United States Championship

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Technical level: 3-6 rank

Format: 5 vs 5

Game mode: Capture the Beacons

Map: PB-42

Event date: 16-17th of November, 22:00 (UTC)

Server: US only

 

 

RULES

 

1. Registration will be opened at 6th and closed on the 15th of November.

2. Transfers between teams after starting of registration is forbidden.

3. There is no limit on the amount of participating teams.

4. The Championship will be held in two stages: Group Stage and Play-Off.

5. Friendly fire (team damage) is enabled.

6. Each member of a team may have up to 4 ships in their roster.

7. The top two teams from each group qualify for the Play-Offs.

8. There can be an uneven number of teams in groups.

9. In the Group Stage, each team fights another team twice, with the second battle swapping the teams position on the map.

10. For each victory a team gains — 3 points, for a draw — 1 point, for a loss — 0 points.

11. If the number of teams will allow it, the event will end on the 16th.

12. If in Group stage two or more teams gain the same amount of points, they will play an additional round to determine who moves on.

13. The additional round will be held in the same manner as described in Rule 9.

14. Play-Offs will function similarly to the the Group stage. For each victory a team gains — 2 points, for a draw — 1 point, for a loss — 0 points.

15. In the Finals the top two teams with the most points will fight for the 1st and 2nd place. Teams that occupy 3rd and 4th will have the chance to fight for the 3rd place. The battle will be held as described in Rule 9.

16. All participants are free to use their own means of voice chat.

17. Premium ships are forbidden. Unique mods are allowed.

18. Using Ellydium faction ships and equipment is forbidden.

19.Teams which fail to enter lobby in 10 minutes after being called, or teams that are not present at the event at all are counted as defeated.

20. A "contracted battle” (i.e two teams agreeing on the outcome/winner of a match.) will result in both teams getting disqualified from the event.

21. If a team member is disconnected from the game - the team must continue the battle, exception rule 22.

22. If a member of a team is not present within 1 minute from match start (disconnected from game, failed to enter the match) - the team can request to restart the battle or to replace the player with a reserve player if applicable.

23. Replacing/Adding players after end of the registration period is forbidden.

24. Server location: US server only.

25. For unsportsmanlike behavior players will receive a warning. For repeated violation the player will be disqualified, lose all rewards and their team will continue playing (with one less player) until the end of the event.

26. Teams and players who have deserted (or have been banned from) the event may be granted readmission at the discretion of an Administrator.

27. After registration, changing your in-game nickname is forbidden.

28. Decisions made by the Administration of the event regarding any disputable/questionable situations are final.

29. All other rules are stated in the general rules of cyber activities. In any questionable situation event rules have top priority.

 

 

 

REWARDS

 

1st place

 Title “General”
Unique ship + skin “Endeavour”
Unique weapon: Turbophaser
250 Monocrystals
250 Xenocrystals

 

2nd place

 Title “Admiral”
Unique skin “Lava”
Unique weapon: Positron Destructor

150 Monocrystals
150 Xenocrystals

 

3rd place

 Title “Major”
Unique skin “Invasion”
Unique weapon: Th’ak’Len 17

50 Monocrystals
50 Xenocrystals

 

 

Each participant of the Championship will receive a unique USC sticker.

 

Every member of teams that made it past the Group stage will receive 

500 Iridium

 

Event Administration:
-Sergalicious

-ORCA1911

 

REGISTRATION

2 questions:
if a player wants to take a lessor prize than the player wins, can they opt to a lower tiered prize?
IE: a team gets first place, but one of the players has a strong desire for the 3rd place reward
 (that Th’Ak’Len 17 being the most valuable prize on this list since the devs LIED about making it publicly accessible 2 years ago, and some people are running out of patience)

I ask because of rule 20

 

It is not possible to opt for a lesser reward, contracted games will end in bans from the event.
However, if this competition proves to be of greater interest to player, there will be more events like this, with that, more chances of winning that prize and much more.

 

One more thing, if there happens to be a lot of teams with full replacements, i would like to advise you to consider making teams with other replacements.
Rank 3, 4, 5 and 6 ships are allowed since it’s a commonly asked question.

Now, this event is an encouragement, in all honesty this is nice ! Not sure whether the rank range is right though, certain ships/gear may be excluded but ranks 3-6 are far too low. Just wondering whether the rank could be open and in case low ranks participate can always get the buffs [low ranks] used to get.

The ranks are set so anyone can participate if they chose to.

Looking for team. But i want Th’ak’Len 17 even if i win 1st or 2nd place! Is it possible?

Just now, MathModelSim said:

Looking for team. But i want Th’ak’Len 17 even if i win 1st or 2nd place! Is it possible?

It is not

6 minutes ago, John161 said:

It is not

i was about to edit my post, since ive just read the orca post above…

19 hours ago, ORCA1911 said:

The ranks are set so anyone can participate if they chose to.

Actually no, the mode more or less requires clearance level 15 to get the 4th ship slot. So going r9 would be as accessible for everyone

Math, if you wanna join my team, I’ll take ya :slight_smile: my plan is to be strong enough to get third place, but short on numbers so I can at least make it look legit when I fail to take first or second ![:)](<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/001j.png “:)”) 

 

5 hours ago, John161 said:

Actually no, the mode more or less requires clearance level 15 to get the 4th ship slot. So going r9 would be as accessible for everyone

Actually, players can have up to 4 ships in their lineup. Access to 4 ship slots is not required to participate in a team.

6 hours ago, Sergalicious said:

Actually, players can have up to 4 ships in their lineup. Access to 4 ship slots is not required to participate in a team.

Yes not required, but not having 4 is a significant handy cap in Capture the Beacons, since you can use every ship only once.

12 hours ago, John161 said:

Actually no, the mode more or less requires clearance level 15 to get the 4th ship slot. So going r9 would be as accessible for everyone

Actually since low ranks could get buffs, and that was quite common not long ago, imo a successful event would have had open ranks. Tournaments favor ranks 7-9 as they are available for 2 full days while max ranks just on Sundays. Despite of the fact that this is very nice idea, I have no intention to play those low ranks. The rewards are max rank which means the winners [if they are actually low ranks] will have to store the gear - assuming they will continue to play to rank up, or will be high ranking players and use immediately the rewards. I doubt that a lot of low rank players will play this event and in the case that some will then the high rank/experienced players will dominate. So why not leave open ranks ?

The idea was to attract both new and old players to participate, the ranks were chosen in a way that it wouldn’t allow too many meta ideas that would be too hard to beat. Basically an even chance for everyone to get the podium as long as they mastered the basics of the game. The weapon prizes are more of the collectibles side of things rather than endgame, the focus was more in resources that can boost a players progress regardless where they are in ranks and the first prize is suited for the rank range proposed here since r10 is just outside of the tournament which also provides a nice incentive for people to hunt for more ships and better equipment in their play. Hopefully this explains the confusion if there is any left.

So far two teams of old and one of new players. I hope the new dont get discouraged after they met the old…

I favor th’ak’len 12 on my wazie, haven’t brought wazie up past 12, because I decided to wait for the th’ak’len 15 (now 17), which I was promised nigh on 2 years ago (on December 13th, 2017, by CinnamonFake, who promised it would be available soon to Myself, Koromac, WolfKhan and others) and I still don’t have it…
I think the most discouraging thing to new players is the lack of integrity on part of the Devs, the LIES they tell us, and the fact that the only thing you can trust, without fail, is that when a Dev makes a promise or assurance, it is guaranteed never to actually happen.

but that’s just my personal experience, as well as the experience of the rest of those who asked about, were promised, and denied, this weapon that is integral to aggressive waz’got play, rather than this passive BS wazgot play we always see… most people don’t even realize how good a ship it is when it’s fighting up close and personal, because they don’t really use was’gots first special that much… IF one of wazgots other weapons also served as a tractor beam to feed it, I probably wouldn’t be giving this issue so much focus, but alas, I do really hate liars.

I would play for fun not for the rewards. But my ping is too high on US server. Also i dont like to be the Smurf. So, no fun no play.

whats the weapon “positron destructor”and “turbophaser”is like?

1 hour ago, icechocola said:

whats the weapon “positron destructor”

Positron Destructor is just a R17 MK5 Positron Cannon

1 hour ago, icechocola said:

"turbophaser”is like?

A EM damage Railgun for Fighter if I remember correctly. (and a rather weak one)

In the last tournament, Mzhelskii asked us to participate, promising us in return, the stiker in game of our corp logo!
He specified that he would give it to us only for the presence! We had participated only for this!
But they never gave us the sticker! and Mzhelskii no longer responds to my messages
now … why should we participate?