Messtival! is back!
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On Saturday April 16th & Sunday April 17th we’re bringing you the largest Messtival! tournament to date.
Read on to find out all the details.
Date & Time
Check in day 1: Saturday April 16, 2016 - 5 PM CET | 4 PM GMT | 11 AM EST | 8 AM PST
Start day 1: Saturday April 16, 2016 - 6 PM CET | 5 PM GMT | 12 AM EST | 9 AM PST
Check in day 2: Sunday April 17, 2016 - 5 PM CET | 4 PM GMT | 11 AM EST | 8 AM PST
Start day 2: Sunday April 17, 2016 - 6 PM CET | 5 PM GMT | 12 AM EST | 9 AM PST
Registration
There is no cap on signups this time. Up until 1 hour before check in starts, each and every team is welcome to sign up.
Signups will go through Battlefy. At least one member of your team will have to register on Battlefy in order to be able to sign up. To do so, all you need is a valid email address.
Once registered, head on to the Messtival! 4 homepage and click on “join”. A list of details will be asked before completing your signup, and you have to fill them all out to proceed. Don’t worry though, it’s not a whole lot. In fact, this might be the least amount of time you’ve ever spend on signing up to a Messtival! tournament. These are the required details to sign up:
In Game Name (this needs to be your team name!)
Captain IGN
Captain NNID
Player 2 IGN
Player 3 IGN
Player 4 IGN
Player 5 IGN (use a hyphen if not applicable)
Player 6 IGN (use a hyphen if not applicable)
Player 7 IGN (use a hyphen if not applicable)
Player 8 IGN (use a hyphen if not applicable)
For a more detailed description (with screenshots) on how to register, see the full ruleset.
Once you’ve filled out the details and joined the tournament, join our discord server and put your team’s name in the #register channel, so we immediately know what your captain’s discord name is. And that’s all there is to it!
Tournament Settings
Day 1 will be played in a Swiss style bracket and will consist of six rounds. After those six rounds the top 16 will advance to the final stage which will be played in a double elimination bracket. The shift from top 16 to top 8 (winners & losers rounds 1 & 2) will also take place on day 1. On day 2 the top 8 will be played out.
Maps
In Messtival! 4 the JFG special will make it’s return. For those of you unfamiliar with this variation on a Halo style map rotation, you will find an explanation in the spoiler below.
In every best of five (Bo5) match, the first 3 maps will be randomly selected in advance by the TOs. These games will use all three ranked modes in the game.
If a game four is needed, the team that’s trailing get’s to choose the map and mode. However, this may not be the map and mode combination that they have already won in the current match.
If a game five is needed, the other team now gets to choose. Again this may not be a map and mode combination that they have won.
In every best of seven (Bo7) match, the same rules apply to games six and seven.
The full maplist can be found here.
Rules
Even though the vital rules will be posted in the #rules channel on discord as well as on the homepage of Battlefy, we do advise that at least the captain of each team reads the full ruleset. Don’t worry, it’s not a long read. The link to the rules can be found at the bottom of this thread, as well as in the #general-information channel on discord.
The Messtival! team
@Njok
@FIREEEE
@SquiddiamFancyson
@Rioluxiomastar
Discord
Rules
Battlefy (includes brackets & participants)