Sad but true, during the opening match of the tournament, Italy against Turkey, the turkish team put ReturnOfTheKing aka r0tk on their lineup. If you check his urt.info profile you will notice that this account was created on 16th January 2014, an uncommonly recent urt account for a national team player.

The real identity of this player is R1sHeX, banned by Frozen Sand in their last list for cheating between versions 4.2.015 and 4.2.017.

Although this situation didn't affected the outcome of their match, which was won clearly by Italy, it's going to affect Team Turkey directly. According to our policy, they are going to be kicked from the competition. We expect this is going to work as an example for the rest of teams. There is also some related general information in read more.

Meeting point:

Like every season, there's a specific IRC match channel as a meeting point; only admins and involved players are able to check it, and its located in the match page.

Server negotiation:

This cup will use a neutral server policy; matches between South American teams and European must be played in USA servers. North American vs South American will be played one map in each server, unless both teams agree on a neutral server. North American teams and European teams' matches must be played one map in each servers. Matches between European teams will be played one map in each server or both maps in a neutral one, unless both teams agree in something different. For those matches played in two different servers, the ping average from both servers must be similar: having ping 400 in your opponent's server while they have 100 in yours won't be considered as valid.

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