inAction Ladder Rules
Version 1.2
Ladder Administration.
LifeLine|Halfie
MSN:
halfinaction@hotmail.com
ICQ:
246807594
LifeLine|Derain
MSN:
iact.derain@hotmail.com
ICQ:
23242512
LifeLine|MIBIYL
MSN:
iact-duck@hotmail.com
ICQ:
486554088
League e-mail:
leagues@iact-gaming.ru
I. Base terms.
a. The following rules must be observed by all the teams and players, participating in the leagues, organized by inAction Gaming. Registering for participating in this or that competition, players do agree with the rules.
b. Team representers must behave politely and correctly. Unpoliteness and rudeness may be punished with penalty points or any administrative sanctions (such as player disqualification, for instance).
c. The rules may be changed by administration during the season. In that case, all the changes will take power next playweek. The prize fund can't be decreased during the season.
d. Team orgas, registering their team for participating in this or that league, must provide the following information concerning the the team:
- official web-site.
- list of orgas
- list of players
(All the information is provided by full filling team's profile on the official league web-site)
e. Participating in the competitions by inAction Gaming, players must use game account which is identical to the game account mentioned in their profiles. If the rule is not observed, player is under the the risk of forfeiting his matches.
II. Warcraft III.
a. The map pool is the following:
Player -vs- Player:
* Ancient Isles
* Death Trap
* Echo Isles
* Melting Valley
* Secret Valley
* Terenas Stand
* Turtle Rock
* Twisted Meadows
2 players -vs- 2 players:
* Avalanche
* Gnoll Wood
* Lost Temple (ROC version)
* Turtle Rock
* Twisted Meadows
III. The league system.
The competition consists of three parts:
1. Qualification.
2. Regular season.
3. Play-off.
IV. Qualification.
a. There will be hold 4 qualifications before the season starts, and 2 winners of each of them will get a slot in the regular season. Also, every team participating in the regular season of LifeLine League will get 2 slots for their players.
b. Every player is free to participate in a qualification stage. All that's necessary to do is to register on the official site of
inAction Gaming, sign-up to a qualification stage and confirm your participation (check-in) on time.
V. Regular Season.
a. There are 32 players participating in the regular season. Each of them fullfills individual schedule. Every Saturday a match is scheduled (according to player's individual schedule). It's obligatory for all the players to play auto-scheduled mathces. Also, every player is free to challenge any other participant of the ladder (not obligatory mathces).
b. Every match is played as best-of-3, with the starting map defined automatically by match-scheduler. The 2nd and the 3rd map are defined by looser's pick (the veto right does has place).
c. In the end of season the top-8 players qualify to play-offs.
e. In case two or more players have the same amount of points in the end of season, they're are to play additional matches versus each other. The starting map for every match will be singled out by players picking maps out of the map-pool one after another.
VI. Play-offs.
a. There are 8 player participating in the play-offs.
b. The players are seeded. Top-1 is to play versus Top-8, Top-2 is to play versus Top-7, Top-3 is to play versus Top-6, Top-4 is to play versus Top-5.
c. Playoffs are played as Double Elimination.
d. The starting map is singled out by players one after one picking out maps of the map-pool till 1 map is left. The player with higher rank is to decide to will start the pick out.
e. All the matches of play-off are played as Best-of-3, except the Grand Final. The Grand Final is Best-of-5.
VII. Scheduling.
a. Every player fullfills his individual schedule, defining the time which is suitable for him to play (the day and the hour). In future, the matches are shceduled according to players' individual schedules. Also you should mention that minimum amount of hours your matches may be set on is 12. If there're less than 12 hours pointed in a player's schedule, hours from 15:00 to 20:00 CET on every day are pointedю
b. Weekly one match, which is obligatory to play, is generated.
c. Players are free to challenge each other, but the maximum amount of matches each player are able to play during a week is 3.
d. Each match is played as Best-of-3. The starting map is defined by auto-scheduler. Every match is to be played as a whole one, at once. It's possible, but not recommended, to postpone separate games of matches.
e. Postponing/preponing matches is allowed in case of both players agreement. Matches are postponed/preponed to the days of the current playweek.
f. It's forbidden to pospone mathces to another playweek.
VIII. Matches.
a. The starting map for every match is defined by auto-scheduler, but players may change it to any other or single starting map out by picking off maps of map pool in case they both agree to do that way.
b. Match is played as best-of-3 (till one of the players wins twice). The first map is pre-defined. The next map to be played in a match is defined by the player who lost on the first map (so called "looser's pick").
c. Every player has opportunity to except one map as possible map-pool (so called "veto"). Veto may be used only once in a submatch, but even after opponent made his looser's pick. So, please, be patient and polite and ask your opponent about his veto before announcing your pick.
d. A certain map may be played only once in a match.
e. The observers may enter the game if players have no objections. If they do object, game is played with no observers (host and players only). The exception of this rule is the administration and Waaagh-TV streamers, who have undisputeable right to observe any game they want.
f. Remember the map-pool:
* Ancient Isles
* Death Trap
* Echo Isles
* Melting Valley
* Secret Valley
* Terenas Stand
* Turtle Rock
* Twisted Meadows
g. Players are forbidden to have any contact with other persons aimed to get information about their opponent's actions in game (team-speak and so on).
h. In case of disconnect of one of the players during 3 first minutes of a game the game is to be replayed with the same settings. In case a disconnent happens after 3 first minutes of a game passed, it may cause a tech lose for a player.
i. If a host is disconnected, game is to be replayed. In case one of the players had obvious and unquestionable advantage, referee may give him win without replaying the game.
j. In case a disconnected player had obvious and unquestionable at the moment of disconnect, referee may set the game to be replayed to save the spirit of fair competition.
k. The break between games is not to last more than 10 minutes (except the cases when it was discussed before and the cases when it's necceasary to find another host).
IX. Penalties.
a. Disparting from the rules causes punishment in the form of penalty points.
b. The penalty points the player gets during his participation in the competition are annuled in case he performs correctly and does not get ny more penalties.
c. The following disparts from the rules are punished:
Being late to the match start-time:
Being late to match (less than 5 minutes: 0.5 penalty point.
Being late to match (5-10 mimutes): 1 penalty point.
Being late to match (10-15 minutes): 1.5 penalty points.
Being latre to match (more than 15 minutes): 2 penalty points and techlose with 0:2 score.
Unmannered behaviour:
Insulting any people, unpolite behaviour: 2 penalty points.
Multiple insult during a match: 5 penalty points and techlose with 0:2 score.
Flood on the Garena channel where match is held: 1 penalty point.
Disrespect to spectators and the ladder administration: 2 penlty points.
Disparting from profile fullfilling rules:
Missing Garena account is player's profile: 2 penalty points and techlose with 0:2 score.
Slight difference between the Garena account mentioned in player's prfoile and the Garena account the player actually plays at: 0.5 penalty points.
Significant difference between the Garena account mentioned in player's prfoile and the Garena account the player actually plays at: 2 penalty points and techlose with 0:2 score.
d. In case a player accumulates definite amount of penalty points he's banned for a definite period of time, proportionally to the quantity of penalties:
6 penalty points - 2 weeks of ban.
7 peanlty points - 3 weeks of ban.
8 penalty points - 4 weeks of ban.
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