GSCL Rules

Open Qualifier Format
Play on Thursday, July 14th, at 6 PM CT.
8 team double elimination bracket. Best of 5. Top 4 move on to the Regular Season.

Regular Season
Weekly on Thursdays starting at 6 PM CT. (No games August 4th)
Each team will play one best of 5 match weekly, until they play all of the other 7 teams. (7 Streams)
Win-loss record is just based on if you win or lose the best of 5. (Earn 1 team win for winning the best of 5 match that week)
Top 6 teams make the playoffs.

Playoffs
Playoffs will be Best of 7 Matchups.
Playoffs are single elimination.
The top 2 seeds have a bye in the first round.

Playoff Bracket

Map Selection
Each team is allowed one ban. They can ban any Non-Standard Map or they can ban Standard Maps. If they ban Standard Maps they force the other team to choose one Non-Standard Map when the map picking begins.
In a best of 5 during the regular season and qualifiers, the team listed on the left chooses the map for games 1 and 3. Games 2 and 4 will be chosen by the other team. The 5th game will be DFH Stadium.
In the playoffs, after each team bans a map, the higher seeded team will get to choose games 1, 2, 5, and 7, and the lower seeded team chooses 3, 4, and 6.

Standard Maps
DFH Stadium (only for playoffs)
Urban Central
Mannfield
Beckwith Park
Utopia Coliseum
Mannfield Stormy
Beckwith Park Stormy
Beckwith Park Midnight
Utopia Coliseum Dusk
Urban Central Night
DFH Stadium Snowy

Non-Standard Maps
Wasteland
New Tokyo
Utopia Retro
Double Goal
Cosmic
Pillars

Tiebreaker Order
If two teams are tied a Head to Head tiebreaker will determine who moves forward.
If 3 or more teams are tied this is the order of tiebreakers:
1) Group Head to Head
2) Amount of individual games won between those teams.
3) Amount of individual games won across the entire league.
If two teams are tied after this they will play a one game playoff.
If 3 are tied after this then a one game round robin will take place.
If still tied after the round robin the best goal differential will get a bye in a 1 game single elimination bracket. If goal differential is the same across all 3 then names will be drawn from a hat for seeding the the single elimination bracket.
If 4 are tied a double elimination 1 game bracket will be randomly drawn and played out.

Prizes
1st Place: $750 CASH + [Steel Series Apex m800 Keyboards (x3)] + [Custom CINCH Controllers (x3)]
2nd Place: $375 CASH + [Steel Series Rival 100 Mouse (x3)] + [Steel Series QcK+ Mousepad (x3)]
3rd/4th Place: $187.5 CASH
MVP of the Regular Season will also be awarded a Steel Series Siberia 350 Headset.
Giveaways during stream: CINCH Customized PS4 Controller, Steel Series Siberia 350 Headset, and more!