Wins award 100 PS while losses award 25 PS. Upon completing a match, the team will receive Premier Score (PS) points based on their result. The team that wins this Sudden Death round will then win the match. Side selection for Sudden Death will follow whatever choice the team with Overtime Priority made at the start of Overtime.
If a winning team has still not been decided after these two sets have been played, a final round of Sudden Death will occur. Once a side is selected, two sets of Overtime will then be played, with standard rules for Competitive Overtime applying. Once Overtime is reached, the team that got their twelfth round win first will gain Overtime Priority, allowing them to choose which side they start on for each set of Overtime by having each team member cast a vote. Overtime in Premier is modified to not continue endlessly and make sure games fit within schedule, as Premier does not allow for games ending in a draw. Each team receives one timeout that will refresh at the start of the second half as well as Overtime, if reached. Premier matches use the same in-game rules as Competitive but also grant timeouts to teams. Weekly matches have protection to avoid any rematches as much as possible, but rematches may still occur occasionally in cases of excessive queue times. If a team finishes their first game for the day and has yet to play their second weekly game while the queue window is still open, they may enter queue again to potentially find another match and play their second game on the same day. Individual players can only play in a maximum of two Premier matches per week, to prevent players from jumping in between teams within a week.Įach day, a 1-hour queue window opens in the evening for the team's local time zone for them to find a match. Any of the 5-7 players on the team can play in a match and the team owner is not required to be one of those players, with the team having one of the players be the party leader instead who is responsible for getting the team into queue. For each week, teams will play up to two Bo1 matches. Across the seven weeks, all seven maps in the current map rotation will be featured. The Weekly Matches phase lasts for seven weeks, with all matches within a single week being played on one predetermined map. If players participated in previous Stages, their team, match history, and Premier MMR will carry over, however the team's Premier Score, Division, and Zone will be reset with each new Stage.
Once a team participates in its first match of a Stage, its division and zone will be locked in, and only players that can be invited to join the team after this point are those who would not cause the team to change divisions. For teams with players who are really far apart in skill, placement will be weighed by the best player's MMR more heavily. Divisions Open to Elite are divided into five tiers (some zones may have fewer tiers per division due to lower populations), with Contender being the highest division. Premier has five divisions Open, Intermediate, Advanced, Elite, and Contender. Teams will be placed in a division based on the MMR of their top 5 players. During team creation, there are no restrictions related to Competitive rank on who can be invited to a team so long as they are eligible to participate in Premier. Owners are also able to select a team captain, who is able to invite and remove other team members. If the owner leaves the team, ownership will be passed to the next remaining player that's been on the team the longest. The owner can invite new players, remove current team players, set the team's zone, customize the team logo, and delete the team. Each team is set up and managed by a team owner. Professional players (defined as someone on an active Challengers League or International League team roster) are also unable to participate in Premier. Their account must also be in good standing, and if they have received a game ban, Vanguard intervention, Competitive restriction, or comms restriction in the last 30 days, they will be ineligible to participate in Premier, and receiving any of these restrictions during Weekly Matches or the Playoff Tournament will also disqualify that player from participating in any further matches for the rest of the Stage. Gameplay See also: Competitive and Unrated Team Creation Premier Divisionsįor a player to be eligible to participate in Premier, they must verify their account through SMS verification and they must have completed the five Competitive placement games required to earn a rank at any point during their account lifetime.