Tournament

Winter Gaiden – The King of Fighters XV (EU)

Finalized

GameThe King of Fighters XV

Entry FeeInvite

Region—

Format—

DateSun, Mar 13, 2022 4:00PM GMT

About

Welcome to Winter Gaiden!

Vortex Gallery is a series of tournaments run by the community, for the community. Once again, we're partnering with organizers from underrepresented regions for an online event where we can come together & the games we love!

With this special event, we'll be running tournaments for GGST, MBTL & KOFXV across five different regions: NA, Brasil, SUD, SEA & EU!

This Matcherino specifically is for the The King of Fighters XV tournament hosted for Europe (please review the full list of allowed regions for more specifics).

Main site: https://winter.vortexgallery.moe/

Registration: https://smash.gg/wintergaiden

Rules

General event rules and the player's guide can be found at https://winter.vortexgallery.moe/guide

The full game and region-specific rules can be found at https://winter.vortexgallery.moe/games

EU

Tournament Info

Registration ends on 3/8/2022 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
Pools begin at 3/13/2022 4:00pm UTC (Official region timezone)
Platform: PC
Entry Fee: Free
Registration Cap: 64 Entrants
Prize pot split: 60/30/10
Region Includes: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City In addition players living in European parts of these trans-continental countries are also permitted to play in the tournament: Kazakhstan (cut-off point is along A-28 National Highway from Uralsk to Atyrau, everything west of it is considered to be in Europe) Russia (cut-off point is along the Ural mountain chain, everything west of it is considered to be in Europe) Turkey (cut-off point is Istanbul/the Bosporus strait, everything to the north-west of Istanbul is considered to be in Europe)

Format

Bracket type: Double Elimination
Bracket seeding terms: Region + Skill
Games per Set in Pools: 2/3
Games per Set in Finals: 3/5 Games for Grand Finals

Game Rules

Game settings: Default Settings
Character change rules: Winner must keep character. Loser may switch.
Glitch rules: Game breaking glitches are banned.
Online connectivity rules: In the event of a game crash or disconnect, scoring will be kept for games & rounds, and the current round will be restarted.