CS:GO NSE Winter Championship

RULES SUMMARY

• All players must be current students from the same university. 
• Teams must have at least 5 players. Teams may add/remove players from team between weeks.
• If teams are more than 20 minutes late they will forfeit a map.
• Check-in deadline is 6:30pm. Teams who don't check-in will not get games for that evening.
• 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.
• All games should be played on the servers provided. Complete server settings can be found in the full rules.
• Custom player models are not allowed.
• The following in-game overlays are authorised, all others are forbidden:
  • cl_showpos 1
  • cl_showfps 1
  • net_graph 1
  • cl_showdemooverlay 1 / -1
• Using pause during a round is forbidden (freezetime and once a round has been concluded does not count as during).
• Teams are allowed four 30 second tactical pauses per map. Teams may also pause to resolve technical issues.
• Teams may use coach spectator slot on the server. Coaches must be from the same university as players.
• Jump + Throw grenade binds are allowed.

Map Veto - Best of Three

The higher seeded team can elect to be Team A or Team B within the following process:

1. Team A bans 1 map
2. Team B bans 1 map
3. Team A picks the map for game 1 and Team B has side choice
4. Team B picks the map for game 2 and Team A has side choice
5. Team B bans 1 map
6. Team A picks the third map and Team B has side choice

Map Veto - Best of One

The higher seeded team can elect to be Team A or Team B within the following process:

• Starting with Team A, teams take turns to veto one map until only one map remains.
• Choice of side starting side will be determined by a knife round.

All matches will be run using the current active duty map pool.