—ANNOUNCEMENT—
Several teams have dropped out of the tournament, so we have changed the tournament to 3 rounds (8 teams), and the prizes have been reduced to reflect the tournament’s smaller scale.
General Information
Hello, fellow Guild Wars 2 players!
We are proud to announce the first Invitational sPvP Tournament to be hosted by [GF] Good Fights! An excellent lineup of 8 teams were selected by the Good Fights Guild to duke it out in a 3-round, single-elimination tournament. We are honored to have our tournament shoutcasted live by none other than John ‘Blu’ Mullen and Will ‘Sireph’ Abreu on the Mistpedia stream!
Date
This will be a one day tournament on Saturday, January 25th, 2014 at 1:00 pm EST (10:00 am PST). Team captains will be required to sign in their team between 12:30 pm EST (09:30 am PST) and 12:50 pm EST (09:50 am PST). Failure to sign in on-time may result in the team losing their reserved spot in the tournament.
Shoutcasting
English – BLU and Sireph
German – chronick and Sputti
French – Wafflewrath and Prophete
Tournament Format
Single-elimination with 16 teams, each team consisting of exactly 5 players + substitutes. All rounds will be best out of 3 games played, with the exception of the finals, which will be best out of 5 games played. Overflow registration will be allowed, and these teams will play in order of signup if any of the invited teams fail to sign in.
Prizes & Giveaways
1st Place: 1000 Gold + 10000 Gems (In-Game Currency)
2nd Place: 375 Gold + 4000 Gems
3rd Place: 125 Gold
Gemcard giveaways between rounds! All Gemcard prizes courtesy of ArenaNet, thank you!!
Participating Teams
[vVv] vVv Gaming
[GF] Good Fights
[Mass] Paramount Enthalpy
[APeX] Apex Prime
[OP] Being Op Is Hard
[ELE] Fifty Five HP Monks
[ROM] R O Ms Going To Jail
[Pro] Two Metas Ahead
Due to cancellations, participating teams may be subject to change up until the start of the tournament.
Rules
- Each match will be hosted on North American servers.
- Teams must consist of exactly 5 players.
- Substitute players are allowed, and must be registered with the team.
- Player changes within the teams must be registered no later than 10 minutes prior to tournament starting.
- Each player, including substitutes, may only be registered on one team.
- All matches will be best out of 3 games played, except the finals, which is best out of 5 games played.
- All matches are to be started only after the administrator of the match gives the signal.
- No spectators are allowed, besides the game administrator and shoutcasters.
- Any type of cheating, use of macros, modified UI’s, or third party software/tools that would give you an advantage is strictly prohibited. Failure to respect this rule will result in tournament disqualification. The only exceptions to this rule are VOIP programs.
- If a player disconnects before a game starts, the same player or a substitute must join within 15 minutes, or that team must begin playing that game with however many participants are available.
- If a player disconnects within the first 90 seconds of a game, a single restart may be requested by that team. In such a case, the team has 15 minutes for the disconnected player or a substitute to join the game, otherwise the game will restart with however many participants are available. Each team gets only one such restart per match.
- Once a game begins, players may not switch their characters or builds. Failure to follow this rule will result in disqualification.
- Players are allowed to switch their builds/characters in between games, they will have a maximum of 5 minutes to do so.
- Prizes are awarded to each team’s 5 main players, not to substitutes.
- Good Fights Guild reserves the right to change these rules at any time.
Bracket
Click here for the official tournament bracket, done by BLU and Sireph (thanks!).
Overflow Signups
If you are not one of the above invited teams, but would like to be “on deck” to participate if any of the above listed teams do not show, please reply to this thread with your team name and the names of your teammates and subs so we can add you to the Overflow list.
Overflow Teams
[AI] Alien Intel
[MMYR] Might Makes You Right
