CSN CTF Open Cup #1

In the wake of the CSN CTF Invite Cup, which featured some of the best and most prominent ctf teams in Europe, the time has come for us to open up the registration to everyone. After the announcement of the upcoming LAN in Eidhoven, we want to give all teams a chance to warm-up and square off versus each other, and see how they match up against others. The cup will be held on February 12th, at 16h CET, the registrations start now and last until February 12th, 15h CET, when you will have to manually check in within a 1 hour time window to be a registered participant of the cup. Top 4 seeds are reserved for the teams that participated in the Invite Cup; Drugs & Porn having the top seed, Expendables 2nd seed, Unknown 3rd seed and k1ck 4th seed.

Update: The lower bracket finals and grand finals are rescheduled to next week, the schedule will be updated once all the teams find a suitable date. Drugs & Porn and Pros of Pain will be facing off in a lower bracket best-of-3 and the winner goes to face The Expendables in grand finals best-of-5.

Also, big thanks to zoot of lvl^ & wbobc of HoQ for streaming & casting almost the whole day.

Map pool

• Ironworks


• Japanese Castles


• Shining Forces


• Spider Crossings


• Troubled Waters

Links

• Gathering place: #csn.ql @ QuakeNet


• Stream: HoQ TV

Rules

• Ruleset: standard Quake Live (no pql).
• Format: double elimination bracket with best-of-3 in the upper bracket and best-of-1 in the lower bracket.
• The lower bracket best-of-1 has to be played on Ironworks (unless both teams agree on a different map, if no agreement is possible Ironworks stays as default).
• Grand finals are played in a best-of-5 format, with the team coming from upper bracket having a 1-0 map advantage over the lower bracket winner.
• Picking rules: pummel or cointoss (if captains can’t agree, pummel), pick, pick, drop, drop (finals: pummel, pick, pick, pick, pick).
• Minimum number of players on the team roster must be 4 before signing up.
• Teams can add additional players to the team roster after the cup starts only if the players have not participated in the cup.
• All players must record the demos (cl_autoaction 1).
• All players must at least have a premium account, or have someone in their team who can invite them to the server.
• Standard server locations are Frankfurt, DE or Amsterdam, NL. If both teams agree, they can play on a different location.
• In case of ping complaints, teams are obliged to find a server where both teams have close to, or an equal ping.
• In case of players warping, report it to admins before readying up, otherwise the complaints will be ignored.

Registered Teams
	• The Expendables Sat 2/11/12 6:22pm EST		• ak-47 Fri 2/10/12 1:35pm EST
	• censored by admins Sun 2/12/12 9:09am EST		• ctfmix Sun 2/12/12 9:51am EST
	• Drugs and Porn Sun 2/12/12 9:47am EST		• faces of meth Wed 2/1/12 1:48pm EST
	• funtastiC Fri 2/10/12 6:47pm EST		• no panic Team Sat 2/11/12 12:06pm EST
	• Operation Gamers 4 Life Sun 2/12/12 8:32am EST		• Pros Of Pain Sat 2/4/12 3:03pm EST
	• roflcopter Sun 2/12/12 9:31am EST		• Saucisson Baguette Fromage Sun 2/12/12 9:42am EST
	• skyhigh ctfmix Sun 2/12/12 9:57am EST		• whats going on Tue 2/7/12 7:44pm EST