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IMEC's Coupe de France (Starts in November)
IMEC's Coupe de France is a 1v1 Tournament based on the French Football Cup.
Premiums & Freemiums welcome (Freemiums keep one slot open)
It is the sixth one in a series of European Cup Tournaments that I will host. More information can be found on:
IMEC's Iron Maid's European Cups (Overview Page)
Settings:
Map: France
Initial Troops: Automatic
Play Order: Sequential
Spoils: can be chosen by players when signing up
Reinforcements: can be chosen by players when signing up
Fog of War: No (because of the spectators
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General:
The Tournament will be played using the format of the Coupe de France.
Little change is the number of teams, as it would be impossible to find more than 7,000 players to join.
Link to real Coupe de France: Coupe de France 2009-2010 on Wikipedia
Signing-up:
There will be room for over 200 players (depending on sign-ups).
Please indicate Spoils and Reinforcements when signing up, otherwise Escalating Spoils and Chained Reinforcements will be used.
Sign-up period ends on November 10th.
Format:
[spoiler]Round 4:
At the end of the sign-up period it will be determined in which Round the Coupe de France will start.
Players 1 until 60 according to their points on the Scoreboard are automatically qualified for Round 5.
Depending on the sign-ups more players can be given automatic access to the next round.
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
Between 1 and 604 1v1 games, winners go through to Round 5.
Round 5:
It first will be determined, according to the Scoreboard, which 40 players of the 60 automatically qualified players will play with a Ligue 1 or Ligue 2 team, and so will automatic qualify for Round 7.
Players 41 until 60 will play with the corresponding Championnat National team (Second Post) and will join in this Round.
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
312 1v1 games, winners go through to Round 6.
Round 6:
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
156 1v1 games, winners go through to Round 7.
Round 7:
It first will be determined, according to the Scoreboard, which 20 players of the 40 automatically qualified players will play with a Ligue 1 team, and so will automatic qualify for Round 9 (Last 64).
Players 21 until 40 will play with the corresponding Ligue 2 team (Second Post) and will join in this Round.
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
88 1v1 games, winners go through to Round 8.
Round 8:
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
44 1v1 games, winners go through to Round 9.
Round 9 (1/32-Finals):
For the 20 players that are automatically qualified, it will be determined which Ligue 1 team they will play. (According to the Scoreboard)
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
32 1v1 games, winners go through to Round 10.
Round 10 (1/16-Finals):
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
16 1v1 games, winners go through to Round 11.
Round 11 (1/8-Finals):
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
8 1v1 games, winners go through to the Quarter-Finals.
Quarter-Finals:
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
4 1v1 games, winners go through to the Semi-Finals.
Semi-Finals:
Draw is made using http://www.random.org. Settings used are the ones of the home-team.
2 1v1 games, winners go through to the Final.
Final:
Draw is made using http://www.random.org.
It's a 1v1 game that will be played with No Spoils and Adjacent Reinforcements. Winner wins the Coupe de France![/spoiler]
Joining matches:
[spoiler]Players will be invited for their match using the invite-feature and will have 24 hours to join. If they fail to do so you will get another chance with a reminder and I also will note you. Players who fail to join after the reminder will be ejected from the tournament and a reserve will replace them.[/spoiler]
Winning matches:
[spoiler]You win your match as follows: 1. eliminate your opponent within 30 Rounds, 2. hold the most regions in Round 30 (if there is a tie then Round 29 will be looked at and so on), 3. your opponent deadbeats or 4. your opponent doesn't show-up and there is no reserve (walk-over). Note: If it is a Final then rule 2 doesn't count and play will go on until 1 player has won the game.
A draw can be possible in case of more legs, a structure with re-plays or a round-robin competition, when both players reach Round 11 in a game.[/spoiler]
Reserves:
[spoiler]Reserves are welcome and will only be used to replace players who didn't join there first game in the Tournament. Reserves never can replace higher-ranked players![/spoiler]
Disqualification Policy:
[spoiler]Notes: players will get noted for not joining their match after 24 hours of the invitation. 2 Notes will mean a Warning! (Yellow Card)
Warning (Yellow Card)
: A Warning will be given in the following cases: 1. to Freemiums who hadn't the possibility to join their match because they have no open slot, 2. to players who didn't join because they didn't play during the time the inDisqualification (Red Card): Disqualification will occur in the following cases: 1. for players who had the possibilty to join, but did not join their game after a reminder (exceptions under Warning Section) and 2. to players who deadbeated without
Notes, Warnings & Disqualifications will count for all upcoming IMEC's Tournaments![/spoiler]
Tickets for UEFA Champions League:
After all IMEC's National Cup Tournaments (21 Tournaments) have been played, the IMEC's UEFA Champions League will be played.
The following tickets can be won during IMEC's Coupe de France:
Winner: Group Stage with 32 Teams
Runner-Up: Qualifying Round 4
Semi-Finalists: Qualifying Round 3
Quarter-Finalists: Qualifying Round 2
Round 11 Losers: Qualifying Round 1
Next Tournament in the IMEC's Series: IMEC's Scottish Cup (estimated start in December)
