❖ 2 stages: 1st - Group Stage, 2nd - Double Elimination.
❖ Group Stage. In the groups players face off each other in a BO2 matches. 16 groups of 4-6 players, 1st and 2nd places advance to Upper bracket, 3rd and 4th places advance to Lower bracket. Group Stage games must be finished by February 15th.
❖ Double Elimination. The Upper Bracket is created in a way that winners of groups match up randomly against the runner-ups of groups (players from the same group cannot be matched up). The same logic applies to the Lower Bracket where players that finished 3rd in their groups randomly match up against players who finished 4th (players from the same group cannot be matched up).
All games are played BO3. Starting from Round 5 of Upper Bracket and from Round 7 of Lower Bracket all games are played BO5.
❖ In the Lower Bracket, standard trade is replaced with Random Hero trade. This tool will be used to draw random Heroes: https://www.h3templates.com/content/random-hero-roulette
In series of games, previously played Heroes must be re-rolled (or banned). Each player can also re-roll the Hero pair for 500 gold once per game.
❖ Regulations. This tournament will use the Common Tournament Rules: https://www.h3templates.com/tournaments/ctr.
❖ Streaming is required for all games of the tournament - Twitch, YouTube, Bilibili or Discord screen sharing.
❖ After each game, the winner needs to write a detailed report in the #results channel, which will be collected for statistics. The report must include: towns, heroes, trade results for town and color separately, timing and place of the final battle, the timings of breaking into mid zone and the type of build if there was any.
❖ If you wish to cast a certain game, make sure to announce it in the #casting channel upfront.
❖ All games must be ranked games.
❖ Template - DUEL 2.9a.
❖ Timer: 2 / 1:10 / 0:20. Simultaneous turns: 127.
❖ Organizers reserve the right to apply changes during each stage of the tournament based on the circumstances.
