Players will play over three maps, The slowest player(s) will be eliminated at the end of the first two maps and the final map will decide who takes to top 3 spots

pql Weapons, Time limit per map = 15Mins. Prejump is forbiden ( u can use only one rocket shoot and 1 jump before taking flag)

People will get points based on where they finnish, 2pt's for the bottom player and adding 2pt's more for every person above that.

Courtyard, Infinity , Black Cathedral, future crossing

1ST: $60
2ND: $30
3RD: $15

First and one of the most important things is certainly the fact that #spontanctf is ran by people who are still very much interested in Quake CTF overall and still play on a daily basis. #Spontanctf is a completely fresh start and everyone is welcome, regardless of skill level or past offenses (as long as cheating wasn't one of those past offenses). If you have any issues or inquiries, just PM the admins and they'll do their best to help.

We also have a completely new bot and the bot is really cool. Aside from regular pickup, it can and WILL do regular drafts, spawn servers, track your stats using trueskill, pick up girls, make sandwiches and many more features at disposal mostly for admins to make #spontanctf as enjoyable of an experience as it can be.

Last, but not the least, possibly even the most important reason is if the activity of the channel picks up, there could very well be a proper CTF league again. But you people need to play a lot of CTF and show the league admins they can finally host a CTF league that won't have more dropouts than active teams and that they can host a league that will finally be completed.

The guys that are doing this for you are Hanti, Insaccato and Spart1e. There might be one or two more additions to the admin team. If you feel like you'd be the man for the job, feel free to PM one of current admins of the channel and they will take you in to consideration.

The map pool encompasses almost all of the maps that were played competitively in Quake Live or Quake 3 at one point or another. If you are a map maker, feel free to PM any of the admins and they'll make sure your map ends up on the servers as soon as possible.

The map pool so far: Camper Crossings, City Crossings, Courtyard, dukesgarden, Finnegans, Infinity, IronWorks, Japanese Castles, Pillbox, Shining Forces, Siberia, Spider Crossings, Stonekeep and Troubled Waters.

Custom (non-QL) maps won't be added to the map pool unless there's a positive feedback from the majority of players. Still, that doesn't mean you can't play them. To play such a map the map vote needs to pass. If it does pass it's assumed that most players do want the map and everyone in the active game is required to play it. More about this in the rules section.

And yes, it's a big map pool, but it's better to have more options than less.

Yes, the drafts were mentioned. To accomplish the long term goal of having an active ctf scene, the drafts are seen as one of the tools to accomplish that. It's intended to run a draft per month. Hopefully this can be achieved, but everyone has their real life obligations and if one month is skipped then it can't be helped. But yeah, draft per month. Fingers crossed!

There could be a lot of stuff written, a ton of dont's that can result in getting your ass locked on the channel, but the admins feel that such way of handling things is too restrictive.

The only real rule is to use common sense while playing and always keep in mind that you yourself wouldn't like taking shit from others before you start dishing out shit. Remember, it's a game and you're playing to have fun. So are the others, so think before you start running your mouth. Make no mistake, you WILL be properly dealt with if you ruin the game or experience for others in any possible way.

If there were specific rules to be put on paper, it would be the following:

General rules:
* When you join the server, pick your position and hold it for whole 20 minutes, no matter how good or bad the game is going for your team. Abandoning your position will be considered as griefing and will result in a lock.
* Use binds, or use voice chat if you're too lazy to bind stuff to your keyboard. If you prefer teamspeak, let the admins know and a TS3 server will be set up.
* Don't harass other players, this goes both for on server harass and on channel harass.

Map rules:
* Use cointoss to decide which team gets the map pick.
* The map pick has to pass if it is a map from the map pool.
* If it is a custom map you're voting for, the players can vote against it. Please pick a map from the pool if the vote fails instead of spamming the vote again. You'll just prolong the wait time for the game to start and most likely won't get your map pick no matter how many times you issue the vote.
* If a custom map passes the vote, everyone in the active game is required to play it.

The duration of locks (inability to add without getting banned) is 24 hours at most, unless you're a cheater. In case of cheaters - please don't even try it.

There's also a cooldown lock that lasts for 2 hours. It's mostly for people that take the games too personal and need to chill out some. It will also be applied to map dodgers.

If you're a total nutcase and keep doing the same stuff over and over again, you'll get completely removed from the channel.

Before you can play you need to identify yourself with the bot. To do that please do !iam steam64id. You can find it in X:\Steam\steamapps\common\Quake Live\, with it being that folder name full of numbers. The folder name / the numbers are your steamid.

You can also use any of the following websites to retreive your steamid: http://steamidfinder.com/ or https://steamid.io/. The last method would be joining any of QL servers, typing /players and writing down the string next to your nickname.

Once the bot knows you, the commands are the same old you've encountered in other channels, !a/!add to play, !r/!remove when you decide you've had enough, !w/!who to see who is added along with you and !l/!lastgame to check how much time has passed since the last played pickup. If a substitute is needed do !sub player or use !teams player1 player2 ... player8, depending on your preference. It doesn't matter which one you use because the bot tracks everyone playing on #spontanctf servers, regardless of them being in the pickup topic or not. To check the progress of currently active games, do !cg.

The servers are hosted in Frankfurt, Germany on Vultr Cloud. Currently there are 2 servers constantly up and if need be the bot will spawn more on it's own in case of more than 2 simultaneous pickups. Such case is highly unlikely, but one can always hope and if it does happen the bot will handle it.

The stats are calculated using the trueskill ranking system (i.e. Xbox Live system). You can check out the details about trueskill system on the following page, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trueskill/. You're probably wondering why is trueskill used in #spontanctf. The current experience with ranking systems used to make even teams in CTF isn't really a good one. Be it ELO or custom ranking systems that were deployed, the teams were more of misses than hits. In that light, #spontanctf has turned to trueskill in order to make the best teams possible.

Please keep in mind that no ranking system will work if you don't play a lot and give the bot enough of games to process in order to make the most precise calculations possible.

With that mentioned, the bot's database is currently empty and in terms of trueskill everyone is unranked yet. That roughly translates to the bot falling back to qlstats for initial ratings. If you feel the teams given by the bot are bad, feel free to cap and pick. When all the players in the topic have played at least 10 games in the channel, the bot will have enough information to start using trueskill system and create even better auto-teams.

Yes, bad games will happen, no one can make a perfect system, no one can dodge a bad team and no one is denying that. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the system, don't hesitate to PM the admins with your solution and it will be taken in to consideration. The #spontanctf crew just wants to make and use a system that will reduce the number of said mistakes and bad teams to a minimum.

Double Elimination

• WB semi, WB final, and LB final are BO3. All other WB and LB matches are BO1
• Grand Final is a BO3. The player from the LB must win two consecutive BO3 to win the cup
• To prevent seeing the same maps twice in the Grand Final map selection for the second BO3 is pick-pick

Map Selection

• Coin-toss winner is awarded the choice to drop first or second.
• BO1: drop, drop, drop, drop, final map is played
• BO3: drop, drop, pick, pick, final map is tie breaker

Volunteer Admins
Minimizing delays is key! Having one more person watching the brackets and helping out players in #duelcup irc is a huge help. Interested parties should contact me via pm, irc, or steam.

Furious Heights
Blood Run
Sinister
Aerowalk
Cure

1st Place $80.00 USD
2nd Place $30.00 USD
3rd Place $10.00 USD

Monetary payouts for North American Duel Cups are made possible by community donations. You can view the NADC Cash Flow here.
updated Feb.21

Players will be assigned points at the end of every NADC. The farther a player progresses the more points they will earn. These points are added up at the end of the season in order to rank and seed the players. The top eight (8) seeds will be invited to compete in the season playoffs. If a player is unable to participate their playoff seed will be given to the player below them until we have eight (8) players able to compete in the season playoffs. Standings for the current season are available 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 - Season Playoffs

Playoff Fund
Once the prize pool for a single NADC reaches $120 any additional donations made until that cup is over will be put into the reserve fund and used towards future cups and/or towards the season playoffs. Direct contributions towards the season playoffs can be made by including a message along with your donation. The money will be distributed according to your instruction. You can view the NADC Cash Flow here

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08:05 - Were you a good caster when you first started?
09:55 - How did you go about improving your casting?
16:15 - How would you characterise Arena FPS casting?
20:32 - Who was the best to ever cast Arena FPS?
22:08 - Why do you love Arena FPS?
23:55 - Unreal Tournament or Quake?
25:58 - Which version of Quake is your favourite?
27:17 - Which version of Unreal Tournament is your favourite?
28:58 - Which players have stuck out the most to you over the years?
31:10 - Any highlights that deserve a mention?
33:50 - How did it feel watching Arena FPS fade into obscurity?
37:03 - Do the people who were involved in Arena FPS often reminisce?
40:00 - Do you think the people who were involved in Arena FPS can now have some important influence in its resurgence?
44:00 - Is the maturity and passion of Arena FPS players a good selling point for breaking into esports again?
46:32 - Is there a current trend that leans towards games that emphasize decision making over mechanics?
48:10 - Is the negativity and elitism of the Arena FPS community a major hurdle going forward?
50:12 - 1v1 versus team games in 2016
53:38 - Does 1v1 negatively impact growth?
55:10 - Is it possible for an indie Arena FPS game to grow organically in 2016?
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$20

wdm2, wdm5, wdm6, wdm11, wdm15.

Bo1: drop-drop-drop-pick, loser of coin toss drops first.
Bo3: pick-pick-drop-pick, loser of coin toss picks first.
Bo5: One map advantage for WB player. LB player picks first map, loser picks each map thereafter.

Each participant must join #callvote @ irc.quakenet.org
Call timeout if your opponent is lagged out, also have timeout command bound!
Fakenicking is not allowed
Any server agreed on by both players is acceptable. If there is no agreement then the server with the smallest difference in cl_extrapolate 0 is played. All servers must record demos.
In case of dispute contact an administrator.

Workshop:

- You can now grab maps directly from the workshop when starting a server or callvoting a new map via the in-game menu.
- Added new console commands: "wmap <id>" and "wmatch <id> <mode>" for voting workshop maps
- Maps can now be published to Workshop directly from our map editor via the "Publish" button in the top toolbar.
- You can also rate, favourite and subscribe to maps during the end game screen.

Gameplay:

- Spawn system overhaul
- Fixed broken biasing giving wrong spawns
- You can no-longer spawn at same spawn as last time (10 second timeout)
- Added line-of-sight check
- LOS checks can favor/block potential spawns depending if person viewing it is friend/foe. In team games it's modified by number of people viewing spawn. i.e. 2/4 team mates looking at a spawn, will increase the change you can spawn there by 50% of the existing chance. Existing chance is based off normal distance biasing.
- Added fall-back in team/FFA games where all spawns are not available. It will allow any spawns except ones assigned to other team (ctf) or if a team mate is standing on it.
- Added initialSpawn property to player spawns -- these will be used for the first spawns of the game (provided there are enough available).
- Burstgun now fires 6 shots, at staggered offsets, and do 7 damage per pellet

Editor:

- Removed modes a1v1, atdm, affa from worldspawn -- these are now just attached to 1v1, tdm, ffa, respectively
- Added weaponclip magic material -- blocks shots but not players.
- Game won't end due to few players if there's a player in editor mode. (i.e. you can solo edit race maps while game is in progress now)
- Added EntityWorkshopScreenshot -- saves out high quality screenshots on publish so you can quickly update additional screenshots via the Workshop website

Improvements:

- Screenshot/screenshotWithDepth now save to PNG format
- Added support to auto-convert old netcode revisions to live version AKA "we can load old replays (from now on)"
- Improved connection/mapchange handshake-- maps can now be pre-loaded if client can source the same map. (from either disk or workshop)
- Improved load screen, no-longer triggered just on gamestate download. also displays client/server workshop download percentage.
- Added hands in 1st person (only partially visible on burst gun so far, WIP)
- Scoreboard will now list people queue'd for teams under the correct team. spectators / editors are still always on the left under team ALPHA.
- Added ready up text
- Implemented fog system
- Added end of game camera wobble & sound
- Added game finished flag to replay file. (only flagged if gamestate is gameOver on save)
- Replay recording are now correctly saved & stopped on map / mode change.
- You can now see yourself in the end-game screen.
- Replays created from workshop maps are now prefixed with TITLE instead of mapname (5939432432)
- Removed r_ssao & our SSAO implementation (we still have r_hbao)
- Renamed "SSAO" in options menu "HBAO+"

Bugs:

- Fixed replay editor toggle bind in UI (wasn't hooked up properly)
- Fixed incorrect material assignment - brick_gothic_wall_cnr
- Fixed AmmoCount.lua from stomping lua weapon colour (so it appeared white)
"com_maxfps" limited to [10->inf) or 0. quick fix this prevents issues caused when playing < 4fps
- Fixed subframe bug where mousewheel events would be triggered when console was visible
- Fixed issue where clicking JOIN ZETA button wouldn't work (as it was performing two cvars on same frame, and correct data wasn't being sent to server)
- Fixed issue where cl_playercolor* would stomp some player state flags when it shouldn't. (such as changing team index to 0)
- Replay file names are now purged before saving to disk (previously bogus character names in players were preventing files from being created)
- Fixed script bug where "FRAGGED" would be displayed when you're queue'd to play.
- Binds are no-longer passed to game now when in the menu. (this fixed weapon being changeable in menu + also editor working in menu)
- Disabled crosshair in end of game screen
- Fixed spawn biasing to actually work properly (see more info in the "Gameplay" section)
- Callvote dialog no-longer hides & re-appears when die.
- Start server button (in menu) now performs "disconnect" first, ensuring it's a true server restart, and not just a map change.

Optimisations:

- Removed some redundant/old textures to free up some VRAM
- Updated hostile (has new normals, improved lods)
- Updated ivy textures: simplified albedo look a bit and halved res (1.7mb on disk to 440kb on disk)
- Updated pipes to have smooth normals

Maps:

- Updated PRDM3/Ruin&#8194;-- bolt platform lowered, new blue tele by the mh/yellow armor
- Maps shipped with Reflex have now been renamed to their proper titles (such as Ruin.map) instead of arbitrary gibberish
- Transitioned a heap of previously included maps to workshop

Servers:

- Renamed sv_public to sv_steam to avoid near-constant confusion
- Implemented sv_allowmodes -- server will prevent changes to anything NOT in that list. If list is empty, all modes are allowed.

Arts:

- New Burstgun mesh (still a work in progress)
- Industrial mesh set optimisation pass
- Optimised effects: environment steam
- Optimised effects: lots weapon trails and impacts
- Optimised effects: pickup smoke
- Ivy leafs now all support albedo overrides
- Ivy performance increase

Lua:

- Added Lua variables: serverConnectedToSteam, player.inventoryMelee, world.mapWorkshopId, timeLimit, timeLimitRound
- Added Lua function: meGetPrefabList()
- Exposed camera position to lua
- Fixed bug where data saved by widget:saveUserData() wasn't saving correctly if called in widget:finalize()
- Fixed issue where widget cvars were not saving correctly to .cfg
- Exposed vote information to lua
- Callvote popup implemented in lua -- we get pretty pictures now :)
- Fixed bug in WeaponRack.lua where it was stomping weapon colour to white
- Fixed issue where right & middle mouse were flipped for lua mouse regions.

Misc:

- Removed laughably out of date readme.htm
- Added match <mapname> <mode> command to save doing two seperate votes
- Implemented screenshotClean - generates high quality constant FOV screenshot. Can specify custom resolution here (and take 8k screenshots etc :))