Double Elimination: All matches are BO1 (Grand Finals is two BO1 if needed)
Match scheduling: Players will join #duelcup on quakenet irc or Webchat
Prizes: 420,000,000 Kapparinos

Please note that this event is taking place on Saturday in order to avoid scheduling conflicts with NADC#16 on Sunday

Double Elimination
• Opening WB and LB matches are BO1
• All Finals are BO3. If needed the Grand Final is two BO3
• BO3 map selection is drop, drop, Pick, Pick, drop, drop, last
• Coin-toss winner may choose to drop first or second

Furious Heights
Battleforged
Blood Run
Sinister
Silence
Hektik
Cure

Important Message About the Map Pools
With QuakeCon 2016 happening in August I want to make sure that players looking to practice the QuakeCon maps are not turned off by the NADC map pools. Both the current Spring season and upcoming Summer season will feature at least six of the maps from the QuakeCon 2016 map pool. I understand that some players will only want to play the QuakeCon maps, and I would like to remind those players that map selection for the events is drop-drop.

1st Place $35.00 USD
2nd Place $10.00 USD
3rd Place $5.00 USD

North American Duel Cup prize pools are made possible by community donations | http://paypal.me/duelcup

The NADC has been around for over a year, and after successfully running monthly cups it is making the transition to a seasonal format. Each season features six duel cups and the season playoffs. Points are awarded every cup to players who finish in the top-16. The farther a player makes it the more points they earn. Players with the most points at the end of the season will earn themselves a seed in the season playoffs. Player rankings for the current season can be viewed here.

Spring 2016 Schedule
Jan. 31 - NADC #12
Feb. 21 - NADC #13
Mar. 06 - NADC #14
Mar 20 - NADC #15
Apr. 03 - NADC #16
Apr. 17 - NADC #17
Apr 24 - Spring Playoffs
Events begin at 15:00 CST

Looking for Admins and Casters
If you are interested in helping out with one or more events behind the scenes or live on stream I would love to hear from you. Admin duties are very simple. Make sure that games are being played in a timely manner and respond to requests in the #duelcup IRC channel. Usually the events run themselves, but having even one extra person helping makes everything that much smoother. If you are interested in casting and you own a decent microphone I'd love to hear from you regardless of your experience. You can contact me directly on steam, #duelcup irc, or through a private message on these forums.

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Playoff Map Pool: t7, bf, ztn, sin, hek, tox, cure
Playoff Map Pool Poll Results

General:
+ The client will probe the official Warsow mirror for all .pk3 downloads before attempting to download the file from game server.
+ Third-party .pk3 downloads are stored in a separate directory to prevent them from overriding basewsw assets or shaders.
+ When connected to a pure server, do not fully reload the game assets on map change.
+ Changed default console font to monospace Droid Sans.
+ Changed help messages for 'callvote map' to contain the title of the map being voted for.
+ Added tab-completion of console commands and variables to chat.
+ Downloaded third-party add-ons will now go into separate filesystem directory. Use +set fs_usedownloadsdir 0 on the command line to disable such add-ons altogether.
+ Improved support for Quake 3/Quake Live maps.

Renderer:
+ Offloaded the renderer to a separate thread. r_multithreading 0 reverts to traditional single-threaded mode.
+ Added r_maxfps to cap the refresh framerate in multi-threaded mode, changed cg_showFPS 1 and 2 to display refresh and client framerates respectively.
+ Increased the number of background loader threads to 4.
+ Fixed support for palette-based PNG images with alpha channel.
+ Use optimal VRAM storage format for grayscale lightmaps when deluxemapping is disabled.

Gameplay:
- Don't render flesh hits for RG and MG pellets as they were often mispredicted.
+ In bomb gametype, reset all map entities to their initial state at round start.
+ Allow grenades to be shot straight down.
+ Disabled the minimum walljump height if jump button is pressed.
+ Fixed instagib shots stopping on the first hit player.

Server:
+ The server will now re-open console log file on SIGUSR1.
+ Running multiple servers in the same homedir won't corrupt .pk3 files downloaded via autoupdates.

Modding:
+ Expose "random" entity property to gametype scripts.
+ MeansOfDeath (MOD_RIOTGUN_S, MOD_GRENADE_SPLASH_S, etc enums) is now passed as the fourth argument to "kill" score event in gametype scripts.
+ Added G_ResetLevel() to gametype scripting API. The function resets all map entities to their initial state, keeping clients intact.
+ Added Client::getMMLogin() method to gametype scripting API, which returns the match-maker login for authenticated players.
+ Added hasChallengersRoulette, forceTeamHumans, forceTeamBots, disableObituaries gametype properties to scripting API.

Linux:
+ Changed base data, cache and runtime directory paths to conform to XDG specs.
+ Fixed MOUSE4 and MOUSE5 mouse buttons support.

Mac:
+ Changed base cache directory path to ~/Library/Cache/.
+ Fixed MOUSE4 and MOUSE5 mouse buttons support.

Mapping:
+ Added "random" key support to func_timer and target_delay, specifies delay variance. Total delay = delay +/- random seconds.
+ Added "delay" key support to "target_delay" for backwards compatibility with Q3 maps.

Race:
+ Sector reports are now buffered until the end of the race.
+ Top command to display records in reverse order.
+ More records are now stored (30).
+ Added quickmenu with basic commands.
+ Picking up a weapon doesn't remove it from the map.
+ Associate records with login names when possible.
+ Color- and case-insensitive nickname associations for records.
+ Weapon information is now saved when saving a position.
+ Allow loading prerace-saved positions in prerace.
+ Added setting a speed for the saved position (only in practicemode).
+ Limited announcer sounds to once per player.
+ Simple randmap vote with a pattern to search for.
+ The kill command will now make spectators join.
+ Nice checkpoint feedback in the console.
+ Disabled starting a race while alive after finishing.
+ Fixed the respawner after finishing.
+ Allow racerestart while not racing.
+ Linked kill to racerestart.
+ Fixed displaying of the top scores in the hud. They are now shown when you connect.
+ Save no more than one time per player to the local highscore file, so the highscores are not populated by one player.
+ Print finish and sector times to the console so they can be looked at later.
+ Assign saved top times to their owners when they reappear.
+ Added practicemode with noclip and position save / load commands.
- Disabled warmup.

HUD:
+ Apply localization to scoreboard strings.
+ Expose system mono font to the HUD via con_fontSystemMono.
+ Draw crosshair even when out of ammo.
+ Updated the "connection interrupted" icon.
+ Added drawCleanStatString and drawCleanPlayerName commands for drawing player and team names without color codes and forcing the current color.
+ Added TEAM_ALPHA_NAME and TEAM_BETA_NAME constants to draw team names with drawStatString.
+ drawPlayerName now ignores the current color and defaults to white, only taking the current alpha into account.

WarsowTV:
+ Fixed demo playback.

UI:
+ Fixed random crash on vid_restart.
+ Color correction profile can now be applied to the "worldview" widget by specifying the "color-correction" RCSS property.
+ Improved demo player modal window.

Most read threads:
HoQ TDM Spring Season Draft Groups (2906 hits)
what is the netcode? (2841 hits)
Do you use accel? (2668 hits)
Reflex Update 0.40 (2600 hits)
bps fundraiser thread (QW) (2364 hits)

Most commented threads:
what is the netcode? (113 comments) by bitstream
HoQ TDM Spring Season Draft Groups (88 comments) by doz3r
Do you use accel? (78 comments) by t0rte
bps fundraiser thread (QW) (60 comments) by bps
Reflex Update 0.40 (53 comments) by entik

Most Popular Users:
viaIImaximus (94% popular)
quake is potat (92% popular)
Meph1stoo (92% popular)
flair (89% popular)
sonic (88% popular)

Most Popular Threads:
Reflex Update 0.40 (54% popular) by entik
HoQ CA 4v4 Spring Season 2016 Coverage (43% popular) by viaIImaximus
Understanding net_restart (34% popular) by DieZel
Quake Live NA Highlander Cup - Silence (32% popular) by flair
HoQ CA Spring Season Draft Groups (32% popular) by viaIImaximus

Most Popular Comments:
Re: HoQ TDM Spring Season Draft Groups (37% popular) by gienon
Re: bps fundraiser thread (QW) (37% popular) by thechucker
Re: HoQ TDM Spring Season Draft Groups (36% popular) by twister
Re: what is the netcode? (36% popular) by quake is potat
Re: bps fundraiser thread (QW) (34% popular) by quake is potat

Popularity Climbers:
quake is potat (36 +'s)
Meph1stoo (29 +'s)
flair (29 +'s)
viaIImaximus (25 +'s)
Nico_QD (23 +'s)

Betting leader:
Lamur (E$137,500)
fazz (E$66,137)
omek (E$54,904)
Airman (E$52,948)
vanqu1sh (E$38,617)

Highest Climbers:
nk121 (E$67,515 won this week)
Lamur (E$32,416 won this week)
hghg (E$21,258 won this week)
lithz (E$20,500 won this week)
nsx0r (E$16,304 won this week)

Biggest single bets:
E$15,591 won by Lamur ([CS:GO] NiP vs SK Gaming)
E$15,000 won by nk121 ([CS:GO] mousesports vs Team Dignitas)
E$10,500 won by lithz ([CS:GO] NiP vs Astralis)
E$10,209 won by Lamur ([CS:GO] SK Gaming vs FlipSid3 Tactics)
E$10,000 won by Lamur ([CS:GO] mousesports vs FaZe)

Most lost:
E$20,742 lost by kK_Storm
E$20,000 lost by fazz
E$17,415 lost by Lamur
E$15,101 lost by vanqu1sh
E$7,333 lost by redjack

19 Mar: CPMA CTF Stats - Feb 2005 to May 2015 by TheMafia

22 Mar: The best new thing - VR? by viaIImaximus
24 Mar: HoQ CA 4v4 Spring Season 2016 Coverage by viaIImaximus

Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup32
When: 03 Apr 2016, 09:00 CST
MapPool: Battleforged, Blood Run, Cure, Furious Heights, Hektik, Sinister, Silence
Mapchoice - drop first.
PrizePool: 2500RUB+500RUB and season points for top-8
Rules:Full Double Elimination, Winner Bracket: BO1 till the semifinal, BO3 WB semi, WB final and Grandfinal (two BO3 if it will be needed); Low Bracket: BO1 all matches (including LB final).

Team CODIAN vs The Northern Tribe 1:2
whylove vs brainWashed 2:0

nubz vs White Ivory 2:1

Frag Emm Clan vs Loaded/Gunz 0:2

whylove 3 points

tnt. 3 points

+! 0 points

LG/ 0 points

ENERG 0 points

[IdS] 0 points

.wd 0 points

nubz 3 points

Ivory 0 points

LG/ 0 points

Pulse 0 points

[IdS] 0 points

[IdS] 0 points

+! 0 points

LG/ 3 points

[DL] 0 points

[IZI] 0 points

2StH 0 points

F.E.C 0 points

[IZI] 0 points

F*E*C 0 points

the big dicks < deal with it (def loss for the big dicks)
15:00 CDT, 31 March 2016 - Deliberate Murder vs Team Hungary (noshow from Team Hungary)
14:00 CDT, 30 March 2016 - Dimension 4 vs REKT

Line-ups
tbd: Insan3, zsx, debtorr, Luminus, Xron, dem0n
deal: Silencep, clawz, Spart1e, ph0en|X
102: pavel, Latrommi, cas, kenny
hun: dash, feeder, gandhi, kroy, s7ry, Wood
d4: un4x, dance, antonio_by, gog, noobakillah, otto
rekt: ashof102, rehepapp, khan, gienon, brescia, h8m3

14:00 CDT, 30 March 2016 - Hateful Eight vs excel
14:00 CDT, 31 March 2016 - Burrito vs (B52) (spec demos / VOD)
WORLDSTAR vs onfire (wildcard by WORLDSTAR, moved to catchup week)

Line-ups
[h8]: dehumanizer, cream, haz_mat, szefu, ticket_man, XPEHOPE3
excel: Lithz, rax, fragster, Slunge, slm, Headz
|B|: qb, tr1x0, k0marr, Drayan, JunkZ, afgh4n
(B52): lethiferous, HiRi_, Prestij, Troolz, evt, cherepoff
WDSR*: R1EPA, niteinaction, waro, Ant3stor, GaRpY, Sothis
Of: mdf, Kujiwa, Przrg, p1s, a1r_r41d

nerds vs infinity (VOD)
Platige Team vs RAKS (spec demos / VOD)
14:00 CDT, 28 March 2016 - Zombei vs Virtual owners (spec demos / VOD)

Line-ups
n.e.r.d.s.: lici, sollex, zantek, Insaccato, horowitz, ParaNoiiA
8/: Pio, 8Myp3uk, banShee, inz_, lostcost, KindDevil
PL: r1bo, kosq3, Rowny, spooky, SSRI, goblin
&#9803;: maf, podbitiy_olen3, 170bpm, Kalter, Gibi, atomicblast
zombi: hattifnattar, deimos_, EricCartmenez, Play_ua, k1lljoy, furti_ve
vO: Ewil, dzouKi, Dloobiq, brajente

The map list of this season consists of Deep Inside, Dreadful Place, Grim Dungeons, Hidden Fortress, Limbus, Purgatory and Ragnarok.

"4.6 - If an admin is present for the map picking, the procedure should go through him. If not then the clan leaders should go through the following procedure:

* The cointoss winner decides which team picks first. The team that picks second will drop first in the event of a deciding map.

* Each clan picks one map from the pool. The same map cannot be picked twice.

* If a deciding map is needed then each team will drop a map and whichever map remains will be played."