Terminology:
Clan: A team participating in the league.
Captain: A person who represents his team in the league. The captain is responsible for his team and gets the awards if the team takes a prize place.
Clan War: The event which includes games between two teams in the following format: 4 duel series (1v1) and 1 team series (2v2).
Match: BO3 series of 1x1 or 2x2 games counted for the Clan War.
WildCard: The right to postpone 1 Clan War match; postponed matches are played according to a previously set schedule time or according to a mutual agreement.

Game settings:
StarCraft: BroodWar 1.15 or the latest version of StarCraft: BroodWar at the moment when the Clan War takes place.
Game mode — Melee is default, Use Map Settings (in case there are observers), One on One, Top vs Bottom.
Game speed — Fastest.
Anti-hack Launcher ON is mandatory.

Maps:
1st MOTW (determined initially), then Loser’s Choice out of the iCCup CL map pack.
Forbidden to play one map twice.
You can't complain about map, if game already played. The use of an incorrect map, could be penalized as «loss» for both players, according to the CL admins decision.

Clan War schedule:
Clan Wars take place once a week.
Default time for Clan War start is 17:00 CET = 16:00 GMT = 19:00 MSK = 11:00 EST = 8:00 PST = 00:00 Korean.
CET time is not equally Server time.
The time / Channel, when a Clan War starts, can be changed in case of mutual agreement between the Captains of both teams. A Clan War must be played and reported during one week, otherwise the Clan War may be closed with the current score after 7 days since the initial Clan War date, and the team(s) may get penalty points.
In case a WildCard is activated, matches are postponed.
A postponed match must be played and reported within one week, otherwise the Clan War may be closed with the current score after 7 days since the date set with the WildCard, and the team(s) may get penalty points.
Observers are allowed in the game if both players agree. But, complaints regarding BM obs, won´t be accepted.


Clan War procedure:

All Clan Wars are played on server iCCup, the starting channels are: ICC-A, ICC-B1, ICC-B2, etc. The captain of the team or any of his assistants must make brackets no later than after 15 minutes since the Clan War starts. In case a team does not show up, after 15 minutes the team gets Tech Loss. At least 1 capitan and 3 1vs1 are needed for play. If not, it will be taken as WO for all the Clan War. For a valid proof of the WO, you must to take the screen shot in the default channel.
If a team report more than 2 win by W/O, those next clanwars won by W/O will be ignored.

The system of points:
Clan War points are assigned for a WIN in each match which stands for 1 point. The winning team gets extra 1 point. e.g. Team1 > Team2 3:2; Team1 +3+1 = +4 pts, Team2 +2 pts).
Tech WIN: +3 points.
Missing a Clan War, Tech LOSS: -1 point.

Disconnects and other arguable situations:
In case of disconnect during the first 3 minutes since the beginning of the game — RE game with the same races, as in the last game.
In case of disconnect after 3 minutes — if players do not come to an agreement about the result, the judge makes a decision whether the game should be re-played or whether one of the players is to be assigned WIN according to the replay.
A repetitive disconnect leads to Tech Loss.
If both players are proxy users, they have a right to play via Hamachi, replace player(s) or use wildcard with the subsequent replace (If still it is not used). If team does not agree, it receives Tech Loss. Same rules for 2x2.

Reports:
All players should report results of their games before deadline for Clan War.
Don't report fake replays. Result in match may be reversed for 0:0.
Fake report results of match might be reversed to 0-0. All tech wins must be reported on forum or to judges.
For report tech win you must create new thread in the «Team League» forum.

Bugs/tricks in game:
Allowed to use:
— Plague on interceptor
— Units pressed through
— drops to defuse mines
— Mineral walk
— Manner Pylon
— Lurker hold position

— Observer Over turret

Not allowed to use:
— Flying drones and templars
— Terran sliding buildings
— A bug which allows your units to remain stacked while moving/attacking
— Allied mines
— Intentional dropping lurker and SCV — defined by referee

Judging:
Judges are on the server during the scheduled time till the end of Clan Wars and help in resolving issues.
Also one can find Judging staff members in the following IRC channel: #ICCup @ server irc.quakenet.org
In case a Clan War is postponed, a judge may be present there if he considers it necessary, but it is not his duty.

Decisions taken by iccup CL can be dicussed in «Complaint about an admin decision» forum, and review it by the CL SA or Head Admins.

Players’ and Captains’ duties:
In case of postponing Clan War time, the Captains must make screenshots and report it on forum.
In case any, arguable issues occurring during the Clan War, a Captain should call the Judge.
All players must save their replays.
If a replay file is corrupted, the player must warn the Captain immediately after the games, and the Captain should report it to the Judge.
All replays must be reported.

Wildcards:
Each team has 1 Wildcard per Clan War without the confirm of opponent. Captain can use Wildcard before 17:20 CET and must inform opponents about it (no need to inform before Clan War).
One match can be postponed with using Wildcard (if captain will use it before 17:20 CET or if players will have lags). Only a MATCH is postponed, not the entire Clan War. During a Clan War a team may activate 1 Wildcard only. A postponed match must be played within 8 days, otherwise the team gets Tech LOSS and Punishment points.
It is allowed to postpone 1x1 or 2x2 match. Wildcard for 2x2 match must be used before 17:20 CET.
If one team wish to use Wildcard for 1x1 and opponents for 2x2, postponed 1x1 and 2x2 both.
In postponed match with score 0-0 teams can replace players on those who was registered on Clan War in default time. If scores is 1:0 or 1:1 should play the same players.
«C» division teams can't use wildcard if opponents don't agree.  

 * — Minimum number of players to be played Clan War: 3.

 * — NOT ALLOWED to play clan war with1 or 2 players online.

 * — NOT ALLOWED to use 1-2 wild cards if team have no at least 3 players online.

Abusement** this rule - penalty.

** — Judge or CL admin looking at this situation, and make his decission. 

Adding/removing players:
A player coming into a team must wait two days (48 hours) before he/she can participate in the league. The players marked «X» can't play in Clan War.
All players should have a team tag.
Captains should check opponents on this rules before start. We do not review complaints about this rules after games.

Replacements/backup players:
Replacements are not obligatory. In some cases, for example, when players deal with a bug that cannot be fixed, the absence of a backup player will not cause any penalty for the team. However, if you, for instance, have no replacement for a 2x2 match, and one of the 2x2 players needs to go, you are likely to get a penalty for this match. Replacements should only be done when there is a valid reason: lags, poor connection, player didn't come or if the opponent agrees for the replacement. If it turns out that you have used a replacement intentionally to get an advantage (and had neither valid reason nor the opponent’s agreement), the games will not be counted.

Abuses and punishment:
Showing disrespect, using offense and vulgar expressions on the League site or during a Clan War are strictly forbidden.
Each occasion will be considered separately, punishment — from a warning, ban from channel to a Tech LOSS in the match/Clan War and, in extreme cases, up to removing the player/team from the League.
Using software that is likely to give advantage over other players is classified as cheating and is punished up to ban from the League.
Absence of a player — if a player is absent/afk longer than 20 minutes since the Clan War start and if the Captain does not activate the Wildcard, the team gets a Tech LOSS 0:2 for this match. Between games — 10 minutes. Captain must ask opponents about using replace or wildcard. If opponents don't answered, you can report w/o for this match with screenshots on forum or call judge.
Smurf games (dummies) — if it is proved that the player’s account have been used by someone else, the team where the substitution have taken place is punished with extra 5 penalty points. The man of straw gets a ban from the League and all his games will be reversed on 0-2. Repeate use can result to a team ban.

One player has a right to play in one team only. Even if player plays Clan League Clan War for one team, Ladder Clan War for other team he should be banned from Clan League and wont be able to play again in the same season, even with other nickname. All his games will be setted up to a 0-2. If the player its cached playing again, the team will be penalized with -10 pts
Player can change his team only once in three playweeks.

For example: MYM.White-RA played for mYm during the fist week and then left mYm and joined xlo. xLo.White-Ra can play for xlo since the second week 'till the end of the team league. However, if xLo.White-Ra comes back to mYm he will be able to play for mYm only from the fifth week.(cl qualification = one play week)

Let me explain more better, the player called «X» who plays for his current team A, and then leave «A» after two or three weeks,
and joined the other team «B» he must be sure that his name doestn't exist in team «A», after joining the new team «B» to avoid suspicious movements about smurf player.
The new leader of team «B» must be sure that it is no longer part of his old team «A», then he can play for his new team «B», failing which the problem will be the fault of the team leader.The job of the team leader to warn his players about it before being allowed to play.
Team absence before 17:15 CET — Tech Loss.
Two occasions of skipping the Clan War during a season might result in removing the team from Clan League. If a team is removed, the results of all matches are nulled for the stage. All the teams that have already played vs this team, get 3 points in case of victory.
A banned team is not accepted for the league in the succeeding seasons.

Pausing:
A player is allowed to pause during a game, but his opponent is allowed to unpause at any time.
We do not review complaints involving pause.

Making an application for the League by the team Captain stands for the fact that he has read the League Rules and agrees to follow them.
Team Captain is responsible for getting all his team players informed about the rules.
Team Captain must read Clan League forum.
The organizers have a right to make changes and supplements as required, and engage themselves to inform about the changes on Clan League forum.

Play Off:

After the regular season, teams will play the «Play offs» to determinate who will remain in the same division and who will be relegated to a lower division.

Division A

The top four finishers in the top division (Division A) will remain for the next season in this division, while those qualifying in the last two positions (9th and 10th) will be relegated to divisions B2 and B1 respectively.
Teams numbered from 5th to 8th will enter a playoff round against a lower division to maintain their place in the higher divisions.

Division B

The winning team will be promoted to play into the higher division while 4th place will automatically remain in the same division to try again next season. Clans placing 2nd and 3rd from B1 and B2 divisions will enter playoffs against Division A teams 5-8. The situation is showed at the end of this rules.
Teams numbered from 5th to 8th will enter a playoff round against a lower division to maintain their place in the B division.
The last two positions (9th and 10th) will be relegated to divisions C.

Division C
The winning team will be promoted to play into the higher division (B) while 4th place will automatically remain in the same division to try again next season. Clans placing 2nd and 3rd from C1 to C4 divisions will enter playoffs against Division B teams 5-8.
For Divisions C1, C2, C3 and C4 4th, 5th and 6th will stay for the next season while the bottom four teams will be removed from the season, demoted to qualifiers, to make way for new qualifiers. (Notice about this last phrase can be changed in the next weeks)

Division A Dead Teams:

When a Division A Team goes inactive they will automatically be relegated to Division B because of W.O. wins throughout the season this procedure goes on to describe how to deal with the playoffs in Division B.

Normally the 5th place teams would play a 3rd place team from Division C to keep their spot Division B. But now since one of the teams is inactive the 5th place teams will play each other first. The winner of this match stays in Division B automatically.

ex:
B1 5th vs B2 5th

B1 5th wins and gets to stay in Division B without playing Division C Team.
B2 5th loses and plays the Division C 3rd place team they normally would for their spot.

This means that since B1 5th stayed in Division B without a playoff with a C team their normal Division C opponent automatically gets promoted to Division B without a playoff.

Normally the playoffs would be:
B1 5th vs C3 3rd
&
B2 5th vs C4 3rd

Since B1 5th already kept their spot without a playoff with C3 3rd then C3 3rd gets promoted to Division B1 to replace the inactive team.

This case changes when we have two dead teams only in that the two 5th place teams won't play eachother and keep their spot automatically promoting C3 3rd and C4 3rd automatically to replace the inactive teams.

When a team in Division B goes inactive they are relegated to Division C automatically and doesn't create any new case on qualification.

FAQ:
So 3rds from Division C1 and C2 will never get a chance for the automatic qualifier

Division Qualifiers

The change about A #7 and A #8 opponent was changed and starting in season 12

Note:

Players can only play on play-off for their team if they played at least 1 CL game during the season.