Rulebook: Rocket League (Duos)

1. Stoppage of Play Procedure: A Player experiencing technical issues on either team, or a teammate of such a player, may call for a restart of the game prior to Game of Record (defined below) being established for significant Issues without requiring agreement from the opposing team.
2. The Player requesting a restart must be experiencing one of the following Issues:
   1. A hardware malfunction (e.g. equipment failure)
   2. Physical disruption (e.g. breaking furniture)
   3. Software Failure (e.g. crashing) or Disconnecting
   4. Other extreme or extenuating circumstances (e.g. household emergency).
   5. Severe lag (>140 ms ping) if it is suspected that the individual server (not the region) is at fault. If connecting to a new server does not fix the issue, and other players are not experiencing the issue, this procedure should not be repeated.
3. While pausing cannot occur in a Private Match, the Game may be re-created for these circumstances.
4. If a Player Issue occurs after GOR is established, the Game may be restarted if agreed to by the opposing team. Otherwise, the shorthanded Team will continue to play out the single Game within the Series until the Player reconnects or the Issue is resolved.
   1. A disconnected Player may rejoin at any time. After a disconnect, if the Player cannot rejoin, any other rostered Player from the shorthanded team may join during the Game. 
   2. If the disconnected Player is unable to join the Game prior to the next Game in the series, the Player’s Team may either substitute another Player from their roster or continue shorthanded.
5. In the event of a game server crash, the Game Lead will determine next steps.
6. General Game Lead Decision Tree:
   1. If no goals have been scored – remake the game and start again (with full duration).
   2. If goals have been scored – 
      1. >3:30 time remaining on the clock: remake the game and allow teams to score off of kickoffs to return the score, and play a full game.
      2. <3:30 time remaining on the clock: remake the game and allow teams to score off of kickoff stopping 1 goal short of the intended score, until within ~30s of the time remaining. Then allow another goal to set the score as intended, and proceed as normal from the following kickoff.

Game of Record

1. A game of record (“GOR”) refers to a game where all players (six typically, five in the case on an intentional 2v3, four in the case of an intentional 2v2, etc.) have loaded in and joined their team, the game clock has been started (no longer reads 5:00), and at least one (1) significant in-game event has occurred (as defined in Section 2 below). Prior to all three of these conditions being met, if a serious issue has occurred, players should stop play and restart the match, or contact the Game Lead to assess the situation. Once a game attains GOR status, the game will be considered as “official” from that point onward. After the establishment of GOR, game restarts will be allowed only by agreement between both teams or with Game Lead approval.
2. Significant events, any of which satisfies the third condition for establishing GOR:
   1. A goal is scored