WHAT IS BALTIC eCUP?

Local Tournaments & Baltic eCup Rules

General

Date: 09.05.2020 – 13.05.2020.
Prize pool: 2300€ for Baltic eCup. In addition
prizes from Red Bull.
Platform: PS4, FIFA 20.

Clubs get output for their sponsors:

1. Wearing the club shirt during the tournament.
2. Clip of the club/club sponsors (30 seconds).
3. Information for the commentators to talk about.
4. In return for the aforementioned, the organiser expects the participating clubs to
promote this tournament in their social and regular media channels.

To participate in the tournament the organiser needs a signed confirmation from the club.

Clubs give the right to the organisers to use their graphics, symbolics and photos.
Clubs confirm that if a registered player cannot attend the tournament, club needs to
find a replacement for him.

In a case when the club decides to forfeit from the tournament after the registration,
they will be issued a fine of 100€.

The participants agree not to take part directly or indirectly for personal gain or the
gain of third persons in betting or in similar activities in betting for the result or process
of the match at these tournaments. Gain in the meaning of this clause is financial as
well as any other gain.

The participants agree not to influence or attempt to influence directly or indirectly
with any direct or indirect activities the course of the match and/or previously fix the
result of the match or competition (fixed match result) regardless of whether the goal
of the person is to receive personal gain (proprietary or non-proprietary); create the
opportunity of gain for a third person or for any reason causing such behaviour. Gain
in the meaning of this clause is financial as well as any other gain, incl. non-proprietary gain.

The tournament is open to players registered for their country and the club’s Premier
League team.

Game mode: online, online friendlies. All clubs are allowed, except special teams
(Adidas All-stars, etc.)

All participants choose before the tournament two clubs to play with. The same club
cannot be playing against itself. In an event where both players want to play with the
same team, they do a coin-flip and the winner gets to choose his team first.

Game length: 2×6 minutes

Game speed: normal

AI: legendary

Squads: online

Game pauses: allowed

Commentators: off

Stadium/ambient sound: default

Using any kind of third party programs that alter the game in any way, are prohibited.
In an event of a disconnection, game/server/console crash, score and minutes played
are written down. Opponents start a new game and play until they have accumulated
90 minutes of total game time. Scores are added up. In the case of a red card, the
participant cannot use the red-carded player in the second game.

Yellow cards are not being carried over to the next games.

Not showing up or being late to a game for more than 5 minutes is considered as a
violation of rules. In this case, the player gets a default loss of 0:3. On multiple violations
(of any kind) participant will be disqualified from the tournament.
The broadcasting studio is going to be built a few days before the tournaments, to run
all the necessary tests. During these days, participants need to be ready to share their
gameplay/webcam signals with the production crew

Tournaments

The tournaments are played on PlayStation 4 consoles on FIFA 20. To participate,
players need to have a PlayStation Plus account as well.

The tournaments are being held on www.toornament.com website.

Participants must have their PlayStations connected to the internet with an ethernet
cable. WiFi and WiFi hotspots are prohibited.

Organizer of the tournament is not responsible for the internet connection of players.
To make the tournament smooth, participants need to make sure that their internet
connection allows them to play Online Friendlies mode. For that, they need to go to
PlayStation settings and run Test Internet Connection. In that test, NAT type needs to
be either NAT type 1 or NAT type 2.

Before the local group stage tournaments, all players in the same group need to add
each other as friends on PSN (same applies to the Baltic eCup). This allows players to
send invites to a match.

Participants are required to start their games as stated in the schedule. Players can
start a game only when an administrator has allowed it.

Each Baltic country has its own local group stage tournament. The best 4 players from
each country get a ticket to the Baltic eCup.

Tournament organiser needs to have access to all participants’ gameplay through
„Share play“ mode in PlayStation.

Tournament organiser has the right to change or alter the structure and the rules of
the tournament.

Local group stage tournament:

Each group has 5 players. All players play against each other once, which means 4
games for each player. Points allocation: victory 3 points, draw 1 point, loss 0 points.
Two best players from the group stage are invited to the Baltic eCup.

Tiebreakers: outcome of the game, game against each-other, goal difference, goals
for, goals against, golden goal.

Tournament is being held in a play-off system. All games are played as two-legged
fixtures where the winner advances to the next round and the loser is eliminated.

Prize pool: 2300€ for the winner.

Tournament broadcast and schedule

Schedule:

The tournaments takes place on 4 competition and broadcasting days: 2 x local group
stage and 2 x playoff.

Group stage tournaments are held on the 9th and 10th of May of 2020. Baltic eCup is
being held on the 12th and 13th of May of 2020.

Local group stage days:

Group stage tournaments in all Baltic countries are going to be running at the
same time. Each country has on both days 10 games, all of them broadcasted. The
approximate length of a game is 15 minutes. Between all games, there are 5-minute
breaks filled with the studio (comments, interviews, analysis, promotion, etc.)

Broadcasts start on both days at 17:45. The first 15 minutes is an introduction filled with
the studio. At 18:00 starts the first game of the tournament. Each next game starts 20
minutes later. Specific schedules will be revealed 2 days before the tournament. The
whole broadcast is approximately 3 hours and 45 minutes long. The broadcast ends at 21:30.

Baltic eCup days:

12 players will compete to crown the best Baltic footballer in FIFA.

There will be 12 games in total (6 games played on each day). All the games are being
broadcasted. Approximate length of one game is 2×15 minutes. Between all games
there are 5 minute breaks filled with studio (comments, interviews, analysis, promotion, etc.)

Broadcasts start on both days at 17:45. First 15 minutes is an introduction filled with
studio. At 18:00 starts the first game of the tournament. Each next game starts 35
minutes later. Specific schedules will be revealed a day before the tournament.
Broadcast on both days are approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes. Broadcast ends at 22:15.