Competitive:Oceanbound

Oceanbound was a Splatoon online tournament held on September 24th, 2016.

Standings
The standings for the event are as follows:

Rules
The tournament featured two stages: a Group Stage and a Bracket Stage. It also re-introduced the ability for teams to pick the map/mode combination to play on for some games.

Group Stage
Competing teams were placed in small groups of 5 teams and competed against each other in a Round Robin style. Seeding for the groups were manually done by the TOs (Tournament Organizers).

For each match, teams faced off in a Bo3 (best-of-3) set of games against each other. The first team to win 2 games was determined as the winner of the match. The top 2 teams in each group advanced to the Bracket Stage.

Bracket Stage
All the rounds in this stage were a Bo3 (best-of-3) sets, with the exception of Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, and Grand Finals, which were a Bo5 (best-of-5), Bo5 (best-of-5), and Bo7 (best-of-7) games respectively.

During the Grand Finals round, a Bronze Match was played for the two teams that did not win during the Semi-Final round. The purpose of this match was to decide the 3rd place winner. The Bronze match was a Bo5 (best-of-5) match.

Maplist & Halo-Style / Picking
Throughout the tournament, the majority of the map/mode combinations that teams played on was chosen via a format.

Maps in Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, Grand Finals, and the Bronze Match, were selected a bit differently. The first 3 gametypes (map/mode combinations) were generated in a Halo-style, similar to how it was done previously. In Grand Finals, it was the first 5 gametypes. If a match was undecided by game 4 (game 6 in Grand Finals), the team that was currently losing in the set was able to choose the gametype they would like to play on for that game. If the match was still undecided by game 5 (game 7 in Grand Finals), the team that did not pick previously was able to choose the final gametype that they would play on. Map/mode combinations that have previously appeared in the set were not allowed to be re-selected.