Guild Wars 2

So today i found myself in a situation where i had to check the rules of the ToG just to learn that the written rules and enforced rules are not the same at all, based on “we always enforced it like this”, this is by no means a try to get any made rulings changed but the written rules should be changed to reflect what gets enforced, especially now that we have the 2nd cash tournament coming and the qualifier to it likely following similar rules.
So here all the rules with comments:

Teams may request roster changes up until 24 hours before their first match. Players joining the roster may not have played for any other team during the tournament.

Bascic stuff, this is ok, but anet should add that you are not allowed to play in more than one region aswell, as the events in different regions are handled as different tournaments on paper, this already got enforced in the past several times.

Only players that participate in the team’s final match in the tournament will receive rewards.

This is mostly ok, but for the future it would be nice if players that did not play the final match but matches prior to that could get some reduced rewards aswell.

If a player disconnects during a tournament game, play must continue. The match game will not be restarted. In the event of a server crash or other event that causes all players to disconnect, the match game will be restarted.

Pause option needed, nothing mroe to say, if ever added a rule for maximum pause time and times game may be paused by one team and acceptabel reasons for pausing must be added.

Play will begin when all players have pressed the ready button, or when the judge manually begins the match game. Judges will manually begin a game after all players have entered into the map and the judges have told the players to leave spectator mode.

Last sentence should be something along the lines of “Judges will manually begin a game if the players got told to start and didnt ready up within X minutes.”

If all players are not present and ready at the designated start time, judges will wait no longer than 5 minutes to start the game.

This does not reflect the enforced rules. First of all the “not” should be infront of “all players” also it should be mentioned that this is a reason for a DQ

In the event of a tie-breaker game, the team with the highest cumulative player score will be declared the winner.

While this rule is actually realy fun, it’s not what they want to say at all. It should be “In the event of a tie” not “tie-breaker game”, a tie-breaker game is a game that is only played to resolve a tie, so this rule would mean that if there would be a tie teams would play an extra match that is not decided by score but by cumulative player score, which btw sounds like something that could be quite fun.

Teams that forfeit any rounds in the finals will be disqualified and will not receive prizes.
Players are expected to act with courtesy and respect toward all other participants, administrators, and spectators. Any excessive vulgarity or “bad-mannering” may lead to a player or team’s disqualification from an event.
Guild names and player names must abide by the Guild Wars 2 Terms of Service and Code of Conduct.

This 3 rules are ok

All rules are subject to a tournament organizer or tournament administrator’s interpretation. We reserve the right to alter or amend any of the aforementioned rules without notice.

This simply has to go, players need to get some kind of notice if any rules got changed and what the changes are, so there should be some protocol to changing rules liek where changes will be posted and how long before becoming active this changes will have to be posted.

how about a ruleset that doesn’t include downed state/rallying? eg: as a custom arena option.

scerevisiae.1972:

how about a ruleset that doesn’t include downed state/rallying? eg: as a custom arena option.

Let it go