In celebration of the 1 year anniversary since their launch, Global Gamers Center is proud to present:
Digital Paint 4v4 Tournament - Sponsored by NVIDIA!At Global Gamers Center, they wanted to make their 1 year anniversary a day to remember. They thought, "Why not have TWO
Digital Paint events? Twice the fun!" Not only are they excited to host the Digital Paint mapping contest, but they are also thrilled to announce that they are holding a 4v4 Digital Paint tournament during their 1 year anniversary party! For those of you that haven't heard about it already, I am taking the helm for a second DP tournament, with Herron providing backup in the form of the map pool and tournament rules. Get your team together and
Register!Where?: #dpcup and #dpcup.scores on GGC (irc.gg-center.net)
When?: 1:30PM/13:30 EST (GMT-5), Sunday November 11th, 2007
Register at http://dpcup.globalgamerscenter.net/?p=registerSignup Rules- - Clans and non-affiliated teams are allowed to preregister their teams of 4-6.
- - A player may only play for one team for the duration of the tournament.
- - Clans are allowed to have any members listed on their DPLogin Clan Profile play for them provided that they are not registered to another team.
- - A team member must be present in #dpcup by 1:15PM/13:15 EST (GMT-5) on the day of the tournament.
- - Teams must be registered by 1:00PM/13:00 EST (GMT-5) on the day of the tournament.
- - Each team must submit an accurate list of their players and their Global Login ID with the signup. Any team using any players with an unregistered Global Login ID will forfeit their match.
Prizes- - There will be prizes to the best teams, but the prizes and distribution have yet to be decided.
Tournament Format- - 8-32 Team Double Elimination.
- - Each match is best of 3.
- - Seeds are determined by a death match qualification round.
- - Each team will play until they have lost two matches.
- - Once a team has lost their first match they will be moved to the loser's bracket.
- - The winner of the winner's bracket will play the winner of the loser's bracket in a championship round.
- - In the championship round, the loser's bracket winner must win 2 best of three matches against the winner bracket's winner.
Death Match Qualification- - 2 five minute rounds of pb2dm1 will be played in deathmatch rules.
- - Each team will elect one member to play in each round.
- - Each team's seed will be based on their combined frag total from each round.
- - Each round will be 5 minutes with no scorelimit.
- - The timelimit on each server will be 8 minutes. The first 3 minutes are allowed for players to connect and observe the random placement of equipment.
- - Players must start once the time reaches 5:00.
- - If a player joins up prior to 5:00 then it is a false start and the map will be restarted.
- - If the same team faults twice in the two maps, they are disqualified.
- - The first 5 minute round will be played on the #eR33t-Gaming North American server.
- - The second 5 minute round will be played on the OTB European Server.
- - Teams will be seeded with the lowest seed going to the team with highest frag count from both 5 minute rounds.
- - If multiple teams are tied in the combined frag count, the best average round placing will be used to determine who gets lowest seeds.
- - If a tie remains after average round placing, then the tie is broken alphabetically (a->z0->9).
- - If a player disconnects or crashes in the middle of a deathmatch round that player must reconnect and continue playing. Logs will be retrieve to determine the player's frag count for that round.
Match Format- - Each match will be played with 4 players per team.
- - Teams have 10 minutes from when their server is provided to have their team connected. Teams who are unable to have at least three players for the duration of the match are subject to forfeiting the match.
- - Each match is best 2 of 3 maps.
- - Each map will be played for 10 minutes with a 50 pt score limit.
- - If after 10 minutes the scores are tied, a repetitive 2 minute overtime is used until the tie is resolved.
- - The match's lowest seed will select their map first. They must select one of the five maps from the tournament's maplist.
- - The lower seed's selection will be played on the server of the highest seed's preference.
- - The colors will be selected by the higher seeded team.
- - The second and potential tie breaker maps are played on the server of the lower seeded team's preference.
- - The second map will be selected by the higher seeded team. The second map must be selected from the tournament's map list and can not be the same map that the lower seeded team already selected.
- - The lower seeded team will select the colors for the second map.
- - If each team has won 1 map of the first 2, a third tie breaker map will be played.
- - The higher seeded team will select one map to be eliminated as the tie breaker from the three remaining maps yet to be played in the tournament's maplist.
- - The lower seeded team will then select the map to be played as tie breaker from the two remaining un-eliminated maps in the tournament's map list.
- - The higher seeded team will select the colors in the third tie breaker map.
Tournament Match Servers- - #eR33t-Gaming - Dallas, USA - 74.86.179.248
- - [OTB] - Berlin, Germany - 85.214.56.218
Tournament Map ListMatch Rules- - Friendly fire/Grenade friendly fire: off
- - Respawn rime: 60 seconds
- - Grenade explode on impact: off
- - Dead recon: on
- - Gun jamming: off
- - Flag cap ends round: off
- - Flags must be at home to cap: off
- - Observer blackout: on
- - Required DP:PB2 client: 19
- - Enforce map skies: on
- - Global login required: on
- - Paint Grenades: 2
- - Smoke Grenades: 2
Tweaks/Cheating- - Players are not allowed to use external binaries which: modify the computer's internal timing(speed-cheat), modify OpenGL functions (wallhacks, modify model or texture display, etc.), assist with aim or movement, or provide any unfair advantage.
- - Players may use scripts so long as they do not alter a player's movement or aim (this prohibits double jump scripts or any scripts which moves a player's cursor automatically).
- - Players may not use textures, models, rscripts, or sounds that were not included in the official B19 installation and upgrade.
- - Textures, models, rscripts and sounds that were distributed with the maps from the tournament's map list are permitted.
- - Any player caught with these or other modifications that are detected by the Global Ban List protection will also be subject his/her team to disqualification.
Misc.- - These rules are subject to change at any time, and a list of rule modifications will be documented at the end of this post.
- - The tournament organizer (XtremeBain) has the right to make a final ruling on any match, player or rule disputes.
- - Players and teams may be disqualified if there are multiple complaints of poor sportsmanship. Please respect others and play fairly.
Rule Modifications- - Fixed typo in Signup Rules at 8:19PM EST, Nov 9 "Clans are allowed to have any members listed on their DPLogin Clan Profile play for them provided that they are not registered to another team."
Please let me know in this thread if there are any questions.
-XtremeBain
