Open Duel Tournament

Player Base: Public, open for everyone.
Skill Range: For everyone, from beginner to pro.

Server Location: DEU, Frankfurt.
Account Requirements: Quake Live Pro Subscription.

Structure: Swiss-system tournament, no eliminations. All players plays every round at the same time. Every player plays against a player with the same number of points. Every round consist of a single map chosen from the map pool by the host. Every map won counts as a point. Most points after a predetermined number of rounds wins the tournament. All players are ranked by their total number of points in the tournament.
Map Pool: Aerowalk, Bloodrun, Hektik, FuriousHeights and Toxicity.

Time Frame: Approx 2 hours for 6 rounds.
Player Number: 12-40 preferably, 10-80 possibly.

Site: Full server access has been established.
Chat: #Pro.QL @quakenet.org

Registration: Find me in IRC as Fi2011 and report that you would like to participate. Also, you have to state your account name so I can verify that you are a Pro subscriber and thereby include you on the player list.

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Further Information

Pairings are generated before every round. Tie-breaks are applied to make the pairing as fair as possible. Everyone should get to host an equal number of times. After a couple of tournaments, it will also be possible to have individual rating for all players. With a rating list in play, the most skill matched games will take place towards the end of the tournament.

The point of the tournament is that you can have more reasonable goals other than winning or being eliminate, compared to other tournaments. You can decide to try to finish in the top half of the player list or at least not at the bottom.

Let's try to start at 20:00 CEST. This could be played tonight, every day or whenever there are enough players for it.

Pro subscription is a must because anyone can and will be asked to host a server in the tournament in any round. An option would be to have someone else host for you, but that privilege must be exclusive to you for the entire tournament and you will still require a Premium subscription because no spectators are allowed except arbiters and casters.