Race Format and Rules
League Format - Stage 1
Advancing from Stage 1 to Stage 2
Tournament Format - Stage 2
Streaming
Scheduling
During Your Match
Cheating
Referees
Referee Rules
Stage 2 Considerations
- Racers must use the PC version of the game (on Windows, macOS, or Linux).
- Racers must use the latest version of the game available on Steam.
- Racers must use the Racing+ platform to race against each other.
- Racers must use the latest version of the Racing+ client and Racing+ mod.
- Racers must race with the seeded format (where both players start with The Compass).
- Racers must use Judas as their character.
- Racers must use a goal of Blue Baby.
- Racers must use the Rebirth Item Tracker program during their run.
- Racers must also be uploading their items to the item tracker server during their run.
- Racers must have the game set (via the "options.ini" file) to one of the following 16:9 resolutions:
- 1024x576, 1152x648, 1280x720, 1366x768, 1600x900, 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160
- Racers are allowed to save and quit.
- Racers are not allowed to use co-op babies during their run.
- Racers are allowed to use any programs that read the game's log file.
- Racers are not allowed to use any programs that read the game's memory.
League Format - Stage 1
- The league will be a Swiss-system tournament.
- Each match will be a best of 5 (which will usually take somewhere between 1 and 2 hours).
- 1 point will be awarded for winning a match. (It does not matter if you win 3-2 or 3-0.)
- The first round match-ups are seeded based on Krakenos' TrueSkill seeded leaderboard.
- Racers who are not on the seeded leaderboard are seeded below that based on the mixed leaderboard.
- Racers who are not on the mixed leaderboard are seeded below that in a random order.
- Each round will last a week. During this week, a player will be expected to schedule and play a best of 5 with their opponent.
- The amount of rounds will depend on how many players sign up. For example, according to SwissTriangle.net, if 26 players sign up, there will be 6 rounds.
Advancing from Stage 1 to Stage 2
- 8 players will advance from the stage 1 to stage 2.
- The 7 players with the best win/loss record during stage 1 will advance to stage 2.
- Tiebreakers will be determined by looking at the sum of the opponents’ wins.
(If this is not enough to solve the tie, the sum of the opponent’s opponents wins will be used.
If this is still not enough, the sum of the opponent’s opponent’s opponents win will be used, and so forth.) - The last player to advance will be a “wildcard” player. The wildcard player will be chosen from a streamed random.org weighted roll that is based on the number of wins during stage 1. Thus, the more wins a player gets, the more likely he is to be chosen in the weighted roll. (This means that even if a player is not performing well, they are still incentivized to get as many wins as they can.)
Tournament Format - Stage 2
- The second stage will be a double elimination bracket tournament that takes place over the course of two days.
- Players will be seeded into the bracket based on their statistics from stage 1.
- Each match will be a best of 5 except for the finals, which will be a best of 7.
Streaming
- You must be able to stream your matches on Twitch.tv.
Furthermore, it is highly recommended that you locally record your match in addition to streaming it online. - You are allowed to watch your opponent's stream during the race.
- You are not allowed to stream with a custom layout or overlay. In other words, the stream must show show the entire game and nothing else.
- You are not allowed to password protect your stream.
- Your streaming account should be set to automatically record all of your broadcasts. Not having a public past broadcast is grounds for disqualification.
- You are not allowed to use the "Delay" feature of Open Broadcaster Software. (By default, this feature is set to 0.) If your opponent's Internet connection is bad and they have a high latency, you have the right to request a referee to review the latency and disqualify them. Disqualification in this respect is up to the discretion of the referee.
- You must stream in a good quality. If your opponent's stream is not smooth and/or of distorted quality, you have the right to request a referee to review the quality and disqualify them. Disqualification in this respect is up to the discretion of the referee.
Scheduling
- Each round will start at 00:00 EDT on a Monday and last a week, which means that players will need to schedule and play their match before the subsequent Monday.
- The Lemon Party Discord server will be the hub for communication. Each league player will receive an invite to this server. Once there, contact your opponent directly to schedule a match when it is most convenient for you.
- If a player fails to show up for their scheduled time, attempts should be made to reschedule as long as there is still time left in the week.
- If your opponent does not respond to any attempts to contact them, please contact a referee for further instructions. If they are unresponsive for the entire week, you will likely be given the win.
- If both players have not contacted each other, a tie will be given for the match.
- If both players are not able to schedule a time to play and one player was largely unavailable during the week, the win will go to the other player (at the referee's discretion). If both players have roughly equal time constraints, a tie will be given for the match.
During Your Match
- Both races can communicate during their match through the race's text chat using the Racing+ client.
- Optionally, racers can also be in a voice chat on Discord during their match. This is not required.
- During a race, several things can go wrong, such as computers crashing or real life emergencies. In these situations, it is up to your discretion whether you want to pause or not. Players are under no obligation to honor a pause request once a race has already started.
- If a player's stream does not meet the requirements outlined in the "Streaming" section above, their opponent can force a disqualification for that race. This is because a racer is expected to make decisions upon information that they receive from their opponent's stream.
- In the event of a close race (when racers finish within 2 seconds of each other), the in-game timers will be used as the way to determine the winner (as opposed to the winner reported by the Racing+ server).
- If both in-game timers report the same time, then a rematch will need to be played.
Cheating
- Due to the large size of the tournament, the referees will not have time to review every single race. Thus, if you feel that something fishy is going on, you should look through your opponent’s video and/or replay their seed to try and find evidence of cheating. If you do, please report it to the referees.
- If a player does not have video proof of their run, their opponent can force a disqualification for that race. This is why it is highly recommended to locally record your race in addition to streaming it online; if your internet goes down, you can continue your run and use the local recording as evidence.
- The referees retain the right to determine whether the given evidence is enough to disqualify a player or not.
Referees
- The list of referees is as follows:
- Rfilkins1992/Rafiki
- Sillypears
- Zamiel
- To contact a referee, send them a private message on the Discord server.
- Players who are also referees cannot officiate their own matches. Rfilkins1992 is the master referee and is not playing in the tournament; he has the ability to override decisions made by the other referees.
- Referees reserve the right to make a ruling even if is not based on a rule on this page or it contradicts a rule on this page. This is so that referees have the power to preserve fairness if there are attempts to "rule lawyer" the system.
Referee Rules
- If a referee needs to address the players for any reason in the middle of a race, they will first join their Discord voice channel and say "pause now please".
- A pause request can throw the result of a close race in question. If a pause is required, it is up to the discretion of the referee whether to start the match from scratch or not.
Stage 2 Considerations
- Racers that make it to the finals will be expected to work with the commentators and tournament organizers in order to find a time that works for all parties involved.
- If scheduling conflicts prevent a finalist from participating on the two days chosen to broadcast the finals, the next-highest player from stage 1 will be chosen to replace them.
- Racers will be required to use the Discord voice chat during stage 2 for the purpose of communicating with your opponent and the referee.
- Racers are required to follow any instructions that the referee issues, including pause requests.