BlueGenji's Survival

Starting standings

Initial seeding comes from the site ranking: every team starts at 500 points, and each match transfers points from the loser to the winner — the more unlikely the result, the more points move. When a tournament ends, it hands out points again based on its final standings — the stronger its field, the more points. Seed 1 = best team.

The referee can reorder these standings as long as no score has been entered: their order then takes precedence. These standings decide the first pairings.

Qualifier — endurance

Every team gets the same starting pool (9 points by default, adjustable at creation). A map win adds a point, a map loss removes one: a match won 3-0 therefore moves three points, a 3-2 only one.

• A team whose pool hits zero is eliminated on the spot.
• A forfeit counts as the tournament format's maximum score: in FT3, the forfeiting team takes a 3-0 and loses three endurance points.
• Standings are re-read before each round: endurance descending, then — on a tie — the previous standings order.
• Teams face off in adjacent pairs: 1st vs 2nd, 3rd vs 4th, and so on.
• The higher-ranked team of the pair takes the left side, the other the right side.
• With an odd number of teams, the last-placed team sits out that round: its pool stays intact, with no walkover win.

Draws in the qualifier

Overwatch and Marvel Rivals both have drawn maps. The tournament can therefore allow ties in its qualifier: a Bo5 is then played without a tiebreaker, and stops when the maps run out — even if nobody reached three map wins.

The pool needs no extra rule: it's counted map by map. A 2-2 gives each team two points and takes two away — so nothing, with the default scoring. A 2-1 follows the same math, one net point for the winner.

• Any score that fits within the map cap ends the match: 2-2, 2-1, and even 0-0 if no map was decided.
• A drawn map doesn't count in either score — it makes the match longer without eating into the cap.
• A draw counts as neither a win nor a loss: it's shown separately in the standings, and breaks the streaks on team pages.
• The final bracket never accepts a tie, whatever the setting: it has to know who plays the next round. The tournament can give it its own format — a real FT3, even when the qualifier allows draws.

End of the qualifier

The qualifier stops at the end of the round where only eight teams (or fewer) are left: a round that has started is always played to the end. With no other setting, there's no maximum length: endurance alone does the sorting.

The tournament can however announce a maximum number of rounds. The qualifier then stops at that round, and the top eight of the standings qualify — even if thirty teams were still in the running. The others leave with the pool they had left: they're not “eliminated”, they're out of contention.

• Under that cap, a team that can no longer mathematically reach the top eight in the remaining rounds is dropped without waiting for the end.
• The math is cautious: eight teams must stay ahead of it no matter what, assuming it wins everything left and they lose everything left.
• It therefore needs a known match format (Bo/FT), which caps the number of maps in a round. With free score entry, no team is ever dropped early.
• If dropping teams would leave an odd number of teams in the running, it's pushed back one round: an odd count forces one team to sit out, and a team still in the running shouldn't be penalized to remove teams that are already doomed.

Playoffs

The eight qualified teams play a single-elimination bracket. Matchups don't follow standard seeding but a fixed bracket, in this display order:

• Match 1: 8th vs 4th
• Match 2: 6th vs 2nd
• Match 3: 1st vs 5th
• Match 4: 3rd vs 7th
• The team shown on top takes the left side, the one below the right side.
• A third-place match decides 3rd place, played alongside the final.
• The winner of match 1 faces the winner of match 2 in the semifinal, the winner of match 3 the winner of match 4.
• The bracket doesn't allow draws: it's played in the playoffs' own format if it has one, otherwise in the tournament format, with draws disabled.

Endurance penalties

Referees can remove pool points without going through a match score: lateness, an ineligible player, unsportsmanlike conduct. Each penalty carries a public reason and appears in the penalty log below the standings.

• The penalty applies to the current round, after its matches: if it empties the pool, the team is eliminated just as by a loss.
• It can be lifted as long as no later round has a score; the standings are then recalculated as if it had never existed.
• No penalty can be given or lifted once the playoff bracket has started.
• In the standings, “−N” next to the pool shows what penalties actually removed.

Forfeit: two different actions

A forfeit is never a blank match: it counts as the tournament format's maximum score. In FT3, the absent team takes a 3-0 — three endurance points fewer for it, three more for its opponent — and the match goes on both teams' records as a full win and a full loss.

• Forfeit on a round: the team doesn't show up to a match. The referee declares it on the match; the team stays in and plays the next round with the pool it has left.
• Forfeit on the rest of the tournament: the team withdraws, or the referee withdraws it. Its pool drops to zero, it's no longer paired, and the standings are recalculated right away — the next round is re-paired accordingly.
• In the round-by-round table, a withdrawn team no longer shows a pool: its remaining rounds show “FF” in red, like the referees' spreadsheet.
• Withdrawing for good is only possible during the qualifier. Once the playoff bracket has started, a forfeit is settled on the match, which moves the bracket forward.