GENERAL

Game used: DOTA 2 (Steam version)

Competition method: 5 versus 5 (Team play, 5 players per team)

Game mode: Captain Mode (CM)

Sides: (Radiant / Dire; Ban first) will be announced before the match or decided by a coin toss.

Victory condition: The first team to destroy the other team’s ancient (main building).


SUBSTITUTIONS

• The tournament official or referees must be informed if any substitutions are to be done.

• Teams are allowed to substitute twice only in the tournament.

• Substitutions can only be done before or after a match is done and not during.


RESTRICTIONS

• The sharing of basic regeneration items, consumables, and gems are allowed. Items shared may not be kept or used for any other purpose (ie reselling).

• It is not allowed to purposefully suicide to drop item for another player.

• It is not allowed to block his own creeps with the help of spells. It is only allowed to use hero model to intercept creeps.

• Backdooring is allowed.

• Any cheats, hacks or exploits are illegal and not allowed in play.


DISCONNECTIONS

If any player disconnects during a match, the game will be paused (default is F9) until the player has reconnected. Pausing is not used for any other reason.


SERVER CRASH

• In the case of a server crash, the game can be continued from the latest save. The person who hosted the lobby for the match will have the option (game setup option) to load from a save file when they host again. The save file is generated every minute in the background.

• In the unlikely event that the reload does not work, the game will be replayed with the same exact hero picks and lane movements until the first creep wave of the Radiant and Dire side meets.


CONDUCT

• Competitors will conduct themselves in a reasonable manner, maintaining a friendly and polite demeanor to spectators, competitors, members of the press, tournament staff, and to other participants of the event.

• Competitors will refrain from the use of vulgar language during the entire competition. All rules of conduct also apply to chatting through the game console.

• Competitors are expected to compete in a professional manner. Throwing a match, halting play without cause, or showing a flagrant lack of effort will be construed as a violation of player conduct, and will result in match forfeit and disqualification from the tournament.

• The board of referees has the right to disqualify and dismiss any registered player from the tournament, at their discretion, at any stage of the tournament, for any reason, with no prior warning to the player.


Cheating and Exploits

EXPLOITS

The following game/map exploits are specifically prohibited:
Exploiting game or map bugs/glitches/flaws ("exploits") for the purposes of gaining an unfair advantage is prohibited. Exploits that are not specifically named here are still prohibited but will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

There are currently no exceptions.
THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE

The use of any third-party addons, hooks, programs or wrappers that interact with or alter the Dota 2 client, its appearance or behaviour for the purposes of gaining an unfair advantage is prohibited. Players and teams caught using such addons will, at the discretion of the tournament administrators, be removed from the tournament and forfeit any prizes awarded by their position.

Execeptions: Third party voice communication software such as (but not limited to) Ventrilo, Teamspeak and Mumble are allowed.

IMPERSONATING AN ELIGIBLE PLAYER

Impersonating an eligible player by attempting to alias as them, using their Steam account or by any other method is prohibited and will result in the aliasing player and the player they are aliasing as being removed from the tournament.

If a team is caught for aliasing twice, be it in the same match or in different matches, the entire team will be removed from the tournament and forfeit any prizes awarded by their position.


Punishment and Disputes


DISPUTE

The dispute process has been set up for team captains to report teams and/or player(s) that may have broken the rules of the tournament

Tournament administrators may initiate a dispute if they witness a team in breach of the rules during the course of administrating a match.
LODGING A DISPUTE

Team captains must lodge disputes within forty-eight (48) hours of match completion.
To lodge a dispute, a team captain must submit a private message to a tournament administrator.
When lodging the dispute, please include all relevant information and evidence to support the allegation.
Disputes lodged with insufficient supporting information and/or evidence will be closed without an investigation being opened.

PROCESS

Once a dispute has been lodged and received by the administrators, disputes will be handled in a three stage process:

1. Checked for Merit: The administrators will assess the submitted evidence and make a determination whether there is sufficient evidence presented to support an investigation into the dispute. If it is determined that there is sufficient evidence, then the dispute will move onto the next stage, otherwise the dispute will be closed and no further action will be taken. (Up to 12 hours)

2. Administrator Investigation: The administrators will investigate the lodged dispute and may request additional supporting evidence such as POV demos. (Up to 24-48 hours)

3. Deliberation and Ruling: Once the dispute has been investigated, the administrators will deliberate (up to 24 hours) and make a ruling. The ruling will be posted and 'stickied' in the disputes sub-forum and an announcement made. All rulings are final. (Up to 24 hours)


Forfeits & Defaults

By accepting an invitation to this tournament, participants are making a commitment to attend all scheduled contests. It is with this commitment in mind that the following policy regarding forfeits has been designed.

Forfeits

STANDARD MATCH FORFEITS

Any team that fails to appear for any scheduled Standard Match will be charged with a forfeit. Similarly, a forfeit will result when a team does not have the minimum number of required players in the time allocatted to start a match. A Standard Match forfeit will count as a loss. Standard Matches include any match that is not a quarter-final, semi-final, grand final, play-off or special match.

Please contact a tournament director for match type clarification.



FINALS MATCH FORFEITS

Any team that fails to appear for a Finals Match or indicates an inability to appear prior to a Finals Match, including but not limited to, quarter-finals, semi-finals, grand finals and play-offs, will be charged with a forfeit.

Similarly, a forfeit will result when a team does not have the minimum number of required players in the time allotted to start a finals match. A Finals Match forfeit will count as a loss and incur immediate expulsion from the tournament including forfeiture of all tournament prizes that would have been awarded by their end placing or position.

Individual players of a forfeiting team will also become ineligible for tandem awards upon a Finals Match forfeit. This policy will be strictly enforced.

In an effort to avoid match forfeits, please take advantage of player exceptions
REPEATED MATCH FORFEITS

Any team that forfeits two Standard Matches during the course of the tournament will forfeit all tournament prizes that would have been awarded to them by their end placing or position.


CONDUCT

These rules are subject to modification in the following aspects:

• Use of most recent patch/version release of each official game within tournament committee’s own discretion.

• In-game settings and required factors necessitated by use of most recent patch version/release.

• Cheat Protection Program release and/or cheat protection functions.

• Game settings and/or operations guidelines dictated by differences between online and LAN tournaments.

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