Team Colonslash Cup #1: cp_quay
March 27, 2013
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OVERVIEW
Team Colonslash!
That’s right, the kings of circle jerking are back! This time we are not drinking nor screaming frenchopolish words, we are not batting people on automatic sentry guns; no, this time we are trying to enrich your gaming souls with something more materialistic – keys and weapons signed by top EU and US players!
What better way to give you keys then through a one night, single bracket 6v6 cup, made in cooperation with ETF2L? Considering the prize pool, in this cup we are focusing on lower division teams (more info below). Of course, both 6v6 and fun teams can enter the tournament! The cup is happening on Tuesday, 2nd of April, with finals following on Thursday, 4th of April. Signups close Tuesday, 2nd of April at 18:00 CET with brackets published at 19:30 CET.
CUP FORMAT AND SCHEDULE
The cup will be of a single bracket and single elimination format, with all matches (except the final one) played on the same night:
- Tuesday 20:00 CET – Round of 32 Starts
- Tuesday 20:45 CET – Round of 16 Starts
- Tuesday 21:30 CET – Round of 8 Starts
- Tuesday 22:15 CET – Round of 4 Starts
- Thursday 21:00 CET – Finals Starts (Finals will be casted by VanillaTV’s casters Pledge and Admirable!)
MAP RULES
Home map for this cup is going to be cp_quay made by highly talented choiie, whose battle-tested cp_snakewater has been in the official ETF2L map pool for the last 5 seasons. Both Team Colonslash and ETF2L staff members think that cp_quay has a lot of potential for becoming a new highly popular competitive 6v6 map. The map is filled with great hiding places and interesting pushing/holding routes. Judging by the amount of positive feedback from double mixes, cp_quay deserves more attention and play-testing so don’t hesitate and sign up for this cup.
PRIZES
Acquired by various donations (shoutouts below):
- 1st place – 18 keys, 6 signed weapons (2 Scout, 2 Soldier, 1 Demoman and 1 Medic weapon).
- 2nd place – 12 keys, 6 signed weapons (2 Scout, 2 Soldier, 1 Demoman and 1 Medic weapon).
- 3rd place – 6 keys.
UNLOCK RULES
The unlocks’ whitelist applicable in Season 14 official games will apply here as well.
SPECIAL RULES
In most one night cups, lower div teams receive nothing but a pixel trophy. With this cup we are aiming to reward those teams and their efforts with a symbolic prize pool. That said, we’re asking players higher then div 4 from all leagues and competitions not to participate in this cup. Using general rule 7.3 regarding admin discretion, we will decide which teams fit the „lower div requirement“.
Status screenshot
As a way to negate higher div player usage, all teams are required to upload status screenshot after each match. If a status screenshot is not uploaded, both teams will be punished by cup disqualification.
Mercs
Considering that some teams have players with higher div experience, this cup will allow up to two default mercs if they are div 4 or below. Unverified players will count as mercs. Using general rule 7.3 regarding admin discretion, we will decide which mercs fit the „lower div requirement“. If you are not sure if you or your teammate can participate, contact an admin on ETF2L IRC channel (#etf2l).
For everything else, standard ETF2L 6v6 rules apply.
SHOUTOUTS
A big THANK YOU to our item donators:
Bontsa, Sauce, Cup Cake, Mallux, Prolefeed, Kyriales, TurboTabs, Calump, Ligz, Spike Himself, Loose E (the E stands for Stupid), Marik, Oxy, Gladdy, Enef, Drackk, Player Avatar, Mohawk and Mads.
Posted by CannonFodd3r in 6v6, Cup, League
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Make a high-div bracket without the prize-pool! Accidentally signed up before reading about the division requirements, which is a shame since I’d really like to test out Quay.
The fanboys will love those signed weapons of prem pla…..
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but srs, good to see more cups yet bit of a silly idea not letting teams above div 4 play, could just have brackets :( hopefully TC cup #2 will be for everyone!
expecting to play epsilon
“…cp_quay deserves more attention and play-testing…” “…we’re asking players higher then div 4 from all leagues and competitions not to participate in this cup.”
So no input from the players that might actually be able to tell if the map plays well and how to develop it? Solid plan.
It might be a fun cup yes, but if the intention is to gain something from play-testing then …
When will team rosters be re-opened? We have 3 new players.
Snyyppis You are underestimating the value of feedback from players from lower divisions! Even bad players can draw a lot of conclusions on the level design and give valueable feedback. Besides, it’s their cup and if they want to have this kind of competition then why not?
The intention is to get some feedback, but also to give some exposure and prizes to the lower div teams. I’ll discuss it with others, we might implement another bracket but without rewards, like Ond kaja suggested.
So the div level is 4, what about mercs?
Andreas: Please read the last paragraph again:
@Snyyppis; We realise the div limitation contradicts the map feedback thing. This is cup #1, we may do more of these in the future for everyone, who knows :)
As for this one, the idea for the prize pool (signed weapons) is what started it all off. Naturally if your prize pool consists of weapons signed by high div players and other prominent figures in the community, the target audience should be lower divs.
We spent a long time considering different maps to use in this cup (or even different formats on several maps) but we decided on cp_quay mostly for choije having been in TC before.
I hope that clears it up a little.
Why this div limitation ?
I mean, why not high – low bracket with rewards only for the low brackets :)
Could be great to discover the map for team > d4
Yeah that’s not a bad suggestion; we hadn’t actually thought about that at all. We’ll talk about it tonight, see what the implications are (for example, we have casters arranged for the lower div finals – they may prefer to cast the higher one, while the intention of the cup is to put the spot light on the lower divs).
We’ll get back on this later :)
Which version of the map? B3 I presume – but he has made updates to that as well…
still waiting on bball/ultiduo cups ):
Sounds awesome!
Would still be awesome if the lower bracket would be casted tho :)
@aykarin; The map will be cp_quay_b3a.
@Andreas; It will be :)
We’ll publish another news post soon with updates, but we decided that we are going to add a high bracket too, so anyone is free to sign up now.
FYI: The 6v6 rosters are now unlocked, you can add players to your rosters again, even if you participated in Season 14.
Please keep in mind that these new players still count as mercs for any pending Season 14 playoff/tie breaker matches.
who are the weaps signed by?
It will be announced in Monday.
thank you spike, we will sign up asap :)
Play for keys!