Tournament Bracket, time and locations

The schedule is now live and below are the times and cafes that each game will take place.

The bracket can also be found at http://challonge.com/ACTDOTA3 and results will be updated throughout the day here.

Please be familiar with the times and location of each Internet Cafe.  We wish all teams tomorrow and Saturday all the best.

Autumn Cup Tournament Update and Details

A big thank you to everyone who has assisted me in registering their teams on challonge and uploaded a team logo.  For those who haven't, it's still not too late and you can just head to www.challonge.com and just comment below the team name or link to the profile with the comment.

The tournament will be played at two venues which are The Barracks and Sky Internet Cafe. 

The first games will kick off on Friday with and we will have four teams face off during this stage.

3pm  Friday 3rd April - FLCL vs #Hero at the Barracks.

3:30pm Friday 3rd April will be Ataxia1 vs Sponsored by Centrelink (Online)

Friday 3rd April Games

The loser of Sponsored by Centrelink vs Ataxia 1 will then face off against the losers of FLCL vs #Hero in the first round of the losers brackets.

Loser Bracket first round

The tournament will then resume the next day (Saturday 4th April) at 9am and these games will be played Sky Internet Cafe.

Saturday 4th April 9am kickoff @SKY Internet Cafe

Saturday 4th April 9am kickoff @SKY Internet Cafe

Once these games have completed we then move on to Round 2 with the seeded teams coming into play.  Wh0res will be playing the winner of 420 Praise it vs Omega Squadron while the winners from the previous day will fill out the 2nd match. and Team EZ will vs off the winners of OG vs Don't Smoke that.  These 3 games will take off at SKY internet Cafe once again.

Stay tuned as I'll continue working on the schedule and you can find out all the details here - http://challonge.com/ACTDOTA3

Interview with Sodium Hypochlorite captain, Mangoheart

Player profile

Name: Mangoheart

Age: 25

Current Team: Sodium Hypochlorite

Headset: Some random $50 phillips headset

Keyboard: Some random $40 logitech keyboard

Mouse: Some random $40 logitech mouse

Essential tournament food:  Food is not important. Staying hydrated is essential.

Budget gamer on the fly

G’day, mind introducing yourself to the Canberra DOTA2 scene?     
Hi my name is Dhika a.k.a Mangoheart, 25 year old uni student from UNSW. I did my highschool
and college in Canberra so I’m familiar with most of the places. I’ve been playing dota on and off for about 4 years now but only really started looking at things like drafting and competitive
gaming since TI3.

Are you able to introduce your team mates as well and their roles in the team?
We are mostly a collection of people from different amateur teams. I knows some of them mostly because we've played against each other a fair bit.
On our carry position we have Mr Defined Handsum, no comment on the name because we’ve
never met in person.
Over at the mid lane we have Odysseus, who is muted in 90% of games XD
In the offlane will be me, mangoheart, most wanted in 7 countries for the crime of killstealing
And in the supports we have the Canberra boys novaclipse and multicast king, who will attempt to stop the rest of us from feeding. It will however be a lost cause.

Team pic of Sodium

How long have you played together with your current team? 
About 3 or 4 times? Not much really as we all have our individual teams.

Being a fairly new team, is there anything that you do to strengthen your chemistry together?
Not really, this is a team which we put together quite hastily and just wanna have fun at a LAN.

We're bracing up for a pretty big solid tournament, what are you most looking forward to?
Looking forward to seeing high skilled players play competitive dota against each other

We have 4 interstate teams competing in this tournament, with the strongest one of the lot, 
being AVANT YMC.  Are you familiar with any of them and how do you fancy your chances 
against them?
I am familiar with the names because I watch a lot of competitive DOTA. I doubt we have any real chance against the top teams but anything can happen in DOTA.

What are your thoughts on the Australian DOTA 2 scene?
The competitive DOTA 2 scene in Australia has a lot of talent in it IMO but lacks exposure to the
international scene due to high ping when playing in SEA. Even the SEA scene is not taken
seriously by some people in Europe unfortunately

Back to our own local scene in Canberra, is there any teams that you’re familiar with and 
respect?
I've played against BoysBoys once in a previous tournament. Also played with people from some of the other Canberra teams in pubs. Nice community overall

Will we see you in future Canberra DOTA2 tournaments?
If I can make it :D

Mango, thank you for your time, is there anything further that you’d like to add or any shoutouts?
Shoutout to the rest of the guys from team fossil (killswitch, daisy, herpes and sobinix) as well as George Huang.

Canberra DOTA 2 Autumn Cup Ruleset

1.1 Admins

1.1. Everyone who is authorized by Canberra DOTA 2 to administrate the competition based on its rules and regulations will be called an “admin". Current Canberra DOTA2 Admins are: Chinky and BabyOwl and Whos_house.

1.2. Decisions made by admins are final and will not be changed.

1.2 Commitments

1.2.1 By attending the competition, players acknowledge without limitation to comply with the rules and regulations and with the decisions made by the admins.

1.2.2 Individual rule adjustments may be applied by the admins in correspondence with the teams and players.

1.2.3 Every player has to show the needed respect towards admins and other players. Insults and unfair or disrespectful behaviour towards anyone will not be tolerated and will be punished.

1.2.4 Every player must always have the newest version of steam and Dota 2 installed and has to check for updates in time before each match.

1.2.5 Every team accepts the official schedule of the competition and declares its ability to be available during these times.
2. TEAMS AND PLAYERS

2.1 Participants & Teams

2.1.1 Everyone with a valid steam account is allowed to participate in the competition and will be called a "player". A group of players will be called a "team". In order for a team to be able to play they need to fulfil the minimum required amount of team members (5)

2.1.2 A team has to consist of at least five and at most ten players.

2.2 Standins

2.2.1 Standins may be used if they are not part of any other team competing in the Canberra DOTA 2 Tournament. The team who is using a standin is obligated to inform an admin about the situation.

2.2.2 There’s a maximum of 2 standins per team per game.

3. SCHEDULE

3.1 Punctuality

3.1.1 If a team is not ready to start the match 20 minutes after the official starting time, the opponent team will receive a default win

3.1.2 If a team has a minimum of 4 players in the lobby 20 minutes after the official starting time, the game can start 4 vs 5 in CAPTAINS MODE, and after the picks the game will be remade ALL PICK MODE. If one team is still incomplete, the other team will receive a default win

3.1.3 If a team gets free win in the 1st Round and its opponent is available for Round 2, their game for Round 2 will start at the same time as the other Round 1 games.

3.2 Rescheduling

3.2.1 The change of a match time is only possible under exceptional circumstances and has to be approved by an admin

4. Gameplay Rules

4.1 Unless an admin interferes or both teams agree on the opposite, the team who is shown on top on the match page has to host the lobby. If it isn't hosted after 5 minutes, the second team has to do it.


4.2. The right of making the First Pick or choosing side is determined by league admin with a Coin Toss. 

4.3.  Before the match start all players must make their Steam profiles public in order that league admin can check them for SteamID correspondence.

4.4.  If one of the teams or both teams are late for the game start by more than:
4.4.1.    5 minutes – 30 extra seconds less during pick/ban stage and +1 penalty point. 
4.4.2.    7 minutes – 60 extra seconds less during pick/ban stage and +1 penalty point. 
4.4.3.    10 minutes – 90 extra seconds less during pick/ban stage and +2 penalty point. 
4.4.4.    If a team is late for more than 10 minutes, it will get 2 penalty points for each full 10 minutes. 
4.4.5. If a team is late for more than 30 minutes, it will forfeit the match. 
4.4.7. The waiting time without forfeiting can be extended up to 60 minutes by admins choice.

4.5.  In case of global technical problems with DOTA 2 client or Steam network, league administration may decide to postpone the match to another day.

4.6.  If a player performing picking duties is disconnected during pick/ban stage and unable to reconnect in time (if at least one conscious ban or pick is lost), match lobby will be re-made. Picking players must reproduce exactly all the picks and bans that were made prior to disconnect. If a team fails to comply with this requirement, the admin may issue warnings to the team and force teams to start the pick/ban stage over.

4.7.  Cup organizers reserve the right to change match start time if necessary. Team representatives must be notified at least 6 hours in advance about the changes.

4.8.  All player nicknames, team clan tags and in game logos must comply with the official tournament registration form of the team.

4.9.  Tournament organizers must be notified by email of any team roster changes by an authorized person within 24 hours of the roster changes.

4.10. Teams are allowed to substitute up to 2 players to attend the LAN.

4.11.  If a team uses a substitute player, his clan-tag must look as follows: «Stand-in>nickname».

4.12.  During the lobby creation phase, everyone in the lobby must follow the orders of league admin.

4.13. In case of 1 or more players losing connection to the game, the game is paused. If everyone is not back after 10 minutes, the game goes on. The waiting time can be extended at the discretion of game admin.

5. Spectators

5.1 Unless both teams agree differently there are no spectators allowed in the game. Members of the Canberra DOTA 2 team (Broadcasters and Admins) are allowed.

5.2 Spectators are not allowed in matches hosted by admins or streamed by official casters.

5.2 Admins, and official Canberra DOTA 2 broadcasters have the right to spectate any game without an agreement of the teams.

5.3 The officially approved Canberra DOTA 2 broadcasters will be GameStah or Barracks Staff.

6. Server location

6.1 The default server location will always be Australia.

7. Sides & Drafting Order

7.1. The »first team« is the one stated on the top of the scheduled match. (Top side on the match in the brackets).

7.2. Best of one: The first team will toss a coin and choose heads or tails.  The victor of the coin toss will decide to which side they wish to play on i.e. Dire or Radiant, while the second team gets whichever is left.

7.3. Best of three: The first team can choose the side.

8. Game Settings

SERVER LOCATION, PASSWORD and STARTING TEAM are set according to the rules above.

The remaining settings have to be:

GAME MODE: CAPTAINS MODE

PENALTY: None

CHEATS: No

SPECTATORS: Yes

VERSION: Tournament

SERIES TYPE: Defined by tournament stage

9. DURING THE MATCH

9.1 Picks & Bans

The hero pool always consists of all in Captains Mode available heroes and might therefore change several times during the competition.

9.2 Pauses

9.2.1 A pause should be announced at least three seconds in advance and calls a coherent reason (exception: not necessary, if someone disconnects). The game must not be resumed before both teams agree with it. When the number or the duration of breaks becomes too high or long, the teams must contact an admin who may force the continuation of the game.

9.2.2 Each team has the right to pause the game for a maximum of 10 minutes.

9.3 Disconnects & Reconnects

9.3.1 If a player disconnects, the game is to be paused instantly. Everyone has up to ten minutes to reconnect to the game (if the same person disconnects more than once, all times get added up). If this time is passed, the opposing team may continue the game, unless a admin demands the opposite. The affected player is in this case still allowed to rejoin later on.

9.3.2 If a player disconnects and is unable to reconnect due to Dota/Steam bug, teams will disconnect, create another lobby and load the game in order to keep the reasonable expectancy of a game.

9.4 Broadcasting

9.4.1 Every authorized spectator (according to 3.2) inside the game is allowed to provide a video stream with a delay of at least two minutes.

9.4.2 All players are allowed to first person stream their own tournament games unless an official streamer is doing so. The delay of the stream has to be at 2 minutes.

9.4.3 Streamsniping is not allowed!

10. Bugs

If any serious bugs occur, the game has to be paused immediately and the admins decides on how to continue. Abusing a bug is forbidden and will be punished.

11. Tools / Hacks

The usage of any Dota-related tool aside from Steam and Dota 2 during a match is strictly forbidden.

12. Ending

A game is finished when: an Ancient Fortress is destroyed, a team calls GG or the majority of a team leaves on purpose.

13. RULE VIOLATIONS AND PUNISHMENTS

13.1 Rule violations or ignoring a admins decision may result in a punishment. The type and amount of the punishments depends on the offense and is chosen by an admin.

13.2. Possible Team Punishments:

Default Loss / Null Game

Prize Money Reduction

Temporary ban from the competition

Permanent ban from the competition

14. PLAYOFF FORMAT

The format of the Canberra DOTA 2 Tournament will be a double elimination format. until the grand finals which will be a BO3.

The standard time of a round is 1 hour.