Gold league

The Gold league is the top of the 3 leagues (Gold, Silver, Bronze) and is composed of 8 teams.
If a team forfeits a Gold tournament, it is downgraded to Silver.

Each Gold team must be in their assigned voice room on the KTA Discord server during each of their games (draft and preparation included). It is forbidden to receive any outside assistance from outside the team during a game.

If the logo or name of a Gold team is judged inappropriate for event communication, the organization can require the team to change it.

Championship format

• A Gold tournament begins with a championship between all teams.
• In 7 evenings, every teams meet each other twice (both matches are played on the same evening). Teams will be alternatively be A and B during the draft phase.
• Each game day, the 4 BO2 are divided into two pairs. In each pair, the 4 games must be played one after the other, according to these rules:
  • The draft of match 1 of the first BO2 starts at 8pm.
  • The draft of match 1 of the second BO2 starts at 8:30 pm.
  • For the second match of each BO2, the draft must start within 10 minutes after the end of the first match, without possible delay
  • As all matches are streamed, players must wait for the start signal from the stream which broadcast them before starting a match.
• A victory grants 3 Tournament Points, a draw grants 1 Tournament Point, a defeat grants no Tournament Points (each confrontation being composed of 2 matches, there are 42 Tournament Points to won in total).
• Additional Points are also given according to the result of each match, as defined in the general rules.
• The championship’s ranking criterias are: Tournament Points > Direct results between teams (regardless of the number of deaths) > Additional Points > Addition of the opponent's tournament points for each draft won against a team. Tiebreakers will be held if needed.
• In case more than 2 teams are tied in Tournament Points, the direct result criterion is calculated by adding the number of victories obtained against all other tied teams.

Play-off format

• At the end of the championship, the best 4 teams are qualified for the play-off.
• The semi-finals are defined according to the league rankings: 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd. In the case of an equality between some of the four teams, a draw will be made.
• The semi-finals are played in BO3 (best of 3 games) and the final in BO5 (best of 5 games).
• The highest ranked team in the championship has the draft letter choice for the odd games of the BO.

Lateness

• There are no forfeit linked to lateness in Gold league.
• Any delay by a team in the start of a draft or match will result in a penalty.
• These sanctions evolve according to the following table:

• Lateness number	Penalty
  1	Warning
  2	30 KTA Points + 30 Additional Points
  3	30 KTA Points + 1 Tournament Point
  4	30 KTA Points + 2 Tournament Point
  5	30 KTA Points + 3 Tournament Point
  6	Tournament elimination

• Every 3 minutes after the sanction of a delay, an additional delay will be distributed if the team is still not ready.

Matches shift

This paragraph only concerns the championship confrontations.

• In case of major necessity, teams may by common agreement change the match schedule, at the condition that they keep a date between the base match schedule and the previous match schedule. For example : If your second match is the 2nd of June and you can’t play the third match the 5th of June, you can change your 3rd match to the 3rd or the 4th of June only.
• This shift must be communicated to the organization before the date of the previous confrontation.
• All confrontations of the same day cannot be rescheduled. If two confrontations have already been rescheduled, then the two others cannot be rescheduled.

Rewards

• The cashprize of each Gold League Championship is 1000€, the repartition of which is not yet fixed.
• The winners earn:
  • A Gold Escuktaeon
  • A ticket for the Dofus Masters
• The first 5 teams are requalified for the next Gold League Championship.
• All teams earn KTA points, as defined in the rules KTA points.

Interactions with Silver league

• Teams ranked 6th, 7th and 8th in a Gold League Championship are relegated to Silver.
• The finalists as well as the winners of the small Silver final are promoted to Gold.