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*An idea arose to follow the current #Poliac competition with a new tournament. Let's use a working name of "**Poliac - Champions League**". This post outlines the rules.*

## 1. Qualification
The competition is designed for **16 participants** of the Poliac league. Any mention of "Poliac standings" refers to the [final standings](https://tournamentscheduler.net/schedule/MTEzNzExMTUzMDE/results) (*as of 31.07, 22:00 CEST*) The following participants will qualify:
### 1.1. Automatic qualification: 
**top 7 players of the Poliac league**
They shall be called, respectively, **p1, p2, p3, ... p7** further down.

### 1.2. Qualifying play-offs:
**8 winners of qualifiers**
Participants who finish the Poliac league on places 8-23 will be paired for a play-off (2 legs) according to the following scheme: 
p8 vs p23
p7 vs p22
p10 vs p21
p11 vs p20 
p12 vs p19
p13 vs p18
p14 vs p17
p15 vs p16
The winners will be further down called, respectively:
**q1, q2, q3,... q8**

### 1.3. Wild card:
**1 wild card** awarded to the Poliac participant with the highest total number of steps (column "for" in Poliac final standings) who has not qualified thru one of the above ways.
The player will be further down called:
**wc**

### 1.4 Non-participation
Eligible players, who do not wish to take part in the new competition, should declare so by 31 July, 22:00 CEST by commenting this post "**I do not wish to participate in #POLIAC-CL**". Should this happen, the  participants who completed Poliac league behind the one who withdraws, will be shifted up one place to fill the empty slot.

### 1.5 Eligible players
The eligible players and the qualifiers pairs will be decided on 31 July, 22:00 based on the final standings of the Poliac league. *An example, showing the status as of writing (49-50 rounds played), is provided at the end of this post*

## 2. Scoring
### 2.1 General rules
Points are awarded based on ActiFit app reports published by participants for their "matches". Each "match" is played between two players and the score is decided the following way:
1. Activity number ("steps") from ActiFit report is divided by 1000 and rounded to the nearest integer (0.5 rounds up to 1). This number will be called "goal"
2. The player with highest goals is the winner and gets **3 points**; the opponent - **0 points**.
3. If both players have the same amount of goals, a draw is decalred and both get **1 point**.
4. In case one of the players doesn't submit a valid ActiFit report, a ~~walk-over~~ forfeit is declared - the other player will get 3 points and score ~~10:0~~ 30:0 in goals.

*Comment: the goals concept will introduce an interesting dynamic in both group stage and play-offs.*

### 2.2 Group phase scoring
Group phase will consist of 4 groups of 4 players. Competition will be held in **double round robin** mode (6 match days). The final standings will be decided the following way:
1. Higher number of points
2. Higher number of goals "for"
3. Lower number of goals "against"
4. Total "steps" from ActiFit reports across all 6 match days.
5. *In a very unlikely case of a tie at this point, the above procedure will be used for the players who are still tied, taking into account only direct matches between them*

### 2.3. Play-offs scoring
#### 2.3.1. Rounds with two legs
These rules apply to qualifiers, quarterfinals and semifinals
1. Rules 1-3 of group phase apply
2. Total "steps" from ActiFit reports for the two legs in question
3. *In a very unlikely case of a tie at this point, the player who finished the Poliac league on a higher position shall be declared the winner*

#### 2.3.2. Rounds with single match
These rules apply to the final
1. Total "steps" from ActiFit reports for the day with the final game
2. *In a very unlikely case of a tie at this point, the player who finished the Poliac league at a higher position shall be declared the winner*

## 3. Schedule
### 3.1. Qualifiers:
1 Aug - leg 1
2 Aug - leg 2

3 Aug, 22:00 CEST - final list of the group phase published (@merthin)

### 3.2. Group phase
4 Aug - Match day 1
5 Aug - Match day 2
6 Aug - Match day 3
7 Aug - day off
8 Aug - Match day 4
9 Aug - Match day 5
10 Aug - Match day 6

12 Aug, 22:00 CEST - final results of the group phase published (@merthin)

### 3.3. Play-offs phase
-- EDIT --
~~13~~ 14 Aug - quarterfinals, leg 1
~~14~~ 15 Aug - quarterfinals, leg 2

16 Aug, 22:00 CEST - results of quarterfinals published (@merthin)

~~17~~ 18 Aug - semifinals, leg 1
~~18~~ 19 Aug - semifinals, leg 2

20 Aug, 22:00 CEST - results of semifinals published (@merthin)
~~21~~ 22 Aug - FINAL game (1 match)
~~22~~ 23 Aug, 20:00 CEST - final result published (@merthin)

## 4. Group phase setup
Participants will be allocated to groups according to the following scheme:
**Group A**: p1, q1, q2, wc
**Group B**: p2, p7, q3, q8
**Group C**: p3, p6, q4, q7
**Group D**: p4, p5, q5, q6

Top two players of each group advance to the play off stage. They will be called A1, A2, B1,... D2 further down.

## 5. Play-offs setup
### 5.1 Quarterfinals
**QF1**: A1 - D2
**QF2**: A2 - D1
**QF3**: B1 - C2
**QF4**: B2 - C1

### 5.2 Semifinals
SF1: QF1 - QF4
SF2: QF2 - QF3

### 5.3 Final
F: SF1 - SF2

## 6. Prizes
8 Participants who finished group phase on places 3-4: **1 HIVE**
4 Participants eliminated in the quarterfinals: **2 HIVE**
2 Participants eliminated in the semifinals: **3 HIVE**
Runner-up: **3 HBD**
Winner: **5 HBD**

## 7. Actifit Report format
Valid Reports shall be submitted by 8am CEST of (match day + 2). They should have the phrase "**My Actifit Report Card: MONTH NN 2021**" (NN being the day of the month and MONTH the month name in English) and should use the hashtag #POLIAC-CL

## 8. Final notes
Should we decide to carry on with the Poliac - Champions League formula, players from the first edition will receive the following benefits:
1. The winner will be automatically qualified
2. Runner-up, players eliminated in the semi- and quarterfinals will be seeded in the qualifiers to the next Poliac-CL edition

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Example of eligible participants:

Automatically qualified:
p1: @browery 
p2: @manuvert 
p3: @practicaleric 
p4: @venan 
p5: @flaxz 
p6: @masoom
p7: @bucipuci 

Qualifying play offs
p8: @sk1920 vs p23: @asia-pl 
p9: @cezary-io vs p22: @racibo 
p10: @davidesimoncini vs p21: @kiel91 
p11: @merthin vs p20: @ervin-lemark 
p12: @ilodz24hd vs p19: @davidthompson57 
p13: @ptaku vs p18: @pjansen 
p14: @homesteadlt vs p17: @ykretz.sports 
p15: @grecki-bazar-ewy vs p16: @giulius 

To decide the player who would get the wild card, I will assume that the qualifiers are won by the higher ranked player in each pair. In that case, @racibo  would get it.

As it stands now, the following players would not be eligible:
@guurry123 @krakonos @cryptospa @notak @fredkese @akumagai @soluce07