There will be a EU-region 1v1 tournament played on Sunday 22th March in a NEW game mode resembling Clan Arena.
Yes, it's now a 1-day event! Don't be worried about your skills, it's supposed to be mostly for fun even though there's also a bit of prize money.
Handicapped Arena (1v1)
Handicapped Arena is a NEW game mode. It is based around Clan Arena with these modifications:
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If you look closely you'll notice the following:
-you get the rockets, plasma, grenades and gauntlet, there's infinite ammo
-minimal weapon switch time
-the rockets and plasma are unaltered
-the grenades have twice the regular velocity
-the gauntlet deals 200 damage
-draw by health is on, as is now the default
Here's a YouTube
upload showing a match in this mode so you can get the basic idea. Note that NO-ONE has gotten a lot of practice in the mode.
Up to 32 people can play. The format is SINGLE elimination. ro32 & ro16 are to 3 round wins, ro8 & ro4 to 4 round wins and [bronze] finals to 5 round wins. If there's a small number of players a round robin will be played instead.
A different map will be played each round.
ro 32
Trinity
ro 16
Tornado
ro 8
Solarium
ro 4
Nameless Place
[bronze] finals
Cold War
Prizes: $75 first spot, $50 second and $25 third
The prize pool will be shrunk to $50, $25 and nothing for third spot if there's less than 16 players.
The date is 22nd of March, at 12PM GMT.
Make sure you're recording demos and are ready to provide them for inspection if something weird happens.
Don't start matches without an admin present unless told otherwise.
Sportsmanship applies: uncivil conduct may result in kicks. Admins make decisions as fair as possible.
Have fun and relax!
For added emphasis, this is a 1v1 tournament so you don't need a team.
To sign up:
JUST SHOW UP ON THE CHANNEL #HANDICAPPED on irc.quakenet.org by latest at 12PM GMT on the match day. If you haven't used IRC before you can just go here:
http://webchat.quakenet.org/
Use your exact in-game name when you log in. Feel free to use the channel for finding practice partners and servers (please kindly invite people to your server if you've spawned one).
Leave messages in this thread if you have any questions.
LotBlind and any other F-U-N clan members you see.
Probably no stream but I will try to create a little montage after it's finished.