Date:
Arena: July 19th
WSG: July 31-Aug 2nd
Prize Distribution:
First place in the WSG tournament: $6100
First place in the arena tournament: $900
Schedule:
Arena Tournament: July 19th
WSG Tournament: July 31-Aug 2nd
Arena Tournament Bracket:
Twink Cup Arena - Challonge
WSG Tournament Bracket:
Twink Cup WSG - Challonge
Format:
Teams must compete in both the arena tournament and the WSG tournament. Matches in both tournaments will be bo3 until the grand finals. The grand finals will be bo5 with the team from the loser's bracket starting 1 game down. Teams will be seeded into the arena tournament based on the order that they submit their rosters. Teams will be seeded into the WSG tournament based on their team's performance in the arena tournament. Teams are limited to a 13 man roster with 2 alternate characters per player. Players that have been included in your team's roster can be subbed in between games at any point in the WSG tournament.
Sign Up
To sign up for the Twink Cup post your full 10-13 man roster in this thread, including armory links of each character as well as your team name and team leader's battletag. You don't have to identify which 3 members will be playing in your arena team until the day of the tournament, but once you've decided on your arena team you can't change it. You can change your roster as much as you want until July 17th but each change will reset your seed for the arena tournament. The deadline for sign ups is July 17th. Teams will be allowed one change between July 17th and July 30th without altering their seed in case something unexpected happens.
Team Comp Rules:
Arena: 1 class limit, 1 healer limit, 1 off healer limit*, 1 stealth limit, no feral druids
WSG: 2 class limit, 2 stealth limit excluding guardian/restoration druids, 1 arms warrior limit, 1 bm monk limit, 1 MM hunter limit, no feral druids.
*any spec that has healing abilities that can be cast on their teammates counts as an off healer, not including warlocks' healthstones.
Tournament Rules:
- All tunnel, fence, and stump jumps are allowed, and people are allowed to use jumps to take them anywhere on the map that they would be able to get to without jumping. Using class abilities, goblin jump, toys, or anything else to take you somewhere that you can only get to using these abilities is not allowed. All graveyard jumps are not allowed, including jumps using the new fences and wall jumping to get inside the graveyard from below it. The following video provides an example of some permitted jumps: Here
- Crusader Enchant, Landslide enchant, Flintlocke and Gnomish X-Ray are banned from arena
- Arms warriors are not allowed to swap weapons to get multiple enchant procs in WSG
- Tiebreakers will be settled first by an overtime game where the first cap wins, if this is a tie the team with more flag caps in the series wins, if this is a tie the higher seeded team wins
- Teams must be logged in and ready to play 30 min before the start of their match
- Should any issues arise one or more Gamers-League representatives will need to join the team's voice chat to speak to the players directly.
- Every team leader needs to add the spectators through either battletag or email.
- Teams must be willing to have their games spectated and streamed
- It is the player’s responsibility to ensure they have a secure connection.
- If a player disconnects in the waiting room or within the first thirty seconds of a match then the game can be restarted. A restart can only happen once for each team per series unless the enemy team also agrees to a replay
- Team names must not include profanity, racism, poor sportsmanship references (queue dodging), cheating references (flyhacking, DDoSing), the name of another person unless they are on your team
- It is the responsibility of the team to have good sportsmanship and show respect to the tournament organizers. If a player is found harassing a Gamers League representative it will result in the removal of the offending player
- In order to get the spectator addon working some simple rules must be followed. This includes, but is not limited to: Adding the specified people on real id (email), not battle tag, Going to a certain location in the game, Relogging when requested
- If it is found that a player is using third party software, abusing a bug or exploiting the game in any way then it will result in an immediate removal from the tournament
- Arena maps must be chosen randomly, in wsg if teams are the same faction they will alternate between horde and alliance side for the first two games, the side that each team gets on the third game will be decided by coin flip, if there is an overtime game the sides will alternate again
- Any rule broken will result in getting disqualified for the rest of the Twink Cup
- 16 teams maximum
- Any attempt to deliberately throw a game or conspire to fix the outcome of a game before it is played will result in disqualification, and if the winning team is involved the prize money will go to the highest ranking team that was not involved in the conspiracy
- Players cannot use toys, guild banners, or any usable item that isn't equipped on their character except healthstones, soulstones, bandages, and the pvp battle standard
Streams:
Stream: Fearthebuns Twitch
Payment:
The prize money will be payed incrementally into a single Paypal account over the course of a few months, the increments are TBD. The prize pool of the tournament is in CAD. Any money donated to https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/t...rnament#/story will continue to be added to the prize pool of the tournament.
Important Links/Additional Information:
2015 Twink Cup Discussion, Planning, Indiegogo
Twink Cup Brackets, Rosters, Sign Ups, Schedule, Streams
Blue Post Thread on WoW Battlegrounds Forum
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