Welcome to the Aalto Gamers CS:GO Revival tournament!

It's been a while since our last CS:GO event, but we are back with a blast! It's time to revive the Aalto Gamers CS:GO scene, so come and give it your best shot! You don't wanna miss the prizes we're about to announce in the following weeks...

Remember to follow the event on our channels to stay updated!

GOOGLE FORMS

Remember to fill the actual tournament signup form for full teams or flex teams in addition to joining the tournament here on this platform. More about joining solo or as a flex team below.

PRIZES

1st place: min. 300€ + ENCE merch package

2nd place: min. 150€

3rd place: 75€

MVP: Logitech G ENCE Edition XL mouse pad

VISMA GROUP STAGE CHALLENGES

These challenges are active for the GROUP STAGE so the first three games.

VISMA Team Challenge: (Most Bombs Defused by a team reward)

• 5x M4A4 Dragon King skins (Factory New)

VISMA Player Challenge: (Most assists by a player reward)

• 1x AK-47 Bloodsport skin (Factory new)

STREAM VIEWER REWARDS

During the tournament we will be raffling prizes for the viewers. At random times during the stream we will open the raffle and you can type !join in the chat to enter.

During Friday we raffle:

• Logitech G ENCE Edition XL mouse pad
• Lenovo Legion M600 wireless gaming mouse

During Saturday we raffle:

• Lenovo Legion Gaming XL cloth mouse pad
• Lenovo Legion M600 wireless gaming mouse

FLEX SIGNUP

You can also join the tournament alone or with incomplete teams but it is recommended that you join as a full team. Challengermode will automatically and randomly match all flex signups into teams right before the tournament starts. Alone or as an incomplete team, remember that you will only be seeded into matchmaking if you have readied up.

It is recommended that you use other platforms to build your team first and then join as a full team. You can find other players for example on the Aalto Gamers Discord and Telegram.

CHALLENGERMODE TIPS

If you have any questions to how challengermode works, refer to these pages:

• How to play a cs:go tournament
• General tournament help page

IMPORTANT

There's a 60 minute window before the tournament starts to CONFIRM PARTICIPATION on the event page. If you or someone in your team doesn't confirm participation, your team will NOT be seeded into the tournament.

FORMAT

The groups are the size of 4 and every team will play one game (bo1) against other teams in their group. Only the best team in each group advance to the quarter-finals. In case of a tie, the team who won the match between those two teams advances.

Quarter-finals, semi-finals, third place match and final will be single-elimination bo3.

SCHEDULE

The tournament will be played during two days, Friday 19.3. and Saturday 20.3. Groups and quarter-finals will be played on Friday with a 30 minute break in-between. There will be no other breaks that day. Semi-finals and finals will be played on Saturday with a 30 minute break in-between. Third-place match and final will be played simultaneously.

Friday starts 19.3 at 17:00 (GMT +2) with groups and Saturday at 13:00 (GMT +2) with semi-finals

Estimated schedule

Friday

• 16:30 Team captains ready and available on discord
• 17:00 The first round of groups starts
• 18:15 The second round of groups starts
• 19:30 The third round of groups starts
• 20:45 15-minute break
• 21:00 Quarter-finals start (bo3)
• 23:30 The day is over, sleep well and get ready for the next day!

Saturday

• 12:30 Team captains ready and available on discord
• 13:00 The semi-finals start (bo3)
• 16:00 A 30-min break (starts when the semi-finals have been played)
• 16:30 The final and the third place match start
• 19:30 The tournament is over, congratulations to the winners!

STREAM

• GROUPS AND QUARTER-FINALS
  • Random games will be picked to be streamed throughout the whole day. Only one game will be streamed at a time so most likely six games in total.
• SEMI-FINALS
  • The first game of the first semi-final (upper in bracket) and the second game of the second semi-final will be streamed.
  • Possibly the third game of the semi-final of our choice will be streamed as well.
• THIRD-PLACE MATCH
  • The third place match will not be streamed.
• FINALS
  • The finals will be streamed altogether

RULES

We follow the official rules of the Finnish Esports Federation (Suomen elektronisen urheilun liitto – SEUL) for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with the exceptions listed below. The rules can be found at http://seul.fi/e-urheilu/pelisaannot/turnaussaannot-csgo/.

Exceptions:

• 1.2 Team size: 5 actual players, one non-mandatory stand-in and a non-mandatory coach. AT LEAST 3 out of 5 players in the playing roster have to be currently studying in a university or university of applied sciences. The student statuses of the players might be checked at any time during the tournament.

• 1.3 A team may change at maximum one (1) of its actual player for its pre-selected stand-in.

  • 1.13.2 Coaches are not allowed on the game server. A coach may speak to the players in VoIP at any time before, during and after a round.
• 2. Game rules are determined by Challengermode (biggest changes are the following two)
  • 2.6.4 Overtime start money: $10 000.
  • 2.7.1 In Best-of-3 format, the starting sides are decided by a knife round in every map.

• 4.3 A tactical pause may be used by both teams two times in a match, once each half. A tactical pause lasts 60 seconds. This is done with the command /pause.

• 5.2 Challengermode map pick system on both bo1 and bo3. For reference see https://help.challengermode.com/en/articles/684985-how-to-ban-and-pick-cs-go-maps

• 9. No demos needed

MORE RULES:

• Disconnecting
  • Should someone disconnect during the game, contact the admins immediately so the game can be paused. The disconnected player has 15 minutes to come back or their team will lose the match.
  • We reserve the right to apply and modify these rules as we see fit