Version 5.0 · Season 5

Rulebook

The short version. Admin decisions are final; where this page and an admin ruling disagree, the ruling stands.

1. Eligibility

1.1Open Division entries are restricted to players resident in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan or Türkiye. Challenger and Premier allow up to two players from outside the region.
1.2Every player must be 16 or older on the first day of the season, or hold guardian consent on file with the admin team.
1.3A player may be registered to one roster per season. Moving mid-season requires admin approval and a seven-day waiting period.
1.4Accounts with an active VAC or game ban on record are ineligible.

2.1Rosters consist of five starters and up to two substitutes, all registered before the team's first match.
2.2Stand-ins are permitted for a maximum of two maps across a qualifier stage, and must be approved by an admin before the match starts.
2.3Fielding an unregistered player forfeits the series.

3.1Matches use the current Valve Active Duty map pool and MR12 with standard overtime (MR3, $10,000 start).
3.2Bo3 veto: ban, ban, pick, pick, ban, ban, decider. The higher seed starts the veto.
3.3Teams must be in the server ten minutes before the scheduled start. Fifteen minutes late is a map forfeit; thirty is a series forfeit.

4.1All online matches run on FCS servers with the series anti-cheat client active for every player.
4.2Each team may pause tactically four times per map for up to thirty seconds. Technical pauses must be called in chat with a reason.
4.3Demos of every map are recorded and kept for ninety days.

5.1Abuse directed at players, casters or admins in any FCS channel is grounds for removal from the competition.
5.2Betting on any match in which the player's team is involved is prohibited and results in a permanent ban.
5.3Disputes must be raised with an admin within thirty minutes of the end of the series.

6.1Player statistics are computed from match demos. Ratings use FCS Rating 2.0, normalised so the series average is 1.00.
6.2A player needs forty maps in a season to qualify for season awards and the default leaderboard view.

Locked · Coming soon

The full Season 1 rulebook is published before the first match. Registered teams get it first.