Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Match Settings

Series Lengths

Matches are played as a best of 1 in the regular season, best of 3 in the playoffs and a best of 5 in Grand finals.

Server Settings

A server owned by the High School Esports League must be used for official matches. Server region and maps played must be determined in advance to the match. For information on how to set up a match using an official HSEL Server please refer to the CS:GO Match Setup Article. The match server will be determined by:

• Location: To be determined by team captains before the match begins in accordance with rule 2.3

• Map: To be determined by map veto in accordance with the tournament stage series length in 2.1. and the corresponding map veto procedure in the sub-rules of 2.4.  

No servers other than official HSEL Servers are to be used, without prior notification from HSEL Administration.

Server Region Veto

The following server regions are available for use in official matches:

• N. California, USA

• Oregon, USA

• N. Virginia, USA

• Ohio, USA

• Toronto, Canada

If teams are unable to come to an agreement on a server region to play on, the following server veto will be used:

• The home team bans one server region

• The away team bans one remaining server region

• The home team picks one remaining server region on which the match will be played

Map Veto

The home team will have the ability to decide which team will act as Team 1 and which will act as Team 2.

Best of One

Teams will take turns banning until there is a single map left, starting with Team 1 (3 bans per team). A knife round will be used to determine starting sides.

Best of Three

Teams will pick/ban in the following format:

• Team 1 bans a map

• Team 2 bans a map

• Team 1 picks the first map

• Team 2 picks their starting side for the first map

• Team 2 picks the second map

• Team 1 picks their starting side for the second map

• Team 1 bans a map

• Team 2 bans a map

• The remaining map will be map three, with a knife round used to determine starting sides once on map three

Best of Five

Teams will pick/ban in the following format:

• Team 1 bans a map

• Team 2 bans a map

• Team 1 picks the first map

• Team 2 picks their starting side for the first map

• Team 2 picks the second map

• Team 1 picks their starting side for the second map

• Team 1 picks the third map

• Team 2 picks their starting side for the third map

• Team 2 picks the fourth map

• Team 1 picks their starting side for the fourth map

• The remaining map will be map five, with a knife round used to determine starting sides once on map five

Map Pool

The following maps are available for play in official matches:

• Dust 2

• Inferno

• Mirage

• Nuke

• Overpass

• Train

• Vertigo

Overtime

Best of One

All matches played in the Best of One format will be played with no overtime (i.e. matches can tie 15-15).

Best of Three and Best of Five

All matches played in the Best of Three or Best of Five format will be played with overtime in the following format:

• MR3 (Three round halves, win at 4 points in overtime)

• 10000 starting money