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Rule Terms

Regular Season: Every non-development game before the playoffs is a regular season game.
Match round: A set of either development or regular matches comprise a round. Development week 1 is considered a match round. Regular week 1 is a separate match round.
Match day: The two match rounds (development and regular) together are termed as a match day.

Team Requirements

  • A team must have 8 eligible players and be below or equal to the season salary cap of $6500 at all times.
  • Teams must have 4 eligible players to start the match, X v 4 is only acceptable after 4 eligible players have clicked and started the match.

Match Formats

Development Matches

Development matches are the first set of matches each week. Each team will be required to field 1 of the 4 highest salary players on their team, with the remaining three spots being available to the remaining six players. The same set of players do not have to be used for both maps, as long as there are not more than one "starter".

Regular Matches

These matches take place after the development matches have been completed. There is no restriction on which players are allowed to play in these matches.

Match Times

Development matches will take place at 5pm and 6pm EST, with two teams playing each hour. Regular matches will follow the same format with the times being at 7pm and 8pm EST.

The Point System

Development Matches

Map win = 1.5pts
Map loss = 0pts
Map forfeit = -0.5pts

Regular Matches

Map win = 3pts
Map loss = 0 pts
Map forfeit = -1pts

TAM maps will always have a winner. The winner of a map is the team that is declared as the winner on the end game screenshot even if the scores listed are currently tied.

Group position Tiebreakers

Move down the list until a tiebreaker is found that separates all tied teams.
  • Highest amount of points
  • Head to Head
  • - Most match wins in matches between any tied teams
    - Most points in matches between the tied teams
    - Fewest points against in matches between the tied teams
  • Fewest maps forfeited
  • Total map wins
  • Net Map wins (Sum of Map Wins minus Sum of Map Losses)
  • Regular season net points
  • Regular season points for
  • Dev season net points
  • Dev season points for
  • Coin toss

Player Requirements

  • If a player becomes aware that he will be unable to show for a match, he is obliged to let his captain know via whatever means of contact he has available to him. Players who can not show due to unforeseen circumstances but keep their captains informed will be treated with leniency. Conversely, players who do not show and do not give their captains any notice about it will be punished severely.
  • A player may not play for two different teams during the same match round. I.e. you can not play 2+ development games in the same weekend, or 2+ regular games in the same weekend. It IS permitted to play for a different team in a regular match to the team you played for in a development match on the same weekend.

Openness about availability

  • Players are expected to be open about their availability to all captains at all times prior to the draft. The information that you give to all captains should be consistent. Do not tell one captain not to draft you because you're playing badly and then try and sell yourself to another captain. It is not permitted to refuse to acknowledge or respond to a captain because you do not wish to play for them - players who do this will be banned from future seasons.
  • During the draft, if you are around, you must be open and honest to all players who pm you enquiring about your availability. Even if a captain is trying to ascertain your availability
  • during the draft, you should be open up until the point that you are drafted - even if another captain has promised to pick you in a later round.
  • If at any point during the season you find yourself on the free agent list, the same rules apply. You are required to be honest to all captains who enquire as to your availability. Telling one captain that you can't play only to show for another is severely frowned upon.
  • Players who lie about their availability to captains are liable to receive punishment for this in the current or future seasons - at the admins discretion depending on when the information comes to light.

Map Selection

Maplist

DM-Ages
DM-Andok
DM-Campgrounds2004-G1E
DM-Corrugation
DM-CPB2-Achilles
DM-DE-Grendelkeep
DM-Entropic
DM-Goose2k4
DM-OSR-Cheops
DM-Peer2Peer-FE
DM-Rankin-FE
DM-Seraphim2004-LE
DM-Signify-FE
DM-UCMP4-Elucidation
DM-Waisten-Fix

Map Selection System

  • Each week will be designated 5 maps to choose from. Each team will choose one map for each match. No tiebreakers will be played. Development and regular map choices are independent of one another and can be chosen twice. Playoff map selection will be done in an elimination system of the 15 maps. The semifinals will be a best of 3, with a format of three map eliminations for each team, followed by one map choice and three additional map eliminations, with the remaining map being the tiebreaker. Finals will be a best of 5 format following the same elimination system. However, each team gets two eliminations, two map choices, two eliminations, and two map choices. The remaining map is the tiebreaker.
  • Maps are to be submitted by captains/co-captains by 11:59pm EST Wednesday of the given week. Failure to submit maps will result in the opposing team choosing both maps. In the event that both captains fail to pick a map, map selection will be up admin discretion.

Weekly Map Lists

Week 1 - 4/19
- DM-Andok
- DM-OSR-Cheops
- DM-Rankin-FE
- DM-Seraphim2004-LE
- DM-Ages

Week 2 - 4/26
- DM-Corrugation
- DM-Grendelkeep-DE
- DM-Signify-FE
- DM-UCMP4-Elucidation(NoBuzz)
- DM-Entropic

Week 3 - 5/3
- DM-Campgrounds2004-G1E
- DM-CPB2-Achilles
- DM-Goose2k4
- DM-Peer2Peer-FE
- DM-Waisten-Fix

Transactions

A team is allowed eight transactions every week with the counter resetting Sunday @ 11:59pm EST. Inactivity and protected drops are considered transactions.
  • All rosters are locked at the scheduled match time unless the opposing team gives permission to make a trade.
  • Teams may only make upto 8 transactions per week.
  • All rosters are locked when a team is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. For the purposes of determining a teams mathematical elimination, it will be assumed that no team in the competition will forfeit any remaining matches. Admins have the ability to prevent trades if team dumping is suspected.
  • All rosters are locked in the playoffs.

Protected Drop

A team can safely drop one of their players into the free agent pool for 48 hours without another team being able to pick them up. After the 48 hours expire, the protection will be revoked and the player will be made available to all captains.
  • A team will be given only ONE protected drop for the regular season.
  • Protected drops expire at the end of the group stage, and can not be used in playoffs as the rosters are fully locked.
  • Teams may protected drop their captain - this counts as their one protected drop for the season. They may only protected drop their captain at a date and time where by which he will be added back to their team by the end of the match day he is missing from. Captain protected drops will automatically expire at the end of the 48 hour period, but may be reset earlier if required. The only way that is is permitted to drop your captain is with a protected drop - a captain is unable to be traded in any other way (with the exception of 'Holding out' section).

Server Selection

All matches must be played on properly setup OwnedWell sanctioned servers. Server selection will be decided by the team that does not have map choice.

Acts of God

Server Crash

In the event that a server crashes, the server will be reset and the score prior to crash will be taken into account.

Lamer/Flamer Rules

Inactivity Rule

  • The only players that will be eligible for inactivity measures are starters. This means that you can't place any lower tiered players on inactivity.
  • A player must miss two consecutive matches (not including development games). At the end of the second match, the player will be eligible for inactivity.
  • If a player is dropped into the inactivity pool, they will have their salary increased by a 50% penalty. The team that originally placed them on inactivity will be able to pick them up for the original price however a new team would have to pay the premium.
  • A protected drop will reset the inactivity match tally.
  • Admins can freeze/remove players who will not be participating in the season.

No-show Rule

  • The only players that will be eligible for no-show measures are starters.
  • If prior to the commencement of a regular game a captain has a player who has either declared himself unavailable or has failed to show for his team for the 2nd occasion, that captain may invoke the no show rule on that player.
  • That player will be removed from the league. That player is no longer able to play for any team in the tournament, including the team which dropped the player.
  • After invoking this rule, captains have no capacity to reverse it and must therefore be absolutely certain that the player will not be showing before using it. They are advised to wait until as late as possible before invoking this rule.
  • Players who no-show their team mates will be punished considerably less should they go to the effort to inform their captain ahead of time that they are unable to make a match. This will be taken into account by admins when considering any further punishments.

Aliasing in matches to pass yourself off as someone else

Offenders and players proven to have knowledge of the aliasing will be punished. The offending parties will be removed from the current league, banned from the next season and banned from #tampug for 6 weeks. This is firm and it will be enforced.

Teamspeak

All teams are required to use the GlobalUnreal teamspeak unless an exception is granted by an admin.

Holding out

If a player publicly holds out on a team, they will be removed from the current league (a replacement player will be searched for), banned from the next season and banned from #tampug for 4 weeks.

Cheating

Any player caught cheating will be banned for a period of 4 calendar years from the date that they were caught in accordance with the OwnedWell UT2004 cheat policy.

Glitches

A team is not allowed to exploit any game-related glitches and it may result in the forfeit loss of a map. Glitches include but are not limited to:
  • Binding movements like thrusts to other keys is outlawed.
  • Hiding in glitches/bugged solid materials is illegal.
  • Hiding on top of maps (IE: Goose, Structued)

For the avoidance of doubt; shooting through holes in glass/grates is permitted.

Demos

Serverside demos will be taken during all matches. However, captains are required to take screenshots at the end of each map.

Team Expectations

Match Punctuality

  • A team must have their entire team in the server and clicked in to be eligible to start the timer. Once they have done this, the opposing team has 2 minutes to click in before they forfeit the map.
  • The timer for map 1 is only eligible to be started from 5 minutes after the match start time stated on the schedule page and must then run uninterrupted for 2 minutes.
  • The timer for map 2 is eligible to be started from 5 minutes after the map has been switched.
  • If any member of the team who instigated the timer disconnects from the server, the timer will reset.
  • The timer will be paused once the map countdown begins, but in the event of a player disconnecting will resume at where it left off in the case of the team last to click in or start at 2 minutes in the case of the team first to click in.

Sportsmanship:

  • A player may not spam a non-teamsay bind during a match. Players who do this will be warned to cease, and players who continue will be forfeited and/or banned.
  • Racism will not be tolerated. If a player makes racist remarks in-game, the player in question will be warned and then suspended for future incidents.

Rescheduling

  • Teams are allowed to reschedule their matches by agreement with opposing captains.
  • After agreeing to reschedule a game, both teams must inform an admin and he will change it on the schedule. Both captains should do this for each time the match time changes.
  • Matches may be rescheduled to before or after their original date/time, however the latest that players can reschedule games for is prior to the commencement of the dev games of the last round of the group stage.
  • It goes without saying that you can not reschedule a game so that it will potentially overlap with any of your other games, unless you have gained prior agreement for this from the captain of the team that may be kept waiting.
  • If a playoff match is rescheduled it must be played at a time such that it will not delay any further rounds of the playoffs, and must be agreed with the admins.
  • Rescheduling is solely down to the captains. Admins will not get involved and force reschedules upon any captain or team.
  • As an exception to the above rule, on occasion a match week falls on a weekend where a major event is taking place and it becomes apparent that a large number of players will miss the game week. Admins may offer all captains a free reschedule which does not require both captains to be in agreement to take place. Where ever possible admins will endeavor to inform all captains of this as soon as possible - however it may not always be possible to do so prior to a league starting due to unforeseen circumstances.

Admins/Spectators

Spectators

The only people allowed to spectate matches are OwnedWell admins and members of the stream team. It goes without saying that if someone is spectating, they are not allowed to have any communications with the teams that are playing.

Precedent

Admins will use or set precedents for topics not covered in this rule page.

Admins have the right to change rules and address hot topics that come up.

The admin staff will stick to this ruleset unless any major controversy arises. In the event that one arises, the admins hold the right to use their discretion to create/revise rules.