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Overwatch NSE Winter 2018

Information
Game
Overwatch
Platform
BattleNet
Day
646
Time
19:00
Format

Week 1-3 Qualification 

Week 4-7 Playoffs and Swiss

Week 8 Finals

Location

Online with Live Finals

Standings
Summary


Signups are now Closed

 

To see Fixtures and check in log into tournament site https://tournaments.nse.gg/

 

Initial Prizes

This tournament awards British University Esports Championship Points (exact breakdown confirmed after signups close). 

1st - 6x £100 GAME Credit

2nd - 6x £60 GAME Credit

3rd - 6x £40 GAME Credit

Link to full Rules

Rules Summary

All players must be students from same university

All games are on European region

Teams may have 6 to 8 players at anyone point

If teams are more than 20 minutes late they will forfeit a match.

Check in deadline is 6:30pm. Teams who don't check in will not get games for that evening.

Lobby settings

  • Competitive rules on
  • Kill cam disabled
  • Skins disabled

Offensive player and team names are not allowed.

Verbal abuse is not allowed. In particular any use of racist, sexist, homophobic or any other discriminatory language will lead to a minimum 3 week suspension.

Map Pick/ban

There will be a set map pool for each game mode

Nepal, Lijiang Tower, Rialto,Watchpoint: Gibraltar,Horizon, Temple of Anubis, King’s Row, Eichenwalde, Hollywood

For best of 5 maps game modes will be played in following order with higher seed choosing map in in first game and lower seed choosing starting side. In subsequent games the loser of previous map chooses next map and winning team chooses side.

Control – Nepal / Lijiang Tower
Escort – Rialto / Watchpoint: Gibraltar
Assault – Horizon / Temple of Anubis
Hybrid – King’s Row / Eichenwalde / Hollywood
Control (5th map) – Whichever Control map was not played in map 1

For Best of 3 matches

Best of 3s will work in same way except only 3 game modes will be played. The 3 games modes will rotate each week with the the oldest remaining game mode removed and unplayed game mode from previous week re added to pool e.g.

Week 1
Control
Escort
Assault

Week 2
Escort
Assault
Hybrid

Week 3
Assault
Hybrid
Control

Week 4
Hybrid
Control
Escort

Week 5
Control
Escort
Assault

Week 6
Escort
Assault
Hybrid

Week 7
Assault
Hybrid
Control

Dates Tournament stage
Thursday 18th October Qualification
Thursday 25th October Qualification
Thursday 1st November Qualification
Thursday 8th November
Playoff Brackets and Swiss
Thursday 15th November
Playoff Brackets and Swiss
Thursday 22nd November
Playoff Brackets and Swiss
Thursday 29th November
Playoff Brackets and Swiss
Weekend 9/10th December Finals

All Games are on Thursday Evening with the exception of finals which will happen at live event on the Weekend of 9/10th December

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