RISEUP

With just over 2 weeks left until the big day, here’s a lot more information for those teams competing and those wanting to come watch.

Dates:

As posted before, the eXtreme LAN will open at the Kopanong Hotel & Conference Centre on Friday the 23rd of April and run until Tuesday the 27th. However RISEUP will only begin its games on Saturday the 24th.

Times:

RISEUP will have its servers set up by 4 pm sharp. This will be open for “Warm up” games until 6pm. We will provisionally organise and set up the servers and times for these games however if a team wants to change anything, they are more than welcome to message KING on mIRC with their queries. These warm up games will be announced once all the teams have registered on LanGames website and confirmed their attendance. At 6pm, the official competition will begin and run through 2 games for each team. Thus ending around 8 or 9 pm. This will conclude the days games.

Sunday will then be the main day where games will continue from 10am sharp, all teams having to be set up and ready to go by 9am in case of announcements or changes. As it stands, the Grand Finals will be played on Sunday night.

Format:

RISEUP has developed a new format so as to create more games for all the teams competing. This how it will work:

3 groups will be established with 4 teams in each. Then a simple round robin format will begin with each team playing each other in their designated groups. Following completion, the top 2 teams from each group will move on to stage 2 – Double Elimination. From there, we will look at the teams who placed 3rd in their respective groups and the 2 teams with the highest points and points difference will advance. Thus giving an 8 team double elimination process.

Updates:

All teams that have qualified or invited must register on the LanGames website under the eXtreme Gaming Event for the RISEUP competition. www.LanGames.co.za. Groups will be announced at 5:50 pm on Saturday the 24th so as to not allow teams to learn their opponents before the competition.

Another thing would be to announce that AMD will be sponsoring processors towards the competition and further details of those will be announced soon.

The full team list will be announced hopefully tonight with all competing teams.

KING.

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