XQC #57 Valentine's Cup (2v2 TDM/Draft)

XQC #57 – Valentine's Cup (2v2 TDM/Draft)



To give Mirio a little free-time, and of course because Xonotic needs more quickcups, Finko and I have decided to organize the next Xonotic event - a super-special Valentine's Cup!
It will be a 2v2 TDM draft cup with a little tweak (see below), and obviously it will be played on February 14th (next week's Friday). If you go out with your girl (or boy), you are excused, everyone else is expected to be there!

If we have a reasonable number of teams, the cup will be Double Elimination with Bo1 and Finals with Bo3. If we have a really large number of teams, it will be just Single Elimination. This will be decided on the day, after check-in.
The mappool is not yet decided, but it will be 5 maps, probably some that haven't been played too often lately.
UPDATE: The pool will only be 3 maps now, but you can choose from the 6 maps we provided in the poll. The poll runs until Thursday before the cup (10 days from now).

Now about the special tweak of this cup: It will be a draft cup where teams are picked after check-in, before the matches start. However, we will divide all players into higher and lower skill groups. The point is that players from the higher group ("alpha males") can and must only pick players from the low groups ("valentine girlies"). This will be a lot of fun I'm quite sure, and we'll end up with somewhat balanced teams. This awesome idea is proudly presented by Finko Enterprises® ;-]


Quick facts:
- 2v2 TDM (XPM)
- Servers: UC & pacman
- Timelimit: 15
- Fraglimit: 0
- Modus: Double Elimination (upper/lower brackets), or Single Elimination if we have a large number of players (will be decided after check-in)
- Mappool: Minigrudge, Opium, Silent Siege
- Date/time: Friday, 14th February 2014 19:00 CET [UTC+1] (1:00 PM EST; 5:00 AM AEST) // http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
- VoIP: unconnected-clan.de for TeamSpeak and Mumble
- Admins: Finko & zykure
- Skill level: any

Please vote for 3 out of the 6 provided maps! Mappool is now final, see above!

Brackets: challonge.com/xonqc57

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Just join #xonotic.cup (IRC, QuakeNet) at the given date if you want to participate. No registration somewhere needed!

If you wonder where to practise 2v2 TDM, just come to #xonotic.pickup (IRC, QuakeNet) and play with us

Happy fragging!

19th January 2015? Anyway, I'm interested although not sure if can or not yet.

Map suggestions: stormkeep, minigrudge, ospdm5

I'm in... unless a wild girlfriend appears out of nowhere

I'm in! Guess I'll be a valentine girly...

I'm confused DauX, you have a boomerang or a kitty?

Also in and I think I can bring in some new players

Make a poll about maps.

This gonna be a lot of agy couples.

If all the tournaments would be an hour earlier or even later I´d be in. But I guess this is a time where all different people world-wide have some freetime or don´t sleep. Well, nevermind...

I'm in.

Everyone please vote for the 3 (sic!) maps which will be played in the cup!


EDIT: Fuck me, I failed with the poll and can't edit it .. the second "Minigrudge" was actually supposed to be Opium. So please don't vote yet until it is fixed

@Mirio: Okay okay, you win.. here's your poll ""

I'm confused DauX, you have a boomerang or a kitty?

Also in and I think I can bring in some new players

A "boomerang". Zykure called the low group "valentine girlies" in his post.

So please don't vote yet until it is fixed

Fixed.

Fixed.

Thanks a lot, copy&paste is my enemy.

@all: please vote!

Put screenshots into the opening post. ^_^

Put screenshots into the opening post. ^_^

Thanks man, much appreciated!

When I saw your post, I thought you want me to add them, but like this it's even better. Could you make a thread where all the screenshots are collected? =)

(meme)

I put it in the title post, it fits so well =)

BUMP, Don't forget about Team Speak

Yoo, last chance to decide which maps will be played!
The final mappool will be announced soon. Also note that I added the pacman servers to the server list.

Looking forward to awesome matches tomorrow!

I want in! What time?

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Sorry, I cant read.

*BUMP* Only 4 hours left!

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT: Due to very important events in the Xonotic community, all olympic games will be paused until tomorrow. Please drink vodka, stop being gay and check out Xonotic. +++

If there will be streaming; please link here on forums!!! >

This Year's Valentine's Couple: FOXYjouk + Nitroxis

Almost Made It: Bolwind + matuka

Maybe Next Year: Spike + Finko

Brackets: http://challonge.com/xonqc57

Thanks everyone for playing!

Next year will be my and Spike's!

Team native speakers did a good job.