Curse Trials (March 2018)

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Curse Trials is an event that takes place in the BATTLEGROUNDS community presented by Curse.

About
Curse and Alienware are happy to bring you the Curse Trials - March. The Curse Trials is a monthly competitive community event pitting some of the greatest players on Twitch against qualified challengers in three days of online play. All event information is available at www.cursetrials.com. The March Curse Trials are held on March 27th, 28th, and 29th.

Prizepool
For March, a total of $10,000 USD is offered as the total prizepool. Positions 1st - 3rd after the Final ends will be awarded the following amount.

Scoring
Scoring is determined by the following rubric:

How It Works
Team Format: Squads Unique Settings: Server Location: North America and Europe (alternating between matches) Casters: Travis and Alex from Curse
 * First-person Only: On
 * Red Zone: Off
 * AR Spawns: 1.5x
 * Ammunition Spawns: Default
 * Costumes: Disabled
 * Custom Circle Settings: Scrim settings

Maps
The Curse Trials March will only feature Erangel, after Miramar was declared unfit for competitive play in its current state.

Qualifiers
The Qualifiers decide who moves on to the Final on Thursday. The Qualifier uses our point structure system to determine placement in each match. Our full point structure system is outlined at www.cursetrials.com. This month there are four (4) total Qualifier Groups (A, B, C, and D). These Groups play on the 27th and 28th of March. Each group plays four (4) total matches, the top four teams at the end of all four Group matches will move on to Saturday's Final.

Day 1 - Tuesday, March 27th Day 2 - Wednesday, March 28th
 * Group A: 3:00pm EDT (4 matches)
 * Group B: 6:00pm EDT (4 matches)
 * Group C: 3:00pm EDT (4 matches)
 * Group D: 6:00pm EDT (4 matches)

Played on-stream live at twitch.tv/curse

Final
The Final is the conclusion of the Curse Trials, 16 teams from Qualifiers will compete in six (6) total matches on Thursday, March 29th starting at 2pm EDT. Similarly to the Qualifier, our Curse Trials Point Structure is used to determine placement in the Final. The #1 team (based off of total points) after all 6 matches are played are awarded 4x Red Hi-Top Trainers, along with having their names etched into our Hall of Fame on the Curse Twitch channel.

Day 3 - Final - Thursday, March 29th
 * Match 1: 4:00pm EDT
 * Match 2: 4:45pm EDT
 * Match 3: 5:30pm EDT
 * Match 4: 6:15pm EDT
 * Match 5: 7:00pm EDT
 * Match 6: 7:45pm EDT

Played on-stream live at twitch.tv/curse

For updates on current and future events I also encourage you to follow our Twitter account @CurseTrials!

Official Ruleset
Please see our official Tournament Ruleset here.