Welcome to GSA's Super Mario 64 Nonstop 70 Star Tournament 2018!

*PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BEFORE SIGNING UP*

Signup Requirements

1) Join the GSA Community Discord so we can communicate with you: https://discord.gg/9dsA7c8

2) Your Personal Best on the Super Mario 64 leaderboards on speedrun.com must meet one of the following requirements:

- Under 54:00 in 70 Star

- Under 1:50:00 in 120 Star

3) You must be able to race within the GSA stream time window of 3-10pm EDT (10pm being the latest time a race can start) and abide by each round’s start and end date parameters in the Tournament Timeline below

4) Please read these notes for all runners competing in GSA events: https://goo.gl/hkNyrn

5) If you are a sponsored competitor, please sign up using a 2-3 letter abbreviation of the organization you are representing followed by your Twitch username (e.g. XYZ TwitchUser123)

Prize Pool

This Tournament's Prize Pool will be the sum of support from sponsors and viewers collected throughout the competition on the GSA Twitch channel hosting the event (including bits, subs and donations)

1st Place - 50% of Prize Pool

2nd Place - 25% of Prize Pool

3rd Place -16% of Prize Pool

4th Place - 9% of Prize Pool

Tournament Timeline

Round 1 - Oct 23-Nov 3

Round 2 - Nov 3-10

Quarter-Finals - Nov 10-12

Semi-Finals - Nov 12-18

Bronze Match - Nov 18-19

Grand Finals - Nov 19

Streaming

You must stream all races using the Stream Settings required at the bottom of the GSA Runner Notes: https://goo.gl/hkNyrn

You will stream your races to an alternate account assigned to you by the stream producer.

You will be invited to participate in pre and post race interviews for every race. These interviews are not mandatory.

All races will be restreamed to twitch.tv/SpeedrunSM64 and highlighted to GSA’s Second YouTube Channel

Cheat Prevention Method

Players will be told before the race starts to press the R camera button a certain amount of times at specific points of the race

Scheduling

You must organize the date and time of your race with your opponent, then submit it using this form

Please communicate with your opponent in the private text channel for this Tournament’s runners in the GSA Community Discord. This way, in the event your opponent does not respond, we can verify you tried to communicate with them.

To schedule a match, you must submit the form a minimum of 24 hours before your requested match time.

Please fill out the form correctly. If you would like change a race time, please submit a form with your new race time and message arwyMilo#5015 on Discord letting him know you did so, and which race time you are cancelling.

Seeding

Seeding for this tournament will be based on these factors in this order of priority

1) Personal Best on speedrun.com for the respective race category

2) Personal Best on speedrun.com for 70 Star

3) Personal Best on speedrun.com for 120 Star

4) Random seed (for deadlocks)

Runner Technical Issues

If a runner’s stream goes down more than 3 separate times in a single match, they will receive a strike.

If a runner’s stream goes down for more than 5 minutes total during a single match, they will receive a strike.

If a runner’s stream goes down for more than 10 minutes total during a single match, they will receive 2 strikes.

Receiving 2 strikes in any single match will result in disqualification.

Receiving 3 total strikes throughout the tournament will result in disqualification.

In irregular cases of technical issues, a runner’s participation in the event may be subject to termination at the GSA Staff’s discretion.

Race Category Rules

All races are a best of 3 and must be done back to back

Grand Finals and Bronze Match are best of 5 and must be done back to back

Rules (Visit this link and click “View Rules”)

Disclaimer

Failing to participate in your scheduled race without 6 hours minimum prior notice will result in disqualification.

Failing to be prepared to begin your race up to 15 minutes after the scheduled start time will result in disqualification.

If your opponent attempts to contact you to schedule your race and you do not reply with sufficient time before the round is over, your opponent will move on.

GSA Staff will enforce these rules on a case by case basis.

GSA Staff members are not responsible for reminding runners of any rules or conditions described above before or during any scheduled race or deadline. It is the responsibility of the runners to abide by these terms and prevent any circumstances that may result in disqualification. This includes all information in any linked resources above and across all GSA platforms and content.