The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet is a third-party tournament hosted by Kalaise. It is a 16-player invitational tournament where players compete for a grand prize of $100.
==Format==
*Participants
**Invitational Tournament.
**16 players.
*Group Stage
**Round Robin Group Stage.
**4 players per group.
**Top 2 players from each group advance to the knockout stage.
**All matches are BO3.
*Knockout Stage
**Double Elimination Knockout Stage.
**All games except for Winner's Semi-Finals and Grand Finals are BO3.
**Winner's Semi-Finals and Grand Finals are BO5.
**Finalist from Loser's Bracket requires two series wins to win Grand Finals.
==Settings==
Individual Tournament (1v1)
*Default settings:
**30 seconds
**For the first game in a series, both players will strike/ban 1 map each until there is one Map left (OG maps only). Then, once a map is decided on both players will book for the chosen map.
**The loser of a single match within a 2/3 or 3/5 will be able to counter pick to any map.
**No spell or book bans.
*Tiebreaker settings:
**30 seconds
**Map: Giants' Mountains
**Note: Tiebreaker rules were originally to replay the same map in case of a draw, but were changed early in the group stage.
==Placements==
Place 	Participant 		 	
1st 	Tiger 		 	
2nd 	Harpocrates 		 	
3rd 	gol 		 	
4th 	Str Power Dx		 	
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-	5th-6th	Bandit
Nevets H 	 		5th-6th	
7th-8th 	Inc 		 	
7th-8th 	Strelizia 		 	
9th-12th 	Proz 		 	
9th-12th 	Siggy 		 	
9th-12th 	no ret 		 	
9th-12th 	Kalaise 		 	
13th-15th	clint 		 	
13th-15th	Paikoh 		 	
13th-15th	Wunvy 		 	
DQ 	MarcoAurelias
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==Participants==
Below is a list of participants based on their in-game names, arranged in alphabetical order:
#Bandit
#clint1
#gol
#Harpocrates
#Inc
#Kalaise
#MarcoAurelias4
#Nevets H5
#no ret
#Paikoh2, 3
#Proz
#Siggy
#Strelizia
#Str Power Dx
#Tiger
#Wunvy
1 La Spork withdrew and was replaced by clint before the start of the group stage. 
2 Usman899 withdrew and was replaced by Coeval before the start of the group stage. 
3 Coeval withdrew before playing any matches and was replaced by Paikoh. 
4 MarcoAurelias withdrew before playing any matches and was not replaced. 
5 Nevets H withdrew during the group stage, but was a replacement for Proz, who withdrew from the knockout stage in the Loser's Bracket 
==Results==
===Group Stage===
Group A:
1	Inc 	3-0
2	Strelizia	2-1
3	Kalaise 	1-2
4	Wunvy 	0-3
Group B:
1	Bandit 	3-0
2	Str Power Dx	2-1
3	Siggy 	1-2
4	clint 	0-3
Group C:
1	Tiger 	3-0
2	Proz 	2-1
3	Nevets H 	1-2
4	MarcoAurelias	0-3
Group D:
1	Harpocrates	2-0*
2	gol 	2-0*
3	no ret 	1-2
4	Paikoh 	0-3
*Harpocrates and gol did not play against each other in the group stage as both were already guaranteed to advance to the knockout stage.
===Knockout Stage===
Bracket will be shown here once tournament brackets are set up for the wiki.