General Information

Date: 31st of January, 14UTC (Potentially 1st of Feb too)
Coverage: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Bracket: https://challonge.com/1yyg2hfh
Chat: #CC2
Tournament Organiser: hybrid_
Tournament Director: hybrid_, Lolichan

Format

This tournament will start with a Swiss Stage, with each team playing 3 BO3 matches. Once the Swiss Stage is completed, the top 2 teams will face off in a final (BO5).

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Prizes

1st - Challengers Cup Champion avatar (Rotating until the next Challengers Cup) + $100
2nd - Faction face
3rd - Faction logo

The cash prize may be subject to change due to signups.

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:

1. Disconnects within 5 minutes may result in a rehost. The Tournament Director has the last say afterwards.
2. Players will replay the same map if they draw.
3. If the incorrect map is hosted, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards the score
4. Players who do not appear without valid reasoning will be given a warning that may result in being temporarily suspended from tournaments.
5. If a player does not show up in Round 1, they may be replaced. For all subsequent rounds, it will be treated as a forfeit and they will be eliminated and not replaced.
6. 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.
7. 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
8. Please make sure all lobbies are passworded and inform your opponents the password and casters if applicable.

Specific Tournament Rules

• All 4 players on a team must be within a range of a combined global rating of 6600. Exact ratings will be taken.
• No player above a global rating of 1750 may participate.

Substitute Rules

• A "substitute" is a person who replaces a member of a team participating in a team tournament. The substitute may only replace a single person, and the replaced member is considered withdrawn from the tournament.
• A person may only participate as a substitute in case they were/are not already an active participant of the tournament - either organizer, participating player, a substitute, or a replaced player.
• The replaced player, relinquishes any and all prize eligibility to the substitute but only once the substitute has won at least 1 series.

What happens on the day of the tournament?

As it might be your first tournament, I think it would be best to guide you through what typically happens on the day of the tournament.

To start, you will need to be able to communicate with the tournament director, the two places you will need to be in are:

• The FAF Client chat, which will be #CC2. To access it, go to the chat tab, press the + next to the "aeolus" tab, type CC2 and press enter.
• The Challengers Cup II channel in the FAF Discord. To find it, scroll down to the "Tournament Directors" category, and press the tournament page, and find the tournament that says "Challengers Cup II".
  This is an especially important part of participating in a tournament, as the tournament director will give you instructions on who you will be playing, any notices and be able to answer any questions you may have.

From here onwards, check the bracket, find your opponent and await approval of the tournament director to start hosting you games.

When hosting the games, please give it the appropriate title, for example, CCII R1 G1 Team_hybrid vs Team_Strydxr. Make sure you double check, hell even triple check that all the settings are correct. If you have played with the wrong settings, you may need to replay the game, even if you have already played it as it will not count towards the match.
The lobby settings in question: ![[Pasted image 20250608214303.png]]

After each game, make sure you report the current scoreline to the tournament director.

Signup Information

• Signup as teams of 4 or as a free agents.
• If a player is seen or deemed to be intentionally dropping rating for the tournament, they will be screened. There may be warnings or potential punishments for screenings.
• 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_-.!<>()[]{}/&
• Any player above a global rating of 1750 may not participate.
• Teams must have a maximum combined rating of 6600.
• Signups close 1 hour before tournament start.

When signing up, please state:

• Team name if you have one already.
• All 4 Players FAF usernames and their global rating exactly.
• The team "captain" alongside their discord tag, as it will be the player who will interact with the TD the most
• The total combined team rating

Teams

Team Lobotomity - Capy(c) 1724, Ctrl-Az0t 1639 (trotil), Vazyk_Alena 1633 (Amnesea), Finisterre 1611 (6597)
Team HEL - Chaospyr (c)1748, Firv 1743, Karim 1591, Brobey 1368 (6450)
Team Dojo - Strydxr(c) 1676, NeverIfAlwaysIs 1673, Sheppy 1552, Wilson_ 1298 (6199)
MLT - ActiveBacklash(c) 1370, BlissfulNoob 1651, Psixollon 1546, Nyx- 1427 (5994)
The Setons Crutches - Radiance(c) 1504, FAFMemex 1594, DarkWage 1371, Haidovic 1449 (5918)
The inting guys - bayopello 1445 (c), Albertv808 1172, Vaz 957, Maxi360 1089 (4663)

Free Agents