Announcing Indus Cup 2
Indus Cup and Av3stan are back with the second cycle of the even that began in 2020 with a prizepool of 1000 US$+ .
For whom?
This time it is open to players from the entire Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. Each team can sign up to 5 players, with the average highest 1v1 elo (taken from aoe.net) of the top three players capped at 1900 and only one of the players per team can be above 1900. Players without a 1v1 rating are expected to complete a few 1v1 ranked games and acquire a rating.
There is a limit of 32 teams with an elo based cut-off if more than 32 teams register.
Timeline
Sign-up deadline: 25th April 20:00 GMT | Brackets: 25th April 23:59 GMT
Expected timeline*:
Round 1 (Single Elimination): 26th April to 2nd May
Round 2 (Single Elimination): 3rd May to 9th May
Round 3 (Double Elimination): 10th May to 15th May
Round 4 (Double Elimination): 16th May to 22nd May
Round 5 (WB Finals and LB Semis): 23rd May to 29th May
Round 6 (LB Finals and Grand Finals): 30th May to 5th June
Grand Finals: 6th June (Live casted)
Sign Ups
Sign ups are currently open at the discord. You will need to be active on discord for the updates.
Sign-up deadline: April 25th 20:00 GMT
Prize-pool
The prize-pool for the event is $1000+ and it will increase with 1$ per subscription to the twitch channel.
If you would like to contribute to the prize-pool then please let me know privately on discord (Hiten#2919).
The prize distribution will be as follows:
1st: 60%
2nd: 40%
The Maps
A few new maps (in some cases editing old community favorite maps) have been developed for the tournament by our own Nanda (lovemeheyhey#9516) for this tournament apart from the standard maps.
Map Pool: Arabia, Arena, Nomad, IC2_Sundarbans, IC2_Sigiriya (Regicide), IC2_Thar, IC2_Soorma, IC2_Siachen and IC2_Kaptai.
IC2 maps can be downloaded as an in-game Mod (Indus Cup 2 Map Pack)
Rules and Settings
The entire handbook containing the rules and settings will be there at the discord server.
Subcontinent eligibility
One of the subcontinent countries:
is your place of birth
you have citizenship yourself
one of your parents has the citizenship of
in which you have a permanent residence
in which you have lived in the past, for minimum 3 years
Streaming Policy
All games will be streamed on my twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/av3stan. In case you are looking to be a caster or co-caster of the tournament, please DM me on discord.
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