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Online Tournament Rules

This page is a comprehensive summary of tournament rules and code of conduct.

We did our best to include rules for all possible scenarios but sometimes support from players and teams might be needed to enforce the fairplay principles.

Every player must have knowledge of the behaviour guidelines and online tournament rules.

1. General

The league administration retains the possibility to change or amend the below rules anytime during the tournament and in any special case to guarantee fairplay.

1.1Poseidon League staff take for granted that each participant who entered this tournament is aware of all the rules and checks them periodically. Lack of knowledge can not be used to justify not-compliancy.

1.2 Every participant has to behave with respect towards every other participant and Poseidon League Staff. Participants must not engage offensive behavior, verbal abuse or intimidation.Spamming will be considered a form of verbal abuse. Repeated or significant violations will be punished with  disqualification, or banning from future Poseidon League competitions.

1.3 Official language for the Competition is English. In order to attend to the tournament, participants must be able to communicate in English.

1.4 The tournament will be hosted and empowered by eSportsRivals.com. The website lenguages are currently either Italian and English. You can find the tournament at this URL https://www.esportsrivals.com/it/tournament/18/fifa-19-poseidon-all-star-cup/stream/

2. Matches and timelines

2.1 Group Phase : Official default day for matches is every Thursday starting from June the 27th 2019.

2.2 During group-stages every team will face 2 times each opponent (HOME\AWAY). All first leg games will be played during week of June 27th, and second leg will be played during the week after

2.3 During group-stages every group will contain 4 teams and there will be 6 matches in total. Therefore each Club will play 3 matches every round

2.4 Every Thursday will be played 3 matchdays each group, meaning that every team will face 3 opponents. First game will be played at 22.30 gmt+1, second game at 23.00 gmt+1 and third game at 23.30 gmt+1.

- June the 27th: Round 1. Each team will play 3 games.

- July the 4th: Round 2. Each team will play 3 games.

- July the 11st: Quarter Finals, Semi-Finals and Final. 1 game each (No Draw allowed. Extra time and Penalties if needed)

2.5 Every participant is required to be online in the whatsapp chat of the tournament 5 min before the agreed match start and check-in with the opponent

2.6 Delay cap is 5 minutes. Teams that will not check in or show up within 5 min from match time will lose the game by default.

2.7 Opponent GMs can agree on different timing\day for the match within the Sunday prior the matchday. In this case the appointment needs to be communicated and officially stated in the whatsapp chat. If agreement is not reached, than the match will be played in the default time and day and nothing needs to be communicated.

3. During the match

3.1 Every player is responsible for his own connection and has to have a good internet connection to avoid possible ‘lag’.

3.2 When the EA servers are going down during a match: Only in the case that all the participants of the tournament are disconnected from the match, that specific match will be played again.

3.3 A match can be re-started a maximum of 2 times in case of players disconnections within the first 5 min (game time), only in the case that no goals and no yellow\red cards happened. After the allowed 2 times (or in case of goals and cards) the match needs to be played no matter the number of players still in game. In case a team disconnects for the third time, than opponent team will get a win by default.

3.4 game settings

Game type: Friendly match

Match durance: 12 minutes (6 minutes per half)

Game speed: Normal

Level: Legendary

3.5 Minimum players allowed is 5. Teams that will start the game with less than 5 players in lobby will lose 1-0 by default (photo\video evidence need to be provided). If players will disconnect during the match the soil of 5 will no longer valid, meaning that a club can go below the 5 participants in case of disconnections with no penalities.

3.6 The function\role “Any” is optional. Any team can decide if use it or not.

3.7 Red or Yellow cards will not affect the participation for following matches. In other words, If a player receives a red card, than he can play the following match

4. Reporting scores

4.1 Tournament will be hosted by eSportsRivals.com portal and all rankings and calendar will be available on the website.

4.2 Score will be reported on the website by each team GM. Poseidon League staff will overview and check results on the web portal.

4.3 Results must be communicated within 24 hours from the matches.

4.4 In case results are not reported in time no points will be assigned to any team for the match

5. Tournament Structure

5.1 Group phase : 4 groups, 4 teams each

Group A: Team Amelia, Unr3al Madrid, FC Kronos, YDN Gladiators

Group B: ICG Horus,Daydreamers, Irish Mob, FC Spaccaculo

Group C: Qlash MiN, All Stars PL, Nerd Soldiers, Italian Squad 

Group D: Brescia eSports, Capital eSports, Eterna Roma, L8 Lion eSports

5.2 The first 2 for each group will be qualified for Quarter Finals

5.3 in case of same points, teams with better goals difference will qualify, than In case of same goals diff. teams with highest number of goals scored will prevail. If again there will be a drawing score, than the team with best result during direct match will qualify. If all previous criterias will be the same there will be a rematch. A winner must be declared for the re-match, therefore teams will go till penalties if necessary.

5.4 All final stage games will be played as single match with elimination of the loser team. A winner must be declared for each match, therefore teams will go till penalties if necessary.

6. Disciplinary

6.1 Deception: The attempt to deceive admins or other players wrong informations or data will cause the immediate disqualification

6.2. Match-Fixing/betting fraud will cause the immediate disqualification and ban for 5 years from Poseidon League competitions