Forfeits and no-shows

Being late

The clock starts at the agreed start time, which is when the bans begin.

If a match is delayed more than 20 minutes past that point, the team that is ready may open a ticket and request either:

• a walkover, or
• a force start at 5v4.

Admins approve the action; the ready team doesn’t get to simply declare it.

This is why testing your setup in advance is a rule rather than advice. An opponent’s evening shouldn’t be spent waiting on one player’s anti-cheat install — see Eligibility.

Playing short

A team needs five players on the server for a map to start. A map must be finished by the five who started it; see Rosters.

The 5v4 force start above is the exception, and only with admin approval.

Unable to play at all

If a team cannot play its fixtures within the schedule, the opponent is awarded the walkover. Report it — an unreported forfeit is worse than a forfeit.

Repeatedly failing to appear is unsportsmanlike conduct and is dealt with under Penalties, up to removal from the season. A team removed as a penalty does not get its entry fee back.

Still open

Caution

• The walkover scoreline. Kanaliiga records 6–0 per map. Under MR12 a completed map is 13–0, and round difference is the second tiebreaker, so this number affects promotion. See Standings.
• A removed team’s completed results. Whether matches already played against a team that later leaves are kept or voided. Kept, and teams who played them early gained an easy result; voided, and those teams lose a result they earned. Either is defensible, but it needs deciding before it happens — it directly determines who goes up and who goes down.
• Mutual no-show. Rare, but the answer should exist in advance.