Tournament structure:

• Teams will be assigned to qualifiers randomly; No seeding for teams
• All registered teams will be added to 160 Single elimination qualifying tournaments (Winner of each tournament will qualify);
• Qualifier (BO5) - Single-elimination - number of rounds depends on number of sign ups (160 teams will advance)
• Group Stage (BO5) - Round Robin - 10 teams per group / 9 rounds (Top 2 teams will advance)
• Final Stage (BO5) - Single-elimination - RO32 - 5 rounds
• BO5 - First to win 2 games! (in this cup teams will need to win 2 games to win a match, after a team wins 2 games other games are not played)
• Organizer reserves right to change the schedule before the tournament starts

Team captain obligations:

1. All teams’ captains must stay up to date on the forum. The tournament administration recommends every captain to follow the forum threads of the specific tournaments they participate in, in case of critical changes.
2. Rule violations must be posted within 15 minutes after the round end in a “rules enforcement” thread in the specific forum section. After the deadline passes, reports will be deemed invalid.
3. The team captain is responsible for his team: only a team captain can make requests on behalf of his team on the forum.
4. Captains and players are advised to use the in-game reporting system to report foul language, rather than the official rules enforcement thread.
5. Everyone is highly encouraged to read the following guide, it describes the process from choosing a tournament to creating/joining or modifying teams.
6. Join us on the forum to discuss current and upcoming tournaments, you may also ask any question about any cup or rules.

Vehicle limitations:

1. As a general rule, no specific vehicles are prohibited.
2. Any occasional vehicle restriction will be communicated accordingly.
3. The use of premium tanks, shells and consumables is allowed.

Players and teams

1. Each player can only play for one team in a tournament, cup or championship
2. Wargaming.net staff or affiliates are not prohibited from playing, unless they are part of the tournament administration - these people will be stated (Only a maximum of one Wargaming.net employee or affiliate per active team is allowed).
3. Once the team has been created, it cannot change its name (please be very careful when naming your team).
4. Team and player names must not violate the Wargaming.net naming rules. Any team violating these rules will be disqualified. Highly offensive names may be further sanctioned with an ingame suspension.
5. Teams must keep all names alpha-numeric. Teams are not allowed to use special signs, unprintable words and similar. All names have to be clearly readable.

Before the battle:

1. Teams have 5-10 minutes before the allocated start time to join the lobby.
2. A guide on how to join special battles is available on the portal.
3. If a team is not ready in this time and no one from the reserve can take the place in the primary (main) team, the team will play incomplete.

Victory conditions:

1. To win a game, the team will need to destroy all enemy vehicles or capture the enemy base.
2. Number of rounds will be available on the tournament page
3. Draw will result in 1 point for both teams in round robin and disqualification of both teams in single elimination stage.
4. Starting spawn points for all games will be automatically allocated by the system
5. Games cannot be replayed unless an issue with the set up causes a problem. Unfortunately we will be unable to restart games due to disconnections or PC crashes

Admins and Casters:

1. The official Wargaming.net admins are: Berbo and Decept1on.
2. Administrators resolve disputes.
3. The ruling of an Administrator is final.
4. Tournament broadcasting - Official Casters will be named before a tournament starts in an official tournament forum thread.
5. If any official Caster requests entrance to a game, they must be invited/added to the team.

Replays:

1. Replays must be recorded by the teams from the playoff stage onwards. If replays are required (i.e. to resolve disputes between teams), the details on where to send the files will be provided by the admins.
2. Replays may be uploaded to the WoT Replays service for easy access.

Rewards rules:

1. The gold and the other rewards are usually sent within a week (maximum two) after the tournament completion.
2. If your team is missing gold or rewards after two weeks, you may report it missing on the forum by posting in the section of the specific tournament.
3. All rewards are per player, unless otherwise specified.
4. If 2 or more teams are having same amount of points, their ranking will be based on head-to-head ratio.

Rewards distribution:

• Qualifiers - no rewards
• Group stage -

1st place: advancing to the playoffs (round of 32).

2nd place: advancing to the playoffs (round of 32).

3rd place: 1 200 (up to 24000)

4th place: 600 (up to 12 000)

5th place: 150 (up to 3000)

• Play off

RO32 - losing team - 50.000 gold

RO16 - losing team - 100.000 gold

QFinals - losing team - 200.000 gold

3rd-4th place - 350.000 gold

2nd place - 600.000 gold

1st place - 1.000.000 gold