Format

Method Mayhem: EU Gauntlet culminates as a Double Elimination Tournament. Each series will be a Best of 3 (Bo3), with the Grand Finals being a Best of 5 (Bo5).

Qualifying

All signed up teams will be seeded into the event based on their average team rating of the characters that each team has signed up for the event with. The formula used will be:

TOTAL OF THE TOP TEN (10) TEAM MEMBERS LADDER RATING / TEN (10)

Teams & Seeding Order

1 - eHEROES

2 - Fiesta

3 - Speedrun

4 - a familia

5 - Gorefiend Main Team

6 - Clown Back Again

7 - The Big Dogs

Team Compositions

Each battleground team must comprise of a minimum of 10 players, with a maximum of 13. Each team must have 10 players participating in each match. The 3 players who are not in the main composition are eligible to swap into the team to change composition in between matches when permitted.

Battleground teams are not permitted to have more than 3 "Healer" roles on each team in any single match.

There are no restrictions to the number of tanks in a teams composition in a single match.

Gameplay Ruling

The use of toys known as Fae Harp, Twiddle Twirler: Sentinel's Glaive, Twiddle Twirler: Shredder Blade, Desert Flute, Personal Hologram and Stackable Stag are not permitted in this event. Anyone caught using these toys may be subject to a penalization which will be awarded based on the discretion of the admin team. Food, Drinks and Battle Standards are permitted in this event. "Gear swapping" during matches is allowed, with the exception of "Gladiator's Medallions" trinkets, which are not allowed to be switched.

Any landscape, terrain, item, toy, spell or ability interaction that does not operate in Wargames in the same way that it does in Rated Battlegrounds is not permitted unless specified otherwise elsewhere in the rules.

Using the Unity Legendary in more than one item slot simultaneously is not permitted.

The Map Pool

The maps that players are eligible to play in this event are as follows:

Arathi Basin

Battle for Gilneas

Eye of the Storm

Silvershard Mines

Temple of Kotmogu

Twin Peaks

Warsong Gulch

Characters & Realm

Method Mayhem takes place on Live Shadowlands servers.

Players are expected to use their own characters for this tournament, of which the characters must be on the same Battle.net account as the account you have signed up with. If you run into an issue and own more than one battle.net account and would require to use both during this tournament, please reach out to a tournament event organizer or admin and we can work on resolving the issue.

Match Rules and Workflows

This event will operate with the following workflow when communicating map selections between teams. The communication will occur in the designated match discord chat channel in the official Method Mayhem Discord server.

For Bo3

Team A Ban - Team B Ban - Team A Pick - Team B Pick - Team A Ban - Team B Ban - The last map in the pool is then the "decider".

For Bo5

Team A Ban - Team B Ban - Team A Pick - Team B Pick - Team A Pick - Team B Pick - The last map in the pool is then the "decider".

The order that the maps will be played will be the order they occur in the pick and ban communication between the two team captains.

Each match has a maximum duration of 30 minutes. If a match reaches this timer, the match will be deemed a tie and will be treated as such.

In the scenario where a tie occurs the following workflow will come into play:

Tie Break #1 - The last map played, will be replayed.

Tie Break #2 - If there is no clear winner after Tie Break #1, Tie Break #2 kicks in and the team with the most damage dealt will be determined the winner.

If a member of one of the competing teams is experiencing technical issues, connection issues or anything that will deem them unable to play after entering the battleground, the respected team mates on the entire team must leave the battleground before the gates of the battleground open. Failure to do so will result in the match resuming and the result of the match counting towards the series results.

It is forbidden to use a player during the event that is not a registered member of your team, failure to comply will result in a penalization such as a re-match, series forfeit or disqualification from the entire event. The penalization will be distributed at the discretion of the tournament administration.

Each team is required to nominate a team captain, of which It is required for all team captains to add a tournament administrator to their battle.net friends list.

Any match that is planned to be livestreamed, will have the wargame initiated by an event admin. If you start your match by yourself without permission from a tournament staff member, the match result will be considered void and the series will resume from the score as it were previously. It is advisable to take screenshots of each match result, win or lose in the case that disputes are made against your team to help the administration team to determine the correct outcome.

Behavioral:

All players are expected to be respectful towards one another and towards tournament staff and administrators at all times.

All players should act with good etiquette. Use of extreme profanity, racial slurs, sexist comments amongst other negative behavior will not be tolerated and will result in expulsion from the tournament.

Penalties:

Penalties may be given to players who breach any of the rules stated, including, but not limited to rules stated in the Official Terms & Conditions of Blizzard Entertainment.

Penalties will be given to players at the discretion of the administration and staff team.

Examples of Penalties are as follows: Match Forfeit, Series Forfeit and Tournament Disqualification.

This tournament is held under the Rules set by Blizzard Entertainment. Any breach of the rules that would cause Blizzard to take action against your account that will impact your ability to participate in this tournament will immediately result in a disqualification from this event.

The Crowdfunding campaign for this event is neither endorsed or sponsored by Blizzard.

This competition is licensed under Blizzard's Community Competition License, which can be found HERE.

Method reserves the rights to make changes/adjustments to these rules at any time.