Last Modified: February 2, 2023
These rules are subject to change at the administrator’s discretion. If rules should change, all captains will be notified accordingly.
The Handbook’s General Rules apply to all CEA games, please read them first!
Last Modified: February 2, 2023
These rules are subject to change at the administrator’s discretion. If rules should change, all captains will be notified accordingly.
The Handbook’s General Rules apply to all CEA games, please read them first!
CEA Spring 2023 Season Calendar
Week 0 is a mandatory practice week to prepare for regular season. While matchups will be made available, results will not count towards Regular Season standings
Regular Season:
In the regular season, games will be a 2-game series (also called a bo2) each week, instead of a bo1. Playoffs will continue to be bo3. We will also be using a new Ladder Format instead of Swiss for the regular season. See the "III. Ladder Format Rules" section.
Every 2 weeks, each team gets 2 matchups, one as a challenger and one as a challengee. The exceptions are that the lowest team on the ladder challenges 2 teams and gets challenged by 0, and the highest team gets challenged by 2 teams and challenges 0.
You may challenge any team up to 4 places on the ladder above yours, with one exception: if the team directly above yours is unchallenged on your turn, your team will auto-challenge them (I will let you know if this happens) instead of having a choice. This is to prevent them getting "left behind".
We will clearly post the first round and second round of matchups in every 2-week period after challenges are completed.
Each matchup is a 2-game series (aka bo2). In every 2-week period, the first round matchup’s default time is on the first Saturday at noon, the second round matchup’s default time is on the second Saturday at noon, but they may be rescheduled any time within the 2-week period and played in any order. All games must be played by end of day Saturday of the second week.
Starting at 10am Sunday after every 2-week period, I will message teams in order from lowest to highest place on the ladder, and ask which team you would like to challenge. If nobody on your team responds in 2 hours, I will auto-challenge the lowest ranked available team, and move on to the next captain. Each team may only be challenged once, so if somebody else challenges that team they are removed from the pool of possible challengees. You can tell me ahead of time if you won’t be available but have a preference on who to challenge, and I will do my best to challenge that preference if they are available.
If nobody from any team responds, these will be the auto-challenge scenarios in a hypothetical 8-team ladder (challengers on the left side, challengees on the right):
8-7
8-6
7-5
6-4
5-3
4-2
3-1
2-1
After every 2 week period, the game lead will re-calculate the points and update the ladder standings.
Starting points will be assigned by the game lead after reaching out to the captains. Most likely it will be based on a rough ordering of how good teams are, and assign the lowest team 1000 points, the second team 2000 points, etc. Point transfer is calculated by Losing Team Points/Winning Team Points * 500 _per game_ in the two-game series. Winning team gains that much and losing team loses that much for every game.
Bi-weekly challenges with team captains, matchups, and the spreadsheet containing the current ladder points and bi-weekly point changes will be posted in Discord in the #dota2-announcements channel.
Warning System: All warnings may be given, escalated, or modified at the discretion of the game lead.