ESWC 2015 PGW LEAGUE OF LEGENDS WOMEN RULES

ESWC 2015 PGW LEAGUE OF LEGENDS WOMEN RULES VERSION 1.0 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION... 4 1.1 Definition... 4 1.2 Rules Committee... 4 1.3 Application... 4 1.4 Rules update... 4 2. DEFINITION... 4 2.1 Team's player... 4 2.2 Team s coach... 4 2.3 Team s Manager... 4 3. ESWC 2015 PGW LOL WOMEN AREA... 5 3.1 Tournament Area... 5 3.1.1 Access... 5 3.1.2 Team's player... 5 3.1.3 Team s coach... 5 3.1.4 Team s manager... 5 3.1.5 Press member... 5 4. TOURNAMENT... 6 4.1 Tournament game settings... 6 4.1.1 Game version... 6 4.1.2 Game settings... 6 4.1.3 Restrictions of heroes... 6 4.1.4 Nickname tag... 6 4.2 Tournament match format... 6 4.2.1 Best-of-one match... 6 4.2.2 Best-of-three match... 6 4.2.3 Tie-breaker match... 6 4.2.4 Time Rating match... 6 4.2.5 Side selection... 7 4.2.6 Draft Mode... 7 4.3 Before match... 7 4.3.1 Match start time... 7 4.3.2 Setup and warm-up... 7 4.3.3 Controlled Game Start... 7 4.3.4 Slow Client Load... 7 4.4 During a match... 8 4.4.1 Between match... 8 4.4.2 In-game pause... 8 4.4.3 Match interruption... 8 4.4.4 Match restart... 8 4.5 After match... 8 4.5.1 Awarded match victory... 8 4.5.1 Investigation request... 8 4.5.2 Score validation... 9 4.5.3 Press conference... 9 4.6 ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women Format... 9 4.6.1 Format overview... 9 4.6.2 Round-robin rules... 9 4.6.3 Round-robin tie-breaker rules... 9 4.6.4 Transition between round-robin and play-off... 10 2

4.6.5 Play-off rules... 10 4.7 Tournament prize break down... 10 4.8 Tournament schedule... 10 4.8.1 Tuesday, October 27th... 10 4.8.2 Wednesday, October 28th... 10 4.8.3 Thursday, October 29th... 10 4.8.4 Friday, October 30th... 10 4.9 Tournament setup... 11 4.9.1 Tournament materials... 11 4.9.2 Participant own materials... 11 4.9.3 Forbidden materials... 11 5. CONDUCT RULES... 11 5.1.1 Forbidden behaviors... 11 5.1.2 Prohibited in-game actions... 12 5.1.3 Prohibited software... 12 5.2 Sanctions policy... 12 5.2.1 List of sanctions... 12 3

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Definition The ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women is an international tournament played on video game League of Legends edited by Riot Games. It is composed of a final with 8 teams organized from 28th October to 30th October during Paris Games Week. The organization of ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women final is managed independently by OXENT without any participation, governance, or oversight by Riot. 1.2 Rules Committee The present Rules are decided and written by the Regulation Committee (RC) of the Electronic Sports World Cup. The Regulation Committee is composed of one competitions director and a tournament director. You can contact them at smaillard@eswc.com. 1.3 Application These Rules of the ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women apply to each of the teams, who have been selected as well as their manager, coachs, and press members. 1.4 Rules update The Regulations Committee reserves the right to modify the present Rules from time to time without notice. It is encouraged to review these regulations from time to time in order to be apprised of any changes. 2. DEFINITION 2.1 Team's player Each team may register only five players. From these five players, a minimum of three must have been registered on the application form submitted by the team. 2.2 Team s coach Each team may register only one coach. The coach registration must be made toward the Organizer after the qualification or selection of his team for ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women. The coach purpose is to help his team for: Setup on assigned hardware. In-game communication. Keep his team up to date of its match schedule. Relation with Referee and ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women Organizer. 2.3 Team s Manager Each team may register only one manager. The manager must be the team s owner, or one of its official representative duly identified by the Organizer. The manager registration must be made toward the Organizer after the qualification or selection of his team for ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women. No manager s registration will be accepted 7 days before the first day of the ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women. During its participation the only team interlocutors toward the Referee are the player and the coach. 4

3. ESWC 2015 PGW LOL WOMEN AREA 3.1 Tournament Area 3.1.1 Access The Tournament Area is open to players, coach and manager which have a match to play. The Tournament Area is forbidden for players, coach and manager whose don't have a match to play, and for spectators. Player, coach and manager may not stand on chairs, tables, or other ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women equipment not assigned for their matches. 3.1.2 Team's player In the Tournament Area during his team's warm-up player can only interact with his coach, team mates, manager and opposing team's member of his next match. During his matches player may not interact in any way with his manager, opponent team's members (players, coach and manager), press or spectator. During his team s matches player must: Wear a headphone and be connected to the same voice server than his team mates. Remain seated at his team station assigned by the tournament referee. Not look on an opposing player's monitor or an opposing player's projected screen. Not intentionally manipulate a keyboard or mouse of a team's members. 3.1.3 Team s coach In the Tournament Area during his team's warm-up coach can only interact with his players, manager and opposing team of his next match. During his team's matches coach may not interact in any way with his manager, other team's members (players, coach and manager), press member or spectator. During his team s matches coach must: Remain behind his players. Not look on an opposing player's monitor or an opposing player's projected screen. Not intentionally manipulate a keyboard or mouse of his team's members. 3.1.4 Team s manager In the Tournament Area during his warm-up manager can only interact with his players and coach. At any time the manager may not interact in any way with press, spectator, player, coach or manager of another team. During his team's matches manager must: Not interact in any way with his players and coach. Stay behind his team seats. 3.1.5 Press member In the Tournament Area team press member may not interact in any way with player, coach or manager involved in their matches. While present in the Tournament Area team press member must: Not make interview without the Organizer approval. 5

Not use any camera light or any other hardware stuff which could disrupt the players in their matches. 4. TOURNAMENT 4.1 Tournament game settings 4.1.1 Game version Tournament will use the latest available version of League of Legends. 4.1.2 Game settings The following game settings will be used: Map: Summoner's Rift Team Size: 5 Allow Spectators: Lobby Only Game Type: Tournament Draft 4.1.3 Restrictions of heroes The following heroes are disabled due to bugs impacting them: Gragas Lux Ziggs 4.1.4 Nickname tag Player must use and keep the nickname with which they are registered toward the ESWC and known under. Player is not allowed to change his nickname in-game. 4.2 Tournament match format 4.2.1 Best-of-one match A best-of-one opposes two teams of five players and is played on one map. Winner of a match is the team that has won one map. 4.2.2 Best-of-three match A best-of-three match is played in two or three maps and opposes two teams of five players. The winner of a match is the team that has won two maps. When a team won the two first maps the match is ended and the third map isn't played. 4.2.3 Tie-breaker match A tie-breaker match is played as a best-of-one match. 4.2.4 Time Rating match The Time Rating is the time that needed a team to win a match. When more than two teams are tied in a round-robin stage the Time Rating is used to determine the round-robin s order. Example for a round-robin stage: When three teams finish equal on points in a round-robin stage, the teams Time Rating will be used as tie-breaker. 6

Assuming team A won its first game in 60 mins and second game in 60 mins the team s Time Rating will be 120 Assuming team B won its first game in 50 mins and second game in 60 mins the team s Time Rating will be 110. Assuming team C won its first game in 60 mins and second game in 40 mins the team s Time Rating will be 100. At the end, team C finishes first with 100 of Time Rating, team B finished second with 110 and team A finishes third with 120. 4.2.5 Side selection The team side will be chosen randomly by tournament referee with a coin toss. For a best-of-one match the winner of the coin toss will get the blue side. For a best-of-three match the winner of the coin toss will get the blue side for map 1, and the other team the blue side for map 2. In case of a third map, a new coin toss will be made by tournament referee to determine which team will have the blue side. 4.2.6 Draft Mode The Draft mode proceeds in a snake draft format as follows: Blue Team = A / Red Team = B Bans: ABABAB Picks: ABBAABBAAB 4.3 Before match 4.3.1 Match start time The match start time indicates the time when the match begins. Therefore team is advised to be present at least 60 minutes before its match start time to setup its gaming gear and warm-up. Teams are invited to be up to date with the tournament schedule. 4.3.2 Setup and warm-up Team must play on the station designated by the Organizer. Teams are responsible of the good installation and functioning of their gaming gear. This includes providing and installing the adequate drivers when necessary, and providing the adequate type of cables or adapters when necessary. Tournament referee may possibly help the team with technical issues but may not delay the tournament schedule for such reasons. 4.3.3 Controlled Game Start If an error in match start or a decision by tournament referee to separate the pick/ban process from game start, a tournament referee may start the game in a controlled manner using Blind Pick. Players will select their Champions according to the previous valid completed pick/ban process. 4.3.4 Slow Client Load If a Bugsplat, disconnect, or any other failure occurs which interrupts the loading process and prevents a player from joining a game upon game start, the game must be immediately paused until all ten players are connected to the game. 7

4.4 During a match 4.4.1 Between match Players may not leave their PC between each game unless authorization given by a tournament referee. A teams may forfeit a game, or be forced to start a game shorthanded, if a player leaves its PC without their tournament referee permission, or is otherwise unable to play. 4.4.2 In-game pause It is forbidden for a player or coach to pause a game. If a player pauses or unpauses a game without permission from a tournament referee, it will be considered unfair play and sanction will be applied at the sole discretion of tournament referee. Tournament referee may order the pause of a match or execute a pause command on any player PC at the sole discretion of the tournament referee, at any time. 4.4.3 Match interruption If a match is involuntary interrupted (player crash, server crash, network outage ) the tournament referee may decide to not replay the match from its start according to the following rules: Any attack or ability is landed on minions, jungle creeps, structures, or enemy Champions. Line-of-sight is established between players on opposing teams. Setting foot, establishing vision or targeting skillshot ability in opponent s jungle by either team, which includes either leaving the river or entering brush connected to enemy jungle. Game timer reaches two minutes. 4.4.4 Match restart The decision to restart a match is solely at the discretion of tournament referee. 4.5 After match 4.5.1 Awarded match victory If a technical issue which leads tournament referee to declare a restart, the tournament referee may instead award a game victory to a team. If a game has been played more than 20 minutes on the game clock, the tournament referee, at their sole discretion, may determine that a team cannot avoid defeat to a degree of reasonable certainty. The following criteria may be used in the determination of reasonable certainty: Gold differential: The difference in gold between the teams is more than 33%. Remaining Turret Differential: The difference in the number of remaining turrets between the teams is more than seven. Remaining Inhibitor Differential: The difference in the number of standing inhibitors between the teams is more than two. 4.5.1 Investigation request When a team estimates being a victim of rules violations during a match, players are compelled not to stop the current game by any means and to properly finish the current side. Once the side is over, the team coach may officially ask for an investigation to tournament referee. It is strongly advised to provide valuable information that may help the tournament director in his investigation. Unjustified and repetitive use of this right may be sanctioned. 8

4.5.2 Score validation For a match both teams have to report the match score to the referee and sign the report match paper. After signing the report match paper a team can t request for an investigation. 4.5.3 Press conference Team cannot refuse to participate in an ESWC press conference, media partner request or signing session. 4.6 ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women Format 4.6.1 Format overview The ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women consists of two stages: 1. Round-robin of 8 teams 2. Play-off of 4 teams 4.6.2 Round-robin rules The round-robin is composed of 2 groups of 4 teams. The best two teams of each group are qualified for the next stage of the tournament. During the round-robin teams meet each other s in a best-of-three match (See rule 4.2.2). Each match result awards round-robin points (hereafter referred as points) as follows: 3 for a win, 0 for a defeat. If a team is disqualified or didn t finish a match during a round-robin, all his matches results within the group are cancelled and are also lost by default score of 2-0. All points won or lost are backwardly redistributed. 4.6.3 Round-robin tie-breaker rules During round-robin the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the round-robin matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings: 1. Higher number of points obtained in round-robin matches played among teams tied; e.g: team A won against team B, thus team A has 3 points and team B 0 point 2. Higher map difference obtained in the round-robin matches played among the tied teams will be used. e.g: team will have a map difference of +2 for a match won 2 maps to 0 map, and a map difference of -2 for a match lost 0 map to 2maps 3. If, after applying criteria 1 to 2 to several teams, two or more teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 2 are applied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 4 to 6 apply; 4. Higher map difference obtained in all the round-robin matches played by the teams still tied; 5. Lower sum of Time Ratings (see point 4.2.4 Time Rating) in the round-robin matches played among the teams tied. 6. Lower sum of Time Ratings (see point 4.2.4 Time Rating) obtained in all the round-robin matches played by the teams still tied. 9

4.6.4 Transition between round-robin and play-off The single-elimination bracket will use the following draw of teams after round-robin: First of group A versus second of group B First of group B versus second of group A 4.6.5 Play-off rules Play-off consists of a single-elimination bracket format of 4 teams. All matches are played in best-ofthree (See rule 4.2.2). The winner of the semi final will advance to the final to meet the winner of the second semi final. The two losers of the semi final will play match for 3rd place. 4.7 Tournament prize break down The $25,000 of cash prize will be distributed as follows: 1st place: $10,000 2nd place: $6,000 3rd place: $3,000 4th place: $2,000 5/8th place: $1,000 4.8 Tournament schedule All hours are on CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME (CET) or GMT+1. The schedule doesn't contain matches on the ESWC 2015 PGW main stage. Organizer will contact directly teams which will have a round-robin match to play in the ESWC 2015 PGW main stage. 4.8.1 Tuesday, October 27th All teams must arrive on Tuesday, October 27th. The check-in is located at Paris Porte de Versailles. Team must check-in between 14h00 and 20h00. Player must check-in individually. One player cannot check-in for all players. If your team or player cannot check-in before this date and time please contact us by email at smaillard@eswc.com. Team will be able to warm-up after their check-in and until 20h00 in the tournament area according to availability of the PCs. 4.8.2 Wednesday, October 28th Teams setup & warm-up 08h30-09h30 Group A - Round 1 09h30-12h00 Group A - Round 2 13h00-15h30 Group A - Round 3 16h00-18h30 4.8.3 Thursday, October 29th Teams setup & warm-up 08h30-09h30 Group B - Round 1 09h30-12h00 Group B - Round 2 13h00-15h30 Group B - Round 3 16h00-18h30 4.8.4 Friday, October 30th Teams setup & warm-up 08h30-09h30 1/2 Final #109h30-12h00 1/2 Final #211h00-13h30 10

3rd place match 14h30-17h00 Final - 16h00-18h30 4.9 Tournament setup 4.9.1 Tournament materials The Organizer will provide the following materials: Computer Monitor The Organizer will not loan material to player and will not delay the start of a match for a missing or inoperative player's material. 4.9.2 Participant own materials Players must provide the following materials: Mouse Mouse pad Keyboard (make sure to bring and test your own ps2-converter) Headphones Coach must provide the following materials: Headphones Each players and coach must provide all necessary cables to make his material work properly on the Computer and Monitor provided by the Organizer. All player materials are subject to tournament referee approval. Organizer reserves the right to deny the use of anything suspected of providing an unfair competitive advantage. Each player must install and configure his material himself, or with the help of his other teammates or coach. 4.9.3 Forbidden materials Players may not connect non-essential equipment, such as cell phones, USB Key, flash drives or MP3 to the PC or power strip, for any reason. During his setup if a player needs to add utility or driver not already available on PC he must request it to a referee. 5. CONDUCT RULES 5.1.1 Forbidden behaviors Player, Coach, Manager will be sanctioned if they are found attempting to violate in any way the present forbidden behaviors: Refuse to follow Referee instructions Arrive late at his convocation schedule Show dissent by word or action Use insulting language and/or gestures Use insulting language in-game Is guilty of unsporting behavior 11

Misleading on his identity (fake nick or identity usurpation) Misleading or dupe any Referee Don't put any effort to win match Try to manipulate group ranking Furthermore Player, Coach, Manager or any third party involved in the team may not take part, either directly or indirectly, in betting or gambling on any results of any ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women matches. The nature and scope of the sanction imposed due to such violations will be at the sole discretion of the referee and tournament director. 5.1.2 Prohibited in-game actions Restrictions may be added at any time before or during a match, if there are known bugs with any items, Champions, skins, masteries, or Summoner spells, or for any other reason as determined at the discretion of the tournament referee. 5.1.3 Prohibited software It is strictly prohibited for a player to use any software modifying the game functionalities, principles or graphical render. During the tournament, the organizer and referees will carry out random PC and player materials checks for prohibited software. If the presence or use of a prohibited software is detected, the concerned player will be banished of any current and future ESWC tournaments. The team the player belongs to will be removed from the ESWC 2015 PGW LoL Women and the cash prize earned if any will be cancelled. 5.2 Sanctions policy 5.2.1 List of sanctions After discovery of any Player, Coach or Manager committing any violations of the present rules, the Regulations Committee may apply the following sanctions: Verbal warning Game loss Match loss Disqualification Depending to the degree, repetition and the final analysis, Regulations Committee may apply additional sanctions such as banishment of future ESWC tournament and league, removal of all cash price and award, or legal proceedings. 12