SP 5vs5 DotA Tournament Rules

• The following hero isn’t allowed:

- Invoker

• Each team may only have in total:

- Two Necronomicon

- One Arcane Ring

- Two Guinsoo’s Scythe and one Eul’s Scepter of Divinity, or Two Eul’s Scepter of Divinity and one

Guinsoo”s Scythe.

• It is not allowed to buy items for other players on your team with exception of the following items which may not be sold if transferred:

- Clarity Potion

- Tango of Essifation

- Observer Wards

- Sentry Wards

- Scroll of Town Portal

- Flask of Sapphire Water

- Gem of Truesight

- Aegis

- Cheese

- Chickens / Animal Courier

• The following items may be shared, but must be returned to its owner in a timely manner:

- Ring of Health

- Ring of Regeneration

- Void Stone

- Sobi Mask

- Perseverance

- Bottle

- Ring of Basilius

- Headress of Rejuvenation

• It is allowed to share unit control to purchase items, as long as the item is delivered immediately to the player who paid for it.
• An enemy item is an Item which are dropped from a kill or chicken. An enemy item may be picked up by:

- Any enemy player, and the item is now considered his. The enemy hero who picked the dropped
item is allowed to give the item to his allies, use it during the game, or sell it for gold. If he chooses, however, to give the stolen item to a teammate, that item then becomes a permanent item belonging to the player to whom it was given, and then may not be transferred, but only used and sold.

- Any allied player, who must return the item to its own without attacking/using it (not even neutral creeps), or he can place the item near the fountain so the owner can take it. This will be viewed with tendency and will be judged by administrators if attacking happens to be accidental.

WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED?

1. It is not allowed to purposefully suicide to drop item for another player.
2. It is not allowed to block creeps with the help of spells, such as Earthshaker’s fissure, Prophet’s sprout etc. it is only allowed to use the hero model to intercept with creeps.
3. It is not allowed to trap enemy in forest trees intentionally. However it is allowed to trap enemy in trees with spell “Sprout” from Furion.
4. Backdooring is allowed. However a player can not use any form of teleport (fusion skill, ignis fatuus or boots of travel) to enter an enemy base unless his creeps are already present in it.

INGAME RULES

The team captain must remain the same person during the entire tournament. The team captain is the

person in charge of his team toward the tournament officials. He will have to announce which heroes his team

removes and chooses.

Sides

For a match format “single-game match” the side choice between Sentinel and Scourge can be decided by the two teams themselves or by a coin toss if they don’t find an agreement.

For a match format “best-of-two” each team play alternatively Sentinel and Scourge. For the first game the side choice between Sentinel and Scourge can be decided by the two teams themselves or by a coin toss if they don’t find an agreement.

HERO PICKING

Before each game each team will remove 4 heroes by following these steps:

- Team Sentinel removes 1 hero

- Team Scourge removes 1 hero

- Team Sentinel removes 1 hero

- Team Scourge removes 1 hero

- Team Sentinel removes 1 hero

- Team Scourge removes 1 hero

- Team Sentinel removes 1 hero

- Team Scourge removes 1 hero

Each team then will pick 5 heroes by following these steps:

- Team Sentinel chooses 1 hero

- Team Scourge chooses 2 heroes

- Team Sentinel chooses 2 heroes

- Team Scourge chooses 2 heroes

- Team Sentinel chooses 2 heroes

- Team Scourge chooses 1 hero

For each of this step the team captain has 1 minute to announce his choice.

It is forbidden to have any hero which is selected differently from what was decided previously.

DURING THE MATCH

An official match may only be started and played when a referee has given the signal to start it. Any match started without approval of a referee will be considered as a non-official match. When a match involves the players to be ready, players have one (1) minute after the signal to be ready and start the match.

During an official match, players may not communicate with people not involved in the match even when there are pauses in the game. People involved in the match are the players and the tournament officials.

Players are not expected to leave an official game in progress unless it is authorized by the match format or it has been expressly authorized by the tournament officials.

During an official match players must save the game every ten minutes or after crucial points if there is no tournament official or host in the game. Players aren’t allowed to save the game during a crucial point.

If a match is involuntary interrupted (player crash, server crash, network cuts …) the following rules will apply:

- If a player is disconnected after the “first blood” or 11 minutes of game :

- If team A have killed 5 more heroes than team B during the period of the last savegame and the disconnection, then the team A can choose to continue the game without the disconnected player or to play from the last savegame. To calculate the number of kill teams must consider that a Tower counts for 3 kills, an Aegis counts for ½ kill and a Rax counts for 5 kills.

- If the two teams have the same number of kill or less than 5 more for one of them, the match will restart from the last savegame.

- If the same player disconnects more than 3 times, then the opponent can choose to continue the game without the disconnected player or to play from the last savegame.

- If the match continue without a player his teammates can:

• Use his hero and sell his items which can not be given to another heros.
• Bring his hero to his base and sell his items.

  AFTER THE MATCH

  Each team must save a replay of the match.

  When a team estimates being a victim of rules violations during a match, players are compelled not to stop the game by any means and to properly finish it. Once the match is over, the team captain may officially ask for an investigation to tournament officials. It is strongly advised to provide valuable information that may help the tournament director in his investigation. Unjustified and repetitive use of this right may be sanctioned.