SACtember Showdown! Quake Champions Captains Draft 9-28 at 2PM EAST-$700 PrizePool.

Good Morning Quakers! Church of Quake will be running a Quake Champions Sacrifice Draft Tournament, titled SACtember Showdown starting September 28th at 2 PM EAST, in the Church of Quake discord. Current Prize Pool is $700! Max ping 150 to NA EAST Virginia. Each team will consist of 4 members. Draft will start one hour earlier at 1 PM EAST. This tournament is open to all players, but you must ping 150 or lower to NA EAST, and you must be able to play at the designated start time.

The tournament is open to all skill levels, and international participants are welcome as well but they MUST ping below 150 ping to NA East Virginia. This will be a Draft tournament with the organizers picking captains. Captains will draft their teams 1 hour before the start of the tournament, at 1:00 PM EAST. All Captains must be present for the draft. Signups close a day before on Friday, September 27th, so signup early. We want at least 32 players for 8 teams of 4 players.

If you want to practice for the tournament, or just want to play more quake join the Church of Quake discord where we have a pubobot for pickup games. We play Sacrifice every night around 9 PM EAST.

Prize Pool: $700

1st place – 50%
2nd place – 35%
3rd place – 15%

Important Links:

Casting:

Organizers:

Tones discord
Old Hickory discord

Rules from Organizers

Map Pool:

Tournament Format:

All games will be on Sacrifice Tourney mode not normal Sacrifice.
Double Elimination
Bo3 Upper Bracket
Bo1 Lower Bracket
Bo3 Lower Bracket Final
Bo5 Grand Finals with upper bracket winner getting one bye round.

Winners Bracket & Losers Bracket Final:

Matches will be BO3
Server Choice – NA EAST Only
Map choice – Teams will ban, ban, pick, pick, ban. Winner of coin flips bans first.

Losers Bracket:

Matches will be BO1
Server choice – NA EAST Only
Map choice – Team that wins a coin flip will choose the map.

Grand Final:

Match will be BO5
Server choice – NA EAST Only
Additional map added to map pool (for final only): Cursed Soul
Winners bracket finalist has one map advantage
Map choice – both teams ban one map. Maps will begin on Blood Covenant (unless banned then starts on Burial), and continue in alphabetic order.

Disconnects, Grace Period, & Misc. Rules:

Disconnects will be given 3 minutes to reconnect.
If unable to reconnect, the team with members present can force a forfeit, or accept a 3v3.
Teams will be given a grace period of 15 minutes to have all players ready for their first game, or will take a loss.
We encourage Streaming. No delay is required, but a delay of 10 to 30 seconds is recommended.
Do to an unfortunate bug causing crashes KEEL is banned from being picked for the duration of the tournament.

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HAPPY FRAGGING FOLKS, AND GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE CONTESTANTS PARTICIPATING!