Comp.tf 2nd bball cup NA

What is bball?

Basketball or bball is a competitive format, to know more about it, visit our bball page on the wiki here.

Rules

• No maximum sign-ups

Cup Format

• Single-elimination
• Bo1 until the finals
• Bo3 in the Final
• 3rd Place match

Cup Date

• 16th February 2014 (Sunday)

Sign Ups close

• 14th February 2014 (Friday) at midnight

Rulesets, configs and maplist

• Map: ctf_bball_comptf (custom bball map made by X_Dias for comp.tf cups)
• Class limit: Only soldiers allowed
• Settings: Winlimit 25, Timelimit 20, Respawn Times 2 Seconds
• Config: etf2l_bball.cfg
• Unlocks: Stock soldier weapons + reskins (“The Original” is allowed)

The cup will use the last ETF2L bball cup ruleset and configs, with modified 2 seconds respawn time (set by this custom sourcemod plugin), the custom map is to be used for every match on the cup. Players should use their own servers when possible.

ETF2L configs can be downloaded here

Team/Player Restrictions

• This is a north american cup, as such, only north american teams will be eligible for the cup

Prizes

The prizepool is dependent on the number of sign-ups but the distribution will be as follows:

• 1st Place: 60% of the prizepool
• 2nd Place: 30% of the prizepool
• 3rd Place: 10% of the prizepool

Cup Info

Brackets

You can see the brackets here

Match Scheduling

You should add the players of the team you're supposed to play with on steam, consult this spreadsheet with the list of teams

• 1st Round Starts at 4PM EST
• 2nd Round Starts at 4:30PM EST
• Semi-Finals Start at 5PM EST
  • Both Semi-Finals will be casted
  • First Semi-Final at 5PM EST
  • Second Semi-Final at 5:30PM EST
• 3rd Place match starts at 6PM EST
• Final starts at 6:30PM EST

Note: Teams have 15 minutes tolerance to show up for a match, if you can't contact the opposite team after 15 minutes you should talk to Kaneco on steam, from then it will be given a default loss to that team if they still don't respond.

Servers

Refer to the Rules section of the cup to know which config and map to use. If none of the teams has a server or if both teams can't agree where to play on, you should contact Kaneco for a server on steam. We will have 5 Chicago servers ready to use for the cup, kindly provided by Tragic Servers .

Reporting results

Players should report their own scores through the challonge cup page on the brackets (click '?' links next to your game) and submit with an attached screenshot and the full result (ie 25-13, not 1-0), after that an admin will review the result submitted and approve it as soon as possible.

Refer to this image on how to submit the results

Note: If the attachment is too big to submit upload the image to imgur or dropbox and add it as a link

Sign-Up

The sign up price is 2 keys per team, the key should be traded to the steam user below at the time of signup, we will also require your e-mail or challonge username to invite you to the cup, keep in mind the user invited to the cup on challonge will be the one updating the results from their matches.

You should also have in hand the steam profile links of both the players in your team and the desired team name.

To sign-up for this cup you should add Kaneco on steam.

(Please make sure you are adding and trading the correct user)

Feedback / Suggestions

We are interested to know what you thought of our custom bball map. Use the Talk page if you have any feedback.

Alternatively if you have any questions feel free to contact me (kaneco) through my talk page on the wiki or add me on steam