Counter-Strike 2
Valve redefines tournament's Main Stage, makes changes to invites, Wildcards
Valve has made several changes to the Valve Regional Standings system, most notably to invitation requirements, Wildcard teams, and regional subregions.
Valve also redefined the Main Stage of a tournament, defining it as "the stage of a Tournament past which no Rosters enter (i.e., Rosters are only eliminated past this point)."
Priorities for VRS teams have also been laid out. For instance, Wildcard invites and teams from Open Qualifiers must enter the tournament at or before the first stage featuring VRS invites, and VRS teams must be invited in rank order. Teams invited by VRS will also have to start at the tournament stage according to their VRS ranking, meaning that a directly invited VRS roster cannot start at a later stage than another directly invited VRS roster with a higher VRS rank.
For seeding within a stage, tournament operators will use the Global VRS rank if it is available. This would theoretically affect events like ESL Pro League, where teams make their own seedings, although ESL had that approved previously as an exception and has not been notified that there is to be any change moving forward.
Closed Qualifiers have been deleted from the manual’s definitions, but the VRS Priorities and the new definition of Main Stage, mentioned above, give TOs the tools to set up their Open Qualifiers and multi-stage tournaments.
Regarding the changes to Wildcard invites, for every eight rosters invited from a VRS, two eligible rosters can be invited to a tournament as Wildcards, and any invited team must now fall under the following criteria:
a) It includes at least 3 players who individually were members of a top 8 Roster on an Invite VRS List at any time during the preceding 6 months.
b) It has placed first or second place in any Tournament, of equal or lesser tier than the one issuing the invite, during the preceding 6 months.
If the TO includes Wildcard invites or Open Qualifiers, those rosters must enter the tournament at or before the first stage featuring a VRS invite. If there are VRS invites, a minimum of two rosters must be invited from any single VRS list.
When it comes to the VRS lists in America and Asia, they now have subregions. North America and South America on one hand, and Oceania, East Asia, and West Asia on the other. Invites may be equally split among subregions if the TO chooses to use them (e.g.: One team from NA and one from SA), and teams invited from those subregions must have a core with citizenship from said subregion.
Valve also redefined the Main Stage of a tournament, defining it as "the stage of a Tournament past which no Rosters enter (i.e., Rosters are only eliminated past this point)."
Priorities for VRS teams have also been laid out. For instance, Wildcard invites and teams from Open Qualifiers must enter the tournament at or before the first stage featuring VRS invites, and VRS teams must be invited in rank order. Teams invited by VRS will also have to start at the tournament stage according to their VRS ranking, meaning that a directly invited VRS roster cannot start at a later stage than another directly invited VRS roster with a higher VRS rank.
For seeding within a stage, tournament operators will use the Global VRS rank if it is available. This would theoretically affect events like ESL Pro League, where teams make their own seedings, although ESL had that approved previously as an exception and has not been notified that there is to be any change moving forward.
Closed Qualifiers have been deleted from the manual’s definitions, but the VRS Priorities and the new definition of Main Stage, mentioned above, give TOs the tools to set up their Open Qualifiers and multi-stage tournaments.
Regarding the changes to Wildcard invites, for every eight rosters invited from a VRS, two eligible rosters can be invited to a tournament as Wildcards, and any invited team must now fall under the following criteria:
a) It includes at least 3 players who individually were members of a top 8 Roster on an Invite VRS List at any time during the preceding 6 months.
b) It has placed first or second place in any Tournament, of equal or lesser tier than the one issuing the invite, during the preceding 6 months.
If the TO includes Wildcard invites or Open Qualifiers, those rosters must enter the tournament at or before the first stage featuring a VRS invite. If there are VRS invites, a minimum of two rosters must be invited from any single VRS list.
When it comes to the VRS lists in America and Asia, they now have subregions. North America and South America on one hand, and Oceania, East Asia, and West Asia on the other. Invites may be equally split among subregions if the TO chooses to use them (e.g.: One team from NA and one from SA), and teams invited from those subregions must have a core with citizenship from said subregion.
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