The Tournament Rules for Halo 3

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Terminology:

Bracket
A flow chart indicating who should play whom at any point in the tournament. The completely deterministic nature of a bracket ensures fair play.

Match
A pairing between two people in the bracket. The two people play each other until a winner is determined. For example, the final Match in in the tournament determines who gets 1st and who gets 2nd.

Round
A bracket is divided by rounds. Each round, teams that are pitted against each other will play their match, and after all matches in a round have been played, the tournament moves on to the next round.

The TO (Tournament Organizer)
The person ultimately responsible for running the whole tournament.

Save•Point Staff (S•P Staff)
The TO has a lot of people helping. These people usually watch over Matches and help to resolve conflicts. Thus, those people are called Save•Point Staff. They are tournament officials. While they can help to resolve conflicts, the TO is the ultimate authority in making sure the rules are enforced.

Registration:

• All participants must be registered before the cutoff time given for each event.
  
• Teams must register all four members, and a team captain must be designated. If a team captain is not chosen, the person who registered the team will be the captain.
  
• To qualify for a tournament, a player must be 18 or under, or still be in high school. If a player is out of school, a state ID or Driver's License is required. If a player is in school still, a current school ID is required. No exceptions will be made.
  
• All players must use the name they registered at sign up for matches.
  
• All controllers and equipment must be checked in upon registration. Attempting to use equipment not ok'd by the TO or Save•Point staff will result in an immediate forfeit.
  
• Only controllers with no special features may be used for a tournament. Any controller with features such as Turbo will not be allowed. The only modified features a controller has must be purely cosmetic in nature.
  
• Due to time restrictions, no more then 16 teams will be allowed into the tournament.
  
  General Rules:
  
• Matches are set for a Time Limit of 15 minutes and a Score Limit of 50.
  
• Motion Tracker will be set to off.
  
• Teams must be ready to play their matches when they are called. After one minute, a team will be forced to forfeit the match if it is Team Slayer, or be forced to play shorthanded if the match is Multi Flag.
  
• The higher seeded team must play as the Red Team. The lower seeded team must play as the Blue Team.
  
• There may be no use of the Elite Armor Classification.
  
  Gameplay/Map Rules:
  
• No leaving the normal boundaries of a Map.
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• No grabbing/holding a flag outside of the normal boundaries of a Map.
  
• No placing the oddball out of reach, in an illegal spot or an area where it won’t immediately “Play Ball”.
  
• Breaking any of the Gameplay/Map Rules above will result in a Forfeit of the Game.
  
• Multi Flag Games will have an initial time limit of 15 minutes. If after 15 minutes, one Team is winning and their flag is in the starting position, the Game is over. If, however, the Game Score is tied after 15 minutes, the Game must continue and the next Team to score a Point will win the Game (Sudden Death) with an imposed time limit of 10 minutes.
  
• If the initial time limit is reached in a Multi Flag Game, the difference in Points is 1, and the winning Team’s flag is not in the starting position, the Game must continue. If the losing Team scores a Point and ties the Game before the flag is returned, the Game must continue in Sudden Death, but if the flag is returned, the Game is over.
  
• Teams are permitted to start Multi Flag and Team Oddball Games with three Players. However, Teams with fewer than four Players are not permitted to start a Team Slayer Game and Teams with fewer than three Players are not permitted to start any Games.
  
• Quitting from a non-Team Slayer Game, before it has ended, without Save•Point Staff or TO permission, will force your team to forfeit the match.
  
• Incorrectly ending a Game, without S•P Staff or TO permission, will result in a Forfeit of the Game.
  
  Advancement and Scoring:
  
• Once a team has won the match, the winners of the Match should report the result to the TO. Failure to do so will result in the win not being recorded.
  
• The tournament is set for Single Elimination.
  
• The Finals will be a best of 3

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"One of humanity's worst crimes is Mario RPG, in which Koopas you could previously just slaughter with reckless abandon were suddenly these dudes you had to take turns with to murder.

This is unacceptable."

[Artaneius]

I need a moderator or whatever to ban my name and every single topic and post I made. I will not attend this tournament and will no longer be going to any tournament that is based on a young casual crowd that do not understand the fundamentals of what a tournament is. SP has shown me complete disregard of appropriate rules and regulations. The age restriction rules is complete and utter unrealistic in every sense of the word. The majority of gamers in the world are between 20-30 years old and the majority of the SP community are around 18 and about to graduate. This community will literally kill itself with these rules that make no sense. If your afraid of a competitiveness attitude environment then I suggest stop making gaming tournaments altogether. For both you and St. Joseph Library have no right or even the privilege to host gaming tournaments with such unprofessional and unrealistic rules and regulations. SP was a fun experience for me while it lasted, but with most SP gamers coming over the limit you will just kill yourselves and you deserve it for not accepting the facts that ALL gaming tournaments will be competitive in nature.
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[Austin2]

[*]Motion Tracker will be set to off.

[*]There may be no use of the Elite Armor Classification.
[*]No going onto the crane boxes on Amplified.
[*]No going onto the ledges above the lobby on Construct.
[*]No going onto the Carbine Towers on Heretic.
[*]No going onto the ledge above the windows inside the bases on Heretic.
[*]No going onto the high ledges on the outside of the bases on Heretic.
[*]No going onto the high ledges on Narrows.
[*]No going into the attic above the bases on The Pit.

Wow...just wow. ^ I can kind of see where the post above me came from

I don't even know where a few of these(places I guess we can't go) are but why are they banned? If I'm correct, one of those spots is a spawn point.

And no motion trackers? Wow. I thought the whole thing was about playing regular old Halo 3 so casuals could come in and feel comfortable?

Ans SUPER WOW. No Elites? I don't believe most people would use them anyway, but I really hope this wasn't because some people think it's harder to pull off a headshot on an Elite.
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I don't get back into work until Monday, but it's fairly evident that if I were to wait until then to address these issues that there would have been even more chaos.

A few things:

First off, I'm really sorry to hear that you're no longer going to be attending or be a part of Save Point. You seem to misunderstand the point of the tournaments, however, as I laid out exactly why Save Point exists in the other thread. Let me reiterate:

Save Point is a program created by the library to give teens a place to come together, build a community, and compete against each other with video games as the medium of choice. Our budget comes from the Teen Budget. Our staff and time comes from the Teen department. Our entire mission statement and goals since 2004 have been based around the very purpose of providing a scene for teens. I'm sorry that you aren't happy that as a non-teen attending a teen program that you aren't being allowed entry. That rule has been known for a long time, and was reiterated again recently. There is literally no surprise here, however if you somehow thought that it was going to change last minute, I'm sorry for your misunderstanding.

Save Point is a teen program funded by teen money with the interest and purpose of providing a venue for teens. It sounds as if you're fairly well aquatinted with MLG, and I suggest you take advantage of their tournaments in the future.

As for your remarks about us failing to be competitive, I appreciate your opinion on the matter, even if I disagree with your final assessment.

In regards to the rules about what and where are off limits, well to be quite honest I wanted to bring up a discussion about these, and I figured the best way was to post them and then ask. However, I got off of work, and I know you all don't have a copy of my schedule, but I'm not allowed to work overtime.

The deadline for rules was today. That's not me, that's publicity and several other factors that demand that my work be finished on time.

I'm still having a hard time understanding why turning off the motion tracker is such a massive blow and alteration to the very core of Halo matches. I'm not understanding why communication between players is such a chaotic deathblow to the way Halo is played. There seemed to be some discussion going on about it, but when asked about it I didn't have any more follow up. I'll open a thread about it right now though, so we can figure this out.

As I stated above, my deadline was today and on top of trying to put together the prize budget, the unannounced partnership with GameCrazy that I wanted to surprise everyone with, the blog write up, the publicity and meetings to get fliers and cards pushed together, the meeting with Matt and reiteration to the Save Point staff about the rules, the creating of templates for official Save Point Staff Lanyards, and the actual Reference Desk job duties that make up the other 90 percent of my responsibilities, I wasn't able to completely nail the rules in a 100% satisfactory manner for a game that I am still learning about that was requested by popular demand.

I do not state all this to whine, I state all this to hopefully illustrate that I am not trying to drop the ball on this and I'm not trying to make a bad tournament. I am attempting to put together a good season of Save Point that's already swapping games mid-season.

If anyone else would like to speak rationally and without flair the rules, as we have always done even right up until the tournament day itself, feel free to discuss them. As requested I have banned Justin's account. I'm going to get back to my guests who are over now, and I'll check the boards later tonight after they leave and before I go to bed.

Thanks to everyone else who is still here and still supporting the staff, Save Point, and the collective efforts of those involved. I'll see you all later tonight :)
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"One of humanity's worst crimes is Mario RPG, in which Koopas you could previously just slaughter with reckless abandon were suddenly these dudes you had to take turns with to murder.

This is unacceptable."

[Mr.Moo]

[P]

You are welcome to actually provide feedback instead of simply showing gratitude to other posters Mr. Moo.

The rules have been edited in regards to area allowances.
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"One of humanity's worst crimes is Mario RPG, in which Koopas you could previously just slaughter with reckless abandon were suddenly these dudes you had to take turns with to murder.

This is unacceptable."

[Baby Mario]

The ledges on Narrows, does this include the ledges below the main bridge? AKA the ones you can jump from the bridge, straight to the Gravity Lift area.

Then also... No ELITES? *tears*

*sobs*

*other actions for crying*

[Mr.Moo]

No you can't go there. The guardians glitch out and don't kill you.
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"Apparently, I'm top tier..." -

[Baby Mario]

Ugh, be that way... I still need a team, so I don't think it'll matter.