Hello Team Captains,

It has come to our attention that many teams are late to their games. This is making it very difficult for other teams and we hope everyone would be more punctual. We understand that some teams are in different time zones but if you agree to a specific time to play, you have to stick to that agreement. To protect other players and encourage teams to be on time, the following rule will be implemented:

DELAYING THE GAME FOR MORE THAN 20 MINUTES
If a reasonable amount of time has been provided for both Teams to prepare for the match (at least 24 hours) and the opposite team is incomplete(e.g. not everyone has arrived) for more than 20 minutes, the team that is present will automatically win one game (of the two) by default. The 20 minute count down begins as soon as your own team is complete. For example, if the agreed time to play was 8pm AEST and your team completed at 8.10pm AEST, the opposing team must complete before 8.30pm AEST else ONE game is won (in favour of the present complete team) by default.

Otherwise, you can postpone the match to a later date. This bring us to the next topic.

Due to the coming Holy week, many players will be busy thus stage 1 will be EXTENDED until the 30th of April.

8th - 14th April - Stage 1, Round 2
15th - 21st April - Stage 1, Round 3
22nd – 30th April – Stage 1 Catch up games
1st May- Captains are informed about Stage 2
13th May - Stage 2 begins
Late May - Finals and Completion!

Tl;DR Please don’t be more than 20 minutes late or you will lose by default, and stage 1 has been extended.

-The above will be effective as of today-

Hello Team Captains!

Round 1 just passed and Cubicle Gaming would like to thank everyone for your cooperation. It has not been easy to organise 16 teams in this tournament but we hope that everyone had an awesome time playing Dota2 with people across the company! We had a few problems around communication so we cannot stress the importance of joining our Discord channel.
• Here is the link to the Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/Q6FspT6
• Wondering who you will be playing against for round 2 and 3? Check here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L_Je8of3x1h8Z4Tgw4A4UMIlO5gWkUuiesAl8gOHRtE/edit?usp=sharing

We also like to remind you of some rules…

• ABSENT FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES: If a reasonable amount of time has been provided for both Teams to prepare for the match (at least 24 hours) and one of the teams was absent for more than 5 minutes without notifying the other team (via the dedicated Discord Channel), then the match is automatically forfeited in favour of the team that was present (two wins). In addition, a warning will be issued to the absent team for bad eSportsmanship and will be disqualified from the tournament if it happens the second time.
  
• PAUSING DURING GAMES: It is forbidden to pause a game for no reason. In the same game, the total pause time can't be longer than 10 minutes (if a team pause the game for 3 minutes and later pause it again for 7, they can't pause anymore, unless the opponents agree with it). A pause shouldn't be longer than 5 minutes. In the case a longer pause being needed, the opponent and Admin need to agree. Un-pausing a game is only allowed if both teams agree to it in all chat or a pause lasted longer as 10 minutes and no further agreements were made. Abuse of the pause will lead to a disqualification. Screenshots of proof and the demo of the game must be uploaded into the match.

Now that is out of the way, here are Round 1 results!


Team Name-Points

GROUP A
W4 - 2 points
UrinalGaming -1 points
Manila's Finest-1 points
Ombudsman -0 points

GROUP B
TP MAAX -2 points
timba- 1 points
Jason Tang Fan Club- 1 points
PisoNetGaming- 0 points

GROUP C
KULAFU -2 points
OBOSEEN- 1 points
Lel-Stra -1 points
Looser than Medusa- 0 points

GROUP D
QI360 -1 points
Team Go on Avail -1 points
Juke Nukem* - 0 points
Hullbota-Ayaw* -0 points

*Juke Nukem and Hullbota-Ayaw have delayed their match due to unforeseen circumstances.

Round 2 is next! Good Luck, have fun and please COMMUNICATE! If there are any issues, problems, penta-kills or you just want to give us a hug, please don’t hesitate to email us at CubicleGaming@team.telstra.com OR chat with us on DISCORD. Here is the link again! https://discord.gg/Q6FspT6

Cheers,
Shen aka AppleCorn
Admin

The tournament will be split up into two stages – A group stage and an elimination stage. All teams will get a chance to play in both stages.

Don’t like words? Diagram here![imgur.com]

Stage 1 – Groups:
• Teams will be divided randomly into 4 groups of 4 teams
• Each team will play 3 rounds, 1 round with each other team in their group
• 1 round consists of 2 games
• For each game your team wins, you will earn 1 point in the group stages
• For rounds between Australia and the Philippines, 1 game will be played on each server
• In the case of a tie within a group (2 teams having the same score after the 3 rounds have been played), a single tiebreaker game will be played before stage 2.

The group stages will be up to you as team captains to organise times. We will post up who you are matched against each week and you will have 7 days to organise and play a game.

After each round, both team captains will email cubiclegaming with screenshots of the match summaries and match IDs.

Stage 2 – Single Elimination:
• A diagram of this stage has been attached
• The 1st placed team of each group will have their first match against the 4th placed team of another group
• The 2nd placed team of each group will have their first match against the 3rd placed team of another group
• Each series here will be a best of 3 (BO3) with coin flip determining the server if there is a 3rd game
• This is single elimination so losers of each BO3 will be knocked out of the tournament

For the elimination stage, one of us will be spectating each game so we will be in contact with team captains to organise games for this stage.

TL;DR Look at diagram, email us with questions.

1st Place: $20 Steam Vouchers for each team member + a ‘cool’ trophy to share at your discretion
2nd Place: Mousepads with our to-be-designed logo on them

13th March - Captains to be informed about Stage 1
1st - 7th April - Stage 1, Round 1
8th - 14th April - Stage 1, Round 2
15th - 21st April - Stage 1, Round 3
22nd - 23rd April - Catch up games/tiebreaker games
24th April - Captains are informed about Stage 2
6th May - Stage 2 begins
Late May - Finals and Completion!

Next week we will be emailing out the groups and who you will be playing for round 1

Thank you to the 16 teams that registered for our first competitions!

You should have been sent an email today telling you about this Steam group so please encourage your team members to join also as all announcements will also be posted here for outside work access.

As there are many more of you than first anticipated, we are having to do some rethinking of the tournament format but never fear! The first games will kick off from Saturday. 1st April onwards which gives you plenty of time to practice.

Details on tournament format and rules will be posted early next week!

The teams registered are:

• W4
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Joenard
    
  • Steam Name: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
    
• PisoNetGaming
  • Country: Philippines/Australia
    
  • Team Captain: Trixie
    
  • Steam Name: AkemiKeshou
    
• Juke Nukem
  • Country: Australia
    
  • Team Captain: Patrick
    
  • Steam Name: Gia Carangi
    
• Jason Tang Fan Club
  • Country: Australia
    
  • Team Captain: Not Jason Tang
    
  • Actual Team Captain: Taka
    
  • Steam Name: tee
    
• OBOSEEN
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Dan
    
  • Steam Name: A | Doffy'24
    
• KULAFU
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: John
    
  • Steam Name: TYX
    
• Ombudsman
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: John
    
  • Steam Name: Vanquish
    
• Looser Than Medusa
  • Country: Australia
    
  • Team Captain: Kevin
    
  • Steam Name: Iceman
    
• Lel-Stra
  • Country: Australia
    
  • Team Captain: Christian
    
  • Steam Name: dichyo
    
• QI360
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Mark
    
  • Steam Name: wackz
    
• timba
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Karlo
    
  • Steam Name: Nocturnal.Padilla <3
    
• UrinalGaming
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Xavier
    
  • Steam Name: Y.not
    
• TP MAAX
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Luciano
    
  • Steam Name: Lord Rothschild
    
• SIIAM
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Jan
    
  • Steam Name: soi uchiha
    
• Manila's Finest
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Monsour
    
  • Steam Name: FREEDOM
    
• Team Go on Avail
  • Country: Philippines
    
  • Team Captain: Richmond
    
  • Steam Name: ryujin