Fnatic - A profesional gaming team

1. The instructions of the admins are to be followed. Failure to do so will result in disqualification.
2. Any protests and/or disputes have to be addressed directly to an admin. Admins reserve the right to intervene at any point during a dispute between two participants, as well as to disqualify either one.
3. Any violation of the rules and regulations stated for any tournament may result in point deduction, forfeits, prize deduction or even disqualification
4. The organisation reserve the right to alter the rules at any time. If a change is made, this will be announced accordingly.
5. It is at the admins' discretion how to interpret the rules stated; participants have the right to make a formal protest against any decisions made.

1. The replays of each match have to be saved at all times, without exceptions.
2. All players have to be able to upload their replays at the request of any tournament admin. If any player is unable to provide replays for any match, he or she will be disqualified.
3. All replays have to be saved until the tournament they were recorded in has finished and the winners are clear.

1. Both participants in a match have to agree to start before doing so. If either has momentary problems, they will inform their opponent immediately.
2. In case a match cannot start for any reason, the participants will have to contact an admin in order to resolve the issue. The admins reserve the right to reschedule the match to a fitting date; if a fitting date for both participants cannot be determined, the admin will force a date the match will be played on.
3. If either participant is not available within 15 minutes of match start time, it means they effectively forfeit the match, and the other side gets a default win. At this point, due to the nature of the tournaments, participants are not allowed to reschedule matches; all the dates and times stated are fixed.
4. When a match has finished, both participants are obliged to report the result to an admin through the IRC channels within 30 minutes. If either participant does not do this, they will effectively forfeit the match and hand the other side a default win. We urge you to report straight after a match, so that there cannot be any confusion about this matter.

1. Admins and coverage partners are allowed to observe any match of any tournament at any time. The rejection of this rule may result in severe penalties, including disqualifications.
2. Spectators other than those mentioned above are not allowed.

1. Cheating of any kind and bug abuse are prohibited; violating this rule will result in immediate disqualification. Further details regarding to what is considered cheating and/or bug abuse will be clarified for each game individually.
2. To be allowed to play in any tournament you have to be in possession of a legal copy of the game in question, and patched to the appropriate version.
3. All players must play under the same nickname they register as, and this is also what they will have to use on IRC. If anyone tries to hide their nickname in any way, it may result in disqualification. Name-spoofing of any kind is strictly forbidden!
4. A support channel on the QuakeNet IRC Network will be designated for every tournament. Players have to be present in this channel with the same nickname they are using during the tournament in order for admins to be able to contact them if necessary. The global channel used is #fnatic.play - however, in extreme situations, temporary channels may be created for specific tournaments.
5. All scores are to be reported by the LOSER of the match to PLAY Admins at #FNATIC.PLAY @quakenet

1. Participants who are banned from other leagues may be excluded from the participation in any of our tournaments.
2. Participants who are banned for cheating, hacking or other unwanted behavious, are not allowed to participate in the tournament.
3. Undesired behaviour will result in penalty points or even disqualification. This is includes, but is not limited to, delaying tournament progress and rude behaviour towards anyone involved in the tournament. This includes our coverage partners, other participants as well as admins.
4. Flooding the opponent in any way (such as chat messages) is strictly forbidden and will result in immediate disqualification.
5. The use of any third-party tools or cheats (including maphacks) is strictly forbidden. If a participant is caught using anything besides the specified allowed tools, they and/or their team will be removed from the tournament immediately.
6. You can protest about the match 15 minutes after the match is over. 

Servers/Configuration

• If the server crashes before the 3rd round has started, the game will be restarted from the beginning.
• If the server crashes during or after the 4th round the current score will remain and the game will continue with startmoney 5000$.
• If one living player crashes during the pistol round, the game will be restarted.
• A server crash is defined by more than 3 players disconnecting simultaneously, this rule only applies for players not using a shared connection.
• If a player disconnects, his/her team can ask for a timeout, each team is given five minutes per match to use "Pause" in order to get all players on the server. If a team has major connection issues, they may replace the player after consulting an admin.
• Fair play is always expected when your opponent has problems with their connection and/or Steam.

Player/Team Obligations

• All players need to be a member of the play.fnatic.com community.
• Easy Anticheat will be used. The EAC server will be Fnatic(under International severs). Download here: http://www.easyanticheat.net/v2/index.php?p=download.
• Players are required to set their Steam ID on their PLAY dashboard. Failure to do so may result in disqualification.
• In a match each team consists of 5 players, teams are not allowed to replace any player without the direct permission from an admin.
• Every player is required to read and understand the tournament rules, any inquiries will be answered by admins on our IRC Channel (Quakenet/#fnatic.play).
• Each team has to have a representative on IRC(#fnatic.play on Quakenet), this to contact opponents and report scores to the the admins.
• We advise players to use a downloaded GUI such as FnaticMSI or ESL.
• RInput.exe is allowed (this removes acceleration in Win Vista and Win7)
• The following network settings have to be used by all players:
• • ex_interp “0.01”
  • rate “25000”
  • net_graph "0"
  • cl_updaterate “100”
  • cl_cmdrate “100”
  • The following video settings have to be used by all players:
  • Color quality set to highest (32bit)
  • Gamma and brightness can be adjusted as you wish in-game and up to +30% in Nvidia/ATI Panel
  • It is strictly forbidden to tweak/adjust the R or GL commands. For example "r_drawviewmodel" and "gl_picmip"

• Matches are to be played in the first-to-16 (MR15) format.
• A knife round will decide sides (Terrorists or Counter-terrorists) - Winning team gets to pick side.
• It's both teams' responsibility that the server is correctly configured. We advise teams to download our server config (see server-specific section).
• The maps in the regulation stage(rounds before Semi-finals) will be pre-decided, the second map will be picked by the first map´s loser. Loser´s choice also applies in case of a third map needs to be played. 
• If a match is draw, a winner is decided from an over-time mode. The OT is played MR3 and the start money is set to 16 000$. Prior to the over-time teams will switch sides.
• Teams should show up 15 minutes prior game start for a server discussion.
• At least ONE player per team need to record in-game demos. Failing to provide your demos on the request of a game admin can result in a forfeit loss.
•  The following maps are in the pool:
  • de_dust2
  • de_train
  • de_inferno
  • de_nuke
  • de_tuscan

Bugs/Exploits

• The "duck jumping" movement is allowed, but can’t be bound to mouse wheels. This move is also known as the "Russian walk" or "Silentwalk".
• Teams are allowed to buy unrestricted amount of items during the buy time, this includes all items such as rifles and grenades. The only exception is the CT's shield which is strictly forbidden.
• A buy script is allowed, all other scripts are banned.
• It is allowed to defuse through items such as boxes, floors and walls. In a case of a silent plant the situation will be reviewed whether it affected the outcome of the round, a silent plant may result in a 3 rounds reduction of the team´s final score.
• Map and bug abuses are illegal, such as flash, plant or boost bugs. Performing any bug-abuse that is followed up by a round win will cause 3 rounds to be deducted from the team´s final score.
• Boosts that allow you to map-swim (see over the skyboxes) is strictly forbidden. Although not listed here, any spot in any map that allows for this to be done is forbidden!