Gears 5: EGL Open Series Finals Overview

  Prizes

Only 1st, 2nd & 3rd place teams will be awarded a cash prize. All members on the winning teams will be contacted via email and the cash prize will be equally split among team members. The amount of cash prizing received by the winning teams is determined in the table below:

  Player IDs

For this tournament, players must register their Xbox Live Gamertag to their EGL Game & Social Accounts section on their EGL profile. All Player IDs on a team’s roster must be 100% valid and accurate. Spelling, spaces and characters must be exact, but do not need to be case sensitive.

If your username is found to be incorrect or you have input an email address instead of your Xbox Live Gamertag then you will be disqualified as this is strictly NOT allowed.

  Maps

The maps to choose from are as follows:

All rounds of the tournament are to be played as a Best of 3.

Best of 3

The Higher Seeded Team will choose to act as Team A or Team B during the Map Ban process.

The Map Ban process is as follows:

-  Team A bans 1 Map
-  Team B bans 1 Map
-  Team B picks Map 1
-  Team A picks Faction for Map 1
-  Team A picks Map 2
-  Team B picks Faction for Map 2
-  Team A bans 1 Map
-  Team B bans 1 Map
-  Remaining Map becomes Map 3
-  Team A picks Faction for Map 3

  Seeding

Throughout the Open Series each player that has participated each week has earned a certain amount of points dependant on their placement and the overall tournament sign up/participation amount. A teams seeding will be determined by their rosters overall combined EGL RP points that each player will have earned throughout the 10 weeks of the Weekly Open Series.

  Hosting Order

A team's seed is indicated by the number next to their team name on the tournament bracket. The highest seed is defined as the team with the seed closest to 0.

The hosting team is as follows:

The team that is not hosting will choose which spawn (side) they wish to start on.

  Support

If you have a problem with your match, please click on the 'Contact Support' button found on the Match Fixture page. You can also reach us on the EGL - Global Discord channel for general questions and discussion.