QEL Proving Grounds Day 1 2025

Day 1

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Helpful Links

• QEL Discord

Challonge Brackets

EU DIV 3
EU DIV 2
EU DIV 1
EU Invite
NA DIV 3
NA DIV 2
NA DIV 1
NA Invite
SA Academy
SA DIV 3
SA DIV 2
SA DIV 1
SA Invite

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The first day of the QEL Proving Grounds 1 is here! Teams will compete in a 6v6 format, in a two day double elimination event, running Saturday, February, through Sunday, November 2nd.
Regular matches will use a Best-of-One (BO1) format with a pick/ban system, while playoff matches will follow a Best-of-Three (BO3) format. The number of matches played by each team will vary depending on divisions, with the event continuing through to completion on Sunday.

In order to accommodate with the different amount of teams in each division they will have different schedules over the 2 day tournament, with the first day being Bo1 matches and the second being playoff bo3 matches.
If you are in a div with a smaller amount of teams and are already in semifinals or your div stops playing once you reach GF it will be a BO3 match & matches that are played for 3rd place in losers are also BO3

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FAQ & Important Information for Team Leaders

• Team leaders will have match pages created by admins for their matches where they will engage in a ban system for the first day. Please refer to the challonge bracket of your corresponding division to see who you are playing and if a match page has been created, please be patient on if your match page has not been made yet.
• Match pages will be updated as matches conclude and scores are reported, it is important for Team Leaders to report there scores on the match page itself and in the discord in #match-score-reporting, to help with admins in making your next match page,, incorrectly reporting scores may lead to disqualification. It is important that teams report their scores in the discord so that as teams advance into the bracket, the challonge page will update and match pages will be made. ★ IMPORTANT If on the Challonge bracket you are currently not facing a team or are waiting for previous matches to finish, you will not have a match page be made, so be patient.**
• Team leaders must be respectful and do their bans in a timely manner, If bans are not done within 10 minutes after a match is scheduled to start/and or a match page has been made, let QEL STAFF aware and we will pick the map for the match regardless if you had done your ban and the enemy did not, if matches do not start within 15 minutes/the enemy team does not show up within 15 minutes after maps have been picked/match has started, notify admins and you will be granted a forfeit win.

Match Score Reporting

Once your match has been completed please report the match scores in the QEL discord in #match-score-reporting and link the match page.
EX: QEL 2-0 6s team (match page)

Servers

THE HOME TEAM WILL BE REQUIRED TO GET SERVERS For their match and can post them in the match page. instructions for how servers will work can be found below.
SERVERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO BE PLAYED ON QUICK SERVER and the tool can be accessed in the #quick-server-tool channel
Instructions can also be found on how to set up the tool can be found within the channel, when making matches the QEL 6v6 Variant must be selected and will be brought up once you are using the commands to make a server in the text channel.

You will not need to exec any commands once you make a server, the CFG will automatically be execed upon map change, make sure to put the rcon password first.

Quick Server has servers for all regions and support

Match Schedule

Europe

Day 1 will start at 18:00 / 6:00 PM CET and the matches played today will be BO1 or BO3 if you are in semifinals/3rd place match

• EU DIV 3 EU DIV 3 BRACKET Matches will be played until Winners Round 3 and Losers Round 2, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.
• EU DIV 2 EU DIV 2 BRACKET Matches will be played until Grand finals is reached, once it is reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.
• EU DIV 1 EU DIV 1 BRACKET Matches will be played until Grand finals is reached, once it is reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.
• EU INVITE EU Invite BRACKET Matches will be played until Grand finals is reached in Winners side and Losers Round 2 is reached, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.

South America

Day 1 will start at 18:00 / 6:00 PM GMT-3 and the matches played today will be BO1 or BO3 if you are in semifinals/3rd place match

• SA Div 3 SA Div 3 BRACKET Matches will be played until Winners Round 3 and Losers Round 3, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.
• SA Div 2 SA DIV 2 BRACKET Matches will be played until Semifinals and Losers Round 3, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.
• SA Div 1 SA DIV 1 BRACKET Matches will be played until Grand Finals is reached, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.
• SA Invite SA Invite BRACKET Matches will be played until Grand finals is reached in Winners side and Losers Round 2 is reached, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.

North America

North America: 6:00 PM EST

• NA Div 3 NA DIV 3 BRACKET Matches will be played until Semifinals and Losers Round 3, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.
• NA Div 2 NA DIV 2 BRACKET Matches will be played until Grand finals is reached in Winners side and Losers Round 2 is reached, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.
• NA Invite Matches will be played until Grand finals is reached in Winners side and Losers Round 3 is reached, once you have reached that point in the bracket you are done playing matches for the day.