1st prize: AU$500 + your map will receive a visual pass from developers (new meshes, effects etc. will be made) and be made an official map. You will be fully credited as the original layout author.
2nd prize: AU$150
3rd prize: AU$50

- We're looking for a 2v2 map layout - we are judging based on layout only.
- You are able to do some visuals if you wish to imply visual ideas, the theme is industrial sci-fi.
- Replays of matches on the final version welcomed and encouraged.

- Create your map & submit to workshop.
- To officially enter reply to this thread with a link to your workshop map.
- If you're after additional feedback, create a thread for your map in the mapping forum.

Rules:
- Existing maps can be submitted
- No ports, we're looking for new maps & you must own the map.
- Team submissions allowed, see legal section.

How judging works:
- Judging will be ran from September 19th to September 25th.
- We'll have a public forum thread where anyone can vote for their favourite map.
- We'll have community judges privately voting their top 3 maps as well.
- Official judging will be done by Turbo Pixel, we'll take all votes into account and announce the winner on September the 28th.

Entries close:
- Midnight UTC September 18th

Legal:
- In order to accept 1st prize all contributing parties for the map will need to sign a legal document to assign non-exclusive rights for Turbo Pixel Studios to use your map layout. This allows Turbo Pixel to ship it in the final game, while it allows you to use your map layout in another game if desired.

Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup47
When: 31 July 2016, 09:00 CST
MapPool: Sinister, Cure, FuriousHeights, Battleforged, Toxicity, Bloodrun and Silence
Mapchoice - drop first. Cointoss loser starts drop.
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).

Character Customization:
- We've added character customisation where you can mix & match different robot parts.
- There are now 5 robots: hostile, dedlock, sentinel, tracker & hornet.
- We've changed player colouring so you CAN set your own colour in non-team modes
- Added a "glow color" you can now specify

Implemented new animations:
- We've done a full animation pass.
- We've added additive animations so the player smoothly looks around now.
- We've added IK so player feet stand on ground / ramps correctly
- We've added ragdoll (configurable in game options)
- We've made the feet lead to and pull away from the ground when jumping to make bunny hopping look "real" :)

Drop system:
- Standard melees & robot parts now have a chance of dropping at the end of a match.

Grenade Launcher:
- Grenade launcher has received it's art pass.

Crouch:
- We've added +crouch
- It does change the hitbox, it's a smooth transition from big<->small
- When crouched you move slower
- You can crouch in the air, so you can jump into small gaps.

Improvements:
- Cleaned up color overrides to be cl_colors_relative, cl_colors_enemy, cl_colors_friend. Color overrides only work when you are playing. When you are spectating it always uses the team color (or players color if not in team game)
- Profile UI now shows if you have multiple of an item
- Updated in-game roadmap
- Silhouettes can now be any colour
- Gibs/ragdoll colours & silhouette colours are now updated when you change team / colour override settings
- Added workshop buttons to title in scoreboard
- Clicking map title on scoreboard takes you to workshop
- Now get +10xp for a kill
- Carnage effect no-longer makes player go black. (helps with readability)
- Shotgun experimental now in core game
- Plasma experimental now in core game
- Flag Drag experimental now in core game

Bug fixes:
- Fixed time-code display in replay editor

Known issues:
- No swim animations yet
- Golden morning star isn't attaching correctly, will fix in first point release

Rulesets

• Allowing alternate player models now determined by ruleset
  
• Ruleset qcon reports the new player model (CapNBubs) as modified
  
• Changing ruleset or /allow_scripts now releases all protected keys. Blocks /cl_idrive workaround.

Input

• Added /con_toggle_deadkey cvar as a workaround for SDL2 deadkey-handling. Should stop first character typed at the console being corrupt when using a keyboard layout where the console toggle key is also an operating system deadkey.
  
• Bugfix: keyboard operating system layout is used if the program is started and /cl_onload is set to a console command (was previously set to QWERTY until game started).
  
• Bugfix: /cl_keypad cvar operational again, if set (default) then keypad & basic number keys can be bound independently. If turned off, keypad keys converted to standard keys, bindable as per QWCL.

Display

• /gl_loadlitfiles now controls loading of all colored lighting, regardless if from .lit file or stored in the .bsp file. Hidden cvar /gl_noinlinergb removed.
  
• Bugfix: horizontal fov was being increased when /viewsize caused effective aspect ratio to change. /scr_fovmode cvar controls how ezquake keeps the fov correct.
  
  
  
  • /scr_fovmode 0 (default) will use the aspect ratio of the monitor and then crop the image vertically. This matches the approach taken in QWCL
    
  • /scr_fovmode 1 will introduce horizontal letterboxing to keep the aspect ratio constant.

Menu

• Ruleset qcon now available through menu
  
• Sound: desired samples available through menu
  
• "Light Mode" renamed to "Darken Map"
  
• Bugfix: F2-F12 are now bindable in menu
  
• Bugfix: When unbinding through menu, only keys that match the command are unbound (rather than all keys starting with the corresponding command)

Other

• Various documentation corrections and updates.
  
• Bugfix: Various memory leaks patched
  
• Bugfix: /playdemo could crash client
  
• Bugfix: console background resizes as console width/height changes.
  
• Bugfix: ambient sound would not change volume if cl_maxfps was sufficiently high (leads to ambient sounds always playing or never playing)
  
• Bugfix: on Linux systems, keyboard input will be grabbed as well as mouse when /in_grab_windowed_mouse set. Should stop window manager shortcuts from firing during game.
  
• Bugfix: /connectbr will default to port 27500 if no port specified
  
• Bugfix: No longer looks for files in root of the current drive if /userdir is empty

Build environment

• Windows: can now access https:// server browser sources (libcurl library updated)
  
• OSX: binary should now be compatible with OSX 10.9

Gametype: TDM 2v2 Classic
Format: DE WB Bo3/LB Bo1 - Final: Bo5
Admin(s): doz3r / xou
IRC: #HoQLeagues

- Almost Lost
- Blood Run
- Campgrounds
- Devilish
- Hidden Fortress

donate for the cup
16€ from stickan
10€ from doz3r
10€ from Beerman
5€ from Osnart
5€ from Sinus

Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup46
When: 24 July 2016, 09:00 CST
MapPool: Sinister, Cure, FuriousHeights, Battleforged, Toxicity, Bloodrun and Silence
Mapchoice - drop first. Cointoss loser starts drop.
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).

rapha
DaHanG
ZeRo4
chance
ZorakWar
zar
griffin
davis
cha0ticz
ballin4life
psygib
Necrophag1st
ekp
Cody
Ruleth
festiveturtle
organic
Vig1lante
Lonewulf

Day 1 - Saturday, July 16th
12:00 CST - 13:00 CST - Bracket Round of 32 - BO3
13:00 CST - 14:00 CST - Bracket Round of 16 - BO3

14:30 CST - 15:00 CST - Group A UB Semi #1 - BO3
15:00 CST - 15:30 CST - Group A UB Semi #2 - BO3
15:30 CST - 16:00 CST - Group A UB Final - BO3

16:00 CST - 16:30 CST - Group B Semi Final #1 - BO3
16:30 CST - 17:00 CST - Group B Semi Final #2 - BO3
17:00 CST - 17:30 CST - Group B UB Final - BO3

Day 2 - Sunday, July 17th
12:00 CST - 12:30 CST - Group A LB Match - BO3
12:30 CST - 13:00 CST - Group B LB Match - BO3
13:00 CST - 13:30 CST - Group A LB Final - BO3
13:30 CST - 14:00 CST - Group B LB Final - BO3

14:00 CST - 15:00 CST - Semi Final #1 - BO5
15:00 CST - 16:00 CST - Semi Final #2 - BO5
16:00 CST - 17:00 CST - Grand Final - BO5

Battleforged, Blood Run, Cure, Elder, Furious Heights, Hektik, Sinister

1. $1,000
2. $500
3-4. $250

#tdmpickup is an IRC channel where a bot automatically organizes matches and decides teams. Players simply need to join the channel, type the !a command, and they will be queued for the next match. As soon as 8 players have queued, the bot decides the teams, the match starts, and the queue is reset for the next 8 players.

You don't need to install an IRC software client if you don't want to. Thanks to IRC Webchat which opens IRC directly in a browser tab, #tdmpickup is quite literally two clicks away:

http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=tdmpickup

Please remember to use an IRC nick similar to your in-game nick to avoid confusion.

If it's your first time playing in #tdmpickup, you will need to tell the bot what your Steam ID is so it can track your match history properly. Make sure you are using the desired IRC nick and then type the following command:

!steamid <steamid>

Your Steam ID is the ~17 digit folder that can be found in C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Quake Live/ by default, and looks something like 76543210987654321. You can also use http://steamidfinder.com/.

The obvious reason for hosting Clan Arena pickups in #tdmpickup is that one bot in one channel is a lot easier to maintain and administrate than two bots in two channels, but in addition to this we think that this is a great opportunity for both TDM pickups and CA pickups to gain new players. If a TDM pickup needs 2 more players to add, then a couple of CA players might decide to try it out, and vice versa.

Remember that most commands are for TDM by default, so you will need to add the "ca" suffix where necessary (!a ca, !rating ca player, !w ca, etc...).

Of course, if this initiative fails horribly and nobody plays CA, it will eventually be removed from #tdmpickup. As with everything in QL, we depend entirely on the community (that's you!).

For now, two brand new CA servers located in Germany have been configured, so feel free to check your ping:

/connect 108.61.190.47:27960; password capickup
/connect 108.61.190.47:27961; password capickup


The mappool should be identical to the previous #capickup mappool:

Asylum
Campgrounds *
Hidden Fortress *
Overkill
Quarantine
Repent
Servitude
Trinity
ra3map9
ra3map15
ra3map20

* Also in the 4v4 TDM map pool.

Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup45
When: 17 July 2016, 09:00 CST
MapPool: Sinister, Cure, FuriousHeights, Battleforged, Toxicity, Bloodrun and Silence
Mapchoice - drop first. Cointoss loser starts drop.
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).