tightrope Pacific Invitational 3

The second tightrope Pacific Invitational will take place on Sunday, the 24th of July at 12:00 NZST (GMT+12), which translates to 17:00 PDT (GMT-7) on Saturday the 23rd. You can use this list of time zones if yours is not covered.

23/07/16 17:00 PDT (GMT-7)
24/07/16 12:00 NZST (GMT+12)

It will be a one day, 8 man, single elimination tournament. Each match will be a best of three.



Starting with the higher seed, players will take turns vetoing maps from the given map pool. The first two games will be played on the last remaining map and the third game will be played on the last vetoed map. Faction selection for game three will be decided by the player that had the greatest number of Victory Points remaining in their win.

• Arnhem Checkpoint
  
• Angoville
  
• Faymonville Approach
  
• Kholodny Ferma Summer
  
• Crossing in the Woods
  
• Semoskiy Winter
  
• Minsk Pocket

Seeding will be based off of the sum of the players' best allied faction and best axis faction 1v1 automatch ranks, and will be determined at the conclusion of the signup period.

• 2 tpi2 finalists
  
• 4 Highest rank sign ups
  
• 2 Randomly selected wild card entries
  
• 4 Randomly selected reserve players

Momo4sho and PauL.a.D get automatic selection but they will still be seeded based off of their ranks.

Registrations will be taken at this thread on COH2.ORG.
All players are required to join and check in on the tightrope Pacific Invitational steam group
If you have not checked in 15 minutes before the tournament starts, your place will be taken by the first reserve player to check in.

• Ghosting, wire, sandbags, and other cover manipulations are allowed, but intentional abuse of obvious bugs will not be tolerated.
  
• The allied player must always be in position 1
  
• The winning player from each series must upload ALL of their replays (including losses) to COH2.ORG or risk being banned from future events.

$60 NZD to the winner.
Both finalists get guaranteed entry into the next tightrope Pacific Invitational event.



Live casting of the event will be available at www.twitch.tv/tightropexilo by Tightrope and Romeo. The brackets will be available at this link after the conclusion of the signup period.