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01General

• The organiser is ZENTRA (Impressum). The competition is free: no entry fee, nothing to buy.
• The game is Counter-Strike 2, 5v5, MR12 (first to 13 rounds), MR3 overtime, on ZENTRA servers in Europe.
• All times are Vienna time (Europe/Vienna). The site also shows everyone their own local time.
• The rules exist in Serbian and English with the same content.

02Teams and roster

• The captain of an existing ZENTRA team registers it.
• A roster has 5 to 7 players (captain, players and subs) and at most 1 coach. The coach does not play and does not join the server.
• A player can be on the roster of only one team per season.
• Until registration closes (Wed, 30/09/2026, 23:59) the roster can change freely. After that, 2 additions in total are allowed until the roster lock (Tue, 06/10/2026, 23:59).
• After the lock: at most 1 emergency sub per team, approved by an admin with a reason.
• An approved roster never drops below 5 players. The captain cannot leave the roster.

03Who may play

Requirements are checked at registration, at the roster lock and at every check-in. On the registration page every player sees the exact reason and what to do about it.

• Account: first sign-in finished, no active ZENTRA suspension.
• At least 5 completed ZENTRA matches by the roster lock (only a warning at registration).
• No VAC or game ban on Steam in the last 2 years.
• A Steam account older than 0 days, when the profile is public.
• ZENTRA Guard is connected; at check-in it must be running and pass every required check (TPM 2.0, Secure Boot…).
• At least 16 years old. Players under 18 play, and a parent or guardian receives their prize.
• The account country is in Europe. A lineup of 5 may have at most 1 player from another country.

04Registration and accepting the rules

1. The captain picks the team and the roster and sees the eligibility check for every player.
2. The captain accepts these rules and sends the registration.
3. Every player on the roster gets a notification and accepts the rules personally (and confirms being 16+). The acceptance is stored with the time and the rules version.
4. An admin approves the registration only once every requirement is met and every player has accepted the rules. A rejected registration comes with a reason and can be fixed while registration is open.

Registration is open from Fri, 25/09/2026, 12:00 to Wed, 30/09/2026, 23:59. At least 8 and at most 64 teams.

05Format

• Regular season: Swiss system, 5 rounds, Bo1 (6 rounds with more than 32 teams). In round 1 seed 1 plays seed n/2+1; after that teams with the same record meet, never twice. With an odd number of teams one team gets a bye (a win without a match).
• Seed: the average ELO of the team's best five players.
• Playoffs: the top 4 of the table (With 8–11 teams the top 4 make the playoffs.), single elimination, Bo3, bracket 1–8, 4–5, 2–7, 3–6. The semi-final losers play a 3rd-place match (Bo3).
• Too few teams: without 8 approved teams at the close, registration is extended once by 14 days; if there are still too few, a one-evening cup is played with the same prizes.

Standings

The order is decided by: 1. wins, 2. Buchholz (the sum of the current wins of every opponent), 3. head-to-head (only when exactly two teams are tied), 4. round difference (a forfeit counts 13:0), 5. rounds won, 6. the better seed.

06Schedule and rescheduling

• Round 1: Fri, 02/10/2026, 20:00. The playoffs start Sat, 17/10/2026, 17:00, the final is Wed, 28/10/2026, 19:30.
• A captain may propose a new time at least 24 h before the original one, within the same week (Mon–Sun, Vienna time). The other captain has to accept. Playoff times are fixed.

07Maps and veto

• Maps in play: Mirage, Inferno, Nuke, Ancient, Anubis, Dust2, Train. The pool is frozen for the whole season.
• Bo1: A ban, B ban, A ban, B ban, A ban, B ban, the remaining map is played; a knife round decides sides.
• Bo3: A ban, B ban, A pick (B picks the side), B pick (A picks the side), A ban, B ban, decider (knife round).
• Team A is the better-ranked team (the better seed in round 1). Every action has 30 s; when it runs out, the system picks at random.

08The match

• Check-in opens 30 min before the match and closes 10 min before the start. The captain picks a lineup of 5 from the roster; all of them must pass the check at that moment.
• Players join the server within 15 min of the start. A team with 4 players may play 4 on 5 with an admin's approval; an admin may grant 5 more minutes once per team.
• The match starts by itself when everyone is on the server (no .ready).
• Pauses: tactical and technical pauses as the server allows; abuse earns a warning.
• A disconnect before the first kill of round 1 restarts the map. Later the team plays on and the player may rejoin.

09Forfeits and disqualification

• A team that misses check-in loses by forfeit (Bo1 13:0, Bo3 2:0) and gets a strike. If neither team checks in, both lose.
• 2 strikes in the regular season mean disqualification. Earlier results stand.
• A team that withdraws after the season started forfeits every remaining match.

10Disputes

• A captain may open a dispute on the match page until 2 h after the match ends (cheating, rules breach, technical issue, wrong result).
• An admin decides within 48 h, in the playoffs before the team's next match. The decision has a reason both teams can read.
• Possible outcomes: dismissed, warning, map or match replay, forfeit, player suspension, team disqualification. The head admin is the final instance.

11Fair play and ZENTRA Guard

• ZENTRA Guard runs from check-in until the end of the match. No Guard, no check-in.
• Confirmed cheating: a permanent ban for the player, the team is disqualified, all its results become 0:13 forfeits for the opponents, the prize is forfeited (and returned if already paid), and the places below move up.
• Sharing an account or playing on someone else's account counts as cheating.
• Streaming your own POV only with a delay of at least 2 minutes.
• Coaches in S1 do not communicate during rounds, only during timeouts.

12Prizes

The prize pool is €0: . Who receives a prize, deadlines, identity checks and taxes: Prizes and payout terms.

13Changes to the rules

These rules are version demo-2026-10. Fixes of typos are published without a new version. A material change gets a new version that every player accepts again; it never changes matches already played.