Welcome to the Group Stage for the 2021 Summer Invitational. This stage will be made up with 4 groups of 4 players each. Games will be played round robin style with each player in a group playing each other player in a BO3. The top 2 players in each group will advance to the finals.
Date: July 17th
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #summer
Challonge: https://challonge.com/cyvwxmts
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Directors:
Overall: Swkoll
Group A TD: HintHunter
Group B TD: HintHunter
Group C TD: Kite
Group D TD: Morax
Maps:
There is a pool of 10 maps and maps will be selected using a veto and pick system. This means each player has 2 vetos, with the lower seed in the group vetoing first in an alternating pattern.(ie lower seed, upper seed, lower seed, upper seed). Next the higher seed will select the first map, the lower seed the second map, and if necessary the higher seed will select the third map. 5 of the maps are the same for each group and 5 maps are different for each group.
We will be using the same faction veto system as used in LoTS and in previous invitationals. After a map is picked, both players will secretly send 2 factions, in order of preference, that they would like to play, and 1 faction they would like to veto to their group's Tournament Director.
To clarify map picking and faction veto:
- Figure out which maps are in your group, they are the 5 "All" maps and the 5 maps specific to your group.
- Lower seed (as shown by the position in the group) vetos first map
- Higher seed vetos next map
- Lower seed uses last veto
- Higher seed uses last veto
- Higher seed then picks the first map to play from the list of maps in the pool that have not been vetoed
- Players send 2 factions that they would like to play and 1 veto to their group's TD
- Lower seed picks the second map following the same rules
- Players send 2 factions that they would like to play and 1 veto to their group's TD
- In the event of a tie, higher seed picks the tie breaker map
- Players send 2 factions that they would like to play and 1 veto to their group's TD
- The winner reports the results (including losses and tie games) to their group's tournament director in the #summer channel
Map Pool:
Players:
With the following substitutes:
- Lucied
- Demonstreamer
- Eternal
- hybrid
- Sheikah