1. Administration and Announcements
2. Teams and players
3. Schedule and Punctuality
4. Hosting
5. During a game
6. Coverage
7. Rule Violations and Punishment
8. Legal Process

1. General Rules (top)
1.1 Administration and Announcements

1.1.1 Everybody who is authorized by ROG MASTERS to administrate the competition based on its rules and regulations will be called an “admin” or “referee” in the following, the collectivity of all admins will be called the “administration”.

1.1.2 Any news article posted on ROG Masters and/or the official competition website serves as an official announcement for the competition.

1.1.3 Official announcements as well as statements of referees at any place (e.g. competition website, support ticket reply, skype, steam) can ignore or overrule the following rules in order to make the competition as fair as possible. In case of contradicting declarations, the most recent announcement or admin statement counts.

1.2 Participants and Teams
Every real person – unless officially banned – with a valid Steam account is allowed to participate in the competition and will be called “participant” in the following. Participants joining a team in order to fulfill the minimum required amount of team members will be called a “team” in the following.

1.3 Commitments
1.3.1 By attending the competition participants acknowledge without limitation to comply with the rules and regulations, official announcement, and with the statements and decisions made by the referees.

1.3.2 Every participant acknowledges the right for the administration to modify the rules and regulations for adjustments at any time without notice.

1.3.3 Every participant has to show the needed respect towards referees and other participants. Insults and unfair or disrespectful behaviour towards anyone are not tolerated and will be punished.

1.3.4 Every participant must always have the newest version of Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive installed and has to check for updates in time before each match. Unless a new version comes out right before the match, patching is not a valid reason to delay it.

1.3.5 Every team accepts the official schedule of the competition and declares its ability to be available during these times.

1.3.6 Every team and participant has to try to win every game at every stage of the competition. Purposefully losing for any reason is strictly forbidden.

1.4 Communication
1.4.1 All communication in between participants and referees has to be in English language.

1.4.2 All communication between opposing teams should run through the official competition website. Any other communication type is invalid for the administration in case of conflicts, unless a complete chat-log can be provided (e.g. via screenshots).

1.4.3 Referees should be contacted via support methods given in the support tab. Requests via any other platform may be ignored.

2. Teams and Players (top)

2.1 Team Size
A Team has to consist of at least five and at most six participants where the sixth member is considered as standby. Those persons will be called “team members” or “members” of the team in the following.

2.2 Registration
2.2.1 In order to sign up for the competition, a team has to fulfill all requirements the tournament platform forces.

2.3 Lineup Changes
2.3.1 Team members can not be removed or added during the ROG Masters (India) competition and the minimum team requirement for playing in the event is 5 players. 5 vs 4 is not allowed as it gives competitive advantage to a considered team. There might be additional restrictions to this rule in specific competitions. Admin reserves the right to take a decision based on a particular situation.

2.3.2 If another team member needs to be declared leader of a team, this has to either be set by the old leader himself in the team management, or be requested by at least 50% of the team members.

2.4 Stand-ins
2.4.1 Stand-ins are persons used by a team as a player during a match, without being an official team member.

2.4.2 A stand-in may not be member of another team or have played a game for another team within the same or a higher stage of the competition

Explanation: Some competitions are clearly split into multiple stages (e.g. open qualifier stage => main stage, or group stage => playoffs) in the format section of the individual competition rules. The later stage counts as the “higher” one, meaning members from teams invited to the higher stage, may not help out in the previous stage; meanwhile players from teams that were defeated in a previous stage are legal stand-ins later on. If a competition is not clearly split into multiple stages or divisions, the whole competition counts as one stage, not allowing any stand-ins from within the competitionn at all.

2.4.3 The maximum of stand-ins used by a team within one game is 1

2.5 In-game Names
Each player should have a steam name per registration of ROG Masters India qualifiers, Stand-in should be registered as the 6th player.

3. Schedule and Punctuality (top)

3.1 Game times
3.1.1 The official schedule of the competition will be announced on rog-masters.com and/or on the competition’s website. This schedule includes the time of each match which represents the start time of game 1 of the match.

3.1.2 If a delayed end of a previous match prohibits a match to start on schedule, the match time is changed to 5 minutes after the end of the previous match.

3.2 Rescheduling
The change of a match date and time is not possible.

3.3 Punctuality
3.3.1 If a team is not ready to start a game in time, the following punishments will be applied by the referee:

• 15 minutes late => Default loss for the whole match in a Bo1
• 10 minutes late => Default loss for the first map in a Bo3 / Bo2
• 15 minutes late => Default loss for the whole match in a Bo3 / Bo2

X minutes late means that the team is not ready to start until X minutes after the official start time of the game or the join call of the admin.

3.3.2 In case of extraordinary circumstances, the referee may decide to abstain from the punishment.

4. Hosting and Settings (top)

4.1 Server Hosting
4.1.1 Every game is played on an official ROG Masters Server, in case of ROG Masters India, the games are to be played on Drag2Death platform.

4.1.2  No password is required as the player steam ID is authorized in advance based on the registration and players can join only during the scheduled match. It is mandatory that all players play using their registered steam ID only, In case of a player try to connect to a designated server from a different Steam ID (Not registered), the player may get auto ban after 10 retries.

4.2 Spectators
Only referees, official broadcasters, ROG Masters staff members, anyone authorized by a referee, and the ten players are allowed to be inside the game. In general coaching on the server is not allowed, unless stated otherwise by the individual competition rules.

4.3 Game Settings
All matches will be played on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive servers with the latest game patch of “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive”. Match Veto is performed when players are ready in the game server. Post map veto A knife round will determine who will start as Counter-Terrorists (CT) and as Terrorists (T).

A match consists of 30 rounds. Each team has to play 15 rounds as Counter-Terrorists (CT) and 15 rounds as Terrorists (T). The team winning 16 rounds out of 30 wins the match.

4.4 Overtime
If a stalemate occurs after 30 rounds (15:15), one (1) or more overtimes decides the winner of the match. Overtime will be played with max rounds three (3) and start money 10000 (10K).

4.5 Client settings
The usage of scripts is strictly forbidden except buy, toggle and demo scripts.

5. During a game (top)

5.1 Picks and Bans
5.1.1 The map pool consists of the following seven (7) maps:

• de_nuke
• de_mirage
• de_train
• de_cache
• de_dust2
• de_overpass
• de_cobblestone

5.1.2 Map votes will be done before the match starts.

5.1.3 For “Best-of-One” matches (Bo1) both teams alternately eliminate one (1) map until only one (1) map is left, the remaining map will be played. Drag2Death Veto system randomly chooses a team, and allows to eliminate a map first, this is equivalent to a toss. A knife round will be played for side selection.

5.2 Demos
Every participant has to record a demo for each map. Demos also have to include knife rounds and overtimes if played. Demos have to be saved at least for one week after the match and have to be provided to the administration upon request.

5.3 Screenshots
Every team has to take a scoreboard screenshot after the match so it’s clear to see what the score was and which team won.

5.4 Pauses and Disconnects
5.4.1 Pauses are only possible during freeztime. Teams can call a pause via the ingame match bot command. If a match bot is not connected to the server,the server referee has to be informed via chat about the pause, so the server referee can then pause the match accordingly.

5.4.2 In case of disconnects the match has to be paused until the disconnected player is reconnected. The participants should contact a referee by writing a support ticket or call on escalation contact given in the support page if the problem appears frequently. If a player cant’t continue the game or has to be replaced right before the game, a Stand-In can be used in accordance with rule 2.4. If a round was already started before the disconnect, this round has to be played out and the match can be paused by the players during the next freez-time.

5.5 Bugs
Abusing any bugs is strictly forbidden. The administration decides on the proper punishment.

6. Coverage (top)

6.1 Observers
In general observers are not permitted unless a referee allows it.
Referees, official broadcasting partners (video streams) and coverage partners are always permitted to observe any match.

7. Rule Violation and Punishment (top)

7.1 Breaking rules
Breaking rules or ignoring the order of an admin may result in a punishment for a whole team or a specific player. Type and amount is chosen by a referee.

7.2 Possible Team Punishments

• Default Loss for one game
• Default Loss for the whole match
• Score Reduction (during a group stage)
• Temporary or permanent ban from the competition
• Ban from other events

7.3 Possible Player Punishments

• Temporary ban from the competition
• Permanent ban from the competition
• Ban from other events

7.4 Rule violations in other tournaments
Heavy rule violations on external Counter-Strike: Global Offensive leagues or tournaments may also result in punishments for the ROG MASTERS

8. Legal Process (top)

Legal proceedings are not permitted.