LS2K EUROPEAN LEAGUE RULES

 

ORGANIZATION:

This tournament has been organized by:

-          La Sastrería 2K

-          Ruibal Formación, SL. - Plaza Ciudad de Viena, 6. – CIF: B87568028

And the event is called LS2K European League.

All the information and tournament updates will be on our website:

-          https://www.ls2kleague.com

-          https://www.lasastreria2k.com

 

GENERAL RULES:

We reserve the right to change. Every participating player has the responsibility to know and understand the rules before signing up to compete.

Any point that is not defined in the rules of this document that may cause a conflict, will be resolved by the League Organization.

By sending your registration, you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to abide by the rules posted here. This includes joining a team and participating in an event organized by La Sastrería 2K.

The responsibility of the team and the communication with the LS2K European League Organization will be solely and exclusively of the captains.

 

PARTICIPATION RULES:

1 – Will be able to play this LS2K European League all UE citizens, over 16 years old or with parental permission that must be added to the inscription form.

2 – Organization League has the right to reject any player that does not respect all this rules.

3 – La Sastrería 2K and Ruibal Formación, will be exempted of any duty or compensation to the teams and players if the tournament is cancelled or suspended by unattributable causes to the organization.

4 – La Sastrería 2K and Ruibal Formación will be able to modify all this rules without any advice. All changes will be published on the Website and Discord of the tournament.

The Players must behave in a reasonable manner and maintain an appropriate and respectful face before the spectators, the organization of the tournament, the rest of the Players, and/or possible official sponsors. These requirements apply to online and offline interactions and include social media behaviors and live streaming activities. Prohibited conduct includes the following:

1. Violate any applicable law, rule or regulation.

2. Use any software or program that damages, interferes with, or tampers with the Competition or the property or computers of others.

3. Use any external software designed to give the Competitor an unfair advantage.

4. Interfering with or disrupting the participation of other players in the Competition.

5. Harass, threaten, intimidate, use xenophobic language, repeatedly send unwanted messages, or make personal statements or attacks related to race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, origins, etc.

6. Using vulnerabilities, cheats, undocumented features, issues, or design errors in the Competition.

7. Promote, encourage or participate in any of the prohibited activities described above.

 

CESSION OF RIGHTS:

Participation in the tournament and acceptance of these rules by the players implies their express and free authorization in favor of League Organization to use and broadcast their image, name and/or voice in any medium, support or format and through of any existing communication system, procedure or modality (including but not limited to, hertzian television, cable, satellite television, all regardless of whether it is analog or digital, free or paid, videographic exploitation, Internet, etc.), in any publicity-promotional activity related to their participation in the tournament.

Said assignment is made for everyone and without time limitation, and expressly waiving any subsequent claim, judicial or extrajudicial, the League Organization or any other individual or legal assignee thereof.

This assignment does not generate the right to remuneration or any benefit in favor of the winner, except for the delivery of the prize won. In case of refusal, you will lose the right to enjoy the prize.

 

JURISDICTION AND COMPETENT JURISDICTION:

The participants expressly waive the jurisdiction that may correspond to them by law, accepting the courts and tribunals of Spain as competent to elucidate any claim.

 

DATA PROTECTION:

The data provided during your participation in the Tournament will be processed under the responsibility of Ruibal Formación, with registered office at, Madrid, and will be used for the purpose of managing your participation in this tournament and manage the award ceremony. The legal basis for this purpose is the legitimate interest of Ruibal Formación in the execution of the tournament. The data will be kept until the completion of the action.

In any case, the participant in this tournament may exercise their rights of access, rectification, deletion, limitation of treatment, opposition and/or portability, if legally applicable, at the registered office of said entity, proving the identity, or by email to LS2K@ruibalformacion.es.      

 

ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES:

All the participants in the LS2K European League, by the simple fact of their participation, fully accept the content of these bases, the code of conduct and the rules that govern their participation, as well as the terms, conditions and the privacy policy and protection of previously exposed data.

 

REGISTRATION:

First of all, you have to do the Pre-Registration on the next Form: https://www.lasastreria2k.com/reg-ls2k.html.

After the Pre-Registration, we will answer you if your team can play in the Division you have chosen.

Once everything is confirmed, the corresponding payment must be made.

There is a registration fee of 75€ per team on Division 1, and 50€ per team on Division 2.

The fee will be paid using PayPal to the following email account: LS2K@ruibalformacion.es. Please add in comments the name of the Team when you gonna do the payment.

No fee will be returned if a team decides to withdraw from the competition.

All teams must have a minimum of 6 players and a maximum of 10.

All players must play with the PSN ID they provided at the time of registration. No secondary PSN ID’s are allowed.

If a team wants to change their team name and logo, it will cost 15€.

If a team wants to change their team name or logo, it will cost 10€.

 

LS2K EUROPEAN LEAGUE FORMAT:

A minimum of 20 teams will participate in Division 1, divided into groups of 10 teams max. If there are more teams, more groups will be made.

A minimum of 20 teams will participate in Division 2, divided into groups of 10 teams max. If there are more teams, more groups will be made.

Winner, 2nd place and 3rd place on Division 2 will have the option to play Division 1 on next season.

There will be an initial round-robin phase where all the teams will face each other. A total of 2 games will be played against the rival team, one at home and one away. These games will be played one after the other on the same day.

The top 8* teams from groups will qualify for the playoffs. (* It will depend on the groups that there are in total.)

In the event of a tie in the standings, the result of the direct match takes priority, and in the event of a tie in the direct match, the basket average will be used.

The playoff matchups will have 1st classified team in the first phase playing against the team classified in the 8th position from the other group, the 2nd team playing against the 7th team from the other group, 3rd against 6th from the other group and 4th against 5th from the other group. Each round will be played in a best-of-three series.

The highest classified team will have home-court advantage.

Series are played in the 1–1–1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1 and 3, while their opponent hosts game 2 with game 3 being played if needed.

The final round will be played in a best-of-five series, played in the 2-2-1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2 and 5, while their opponent hosts games 3 and 4, with games 4 and 5 being played if needed.

There will be a third-place match to decide which team will be credited with finishing third and fourth. This round will be played in a best-of-five series, played in the 2-2-1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2 and 5, while their opponent hosts games 3 and 4, with games 4 and 5 being played if needed.

 

 

ALL-STAR GAME:

After the regular league, there will be an All-Star game, where the best 5 players by position from each group will play.

It will be a Bo3 to make it more exciting.

The LS2K European League has the exclusive broadcasting of the All-Star matches.

 

PRIZES:

Prizes will be distributed as follows:

- 800€ for LS2K European League Division 1 Winner.

- 100€ for LS2K European League Division 1 2nd place.

- 75€ for LS2K European League Division 1 Losers Bracket Winner.

 

- 500€ for LS2K European League Division 2 Winner.

- 100€ for LS2K European League Division 2 2nd place.

- 50€ for LS2K European League Division 2 Losers Bracket Winner.

 

By the acceptation of these prizes, teams and players allow La Sastrería 2K and Ruibal Formación to publish the name of winners and use the team images without any payment for this use.

Tax and laws will be applicable to these prizes. Winners will assume all the derived taxes from the income of the prize.

 

TRANSFERS:

If a player is fired, transferred or leaves the team, he will not be able to return to the same team in the same season.

Maximum 3 transfers per team.

No changes in the roster are allowed during the last week of the regular league or during the playoffs.

Every transfer and/or removal of players or change ID must be notified by DM to Cronos#7078.

 

STREAMING:

All teams must designate a streamer. The streamer will stream team games using the built-in Twitch client on PS5. (For each match-up the team with a higher position in the standings will be streaming the game.)

The streaming signal must be clean, without overlays, or cam, without advertising, etc... to be able to use it in the Twitch streaming of La Sastrería 2K and/or for our YouTube channel, where the LS2K European League matches will take place.

The streamer must include the title “LS2K European League” in his stream.

La Sastrería 2K Twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/lasastreria2k) will randomly stream matches from the regular season and playoffs.

 

GAMES:

All regular league matches will be played in a period that will be announced before the league starts, each match consisting of two games, home and away.

Team Captains must contact each other the week before and reach to an agreement on the date and time of the games.

All scheduled games must be posted on the #🆙-rounds-5vs5 channel on La Sastrería 2K Discord server using the following format: Day/Time/Group/Team 1 vs. Team 2/Stream Link.

In the event that there is no agreement between the 2 teams to establish a day and time in the established period, the League Organization establishes 2 days to play: Thursday and/or Sunday at 22:00 CET of the last week on regular season.

In the event that the match is not played on established days by League Organization, the result of the match will be 0-0 and both teams will be considered lost.

Games must start 15 minutes after the scheduled time at the latest. After that time, if one of the teams doesn’t show up, the remaining team will win both games with a 35-0 score.

A match can be canceled up to 2 hours before its scheduled time if there’s a justifiable cause. The team requesting the cancellation must notify the captain of the rival team and the League Organization staff in the #🔝-captains-5vs5 channel on the Discord server.

In the case of 2 no-shows, the team will be disqualified from the competition.

Giving "Free Win" in more than 2 matchdays will be reason for disqualification from the LS2K European League.

Any team that starts a game with a suspended player in the lineup will lose the game with a 35-0 score. In the case of a second time violation the team will be disqualified from the competition.

Any team that starts a game with an unregistered player in the lineup will lose the game with a 35-0 score. In the case of a second time violation the team will be disqualified from the competition. To avoid this penalty the two team captains may agree on the lineup before the game starts. Team captains must also notify the League Organization staff in the #🔝-captains-5vs5 channel on the Discord server.

The winning team’s Captain will post a screen capture of the final game stats in the  #🆒-result-screenshots-5vs5 channel on La Sastrería 2K Discord Server.

 

INTERRUPTIONS IN THE MATCH:

If a player gets disconnected and no longer than 30 seconds of the first quarter have passed, the match can be restarted just once.

If this happens, the starting lineup cannot be changed unless the disconnected player needs to be substituted, in which case the opposing team and the League Organization need to be notified in the #🔝-captains-5vs5 channel on La Sastrería 2K Discord Server.

If a player gets disconnected and more than 30 seconds of the first quarter have passed, the match must continue with the AI Player until the end of the quarter. Once the quarter ends, a screen capture of the scoreboard up to that quarter must be taken. Both teams will then leave the match and restart it. Only the remaining quarter or quarters will be played. After all the remaining quarters have been played, a second screen capture must be taken. The final score of the match will be calculated by adding both scores captured.

In case the game takes more than 10 minutes to start again, the rest of the quarters will not be played and the opposing team will get a +35 in the last score.

Exception to the rule above: If the disconnected player cannot rejoin, another player from the roster can be played with prior notice on the #🔝-captains-5vs5 channel on La Sastrería 2K Discord Server.

In case of a 2k server disconnection, the game will restart with the remaining playtime and the same score. Points scored during the rematch will add up to the interrupted game’s score.

Should a player be removed from a game because of a foul out or low performance grade, the game will be played until the end with the corresponding AI Player.

If two players are removed from the game, that team will lose the game with a 35-0 score.

 

DROPOUTS IN THE MATCH:

The team that’s behind in the score board can quit the match in the following cases:

-          In the 3rd or 4th quarter if the score difference is greater than 50 points

-          In the 4th quarter if the score differences is greater than 35 points.

-          When less than 30 seconds are remaining in the match and there’s no chance of a comeback or of winning the basket average (difference is greater than 10 points).

If two or more players quit the match before the match ends and none of the previous conditions are met, their team will lose the match and their score will be frozen. The final score will be calculated by adding 35 points to the surviving team’s score at the time of the second player quitting. In the case of a second time violation the team will be disqualified from the LS2K European League.

 

GAME BEHAVIOUR:

No disrespect to other teams or players is allowed. This includes “flopping”, insulting, or voice chat distractions.

There will be penalties for players who do so.

 

TEAM JERSEYS & COURTS:

The home team shall wear light color jerseys, and the visitors shall wear dark color jerseys.

Jersey numbers should be visible in the back as well as in the front of the kit.

No offensive images or garish colors may be used in the kits or in the court designs.

The LS2K European League logo must be used in the court floor design.

The LS2K European League floor logo can be found on the Community Uploaded images in NBA2K for PS5 under the “LS2KLeague” “LaSastreria2K” “Cronos_LS2K” PSN ID’s.

The LS2K European League floor logo have to show on both sides of the court.

In the case of a Team Court not showing the LS2K European League floor logo during a game a -10 point penalty will be applied to the home team.

If the team is bugged in Pro-Am and has to be created again, in this case there will be no penalty.