I officially announce The National Tournament now opened. However, the first match is yet to be played on next weekend, most likely Saturday. Since a quick tournament on weekdays seemed to be bad for a big part of players, our crew has decided to change the tournament length and rhytme. The games are now all to be played on weekends, Saturday and Sunday are the options. The thing would probably last 7 weekends at the longest for now, but however if some countries happened to be able to play two matches on one weekend, it might shorten. Since it would be rushy to just finish this off as soon as possible, I will be updating this thread with information during the next week. As you can see, now use this as the main thread for the tournament, which is for Match reports too.

Countries participating (5)

Finland
North America
The Netherlands
Poland
United Kingdom

Tournament supervisors

Vivando/Superjazz

Vegito

Sasik

St.Louis

Game mode: CTF

Mappool for Groupstage

BloodBunny's Lair

Diamondus Warzone

Galactic Warfare

Happy Semiconductor CTF

Jungle's Edge

Knightmare Castle

Marshland of Evil

Security Breach v2

Toxin Twister

Zaitox Station 67

Information about the tournament structure

Groupstage:

On the groupstage, all the 5 participating countries are put into one main group. All the countries play against each other once. A match consists of two rounds, each till 10 points or 15 minutes, whichever comes first. If a round is tied after 15 minutes, it counts as a draw. If a match is tied in total scores after two rounds, it counts as a draw. Each team gets to choose a map from the mappool for one round. You are allowed to play on a map that is not included in the mappool as well, but then both your and your opponent team must agree on it. However, you cannot argue on a map that is included in the mappool.

Groupstage scoring:

A victory is score-based. Your team receives 1 point for a total victory, and one additional point for each round they win in scores.
For example Nation A vs Nation B:

Nation A wins round 1 10-5 (1 point for Nation A)
Nation A and Nation B tie round 2 5-5 (No point to either country, but Nation A wins the match 15-10 in total, and so receives 1 point)

After the groupstage ends, the country that has got the least amount of points of all 5 teams, gets knocked out of the eliminationstage.

Eliminationstage

The country with the highest score(number 1)from groupstage faces number 4(last qualified country) from the groupstage. On the other semi-final, countries 2, and 3 face each other. The winning countries face each other in the Grand Final, while the lost countries face each other in the Bronze Final.

For eliminationstage there will be a mappool of 3 maps, that will be published later. Both teams are forced to pick one of them for one round. Now only total score-based wins matter. If the total score is still tied after two rounds, the third map that wasn't chosen by either gets played on the extra third round. If the game is still tied after 15 minutes of round 3, the same round continues, and the team to score the next point, wins the match.

About hosts:

Hosts for the matches should be searched beforehand as well. It should be as neutral as possible(at least not from either of the playing countries.) Hosts require jj2+ and a bit of knowledge for it. They should also be able to provide logs from played matches.

Upcoming matches:

An order for the groupstage matches has been officially drawn with one representant from each participating country. You can agree on any suitable time with your opponent country, as long as the match gets played within the given date(s).

Game Weekend #1

5th and 6th July

Finland vs United Kingdom
The Netherlands vs Poland
(North America rests)

Game Weekend #2

6th and 12th July

United Kingdom vs Poland
Finland vs North America
(The Netherlands rests)

Pos	Country	Points	Matches Played	Won	Tied	Lost	Rounds Won	Rounds Tied	Rounds Lost	Scores Made	Scores Lost
1	The Netherlands	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	8	6
2	Finland	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	14	11
3	Poland	2	2	1	0	1	1	2	1	16	14
4	United Kingdom	1	2	0	0	2	1	1	2	17	24
5	North America	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0