Silver Cup: Tournament Regulations

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General Information

Dates of the event: July 7 through July 22.
Registration: There is no registration. Only the top players of the Rolling Steel event are allowed to participate.
Game mode: Football mode 2018.
Tournament: The bi-weekly (fortnightly) team tournament consists of two stages: Group stages and Play-offs.
Goal: Fight for top places to win in-game rewards and real-life trophies!
Reward pool: Unique Styles, Bonds, Days of Premium Account, Personal Reserves, Directives for Equipment, Medals and an invitation to participate in the Grand Final of the Gold Cup tournament.

Regulations

How to Participate
1. Tournaments will be held 07.07.2018 and 22.07.2018.
2. All players who reach the top 200 places in the Rolling Steel event are invited to take part in the Silver Cup and will become a team captain. [Updated 21.06]
3. Invitations will be sent on a weekly basis (after each stage of the Rolling Steel event) via in-game notification and an email to the player.
4. If a player places in the top 200 in several leaderboards/stages, the player will receive only one invitation to participate. [Updated 21.06]
5. A captain should complete and confirm the team, i.e. recruit 2 more players, to participate in the tournament. One reserve player per team is allowed.
6. Teams consisting of 2 or more players are allowed to participate in the tournament only if one or two of the team members were excluded after checking for forbidden modifications before compiling the group stage schedule.
7. A captain can also dismiss his team to join another.
8. Semi-finalists (players from the 4 teams) from the first Silver Cup tournament will not be able to participate in the Silver Cup for a second time.
9. If a team has violated the Silver Cup regulations, it will be disqualified, and its slot for participation in the Silver Cup tournament will be handed over to another team.
Tournament Description
1. Matches take place in football mode only.
2. The E 100 SPORT, T-62A SPORT, AMX 13 105 SPORT vehicles and a Garage slot will be added to players' accounts. Players of the team can choose any football vehicle roles without restrictions. The crew will comprise only one member.
3. Tournaments is held bi-weekly (fortnightly) after two stages of the Rolling Steel event.
4. Each tournament consists of two stages: Group stages and Play-offs.
5. The Silver Cup tournament is held on ASIA server.
6. The tournament manager reserves the right to change servers. Players will be notified of this on the official forum.
7. Players must comply with the User Agreement and Game Rules.
8. Special characters and repeating punctuation characters are not allowed in the team names. Team names that violate the Game Rules and EULA will be renamed manually by tournament manager.
9. The tournament manager reserves the right to change the quantity or rules of a Silver Cup. Players will be notified about it on the game forum.
Group Stage Description
1. Group stage matches will be stage robin: each team plays against each other in the group.
2. There can be up to four teams in each group. The groups are assembled according to the principle of even distribution to provide fair conditions for all teams.
3. The leaderboard of teams in the groups is formed according to the total amount of points earned across all matches:
  1. 3 points for Victory,
  2. 0 points for Defeat.
4. First and second places in each group advance to the Play-offs.
5. If two or more teams have the same number of points, their positions on the leaderboard will be determined in the following way:
  1. Considering the head-to-head result;
  2. The biggest number of victories in all matches.
6. If all sorting indicators are equal, all teams that are tied advance to the Play-offs.
Play-offs Description
1. Play-off matches will be knock-out: a team that loses a match leaves the tournament.
2. Play-off matches are played up to the finals.
3. In the Play-offs, the tournament manager reserves the right to replay a match in case of dispute. The map for the match is determined by the tournament manager.
Match Rules Description
1. Matches are 7 minutes or less if 3 goals are scored by either team.
2. In case of a draw, a 4 minutes overtime starts, the first scored goal or advantage in the battle determines the winner.
3. Advantage in the battle is measured in control points that are earned by the team that possesses the ball on the opponent's half: the team that first earns 100 control points wins.
4. The initial spawn points are determined randomly by the automatic tournament system.
5. To join a battle, players should transfer themselves to the regular team (right section in the special battle window) and confirm readiness.
6. Inability to fulfill described conditions will result in a technical defeat.
7. If an incomplete team enters the battle room and remains incomplete till the end of the countdown, the battle starts as is.
8. Teams that break the rules will get a technical defeat.
9. All contradictory situations will be resolved by the match referee. The referee must inform the teams about the decisions on such situations on the game forum.
Technical Issues and Refunding
1. In case of technical failure during a match, the entire match will be played anew, irrespective of already played battles.
2. Technical failures are cases when the battle results have not been received by the tournament page, new teams have not been created, or a server crash has occurred. The manager determines the time of match replay and notifies players about it on the game forum.
3. A refund is credited to tournament participants in case of severe technical issues of the servers or tournament structure, when the tournament cannot be continued or replayed.
4. Each situation is examined individually, refunding will be provided in cases when the tournament cannot be continued or replayed, or when such actions will extend the tournament duration extremely.
5. Refunds will be a Personal Reserve: +50% to credits earned in battle for 2 hours.

Rewards

Semi-finalists (4 teams) get quotas for participating in the Finals of the Gold Cup Tournament (stage with 32 teams).
If a team takes a prize-winning position, the three players who have played the most battles will receive the rewards.
In case of equal number of battles between team members, all participants of the team will receive rewards.
The players of the top team in the tournament will receive a real-life trophy: a T-shirt with Gianluigi Buffon’s signature.
Each player participated in a Silver Cup tournament (played at least one battle during the Group stage) will receive receive a medal.
The quality of the medal will depends on the number of tournaments, in which the player had participated.

Participated in one Participated in two

Medals
Each player participated in a Silver Cup tournament (played at least one battle during Group stage) will receive receive a unique Style for the vehicle, which will differ for each tournament:
1. First tournament: Style 2b
2. Second tournament: Style 2d

There are eight prize-winning ranges for the Play-offs:

Places	Rewards
1st place	30 days of Premium Account 2500 Bonds 10 Credits +50%, 2 hrs 10 XP +100%, 2 hrs 10 Crew XP +300%, 2 hrs 10 Free XP +300%, 2 hrs 40 Orderly Ammo Rack 40 Vent Purge 40 Stabilizer Greasing 40 Aim Tuning
2nd places	14 days of Premium Account 2000 Bonds 10 Credits +50%, 2 hrs 10 XP +100%, 2 hrs 10 Crew XP +300%, 2 hrs 10 Free XP +300%, 2 hrs 40 Orderly Ammo Rack 40 Vent Purge 40 Stabilizer Greasing 40 Aim Tuning
3-4 places	14 days of Premium Account 1500 Bonds 10 Credits +50%, 2 hrs 10 XP +100%, 2 hrs 10 Crew XP +300%, 2 hrs 10 Free XP +300%, 2 hrs 20 Orderly Ammo Rack 20 Vent Purge 20 Stabilizer Greasing 20 Aim Tuning
5-8 places	7 days of Premium Account 1200 Bonds 10 Credits +50%, 2 hrs 10 XP +100%, 2 hrs 10 Crew XP +300%, 2 hrs 10 Free XP +300%, 2 hrs 20 Orderly Ammo Rack 20 Vent Purge 20 Stabilizer Greasing 20 Aim Tuning
9-16 places	7 days of Premium Account 1000 Bonds 5 Credits +50%, 2 hrs 5 XP +100%, 2 hrs 5 Crew XP +300%, 2 hrs 5 Free XP +300%, 2 hrs 15 Orderly Ammo Rack 15 Vent Purge 15 Stabilizer Greasing 15 Aim Tuning
17-32 places	3 days of Premium Account 700 Bonds 5 Credits +50%, 2 hrs 5 XP +100%, 2 hrs 5 Crew XP +300%, 2 hrs 5 Free XP +300%, 2 hrs 10 Orderly Ammo Rack 10 Vent Purge 10 Stabilizer Greasing 10 Aim Tuning
33-64 places	3 days of Premium Account 500 Bonds 3 Credits +50%, 2 hrs 3 XP +100%, 2 hrs 3 Crew XP +300%, 2 hrs 3 Free XP +300%, 2 hrs 10 Orderly Ammo Rack 10 Vent Purge 10 Stabilizer Greasing 10 Aim Tuning
65-128 places	1 day of Premium Account 300 Bonds 2 Credits +50%, 2 hrs 2 XP +100%, 2 hrs 2 Crew XP +300%, 2 hrs 2 Free XP +300%, 2 hrs 5 Orderly Ammo Rack 5 Vent Purge 5 Stabilizer Greasing 5 Aim Tuning

If a player takes a prize-winning place in several tournaments, they will receive rewards for each prize-winning place.

Results
1. In-game rewards for each round will be provided within 10 days of the end of the tournament.
2. To receive in-game rewards, log into the game client no later than 360 days after the event end (July 30, 2019).
3. Wargaming official representatives will contact winners personally, to collect all needed information to pay the delivery of the real-life trophies.
4. Start of distribution of the real-life trophies will start within 14 days of the end of the Football 2018 and will depend on the response rate and the locale of each winner.
5. In case there are any issues with distribution of in-game rewards or real-life trophies, please contact Customer Service Center.
Violation of the Rules and Penalties
1. The Silver Cup tournament are subject to the same rules that are applied to Random Battles, all penalties are imposed according to the Game Rules and End User License Agreement.
2. Complaints submitted through the in-game system will be processed by tournament managers according to the Game Rules and End User License Agreement.
3. In case of fixed battles (when a player or a group of players deliberately create conditions that ensure achieving high results in the base experience), the results of the player(s) will be canceled for all vehicles that participated in the event irrespective of the vehicle used in the fake battle. In addition, such players will be punished according to the Game Rules.
4. Before the compilations of the Group stage or after the end of the Silver Cup tournament, the tournament manager checks the participants for forbidden modifications.
5. If use of forbidden modifications is confirmed or a player violates the Game Rules or the End User License Agreement, they will be excluded from the tournament and will not receive any rewards. Also, the event vehicle will be withdrawn from their account.
6. The team, in which the disqualified player was a member, loses the right to participate in the tournament if less than two players remain in the team.
  1. If two and more players remain in the team after checking for forbidden game modifications before compiling the Group stage schedule, the team is allowed to participate in the tournament.
  2. If before compiling the Group stage schedule the captain is confirmed to use forbidden mods, the team is disqualified.

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