SG Live 2022
FFR In-Person Tournament
Rules and Policies
For the third year in a row FFR will be a part of the SGL experience. We will be running a live, in-person bracket for all the players that show up. SGLive has a number of requirements for their tournament, and we need to abide by their policies, and FFR’s own internal policies, as we participate in this event.
If you are interested in the tournament, make sure to thoroughly read these guidelines. The tournament will be handled live, and all races must be run on site. If you can't dedicate the time required for this bracket during the event, please do not sign up to be part of the tournament.
The Basics of the Tournament
The tournament is broken into two phases: opening qualifiers and the brackets. The first phase, qualifiers, was already run as part of the online-only portion of the event. Seeding into brackets will be based on those qualifiers, but worry not: if you didn't participate in qualifiers that is not a problem. Anyone without a qualifiers score will be seeded in last, with those slots assigned randomly.
Brackets will be held live at SGL during the dates of October 27 through October 31. The same flagset will be used for all brackets races to reduce variance. Brackets will be Best of 3, single elimination. Players will face off in the bracket, winner moves on, loser goes home.
Note, this tournament is for a cash prize. This prize pool is based on donations from interested community members (who donated out of the goodness of their own hearts) as well as SG Live graciously adding to the pool. If, for some reason, you do not like the idea of FFR having a cash pool for a tournament, even one being run by another organization (i.e., SpeedGaming), do not participate in the tournament. We have been invited to participate, but we only want those actually interested in being in the tournament to apply. This is a game that we play to have fun, so remember that please… even though money is involved this time.
The Committee has decided that the top 2 players will gain at least a portion of the prize pool. Payouts are as follows:
- 60% (1st place)
- 40% (2nd)
Requirements for Participants
SG Live has their own list of requirements for players, and the FFR organizers have added our own additional requirements to this list. These are the requirements for participants in the tournament:
- Racers must be available at least 30 minutes before the race is scheduled to start.
- The “Tournament Safe ROM” flag will be on for this tournament, so all players must use a ROM that will pass the verification of this flag.
- Players in the FFR SGLive 2022 Tournament must be members of the SGLive 2022 Discord.
- As is standard FFR policy, if a race ends within three seconds or less between players, the tournament admins will perform a manual retime of the race. If, after the retime, the race is still within one second, a run-off will be required and participants must make themselves available to run that race.
- Players may not hang out in any chat during a race at the live event. Players may not hang out in the opponent’s stream during the race.
- If players, somehow, get outside advice or assistance, even if they did not ask for the advice and did not use the advice given, they will be disqualified with the win given to their opponent. If both players in a race somehow gain outside assistance during their race, both will be disqualified and the race will be scrubbed, with a loss given to both players. If this happens in the brackets stage, the tournament will be adjusted to exclude both players (such as having a run-off between the two players previous defeated in this branch of the bracket, and letting the winner of that race move up in the bracket).
- While on stream, and in interviews afterwards, players must comport themselves and act to the expected standards for on-air behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: no cussing, no rants about the other player, no rants about the tournament, no rants about the format, no rants about the streaming service, no rants about the fact that SGLIve is a tournament with a cash prize. This extends not only to the on-air portion of the event but to Twitch chat and public-facing Discords as well. Anyone that acts in a manner counter to the professional attitude and bearing we expect from our players at this event will be disqualified from the tournament.
Some players have asked what they will be allowed to use in the tournament. Of the concerns raised so far, the tournament will allow:
- Reset buttons (hard and soft reset) may be mapped to controllers. The old standard, where these buttons could not be mapped to a controller, was an SRL standard and is no longer in use in FFR races, and it will not be enforced at SGLive.
- Players may use their fun graphical hacks for their game. That is, of course, with the caveat that the rom must pass the “Tournament Safe” flag, so players will really only be able to edit their hero sprites. If the sprites are not recognizable as the traditional heroes of the game, the players must name their characters after the classes being used (i.e., FI, TH, BB, RM, BM, WM). As an example, using FF3 versions of the sprites is fine and does not require players to adjust the character names, but using Ranma 1/2 sprites, or Breath of Fire sprites, or Castlevania sprites, etc.. isn’t as easy to understand and would require conformed, basic names for the characters. And, of course, character names, and hero sprites, must conform to the above standards listed (so no swear words for character names, and no offensive sprites of any kind, etc.).
Flags for the Tournament:
Questions?
Any questions can be directed to DarkmoonEX, Dani3883, or LordFizzlebeef, all of whom will be on site during the event.