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Asphelite presents: AERIAL COMBAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON 2024 "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." Aristotle Dear fighter pilots and friends - Welcome back to the second season of Aerial Combat Championship! About a year ago, this tournament ran for the first time - with lots of success and amazing battles. Thanks again to all of you for attending and participating, supporting and submitting feedback throughout the season. Without you, this tournament would not exist or go for the second round. If you see this tournament for the first time, maybe you want to check out last seasons thread? Alright, lets cut right to it shall we? GENERAL INFORMATION The ACC Discord-Server serves as the main source of information as well as the means for organizing each element during the tournament. Please join the server for everything important via the link below: -> Discord Invite Link <- Discord Server Membership is required for a valid sign-up. Format and Structure All the important things in short: - PvP - 6v6 - Best of 3 - BVR - NoAWACS - Qualifiers followed by a Double Elimination Format Aerial Combat Championship (ACC) is a 6 versus 6, NoAWACS, BVR tournament focused solely on the competitive PvP aspect of DCS. Unlike other tournaments, its combat zone is rectangular (see Discord maps-setup section). A maximum of 16 teams may sign up for the tournament. This year, due to timely constraints, the tournament will not feature a group phase. If Season 2025 takes place, we will go back to the original format - or something even better! The 'Qualifiers' will be a randomized One-Time Match - This means we will have 8 winners and 8 loosers of said matches, setting the initial 'splits' for the following Double Elimination Phase. Please refer to the discord within the next few days of this post being released for more details. Restrictions Airframe Restrictions: - Modern airframes only - No FC3 what-so-ever! Weapons-pool: - No Jammers (JF17 and Hornet are allowed to have them in PASSIVE and in PASSIVE ONLY), no Smokes, no A2G Weapons - TPODs allowed - max. 4 TALDS per aircraft Other limitations: - No 9X - Max. 8 A2A Missiles - Max. 4x Fox-3 (any) WSO's and RIO's are welcome! (No restrictions) Sign Ups You can only sign up via the Discord linked above. Sign ups are open from 1st to 22nd of November, with minor extension at the ready if not all 16 Team Spots are taken. (Note: It is possible to launch the tournament with less teams, though it is suboptimal) If all spots have been filled, your team may sign up as a backup, in case a team needs to bail. (Stuff like that can happen, you know how reallife can get in the way...) Scheduling The initial schedule will include default dates, however everyone is free to negotiate a more fitting date and time as long as such a rescheduling is within the rules of the tournament. Qualifiers: 3 weeks to complete all 8 matches (one match per team) - yes its tight but hopefully to be completed in December. (No issue delaying if needed) Elim. Phase: 2-3 Months "as fast as possible" - Starting in January. Prizes Currently, there are no prizes - you fight for fun and honor. Honor and Glory - Dignity in Death Further Information - Maps: Caucasus during Qualifiers; Common-Map Pool between teams, with each team receiving one token to spend on choosing a map. See the "SPRINT RULEBOOK" soon to be attached to this thread as well as released on the discord. The weather will also be different to last season! Note: The Sprint Rulebook is created from the original one, but altered to fit this season and format. In short: The rules are basically the same. - There will be 2 dedicated tournament servers. - Matches will be streamed live (if possible). Please monitor the Discord Servers announcement chat for that purpose. - Please join the discord or DM me directly if you have questions. I am happy to assist and clarify. Thank you for reading through the event post! I am looking forward to seeing you all back in action, last year was quite amazing. Once again the reminder to carefully read the rules and to not be shy to ask for directions and clarifications if there are questions! Do not forget to join the Discord if you havent already, or if you want to be notified about news and streams going live! -> Discord Invite Link <- Thats all from me for now, signing off Asphelite Fight's on! Contact: Discord @Asphelite If you wish to provide prizes of any kind by sponsoring the tournament, please DM me via Discord. If you wish to colaborate on avoiding tournament overlaps, feel free to DM me via Discord. ### Please do not reply to this thread! Thank you. ###

Asphelite presents: AERIAL COMBAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON 2023 "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill Dear fighter pilots and friends - I am incredibly proud to announce the first instance of this entirely new tournament! Aerial Combat Championship, ACC or AC² for short, is a 6v6, NoAWACS, BVR Tournament created with the intend to provide a new approach to the competitive tournaments, while also enrichening the amount of tournaments available. I will talk about more specific info on how the tourny is set up a bit further down, but first I would like to elaborate on my motivation or why I set out to create this tournament: Flying DCS since early 2021 and competing in the competitive space since joining my squadron in ~August-September 2021, together with OneTrickPony we have been able to compete in numerous events - SATAL and SATAC, TACT and others just to name a few - and sadly had some few bad but mostly a lot of great experiences in these past tournaments. I personally (and my team) often felt like some different or variating modes or setups were missing - so I finally decided to make my run for it. With ACC I am aiming to give everyone a great place and opportunity to have fun in their favorite airframe, while also trying to make it fair. I value good communications and I hope you find that I stand by my word. For me, honest sportsmanlike behaviour is at upmost priority and I expect this from every one of you as well. I am very lucky to have a couple of very experienced pilots from different squadrons help me refine the ruleset I created - and without @vtaf_archer, I dont think that I would have been able to create the many scripts and systems that I initially planned for. Thank you all very much for that You all are incredible people and pilots and I would not be able to bring this tournament to everyone without you. Alright, with all of that being said: Lets get to business, shall we? GENERAL INFORMATION The ACC Discord-Server serves as the main source of information as well as the means for organizing each element during the tournament. Please join the server for everything important via the link below: -> Discord Invite Link <- Please be informed that every detail about the tournament can be found in the Discord and will be explained there in more depth, as well as giving you the opportunity to directly ask questions (ticket system [preferred] or public channel). This forum post serves as a rough overview. Discord Server Membership is required for a valid sign up. Format and Structure Aerial Combat Championship (ACC) is a 6 versus 6, NoAWACS, BVR tournament focused solely on the competitive PvP aspect of DCS. Unlike other tournaments, its combat zone is rectangular (see Discord maps-setup section). A maximum of 16 teams may sign up for the tournament. ACC consists of two phases - a group and an elimination phase. 1) Group phase: The phase consists of two stages, with 4 groups consisting of 4 teams each. Every team plays against each other team in its respective group ("Round Robin"). Group allocation will be random in Stage 1, for Stage 2 there is a fair system in place ensuring compliance with the rest of the rules (see the Discord Ruleset Channels for more detailed information). 2) Elimination phase: This phase consists of two divisions, created from the top 8 and bottom 8 teams at the end of the group phase. Each division plays their own Knockout, so everyone stays in the tournament until their ultimate defeat during the eliminations. Restrictions Airframe Restrictions: - Modern airframes only - No F15C -> there is an F15E Weapons-pool: - No Jammers, no Smokes, no A2G Weapons - TALDS, TPODs allowed Other limitations: - No 9X - Max. 8 A2A Missiles - Max. 4x Fox-3 (any) - Max. 2x R-73 WSO's and RIO's are welcome! (No restrictions) Sign Ups You can only sign up via the Discord linked above. Please monitor this thread or the Discord for announcements. Scheduling Each stage and phase has a deadline. Matches are to be completed prior to the deadline expiring. The initial schedule will include default dates, however everyone is free to negotiate a more fitting date and time as long as such a rescheduling is within the rules of the tournament. Prizes Currently, there are no prizes - you fight for fun and honor. Honor and Glory - Dignity in Death Further Information - Maps flown during the tournament are Caucasus, Syria and Persian Gulf - since not everyone has all the maps, there is a common map-pool created during the match-selection process, providing "replacement" or "substitute" maps in case of missing maps, always allowing to choose one out of three maps. Please see the rules-section on the discord or the rulebook below. - There will be dedicated tournament servers. (Big thanks to everyone at OneTrickPony for allowing me to use the servers) - Matches will be streamed live (if possible). Please monitor the Discord Servers announcement chat for that purpose. - Please join the discord or DM me directly, if you have questions. I am happy to assist and clarify. Thank you for taking a look at all of this, it really means a lot to me. Please see the Ruleset on the Discord for detailed information on any these topics, it is extremely important that you have read them. Alternatively, if you do not wish to join the discord yet, feel free to take a look at the full Rulebook attached to this very forum post. Please join the Discord (Invite Link here) for further and especially more detailed information. I hope I could wake your teams interest in participating in this tournament. I am very much looking forward to seeing you soon with kindest regards Asphelite Fight's on! Contact: Discord @Asphelite If you wish to provide prizes by sponsoring the tournament despite this being the first iteration of the tournament and my appearance as an organizer, please DM me via Discord. Do not reply to this post. ACC23_rulebook_releaseversion_v8.pdf