- Warband Masters Tour consists of Regular Season and Single Elimination bracket.
- Regular Season will last 6 weeks and is divided into three stages.
- First stage is called Closed Maps mastery. It lasts 2 weeks and only Closed category maps will be played during this stage.
- Second stage is called Mixed Maps mastery. It lasts 2 weeks and only Mixed category maps will be played during this stage.
- Third stage is called Open Maps mastery. It lasts 2 weeks and only Open category maps will be played during this stage.
- During these 3 stages teams will fight for the opportunity to participate in the Single Elimination part of tournament which is called Masters.
- "The Masters" will be Single Elimination bracket for the top 4 teams that collected most points during the Regular Season.
"Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power."
-Lao Tzu |
[2.]Pointing system - Regular Season
"Never stop trying,
Never lose hope,
Every single round matters!" |
- During the first three stages of the Regular Season your team will receive:
- 12 points for victory.
- 6 points for draw.
- 0 points for defeat.
- In addition to this, teams will receive 1 extra point for every round won during the match.
- This means that maximum amount of points one team can receive after single match is 24.
- Points are important because they determine which top 4 teams will proceed to the Single Elimination bracket called The Masters.
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[3.]Fixtures and Picking Night - Regular Season
Picking Night:
- The fixtures themselves are made by the teams during the Picking Night.
- This Picking Night takes place every Monday between 7pm EST and 9pm EST.
- Each team is allotted a time-slot of five minutes to pick their opponents.
- Priority during the Picking Night is first given to the:
- Teams with the least amount of matches won/tied.
- In case multiple teams have same amount of wins/ties, then the team with the most points in the Ranking Table will have picking priority.
- In case multiple teams have same amount of wins/ties and points, then picking order for teams involved will be randomized.
- For the first Picking Night, picking order will be randomized.
- In case of team failing to pick opponent during the allotted time-slot they won't be punished.
- If that happens their opponent will be randomly selected.
- You can not pick the opponent you have played against in previous WMT Week.
Maps & Factions:
- For the Regular Season maps and factions will be pre-determined.
- You can see map pool for the Regular Season below in the Map Pool section.
Organizing Match:
- Both Teams must agree on a date and time as well as book a server before Thursday at midnight PST(3am EST).
- In case of the teams being unable to contact each other or agree on date and time, Tournament Admin should be contacted
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"Destiny is not matter of chance,
But a matter of choice."
-William Jennings |
[4.]"The Masters" - Single Elimination stage and Map Picking
"Champions believe in themselves,
Even when no one else does." | SE bracket:
- "The Masters" will be Single Elimination bracket for the top 4 teams that collected most points during the Regular Season.
- Teams positions in the Single Elimination bracket are determined by their position in the Masters Tour Table.
- In case we have multiple teams with same amount of points head-to-head results will determine who is placed higher.
- In case of 4 teams Single Elimination bracket,there will be two Semifinals:
- SemiFinal A: 1st placed team in the Masters Tour Table versus 4th placed team.
- SemiFinal B: 2nd placed team in the Masters Tour Table versus 3rd placed team.
- In case match ends in a draw after 2 maps, tiebreaker map will be played.
- Tiebreaker map, Winterburg, will be played first to 3.
- Teams will select their own factions for this map.
- Factions can be mirrored.
- First team to pick the faction will be the first team in the fixtures.
- Winner of the SemiFinal A will face Winner of SemiFinal B. Winner of this match will be named WMT Champion.
- Defeated team of the SemiFinal A will face Defeated team of SemiFinal B. Winner of this match will finish WMT as third placed team.
Map Picking:
- During the Single Elimination part of the tournament teams will be able to pick maps for their matches.
- Maps can be picked from the complete map pool(both Regular Season and SE).
- The maps will be picked by the teams themselves during a Picking Night held on Monday.
- Both teams have 2 vetoes to ban out a map from the complete map pool.
- Team A is the team that had more points in the Table of the Regular Season.
- Team A vetoes the first map, Team B a second map, Team A a third map and, finally, Team B a fourth map.
- Then Team B picks the first map and Team A the second map for their match.
- Factions for both maps will be pre-determined.
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[5.]Roster Rules
General roster rules:
- There is no roster cap.
- Every team has to provide the tournament administration with a roster consisting of 8 or more players.
- Every team has to provide the tournament administration with a roster consisting of 8 or more players.
- In addition to this team representatives must provide in-game ID's at least 24 hours before their first match.
- Teams that fail to do so are not eligible to play the match and will have forfeit it.
- In case this happens, their opponent will receive default win.
- Should a player not be on a roster and play for a team, then the player will be treated as a member of that team and will be added to their roster.
Transfers:
- Transfers may be requested by the players themselves or the Captain of his designated new team.
- A player is able to play for his new team once the tournament administration has confirmed the requested transfer.
- The player is not allowed to play for his new team if the tournament administration did not confirm the transfer.
- Once a player have played one match for the team he is signed up for he cannot request a transfer.
- Transfer can happen throughout the whole tournament.
Multi-teaming:
- It is strictly prohibited for a player to play for more than one team at any given point during the tournament.
- If a player is found to be on the roster for more than one team that player will be disqualified for the rest of the tournament.
- Teams who have accepted a player already on the roster of another team will face sanctions.
- These sanctions will be determined by the admin team
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"We are not a team
because we work together.
We are a team because
we trust and care for each other"
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[6.]Match Rules
"Play fair
and be a good sport.
Remember:
What we do in life... Echoes in Eternity." | General match rules:
- Matches will be played with 8 players on each team. If both teams agree it can be played with even more players.
- Should a team fail to bring the required 8 players then they have to play regardless.
- A minimum of 6 players need to be present at the match for it to take place.
- Should a team fail to bring 6 or more players then the other team will get default win.
- In case one team can not field 8 players then the other team is not obliged to match their numbers.
- If both teams are unable to bring 8 players then it is allowed to reschedule to another day and/or get an extension by talking to one of the admins.
- The team shown on the left side of the fixture is Team A. The map shown on the left side of the fixture is Map A. The faction shown on the left side of the fixture is Faction A.
- The team shown on the left side of the fixtures starts on the first spawn on the first map, and on the second spawn on the second map. This may be changed if both teams agree, either through specific agreement or implied action.
- Every match will consist of two maps. Each map has two sets. Each set is played first to 3 to win.
- Spawn and Factions are changed after set is over.
- The winner of the match is the team that won most rounds after two maps.
- Match must start(at latest) 20 minutes after arranged time.
- Team that is ready to play after this period of time can claim right to default win in case their opponent is not ready to start.
- Before claiming rights to a default win be sure to contact admins or capture screenshots.
Servers and in-game settings:
- All matches must be played on dedicated/credited WMT servers.
- Credited servers are those that are running WMT compatible admin mod with correct maps.
- In order to get your server a "Credited status" you will have to agree on providing server logs after each official scrim.
- Credited servers are: DoF_Practice_NA, tK_Central_Practice, GK_ENL_Battle
- Both teams have to agree to play on a particular server.
- If the teams cannot agree on a particular server, they have to ask tournament administrator for a decision.
- Team representatives must book server for their upcoming match.
- Standard WPL/WNL/WWC server settings will be used in the matches.
- Those settings are:
- Combat Speed: Medium, Friendly Fire: %100, Round Time: 210 seconds,
- Game Type: Battle, Respawn time: 8 seconds, Gold: All set to %100,
- Camera: team member’s view, forced MoF spawn at 2 minutes.
Substitutions:
- Substitutions are allowed between the rounds.
- If a player crashes in game, substitutions can be done after the round has ended.
Behavior during the matches:
- Players must play with the name they are signed up under in the team roster.
- If a player plays with a different name for the first time, he or she will be warned.
- For the second time he or she will be suspended for one match.
- Players must wear the team tag during official matches.
- If a player plays with a different tag or without one for the first time, he or she will be warned.
- For the second time he or she will be suspended for one match.
- Modifying any texture files in order to gain an advantage is strictly prohibited.
- Any player or team that is found to have modified textures in order to gain an advantage will immediately face severe punishment, likely a ban from the tournament, though the severity is up to the admins' discretion.
- Players that attempt to utilize any kind of autoblock, aimbot or any other game modification that gives them an advantage will be immediately banned from the tournament.
- Cosmetic changes, such as round timers and crosshairs,etc, do not count.
- Spawning in a ninth player for the purpose of dropping gear for his team is strictly prohibited. Team that does this will lose the round in question by default.
- During matches any chat messages that are deemed to be malicious, racist, or bullying towards an individual on another team are prohibited and may be disciplined upon review
- If player or a team breaks a rule Admins will have meeting and decide if and how they will be punished
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[7.]Map Pool
Regular Season:
- Closed category maps:
- Desert Town
- New Port Assault
- Back to Back
- Tannenberg
- Mixed category maps:
- Ruins Rebuilt
- Dreicksdorf
- Frosthaven
- Milford
- Open category maps
- Khergit Settlement
- River Village
- Amere Village
- Hepburn Forest
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The Masters:
- For the Single Elimination part of the tournament 9 more maps will be added.
- Two standard competitive maps will be added to each of the Closed/Mixed/Open maps category.
- With the new additions map pool will be 21 maps big.
- During the Single Elimination part of the tournament teams will be able to pick maps for their matches.
- Maps being added for the Single Elimination are:
- Closed category maps:
- San'di'boush
- Verloren
- Fort of Honour
- Mixed category maps:
- Mountain Fortress
- Reveran Village
- Castellum
- Open category maps:
- Field by the River
- Ruins
- Legacy Plains
[8.]Sponsors and Credits:
"Alone
We can do so little;
Together:
We can do so much"
-Helen Keller |
- SimRai for being Sponsor of the WMT and for helping our community for so long by providing servers for various Tournaments.
- Thanks to ENL/WNL admin teams for the Picking Night rule.
- Thanks to ECS admin team for the Map Picking rule.
- ECS admin mod maker(s) for amazing work they did.
- WPL/UNAC admin teams for some of the rules we will implement.
- Various members of the community who made constructive suggestions on how to improve WMT.
- Map makers for their contributions.
- TW for making such a great game all of us share love for.
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