CTF Teams | Season Two

Hey there CTFers! After a successful and exhilarating first season of CTF teams, we are nothing but excited to be announcing season two, coming to you soon!

Timetable:
Season 2 will begin on 5/17/2021 (May 17th) and last until 7/11/2021 (July 11th), lasting roughly two months.

Throughout the season, all official teams will have pre-determined matches they must schedule and participate in.

Procedure/Scheduling:
This season, teams will be seeded directly into a 7 team double elimination bracket, seeded by the overall opinion of current team representatives.

Due to this being a bracket only format, ties will not be accepted. Any matches tied at the end of a third map will go into overtime, with the next cap resulting in an overall win for whichever team gets it.

A look at this season's bracket:

(Credit to @TomD53 for the wonderful graphic!)

Dates for the above rounds are as follows:​

Winners Round 1: 17th of May - 23rd of May
Winners Round 2: 24th of May - 30th of May
Winners Semifinals/Losers Round 1: 31st of May - 6th of June
Losers Round 2: 7th of June - 13th of June
Winners Finals/Losers Semifinals: 14th of June - 20th of June
Losers Finals: 21st of June - 27th of June
Grand Finals: 5th of July - 11th of July

If a Team cannot field enough players for a 10v10 it will be an automatic forfeit.
If a team has forfeited two total matches they will be disqualified. Extensions on dates will be given for extraordinary circumstances. Forfeits will be recorded as assumed two map wins, with the maximum cap result for the team who is forfeited to (ie. TM forfeit to FT with maps as Airlock III and Pagodas III, FT gets 2 Map Wins with the assumed scores of 3-0, 3-0).

Grand Finals:
Grand finals this season will be a best of 5 with the team from winners bracket coming in with a 1 map advantage, we have elected to do this instead of having a potential bracket reset. This is because the team coming from winners bracket has not yet lost, and would not get a chance to take a match loss like the team coming up from lower bracket had the chance to do.

Match Information:
Standard match size for season two will be 12v12 (Minimum of 10v10, Maximum of 14v14) with the following limits and rules applies to matches. As always, Mandatory Match Rules or MMR are enforced for all matches.
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10v10
1x Assassin, Archer, Engineer, Mage, Necro, Pyro, Scout
2x Chemist, Elf, Medic, Ninja
3x Heavy, Soldier

11v11 - 12v12
1x Assassin, Archer, Engineer, Mage, Necro, Pyro, Scout
2x Chemist, Elf, Medic
3x Heavy, Ninja, Soldier

13v13 - 14v14
1x Assassin, Archer, Engineer, Mage, Necro, Pyro, Scout
3x Elf, Chemist, Medic, Ninja
4x Heavy, Soldier

Map Pool:
The maps for this season will be as follows:


Roster Lock:
This season will feature two different kinds of roster locks. A soft roster lock will go into effect immediately once the season starts (11:59pm EST May 17th). This means that any player rostered for a team at that time can only play matches for that team throughout season 2. One week into the season (11:59pm EST May 24th) there will be a hard roster lock, meaning free agents can no longer join teams for the remainder of the season and tournament rosters will be final.

CTF Match Spotlight will be covering all matches this season, make sure to tune in over on the Brawl Games channel!​