Chaos Rush Tournament 2019
Rules & Guidance
Tournament Begins: March 1st 2019
Before we get to the details, if you would like to enter our tournament, we appreciate it if you joined our Community Discord server.
Tournament Format
Stage 1
Qualifiers - all runners will run in any number of (three to four) qualifying heats and generate a z-score based on their finish. This is a measure of how far better or worse than the average time a runner was. We will use the order of best finishes to seed pods- whether you run one or all qualifiers, you’ll be seeded only on your best run.
Stage 2
Pods - Players will be divided into pods of 4 runners each using a snaked seeding method. To ensure that pods are divisible by 4, up to 3 of the top players (by seed) will be given a bye in the first round of pods. Pods will play 3 seeds each, with runners earning points per race based on their placement in each race. Example for 18 racers:
- Byes: 1, 2
- Pod A: 3 / 10 / 11 / 18
- Pod B: 4 / 9 / 12 / 17
- Pod C: 5 / 8 / 13 / 16
- Pod D: 6 / 7 / 14 / 15
- Scoring: 1st - 3 pts, 2nd - 2 pts, 3rd - 1 pt
At the end of each heat, scores will be tallied for each of the runners in the pod. After all heat matches have finished, the top two runners from each pod (as well as any players that received a bye for this round) will advance to the next round. If the number of players remaining are equal to a power of 2 (such as 8, 16, or 32), then those are the only players that will advance. To ensure that the remaining players after this round equal a power of 2, the highest scores of the remaining racers will determine who will advance to the next round.
- In the event of a tied score either in determining the top 2 players of a pod, or determining which additional players advance past the initial round of Stage 2, the highest seeded players from the initial round of placements will win the tie.
The advancing players with once again be placed into pods. This time with byes and winners of pods being seeded into pods until each pod has one member. The remaining runners for each pod will be drawn randomly- first the remaining winners if needed, then 2nd place and down. From this point on, the top two runners of each pod will continue to advance until there are eight players remaining. The remaining eight players will advance to stage 3.
Stage 3
Top 8 - runners will run in two pods of 4. Each pod will have two round of 16 winners and two runner ups. Scoring for four races will occur as above, and then runners will advance as follows:
- 1st place: advance to finals
- 2nd-3rd place: advance to semi-finals
- 4th place: eliminated
Semi-finals and finals will run in the same pod method, with semi-finals as 4 races and finals as 5 races. Top two racers from the semi-finals advance to make a pod of 4 for the finals.
Scheduling
Please read because this will be done differently from a traditional tournament.
Each pod will agree to a time to run their races and run all the races back to back (expect a block of 2-3 hours will be needed). As each group is drawn and formed, a time will need to be agreed upon within 3 days so restream can be set up.
Game Rules
All games must use SpeedRunsLive (SRL). If you have not signed up, please visit their site to do so. All players must stream their matches. We recommend saving your streams locally in case you lose connection to Twitch. You may use a console or an approved emulator to play. All races are blind. The winner will be determined by RaceBot with two exceptions: technical difficulties by a runner or SRL, or the race is decided by 5 seconds or less. In these cases, the runners may agree on a result. If they do not agree, an administrator will time the race on both streams, then declare a result. If the margin of victory is determined to be 1.0 seconds or less, the race will be replayed.
The flags for this tournament will be run on FFR 2.5.0 - 38C9HEAFBBBEHP%21fPQUyyyKHHGU%214A8BAADA. A community moderator will be responsible for rolling tournament seeds.
If all racers are having extreme difficulty with a seed in the first few minutes of a race, they may agree to a reseed.
No cheating is allowed in this tournament. This includes a non-exhaustive list of the following: the use of programs that generate maps, looking at your competitors screen to see where items are or their progress, looking at a restream, or hacking of the RAM to give you items, experience, or gold. Any cheating discovered will result in penalties ranging from a time penalty, forfeit of the match, or instant disqualification from this tournament and an indefinite ban from future randomizer tournaments. There may be additional bans of randomizer tournaments in other games as well.
You are welcome to use your chat during the race, but you must take steps to avoid seeing spoilers and backseating. You can do this by mentioning on your stream that assistance are not permitted(we recommend moderators that can quickly delete assistance) or by closing your chat altogether.
If there are any disputes, an administrator will make the final decision. If the dispute involves an administrator directly, an alternate judge will be chosen to make the final decision. Most disciplinary actions will be made public, especially with regards to changing a match result or a disqualification from the tournament.
Match Procedure
Please discuss with your opponents when you want to have your match. These are good methods to contact your opponents:
- Discord (Best method)
- Twitch (whisper)
So your race begins on time, please make it to your match at least 10 minutes early so the restreamer has time to setup and crop your stream. If you are over 10 minutes late to your race and you give no prior notice, you may be forced to forfeit the match.
- .startrace ffhacks - Starts a race
- .enter - Join the race
- .ready - Ready to begin the race
- .done - Use this command when the final monster is defeated
- .quit - In case something arises and you have to forfeit the race.
- .undone - In case you accidentally typed .done or .quit.
Restreaming / Commentary
All matches will be restreamed if possible, and will be restreamed on RandoMania.
It is very valuable and appreciated by our runners to have their races restreamed, as well as having commentary by two people during their race for the viewers. If you think you can do a decent job, we strongly recommend that you sign up for this privilege. Commentators will be selected in rotation based on availability. If you are interested, please note that you need to try to be as neutral as possible. Predictions are totally allowed, but "rooting for a competitor" is a big no-no. Additionally, if a commentator thinks that anyone has committed a violation, we ask that you do not announce that on the restream or any competitor's channel. Instead, we ask for you to message an administrator of the possible foul and let them handle it.
Spectator Rules
Spectators are allowed to chat in a competitor's channel, but once they enter the restream, they should not go back to a runner's channel for the remainder of the match. No spectator in a competitor's channel is allowed to give information that gives a competitor an advantage. This includes a non-exhaustive list of the following: backseating, giving information about their opponents' progress or giving information about where items are found. You are also not allowed to mention possible violations of the rules on any competitor's channel during a race.(Please message an administrator if you think a violation has occurred) Penalties will range from warnings to a chat ban from all channels involved in the tournament for the remainder of the tournament.
All spectators are allowed to discuss anything (within normal chat rules) in a restreamed channel with one exception: if they think that a violation has been committed by a competitor, please refrain from mentioning it on the channel. Instead, please message an administrator of the possible foul, and let them handle it.