All games are to be played in First Person. Custom games created must have "Allow Third Person" set to "Disabled".

Banned:

• Banned Cards/Talents:
  Unstable Fissure on Atlas
  
  Banned Skins:
  Mastery Skins (Cosmic/Obsidian)
  Bomb King "Love King" Skin
  Drogoz "DZ-03 Draco" Skin
  Drogoz "Samba" Weapon Skin
  Drogoz "Abyssal Lord" Skin
  Fernando "Enforcer" Skin
  Furia "Battlesuit Angel" Skin
  Makoa "Omega" Skin
  Viktor "Legionnaire" Skin
  Sha Lin "Omega" Skin
  Zhin "Ebonstar" Skin
  
  Banned Emotes:
  All roaming emotes
  
  A use of one banned item might result in a team's disqualification.
  
  Knowingly exploiting a bug will be an immediate disqualification as per the rules, and not reporting known bugs may result in punitive measures as listed in section 8 of the rules.
  
  

Format:

• Is the responsibility of each player and team have their IGN (In Game Name (nickname)) linked and updated in your ESL profiles, also is the responsibility of their captain or sub-captain update their lineup after played each round in the tournament, and upload a screenshot from the victory of that match to confirm the IGN´s of all the players. You are warning now, since there´s a lot of cases of players that didn´t receive their rewards, lost the crystals or they has delayed prizes for this issue.
• Platform: All platforms(PS4, Switch, PC, Xbox one)
• Up to and including Quarter Final: Best of 1 (one)
• Semi Final: Best of 3 (three)
• Finals: Best of 3 (three)

Map Drafting: Maps will be banned and picked through the matchsheet with the automatic mapveto system. The team that has the higher seed starts and has first map pick. Each team bans a map, then the teams pick maps alternately from the remaining Map Pool to decide the order in which they will be played. The team that does not pick the map for a specific game has first champion pick in the game lobby.

New teams, please read cup guide here: Playing a cup

Before you start:

• Create a party with five members in the Paladins Client
  • Press Play -> Challenge Match -> Two options: create a match or join to a room
  • Create: create a room share it with your opponent via ESL/in game chat
  • Join: contact with your opponent and with the right password you will be able to join and start the game when everyone is ready
  • Champion picking: Champion picking is done via "Competitive" game mode. When creating a custom game, please remember to use the "Competitive" pick mode, not "Casual".
  • Spectator mode must be enabled for all matches for the duration of the tournament.
  • Allow Third Person must be set disabled.