Comp.tf 1st bball cup EU

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

• 8th December 2013 (Sunday)

Sign Ups close

• 6th December 2013 (Friday) at midnight

Rulesets, configs and maplist

• Map: ctf_ballin_comptf (custom bball map for this cup)
• Class limit: Only soldiers allowed
• Settings: Winlimit 25, Timelimit 20
• 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, 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

Special Rules

• It is not allowed to fire rockets at each other at map start.
• It is not allowed to deliberately drop the intelligence on top of any of the billboards / poles behind each basket.

Team/Player Restrictions

• This is a european cup, as such, only european 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 14:00 GMT (15:00 CET)
• 2nd Round Starts at 14:30 GMT (15:30 CET)
• 3rd Round Starts at 15:00 GMT (16:00 CET)
• Quarter-Finals start at 15:30 GMT (16:30 CET)

30 minutes Break before the Semi-Finals

• Semi-Finals start at 16:30 GMT (17:30 CET)
  • Both Semi-Finals will be casted
  • First Semi-Final at 16:30 GMT (17:30 CET)
  • Second Semi-Final at 17:00 GMT (18:00 CET)
• 3rd Place match starts at 17:30 GMT (18:30 CET)
• Final starts at 18:00 GMT (19:00 CET) until 19:00 GMT (20:00 CET)

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 team has a server that they can agree to play on, you should use Serveme.tf with the respectice config and map, if you can't get a server through serveme.tf you should contact Kaneco for a server on steam.

Reporting results

Players should report their own scores through the challonge cup page 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.

Archived

Sign-Up

The sign up price is 1 key 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)

Every current sign-up can be consulted here

Practice / Testing

Use the European Bball practice group on steam to find people to play against.

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