To play in the tournament, you must follow these rules:
1. You must be in the 6K Autumn Showdown Tournament Discord Server
2. Completed and submitted the Registration Form.
3. Have not violated the community guidelines over the past 12 months.

To staff for the tournament:
1. You must be in the 6K Autumn Showdown Tournament Discord Server
2. Completed and submitted the Staff Application Form.
3. You may not play in the tournament unless you're exclusively going to help as a streamer and/or commentator.
4. Once eliminated, you may apply as a playtester, replay maker, or referee.

Qualifiers
The Qualifiers Stage will happen in the first week of the tournament play. All of the registered players who were not screened out during screening are eligible to participate in the Qualifiers. Each player can play the Qualifiers in sequence up to 2 times (Players may choose to not play a 2nd time).

The Qualifiers Pool format will have 8 stages, and they are as followed:
Stage 1: Accuracy/Tech
Stage 2: Speed/Delay
Stage 3: Early Mixed Hybrid
Stage 4: LN Release
Stage 5: Mixed Rice
Stage 6: Chordstream
Stage 7: LN Density
Stage 8: Complex Mixed Hybrid

The Seeding Calculation will start after Qualifiers concluded. If you played the Qualifiers twice, the higher score for each map will be taken. This will determine the player's seed and decide whether they will proceed on to the next stage.
Each player's seed is determined by how well they perform at each map. The 8 maps will be averaged out and any players that performed well for all of the maps will get a higher seeding. Only the Top 64 seed will proceed on to the bracket stage, while the lower seeds will be eliminated.

Bracket Stages
Bracket Matches will arrange all the players into a standard Double Elimination Bracket, where 1st seed will face against 64th seed, 2nd seed will face against 63rd seed, and so on.

The Mappool format for the bracket stages will be as followed:
Round of 64: 10 Maps (Best of 7)
Round of 32: 12 Maps (Best of 9)
Round of 16: 12 Maps (Best of 9)
Quarterfinals: 14 Maps (Best of 11)
Semifinals: 14 Maps (Best of 11)
Finals: 16 Maps (Best of 13)
Grand Finals: 16 Maps (Best of 13)

During the match:
- In advance, players will send their warmups (if they have) to the referees in-charge of their match. Warmups must be 6K and be below the 4:00 drain time.
- After warmup has concluded, both players will run the !roll command in the lobby chat. The player with the higher roll will be able to choose whether to go first or second.
- The protect/ban phase will be as followed:
As an example, if Player A goes first...
Player A: Protect -> Player B: Protect -> Player B: Ban -> Player A: Ban -> Player A: Pick
- During the match, both the players will alternate in picks depending on who picked first, and play the picked map together. The player with the higher score will obtain a point.

Additional Rules:
Mod settings:
- The score system on all matches will be on Score V2
- All maps are played with FreeMod turned ON. Visual mods such as Mirror, Hidden, Fade-In, Flashlight, and any combination of these mods are allowed. NoFail is allowed too.

Punctuality:
- Players are required to be present before their match time. If one player isn't present during the match time, a 10 minute grace period will start by the referee.
- If the player fails to arrive before the 10 minute grace period, the match will be considered as a Win By Default to the present player

Protect/Ban/Pick Procedures:
- Players will be given 2 minutes to protect and ban a map from their choosing. Later on, players will have 2 minutes to pick a map and get ready for the map.
- Any player that fails to Protect/Ban/Pick during the given time, the referee will choose a map at random to be picked in behalf of the player by using the !roll command.

Disconnection:
- If any player gets disconnected from a map during the first 30 seconds of the gameplay, they can ask for the map to be aborted and replayed. This is only available once per match for each player, any subsequent disconnects will award the other player a point.
- If any player gets disconnected from a map after the first 30 seconds of the gameplay, the point will be awarded to the other player.
- If any player is unable to return to the lobby within 10 minutes, the match will be considered a win for the other player.
- If both players are disconnected, the player that comes back will be saved from losing. If the other player comes back before their grace period ends, the match will continue. This will only be available once. If subsequent cases happen, the player that joins back will be considered the winner of the match.
- If both players are unable to reconnect to the lobby in time, the current standing will determine the winner of the match. In the case of a tie, the higher seeded player will be awarded the win.
- The hosts reserve the right to be more or less lenient at their sole discretion.

Hosts & Coordinators:
Albionthegreat | tastydumpl1ng | TheFunk

Mappoolers:
[Crz]sunnyxxy | Arkman | My Angel Nilou | Phukiir | tastydumpl1ng | U1d

Mappers:
_IceRain | _Stan | 553343477 | AhoUsagi | Alptraum | Benson_ | BKwind | DannyPX | Decku | HMillion | Hylotl | Imperial Wolf | My Angel Nilou | TheFunk | tyrcs | U1d | YuzakiTsukasa

Playtesters / Replayers:
[Crz]Satori | Japeynius | RevVoJH | tastydumpl1ng | winterlover | YuJJun

Referees:
[GB]Rush_FTK | akace100 | Albionthegreat | Auxesiaa | DannyPX | EpsilonMaiagare | ERA Xuste | MashedPotato | N4iveDx | Poity | Polytetral | Reihynn | rock-on | shizehao | SunApple | tastydumpl1ng | TheFunk | TheHunter1 | trooperr

Streamers:
[GB]Rush_FTK | Albionthegreat | EpsilonMaiagare | konkawe | SiFouR | SunApple

Commentators:
[LS]Tenshi | Albionthegreat | Baguette2Pain | Dynascape | ERA Adam | RhymesWithMash | SiFouR | Silhoueska Elze | Sparky | SunApple | trooperr

Sheeters:
2fast | Albionthegreat | ShadeCegLgMn | TheFunk

GFX Designer:
-Candy- | demiantorp | ShadeCegLgMn