Counter-Strike Season Eighteen OVERVIEW

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1 OVERVIEW We are excited to launch Club Conflict Season Eighteen. We will be beta testing the Club Conflict website and our new Club Conflict Client (featuring Easy AntiCheat). Also, we will be testing our dedicated Linux servers, hosted out of NY/NJ. We have 10 match servers available to us. These 128 tick CSGO match servers require that the Club Conflict Client to be actively running prior to connecting to them. Teams Must Schedule Matches: It is each team Captain/Schedulers responsibility to communicate with your opponent and play at an agreed to time and date. Teams must communicate with each other. Team Captains/Schedulers should add the opponents Team Captain or Scheduler on Steam and simply ask if they will be available on Wednesday at the default time. If not, simply arrange a time that is acceptable to both teams to play the match. Default Match time is Wednesday nights at 9PM EST. This default time is the time when our league s Twitch casters will be ready to cast select matches. Teams that do not show on Wednesday will not be punished with a FF loss. If your team wishes to be featured in our Twitch stream, they must be in their assigned match server at 9PM EST on default match night. Demos are required. Team Captains, please instruct your teammates to record demos prior to.ready up. In console type record week1.dem to record a demo titled week1.dem. Only one demo file is required per match (no need for a demo for each side). No VAC Banned accounts will be allowed to play in Club Conflict league, no exceptions. Teams must have (5) players at a minimum to be included on the regular season schedule. We prefer that each team has a minimum of (7) players to avoid teams having to forfeit matches or play short. Matches must be completed by the Sunday night at midnight EST of Week #7. Teams may fall behind by two weeks without penalty. If a team no shows (does not play a match) for 3 weeks in a row, they may be removed from the league. 1

2 PRIZE We d like to thank our sponsors Everleap Cloud Hosting, Gameservers.com, Habit of Force and SilverStone Technology for supporting our league in the past. The prize for Season 18 is being selected and will be shared with everyone very soon. 2

3 RULES Admins: The Club Conflict Admins have the final say and can make rule changes. Good Sportsmanship: While we encourage our members to have fun playing in Club Conflict Online Gaming League, we would like to remind everyone to observe good sportsmanship when dealing with your opponents. Light banter and verbal exchanges in good fun will be tolerated but please keep the tone of the match positive. Absolutely no racist or homophobic remarks are allowed. Leveling accusations of exploiting or cheating over the microphone or in game chat is discouraged. Match Time: New for Season 18: Matches can be played anytime during the regular season. Team Captains and Schedulers are encouraged to arrange to play with the other team through Steam. Please accept Steam Friend Requests from other team leaders. All regular season matches must be completed by the end of week #7, by Sunday at midnight EST. Match Server: In the event that a team does not wish to play on a particular server, matches can be played on any of the available match servers as long as both teams agree to it. Please ensure that a match server is not already in use before connecting to it. Spectators, other than Club Conflict Admins/Casters are not allowed on any match server. Match Reporting: It is the winning teams responsibility to report the match results within one hour of the end of the scheduled match. Team Captains may report the match results on the website. If you are having difficulty reporting results, please seek out the help of a league admin. Go to Results tab of the Event Page. Select Edit and add the scores. If a forfeit happened, check FF and record a 16-0 win. Disputes: If a team does not agree with the posted results of a match or if there were circumstances that caused the match loss, such as server crashes etc. a dispute function has been built into the site. Team Captains may dispute the result. Teams have one hour from the end of the match to dispute the results. If you wish to dispute a match and the results have not been posted yet, please contact a league admin and notify them about the dispute and the reason for the dispute. Admins can call for a match to be replayed. 3

4 RULES Teams: No VAC banned accounts are allowed to play in Club Conflict Online Gaming League. Team owners are ultimately responsible for their team s conduct. When assigning Captain and Co-Captain to team members, please note that you are extending your authority to fully represent your team. Teams must have a minimum of (5) players registered. No Ringers. All players must be registered and be members of a team roster before playing. Prizes: In the event that your team wins the league, the Team Owner will have ultimate say in delegating the team s prizes. Except for certain circumstances, only one prize will be shipped per address. Schedule: The schedule can be found on the website HERE. Club Conflict Client: Use of Easy AntiCheat during match play is required. You can download and install the software HERE. If you already have Easy AntiCheat installed from Steam, you can simply use that. The client must be running prior to connecting to the match server. If you close the client while connected to a match server you will be instantly kicked from the session. You will have to reconnect to the match server after you relaunch the client. Demos Required: Recording of in-game player demos is required by each player. In console type record demoname.dem. A single demo file is sufficient. If a CC Admin requests your teams demos after a match and you cannot provide them, your teams match results could be overturned. Twitch TV: Select matches will be cast Weds at 9PM EST at Twitch.TV/ClubConflict Voice Communication: In-Game voice may be broadcast on Twitch.TV, 3rd Party Voice Communication such as Mumble, Ventrilo, Discord or TeamSpeak is encouraged. Ask Ballistics to add a channel for your team in our Discord server. Player Names: Please use the username associated with your Club Conflict account. Matches may be streamed on Club Conflict s Twitch.TV and we do not want to confuse the analysts or the viewers. Please do not use swear words or other vulgarities in the spelling of your player s name. Using name changing scripts is prohibited. 4

5 RULES Server Crashes: In the event that a server crashes, please contact a league admin to facilitate our match medic functionality which sets the server up to replay a particular round. Start money is restored for this as well. Dropped Players: In the event that a player drops from the server, the action will continue and the match is not required to be interrupted. The player may reconnect as soon as possible. Another team player may choose to sub in at any time. To allow for a player to sub, a player must drop first. At no time should there be more than 5 team members connected to a match server after the Live on 3. Screenshot at Half: It is a good habit to take screenshots at the end of each half. Team Captains can refer to these screenshots when reporting the scores. Reporting requires that each half scores are tallied. To record a forfeit win, your Team Captain must report Points System: Win = 2 points, Tie = 1 point, Loss = 0 points, FF Loss = -1 points Pauses: Teams are allowed (2) tactical pauses of no more than 5 minutes per pause per match. Please refer to the Match Mod operation for more info on pauses. Timeouts do not count as tactical pauses. Overtime: In the event of overtime, a 10 second OT Intermission will take place and then the OT will begin automatically. Overtime money is set at $10,000 start money. Teams must play (3) rounds and are switched automatically. Overtime will continue until one team wins (4) of the (6) overtime rounds. Teams will start overtime on the side they are currently on. Regular Season: Regular season will be host to 7 weeks of scheduled matches featuring a single map each week. Playoff Season: The top 8 teams will advance to the playoffs which will be host to scheduled matches featuring our map veto function of the Match Mod. All Playoff Matches will be in a Best of Three format with the maps being selected through the process of veto. Status: It is the opposing teams responsibility to check that all players on the opposing team are on the CC Teams Roster. In console type status. Make a note of the Steam ID s and check them against the teams roster. Only after checking should the Team Captain type.ready. 5

6 LOG-IN TO CLUB CONFLICT Our website has messaging functionality built into it. Log-in to the Club Conflict website and check your messages by clicking on the My CC area in the top-right of the page. Your Username is your . If you do not remember your password, it can be reset through the website. Once logged-in, please check your messages and friend requests. We would like to encourage our members to take advantage of the social media functions built into our site such as adding Friends and sending Friend Requests. To send a message click on the Compose tab, select the drop down box and choose Send a Message. A Player Search box will appear. Type the first few letters of the player you would like to message. Their name should appear. Select their name and fill out the message. Do not forget to add a Subject. Once the message is ready, send it. You can see your Sent messages in your Sent tab. SCHEDULE AND SCHEDULING Team Owners/Captains are encouraged to check the schedule HERE. You can filter the schedule by selecting your team from the list. The default match time of 9PM EST Wednesday nights is a suggested time only. The advantage of playing on Wednesday night is that you have a chance of having your match selected to be cast on Twitch.TV. Casting will begin in the 4 th week of regular season at Twitch.TV/ClubConflict. Teams must arrange each match. Club Conflict Team Captains/Schedulers must contact the opposition via Steam Friends and arrange an acceptable match time and date. If you expect to play on Wednesday night at 9PM EST, you must first contact the opposing team and agree to it. Teams will have until the end of Regular Season to make up their matches; however, falling behind by more than two weeks of matches is discouraged and could trigger action from the league admins. Streaming: We will be streaming select matches on Twitch.TV. Please keep in mind that you are representing Club Conflict Online Gaming League when you are playing. Your match may be watched by thousands of viewers in near real time. Teams that violate the league s Good Sportsmanship policy may get flagged from being eligible to be Twitch streamed in the future and may be subject to further admin actions. Please be mindful and respectful of our league and its many sponsors. 6

7 STEAM GROUP Team Owners/Captains are encouraged to create a Steam Group for your team. We plan on streaming matches for Season Eighteen on our Twitch.TV Channel. To ensure that your team will look their very best, have all members of your team join your Steam Group. Make sure all of your team members are tagged up with your teams Steam Group s tag. This will ensure that your team s name will appear in the match Streamed on Twitch.TV. Discord We are now using Discord for our league s voice communication. Discord is a free download. Once you have downloaded and installed it, create a new server connection, and add the following address: Each team that participates in Club Conflict Season Eighteen is being offered a voice channel for their use. Please see Ballistics to get set up. Channels can be password protected and we encourage each team to set a password. CLUB CONFLICT CLIENT We are pleased offer additional anticheat protection to our league with the Club Conflict Client featuring Easy AntiCheat. Download and install the client. Once installed, launch the program prior to connecting to a match server. You will be required to have the client running to connect to our match servers. The Club Conflict Client is compatible with Windows 8, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Additionally, you may use the Steam version of Easy AntiCheat available for a free download in the Steam Store. 7

8 CONNECTING TO A MATCH SERVER Spectating in a match server is not allowed. Before connecting to a match server, ensure that it is not currently being used. You can easily connect to your scheduled match server by entering the following connection string into your games developer console (IP address will vary depending on the server): Connect :27025; password cc The following is a list of the available match server IP addresses that we will use for Season Eighteen: : Club Conflict Match Server # : Club Conflict Match Server # : Club Conflict Match Server # : Club Conflict Match Server # : Club Conflict Match Server # : Club Conflict Match Server # : Club Conflict Match Server # : Club Conflict Match Server # : Club Conflict Match Server #10 8

9 MATCH MOD Our Match Mod is the script that runs our Live on 3 Restarts functionality on our match servers. It is designed to easily facilitate administration of Club Conflict matches. To initiate the Match Mod, a Team Captain (or anyone who wishes to run the match) should first ensure the map scheduled is currently running. In chat type.setup the person who initiates.setup is the match/pug leader. If the match needs to be canceled for any reason, the match/pug leader must type.cancel and press (2). A message will be displayed stating that the match was canceled. To reinitiate the Match Mod, type.setup The following screen will be displayed: Simply press 1 and the Match Mod will be initiated with the default selected options. At this time, team members can switch sides and prepare for the knife round which will decide who plays on which side first. When ready, players must type.ready When all (10) players are ready the knife round will automatically start. 9

10 MATCH MOD Teams will knife fight until one player is victorious. The person who wins the knife round will be prompted to type.switch or.stay. Depending upon their choice, the teams may switch or they may remain. The Live on 3 restarts process will be initiated immediately upon completion of the knife round. In chat, type.help to see available commands (.setup must be enabled first). The following commands are available to the Match leader: Teams can call for a pause in the match at any time. Please do not abuse the pause function. Teams are asked to limit tactical pauses to (2) per match. Pauses should not exceed 5 minutes. Please communicate to the opposing team the reason for the pause in game chat. If a pause is called for after the freezetime/buytime is over (during action), the match will pause during the freezetime/buytime of the next round. Only the person who called for a.pause can.unpause the match. A message at the top of the screen will indicate that the match is about to be unpaused with a 10 second timer counting down, after which time the match will unpause. If you have any questions about the league, a rule, or need more information on how to utilize the website, please contact the Director of Operations, Ballistics via . Send an to Ballistics at Club Conflict.com. Thanks to our sponsors SilverStone Technology, Everleap Cloud Hosting, GameServers.com and Habit of Force. Thanks for participating and good luck! 10

11 I Still Can t Get Enough Counter-Strike! We were hoping you would say that. Why not take a break from the online gaming and join us for some LAN Tournaments? Your friends didn t make it into Club Conflict? Invite them to join you to compete at LAN! We will be hosting (2) awesome LAN Tournaments in Pennsylvania. FITES 300 LAN February 24-25, 2017: Join 300 gamers in Gettysburg, PA for Frag Infinity Tournament, Inc s Annual LAN Party. This 300 person BYOC event is being hosted in the Eisenhower Grand Ballroom in Gettysburg Hotel. Tell your team and grab your tickets fast. The event is half sold out already. We will be playing for sponsored prizes from our awesome sponsors. Look for announcements on the FITES CSGO LAN Tournament prizes soon. 11

12 You Said Two LAN Tournaments? Indeed, we did. The second LAN Tournament is RGB LAN, a 180 Gamer LAN in Philadelphia, PA. The event will be held at the same facility that the amazing GXL LAN is held. RGB LAN March 3-5, 2017: Join 180 gamers at the Greater Philadelphia EXPO Center in Oaks, PA. RGBLAN is a three-day, 180 seat LAN party and charity video game tournament, dedicated to the joy of good gaming and the power of gaming for good. Teams are paired with local charities. Which means, every time a team wins, its charity gets a donation and its players get a prize. It s that simple. Club Conflict Staff will be on hand to host the CSGO Tournament at RGB LAN on Saturday March 4, Tell your team and grab your tickets fast. The event will sell out SOON! We will be playing for sponsored prizes from our awesome sponsors. Look for announcements on the RGB LAN CSGO Tournament prizes soon. Click the image for more info. So there you have it, an awesome CSGO league with two LAN Tournaments during Playoffs. Does that sound fun? We hope you can join us on the road to play in some great LAN Tournaments at great LAN Parties. That s what esports is all about after all, fragging with friends and having fun. A big thanks to FITES and RGB LAN for inviting us out to Sponsor and Host the CCSGO Tournaments. Thanks to our Teams, Staff and many Sponsors for your support! 12