WINTER OPEN 2024 TOURNAMENT
RULES AND FORMAT

Event Information

• Saturday Feb 3rd at the Cougar Dome

  • Arrival time of 8:45am with games starting at 9:10am

  • End time of 2:30PM for the finals

• 8 Teams Total

  • 4 active players per team (Up to 6 players allowed per roster, active 4 players on field, can switch players between games)

 

Entry & Prizing

• $200 Entry per team

• Prizing

  • 1st Place - $300 Cash Prize + x4 Open Play Tickets

  • 2nd Place - x4 Open Play Tickets

  • 3rd Place - x4 25% Off Coupons for Open Play Tickets

• Awards

  • Most Eliminations - Presented by Endeavour​

  • Best Accuracy - Presented by Nourish

  • Sportsmanship Award - Presented by Cooper's Cabin

 

Format

• Prelims

  • Teams split into two brackets consisting of 4 teams each

    • Teams play triple Round Robin play within their bracket with fixed game modes

    • Round 1 - Team Elimination

    • Round 2 - Capture the Flag

    • Round 3 - Domination

• Semis

  • Top 2/4 teams from each bracket advance to top cut

    • Seeded Knockout Bracket is formed

    • Best of 3 system with 5 game pool veto

• Finals

  • Best of 5 system with 5 game pool veto

 

Prelim Scoring

• Scoring

  • Each round win awards 3pts

  • Each round tie awards 1pt to both teams

  • Each round loss awards 0pts

• Tiebreaker for top 4/8 cut

  • Point differential will be tracked for teams to serve as a tiebreaker for advancement to semis

  • In the event that there is still a tie between two teams with point differential in play, a best of three 1v1 match will be held

    • Each team must pick one player to play each round with no repeating players

    • 1v1 rounds are 1 minute in length and result in a draw if no player is eliminated

 

Game Modes

• Available Game Modes

  • Team Elimination

    • Eliminate the enemy team to score

    • 5 Min Time Limit  (Or Most Eliminations at end of round)

    • 25 Eliminations for Victory

  • Capture the Flag

    • Capture opposing teams flag to score

    • 5 Min Time Limit (Or Most Captures at end of round)

    • 3 Flag Capture for Victory

  • Single Flag

    • Capture neutral flag to score

    • 5 Min Time Limit   (Or Most Captures at end of round)

    • 3 Flag Capture for Victory

  • Domination

    • Control the objective boxes and eliminate players to score

    • 5 Min Time Limit (Or highest score at end of round)

    • 500 Point Limit for Victory

  • King of the Hill

    • Control the central objective and eliminate players to score

    • 5 Min Time Limit (Or highest score at end of round)

    • 300 Point Limit for Victory