News & Updates
February 24, 2012 - We're excited to see positive growth in the competitive community. The casual player base may be declining but the competitive interest in Gears of War 3 is growing and with that, more casual cross over gamers may take notice of the Gears competitive community. We have an easy access list of Gametypes, Settings, and Rules now on the site for easy reference. - CaptnBarbosa
PLAYER INFORMATION
Players will be happy to know the Hypefestation team has your budget in mind as our first priority. The hotel rooms have a group rate applied, players flying in will not need a car or have to call a taxi, mass transit from any direction can get players to the location, and we made deals with food vendors in the area to make sure you’ll get a deal when you go out for any meal of the day.
PLAYER PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
Hypefestation highly encourages personalities to be animated and loud but there are a few things we will not tolerate. Direct racist and sexist remarks during matches are absolutely banned. Also keywords such as fag, fagot, homo, and rape are in direct violation of Professional Player Conduct. Players in violation of the rule will be warned at first and then banned from competitive play. We feel as though a whole team should not be penalized for individual conduct and the Hypefestation team will negotiate with the team with the violator about replacing the person banned from play.
GAMETYPES, RULES, & SETTINGS
Update - February 24, 2012. These competitive rules have been adapted by the following organizations: [USA] Hypefestation, Beyond Gaming, Game Battles, GCON, Gears Nation, [AUS] ESGN, ACL, CG
GAMETYPES & SETTINGS
- Execution:
- Rounds to Win - 4
- Round Time Limit - 5
- Bleed-Out Time - 20(hidden default)
- Friendly Fire - On
- Weapon Respawn - After Pickup
- Maps(7): Checkout, Clock Tower, Drydock, Hotel, Old Town, Slabs, Thrashball
- King of the Hill:
- Rounds Score Limit: 210
- Rounds to Win - 1
- Bleed-Out Time - 20
- Friendly Fire - On
- Weapon Respawn - After Pickup
- Maps(4): Drydock, Rustlung, Slabs (Weapon Swaps), Trenches
- Weapon Swaps on Slab = Boomshot to Digger, Smoke Grenades to Ink Grenades, Frag Grenadaes to Incendiary Grenades
Default Weapons & Swaps: Starting Weapons - Lancer/Gnasher
Gorgon/Boltok will be swapped for the Snub Pistol on all maps
Higher seed chooses the first game type to host in the existing preset order and then the lower seed picks the second game type to host. Repeat
Irrelevant of seeding, the team with the most rounds won during the match will host the tiebreaker map. In the event of a rare tie, flip a coin to decipher. Winner of the last map calls it.
Off-host team always gets choice of Cog or Locust
Each team must use different characters and no clones.(Grubkiller Carmine and Rookie Carmine are the same person) Only ONE female Character per Cog team and Locust team.
In KoTH, “round counts” will work as such: Every 53 seconds earned in the hill is equal to 1 round won. Example: 210 to 123 is the same as a 4 – 2 round count
Contact Information
While we highly encourage most contact with the Hypefestation community and staff to take place on our Facebook Page and using our Twitter (which can also be found in the community links section) we have provided direct contact information for professional and business related inquiries.
- Caesar Noriega
- Business, Team Relations, Marketing, Tournament Administrator
- CDNthe3rd [at] Hypefestation [dot] com
- Jason Barbosa
- Media Manager, Media Marketing Development, Live Stream Producer
- Barbosa [at] Hypefestation [dot] com
- Kris Burger
- Team & Player Relations, Promotion
- k.burger [at] Hypefestation [dot] com
© 2012 HYPEFESTATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED