Players will still have to go through the check-in phase in order to be placed in the bracket. However, the check-in phase will be handled manually in IRC instead of automated through the website. In order to check in, please talk to nino or HYPERTONE in #quakeamerica.

For the time being, Quake America will be borrowing much of it's format changes from the G Data Quake Live cups. The Quake America cup will be Double-Elimination the entire way through, but will be best of 1 until upper bracket quarter finals then we will move to best of 3 until grand finals, which will be best of 5.

Due to our new tournament software, actual seeding will effectively not be possible. However, brackets will be manually edited by the admin team before being made public in order to avoid unwanted matchups happening earlier than they should.

Whenever a decision needs to be made where a player's seed becomes relevant, the seeding system will be replaced by a "Home/Away" system. Whether a player is "Home" or "Away" will be determined by a coin flip. Simply type ".coin" in the #quakeamerica IRC channel to have your current position be determined.

For the Bo1 stage of the Quake America Cups, players will alternate eliminating maps until only one remains with the "Home" player starting first.

For the Bo3 stage, rules will remain unchanged, save for changing "High Seed" to "Home" where relevant. Please refer to this page for that process.

For the Bo5 grand finals, the Home player will first eliminate a map from the 7 map pool, then followed by another elimination by the Away player. After those two maps are eliminated, from the five maps remaining, players will alternate choosing the order of the maps, again starting with the Home player.