Fall Balance Preview 4v4 Annihilation Tournament

Welcome to the first Fall Balance Preview Tournament. This tourney focuses on the balance changes in the Fall Balance Preview mod. The goal of this and future FBP Tournaments is to extensively test the proposed changes in this mod with the community in a competitive setting. After playing in this tournament, we ask and highly recommend that you provide any feedback you may have regarding the balance changes in the FBP mod in our FBP Balance Feedback thread on the forums. For an overview of the most recent balance changes in the FBP mod, please review our FBP Changelog in the forums.

Rules

General Settings

• Teams: Axis vs Allies
  
• Mod: Fall Balance Preview Mod
  
• Starting Location: Random
  
• Game type: 4 vs 4
  
• Win Condition: Annihilation
  
• Teams: Arranged

Tournament Elimination

• Opening rounds: Single elimination
  
• Quarters: Single elimination
  
• Finals (Semi & Grand): Best out of 3

Loadout Rules

• There are no rules!
  
• All commanders and bulletins are permitted

Map Pool

• All 4 vs 4 automatch maps are allowed.

Map Selection - Veto System

• First Veto: Loser of the coin toss gets first map veto
  
• Game 1: Team captains will take turns vetoing maps from the map pool until only one map remains.
  
• Game 2 (If applicable): The second game in a series will be played on the same map as game 1.
  
• Game 3: (If applicable): The third game of a series will follow the same veto process for game 1. NOTE: The map from Game 1 is automatically vetoed.

Faction Selection

• Axis VS Allies only
  
• Game 1 : Winning team captain of the coin toss gets first pick of faction.
  
• Game 2 (if applicable): Teams swap sides (Axis to Allies & vice versa).
  
• Game 3 (if applicable): Team with the higher winning VP count gets first pick of faction.

Tournament Check-in

• Teams must check-in before the start of the tournament in order to participate.
  
• Check-in will open 15 minutes before tournament start time.
  
• Only checked-in players will be seeded into the tournament bracket.

Match Check-in

• Once paired with an opponent, both teams are required to check-in for their match on Battlefy. Once one team checks in, their opponent will have 15 minutes to also check-in or they will automatically forfeit the match. Once both teams have checked in, they are required to use the PRIVATE CHAT feed located on their Match page to communicate with their opponent and set up the match.
  
• Once the match is ready to start, one or both players MUST report in the PRIVATE CHAT feed that their match has begun.

AFK Matches

• Once seeding for a round is complete, players will have 15 minutes to coordinate and start their match. If neither player checks in or both players check-in and the match has not started within 15 minutes of the check-in, the lower seeded player will automatically forfeit the match and be dropped from the tournament.

Score Reporting

• After each match, Team Captains are required to report their team's score on their match page. Any disputes will be handled by a Tournament Moderator who may require a replay of the match for review. The Tournament Moderator has final say regarding all match disputes.

Relic & the administrators of this tournament reserve the right to change or add any rule at any time during this tournament at our discretion.

Captains can report their team's score.

Teamspeak

• Teamspeak 3 client will be used for voice communication. Please download client @ https://www.teamspeak.com/downloads.html . The official teamspeak 3 server for tournament is: VeteransofCOHO.mainvoice.info. Download teamspeak 3 client. I will be on teamspeak 3 to solve any issues or disputes that may occur.

Prizes

1st place: 50k Supply for each member
2nd place: 25k Supply for each member
3rd place: 15k supply for each member

Schedule

July 29th, 2017
- Start time 10:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time)

Livestream

The official twitch cast for opening round for this tournament will be : https://www.twitch.tv/dukejason . Stream will begin at 10:00 am EST.
Official broadcast for semi finals and finals will be on Sunday at: https://www.twitch.tv/stormless
German language broadcast will be hosted by Fahu at: https://www.twitch.tv/gamegamblers
Add dukejason on steam if you have any questions leading up to tournament.

Contact

http://steamcommunity.com/id/dukejason/

Sign-up

Registration ends May 28th, 2017 6pm EST.
https://battlefy.com/relic-entertainment/fall-balance-preview-4-vs-4-annihilation-tournament/5975ff04ab01f80341d1c723/info?infoTab=details