Galaxy Wrestling

Galaxy Wrestling is an event hosted by ACG in Planetside 2.

## Origin

Galaxy Wrestling was the first tournament ever organized and hosted by ACG. It also lead to the creation of ACG. Lexitorius came up with it as a way to bring the Planetside 2 community together, and maybe get more people interested in the game.

## Team Rules

* Teams must be 1-3 players.

* Teams must be signed up for the tournament, and need a team name for rosters.

* Outfits (0-100 people) may register two teams, those teams will go against each other.

* Outfits larger than 100 people may register ONLY ONE  team to represent their outfit.

* Teams must be on the Emerald server (US EAST)

* Teams must be Terran Republic. If people want to create brand new characters in the TR to play, that is totally fine, but your team will still represent your faction.

## Registration

Registration forms will be sent out on Reddit, PlanetSide 2 Community Discord, PlanetSide 2’s forums, possibly PlanetSide 2’s FANDOM Wikia page, and ingame. Registration before a month’s games always happens the month before. Registration forms will be open from the 1st of the month and will close between the 20th and 30th of the same month. Selected teams will be notified of their standing. Teams that win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in a season’s tournament may not enter in any other season that year. Teams that do not make it into those ranks may register again the next month. The four winning teams in a year will face off the next December to decide the year's final winner. The year's winner is not allowed to enter the tournament again the next year, but may the year after.

## Spectator Rules

* Spectators MAY NOT be in the air while in the warpgate.

* Spectators MAY be in the air outside of the warpgate, Valks may be provided.

* Spectators may not interfere with battles by shooting or colliding with the galaxies.

## Game Rules

* No specific specs required on galaxies, guns are not necessary.

* Usage of guns/weapons is prohibited, battles will be contact only.

* Leaving the warpgate shield is okay, but try and stay close to it.

* The first galaxy to explode, or touch the ground, loses the round.

* Two opposing teams will fight three rounds against each other in a row. Best two out of three wins.

## Rewards

We do not currently have rewards set up for winners, but we were thinking of seeing if it were possible to have custom galaxy skins for the winners. Possibly something more to generate more interest. As of right now (1/5/18) we think we can get at least DBG Cash Codes for winners.

## Tournament

The tournament will be a Single Elimination style tournament with a bronze match at the end. 4 groups of two teams will go against each other in the Qualifying rounds on February 3rd. The remaining 4 teams will then go head to head in the Semi-Finals on February 17th to get two winners and two losers. The two winners of the Semi-Finals will face off in the Winter Finals on February 24th, and the two losers from the Semi-Finals will go head to head in the Winter Finals to determine a third place winner. First, Second, and Third place winners may not enter the tournament in any other seasons for that year. First place winners from the four seasons will go head to head in December 2018 to determine one grand champion for 2018.

## Dogfighting

Dogfighting (in ESFs) might be part of the events. Dogfights will follow traditional rules and will be fought fairly. This will be an intermission event and will not count towards you team’s score in the tournament.

## Hosting

Judges (1-3) will be either on the ground or in the air and will be provided by ACG. Live commentary may be run on a discord call (that anyone can join using the link below,) and ingame with proximity and squad voice chat. Live tournament results and brackets will be made with BracketCloud.com. This event is being organized and planned by ACG and the [GUTI] Gaming Under The Influence outfit.

Play by play and scores/brackets will be streamed and updated in our ACG discord server.

## Dates for 2018

* Winter 2018 Registration - January 1st to January 20th.

* Winter 2018 Qualifiers - February 3rd

* Winter 2018 Semi-Finals - February 17th

* Winter 2018 Finals - February 24th
* Spring 2018 Registration - May 1st to May 20th (any applications from Winter 2018 registration may be filled into these rosters.)

* Spring 2018 Qualifiers - April 7th

* Spring 2018 Semi-Finals - April 14th

* Spring 2018 Finals - April 28th
* Summer 2018 Registration - June 1st to June 20th

* Summer 2018 Qualifiers - August 4th

* Summer 2018 Semi-Finals - August 11th

* Summer 2018 Finals - August 25th
* Fall 2018 Registration - July 1st to July 20th

* Fall 2018 Qualifiers - October 6th

* Fall 2018 Semi-Finals - October 13th

* Fall 2018 Finals - October 27th

2018 Grand Championships

* Exterminium Rounds - December 15th

* Neu Sibi Victor Rounds - December 29th

## Team Ranking

Along with rewards, teams may gain higher ranking in ACG events depending on their performance in the competition. Information on each rank may be found in our discord server. Teams that win a season specific finals round will rank to a Bellator team. The Team that wins the whole 2018 tournament, decided on December 29th, will be ranked to a Victor team.