BEERLEAGUE Acceptable Use Policy

Draft for website registration and account acceptance

Effective Date: [Insert Date]

Last Updated: [Insert Date]

This is a working draft for BEERLEAGUE community conduct and platform safety. It is not legal advice. Before publishing, have it reviewed by the site owner/admin and, if needed, a qualified lawyer for your jurisdiction.

1. Acceptance of This Policy

By creating an account, signing in, using the BEERLEAGUE website, joining matchmaking, using BEERCOMMS or any BEERLEAGUE communication feature, joining BEERLEAGUE servers, participating in tournaments, or otherwise using BEERLEAGUE services, you agree to follow this Acceptable Use Policy and the BEERLEAGUE Terms of Service.

If you do not agree, do not create an account or use BEERLEAGUE services.

2. Community Standard

BEERLEAGUE is here for players who want fair matches, good comms, and a chill community.

Do not be racist. Do not cheat. Do not harass people. Do not troll. Do not sexualize minors. Do not ruin matches. Do not abuse the platform.

Play fair, communicate clearly, respect the lobby, and keep BEERLEAGUE fun.

3. Communication Rules: BEERCOMMS, Chat, Voice, DMs, and Group Chats

BEERLEAGUE communication tools are provided for community coordination, match organization, and social interaction.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Lobby chat.
• Direct messages.
• Group chats.
• Team and tournament chats.
• Server chat.
• Voice communication.
• Profile or status content.

You agree not to use BEERLEAGUE communication features to:

• Harass, threaten, stalk, intimidate, or target another person.
• Send hate speech, racist remarks, discriminatory content, or abusive messages.
• Share sexual content involving minors or make jokes or references involving pedophilia.
• Share another person’s private information without permission.
• Spam, flood, scam, phish, advertise malicious links, or spread malware.
• Coordinate cheating, harassment, ban evasion, exploitation, or attacks against BEERLEAGUE or others.
• Abuse DMs or group chats after being asked to stop.

BEERLEAGUE may review, preserve, remove, or act on communications where needed for moderation, safety, platform operation, abuse prevention, or legal compliance.

4. Legal Age and Regulated Substances

We do not endorse, promote, or condone the consumption of alcohol or other regulated substances by anyone who is not of legal age.

Any references to beer, league, or similar community branding are part of the community identity and do not give anyone permission to break local laws.

5. Racism, Harassment, and Discrimination

No racist remarks, behavior, harassment, threats, or discrimination toward other players or members.

This applies across the website, matchmaking, servers, BEERCOMMS, DMs, group chats, voice, tournaments, player profiles, usernames, avatars, sprays, and any other BEERLEAGUE space.

6. Pedophilia and Sexual Content Involving Minors

Any discussion, reference, joke, image, content, or behavior involving pedophilia or sexual content involving minors will result in an instant ban and may be reported to the proper authorities.

7. Trolling, Griefing, and Drama

If you are here just to provoke people, cause drama, or ruin the experience for others, you are not welcome.

Do not intentionally disrupt matches, abuse voice comms, harass players, bait arguments, spam chat, or interfere with people trying to play.

8. Hacking, Cheating, and Exploits

No cheats, no hacks, no exploits. Play fair. Cheating will not be tolerated.

Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:

• Wallhacks, aimbots, triggerbots, scripts, macros, or unfair gameplay assistance.
• Exploiting map, server, plugin, lobby, stats, BEERLO, or tournament bugs.
• Tampering with server state, match data, team assignment, score reporting, or Steam identity.
• Attempting unauthorized access to accounts, admin tools, APIs, servers, or databases.
• DDoS activity, scraping abuse, spam automation, or intentionally degrading service performance.

9. Competitive Match Conduct

During Premier, competitive, and serious matches, do not talk over players who are actively playing or trying to communicate.

You agree not to:

• Join lobbies or matches with no intent to play.
• Intentionally abandon, sabotage, grief, stall, or disrupt a match.
• Abuse ready-up, team selection, lobby, invite, queue, or launch systems.
• Harass players over match results, skill level, team assignment, voice communication, or stats.
• Manipulate matchmaking, BEERLO, stats, match results, or tournament outcomes.
• Exploit bugs or loopholes in the matchmaking platform.

10. Custom Skins and Sprays

Custom skins and sprays are allowed as long as they follow the community rules.

Do not use skins, sprays, avatars, names, or other custom content that includes hate speech, harassment, sexual content involving minors, illegal material, extreme gore, private information, malware links, or anything else that violates this policy.

11. Platform Abuse

You agree not to reverse engineer, disrupt, attack, overload, or interfere with BEERLEAGUE systems, servers, APIs, databases, SourceMod integrations, matchmaking tools, stats, communication systems, or moderation systems.

Do not attempt to bypass bans, restrictions, cooldowns, penalties, account security, Steam linking, or identity systems.

12. Violations and Enforcement

Violations may result in a warning, removal from the server, message deletion, chat restriction, account restriction, matchmaking restriction, BEERLO or match penalties, temporary ban, permanent ban, account suspension, account deletion, or reporting serious illegal activity to proper authorities.

BEERLEAGUE admins and moderators may act at their discretion when needed to protect the community, platform, servers, players, or fair play.

13. Welcome to BEERLEAGUE

Keep it fun, fair, and chill.

Respect the players, respect the lobby, respect the match, and do not make admins regret giving everyone nice things.