[Beware]

Mindfreak Esports and ACL Community present a Halo Reach 'No Pro' Tournament

Fresh off the launch of ACL Community we are pleased to announce the first ACL Community tournament of 2012! Hopey from Mindfreak Esports in conjunction with ACL Staff will run this tournament leading up to ACL Gold Coast to provide perfect practice for newer or less experienced teams to gain more valuable tournament practice to sharpen their skills for our first Nationals event of 2012.

Details
How does this tournament differ from a regular ACL Reach 4v4 tournament? Well 'Pro' teams are not allowed to compete in this tournament in order to open up the playing field for much more even competition and give a chance for some newer and less experienced players to shine. Now Pro teams don't take offence to this rule, it simply means your skill is widely recognised in this community, and you are too good to compete .
Unfortunately these teams and their players are unable to compete in this tournament:
-Immunity
-Mindfreak
-Lateral
-Vox Eminor
-Break Even

Prizes
Thanks to Mindfreak Esports each member of the winning team of this tournament will win a 3 month xbox live membership.

*Must have a minimum of 10-15 teams registered in this tournament for teams to be eligible for prizes.

When
9th of January - 14th of January

Pool Play - 9th of January - 13th of January
Double Elimination - 14th of January

TIMES
9th Jaunary - 13th January - Whatever times you schedule with teams in your pool.
14th January - Double Elimination tournament starts at 12pm AEDT

Structure
Pool Play - Best of 3 Series
Pool Play will be run from Monday January the 9th of January to Friday the 13th of January it is up to teams to organise with other teams in their pool when they will play each other. All Pool Play matches must be competed by Friday night.
Each Pool will have (tba - usually between 4-5) teams. This is dependent on numbers and could change.
Each series MUST play ALL 3 games.
There is only one round of Pool Play. This means you will only play teams inside your pool before this stage of the competition ends. The reason you are playing all 3 games in a series is to better determine win/loss ratios. Your team may be required to play a tiebreaker game to determine seed for the next stage.

Double Elimination - Best of 5 Series
Each team does NOT need to play all 5 games if a result occurs after 3 games. Lose one series to enter the Losers Bracket. Lose another series and you will enter Placement Rounds. Placement Rounds will then determine Overall Points for your placing in the top 16.

For a more in detail explanation of the Reach 4v4 Tournament Structure go HERE.

Rules & Settings
The tournament will be using the ZBNS gametypes.
It is up to all teams to ensure that at least one member has all of the gametypes available to play.
Gametypes can be downloaded HERE from Killa KC account on Bungie.net.

The maps however have been slightly modified from MLG settings.
The maps we are using can be downloaded HERE from ACL Hoggy's fileshare on Bungie.net.

ACL Halo Reach 4v4 Tournaments have their own clear and specific rules. To compete in this tournament it is compulsory for ALL competitors to read the rules. You can view them HERE.

Registration
To register for this event go to the registration thread HERE.

Registration is open from now until Sunday the 8th of January at 11PM AEDT.

Substitutions
You may also post your substitute in the Registration thread HERE.

Tournament Referees
Referees for this tournament will be:
Hopey: Gamertag - MF Hopey, Skype - acl_hopey
Hoggy: Gamertag - ACL Hoggy, Skype - hoggy912
Beware: Gamertag - ACL Beware, Skype - damiencauci
Blaze: Gamertag - MF Biaze, Skype - witnesstheblaze

Mindfreak Esports
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Mindfreak Website
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So what are you waiting for? Sign up to the first ACL Community tournament of 2012 supported by Mindfreak Esports and get some of the best possible practicing leading up to ACL Gold Coast and a chance at some quality prizes!

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[Kus]

Really good idea, I believe it was Hopey's idea? If so, props man.

[Macca]

Great idea, props to Hopey but..

Beware, on 03 January 2012 - 05:58 PM, said:

Too good to compete .
-Infamous

[BrainSeeker 2.0]

This is your chance Slazy.

[xMsl]

This is actually a sick idea, CC #1 if they play <3

[Lunar]

seeker better be banned from this.

[Hopey]

Macca, on 03 January 2012 - 06:17 PM, said:

Great idea, props to Hopey but..

Infamous/After Shock are a great team.
They placed 7th at bris, right behind the nE. I believe they will be a top 5 team in the 2012 season anyway. + BOSS and bE are no more (unless some form of bE come back)

OT: Please let everyone know about this comp, if you play people in MM, let them know Cheers guys.

[Slazy]

Hopey, on 03 January 2012 - 06:51 PM, said:

Infamous/After Shock are a great team.
They placed 7th at bris, right behind the nE. I believe they will be a top 5 team in the 2012 season anyway. + BOSS and bE are no more (unless some form of bE come back)

OT: Please let everyone know about this comp, if you play people in MM, let them know Cheers guys.

but fate himself hates roosters, lovely team chemistry i assume.

good idea, depending on how many teams enter.

[Raymitsu]

Won't be here for this.
Shattered.
Are you guys going to do this type of tournament again?

[Hopey]

Slazy, on 03 January 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

but fate himself hates roosters, lovely team chemistry i assume.

good idea, depending on how many teams enter.

Any InF line up this year has done well.

PS: Blaze and I hated each other at some point as well.

[Paradox]

The only way (working) Perth kids can play is if games are organisd 8pm AEST onwards Mon - Fri. Dunno if people over east can be bothered playing competitive games later on in the night during a workin week. But im all for it. Godd stuff, can't wait

[Hopey]

Paradox, on 03 January 2012 - 08:54 PM, said:

The only way (working) Perth kids can play is if games are organisd 8pm AEST onwards Mon - Fri. Dunno if people over east can be bothered playing competitive games later on in the night during a workin week. But im all for it. Godd stuff, can't wait

It's up to both teams to organise this type of stuff, if people can't organise it themselves we will organise it for them.

[Horizons]

Could have picked a better name for this tournament

[ShesTrouble]

Our team only really will be playing late at night i think too... so wont be a drama there.

[Beware]

Horizons, on 03 January 2012 - 10:23 PM, said:

Could have picked a better name for this tournament

Its a great name

[JBizz]

sigh. putting pool play on the same say as fifa 12 OR1.. not like i can play in both anyways as i have work on the 9th

[Beware]

JBizz, on 03 January 2012 - 11:53 PM, said:

sigh. putting pool play on the same say as fifa 12 OR1.. not like i can play in both anyways as i have work on the 9th

Pool play is across 5 days.

[VaniShz]

if the haters want us to play, let us play

[Slazy]

Who is hating?

[JBizz]

i noticed that already damo, but what if atleast one series with a team must be played on the 9th. it still wont work