CIC7 Tournament Structure

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With less than three weeks to go until the start of Crossfire Intel Challenge 7, the CIC7 admin team are pleased to to announce the tournament structure for both Enemy Territory and Call of Duty 4.

The Call of Duty 4 tournament will consist of an initial group stage of eight groups of six teams. Each team will play each other team in their group once, with each groupstage match consisting of a single search & destroy game on a map chosen from the mappool by the veto system, MR12.

The top two teams from each CoD4 group progress to a single-elimination playoff stage. Each playoff match will be played in a best of three format, MR12. This tournament structure guarantees a minimum of five matches for each Call of Duty team.

The Enemy Territory tournament will consist of an initial group stage of eight groups of four teams (some groups may have five teams, if more than 32 teams attend). Each team will play each other team in their group once. The top two teams in each group will progress to a double elimination playoff bracket. Additionally, there will be a consolation tournament (format either single or double elimination to be confirmed) for the remaining teams.

All matches in ET will be played in the standard best of three maps format. Maps in groupstage will be preselected. This tournament structure guarantees a minimum of four matches for each Enemy Territory team (five matches if a double elimination consolation bracket is confirmed).

Matches will be have start times between 09:00 - 01:00 Friday, 09:00 - 23:00 Saturday, and 10:00 - 15:00 Sunday. If your team requires a late start on the Friday, please contact Adacore as soon as possible. Late start places are limited and it may not always be possible to grant requests. If your team has requested a late start already, we should be able to accommodate it.

A full schedule with all teams, matches and start times will be published on Crossfire.nu in the run-up to the event, once groups are confirmed.

If you have any additional schedule or tournament queries please contact Adacore or leave a comment on this news item and we'll attempt to answer them to the best of our ability.
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NEWS ON QUAKE LIVE?

eg: should i prac it at all
cool beans, merl had like 3 9am starts last time, hopefully we'll get luckier.
When I was there with Speed-Link.ETQW we had to play a game at 2 in the morning, and since we drew, we had to play some deciding match just 7 hours later at 9. Sooo nice :-D
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The most epicly people have been screwed by the scheduling was voluntary - people who needed really late starts at some of the previous events have ended up having to play three solid games starting at like 22cet, friday then play again at 9am the next morning...

EDIT: Oh, and Xylos, when he was playing both the CoD and ET tournaments - that was just funny :D
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XyloS is a machine, np!
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We (AoW) played at cc5 from 20 cet - 0:30 cet ... then our managers had fun in the lancenter and we stood there til like 2-3 cet... in our cabins one of our managers couldnt sleep and didnt let us sleep cos he was screaming the whole time til 5-6 oclock ... and after 2 hours sleep we were back at wzzrd!
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CPC2 RtCW tourney, was told it would start at 8am so up at like 630, first game was closer to 12, then next game was at 5 and final was at midnight.

I was a tired panda!
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Looking pretty good I think :)
Finally some info. However, still not QL tourney structure. Is it safe to assume it won't happen now? Or we just gonna squeeze it in after 11pm on Saturday & after 3pm on Sunday? :P
I think the QuakeLive tournament is still due to happen, with games scheduled around your matches in the other events. It will run on separate machines from the main 5v5 tournaments. I don't have any more information on it thought - I'll send a query to Tosspot.
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I'm just curious, not gonna be playing in it. I just know there's quite a bit of interest in QL within this community so I'm trying to squeeze the info from as many sources as possible :P
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And not just this community! The whole CoD4 scene is very willing to play in this tournament too :P
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haha like those CoD nerds will achieve anything ;DDD
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et players (on average, i assume) spend much less time on video games than cod players so i think they probably could
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plaZma is quite decent in QL. (Does he still play CoD?)
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gl vs supreme
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Well okay, some of you CoD players are perhaps good in other games too (QL), but I thought that players playing ET only have more of a chance to win this tournament than CoD only players because of the aim specific in ET (tracking) giving you more of an advantage than just plain aiming at something and pressing continuously the left mouse button without having to worry about further tracking.
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dont know any et players playing ql, only recognise butchjii if hes a et player and he wont beat supreme or maybe some other cod players so. aim isnt everything so
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I think meez is/was pretty good. I don't know how good Supreme is, though.
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I was a CPMer, Since 2003 (Jolt Q3DML bottom division YEAH!) I've played VQ3 approximately once, and that was last night and it went very badly. I'll no doubt get raped if I play this tournament.
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you mean the tournament which was apparently for the crossfire community?
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This community = CiC7 goers. C'mon man, you think I'd not include the CoD people?!
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if its gonna happen would be nice to have mappool asap and other infos can come later..
hoping for the one that every serious ql tournament uses t7, t9, dm6, dm13, ztn
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Lets have only dm6 + ztn please :D
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that would be LAME!
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kk.
Good to have some infos
I cant make it @ 9:00 in the morning, at that time I will take my train to Enschede from Rotterdam. Will be there around 12.00 on friday :/
where is the quake live shizzle? :'(
I decided not to come, because the quake live tournament (in case it will even be there) will most likely suck, judging by the amount of attention it got prior to the event by the hosts :/
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oh maaan x(
was looking forward to meeting you! :D im sure it wont be that bad, its just not as big as ET or COD!
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probably next time :/
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I think this is gonna be one great lan
QUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEELIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE
looking good
my team need late starts on friday and sat

thanks!
Some questions (sorry if it was answered somewhere already):
-How much time you have to set up your computer before a game?
-is it true there is 60hz lcd-s ?
-what is the respons time of the lcd ?
Group matches - and some playoff matches - will mostly be played in blocks. This means for ET most groups play all group stage matches consecutively, for example at 9am, 10am and 11am on Friday, minimising the number of times teams need to change over and massively reducing the total time required for setting up. Teams will have at least 30 minutes of setup time before their first match in a block (we should be able to give 45 minutes in ET), with only quick breaks allowed between matches in blocks.

In CoD groups play their groupstage matches in two blocks, one with three matches for each team and one with the remaining two matches for each team.

The screens at WZZRD are Samsung Syncmaster LCDs (I can't remember the exact model number, maybe 931BW), and I think the native refresh rate is 60-75Hz. I believe they have a 2ms gray-to-gray response quoted. Screens with PCs that are provided by our sponsors (which will be around half of the machines at the event) may have different specs.
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thx the answers.

One more thing, how much space you have? I have a qck+ sized wood pad so I need a lot of space for that and cant make it smaller obviously.
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There should be a reasonably large amount of space (a little more than ET teams had previously, in some cases, due to having groups of 5 rather than 6 PCs in the same space). I can't give you exact dimensions though - your best bet is probably to ask someone who's been before...
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I got a big pad aswell, dont sit next to some1 who has the same pad or even larger, thats almost impossible so pick some1 next to you that doesnt need alot of space :)
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If you're pro, btw, you can get a whole team set up in 10 minutes. I think SRP's record was about 7 minutes from first touching the PCs to being on the server ready to play.
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or 0 like Reload playing with default cfg haha
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Well, there was the legendary idle game at CPC1, where the team arrived 10 minutes after the match start time, and we told them 'get on the server and rup within 5 mins or get a forfeit', so Holz jumped on the server without doing any config at all and started 1v6, used two pauses then played for a couple of mins while the others set up...
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:DD idlee won ?
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or you can fuck it up and take 2+ hours time, you even get an award for it :D
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I haven't been at a LAN yet, but I guess I could do the same perhaps even faster, but you obviously mean the time the whole team needs to set up ; )
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Lots of players will require two restarts to get all their stuff installed properly. That eats a good five minutes. If you don't care about drivers or settings you can just plug in your mouse/keyboard and play.
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I care about settings very much, but one restart would be enough I guess ; p
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should be even faster in 5v5
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can we have a late start please? No real reason other than i dont function properly before mid-day.
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