Attention all the participants. The date of the tournament's beginning has been moved to 23th of November (Friday). The first tournament matches will be played that day. Still, if your team won't be able to be fully online that time (from a very serious reason), you will be able to play a week later as it was previously set. It applies only for the first round, we think there's nothing to wait an another week.
The groupstage drawings will happen after or at 9th of November, after all the teams fill their sheets. The mappool for the first round will be announced at 16th of November (Friday).
We also decided to change the playing system a bit. The BO ("Best of") number will be raised:
- from BO5 to BO7 in groupstage (you have to win at least 4 maps to win the match)
- from BO7 to BO9 in quarter-finals (you have to win at least 5 maps to win the match)
- from BO9 to BO11 in semi-finals and finals (you have to win at least 6 maps to win the match)
We think it will be more fair for the participants and will provide more exciting matches.
The amount of beatmaps in the pool will not change, but the beatmap selecting will.
From now on, the players are able to pick 1 map from each mod-restricted bracket during the match. The choice for nomod maps stays unlimited. In other words, you can choose at maximum: 1 hidden map, 1 hardrock map and 1 doubletime map during the match.
Loctav is busy at the moment so he will update the first post after 9th of November.