Welcome to Titan Arena 3, Sponsored by MLG! This tournament is being organized and commentated by Kevin "SchAmToo" Pearson! Please click this link, sign up to MLG, and hit follow! to receive notifications of when the channel goes live on April 18th and 19th!





Prizepool: $2500 total

1st - $1250 USD

2nd - $750 USD

3rd - $250 USD

4th - $250 USD





Registration is open to ALL players as long as you have an NA account. All games will be played on NA servers!!





-- SEEDING IS NOT FINAL UNTIL CHECK IN IS COMPLETE. BRACKETS MAY CHANGE --

-- RULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE UP UNTIL TIME OF TOURNAMENT, PLEASE BE AWARE --





== Sign up Limitations ==

- Team must have at least five players to play at time of match. Late or delayed team members by 15 minutes will be DQ'd one match of the series per 15 minutes.

- Each member of a team must have 12 heroes unlocked to avoid hero select issues.

- Team Captains must join the TitanArena channel in BNet ( "/join TitanArena) at time of tournament or find means to communicate with your opponents and the Tournament Admin!

- Team Captains/Owners must check in before 1:30PM EST April 18th. Only the Team Captain must check in, via Challonge, to ensure the team is still going to play.

- Subs are allowed.





=== TOURNAMENT ADMINS Archlord#1872 and Frojo#1292 ===





== Tournament Rules ==

Starting times for rounds:

April 18th:

Ro32 - 2:00 PM EST

Ro16 - 3:30 PM EST

Ro8 Top Half - 5:00 PM EST

Ro8 Bottom half - 7:30PM EST





April 19th:

Ro 4 - 2:00 PM EST

Finals - 6:30 PM EST





If bracket is ahead of schedule, or your next match is available, it is permissible to move ahead. Please notify an Admin.





1. Round of 64, 32, 16, and 8 will be Bo3

2. Semi-finals, 3rd place, and Finals will be Bo5





-- Each round of a series will feature Map Banning Phase, Draft Phase, and then the game. --

Find your opponent via the "TitanArena" chat room in Battle.net, or message if you know them already. Admins can help and assist. If you are NOT in the TitanArena group chat you will be considered for DQ after 15 minutes of when match should begin.

Map Banning Phase:

- All maps are open. (Unless TO announces a bug or issue with a map. This will be communicated via admins/check-in)

- (SC2 Style Map picking):

Higher Seed bans 2 maps Lower Seed bans 2 maps Higher Seed picks map for game 1. Lower Seed picks map for game 2 Third map is the map still not picked, for game 3.

In Best of 5 situation:

Higher seed bans 1 map. Lower seed bans 1 map. Higher seed picks Game 1 map. Lower seed picks Game 2 map. Continue until all maps are selected.

Hero Pick/Ban:

- HeroesDraft will be used to do Picks and Bans: http://heroesdraft.com/TitanArena3

- Higher seed makes the room, shares link to lower-seed (and possible casters), and let drafting begin.

- All heroes are open unless the Admin/TO announces otherwise.

- Higher seed decides FP/FB in Game 1.

- All games after Game 1, loser of previous game picks who is FP/FB.

- One ban per team.

- The order is snake rule, 1-2-2-2-2-1

Game:

- No exploits! No bugs (except Anub'arak). Breaking this rule is instant-DQ pending review of the bug used.





--PAUSING--

- 1 Pause per team usable per game. The timeout of the pause is at 5 minutes. The team pausing must say "PAUSE" in chat before or directly after the pause. Coming out of pause, opposing team gives a comment of "ready?", 10 second pause for other team to respond, if not, a count of "3", "2", "1" and then unpause. Abuse of this system may be reported to SchAmToo@mlg.tv providing screenshots, and will DQ the abuser.

- If a player DCs during a match: The DC'd team may pause (This counts as your teams pause). Player must try and reconnect as soon as possible. If both teams agree in chat in-game to rematch, they can and must use the same map, picks and bans. If one team does not agree to rematch, the game pause will last up to 5 minutes, then continue as normal.









- Replays must be submitted with each passing game. (The option for "attachments" has been added during submittal of score by captains.)

- Loser of the Game decides if they are FP/FB for next game, or not.

Post Series:

- Winner of the series updates score for the match results and sends the replays to SchAmToo at schamtoo@mlg.tv

- Please name each replay as "G1_teamname_vs_teamname_[heroesdrafttlobby#]" "G2..." and send the replays to kpearson@mlg.tv

- Then update accurate score description in the last tab.

-- THESE REPLAYS WILL BE GIVEN TO NEW CASTERS, please submit them to help grow the scene! --





=-=-= Go to next Round, repeat instructions =-=-=





== Payment of Winnings ==

- Winning Team Captains will be in contact with SchAmToo and further payment information will be exchanged via emails. schamtoo@mlg.tv





== Streaming ==

- Select matches will be cast by Kevin "SchAmToo" Pearson and Co-Caster on mlg.tv/schamtoo!

- The Semi-Finals and Finals will be streamed by the commentators.

- All matches that are played in this tournament, if they are chosen to be cast, will be cast. Teams/players may not decide not to be cast.

- This tournament is sponsored by MLG. All content from this tournament is only permissible and allowed on the MLG.tv platform. No content is allowed to be streamed on other platforms, violators will be DQ'd from the tournament. Teams allowing spectators streaming on other channels will forfeit the match.



