As usual, we’re having Featured Matches today beginning at 12:30 p.m. Pacific (3:30 Eastern), shoutcasted by LoL Tourneys. Today’s best-of-three matchup: Demacia vs. Zaun. (Tomorrow, April 20, we’re doing Piltover vs. Bandle City. You can sign up for that here.)

Here is the schedule, with start times and lineups. Slots listed as OPEN will be filled from the audience.

Rank is defined as the higher of S3 and S4 solo queue SR rank. We use end-of-season rank.

Rank slots can be “underfilled”, but never exceeded: for example, you can put a Gold in a Plat or Diamond slot, but you can’t put a Diamond in a Gold slot.

Match I

Starts at: 12:30 p.m. Pacific — 1:30 Mountain — 2:30 Central — 3:30 Eastern

Match One will be a classic “rainbow” setup, with one Summoner from each Tier per team.

For Demacia

• Diamond: OPEN
• Platinum: RedRex7
• Gold: Rep the Poro
• Silver: 501st Big Mike (Subs: Kloudstrife)
• Bronze: LionheartKM (Subs: redgoblin51, aces2kj)

For Zaun

• Diamond: OPEN
• Platinum: OPEN
• Gold: KnightMayre (Subs: OrderlyAnarchist, Teraxe, resgrath)
• Silver: Argus Filch (Subs: rahh231)
• Bronze: LERY JNKNS (Subs: TheSilverLining, rippenzack, MaskedN6732, 4klover)

Match II

Starts at: 1:30 p.m. Pacific — 2:30 Mountain — 3:30 Central — 4:30 Eastern

This will be a “low-tier” match, with a GSSBB configuration.

For Zaun

• Gold: PONCHOGRANDE (Subs: OrderlyAnarchist, Teraxe, resgrath)
• Silver: Crimson42 (Subs: rahh231)
• Silver: ottoman714
• Bronze: Rekhyt26 (Subs: TheSilverLining, rippenzack, MaskedN6732, 4klover, monstershaq)
• Bronze: Geekee Was Taken

For Demacia

• Gold: Rep the Poro
• Silver: Kloudstrife
• Silver: AH1798
• Bronze: LUS Montplaisir (Subs: redgoblin51, aces2kj)
• Bronze: LionheartKM

Match III

Starts at: 2:30 p.m. Pacific — 3:30 Mountain — 4:30 Central — 5:30 Eastern

This will be a “high-tier” match, with a DDPPG configuration.

For Demacia

• Diamond: OPEN
• Diamond: OPEN
• Platinum: RedRex7
• Platinum: OPEN
• Gold: Rep the Poro

For Zaun

• Diamond: OPEN
• Diamond: OPEN
• Platinum: OPEN
• Platinum: OPEN
• Gold: ExtraKrizpy

Rules

This is an abbreviated version of the tournament rules.

Points. These matches have twice the base value of normal matches.

Disconnects. Normally, we remake Factions matches if there’s a d/c. This is problematic in a scheduled tournament. As a result, we handle it this way: each team has 5 minutes of pause time. Once that’s used up, the game plays on. Please check your connection before the match: if you d/c, you will likely throw the match for your faction.

Start times. Matches will begin no earlier than the posted times. If there are gaps still on the teams at the posted time, we’ll go to subs. 5 minutes after posted start time, we’ll open it up to the audience. A team with gaps on its roster at 15 minutes past start time forfeits.