1. General Information

USSR NFS CUP is NFS: Shift online tourney series. Each tourney consists of 5 regular rounds and 1 final round. In each game can take part up to 4 players.

Only 4 players with maximum points after 5 rounds are allowed to play in the final round. If some players after 5 rounds have the same points and it is not clear who will be in the final round, these players must race one more race. After the final round, 3 players with maximum total points after all games (not only in final) become tourney winners and get tropheys.

2. Game Settings

All games are run on the official EA unranked server with following settings:
Mode: Circuit
Laps: 5
Cars: All Cars Are Allowed
Nitrous: Off
Visual Upgrades: allowed
Performance Upgrades: allowed
Performance Tuning: allowed

3. Point system

Regular round:
1-st place - 5 points
2-nd place - 3 points
3-rd place - 2 points
4-th place - 1 point

Final round:
1-st place - 10 points
2-nd place - 6 points
3-rd place - 4 points
4-th place - 2 points

4. Registration

Only registered players are able to participate in the CUP. You can fill out the registration form on this site. During the registration you'll be prompted to provide your nickname from official EA online server, your e-mail and your ability to host (create) games online. So, if you have poor connection or some problems with firewalls, etc. - let us know and we'll try to not assign you to host games during tourneys. After successful registration you will be allowed to sign up for tourneys.

5. Sign Up

Only signed up players can participate in online tourneys. You can sign up from this site during an allowed period of time. Right after sign up period is finished you must be present in Cup's IRC channel, otherwise tourney supervisor may exclude you from the current tourney.

6. During The Tourneys

During tourneys you should follow tourney supervisor's orders. After the round start announcement, you should look at the site ("Current Tourneys" section) and find out in which groups you are playing. If you were assigned to host game, you should inform your opponents twice - by IRC and by game chat, after that you can create game according to a tourney type. If someone is not joining to the game or not responding for more than 2 minutes after you have announced the game start - game must be started without this player.

If someone was disconnected before "GO" sign in the game, this game should be replayed. If disconnect happened after "GO", this player gets position according to a final race standings.

If somebody cant join to the host player after several attempts, you should change host player. If all variants were tried and still no success, you need to inform a supervisor about this.

At the end of a race every player should make a screenshot of the race results.

7. Communication

All communication between players must be in our IRC channel. You must be present there before a signup period ends. During a tourney only those who are participating in the current tourney are allowed to be present in the chat room. All players must have ability to use either their own IRC client or our build-in IRC client in website. If you cannot use IRC, please don't sign up for tourney because you will be excluded. How to install and use IRC chat is described in the IRC chat section on this site.

When you are in the IRC channel, the following is prohibited:
1. To talk over or criticize supervisor's decisions.
2. Offence others or swearing.
3. Using Russian or any other national symbols except English.
4. Offtopic.

8. Reporting Round Results

After a game is finished, host player should report race results to a tourney supervisor. Results should be reported in the IRC channel twice - in the general chat and in the personal message to a supervisor.

Please follow the following pattern when reporting your results:
Round 1, Game 2: 1-PlayerA, 2-PlayerB, 3-PlayerC, 4-PlaterD

9. Resolving Conflict Situations

In case of any disagreements the final decision is made by the supervisor based on screenshots and player opinions.

10. Punishment for Rules Violation

You will be considered as a cheater for using any kind of trainers, having insufficient upgrade parts.

If tules violation was discovered, this player can be: excluded from current tourney, banned for a certain/uncertain period of time, banned forever with resetting all earned points. If several players from one team were caught, the whole team can be punished.

Tourney supervisor have to tell a player a reason and a type of punishment.

11. Time Zone

All dates on this site are in GMT (+0:00) time zone.