RCVII - AI Allies ~ 4v4 ~ $2,000

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Event: "Rainbow Cup VII" - AI Allies - 4v4 - Tournament

Dates: Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 1500 UTC, (2 Bo3's or 4-6 games)
------ Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1500 UTC, (1-2 Bo3's or 2-6 games)
------- Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 1500 UTC, (0-1 Bo3 or 0-3 games)
------- Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 1500 UTC, (1 Bo7 or 3-6 games)

$2,000 Prize Pool

1st Place = $1,200 + choice of Unique Avatar 2nd Place = $550
3rd Place = $250

This is a 8 team - 4 v 4 - Double Elimination - AI Tournament,
where each team is assigned 1-2 AI's as Allies, and
players wear Red or Blue team colors.

Registration is open -
until Sunday, Feb 11, @ 1200 UTC.
Draft starts Feb 11, @ 1300 UTC.

Register as a Single, or
Register with one other player.
Singles are either assigned captains status, or
placed in the draft pool.
2 player sign up's - are restricted to a max combined rating of 4.1K*.
*Players's rated >2.2K - use a 2.2K rating cap for registration.

Scroll to bottom and sign up now!

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Post #2: Team Colors, Mods, Options, Directions and Rules

Team Colors: -Here are the Rainbow Cup VII - Team Colors.
Players 'must' use official team colors displayed below.

Red Team ----- Reds, Oranges and Yellows,
Blue Team ---- Blues, Purples, and White..

Mods: Load 'only' the specified AI Mod for each game.
Make sure No other AI mod's load.
AI-Mods needed to play:
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Options: Reset ALL options to default,
then set 'only' these options:
1- Share Conditions: Full Share
2- AIx Omni Settings: Off
3- AIx Cheat and Build multipliers: As specified.
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Directions: Follow this procedure to select team starting positions:
1- !Roll -> winner chooses to be either: "Team 1" or "Team 2".
2- Team 1 - chooses side of map, team color, and set's up first.
3- Team 2 - sets up second.
4- Team 1 - can start play "as is", or
---- make a one time only - permanent position change.
5- Team 2 - can start play "as is", or
---- make a final position change - "get the last move"
6- Launch Game.
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Rules:
1- Killing or Reclaiming of your teams AI Allie's bases, mexes,
units or structures is strictly Prohibited and Not allowed -
except for the following conditions:
-AI structures that encroach in a players base,
-AI units that do Not move and block build orders, and
-AI structures that are blocking build orders, may be reclaimed.
Do Not abuse reclaiming of AI allies by "mass farming".
Ie-Reclaim AI engies building AI structures in your base first, and
then reclaim the AI structures last.
2- Players must be in an official Team Color
If a player who is Not in an "official team color",
is spotted by a player on the opposing team,
before the 5 minute mark, the opposing team may
"Pause" the game and force a Re-host.
Multiple infractions may be cause for
a game loss, or disqualification.

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Post #3: Tournament Schedule + Structure

Dates: Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 1500 UTC, (2 Bo3's or 4-6 games)
------ Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1500 UTC, (1-2 Bo3's or 2-6 games)
------- Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 1500 UTC, (0-1 Bo3 or 0-3 games) Semi Final
------- Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 1500 UTC, (1 Bo7 or 3-6 games) Finals

Team from the winners bracket - starts "one game up" in the Finals Bo7.

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Post #4: Player Registration and Draft Process

Players register as a Single, or
as 2 Players - with a 4.1K combined RC rating cap.
Captains rated >2.2K have their rating capped at 2.2K,
for pre-draft registering purposes.

The top 8 RC rated players,
will be made Captains, and
seeded according to their ratings.

Team Draft Process:
Round #1 of draft:
Draft starts with the 8th seeded Captain and
continues sequentially up thru All 8 Captains.

When it is a Single Captains turn to draft, he may:
choose ANY player in the draft pool,
whether or not the combined team total is >4.1K.

When it is a 2 player Captain's turn,
he has TWO options:
1: He may "Pass" and Keep his Pre-Draft registered partner, or
2: He may "Trade" his Pre-Draft registered partner and
----------"Draft" - ANY player in the draft pool.
The traded player is Immediately placed in the draft pool.

Round #2 of draft:
8th seeded Captain drafts Any player in the draft pool.
Draft continues up to 1st seeded Captain.

Round #3 of draft:
1st seeded Captain drafts Any player in the draft pool.
Draft continues down to 8th seeded Captain.
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Registration will be "fluid" , and
Captains may change their single status or teammate,
at anytime, up to end of the registration period.

Registration is open -
until Sunday, Feb 11, @ 1200 UTC.
Draft starts Feb 11, @ 1300 UTC.

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Post #5: RC Tournament Rating calculation method:

To calculate a players RC tournament rating:
The players highest 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 or Global-50 rating is used.
A Dec 10, 2023 screenshot is used.
If the players highest rating, is of a game type with less than 300 games played...
we proportional blend the players next highest ratings to obtain a RC rating.
The next highest rating/s will be "weighted" with the number of games needed
to make up a 300 game history.

Example:
A "Player" has the below ratings:
1v1 = 1,740 and 257 games,
2v2 = 1,865 and 38 games,
4v4 = 2,206 and 104 games
Global = 2,165 and 1,215 games

This players highest rating is his 4v4 rating of 2,206 with 104 games.
To make up a 300 game average >
we take 196 games of his next highest rating, which is
his Global rating of 2,165 (subtracting 50 pts for global ratings) = 2,115

This players rating is thus calculated as follows:
4v4(2,206 x 104)games + Glb(2,115 x 196)games = 643,964/300 = 2,147 RC Tournament Rating.

TD will assign the RC Tournament Ratings.

Players Ratings used are from this leaderboard screen shot taken on Dec 10th @ 2400 UTC
Large Sera gold dots are factored ratings, small Sera gold dots are non-factored ratings.

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Post #6: Registered players RC calculations and ratings:

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Post #7: Game Map/Scenario example:

How the game maps are released:
Only the maps and the games they will be played in,
will be disclosed before the start of the tournament..

One hour before the start of each day, that
days 1st matches' - 3 maps, - setup details will be released.
On Day 1+2 of the tournament -
the 2nd matches -> 3 maps will be released.
-"as soon as" the first 2 teams are ready for their first Round 2 match.

At map release time
-AI positions will be shown ,
-teams choose the AI factions.
-Closed spawn sites are shown, and
any remaining spawns Not closed, are
open for players.

Reset All options to default each game, and
set only the 2 tournament specific options in the green outline box.

AIx Cheat and Build multipliers will range from -
a low of 1.1 AIx, to a high of 2.0 AIx.
These multipliers will be displayed in pink outline box, and
in the Cheat/Build column. On this map the beach spawns are closed to humans.
Players have 5 spawn positions to choose from.

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Post #8: Map Pool

Day 1: Sat, Feb 24, 2024 = 2 Bo3 matches = 6 maps
Day 2: Sun, Feb 25, 2024 = 2 Bo3 matches = 6 maps
Day 3: Sat, Mar 2, 2024 = 1 Bo3 match = 3 maps
Day 4: Sun Mar 3, 2024 = 1 Bo7 match = 1 surprise map.

Official Game Maps:

Game Maps:

Round 1
Matches 1-4 > Game 1
Map #1 = Plateau of Arracis FFA
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Round 1
Matches 1-4 > Game 2
Map #2 = Noro
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Round 1
Matches 1-4 > Game 3
Map #3 = The Grudge
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Round 2 + Losers Round 1
Matches 5-8 > Game 1
Map #4 = Huge Wonder Open
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Round 2 + Losers Round 1
Matches 5-8 > Game 2
Map #5 = Just a beach
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Round 2 + Losers Round 1
Matches 5-8 > Game 3
Map #6 = Adaptive Tabula Rasa
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Round 3 + Losers Round 2
Matches 9,10 + 12 > Game 1
Map #7 = Adaptive Adrastea
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Round 3 + Losers Round 2
Matches 9,10 + 12 > Game 2
Map #8 = Swamp Ciry Dune
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Round 3 + Losers Round 2
Matches 9,10 + 12 > Game 3
Map #9 = Sonder Cliffs
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Losers Round 3
Match 11 > Game 1
Map #10 = Deadly Rivers 10x10
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Losers Round 3
Match 11 > Game 2
Map #11 = Operation Red Sun Extended
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Losers Round 3
Match 11 > Game 3
Map #12 = Adaptive Corona
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Semi Finals
Match 13 > Game 1
Map #13 = Adaptive Mizar
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Semi Finals
Match 13 > Game 2
Map #14 = Adaptive Turtle Beach
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Semi Finals
Match 13 > Game 3
Map #15 = adaptive delta riva
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Finals:
Match 14 > Game 1
Map #16 = Adaptive Setons Clutch

Games 2-6 will be selected by elimination from maps 1-15.

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Post #9: Acknowledgements

Our Participating AI Mod developers:
Maudlin27------M27AI and M28AI
Relent0r--------RNGAI

Plus: Our other AI brains:
Jip, Sprouto, Uveso, Balthazar, !Marlo and
the rest of our AI Development department.

Fichom for creating the choice of Avatars.

Our FAF Twitch Live stream dept
Especially -
Endrani for casting from start to end of each day,
and for the special guest co-hosts who stop by,
and
Spaceman Rowey for
saving and categorizing the RC Tournament matches,
For You-Tube viewing.
And
Last, but Not Least ->
ALL the players who signed up to participate.

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Post #10: Prize Pool Pay Outs and Sponsors.

Pay outs: Will be done thru Pay Pal.
Sponsor will cover the standard fee.

International transfer fee's above $10,
will have any additional fee's subtracted from prize.
Players in countries with international Pay Pal restrictions, can
have prize monies sent to 2nd party friends or family, or
players can have funds held by RC sponsor indefinitely.
No expiration.

Sponsors:
Fearghal = $1,650
Milchshake = $350
Total = $2,000

Anyone who wishes to contribute to the prize pool, can
contact me, and 100% will be added to players prize pool.

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Post #11: Past Rainbow Cup Tournaments

RCI - 4v4 - $300
Held May 2018
1st place = $150 - Heaven, Exotic Retard, Jagged Appliance + Feather
2nd place = $100 - Inspektor_Goose, Blnchlk, Bravo + Wifi
3rd place = $50 - F-Odin, Blast_chilled, Dro + System Failure
Bonus game = $50 - AchievedJaguar8, Snowbound, Hushnoob + Obiwankenoobi
https://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=16118

RCII - 4v4 - Alliances - $400
Held July 2018
1st Place = $220 - AchievedJaguar8, Picoo, Tagada + Blast Chilled
2nd Place = $120 - ZLO, BlinChiK, Bravo_ + Magnotok
3rd Place = $60 - blark, blurk, blyrk + blirk
https://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=16177

RCIII - 3v3 v AI - Civilians - $1,200
Held Feb 2021
1st Place = $660 - WoundedElkNoob, archsimkat + LimeZ3
2nd Place = $360 - Nexus, Bloodoath/Picoo + Protect
3rd Place = $180 - Blodir, KoisKix + Wesh
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/858/rainbow-cup-iii-3-v-3-1-2k

RCIV - 3v3 v AI - SpaceNet - $1,200
Held Feb/Mar 2022
1st Place = $660 - Yudi, FtXCommando + Exselsior
2nd Place = $360 - YellowNoob, Grimplex + InspektorKot
3rd Place = $180 - Tagada, Hybrid + Ctrl-K
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/3016/rainbow-cup-iv-dates-set

RCV - 3v3 v AI - AI Masters <1,800 - $1,200
Held Sept 24,25 +Oct 1, 2022
1st Place = $660 - Salnik, Nikerochek + Abandoned
2nd Place = $360 - Aranei, Crypteck + Upas
3rd Place = $180 - GingerBreadMan, Skrat + Hyp3r2001
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4033/rainbow-cup-v-tournament

RCVI - 3v3 v AI - Venus Rising - $1,500
Held Mar 11,12 +18, 2023
1st Place = $780 - TheWheelie, FtXCommando + Nuggets
2nd Place = $480 - WafflelzNoob, ZLO + Flowey
3rd Place = $240 - Tagada, NOC- + GingerbreadMan
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/5400/rainbow-cup-vi-3v3-1-500

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Post #12: Rainbow Cup Series Tournaments

The Rainbow Cup series of tournaments -
do not necessarily endorse, represent, or have any
affiliations with any groups, outside FAF.

The Rainbow Cup Tournaments are -
fun, team color, games with AI's.

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Registration is now open.

Just say "sign me up" below

Also...
There is a Discord channel for this tournament here:
https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/1183903661794005182

Check in the Discord channel to ask questions, and
to keep up with the latest tournament news, and
get additional info.

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Rating as discussed on Discord yesterday: (2272 x 174 + 2217 x 51 + (2020-50) x 75 ) / 300 = 2.187

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