Frontier
• Green Tooth Jungle Redux
• Jarilo's Forge
• Sector 95


*Green Tooth Gorge and Pale Tooth Gorge are considered to be the same map, therefore Green Tooth Gorge and Pale Tooth Gorge cannot be played during the same match (a bo3 or bo5 series). If one of them is vetoed, the other cannot be played either.