League of Legends NSE Winter 26

RULES SUMMARY

This is a quick summary of rules that most players need to know.

• All players must be current students of the same university.
• Offensive Summoner and Team names are not allowed.
• Teams must have at least 5 players. 
• If teams are more than 20 minutes late to the scheduled start time of a match they forfeit the match.
• Check-in deadline is 6:30pm. Teams who don't check in by then will not get games for that evening.
• Offensive Summoner and Team names are not allowed.
• Verbal abuse is not allowed. In particular any use of racist, sexist, homophobic or any other discriminatory language will be suspended for the remainder of the season (minimum of 3 weeks, carried over to the following season).

In addition to NSE rules all players must comply with League of Legends terms of service at all times including, but not limited to, any account sharing policies.

Players are expected to uphold the NSE Code of Conduct whilst competing in this tournament.

GAME SETTINGS

• All games are tournament draft on EUW server.
• A player from either team should host the game and invite other players to game using the following settings:
  • Game type: Tournament draft
  • Team size: 5
  • Spectators: All
  • Spectator Delay: Add Delay
• The home team (team on left of fixture) will have the choice of side for the first game. 
  • If the match consists of more than one game, the loser of the previous game has the choice of side for the next game.
• No skins are banned.
• New/reworked champions are banned for 1 week.
• Coaches are allowed to spectate the match via the spectate function on friends list.
• Proxy picks are allowed. Players may pick a placeholder champion if they don't own a champion they wish to pick for a teammate. 
  • If you are using a placeholder you need to make sure the other team is aware before allowing champion select to progress.

PAUSE RULES

Teams are allowed to pause for technical or rule issues.

• If the pause is longer than 5 minutes, please contact an admin.
• The max pause length is 15 minutes per team.
• The enemy team should be notified before unpausing to check they are also ready.

SUBSTITUTION RULES

• Teams may add/remove players from the team between weeks.
• Teams may play with any players listed on their roster.
• In a bo3 or bo5 match teams may substitute players between games.
• Players may be added to teams at any point as long as it does not cause a delay to round starting.
• If a player is added to the team after the round is scheduled, they will forfeit their final ban during the draft phase.
• Students may not play for more than one team in a single tournament night.
• If a team does not have a match during a round, the students on that team are not allowed to compete on a different team.
• For example, if the first team does not have a match but the second team does, no players who would normally represent the first team are eligible to play for the second team.

All decisions regarding the interpretation and enforcement of these rules are at the sole discretion of the NSE Admin Team, whose decisions are final.
These rules may be amended, changed or supplemented when required by the NSE Admin Team to ensure fair play and competitive integrity.