DBDCompNet Rules / Guidelines

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These Rules / Guidelines are the central rulebook for the DBDCompNet service.

Here is regulated how organizations and players, including non-players ("users") use our services. It is similar to Terms of Use ("ToU") and will be enforced as such.

We also declare what is seen as an organization or player, including users, how certain services that are connected with the DBDCompNet and DBDCompNet Management are used.

Disclaimer To keep things easier on our rules, we refer to personal pronouns "he" but mean and implement all genders.

We also refer to organizations but mean communities, leagues, companies and all others.

Integrated into our DBDCompNet Rules / Guidelines we have the RATING SYSTEMS Policy, parts of the Terms of Service - about suspensions and terminations and rule enforcement.

Art. 1

Organization. Organizations are competitive or non-competitive communities legal entities or not - that host events for Dead by Daylight either openly ("Global") or invite-only ("Local"). Organizations are either non-profit - they do not earn money for themselves - or profitable - they earn money for themselves or sell services.

(a) Profitable, Non-Profit

An organization, according to these rules, is non-profit when they do not (i) make sells, (ii) require enrollment fees, (iii) use earned money (e.g. through donations) for themselves, (iv) offer paid services or (v) collect money in any way, shape or form to use it privately. An organization, according to these rules, is profitable once they (vi) issue enrollment fees, (vii) make sells, (viii) use earned money (e.g. Twitch) for themselves, (viiii) offer paid services or (x) collect money in any way shape or form to use for themselves.

(b) Trusted & Authentic

Organizations can be marked ("Verification") as trusted and authentic by the DBDCompNet. This status means they are either (a) partnered with Behaviour Interactive, (b) partnered with Dead by Daylight [includes Official Content Creator], (c) communities that have been hosting for years with no known reports or (d) communities with no DBDCompNet violation for over three hundred and sixty (360) days.

(c) DBD Comp Union Member

As official and only partner of the DBD Comp Union organization, we verify official DBD Comp Union members with a special badge. These badges are only given out to members of the DBD Comp Union.

(d) Organization Rating

An organization with a rating below 80% is considered a player risk. We will, at our own discretion, warn about organizations with an extremely low score, if (i) the score has been below 80% for more than 90 days, (ii) has lowered in the past 30 days by more than 10% or (iii) has been found suspicious of fraud and abuse.

Art. 2

Transparency Clause. We protect our users from fraud and abuse at the best level we can. To do this we require all organizations on the DBDCompNet to be transparent. At the same time we want to build trust between organizers and people of authority. We are transparent and so do we like organizations to be, so players and other organizations know what they are dealing with.

(a) Invitation Only

Organizations which strictly host their events invite-only are asked to be transparent about this and not state "we are globally open to all" or similar in their description. Invite-Only organizations must send the message "our invites are exclusive for chosen players" or similar to the public.

(b) Pick Method

Organizations may disclose how they choose their invite-only teams. Picking specific teams based on any factor besides favouritism is allowed.

(c) Suspensions disclosure

Players are in the right to know about why they were or are going to receive a suspension of any duration. Organizations must disclose this decision publicly to - at minimum - the DBDCompNet under service@dbdcompnet.com and we disclose the reasoning as an official statement under the news tab.

(d) DBDCompNet Rating

The Rating ("Score") is a numeric score that displays how likely it is that a player or organization is going to comply with rules, treat players fair and professionally host their events. The score is displayed as a percentage. The higher, the more likely it is that they comply with rules or treat players fairly.

All players and teams start with a 100% Rating.

DBDCompNet RATING SYSTEMS © 2026

(e) Rating - Players

Players may give an organization feedback in the form of a rating from 1-18 in 4 factors on how they experienced an event or an organization as one. These factors are (1) Tournament Management (by staff), (2) Scheduling, (3) Fair Judgement / Treatment and (4) Compliance. This rating can only be issued by players after they participated in an active tournament.

Tournament Management is about how well the team or host has organized this event, how many issues occurred and how professional has the team handled this event.

Scheduling is about how well was the event scheduled and how well were players informed about the schedule and were negotiations made or not.

Fair Judgement is about that all players were treated equally and no favorites were made during the tournament.

Compliance is about how well did organizers comply with global rules and guidelines to protect players and treat them fair. Including Tournament Standards.

Rating may be adjusted by the DBDCompNet Management Team. The DBDCompNet is not allowed to make a rating worse.

(f) Rating - Organizations

Organizations may give a team and player feedback in form of a rating from 1-18 in 4 factors on how the team performed in terms of regulations and compliance. These factors are (1) Compliance with the Code of Conduct, (2) Scheduling Compliance (2x weighted), (3) Compliance with the Balancing and (4) Compliance with Rules. This rating must be issued by organizations after tournaments.

Compliance with the Code of Conduct means how well a team or player has complied with the organization's code of conduct.

Scheduling Compliance is a very important factor as it weighs double and can affect the score significantly. It means how well a team or player did comply with a given schedule.

Compliance with the Balancing means how well a team or player has complied with the organization's individual balancing or - when the organization uses it - the DBDCompNet Balancing.

Compliance with Rules means how well a team or player has complied with the organization's individual rules or - when the organization uses them - the DBDCompNet Tournament Standards.

(g) Using Rating

Organizations can use the DBDCompNet Rating System to (a) decide whether to accept or deny a player or team into their organization or (b) whether to accept or deny a player into a tournament.

The DBDCompNet uses the rating to verify players and teams as Entrusted & Authentic. This verification is given with a Rating of 90% upwards. Valid ratings are scores from teams that have been registered for 180 days after the rating started.

The DBDCompNet uses the rating to verify organizations as Entrusted & Authentic. This verification is given with a Rating of 98% upwards. Valid ratings are scores from organisations that have been registered for 180 days after the rating started.

(h) Admin-Panel - DBDCompNet Management

In compliance with our transparency clause we explain our Admin-Panel.

The Admin-Panel is an intern part of the DBDCompNet that may only be accessed via a DBDCompNet Management account ("Specific Admin Account"). The Admin-Panel is able to manage all users across the DBDCompNet platform. It has the ability to perform administration actions in the name of an organization, when an organization is hindered and is not able to perform them on their own - the DBDCompNet Management never uses it to perform actions that were not discussed with the organization, if these actions alter the organizations tournaments or team management.

(i) Disclosure obligation

It is obligated to disclose processing of information, how information is used, how rating is used, how news & support is used and posted and how teams are chosen for events.

Art. 3

Moderation and Rule Enforcement. We enforce a secure environment for our users and organizations. To ensure that, we set these moderation principles and rule enforcement regulations in place.

(a) Chain of Moderation

Our DBDCompNet Staff ("Moderators" & "Support") follow strict guidelines on how to issue moderation actions ("Rule Enforcement"). Below you can see the standard guidelines, from which our team can also make deviations - for individual moderation reasons, - but following points are prescribed:

  • 1st violation = 7 to 30 days
  • 2nd violation = 30 to 60 days
  • 3rd violation = 180 days
  • 4th violation = permanent

Exempt from these are following reasons with rule enforcement already in place:

Racist, homophobic and sexist behaviour is not allowed and will be handled with a permanent and unappealable account termination (further "ban") in accordance with our Terms of Service.

Discrimination for religion, politics and other topics, including discrimination in general is not allowed and will be handled with a temporary suspension (further "tempban") of at least 22 days and at the staff's own discretion up to 90 days at max.

Sexual abuse of adults, children and any user of the platform is not allowed and will be handled with a permanent ban and possible legal action if the victim wishes so. Community Guidelines apply.

Spreading rumors, lies and bad (unverified) information about others is not allowed and will be handled with a tempban of at least 7 days and at the staff's own discretion up to 90 days at max.

Sharing an account with third parties is not allowed and will be handled with a permanent ban. This does not apply to organization accounts, as they may be shared with their staff.

Allowed to issue rule enforcements are:

  • Service Management ("DBDCompNet Management")
  • Administrators of the Network ("Developers")
  • Moderators of the Network ("Moderator")
  • Support Team of the Network ("Support")

Under specific circumstances can organizations issue moderation actions, yet only specifically for their webpage and not the DBDCompNet entirely. These rule enforcements are not under these guidelines.

(b) Appealing Rule Enforcements

Users that are a natural person may appeal their rule enforcements by submitting an appeal via our website under dbdcompnet.com/account/appeals.

We do not accept appeals for unappealable reasons. We also do not accept appeals without sincere apology and ban description. When submitting a request to appeal, make sure to contain (1) your UUID, (2) the reason why you were banned, (3) the reason on why we should unban you or why you think this ban was a mistake and unrighteous, (3) your apology for and (4) you need to confirm that you have read the rules (these guidelines) and our terms ("Terms of Service") and will abide by them, (5) you also understand, acknowledge and agree that by being banned again for any reason, it becomes unappealable.

(c) Unappealable reasons

Following reasons can not be appealed for or will be denied immediately:

  • Racist, homophobic and sexist behaviour
  • Sharing an account with third parties
  • Sexual abuse of children, adults and any user of the platform
  • Selling, distributing, sharing and publishing personal information with no consent

You may also not appeal when your account has been suspended (further "banned") before and has a ban on record.

(d) Rule Enforcement Immunity

Immune of any rule enforcements is Behaviour Interactive or active BHVR staff, including Dead by Daylight officials, but not content creators.

Immune of any rule enforcements is the DBDCompNet Management as service provider.

(e) Limited Satire

Jokingly insulting others or threats are limited. We ask you to avoid those types of conversations even if you know each other in reality. However, softly insulting each other without causing greater harm - at discretion of our staff - is allowed.

(f) Copyright Infringement

Copying, publishing, using and destroying copyrighted work is not allowed. All texts, media, audio and sound creations by users are copyrighted under German Copyright Law ("Urheberrechtsgesetz"). Posts made by users and organizations are copyrighted under their name and not under the DBDCompNet Management. All webpages and the DBDCompNet website belong to the DBDCompNet Management. Violating this law and violating this rule leads to rule enforcements and possible account termination.

(g) Advertising

Advertising (i) Discord services, (ii) social media channels, (iii) Discord servers, (iv) Network services, (v) non-registered organizations and (vi) services, that our staff defines - at their own discretion - as advertisements, is not allowed.

(h) Organization Moderation

The DBDCompNet is not just for organizations to use, but also for players and for everyone to feel safe. Organizations are not immune to rule enforcements and are subject to moderation actions.

Following reasons are fixed for moderation, for other Art. 3(a) applies:

  • Fraud and abuse of players in the form of fair payment denial is not allowed and will be handled with a permanent ban and account deletion. This is not affected by payment deduction systems in place.
  • Fraud and abuse of power via the DBDCompNet is not allowed and will be handled with a tempban of 180 days and removal of verification permanently.
  • Fraud and abuse of power via the DBDCompNet as a DBD Comp Union member is not allowed and will be handled with a permanent ban and membership removal in accordance with the partnership trust & safety agreement between us and the DBD Comp Union.

Organizations can appeal in accordance with Art. 3(i).

(i) Appealing for Organizations

Organizations when banned have the chance to appeal. Appeals can be issued via service@dbdcompnet.com, and require (i) the organization server ID (Discord), (ii) organization name and (iii) organization email address.

Appeals, when accepted, immediately remove the ban. Another violation and ban results in a permanent and unappealable termination.

(j) Innocent until proven guilty

Any user of the DBDCompNet - that includes but is not limited to organizations - is innocent until proven guilty. With the feature of our staff's own discretion, they are allowed to prove guilt set on their own standards that would seem viable in front of an audience (or "Jury").

Users may not be punished until their innocence has been proven false and they are found guilty by reason and proof.

This rule only applies to the account restrictions and not suspensions or penalties issued by organizations.

(k) Automatic Moderation

We may use automatic detection systems (ADS) to automatically scan and check for violations of our rules. Trying to avoid these systems is a violation and will be handled with a tempban of at least 7 days up to 10 days at max.

These ADS may be false or altered. In case you encounter issues with it, contact our support@dbdcompnet.com or visit dbdcompnet.com/support for information.

Art. 4

Support. The DBDCompNet offers 24/7 support for all issues and problems with the DBDCompNet. Support can be reached via support@dbdcompnet.com or dbdcompnet.com/support.

(a) Organization specific support

For organizations we also offer support via our Discord server.

Issues regarding:

  • Personal Platform (Web-Page)
  • Org. Account

have to be discussed via support@dbdcompnet.com. Feedback and missing features or wanted features via service@dbdcompnet.com or direct contact to our management.

(b) Support times, responses

We do not have fixed service / support hours. You may contact us 24/7, 365 days a year.

Responses are delivered within 7 days on normal week days but may be delayed when seasonal days ("Holidays") occur within. We do not guarantee answers on holidays.

Art. 5

Publishing Guidelines. When publishing on the DBDCompNet, specific guidelines are in place. To publish on the DBDCompNet, follow these guidelines.

(a) Events

Organizations have the authority to publish Dead by Daylight events via their personal Admin-Panel for their organization. These events can be;

  • Public. Meaning all users of the DBDCompNet are able to join the event or apply to join.
  • Invite-Only. Meaning organizations can invite specific users to their events. Users need to accept an invitation to join the event.

Organizations can then choose an event name that does not violate copyright or other law and add a description.

When creating an event, they have to provide a start time in the form of a date.

When the event ends, they have to end the event on the DBDCompNet for it to be shown as completed and the teams to receive their wins.

(b) Forums

Organizations and users of the DBDCompNet - with an account - can create, edit and comment on posts in the forum.dbdcompnet.com. Organizations may use this platform to:

  • Post regulatory. Rules, Guidelines, Code of Conduct and other regulatory texts and decisions.
  • Edit, comment & delete posts.
  • Plan. Integrate the community into events and event planning.
  • Discuss / chat. It may be used to chat or discuss certain topics about competitive Dead by Daylight. Includes issues with competitive DBD.

Organizations are allowed to post standard posts in accordance with the allowed and forbidden topics into these forums as well. Forums are a place for discussion and different opinions, limiting the function to comment on posts, besides in the regulatory category, is not allowed.

All users of the DBDCompNet may post / comment about:

  • Critics. Critical but liable criticism about events, organizations and the DBDCompNet.
  • Limited Politics. Political statements or law that include Esports and/or Dead by Daylight, also political statements by BHVR.
  • Feedback. Preferably we receive feedback over our Discord server or in direct contact with you, yet you can also give us feedback and feature ideas via the forums.
  • DBD Talks. Talk about Dead by Daylight non-competitively and competitively. Includes DBDCompNet, events, organizations, players, balancing, rules and schedules.
  • Issues. Talk about DBD competitive issues or just issues in general with Dead by Daylight.
  • Recruit. You may post in forums to recruit new players for your team or organization. Includes staff applications.

Users may not post about:

  • Critical and sensitive topics like war and terrorism, including anything personal, gore, sexual, skin-colour, sexual orientation and sexism.
  • Non-DeadbyDaylight topics like other video games or media and/or services that have nothing to do with Dead by Daylight or Behaviour Interactive.
  • Advertisement about other services like other networks, Discord servers or events that have nothing to do with the DBDCompNet or the DBDCompNet Management.
  • Hate about the DBDCompNet or users, including organizations with no liable criticism like calling out services or people to be trash - which does not deliver any form of acceptable criticism.

We ask users to avoid other non-allowed topics, even if they aren't mentioned as forbidden. These topics may still be moderated by our staff in terms of their own discretion.

(c) News, Support Articles

In accordance with Art. 2(i), these standards apply for news and support articles.

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News are compliant when posted about the correct topics in accordance with their tags.

Support articles are always from verified sources.

Art. 6

Teams. Teams on the DBDCompNet undergo special requirements to maintain their team on our services. These rules apply to all current, past and future teams that use or have used or will use the services of the DBDCompNet. Teams are subject to transparency.

(a) Team definition

A team on the DBDCompNet is a group of at least 4 users and maximum 3 sub users, a total maximum of 7 users per team. A team is only valid if it has a team captain (also leader) and has a minimum of 4 players, including the captain in total.

(b) Sub User (also Sub)

The sub user (also sub roster) is an addition to the main roster (also players) that can replace a player as a sub ("Substitute") and play a tournament in the place of a player that is not able to play.

Only 2 subs can replace players at the same time and during a tournament. This rule may be adjusted by individual rules by organizations.

Subs can join a tournament without registration, unless organizations handle it otherwise.

(c) Captain (also Leader)

The team captain is the administrator of a team and is able to manage players, sub users and team data. A team can only have one captain (also leader) at a time.

The captain is forced to play all tournaments, unless an organization has made individual rules.

The captain may not be replaced by sub users, unless an organization has made individual rules.

(d) Main Roster (also Player)

The main roster are the 4 main players of the team. These players are always included in an event when the captain signs in one.

The main roster is also referred to as "Players" / "Player".

(e) Additional Rule Enforcement

The DBDCompNet has set additional and special standards in team rule enforcements. These standards are upheld by the DBDCompNet Staff.

  • When the team captain is suspended, the team can no longer uphold the team definition and can no longer participate in events. Suspended here defined is a suspension from the DBDCompNet ("Account Suspension") or organization suspension ("Tournament Suspension"). Organization staff may still allow individual manual registrations.
  • When the team captain is banned from the DBDCompNet ("Account Termination"), the team is no longer able to uphold the team definition and the captain will no longer return. The team is then deleted.
  • When the team is under 4 players, it no longer upholds the team definition standards and can not participate in events and may be deleted by our staff.