Macro Mania | $500 | 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 | Open-Rating

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Welcome to the first edition of Macro Mania! As it says in the title, this will be a tournament which somewhat tests your ability to play macro in the most chaotic of ways. There are quite a few different features of this tournament, so please read thoroughly through the post.

General Information

Dates:
Group Stage: 6th of June, 14 UTC
Playoffs: 13th of June, 14 UTC
Coverage: [https://www.twitch.tv/faflive]
Bracket:
Chat: #MacroMania
Tournament Organiser: hybrid_
Tournament Director: TBA

Format

There is no rating restriction, making it an open rating tournament.
The tournament will have a minimum of 8 teams and a maximum of 16.
There will be two stages, Group Stage and Playoffs.

Map Selection Format

The team that is picking a map will get to decide whether the map is played 1v1 up to 3v3. This applies to all maps in the mappool.
Teams cannot pick a map with the same amount of players more than once. If it is a BO5, you may pick a map with the same amount of players, just not consecutively.
A player must not play 2 consecutive 1v1s.
Players may screenshare to allow the input of their teammates on 1v1/2v2 picks.

Group Stage

There will be 2-4 groups, consisting of 4 teams in each group. The amount of groups will depend on the amount of signups.
Each group will be a round robin, and will be BO3.
Each Group will have different a map pool
The seeding will be determined by global rating, with the ratings being frozen from 3/03.

If there are 2 groups, 2 teams from both groups will advance.
OR
If there are 4 groups, only 1 team will advance from each group.

Playoffs

The final stage will be a single elimination bracket of 4 teams, the Semi-Final will be BO3 and the Final will be BO5.

Map Pool

TBA 1 week before each stage.

Prizes

1st - $250, Custom Macro Maniac avatar
2nd - $150, Faction face avatar
3rd - $100, Faction logo avatar

Prizes are from the FAF Tournament fund.

If you would like to donate towards the tournament and receive a cool avatar, please contact me on discord (hyb/tbounce).

Reminder that all payments of official FAF fund prizes are subject to the official FAF tournament payout guidelines.
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7161/faf-official-tournament-payout-guidelines

Rules

The official FAF Tournament Rules apply.
Some of the most important of these rules are:

Disconnects within 5 minutes may result in a rehost. The Tournament Director has the last say afterwards.
Players will replay the same map if they draw.
If the incorrect map is hosted, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards the score.
Players who do not appear without valid reasoning will be given a warning that may result in being temporarily suspended from tournaments.
All participants will be allowed a 15-minute wait at the start of a tournament to show up however after this 15 minute wait the Tournament Direct has the right to disqualify you from the tournament. In the case where you will be late but do intend to arrive you need to message the Tournament Director preferably via Discord to inform them you will be late but will show up. When doing this please provide an approximate time delay until you arrive, it will then be the Tournament Directors decision whether than delay is too long or acceptable. If your team loses a member, you may find a substitution within the rank requirements.
The Tournament Director's decision is final.
You can read the rest here: https://forum.faforever.com/assets/uploads/files/1685891393985-official-faf-tournament-rules.pdf

Signup Information

There is no restrictions on team rating in this tournament, making it open-rating.
Signup as teams of 3 or as a free agents.
Free agents are able to message each other to make a team before registration ends, if unable to find a team, the tournament director will decide the free-agent teams.
Team names are allowed as long as they are appropriate and are letters of the English alphabet, numerals, and special symbols: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-.!<>()[]{}/&
Signups close on the 6th of June, 13 UTC.

Signup

To sign up, post below stating:

Team name if you have one already.
All team members FAF usernames.
The team "captain" alongside their discord tag, as it will be the player who will interact with the TD the most.

Teams

Gentlemandem - waffelznoob(c) 2643, Lunyshko 2374, Grimplex 2644 | 7661
Sexy gentlemen and our Hoplite - Swatoslav(c) 2140, Wifi_ 2284, Neytron 2092 | 6516

Free Agents

LimeZ3_ 1955
Haidowicked 1642

Seraphim-Noob

Sign up Seraphim-Noob as a Free agent

Skrat

Wow! Interesting format. Cool!

Swatoslav

Sign up:
Team "Sexy gentlemen and our Hoplite"
Swatoslav (c), Wifi, Neytron

LimeZ3_

Sign up LimeZ3_ as a Free agent because these Fcks didnt want me in their team ^^^

waffelzNoob

Signing up team Gentlemandem:
waffelzNoob (c), Lunyshko, Grimplex

Team name perhaps subject to change

HAID_SOLO

freelancer Haidowicked

Seraphim-Noob

Sadly i cant participate anymore because i dont have time

QuantumTyphoon

Sign up Quantum Typhoon as a Free agent. Disc: QT

Neytron

Seraphim-Noob
10 days ago

Sign up Seraphim-Noob as a Free agent

SEEE TEAM

Signing up team Gentlemandem:
waffelzNoob (c), Lunyshko, Grimplex

Offline
Seraphim-Noob
3 days ago

Sadly i cant participate anymore because i dont have time
XDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Terminator2-0

Signup
Name: Time Terminator

Players:
Terminayor2-0 2152
Edem1440 995
pelmen1322 1005
Captain:
Terminator2-0
Discord: enver_54313

Neytron

Team "Sexy gentlemen and our Hoplite"
Swatoslav (c), Wifi, Neytron
makes his changes

NEW
Team "Vot Eti Parni Radiofiziki"
Neytron(c), Wifi, Limez

Patrik_Bateman

Sign up AndrobesTeam
Patrik_Bateman Discord: cokyckuji_batat
Nov_Mik
supremeruler

hybrid_

Announcement: Tournament is postponed

Unfortunately due to a lack of time and manpower we are unable to host Macro Mania on the selected dates. We haven't decided on a new date yet but we will hope to announce the date adjustments alongside some format changes before the end of June.