ZOOTR SG Live 2019 Tournament - Qualifier Rules

These are only the qualifier rules. The full tournament rules will be shared in due course.

Tournament Format

The tournament has 3 phases: optional online qualifiers, onsite groups and an onsite bracket.

Qualifiers Settings

Qualifiers will use V4.0 using the Accessible Weekly Settings Preset.

Qualifiers Format

Participating in online qualifiers is optional. The top 3 receive guaranteed spots for the bracket and subsidised travel/accommodation. Qualifier scores will be used to determine group seeding.

There are 20 qualifiers races. You may compete in a maximum of 5 (completing less will negatively impact your score). Any incomplete races will be considered a forfeit.

You do not need to have a ticket for SG Live to participate in the online qualifiers. Participation in qualifiers does not guarantee a spot in the group stage. The group stage is first come first serve for the first 50 people that buy a ticket and sign up. You can play in the qualifiers without a ticket but only the top 3 that make it into the brackets stage will be guaranteed anything. beyond the top 3 qualifiers are for group seeding purposes only.

Qualifiers Schedule

Week 1

• Sunday, August 4th - 6pm EDT / 12am CEST
• Monday, August 5th - 11pm EDT / 5am CEST
• Wednesday, August 7th - 8pm EDT / 2am CEST
• Friday, August 9th - 1pm EDT / 7pm CEST
• Saturday, August 10th - 12pm EDT / 6pm CEST

Week 2

• Sunday, August 11th - 6pm EDT / 12am CEST
• Monday, August 12th -  1pm EDT / 7pm CEST
• Wednesday, August 14th - 11pm EDT / 5am CEST
• Friday, August 16th - 8pm EDT / 2am CEST
• Saturday, August 17th - 12pm EDT / 6pm CEST

Week 3

• Sunday, August 18th - 6pm EDT / 12am CEST
• Monday, August 19th - 11pm EDT / 5am CEST
• Wednesday, August 21st - 1pm EDT / 7pm CEST
• Friday, August 23rd - 8pm EDT / 2am CEST
• Saturday, August 24th - 12pm EDT / 6pm CEST

Week 4

• Sunday, August 25th - 6pm EDT / 12am CEST
• Monday, August 26th - 8pm EDT / 2am CEST
• Wednesday, August 28th - 1pm EDT / 7pm CEST
• Friday, August 30th - 11pm EDT / 5am CEST
• Saturday, August 31st - 12pm EDT / 6pm CEST

Qualifiers Scoring

The scoring method is very similar to the one used for the ALTTPR Fall 2018 community tournament qualifiers. For each race your score will be determined as follows:

• 2 - (your finish time / par time) where par time is the mean of the top 3 finish times
• Scores will be converted from decimal to non-decimal by multiplying by 100
• Scores will be capped at a maximum of 100 and a minimum of 0
• Scores will be rounded to two decimal places
• Forfeits will receive a score based on the last place finish time plus 15 minutes

Of your 5 results your best and worst will be excluded. The mean of your 3 remaining results forms your final score (which will be a number between 0 and 100).

In the event of a tie to determine the top 3 overall qualifier winners, all tied racers will have a race-off using the same settings.

Qualifier Rules

Inability to finish a race that you have started, regardless of the reason, will still count as a race that you participated in and will result in a forfeit.

• Races will take place on SRL
• You must stream your race on Twitch and archive all VODS (until qualifiers end)
• You are required to delay your stream by 20 minutes
• You must continue streaming until the credits are over

Please do not talk in the qualifier race channels except for the necessary race commands. Do not leave an SRL comment until the race has finished. If in doubt, please don't say anything at all.

Make sure you are ready on time because the race WILL start without you!

Race Rules

• No emulator-specific functionality is permitted (e.g. save states, fast forward, etc)
• Auto-tracking is not allowed
• Accessible Ruleset as defined here

Looking Ahead to Groups and Brackets

Players who participated in the qualifiers will be seeded into their groups based on their final score from the qualifiers. Players who did not participate in the qualifiers will be randomly seeded at the bottom.