What is the Western Championship
Series?
The Western Championship
Series (WCS) is an online tournament held for West Coast NA. These
tournaments are held every Wednesday at 7 PM PST. To know what region you’re
in, consult a TO on Discord.
Registration
- You have to belong to the NCS discord at http://discord.me/tournament . This
is done to help the tournament organizers to locate participants
easier.
- Your Challonge username needs to be the same or as
close as possible to your Discord display name.
Competing
- You must check-in on the Challonge bracket. The
Challonge website will remove players who do not check-in. Check-ins open
thirty minutes before the tournament starts and are open till the start of
the tournament. The tournament is not affected by players signing up and
missing the tournaments. Feel free to sign-up for any tournaments
regardless if you know you can make the tournament or not.
- During the tournament you need to be in the NCS Discord
server. This is necessary for opponents to be able to quickly and easily
find each other.
- Tournament admins will announce when the bracket is
final and the tournament has started in the NCS Steam group chat. When
this is announced, refresh your Challonge bracket and find your opponent's
name. Find the same name in the NCS Steam group chat and send them a
direct message. The NCS chat room will have a list of all tournament
participants. If you can not locate your current opponent through the NCS
Steam group chat then directly message one of the tournament admins.
- After a series is completed you may self-report the set
score on the Challonge bracket or report your score to a tournament admin.
The Challonge bracket will update automatically for you to find your next
opponent.
- We highly recommend players do a connection test before
starting their series. If either player is experiencing any connection
problems contact a tournament admin immediately. The tournament admin will
go through steps to resolve the connection issues and take appropriate
actions from there.
- If for any reason you need to leave the tournament
early or have issues not covered above, contact a tournament admin
immediately.
Ruleset
- Players are expected to behave in a reasonable and
respectable manner. Players may be disqualified, suspended or possibly
banned from future NCS’s for not doing so.
- Players must sign up as the same Challonge name every
week. This is needed to help seed the tournament properly. If you are
signing up with a new Challonge name or would like to have it changed you
need to contact a tournament organizer.
- You must have adequate internet connection to compete.
You may be disqualified from the tournament if your connection is unable
to keep up at a reasonable level.
- If a player loses connection during a match, that
player will forfeit that current match. Opposing players may allow to
restart the disconnected match if they agree to do so. Disconnections
should be immediately reported to a tournament admin.
- When a match desyncs, contact a tournament admin
immediately and that match will be replayed with the same stock count.
After each player removes any stocks needed the match will start on an
agreed upon signal. This could be both players taunting, the clock at an
agreed time or anything both players can agree on.
- The tournament is double elimination. All players will
have the chance to compete in a minimum of two series.
- All set will be played in a best two out of three
format. Top 8 will be played in a best three out of five format. If you
are unsure what the format of your current set is, contact a tournament
admin immediately.
- Stages are struck using in-game stage-striking, with
last-stage striking for the first game, and winner-strikes-two after that.
- When choosing stages, you cannot return to any stage
you have previously won on without the consent of your opponent.