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**Welcome to the Wiki AHAC Season 4!**

## **AHAC SUMMER 2024 - SEASON 4**

The **All-stars Highschool Arena of Valor Championship** (also known as **AHAC**) is a league for **highschool students** organized by IST Club - Gia Định (former: IT Club - Gia Định). The tournament welcomes 24 teams from all schools in Ho Chi Minh City for the 5th AHAC title.

This is the 1st version to feature a Seeding Round (No team will be eliminated in the first round of the tournament) as well as the introduction of the Triple Elimination Bracket and Swiss Format, and the 2nd time that the Playoffs will return to the Single Elimination format.

This is also the 1st edition where certain teams will not have to compete in all stages of the tournament.

The defending champion is ***Fear Of Gods***, after defeating ***Top 1 TĐ*** with a 4-1 match in **AHAC Summer 2023 - Season 3** *Grand Final*.

## About

### Compitition Format

* **Seeding Stage** *- July 11th - 17th, 2024.*
	1. 24 teams will be divided into 6 groups of 4 teams.
	2. Single Round Robin, Bo1.
	3. All matches are played with Global Ban-Picks.
	4. Side Selection Privilege: All matches will be determined by coin flip.
	5. Top 2 teams will advance to ***Swiss Stage***.
	6. Bottom 2 teams will advance to ***Play-ins Stage: Groups***.
	7. Tiebreaker rules:
		+ If teams are tied and competing for only 3rd and 4th place or for only 1st and 2nd place, there will not be any additional matches.
		+ If there are **three** teams have an equal amount of points, the 2 teams with lowest number of kills will play against each other, and winner will face the other team.
* **Play-ins Stage: Groups** - *July 19th - 30th, 2024.*
	1. 12 teams will be divided into 2 groups of 6 teams.
	2. Triple Elimination Bracket, Bo3.
	3. All matches are played with Global Ban-Picks.
	4. Side Selection Privilege:
		+ Higher ranked side will have the right to choose a side in the first game of the match.
		+ If no team has a higher seed, the side chosen in the first game will be decided by a coin flip.
		+ In the follower games, loser will have the right to pick the side.
	5. The winners of each group will advance to ***Swiss Stage***.
	6. The runners-up and 3rd-placed teams of each group will advance to ***Play-ins Stage: Knockout.***
	7. Bottom 3 teams of each group are eliminated.
* **Play-ins Stage: Knockout** - *July 31st, 2024.*
	1. 4 teams (2 Runners-up of 2 groups and 2 3rd-placed teams of 2 groups) will participate in this stage.
	2. The runner-up of one group will face the 3rd-placed team of the other group.
	3. Single Elimination Bracket, Bo5.
	4. All matches are played with Global Ban-Picks.
	5. Side Selection Privilege:
		+ Higher ranked side will have the right to choose a side in the first game of the match.
		+ In the follower games, loser will have the right to pick the side.
	6. Winners will advance to ***Swiss Stage***.
	7. Losers are eliminated.
* **Swiss Stage** - *August 2nd - 16th, 2024.*
	1. 2 teams from the **Play-In Stage: Groups** and 2 teams from the **Play-In Stage: Knockout** join 12 teams from **Seeding Stage**.
	2. Pool draw 1, 2, 3 will be determined based on the number of kills in **Seeding Stage**. While pool draw 4 are all **Play-ins Stage** teams.
	3. 16 Team Swiss System Format:
		+ Round 1 teams will be paired against teams from a different pool. (Pool 1 vs Pool 4, Pool 2 vs Pool 3)
		+ Rounds 2 to 5 are seeded based on each team win-loss record.
		+ Elimination and Advancement matches are Bo3
		+ All other matches are Bo1.
	4. Side Selection Privilege:
		+ Higher ranked side will have the right to choose a side in the first game of the match.
		+ If no team has a higher seed, the side chosen in the first game will be decided by a coin flip.
		+ In the follower games, loser will have the right to pick the side.
	5. Teams that reached 3 wins advance to ***Playoffs***.
	6. Teams that reached 3 loss are eliminated.
* **Playoffs** *- August 19th - September 2nd, 2023.*
	1. 8 teams play in a Single Elimination Bracket.
	2. Side Selection Privilege:
		+ Teams with Side Selection Privilege can choose the side in game 1, after that, the losing team can choose the side in the next game.
		+ In Quarterfinals, higher ranked side in Swiss will have the Side Choice Privilege.
		+ In the following matches, the Side Choice Privilege will be determined by coin flip.
	3. All matches are Bo5, except the one-off Grand Final with Bo7.

### Prize Pool

*TBA VND* are spread among the participants as seen below:

## Results

### Playoffs

***\*\*Notes:***

1. The above seed will be explained below:
	* **1**: Team with 3-0 record in Swiss.
	* **3**: Team with 3-1 record in Swiss.
	* **3/6**: Team with 3-1 or 3-2 record in Swiss.
	* **6**: Team with 3-2 record in Swiss.
2. After drawing two out of three 3-2 teams, the remaining 3-2 team will be put in the 3-1 team pool and continue to draw randomly.
3. For 3 matches including 2 pairs **3-0 vs 3-2** and 1 pair **3-1 vs 3-2**, the higher seeded team will have the right to choose side game 1.
4. In the remaining match that features **two 3-1 teams**, the team with the best record in the Swiss will be the team with the higher seed. In case the two teams are still tied in the Swiss, the team with better results in the Seeding Stage will be the higher seeded team.

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