The teams have qualified, and the final run to LAN begins!!!!!!

There will be an email going out with a host of information to the teams which mostly reiterates the below, but given there may be team changes needed, this is a good space to post the key details.

Pre-Event

• All teams must be advised to admin@gearupforbattle.com by Sunday 22nd July at 11:59pm AEST. These teams will be the LAN finals teams, and are unable to be changed following this date unless exceptional circumstances arise which must be communicated to the admins and discussed.
  
• Teams may make changes as per the rules of up to 2 players for their LAN final team from the original online qualifier core.
  
• All Invite teams will advise their LAN final teams by the same Sunday 22nd July at 11:59pm AEST deadline, or the team from the Melbourne event will be assumed as the team to play on Sunday 29th July.
  

You can head to CityHunter Chinatown on Thursday or Friday before the event, and inform the manager that you are part of the NVIDIA Tournament to receive the special of 8 hours for the price of 4 at the LAN cafe.


Qualifier Finals - Saturday 28th July
The Qualifier finals comprise the final 12 teams. The following teams have qualified and are invited to the event finals!!!!!

Qlimax
Frigorific
MEKA
Thermodynamic Gaming
AVANT
emphatic Gaming
fatality7
SYF Gaming
reborn Gaming
Carnage
ENCORE
Serialz Snapback Krew

• All teams are to arrive at CityHunter Chinatown by 9:30am at the latest to register.
  
• Teams will be allocated seating based on a first FULL team, first choice basis.
  
The Chinatown CityHunter is laid out as follows:


• Teams will be seated in sections A & D ONLY on the Saturday qualifying finals. No teams will be allowed in Section C.
  
• Teams will not be allowed to install drivers on their PC's without the absolute consent of an admin on the day. Invite team players and existing CG & tournament admins are volunteering on the day, and hold full admin discretion - the admin team is as follows:
  
Arseynimz, ViroL, Millah, motion, nick, tal, JOSH-, spachala, Samson, Presto, Qwertz, Spud.

• Servers will be local, and the 8 PC's at the lower of the picture in section D will be allocated as playing servers.
  
• The tournament will be run in two pools of 6 teams. These pools will be as follows:
  



Pool A	Pool B
Qlimax Thermodynamic AVANT SYF Gaming reborn Gaming Snapback Krew	Frigorific MEKA emphatic Gaming fatality7 Carnage ENCORE




• Teams will play 5 round robin matches against all teams - these will be a single pre-determined map under the knockout_lan_knife_mr15 promod mode.
  
• In the event of a 15-15 score at full time, an overtime period will be played under traditional mr3 conditions. Promod mode of knockout_lan_mr3 will be used.
  
• Teams will knife for sides only at the start of each round robin match.
  
• The top two teams from each pool will be the qualifier finalists. This will be based on the following criteria:
  


1. Win/Loss record
   
2. Rounds won/lost ratio
   
3. In the event the above two scenarios can not resolve the top two teams, the finalist will be determined based on who beat who in the round robin match.
   


• Team conduct at the finals will be dealt with via a warning to the team captain to warn his players, and then by round penalisation. In extreme cases, players will be removed from the venue. All conduct issues are at the discretion of the admin team and event organisers. Be competitive, not abusive.
  

Grand Finals - Sunday 29th July
The NVIDIA Tournament - Call of Duty 4 Final Invited teams are:

Team Exile5
MindFreak eSports
Vox Eminor
Frenetic Array

These four teams will be joined by the final four teams from Saturday's qualifying finals to battle for the over $20,000 in prizes!

• All teams are to arrive at CityHunter Chinatown by 9:30am at the latest to register on the Sunday.
  
• Teams will be allocated seating based on a first FULL team, first choice basis.
  
The Chinatown CityHunter is laid out as follows:


• Teams will be seated in sections A & D ONLY for the Sunday Grand Finals. The qualifying teams will be seated in Section A, the Invite teams will be seated in section D. No teams will be seated in section C.
  
• Teams will not be allowed to install drivers on their PC's without the absolute consent of an admin on the day. The admin team for the Sunday Grand Final is as follows:
  
Arseynimz, ViroL, Spud and others as nominated by these three admins.

• Servers will be local, and the 8 PC's at the lower of the picture in section D will be allocated as playing servers.
  
• The tournament will be run in two pools of 4 teams. These pools will be as follows:
  



Pool A	Pool B
Team Exile5 Frenetic Array Winner Pool A Sat Qualifier 2nd Pool B Sat Qualifier	MindFreak Vox Eminor Winner Pool B Sat Qualifier 2nd Pool A Sat Qualifier




• Teams will play 3 round robin matches against all teams - these will be a single pre-determined map under the knockout_lan_knife_mr15 promod mode.
  
• In the event of a 15-15 score at full time, an overtime period will be played under traditional mr3 conditions. Promod mode of knockout_lan_mr3 will be used.
  
• Teams will knife for sides only at the start of each round robin match.
  
• The top two teams from each pool will be the qualifier finalists. This will be based on the following criteria:
  


1. Win/Loss record
   
2. Rounds won/lost ratio
   
3. In the event the above two scenarios can not resolve the top two teams, the finalist will be determined based on who beat who in the round robin match.
   


• Team conduct at the finals will be dealt with via a warning to the team captain to warn his players, and then by round penalisation. In extreme cases, players will be removed from the venue. All conduct issues are at the discretion of the admin team and event organisers. Be competitive, not abusive.
  

Final Series - both days

• Matches will be played under the rules as above for promod modes.
  
• Matches will be best of 3 map finals.
  
• The first knife round will be for choice of map or hand over to opposition to choose map.
  
• The team who did not choose the map will choose the side.
  
• In the event a third map is needed, teams will knock out the remaining maps by veto. The winner of the knife round will choose the first map to knock out, the loser of the knife round will then choose the next map to knock out, and then the winner will in turn choose the map to be played. Teams will knife for sides on the third map.
  

Miscellaneous

• In the interest of keeping the event on time, we have scheduled a one hour break at 1pm each day. This will be the only break of the day, and it is not expected any other breaks will be allowed EXCEPT for a small 15 minute break before the final series on each day. Please ensure your team is prepared for this.
  
• Any delays of game will be penalised with round points at the discretion of the admin team - please do not be late to your matches, and do not delay the event.
  
• Video and photos will be taken at all times throughout the event. By attending the event you recognise that your photo will be taken or video footage will be recorded and used for various purposes (marketing, advertising of the event, and similar activity).
  
• Please be aware that the matches will be broadcast on Twitch.tv, minimal delay will be present on the stream, and various TV's will be showing the match throughout the venue on the day. If a player is seen to be "screen cheating off these streams, a punishment suitable will be enforced - if you can see a TV from your position at the event, then inform an admin before a match begins or at the first instance you are aware you can see the stream.
  
• If the shoutcasting team is in broadcasting a match, they will in all instances govern the time the match runs, and when they do and do not ready up. Please refrain from spamming them to ready up as they may be under instruction, or performing event obligations (sponsor and related activity).
  

Lastly, if you have any other question, please post them up, else, good luck and have fun - see you next weekend! For those wishing to come spectate, there will be prizes for those who come along and aren't playing - with the possibility you too could take home an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 from ASUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sweet can't wait.

Best of luck to all teams competing.

awh noooo, i wont see fez >:

Can't wait.

Well I dunno about everyone else, but it's only a 6 days away - I'm good lol x

It's good to see that the best teams did end up going through in the end. Should make a really heated and intense LAN :-)

Gl all cant wait to get there

Sweet as, will head down on Sunday for finals. Might take a camera as well and put this grumpy guys photos to shame

Best of luck to all teams, should be awesome to watch.

Shame i live in the middle of a desert.

gl all. should be some good games. hoping for some big upsets!

hope it runs as smooth as the melbourne event guys, with virol and arsey on the job there isn't any doubt

dob ur goin down lmao

zzz, we Really should've gone to this