Community and Safety Rules

If someone is in danger now

• Report a safety problem. You do not need an account.
• Call emergency services first: 911 in the United States and Canada. Then report it to us. We are not an emergency service and do not watch the sites around the clock.
• If you are thinking about hurting yourself, call or text 988 (United States) or 9-8-8 (Canada) to reach a crisis line, any time.
• When someone on Round One says they might hurt themselves or someone else, our automatic chat check alerts our moderators at once, and our staff may contact emergency services if someone is in immediate danger.

The short version

• Trash talk about the game is fine. Swearing is fine. Attacking who someone is, is not.
• Never seek private contact with a minor you do not know, and never anything romantic or sexual with a minor.
• Cheating, ban evasion, doxxing, threats, scams, selling accounts, match fixing and anything sexual involving minors mean a permanent ban.
• Event players must run MOSS anti-cheat in every event match.
• Bans are public.
• Report anything that worries you. The person you report never learns it was you.
• These rules were written by Rejects Esports LLC and have not been reviewed by a lawyer yet. They are still our official rules.

About these rules

• Rejects Esports LLC wrote these rules itself, in plain language, from how Round One and TradeBack really work. These rules have not been reviewed by a lawyer yet. We plan to have them reviewed, and we may update them after that review. Any change follows the rules for changes in these rules.
• These rules are still our official version and are in effect as written.
• Nothing in these rules, or anything else we publish, is legal advice to you. If you need legal advice, ask your own lawyer.
• If a court finds that any part of these rules cannot be enforced as written, that part is applied as far as the law allows, and the rest still applies.
• Nothing in these rules takes away a right that the law where you live gives you and that cannot be given up by agreement.
• If something here is unclear, ask us at rejectsesportsbusiness@gmail.com before you rely on your own reading.

How to talk to people

• Trash talk is fine when it is about the game, someone's play or the result.
• Swearing is allowed. Cuss words are not against the rules on their own.
• Not allowed:
• slurs;
• attacks on someone's race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or serious illness;
• going after someone as a person instead of their play;
• bullying, stalking or targeting someone again and again;
• telling people to hurt themselves;
• getting others to pile on.
• Stop when asked. Do not keep contacting someone who asked you to stop.
• Keep it about the game. Round One chat is for Rainbow Six Siege, teams and matches. Politics, religion and other off-topic arguments do not belong in Round One chats, names or profiles.
• Automatic chat check. Our chats block slurs and other banned words. A message with one is not posted, and the sender is muted from chat for a few seconds (10 seconds by default). Blocked messages are logged for adult staff, and a third one within 24 hours becomes an automatic report for the moderators. Messages that suggest someone is in danger are posted, and also become an urgent automatic report.
• Discord servers. These rules apply on the Round One Discord server and in the match chats and team voice channels our bot makes on league servers.
• Team voice is private. What a team says on its own voice chat is private to the team and is not used to punish anyone. Text chat on Round One, and what you post or upload, is covered by these rules.

Names, pictures and uploads

These rules apply to display names, team and org names, tags, pictures, banners, logos, bios and every upload:

• No slurs, hate symbols or extremist symbols.
• No sexual or nude content, and nothing sexual involving anyone under 18, ever.
• No drugs, gore or graphic violence. Rainbow Six Siege gameplay is fine.
• No politics.
• No pretending to be a real person, pro player, team, org, brand, caster, organizer or Round One staff.
• AI images are allowed, but never of a real person, never deepfakes, and never gore or sexual content.
• No private information about anyone (an address, an ID card, private messages, or someone's real name if they did not share it).
• No pictures, logos or art you do not have the right to use.
• No edited, faked or wrong-match replays, screenshots or evidence.
• No files with viruses, or files that are not what they say they are.
• Pictures and logos must be PNG, JPG or WebP. GIFs are not accepted.

Round One can rename an account, team or org, and remove any picture or upload, that breaks these rules.

Protecting minors

Zero tolerance. These rules have no warnings and no second chances:

• No romantic or sexual contact with a minor. An adult who flirts with, asks for photos from, sends sexual content to, or tries to start a romantic or sexual relationship with someone under 18 is banned permanently and reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the police.
• No sexual images of anyone under 18, including drawings, AI images and edited images. We remove it, ban the account, keep the records the law requires and report it to NCMEC.
• No private contact with minors you do not know. An adult must not ask a player under 18 whom they do not already know for private contact outside Round One, such as Snapchat, Instagram, text messages, phone calls or meeting in person. Discord is the exception, because Discord has its own safety protections, but the rules still apply to what is said there.
• No gifts or money. An adult must not offer a minor money, skins, items, gifts or game credits.
• Mixed teams are welcome. Teams with adults and minors are allowed. We trust every adult on a team to act responsibly. Keep team talk in team spaces, and report anything that feels wrong.
• Only adult staff can open safety reports, reported content, dispute evidence and parent or guardian records.
• PC checks of players under 18 (section 6) always have two Round One staff present, a parent or guardian may join, and they are never recorded unless the player agrees.

Doxxing, threats, scams and impersonation

• Doxxing: do not share anyone's real name, home address, school, workplace, phone number, email, birth date, or photos or social accounts they have not made public, without their consent. Do not try to find out where someone lives. Do not post private Match Room chat, dispute evidence or private team pages elsewhere to harm or shame someone.
• Threats: do not threaten to hurt a person, their family or their property, including as a "joke". Credible threats are passed to the police.
• Intimate images: do not share or threaten to share nude or sexual images of anyone without their clear permission, real or faked. If this happened to you, use the fast route on the Copyright and Content Removal page.
• Scams and fraud: do not trick people into sending money, items, logins or personal details. No fake giveaways, phishing links or fake events.
• Impersonation: do not pretend to be staff, a moderator, an organizer, a caster, a pro, an org or another player.

Fair play

• No cheating: no hacks, macros, scripts, third-party tools or exploits that the match rules ban, and no stream sniping.
• No match fixing: do not fix or throw a match, or bet on a match you play in, coach, run, moderate or cast.
• No faked evidence: do not upload a replay, screenshot or score that you changed or that comes from a different match.
• One person, one account: no account sharing, no playing on someone else's account, no smurf accounts.
• No boosting: no selling, buying or advertising rank or Class boosting, accounts or account sharing. Breaking this means a suspension until the account, post or link is removed, and more if it continues.
• No ban evasion: do not make a new account, or link a different Discord or Ubisoft account, to get around a ban, suspension, penalty or Class limit. Linked Discord and Ubisoft accounts stay marked as used after an account is deleted.
• Ubisoft bans: if Ubisoft bans a Rainbow Six Siege account for cheating, and we are shown proof, the linked Round One account is banned too.
• Advertising: you can promote yourself, your stream or your services in your own profile links. Do not spam, and never promote gambling, skin betting, cheats, boosting or account sales.

MOSS anti-cheat and PC checks

• MOSS is required in every event match. Every player must run the MOSS anti-cheat software for the whole of every event match. MOSS records what is running on your PC, your screen and your inputs during the match. An organizer cannot turn this requirement off. MOSS is not required in scrims.
• Keep your MOSS files until 1 week after the event ends, not just after the match. Keep them on your own PC.
• Upload them only when asked. When a Round One moderator asks for your MOSS files, upload them in the Match Room or dispute. They are private evidence that only adult Round One staff can see, and they are deleted with the event's other evidence.
• Missing MOSS files when asked can lead to disciplinary action. The organizer and Round One admins decide the penalty, up to disqualification from the event. A forfeit or ban still needs a Round One moderator.
• PC checks. A Round One moderator may ask a player for a live PC check, where the player shares their screen with staff on a Round One-approved channel within 48 hours. Only adult staff run PC checks. Refusing a PC check, or not doing it within 48 hours, is treated as a cheating finding. A PC check is never recorded unless the player agrees.

When cheating is found during or after an event

• Round One moderators decide cheating cases from replays, MOSS files and PC checks.
• When one player is caught cheating, the whole team is disqualified from the rest of the event, and its remaining matches go to the opponents as walkovers.
• Matches already played keep their results for the bracket, because rounds cannot be replayed, but every result of that team in the event is voided for Class, Player Rating and the record.
• If cheating is found after the event ends, the team loses its placing and any prize. The organizer decides who moves up under its published prize rules.
• When a cheating case opens, moderators check the MOSS files and replays from all of that team's matches in the event, and every player on the team may be asked for a PC check.

Penalties

For most rule breaks we use this ladder:

1. Warning.
2. 24-hour suspension.
3. 7-day suspension.
4. 30-day suspension.
5. Permanent ban.

• Warnings fall off after 12 months.
• We can also remove content, rename accounts, and give match or event penalties (a lost round, map or match, a forfeit or removal from an event). Organizers may add penalties under their own published rules. A forfeit or ban needs a Round One moderator.
• Straight to a permanent ban, with no warning:
• grooming, or anything sexual involving a minor;
• credible threats;
• doxxing;
• cheating;
• ban evasion;
• selling accounts;
• match fixing;
• scams.
• A ban covers Round One and TradeBack. Deleting an account does not clear a ban or penalty.
• Serious cases may be passed to Ubisoft, an organizer, NCMEC or the police.

Public ban list

• Permanent bans are public from the moment the decision is made, so teams know not to pick up a banned player. Suspensions are not listed.
• The list shows the display name, the linked Ubisoft name, the type of ban, the reason and how it was verified (for example PC check, MOSS files or replays).
• Players under 18: the list shows only their display name and the type of ban.
• If an appeal overturns a ban, the entry comes off the list.

How to report

• Use the Report link on a player profile (Safety card), a team page, an org page, a Match Room chat message, a dispute chat message or a dispute evidence image, or go to round-one.net/report. The form works without an account, and your email is optional.
• Pick the category that fits best:
• Threats or danger to someone;
• Doxxing or private information;
• Grooming, or an adult seeking private contact with a minor;
• Sexual exploitation;
• Intimate images shared without consent;
• Scam or fraud;
• Harassment or abuse;
• Account of someone under 13;
• Hate speech;
• Impersonation;
• Cheating or banned tools;
• Something else.
• Say what happened, where and when. Add screenshots or clips if they help. Never send sexual images of a minor, even as evidence. Tell us they exist and we will handle it.
• The first five categories are urgent. They alert our owners and admins at once. Call emergency services first if someone is in danger now.
• You get a tracking ID like R1-7KQ4-M2XD. Anyone with the ID can see whether the report was received, is being looked at, or is closed, and nothing else.
• Limits stop misuse: signed in, 5 reports an hour and 20 a day; signed out, 5 an hour from one network and 5 a day for each email address.
• Other routes: the Contact page (no account needed), the dispute tools in a Match Room, and Send feedback.

What happens after a report

• Urgent reports are handled first, then high ones (scams, harassment, under-13 accounts, hate speech, impersonation), then normal ones.
• A moderator reviews the report and the evidence. We keep a copy of what was reported with the report. Only adult Round One staff can read reports and these copies.
• The person you report never sees the report or who made it. If we must share what happened, for example with the police, we tell you first where the law allows.
• While we look, moderators can restrict an account or hide content. This is a safety step, not a punishment.
• The decision can be no action, a warning, content removed, account restricted, a suspension (1 to 365 days) or a ban. Each decision is logged with its reason. The account is told the decision, the reason and how to appeal.
• False reports: making a report you know is false, or spamming reports, breaks these rules and is a step on the ladder. The person's normal reports are also paused for 48 hours. Urgent reports (threats, doxxing, grooming, sexual exploitation and intimate images) always go through.
• No retaliation: going after someone because they reported you leads to a suspension.
• We do not tell a parent or guardian automatically about reports by or about their child, because a household member could be involved. Safety staff decide case by case.

Appeals

• Bans: appeal within 48 hours of the decision.
• Other decisions (warnings, suspensions, restrictions, removed content): appeal within 14 days.
• Appeal at round-one.net/appeal while signed in to the account the decision is about, or by email to rejectsesportsbusiness@gmail.com if you cannot sign in.
• You get one appeal for each decision. Where we can, a different moderator reviews it, and an owner of Rejects Esports LLC makes the final decision.
• If the appeal succeeds, the penalty comes off, hidden content comes back and any public ban entry is removed.
• Event penalties an organizer gives under its own rules go through the Match Room dispute process first.

Changes to these rules

We post changes here and update the date and version at the top. For a change that matters, we tell signed-in users on the site at least 14 days before it takes effect.