4x4 Tournament

[MrConway]

To pass the time leading up to our next King of the Sea tournament, we decided to hold a small fun clan tournament together with our colleagues from the CIS region. 

 

It is going to be radically different and will serve as a fun experiment and test of the format.
 
Tournament name - "4x4" 
 

Important features of this tournament:

• The tournament is held in 4x4 format. Each team has 4 main + 1 spare players.
• Tier 8
• The tournament will be attended by 16 teams from the RU server side and 16 from EU server side
• Clans from each server can be represented by only one team. If there are not enough teams, the clans will be allowed to add another team. 
• The tournament has 16 slots for EU teams, 12 of which will be given out by random draw after the registration period. Only complete applications with at least 4 players and a team name will be considered. (read the requirements in the Regulations)
• 4 slots are reserved for the King of the Sea semi-finalists, should they wish to participate.
• Games will be played on weekends (July 15-16, July 22-23). The Grand Final will be held on Wednesday (26.07) in the evening.
• To ensure fair and equal conditions, all participants will play on tournament accounts.
• Registration starts today. End of registration is 11/07/2017 (23:59 CEST).
• Battles will be held on the RU cluster.

 

Sign up here (read the rules first!)

 
All other details can be found in the detailed regulations.

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DETAILED REGULATIONS

1. Requirements for teams

1.1. The team must consist of 4 main players. A team of less than 4 players is not allowed to participate in the Tournament games.
1.2. The team can have a maximum of 1 reserve player.
1.3 The team must have 1 captain and 1 deputy captain.
1.4  Each player can only be member of one team.
1.5  The roster is locked after the end of registration, no changes are allowed.
1.6. The team must retain the same name during the tournament.
1.7. The unique owner of the team name is the team captain.
1.8. Teams that violated the regulations, as well as all players of these teams, can be disqualified by the judges.
1.9. Players must comply with the User Agreement of the massively multiplayer online game World of Warships.
1.10. Teams with names that violate the User Agreement will not be allowed to participate in the tournament.

 

2. Tournament system
2.1. A Double Elimination system will be used, with elimination after two defeats.
2.2. All teams will be seeded to the upper bracket.
2.3. Teams from different clusters will face each other in round 1.
2.4. The grand final is held in BO3 format, no advantage is given to the upper bracket.
2.5. The number of rounds and schedule can be changed by the Organizer with prior notification of players in a special topic on the official forum.
2.6. Games are played on the RU-server

 

 

3. Schedule

3.1. Registration for the tournament starts on 07/07/2017 and ends on 11/07/2017 (23:59 CEST)
3.2. Schedule of battles:

07/15/2017 (Saturday)
Round 1 (Upper Bracket) at 18:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Round 2 (Upper Bracket) at 19:30 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Round 1 (Lower Bracket) at 19:30 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
 
07/16/2017 (Sunday)
Round 3 (Upper Bracket) at 18:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Round 2 (Lower Bracket) at 18:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Round 3 (Lower Bracket) at 19:30 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
 
07/22/2017 (Saturday)
Round 4 (Upper Bracket) at 18:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Round 4 (Lower Bracket) at 18:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Round 5 (Lower Bracket) at 19:30 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
 
7/23/2017 (Sunday)
The final (Upper Bracket) at 19:30 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Round 6 (Lower Bracket) at 18:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Round 7 (Lower Bracket) at 19:30 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
 
07/26/2017 (Wednesday)
Final (Lower Bracket) at 20:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3)
Grand Final at 21:30 Moscow Time (UTC + 3)

3.3. The organizer reserves the right to postpone the date and time of the battles with prior notification of the tournament participants on the official forum.
3.4. The exact time of the start of battles will be indicated in the schedule of battles.

 

 

4. Registration for the tournament

4.1. By submitting an application you agree to all conditions (dates, time of battles and rules of participation) of the tournament.
4.2. Registration starts on 07/07/2017 and ends on 11/07/2017 (23:59 CEST)
4.3. Teams are added to the tournament on July 13, 2017.
4.4. When registering, you need to specify the name of the team and the clan, specify a link to the page with the statistics of each player, as well as skype and the nickname of the captain and deputy (to organize the operational information of the team captains within the skype conference).
4.5. The applications have to be placed on our signup page and meet the requirements specified in the regulations.
4.6. Teams that incorrectly filled in the registration, as well as violating the User Agreement by their name, will not be allowed to participate in the tournament.
4.7. All team members must be in the same clan.
4.8. Each clan can be represented by only one team.

5. Ship roster limitations

5.1. Tier 8 regular and premium ships (except for ships being tested) are allowed to participate.
5.2. Ship roster is assembled within the limits of Tier and under the following conditions:

• The team consists of 4 ships
• One Aircraft Carrier or one Battleship is allowed
• Max 1 ship with possibility to install smoke generator per team.

5.3. The roster for the first battle of the Match is sent via personal message to the tournament referee no later than 15 minutes before the match starts.
5.4. After the end of each battle, the captains immediately inform the referee in a personal message about their roster for the next fight.
5.5. A team that violates these rules, i.e. took wrong roster for a battle may get a technical loss
5.6. If the team is in the training room with less than 4 players and the substitute player can not participate in the starting lineup, the team starts the fight as it is, using ships from the submitted roster

 

6. Match settings 
6.1. Mode: Domination
6.1. List of maps:

• Strait (First match of the tournament)
• Ring
• New dawn
• Fault line
• Trident
• Neighbors
• Riposte (Grand Finals)

6.3. All battles take place in the training room

• It is recommended to install the training room only from trusted sources. For example, from the official collection of modifications.

6.4 Match settings:

• Map: According map of the match
• Team size: 4x4 (no more than 4 players from each team)
• Mode: Ranked battle
• The name: 4х4. Upper bracket. Round 1. Team A vs Team B
• Time of battle: 20 minutes.

6.5. Interval between fights in a match: no more than 5 minutes
6.6. Training battles are always created by the team named first in the match, according to the tournament bracket.
6.7. The initial respawn in the first battle of each match is determined by the position of the team in the tournament bracket. In the first battle, the left side of training room is occupied by the team listed first in the match, according to the tournament bracket. The right side is occupied by the team listed second in the match, according to the tournament bracket. Subsequently, teams change places in the training rooms in turn, until the end of the series.

 

7. Conditions of Victory

7.1. The winner of the match is the team,which wins 2 out of 3 battles of the series.
7.2. The winner in the battle is the team that won by points or destroyed all the enemy ships.
7.3. If the result of the match allows early determination of the winner, the match ends early. This provision applies to situations where further continuation of the match will not affect the outcome of the match (team leading by 2 points after 2 battles).

 

8. Organization of matches

8.1. Matches of the tournament can only be rescheduled by the decision of the Tournament Administration and after both captains agree to the rescheduling and new time. The decision of the Administration is a priority.
8.2. For the correct distribution of ships in the training room, all commanders are recommended to install an officially approved version of "Roslich". It can be found in the official collection of modifications, in the section of ship icons. This modification allows you to see the icon of each ship in front of its name.
8.3. All captains must join the skype conference dedicated to the tournament.
8.4. Before the start of the match, the team captains declare the roster for the first battle of the match by sending a personal message to the referee in skype.
8.5. Within this conference, the judges accept the results of the matches - one of the captains sends screenshots (the first two tabs of the final result of each fight), which are proof of the outcome of the match. Then the captain of the opposing team confirms the result. Judges are obligated to provide up-to-date information on the tournament bracket for streamers and teams through official resources.
8.6. All battles of the tournament start not earlier than 5 minutes before the announced time if both captains confirm readiness. Delays longer than 5 minutes can be a reason for a technical defeat.
8.7. Only the players declared in the team can participate in the tournament, otherwise, if evidence is provided, the team will be disqualified from the tournament.
8.8. Any member of the team can participate in battles on any ship permitted by the regulations and ship roster. A substitute player can replace the main player in any battle on any ship allowed by rules and roster.
8.9. In the event that the team has entered the battle on a ship prohibited in the regulations or has inappropriate roster for the battle, the team is assigned a technical defeat in this battle.

 

9. Prize money

• 1st place - 50 000 doubloons per team
• 2nd place - 40 000 doubloons per team
• 3rd place - 30 000 doubloons per team
• 4th place - 20 000 doubloons per team.

 

10. Behavior of players

10.1. Behavior
10.1.1. Team players must comply with generally accepted standards of behavior. For violation of the rules listed below, the whole team may be disqualified.
10.2. Insults
10.2.1. Insults of players, teams, the Tournament Organizer and its employees, the company Wargaming and its employees, partner companies are prohibited in any form
10.3. Spamming
10.3.1. It is forbidden to spam excessive senseless or aggressive messages.
10.4. Unsportsmanlike behavior
10.4.1. Players must follow the principles of fair play and the spirit of the competition. Any player's actions that do not comply with this principle are regarded as unsportsmanlike conduct.
10.5. Violations of the rules of the game
10.5.1. It is forbidden to violate the rules of the game.
10.6. Cheating
10.6.1. It is prohibited to intentionally mislead the Tournament Organizer or other players using deliberately false information.
10.8. Using someone else's account
10.8.1. It is forbidden to participate in matches using an account belonging to another player or press account (except for streamers of the fight).
10.9. Hacking / cheating
10.9.1. Any modification of the client of the game is prohibited for the purpose of gaining a game advantage, except for the official modpack required for the championship.
10.10. Collusion
10.10.1. Any arrangements between players and / or teams for the purpose of obtaining a game advantage are prohibited. Actions that are perceived as collusion include, but are not limited to, the following cases:

• Any kind of agreement or negotiations to influence the outcome of the match.
• A deliberately passive game in order to achieve the desired result of the match or deliberate sabotage of your own team's actions with the aim of achieving the desired outcome of the match.

10.11. Bugs / game problems
10.11.1. It is forbidden to intentionally use any errors (bugs) or failures in the game in order to obtain a game advantage.
10.12. The change of the nickname is prohibited until August 1, 2017 for all tournament participants

 

11. Judging in the tournament

11.1. The evaluation of the violations mentioned above in this Regulation is carried out by the Tournament Judges. The tournament referee has the right to disqualify any player or team for violation of these Rules of the Tournament.
11.2. The team captain or his deputy may protest to Chief Judge of the Tournament, but only once per case, except in the light of newly discovered circumstances. Permanent spamming of protests (two or more times on same case) can be regarded as an attempt to gain an advantage and influence the decision of the Chief Judge of the Tournament, which violates the rules of fair play as defined in this Regulation.
11.3. In case of a disputable situation, it is necessary to provide a video, a replay or a screenshot, which would explain the situation as evidence. Otherwise, the complaint will not be considered.
11.4. On the decision of the disputable situation, the Judge or the Organizer is obliged to inform the Captains or the deputies of both teams.
11.5. Disqualification or other sanctions may be applied at any time, even if the violation was discovered much later than the very fact of violation of the Rules.
11.6. The decision of the Chief Judge of the Tournament is final and not subject to revision. Repeated protests and complaints are not subject to review.

 

12. Replaying

12.1. If there are technical problems on the server side of the game and provided that neither team has an obvious advantage, the battle can be replayed. The decision on the replay is taken by the referee. A match judge reserves the right to award a victory to a team, within the framework of a particular fight, based on the results of the recorded battle. The battle is recorded by the team captain or his deputy. The advantage is understood, but not limited to, the following factors:

• Detected enemy ships;
• Damage inflicted;
• Points.

12.2. Monitoring compliance with the roster, checking players lineup of the rival team, lineup of streamers and correctness of training room settings is the captain's responsibility.

• In the event of an error in the ship roster, the player lineup or settings of the room, the side noticing the oversight should notify its opponent no later than 1 minute after the start of the match. After this, the match can be replayed no more than once in order to eliminate the oversight. Time to restart the match again - no more than 5 minutes from the moment of detection of a mistake. If the error is repeated, a technical defeat is given to the team on whose side the error occurred. If an oversight in the ship roster, player lineup or training room settings is not noticed after 1 minute from the start of the fight, then the match played "as is" and the result considered valid.

 

13. Broadcasts

13.1. The judge reserves the right to add to any of the matches streamers for one or both teams to ensure the broadcast of matches. The refusal or interference in joining a streamer from the side of teams is punishable by the disqualification of the team.
13.2 On its desire to stream any particular battle, the streamer should notify the tournament judges and other streamers no later than the day before the start of the battle.
13.3. Streamers provide broadcast of battles and the presence of spectators. It is assumed that streamers will keep a record of any match in which they were present.
13.4. These records belong to the Organizer, who reserves the right to publish these records, or use them to resolve disputable situations.
13.5. Streamer is obliged to go into battle on an aircraft carrier and on readiness of its torpedo bombers to self-destruct.
13.6. The minimum time delay is 5 minutes.

 

14. Changing Rules

The Tournament Organizer reserves the right to modify the Rules of the Tournament at any time with a mandatory brief notice about the essence of the changes made. If you continue to participate in the Tournament after changing the terms of the Tournament Rules, you agree to follow the changes. Such changes are valid and applicable for your participation in the Tournament starting from the day of the beginning of the Tournament.

 

 

[MrConway]

Please be aware that this tournament was organized in a short time, the rules and regulations might therefore still contain some errors, as well as many typos 

 

If you have any questions please ask them here, I will try to respond when I can.

[SexyCroat]

gg for this, nice!
OSC signing up

[Starofsea]

It's quite a short notice, really short in fact... 

 

Count us in anyway ! I hope we will be drawned in order to participate.

 

From reading the rules and looking at roaster format, it will probably be really, really interesting. :) 

[Slauter]

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Clans from each server can be represented by only one team.

 

What is a 'clan' ? (may look like a funny question, but it's not)

[Shagohod7]

When you say tournament accounts, you means the ships will be provided?

are prems included aswell?

 

edit: nvm didn't see the spoiler with all the rules, mods can delete that if they want

[konean]

Yeah... "What is a clan?" There are many clans out there with multiple clan tags like MDIV, WGP2W, and many other. Can they register more than one team? Because according to the game they are separated. But in the reality they are still one clan.  Or is it more like each clan-tag can bring one team?

[Shagohod7]

Ok actual question, regarding rule 5.2 on 1 ship that can lay down smoke per team, does it mean you can take ships that's have smoke avilable but not equipped, for example switch out smoke on RN CL for other consumable and you would be able to take it along with a DD ?

[Sub_Octavian]

53 minutes ago, Starofsea said:

It's quite a short notice, really short in fact... 

Yep, we know, and please take our excuses for inconvenience, but on the other hand it's a very nice opportunity to contribute to some future exciting content. The rough timeline, as you can guess, is connected with some stuff in developmen 

[MrConway]

On 7/7/2017 at 7:23 PM, konean said:

Yeah... "What is a clan?" There are many clans out there with multiple clan tags like MDIV, WGP2W, and many other. Can they register more than one team? Because according to the game they are separated. But in the reality they are still one clan.  Or is it more like each clan-tag can bring one team?

 

In this case each group of 30 players is its own separate clan. We will check that all players are in the same before accepting their application.

 

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On 7/7/2017 at 7:33 PM, Shagohod7 said:

Ok actual question, regarding rule 5.2 on 1 ship that can lay down smoke per team, does it mean you can take ships that's have smoke avilable but not equipped, for example switch out smoke on RN CL for other consumable and you would be able to take it along with a DD ?

That's a very good question, I'll discuss it with my colleagues and let you know.

[Starofsea]

1 hour ago, MrConway said:

That's a very good question, I'll discuss it with my colleagues and let you know.

 

 

I Was also thinking about that possibility... In fact, this can be also discussed with the USN DD's which can equip smoke or AA barrage in the same slot... would it be possible to take the DD without the smoke to take a second with one DD or a smoke Cruiser ? It would be a great idea to enlight us on this particular point... 

[avenger121]

5 hours ago, MrConway said:

 

In this case each group of 30 players is its own separate clan. We will check that all players are in the same before accepting their application.

 

Wait what, are you telling me the participation is locked behind a 10€ paywall?

 

Nice trick WG, baiting ppl to pay 10€ for a useless funtion, because you and your friends cant be a real clan unless you have paid WG.

[chrusto]

On ‎7‎.‎7‎.‎2017 at 5:08 PM, MrConway said:

2.6. Games are played on the RU-server

so this means that all participants from EU will have their accounts transfered/cloned to RU cluster and will remain there also after tournament or will be erased?

[konean]

@avenger121 I dont think that was meant in a bad way. At least they try to do something (finally) with the given tools we have right now.

 

@chrusto Well if your clan get picket your roster players get something like a press-account with all ships and 19 point captains on the RU server. Something like they have done for the server clashs. So in that case its self-explanatory that you cant switch your roster around when the tournament is running. 

[chrusto]

thanks however due to short notice it should be confirmed by WG and also if region changer (e.g. Aslain mod) is enough or must we download whole RU client?

[konean]

Well der Region Changer only works when RU Server is running the same version like EU. I dont know the status quo.

[_Kettenbeisser]

How is decided which map is played ? Is it set by organisators or random or does a team get a pick 
Who will open the training rooms ?

[SnipingCat]

17 hours ago, _Kettenbeisser said:

How is decided which map is played ? Is it set by organisators or random or does a team get a pick 
Who will open the training rooms ?

Its explained in the rules if you read it 

[SexyCroat]

when will we know if were playing couse its few days untill first game

 

 

and we dont even know if were playing or not?

[MrConway]

On 7/10/2017 at 0:33 AM, chrusto said:

thanks however due to short notice it should be confirmed by WG and also if region changer (e.g. Aslain mod) is enough or must we download whole RU client?

 

You will be provided with separate tournament accounts and the region changer mod should indeed be sufficient, but please check it before the tournament starts.

 

As for the smoke question, the answer is no. Only one ship that can  have smoke equipped can be used, even if it doesn't have it equipped.

 

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The participating teams are:

 

From KoTS quarter-finals:

• Tora Tora Tora - [TTT]
• Odem Mortis - [OM]
• Unité Francophone - [UFR]

 

Random picks:

• Flying Ducks - [FLYD]
• Italian Royal Navy - [_IRN_]
• Hungarian Naval Force - [HNF]
• Alliance- [ALN]
• Marine Division Experienced - [MDIVX]
• Nord Atlantik Blitz [NAB]
• Mad Pantsu - [CL4PT]
• Guys Who Dated Your Sister - [GDS]
• Total War Alliance - [-TWA-]
• ChinoStare 7 - [LOLIS]
• Pirates of Seven Seas - [YARR]
• VME Community - [VMEX]
• Vikings - [VKNGS]

 

If anyone cannot play, please let me know ASAP so I can pick a replacement!

[gr0pah]

On 7/7/2017 at 9:18 PM, Starofsea said:

I Was also thinking about that possibility... In fact, this can be also discussed with the USN DD's which can equip smoke or AA barrage in the same slot... would it be possible to take the DD without the smoke to take a second with one DD or a smoke Cruiser ? It would be a great idea to enlight us on this particular point... 

Just for reference; no USN DD can choose between Smoke and DefAA. It's Engine Boost or DefAA where applicable.

[MrConway]

I sent out invitations to the skype conversation yesterday evening, if you have not yet been invited, please send me a PM ASAP so we can get you sorted out!

[Aruhmata]

is this tournament streamed?

[Kandly]

10 minutes ago, Aruhmata said:

is this tournament streamed?

 

It is currently streamed in German here and in English here.

[uocat]

Day 1:

EZI vs UFR: http://www.bilibili.com/video/av12243159/#page=1

HYPER vs OM http://www.bilibili.com/video/av12243159/#page=2

 

Note: Commentary in Chinese