ETF2L & nervousENERGY present: Ultiduo Cup #4. Also a Highlander Reminder
November 5, 2012
It has been a while, but better late than never. 
Monkeh, one of the leaders of the reputable community nervousENERGY (the above banner is a work of 
JustMoose, one of their members, thanks for that!), donates £160 as prize for another Ultiduo cup, hosted at ETF2L. Grab your favourite healbot or rocket dispenser and sign up! Full information on setup and rules can be found on the cup’s hub page.
For everyone who never heard the term “Ultiduo” before: One medic and one soldier per team face off on the King of the Hill map koth_ultiduo_r_b7. Whoever holds the central capture point under the bridge for a total of 5 minutes, scores one point. The team that first scores 3 points, wins the map. There are some tactics, such as bombing the enemy medic while the allied medic stays in spawn or suiciding (as medic) if it becomes obvious he is going to die and loose his uber percentage anyway.
The nervousENERGY admins have set up two Ultiduo training server. You can reach them under the following IPs.
- connect ne4.nervousenergy.co.uk:27075
- connect ne4.nervousenergy.co.uk:27085
To get an idea how Ultiduo plays, check out this VoD on 
Salamancer’s YouTube channel or one of the many other videos uploaded to YouTube.
Prizes
The most important part (not fun but money) first! As mentioned, the notorious Monkeh from nervousENERGY donated £160 to the prize pool. The distribution is as follows:
1st Place – £100
2nd Place – £40
3rd Place – £20
Setup
- Maximum signups: 80
- 16 seeded groups of 5 teams
- Top 2 in each group advance to the knockout stage
- Single elimination knockout stage with 32 teams
- Each map is played “best of three” (i.e. with mp_winlimit 2)
- Config download: [Ultiduo config]
- (The config requires the ETF2L base config to work; also included in the config pack)
Schedule
The schedule for the group stages and the first rounds will be very tight to finish the whole tournament before the Christmas holidays. All matches will have fixed default dates with the option to reschedule within the deadlines. Extensions will not be granted. All group stage matches that are without result on November 24 @ 23:59 will be nullified. The winner of unplayed knockout matches with no result will be decided with a coin toss, when the deadline is reached.
- Group stage: November 11 to November 24
- Round of 32: November 25 to November 27
- Round of 16: November 28 to December 1
- Quarter finals: December 2 to December 8
- Semi finals: December 9 to December 15
- Final and consolation final: December 16 to December 22
The default dates for each round will be set as follows (time to be decided):
- Group stage week 1: November 11 (Sunday)
- Group stage week 2: November 14 (Wednesday)
- Group stage week 3: November 18 (Sunday)
- Group stage week 4: November 21 (Wednesday)
- Knockout stage round of 32: November 25 (Sunday)
- Knockout stage round of 16: November 28 (Wednesday)
- Knockout stage quarter finals: December 2 (Sunday)
- Knockout stage semi finals: December 9 (Sunday)
- Knockout stage final & consolation final: December 16 (Sunday)
In case two teams are tied on one of the two promotion spots after the group stage, the tied teams have to fight a combo (medic and soldier) melee only (no healing or buffs allowed) 2on2 battle and report the result to an admin.
Unlocks
The list of allowed unlocks is very short to make the game as balanced as possible. A whitelist that blocks all other items can be downloaded here. The only allowed unlocks are:
- Soldier: Disciplinary Action [Wiki Link], Original [Wiki link]
- Medic: Übersaw [Wiki link], Blutsauger [Wiki link]
- Both: Reskins of stock weapons (e.g. strange weapons, festive weapons, botkiller weapons, the Frying Pan, Conscientious Objector, … you get the idea)
Highlander Premiership Reminder
All premiership teams are hereby reminded that their players are not eligible to play if they have not submitted their nicknames. The nicknames can be submitted via IRC or eMail.
Using a player who did not submit his nickname is penalised with a minor warning per match.
Posted by ETF2L Staff in Cup
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ultiduo needs unlocks!
HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE!
I’m notorious….hahaha
Yes, you are. Ask anyone from these forums!
This is my kind of notorious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-OBAXHfgqE
Nice job Monkeh :) Shall be entering!
NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Second practice server up @ ne4.nervousenergy.co.uk:27085
Fuck yeah no shit crossbow
nice one :ne:
is there an IRC channel for ultiduo?
Update: A second Ultiduo server has been added
People on tf.wars asking for ultiduo as we type…
2 open practice servers available too so everyone can have a go.
It’s more gay to have a gf than to jerk off.
Fun times ahead. :)
nice belial in the video :D
monkeh credit to tf2
I’ll wake up Shintaz on DayZ he shall be glad to recieve your delicious moneys.
Seeing that we already have 46 signups, we think about extending the slots to 128. This would mean that the group stage will have 32 groups of 4 teams and a round of 64 is added to the knockout stage. The timeframe will roughly stay the same.
Nice one Monkeh! I shall be competing with you at some point in the future, I promise :)
Maybe we should rename this “let’s get shintaz and cook some christmas monies extravaganza!”
[…] ETF2L together with nervousENERGY presets the 4th ultido cup .For those of you that dont know an ultido cup is a tournament in the map koth_ultiduo_r_b7 for a team of a medic and a sol in the type of 2on2 match . A better explanation can be found here http://etf2l.org/2012/11/05/etf2l-nervousenergy-present-ultiduo-cup-4-also-a-highlander-reminder/. […]
awesome
who’s that modric guy on the video he looks like such a horrid soldier
Honestly I think these kinds of cups don’t get enough love, another kind of cups that should be explored are mge and bball tournaments. I have already registered for this cup and I’m looking forward for a bball cup. Competitive is not only 6vs6 and if anything bball and ultiduo improves your game on 6vs6 so it’s always good to have some of these cups (I would love 1-2 year for each mode)!
101 Signups (at the moment) in less than 1 day, you can tell it’s a success! So this means we want more! :D It’s also a huge sign that the community is growing and better than ever, reminds me of a movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, perfect analogy for our comp scene, couldn’t be happier to be part of it!
I get an error notice when following that sign up link:
“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
Is it on purpose or am I doing something wrong? I’d actually like to sign up for that cup!
@SATANAS For starters, you need to be in a team. To actually access the sign up page, you also need to be leader of a team.
looking forward to this :)
btw: choosing a div does not affect which opponents you get, right? :S
even without matan I’ll win the bball cup easy
Thanks Spike
@Kuferl No, the div option is there because for technical reasons this cup had to be created as if it were a normal season league. Which div you choose is completely irrelevant to the seeding.
Doesn’t matter which div you choose, ey?
*chooses prem*
What happens if you sign up after 128 already signed up? Do you wait for other teams to drop or what?
If you sign up to late you have to hope for a team dropping out before the competition starts
Where can I find updated ultiduo whitelist?
Any idea when the groups will be announced?
Oh and maybe you should update the hub page with the max. signups etc
It alrdy is, nvm :P
Where did you find the groups?
Oh nvm, found the whitelist on the cup page
the hub page already is updated, that’s what i wanted to say
“The team that first scores 3 points, wins the map” “Each map is played best of three (i.e. with mp_winlimit 2)”.