AVerMedia MGE Monthly Cup

Overview

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With the previous AVerMedia MGE Cup being a great success back in December, ETF2L has again partnered with AVerMedia to host a monthly MGE cup to sort the men from the boys and find out who reigns supreme!

Not only will you have a glorious pixel trophy boasting of your MGE prowess, you will also be able to get your hands on one Live Gamer HD C985 streaming card per month, generously provided by AVerMedia!

Every month a different combat class will be chosen. Two qualifiers with 128 slots each are held, leading up to the monthly final in the following week. Fight your way to the top 4 of one of the qualifiers and you qualify for the finals, where you will battle it out to win the Live Gamer HD C985 streaming card! More information on AVerMedia streaming hardware for gamers can be found on the Live Gamer HD minisite.

The usual schedule for this tournament series is as follows:

1st Qualifying Bracket: 2nd Tuesday of the month
2nd Qualifying Bracket: 3rd Wednesday of the month
Top 8 Monthly Final: 4th Wednesday of the month

For those of you not familiar to the concept of MGE: it is a gamemode where players play 1 vs 1 matches to practice and improve their deathmatch skills. More info about MGE…

June’s Cup!

In the month of June, we will be focusing on the demoman! Prepare those pipes and practice those air shots as you take on the best of ETF2L to claim your title of the best demoman in Europe ! Should you fail, never fear! This is a recurring cup, meaning once we have gone through the three combat classes, then we shall go through them again… and again, claim as many titles as you can!

As a special rule for this cup the Sticky Jumper will be allowed, however the Sticky Launcher, along with all other unlocks, will be banned!

Signups

Signups for Qualifier #1 are open now and will close at 22:30 CET the night before the bracket is due to start!

Signup Now!

Signups for Qualifier #2 will open once Qualifier #1 has been played.

You’ll need to be the leader of a 1v1 team to be able to sign up. You can find a step-by-step guide on team creation on the FAQ page. Only 1v1 teams with exactly 1 player will be accepted. Mercs and backups are obviously not allowed in a 1v1 tournament.

Brackets

-[ Qualifier #1 | Qualifier #2 | Monthly Final ]-

Prizes

Winner of the Monthly Final:

1x AVerMedia Live Gamer HD C985

Additionally and as usual, pixel trophies will also be handed out to the top 3 finishers of the monthly final. Every top 4 qualifier will also get a golden trophy for his bracket, no matter if they participate in the monthly final or not.

Cup Format – Qualifiers

Maximum signups per bracket: 128
Single elimination knockout tournament
Players can sign up for both brackets (exception below)
All matches have to be played on the night and if a match is holding back the bracket, a coin will be flipped to decide the winner
The qualifier brackets do not have to be played out. The top 4 from each bracket automatically qualify for the top 8 monthly final
A player who already qualified in the first qualifier of the month is not allowed in the second one
Qualifying brackets are Bo1

Cup Format – Monthly Final

Maximum Signups: 8
Single elimination knockout tournament
Only players who finished at a top 4 position in one of the two previous qualifiers get direct entry to this cup
Players that finished within the top 8 of their qualifier bracket, but not the top 4, qualify to join a waiting list for the overall top 8 monthly final. If a top 4 player does not sign up, the first player on the waiting list will be allowed entry. This continues until the bracket is filled with 8 players. Please remember that the reserve placements are on a first come first serve basis!
The Monthly Final matches are Bo5
For all matches that require more than 1 map, the 1st map is set and then it is loser’s choice from the rest of the available map pool. No map can be played twice in the same round!

The map pool:

MGE – EndIf
MGE – Viaduct Middle
MGE – Snakewater Middle
MGE – Badlands Middle
MGE – NoSplash / Directs
MGE – Granary Last
MGE – Ammomod

The overall schedule for June 2013:

1st Qualifying Bracket: Tuesday June 11th
2nd Qualifying Bracket: Wednesday June 19th
Top 8 Monthly Final: Wednesday June 26th

The qualifying bracket schedule:

22:30 CET the day before – Signups Close for the bracket
19:00 CET Qualifier Day – Bot Draw in #etf2l
19:30 CET Qualifier Day – Brackets Posted
20:00 CET Qualifier Day – Ro128 Starts – Badlands Middle
20:30 CET Qualifier Day – Ro64 Starts – EndIf
21:00 CET Qualifier Day – Ro32 Starts – Granary Last
21:30 CET Qualifier Day – Ro16 Starts – Snakewater Middle
22:00 CET Qualifier Day – Ro8 Starts – Ammomod

The Monthly Final schedule:

22:30 CET Tuesday (the day before) – Signups closed. If not all of the 8 qualifying players have signed up, players from the reserve waiting list will fill in
19:30 CET Wednesday – Brackets Posted
20:00 CET Wednesday – Ro8 Starts – First map: NoSplash / Directs
21:00 CET Wednesday – Ro4 Starts – First map: Viaduct Middle
22:00 CET Wednesday – Final & Consolation Final – First map: EndIf

SERVERS

Cup matches may be played on any server running the latest version of the MGE mod and any version of the map mge_training_v8. The newest beta version of the map, mge_training_v8_beta4, can be found here. Locally hosted and public servers are allowed.

In case teams cannot agree on a server, the match may be played on one of the ETF2L league servers.

SPECIAL RULES

Status screenshots are not required
The only allowed unlocks are reskins of stock weapons and the Sticky Jumper. All other unlocks are banned. In addition the Sticky Launcher is also banned!
All players must record personal demos in case of disputes

Note: P-Rec will not work in MGE – you should record demos manually.