Period	14.10.2023 - 17.10.2023
Applications	12.10.2023 23:00 - 14.10.2023 19:00
Matches	14.10.2023 20:00 - ?
Prize fund
Grand prize
Participation fee	none
Teams (total/accepted/max)	197 / 197 / 256
Players on the team	7 - 10

Description

Clans that show the best results in three Prove your skill qualifying tournaments will qualify for the Echelon Championships, where they will compete for vehicles, avatars, camouflages, gold and other valuable rewards. Up to 2 teams in each qualifier will directly advance to the Professionals Tournament offers the chance to compete for a $50,000 prize pool and the title of Defending Champion in the Blitz Stellar Cup Finals!

In addition, qualifying tournament participants will earn gold, customization containers, credits, Free XP, and Сoins that can be used to purchase special bundles in our store.

Gather 7 players with Tier X vehicles and register your team!

Participants in this tournament must comply with the "Rules of participating in qualifying tournaments".
Full rules for participation are posted below on the link on our website.

Registration opens 2 days before the tournament and closes an hour before the tournament.
Registration type: clans.
Teams per clan: 1.
Number of teams: up to 256.

From each qualification, up to 2 teams will advance to the Professionals Tournament. If your team qualified, the players will be checked and automatically registered to the main tournament. This means that in case of early registration your account will not be able to take part in other tournaments until the end of Professionals Tournament. In addition, qualified participants are prohibited from participating in any form in the following qualifiers for the tournament. Players or (and) teams violating this rule can be disqualified or punished in another way.

Days and start time

Prove your skill #1: 09.10 — 12.10, at 20:00 (CEST).
Prove your skill #2: 14.10 — 17.10, at 20:00 (CEST).
Prove your skill #3: 19.10 — 22.10, at 20:00 (CEST).

Systems: Single Elimination, Double Elimination.
Control type: touch.
Battle type: Supremacy.
Tier: X.

Team requirements
The team should consist of at least 7 regular players and up to 3 reserve players. At least 5 players must press the Ready! button for the battle start.

Battle format
The exact time of each battle is shown in the matches tab after your opponent is determined. Seeding principle in each group: Strongest-Weakest (additionally could be applied Random / Based on leaderboard seeding).

Approx. duration of each stage is 3 hours.

Maps for each round are set randomly from the maps list which is presented below:

Rockfield, Desert Sands, Middleburg, Oasis Palms, Castilla, Canal, Naval Frontier, Alpenstadt, Faust, Normandy, New Bay, Hellas, Yukon, Molendijk, Lagoon, Dynasty’s Pearl, Port Bay, Ghost Factory, Vineyards.

First stage
Up to 256 teams, up to 8 teams per group. Single Elimination. Battle format: Bo5. The best team of each group advances to the next stage.

Second stage
Up to 32 teams, up to 4 teams per group. Double Elimination. Battle format: Bo3 (1st round) and Bo5. 2 best teams of each group advance to the next stage.

Third stage
Up to 16 teams, up to 4 teams per group. Double Elimination. Battle format: Bo3 (1st round) and Bo5. 2 best teams of each group advance to the next stage.

Fourth stage
Up to 8 teams, up to 4 teams per group. Double Elimination. Battle format: Bo5. Top 1 goes to the Professionals Tournament.
If the first-placed team does not qualify for the main tournament due to a rule violation, opportunity goes to the next team in the group.

Prize fund

The system calculates rewards automatically depending on the contribution of each player (on average, 7 players of the main roster receive the reward). Also the team must play a real match in order to receive prizes (technical victories are not rewarded). Rewards come within a few hours after the end of the tournament.

Basing on cups are represented in the rewards clans will take place to the one of Echelon. In the case that several teams from one clan participate in the tournament, Hall of Fame points are accrued for the best result of clan.

According to the results of all qualifying tournaments, invitations to the Professionals Tournament will be given to at least 2 clans from the Top Echelon (who will be in the Top Echelon not by direct invites, but by the amount of cups earned for all 3 qualifying tournaments), Middle Echelon Championship Tickets will be given to 8 clans from the Middle Echelon, and Lower Echelon Championship Tickets will be given to 16 clans from the Lower Echelon. If for some reason less than 6 teams received direct invites to the Professional Tournament (for example, due to a small number of registered teams), the missing teams will be promoted based on the results of the leaderboard.

Teams that qualified for the Professional Tournament will be transferred with the roster in which they earned the right to enter the tournament (no clan tickets). This rule also applies to teams that qualify based on leaderboard results (their roster will be taken based on the roster of the last qualifying tournament).

Full prize fund of this tournament is listed in the Prizes tab.

After all the qualifying tournaments, the teams that took from 1st to 16th place in the leaderboard and registered in the Echelon Championships will be checked for violations of the rule on the number of foreign players in a team. The organizer reserves the right to apply one or more punishments: disqualify the team, player(s) and/or captain, deprive part of the prize fund or any other punishment.

To receive the Professionals Tournament rewards (for leaderboard qualified teams), a player must participate in at least 2 qualifiers as part of the clan that participates in the tournaments. To receive the Challengers Tournament rewards, a player must participate in at least 2 qualifiers.

Follow all the updates in the official discord in the Tournaments channel.

The organizer reserves the right to change the regulations without additional notice to the players.
By participating in the tournament, you agree to these rules.