Blue Shell Cup Season 1 - Tournament #3

• Join our Discord server for easier communication : Discord Blue Shell Cup

• Any negative behaviour, harassment, cheating or abuse of rules will be punished severely

• The severity of punishment is as follows - you will be flagged under these categories.

- Yellow = you have been issued a warning.

- Red = you have been issued a temporary ban from one or multiple tournaments.

- Black = you have been issued a permanent ban.

--- Prize pool ---

Donations can increase the $200 pool. Here is the baseline below.

• Winner 1st place : 60%

• 2nd place 30%

• 3rd place 10%

Partnered with OSC, you can also gain points :

• 1st 200 OSC points 

• 2nd 120 OSC points

• 3rd 80 OSC points

• 4th 40 OSC points

• 5-8th 20 OSC points each

• 9-16th 5 OSC points each

+ OSC $ Bounties

+ Points towards Participation Prizes

--- Match rules ---

• Matches are played on the ladder map pool.

• Series are played in BO1 up to Ro32 then BO3 for qualifiers. Final bracket will be BO3 then BO5 Semifinals and Finals.

• The upper seeded player in the series match is player A. The lower is player B

--- Veto/Pick process is as follows
• BO1 : A B B A B A - final map is picked.

• BO3 : A B B A - B A then final map.

• BO5 : A B - B A B A then final map.

• If a player is disconnected in the first 2 minutes of the game, you can restart a new game. All other types of issues will require both players to resume from replay.

• As some players use in-game chat for disruptive purposes, we ask players to limit communication while in game.

--- Format rules ---

 [I] Double - Single elimination bracket

• This type of tournament will happen over two weekends. Two tournaments in the first weekend will be qualifiers. The next weekend will be the final playoffs bracket decided upon the placements of players from the first two. Eight players will be picked from each qualifier.

[I-A] Qualifiers

• The brackets will be seeded randomly.

• The brackets will be double elimination.

• Qualifying spots : top 4 winner bracket + top 4 loser bracket

• A check-in period of 1h or 30min will be applied. Please remember to show up.

• The matches will start right when the admin will voice about the bracket being final in the dedicated Battle.net channel and/or Discord channel.

• Please set your in game availability so that other players and admins can contact you at any time.

• Casters alongside admins have the rights to ask you to wait up to 10 minutes for them in order to cover your series.

• Please use the same name on Battle.net / Discord you subscribed with on the tournament platform, or warn admins of your different nicknames.

• Walkover time: 15 minutes, 10 in the loser bracket.

[I-B] Playoffs

• Players will be seeded according to their results in the qualifiers and OSC Rankings. Generally as follows but can be reviewed and reseeded if necessary (1/2 = Qualifier 1 or 2, ABCD = Winner bracket qualified, EFGH = loser bracket qualified).

• 1A vs 2H, 2B vs 1G, 1C vs 2F, 2D vs 1E, 1B vs 2G, 2A vs 1H, 1D vs 2E, 2C vs 1F.

• This tournament does not require check-in time but it requires you to show up at specific times to align with the stream coverage.

• All the match times will be announced before the playoffs occur. Warn admins if you have an issue with said times.

• Please let the veto/pick result be known to admins 5 minutes before your planned match time.

[II] MMR Restricted tournament

• This tournament is set in place for lower MMR players in order for them to enjoy competitiveness without having a meaningful gap to overcome

• As a result, this tournament has no prize pool and will be for fun.

• Format is similar, double elimination bracket then single for playoffs.

• MMR restriction is as follows :

• Players must not have reached or exceeded 5500 MMR in the past four months

• Do not try to abuse this limit. Do not leave your league in case you get a higher rank. Do not lose games on purpose to lower your MMR. Such moves will be punished severely.