Owned Well – iCTF I: League Info

Rule Terms

Regular Season: Every non-development game before the playoffs is a regular season game.
Match round: A set of either development or regular matches comprise a round. Development week 1 is considered a match round. Regular week 1 is a separate match round.
Match day: The two match rounds (development and regular) together are termed as a match day.

The Point System

Development Matches

Map win = 1.5pts
Map loss = 0pts
Map forfeit = -0.5pts

Regular Matches

Map win = 3pts
Map loss = 0 pts
Map forfeit = -1pts

Group position Tiebreakers

Move down the list until a tiebreaker is found that separates all tied teams.

Highest amount of points
Head to Head

Fewest maps forfeited
Total map wins
Net Map wins (Sum of Map Wins minus Sum of Map Losses)
Regular season net caps (Sum of Caps For minus Sum of Caps Against)
Regular season caps for
Dev season net caps (Sum of Caps For minus Sum of Caps Against)
Dev season caps for
Coin toss

Team Requirements

A team must have 11 eligible players and be below or equal to the season salary cap at all times.
Teams must have 5 eligible players to start the match, X v 5 is only acceptable after 5 eligible players have clicked and started the match.

Player Requirements

Players who sign up with full availability are required to show up for at least 2 out of the 3 regular season group stage matches. Players who fail to do this will be eligible to compete in the playoffs at the discretion of their captain. However, they will receive a full season ban for as a bare minimum the next major OwnedWell league (iCTF). They will also be banned from participating in any intermediate events between this season and the next iCTF season and may (at the admins discretion) be banned for further seasons, tournaments or from pugging.
If a player becomes aware that he will be unable to show for a match, he is obliged to let his captain know via whatever means of contact he has available to him. Players who can not show due to unforeseen circumstances but keep their captains informed will be treated with leniency. Conversely, players who do not show and do not give their captains any notice about it will be punished severely.
A player may not play for two different teams during the same match round. I.e. you can not play 2+ development games in the same weekend, or 2+ regular games in the same weekend. It IS permitted to play for a different team in a regular match to the team you played for in a development match on the same weekend.

Mercenaries

Players who sign up with partial availability are not bound by point i) of 'Player Requirements' above, they are free to show up as often or as little as they like.
Players who sign up with partial availability and are considered starters will be termed 'Mercenaries'. All players who are considered starters listed on the League sign up page with 'partial' availability at the time of the draft are bound by these restrictions whether they were aware of them or not. The line at which players are deemed to be starters or not will be determined by the admin team prior to the draft.
Mercenaries are ineligible to play in any playoff game.
Mercenaries may only be picked up if the player dropped by a team is of a higher or equal salary, or if the player dropped from the team is the highest ranked player on the team. They may participate in both regular and development games during the group stage.
Mercenaries can only play one reg game and one dev game on any match day. That is to say, a captain is not permitted to reschedule games such that he can use one protected drop and have a mercenary available to play for him for multiple reg games or multiple dev games.
Mercenaries will not be available in the draft bot during the draft in order to avoid a situation where they are highest available salary auto-picked.

Openness about availability

Players are expected to be open about their availability to all captains at all times prior to the draft. The information that you give to all captains should be consistent. Do not tell one captain not to draft you because you're playing badly and then try and sell yourself to another captain. It is not permitted to refuse to acknowledge or respond to a captain because you do not wish to play for them - players who do this will be banned from future seasons.
During the draft, if you are around, you must be open and honest to all players who pm you enquiring about your availability. Even if a captain is trying to ascertain your availability
during the draft, you should be open up until the point that you are drafted - even if another captain has promised to pick you in a later round.
Players who lie about their availability to captains are liable to receive punishment for this in the current or future seasons - at the admins discretion depending on when the information comes to light.

Match Requirements

The Development Match

Of a teams top 5 ranked players (by salary) a maximum of 1 is eligible to play in development matches. The remaining players must be composed of bench players (4).

The Regular Match

All of a teams players are eligible to play in the regular match.

Color Selection

The team listed first on the schedule has color choice for the first map. The team listed second on the schedule has color choice on the second map. Color choice on the third map is determined by the following tiebreakers:

Net caps in the current match.
Net positive caps in the current match.
The team who are listed first on the schedule

Map Selection

Maplist

iCTF-AcronyLE14
iCTF-BrokenLimitsLE14
iCTF-CommandLE14
iCTF-ComplexLE14
iCTF-DiamondSwordLE14
iCTF-DukuLE14
iCTF-GrudgeLE14
iCTF-KlondikeLE14
iCTF-MesmerizeLE14
iCTF-PryXonLE14
iCTF-Rune][LE14

Map Elimination System

Captains will enter a list of maps that they wish to play in order of preference on to the website. They have up until 15 minutes before the scheduled match time to complete this process. In the event of a captain failing to enter his chosen map preferences in time, the maps will be entered for that captain in a random order. Captains may submit and update this list as many times as they wish up until the cut off time, and are therefore advised to fill their preferences in as soon as possible, before making any necessary changes nearer the time.

Regular season

Regular season matches are best of 3 maps. The match will end at the point at which either team has exactly 2 map wins. All 3 maps, including the potential tiebreaker map, will be determined by the elimination system described above.

Development Matches

Development matches follow the same procedure as above, except that there is only 2 maps in a development game - with no tiebreaker played.

Playoffs

For the Quarter finals, the same process as above under 'Regular season' will apply. From the semi finals onwards, playoff games are best of 5. The match will stop at the point at which one team reaches exactly 3 map wins.

Captain Tools

Timeouts

Each team will be given one timeout per map. To use it, the team must type !timeout. It will take 15 seconds to activate and pause the game for exactly one minute. A player is not required to drop for the timeout to be used. Teams are encouraged to have bench players around to patch any problems that might arise.

Transactions

A team is allowed eight transactions every week with the counter resetting Sunday @ 11:59pm EST. Inactivity and protected drops are considered transactions.

All rosters are locked at the scheduled match time unless the opposing team gives permission to make a trade.
Teams may only make upto 8 transactions per week.
All rosters are locked when a team is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. For the purposes of determining a teams mathematical elimination, it will be assumed that no team in the competition will forfeit any remaining matches. Admins have the ability to prevent trades if team dumping is suspected.
All rosters are locked in the playoffs.

Protected Drop

A team can safely drop one of their players into the free agent pool for 48 hours without another team being able to pick them up. After the 48 hours expire, the protection will be revoked and the player will be made available to all captains.

A team will be given only ONE protected drop for the regular season.
Protected drops expire at the end of the group stage, and can not be used in playoffs as the rosters are fully locked.
Teams may protected drop their captain - this counts as their one protected drop for the season. They may only protected drop their captain at a date and time where by which he will be added back to their team by the end of the match day he is missing from. Captain protected drops will automatically expire at the end of the 48 hour period, but may be reset earlier if required. The only way that is is permitted to drop your captain is with a protected drop - a captain is unable to be traded in any other way (with the exception of 'Holding out' section).

Server Selection

All matches must be played on properly setup OwnedWell sanctioned servers. Admins will assign a server however a captain can voice a preference. It will not always be possible for any preference shown to be adhered to. In order for a server that is not based in New York to be used, both captains must agree.

Acts of God

Server Crash

In the event that a server crashes, the server will be reset and the time will be rounded up to the nearest minute.

Gameplay Restrictions

Boosting

A team is allowed to boost a flag carrier to a location that is that a single player cannot access; however the flag carrier is allowed no more than 10 seconds in this inaccessible location. The idea behind this is to encourage creative boosts progressing the flag instead of a crutch for hiding flag carriers. Boosting through non-solids, glitches, areas intended blocked by the author of the map are not allowed.

A team may not boost to a location, intentionally drop the flag and boost back up. Dropping with the flag and boosting back up however is allowed.
If a team holds the flag in an inaccessible location for more than 10 seconds, the map will be forfeited.
Non flag carriers are allowed to be boosted to locations that aren't considered "glitches" (invis walls), and can remain there for as long as they wish.

Frog Jumping/Bouncing

If a player accidentally or intentionally bounces, they must suicide within 3 seconds and not kill anyone. Failure to do so will result in a forfeit loss.
If a team bounces with the flag, the player must suicide and the flag must be returned before the team is allowed to cap again. If a team caps a flag that was advanced by a bounce or is deemed to have gained an advantage as a result of that bounce (such as by cherry picking a flag that was bounced), it will result in a forfeit loss of the map.

Lamer/Flamer Rules

Inactivity Rule

The only players that will be eligible for inactivity measures are starters. This means that you can't place any lower tiered players on inactivity.
A player must miss two consecutive matches (not including development games). At the end of the second match, the player will be eligible for inactivity.
If a player is dropped into the inactivity pool, they will have their salary increased by a 50% penalty. The team that originally placed them on inactivity will be able to pick them up for the original price however a new team would have to pay the premium.
A protected drop will reset the inactivity match tally.
Admins can freeze/remove players who will not be participating in the season.

No-show Rule

The only players that will be eligible for no-show measures are starters.
If prior to the commencement of a regular game a captain has a player who has either declared himself unavailable or has failed to show for his team for the 2nd occasion, that captain may invoke the no show rule on that player.
That player will be removed from the league. That player is no longer able to play for any team in the tournament, including the team which dropped the player.
After invoking this rule, captains have no capacity to reverse it and must therefore be absolutely certain that the player will not be showing before using it. They are advised to wait until as late as possible before invoking this rule.
Players who no-show their team mates will be punished considerably less should they go to the effort to inform their captain ahead of time that they are unable to make a match. This will be taken into account by admins when considering any further punishments.

Aliasing in matches to pass yourself off as someone else

Offenders and players proven to have knowledge of the aliasing will be punished. The offending parties will be removed from the current league, banned from the next season and banned from #iPug for 6 weeks. This is firm and it will be enforced.

Teamspeak

All teams are required to use the GlobalUnreal teamspeak unless an exception is granted by an admin.

Holding out

If a player publicly holds out on a team, they will be removed from the current league (a replacement player will be searched for), banned from the next season and banned from #iPug for 4 weeks.

Cheating

Any player caught cheating will be banned for a period of 4 calendar years from the date that they were caught in accordance with the OwnedWell UT99 cheat policy.

Glitches

A team is not allowed to exploit any game-related glitches and it may result in the forfeit loss of a map. Glitches include but are not limited to:

Binding movements like thrusts to other keys is outlawed.
Intentionally dropping flags through solids/windows will result in a forfeit loss.
Hiding in glitches/bugged solid materials is illegal.
Holding walk in order to stand on areas where a player pawn can not legally stand without it - such as the flagroom in CTF-BrokenLimits

For the avoidance of doubt; shooting through holes in glass/grates is permitted.

Demos

All players will be required to demo all maps. This applies whether you are a $1500 player or a $100 player. There is no valid excuse for not recording a demo of your game - if you don't know how to do it or yours is 'broken' then contact an admin or your captain. A player must hold on to their demos for the duration of the entire season, up until two weeks after their team has played their last game.

A team may request a maximum of 1 demo from the opposing team (all requests must be justified and approved by an admin not involved in the match).
An admin not participating in the match has the right to request as many demos as they want.
Cheating accusations will be reviewed and ruled on by an anti-cheat team.
Admins may request that a player uploads all demos for the entire duration of the season.

Team Expectations

Match Punctuality

A team must have their entire team in the server and clicked in to be eligible to start the timer. Once they have done this, the opposing team has 2 minutes to click in before they forfeit the map.
The timer for map 1 is only eligible to be started from 5 minutes after the match start time stated on the schedule page and must then run uninterrupted for 2 minutes.
The timer for map 2 is eligible to be started from 5 minutes after the map has been switched.
If any member of the team who instigated the timer disconnects from the server, the timer will reset.
The timer will be paused once the map countdown begins, but in the event of a player disconnecting will resume at where it left off in the case of the team last to click in or start at 2 minutes in the case of the team first to click in.

Sportsmanship:

A player may not spam a non-teamsay bind during a match. Players who do this will be warned to cease, and players who continue will be forfeited and/or banned.
Racism will not be tolerated. If a player makes racist remarks in-game, the player in question will be warned and then suspended for future incidents.

Rescheduling

Teams are allowed to reschedule their matches by agreement with opposing captains.
After agreeing to reschedule a game, both teams must inform an admin and he will change it on the schedule. Both captains should do this for each time the match time changes.
Matches may be rescheduled to before or after their original date/time, however the latest that players can reschedule games for is prior to the commencement of the dev games of the last round of the group stage.
It goes without saying that you can not reschedule a game so that it will potentially overlap with any of your other games, unless you have gained prior agreement for this from the captain of the team that may be kept waiting.
If a playoff match is rescheduled it must be played at a time such that it will not delay any further rounds of the playoffs, and must be agreed with the admins.
Rescheduling is solely down to the captains. Admins will not get involved and force reschedules upon any captain or team.
As an exception to the above rule, on occasion a match week falls on a weekend where a major event is taking place and it becomes apparent that a large number of players will miss the game week. Admins may offer all captains a free reschedule which does not require both captains to be in agreement to take place. Where ever possible admins will endeavor to inform all captains of this as soon as possible - however it may not always be possible to do so prior to a league starting due to unforeseen circumstances.

Admins/Spectators

Spectators

The only people allowed to spectate matches are OwnedWell admins and members of the stream team. It goes without saying that if someone is spectating, they are not allowed to have any communications with the teams that are playing.

Precedent

Admins will use or set precedents for topics not covered in this rule page.

Admins have the right to change rules and address hot topics that come up.

The admin staff will stick to this ruleset unless any major controversy arises. In the event that one arises, the admins hold the right to use their discretion to create/revise rules.