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Rules

These are the rules of the Certified Tournament Administration. If you have any questions regarding these rules, please contact the CTA Staff. This is your warning!


Section 1: Pre-Game Behavior

1.1 - You can only sign yourself up. You may not sign up for anyone else, or ask anyone else to sign up for you. If anyone signs anyone else up, or is signed up by anyone else, the person who did not sign themselves up will not be allowed to play in the tournament until they sign themselves up. The only exception to this rule is if the Spark-HQ site goes down for any reason.

1.2 - Sign up with the name you'd like to have your statistics recorded on, or if it's an icon tournament, the name you'd like to have your icon appended to. If you play on a name that you didn't sign up with, you will get the stats recorded for that name.

1.3 - By signing up for a CTA game, you have become committed to play. If you leave the game halfway or leave before the tournament starts, you will be penalized in either stats or suspensions. There are exceptions to this rule, but they are not the norm.

1.4 - If you are not signed up, you cannot play. You may enter the server after and ONLY after all signed-up players have already entered You will be a substitute player. Until every signed-up player is chosen to play, the subs will not be able to be picked. If the game fills up before any substitutes are picked, then the game will commence without substitutes. Substitutes may still be called upon to play if a signed-up player has to leave, lags out, or is kicked from the game by an administrator.

1.5 - While captains are picking teams, spectators will only speak in team-chat. If you forget, you will be issued a warning. If you offend repeatedly, you may be removed from the game server by a CTA Staff member. Also, try not to shoot too much while everyone is still in the pen at the beginning of the game. This has been known to crash the server, and unfortunately, has happened multiple times.

1.6 - Spectators are more than welcome. CTA's purpose is to increase the entertainment sector of Spark! When you enter the server, go to spectator mode and quickly state that you are a spectator. However, to alleviate confusion, spectators may only join the server once the game has started. To obtain the password for the game, simply PM one of the referees running the game (a member with a -CTA- or -CTAt- next to their name, who is spectating in the server). Spectator privileges may be denied at the discretion of the CTA Staff depending on how full the server is, or if a player has already been kicked from the game.

1.7 - If there are specific rules to the tournament, you are obligated to read the rules and follow them accordingly. Ignorance is not an excuse. Specific rules can be found at http://www.spark-hq.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=75.


Section 2: In-Game Behavior

2.1 - No cheating of any kind is allowed in CTA games. If any cheating is witnessed, the player will be subjected to the collective wrath of the Spark Administrative Team, and suspension and/or bans may be dealt out from them.

2.2 - If the CTA staff decides your connection is unstable or game-altering, you may be asked to spectate, and must therefore do so.

2.3 - No verbal abuse (such as swearing, racial slurs, spamming etc) is permitted towards anyone in CTA games, including the CTA Staff. Anyone caught doing this will be subject to warnings, suspensions and bans at the discretion of the CTA Staff and/or the Spark Administrative Team.

2.4 - Unlike what is common in most league games, restriction of chat to teamchat will not be enforced. However, if it gets out of hand, restrictions on chat may be placed by CTA Staff members.

2.5 - Once you are placed on a team, you must remain on that team unless the CTA Admin or Referee states otherwise. Switching teams will not be allowed.


Section 3: Post-Game Behavior

3.1 - No complaining or whining of any sort will be tolerated after a match. Examples of this are complaining about teams, MVPs or statistics.

3.2 - Leaving right before the game ends to save your statistics will also not be tolerated. Anyone caught doing this will be awarded a 0/10 K/D ratio (or worse), and will be subject to warnings and suspension from CTA tournaments.