Official Avicus Tournament Rule Set
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June 16, 2017 at 4:06 PM UTC
Official Avicus Tournament Rule Set
Use of illegal modifications (avicus.net/rules page does apply for this section):
Hacking:
ILLEGAL MODIFICATIONS:
Killaura/Trigger Bot/ Aimbot etc.
First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match
X-RAY/Player Radar
First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match
Fly/Speed
First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match
Inventory sorting mods (AutoArmor, AutoEquip)
First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match
PLAYER visibility improvements (bigger nametags)
First Offense → First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match.
Autoclicker
First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match
Ban Evasion
First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match
Toggle Sneak First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match
Rei's / Voxel Minimap First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team forfeits Match
LEGAL MODIFICATIONS
AutoSprint (BetterSprint, ToggleSprint)
Optifine
Gamma bright
KeystrokesMod
Ask an official if you have any other mods.
People can be screenshared by an official.
- If you're caught with an autoclicker anywhere on your pc even if you're not using it you will be banned. -If the Event staff team believes you knew about a player cheating or ban evading, punishments may result in a Disqualification.
Individual/team behaviour:
Chat offenses.
All chat related rules apply.
Do not harass, mock, boast or make an attempt to upset other teams.
Approached by an Official
First offense → verbal warn
Second offense → Individual disqualification & punishment according to severity
Third offense → Team disqualification & blacklistings
It is up to the leader of each team to ensure that their team is under control, additionally, leaders are ultimately responsible for their teammates action/s.
This rule applies to other communication programs such as TS, Skype and Slack.
It’s OK if it’s within the team’s communication group
It is highly encouraged that you say “good game” at the end of a match; be a good sport.
Do not fight with any of the officials or referees.
Decisions made by the Officials are FINAL.
Do not harass or make an attempt to upset any of the tournament staff.
If you are seen upsetting tournament staff you may be punished.
First offense → verbal warn
Second offense → Individual disqualification & punishment according to severity
Third offense → Team disqualification & blacklistings
You have the right to calmly approach the Officials with respect if you have any objections regarding a decision made.
We will not tolerate verbal attacks of any types.
Matches:
Be ready for all your matches.
Maximum 10 minute waiting period after the scheduled time
Do not register if you cannot make the match dates
Same goes for teams; do not register for the tournament if your members cannot make the dates.
Automatic forfeit and default win for the opposing team if you fail to show up.
Team management:
In the event of a no-show, your team will be disqualified.
All members participating must be present in Discord.
At least one member in any team must speak english
Ability to completely understand english.
Name changing and tag switching of teams during the tournament is not allowed.
First Offense → Verbal Warning
Second Offense → Team Disqualification
A player can be substituted out if they have high ms and giving their team an advantage (i.e Touching/Capping Wools, passing defenders, etc.)
Discord:
You are strictly limited to entering your team’s channel and that channel only.
During the event, if you are caught switching team channels your team will be disqualified.
Referees and Officials are permitted to join team channels under strict guidelines.
During tournament matches, teams must use the Avicus tournament Discord to communicate, no other communication devices will be allowed.
All of Teamspeaks rules apply.
All team chats/channels are 18+ rated.
Team requirements:
10 players minimum registed - 18 players maximum registered.
6 players minimum on the field at once - 8 players maximum on the field at once.
Officials will not cater for teams short of players.
If a team drops below the minimum, they will be discharged.
Discharged teams may be replaced accordingly.
As soon as registration closes, teams may not edit their registration information.
You may only register one team (competitive teams only. Build and joke teams will be deleted).
You may only have one account on team you’re playing with. Any alternatives accounts in the same or different team(s) that are participating in the tournament will be removed. You will also be ejected from the team you plan to play with.
Using alternative accounts to reach the minimum player count during registration is not permitted. Your team will be denied instantly.
Team switching
Completely illegal
Comprises of members of a disqualified team/s to switch into advancing team/s
Going onto alternate accounts and faking identity is strictly prohibited
First offense → Team disqualification & blacklist
Miscellaneous:
Rule B.2 and B.5 will be disregarded during the tournament.
Other rules apply.
Match may be abandoned if:
Event services are experiencing technical difficulties and is impacting the tournament gameplay.
An individual or team has been disqualified.
Voided matches may be replayed or considered a tie upon the Head Referee’s judgement.
You need officials confident enough to make basic calls, actually assert themselves and enforce the VERY EASY TO FOLLOW rules rather than a "Oh shit i know this is a clear dq, but my pee pee is small so ill have to double check with the big kids" and then the big kids have sawdust in their head and make the easiest decision into a fuck up.
So the young insecure official learns the rules wrong, fucks the tournament, gives avicus' first money tournament a terrible name and we've done nothing to address the initial problem, his small pee pee
"If you're caught with an autoclicker anywhere on your pc even if you're not using it you will be banned."
I would reconsider this. Why should it be guilty until proven innocent rather than innocent until proven guilty? If you definitively say that the person used an autoclicker within the tournament, they should be left alone. If someone got banned like that, and they can't prove that they didn't use it because there's no record of when it was used, how are they supposed to appeal? Are they just supposed to wait like 4-5 months for a false ban??
"If you're caught with an autoclicker anywhere on your pc even if you're not using it you will be banned."
I would reconsider this. Why should it be guilty until proven innocent rather than innocent until proven guilty? If you definitively say that the person used an autoclicker within the tournament, they should be left alone. If someone got banned like that, and they can't prove that they didn't use it because there's no record of when it was used, how are they supposed to appeal? Are they just supposed to wait like 4-5 months for a false ban??
Just delete it then, shouldn't have it in the first place.
"If you're caught with an autoclicker anywhere on your pc even if you're not using it you will be banned."
I would reconsider this. Why should it be guilty until proven innocent rather than innocent until proven guilty? If you definitively say that the person used an autoclicker within the tournament, they should be left alone. If someone got banned like that, and they can't prove that they didn't use it because there's no record of when it was used, how are they supposed to appeal? Are they just supposed to wait like 4-5 months for a false ban??
First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team disqualified.
The Mod has been removed from 'LEGAL MODIFICATIONS' and put under 'ILLEGAL MODIFICATIONS'. If you're caught using this during a screenshare refer above to see the punishment.
First Offense → Player permanent banned on ALL Avicus services, Team disqualified.
The Mod has been removed from 'LEGAL MODIFICATIONS' and put under 'ILLEGAL MODIFICATIONS'. If you're caught using this during a screenshare refer above to see the punishment.
did't you tell me you were such an hcf player ? LOL thats Voxel Map not reis, there is just 1 version of reis minimap and you can just say dont use the reis minimap version with radar if you feel to lol
did't you tell me you were such an hcf player ? LOL thats Voxel Map not reis, there is just 1 version of reis minimap and you can just say dont use the reis minimap version with radar if you feel to lol
Both Voxel Map and Rei's have radar. If we ss a player and they have the no-radar version nothing will happen. But if they have the radar version they will get punished.
Both Voxel Map and Rei's have radar. If we ss a player and they have the no-radar version nothing will happen. But if they have the radar version they will get punished.
Then you gotta specify that you are not going to ban them just for using Rei's minimap, you are going to if they are using the version with radar xD
RULE CHANGE Section A, Hacking- If a player on your team is found cheating, they will be permantly banned from ALL avicus services, and the Team will Forfeit matches that player participated in. The Team will not be Disqualifed, unless the Event Staff Team has reason to believe the team knew about it. This goes for Ban evasion too.
RULE CHANGE Section A, Hacking- If a player on your team is found cheating, they will be permantly banned from ALL avicus services, and the Team will Forfeit matches that player participated in. The Team will not be Disqualifed, unless the Event Staff Team has reason to believe the team knew about it. This goes for Ban evasion too.
a) This is the dumbest rule change I've ever seen, I'm losing braincells
b) The fact that this is up to the event staff team makes me think of a vote...
c) Have you ever watched a professional sports game where a team was let off because they "didnt know" their teammate was on drugs for matches?
d) "It is up to the leader of each team to ensure that their team is under control" - Further down the ruleset, you enforce responsibility for following the rules upon leaders, but you're now using a different system of responsibility for the other half of the rules. Please stay fucking consistent, if you are going to base some of your rules off team accountability but not for the rules which could actually lead to some actual consequences, you look like fucking idiots and just like that vote, you come off as nervous when you come to a scenario that forces you to take a decisive stance and act.
e) Lets talk ban evasion:
4 different scenarios - They use their IP or they use a VPN with another one of their accounts or a teammates account If they use their actual IP with a teammates account or their own you can just check it off against banned accounts before the game - what an idiot. If they use a VPN, there is a 99% chance they won't give away "I am ban evading" so you aren't going to catch them using one of their own alts. You have no way of beating the "I joined this team, I'm new, this is my only account" The only way they ban evade and you catch them is the scenario where they use a teammates alt and use a VPN and you somehow find out afterwards. In that scenario, someone else from the team knew.... Whats the ruling there.... Do you even follow my logic?
f) "unless the Event Staff Team has reason to believe the team knew about it" Ok this is the most subjective way of determining how someone broke the rules, which might I add, are designed to be OBJECTIVE and black and white to all. Whats the measurement for "We think they knew"? Do you measure how surprised the team seemed by the ban? Do you ask them "Did you know" and just go off whatever answer they give? What's the threshold to having reason to believe the team knew about it? What are these reasons to believe? At what point do you step in and disqualify a team and say to them "We are going to enforce that you are lying and knew about it" You have absolutely no structure to making this decision. In the past teams have been Dq'ed for players cheating, so the only thing that this rule will change is that now some teams will be let off because a team has not met your undefined threshold of "If they knew" due to a lack of your undefined "reason to believe"
In short you have not defined anything in regards to how you make your desicions and all you've done is create room to fuck up. There is no winning scenario here. There is no gain to be made here, only a "we fucked up" or a "we are yet to fuck up"
a) This is the dumbest rule change I've ever seen, I'm losing braincells
b) The fact that this is up to the event staff team makes me think of a vote...
c) Have you ever watched a professional sports game where a team was let off because they "didnt know" their teammate was on drugs for matches?
d) "It is up to the leader of each team to ensure that their team is under control" - Further down the ruleset, you enforce responsibility for following the rules upon leaders, but you're now using a different system of responsibility for the other half of the rules. Please stay fucking consistent, if you are going to base some of your rules off team accountability but not for the rules which could actually lead to some actual consequences, you look like fucking idiots and just like that vote, you come off as nervous when you come to a scenario that forces you to take a decisive stance and act.
e) Lets talk ban evasion:
4 different scenarios - They use their IP or they use a VPN with another one of their accounts or a teammates account If they use their actual IP with a teammates account or their own you can just check it off against banned accounts before the game - what an idiot. If they use a VPN, there is a 99% chance they won't give away "I am ban evading" so you aren't going to catch them using one of their own alts. You have no way of beating the "I joined this team, I'm new, this is my only account" The only way they ban evade and you catch them is the scenario where they use a teammates alt and use a VPN and you somehow find out afterwards. In that scenario, someone else from the team knew.... Whats the ruling there.... Do you even follow my logic?
f) "unless the Event Staff Team has reason to believe the team knew about it" Ok this is the most subjective way of determining how someone broke the rules, which might I add, are designed to be OBJECTIVE and black and white to all. Whats the measurement for "We think they knew"? Do you measure how surprised the team seemed by the ban? Do you ask them "Did you know" and just go off whatever answer they give? What's the threshold to having reason to believe the team knew about it? What are these reasons to believe? At what point do you step in and disqualify a team and say to them "We are going to enforce that you are lying and knew about it" You have absolutely no structure to making this decision. In the past teams have been Dq'ed for players cheating, so the only thing that this rule will change is that now some teams will be let off because a team has not met your undefined threshold of "If they knew" due to a lack of your undefined "reason to believe"
In short you have not defined anything in regards to how you make your desicions and all you've done is create room to fuck up. There is no winning scenario here. There is no gain to be made here, only a "we fucked up" or a "we are yet to fuck up"
I’ve talked around to team leaders and gotten their opinion on this, so this wasn’t just a decision made by the officials. -Do you think it is fair for a full team to get disqualified when 1/14 players decided to ruin it for the whole team by breaking a rule? I sure as hell don’t. What’s the difference anyway? If a team plays 4 matches, that player played all 4, they still go 0-4 because they forfeit those matches, the player is still banned, I don’t see what your point is here.
Secondly, yes I do agree with your the term about the event staff deciding is very bland and stupid. We were trying to write something that if we feel the team knew about it, we would be able to DQ the team, here’s an example. In the discord chat, Player 1) haha dude PokerFace you using those cheats we talked about? Now, obviously this can be a joke, which we will look out for, this event will most likely rarely happen, but it was added in for we have a say without community outrage.
Ban EvasIon, I agree with your points. It’s the hardest thing to catch if they are using a VPN, or if they are a new player, who claims they are new. I don’t see what you were segueing against here, if we can’t tell they are Ban evading, they can’t get punished.
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