With all the great news and events EnemyDown has supplied the community with in the last few weeks, we are pleased to announce 'The EDCS Resurrection championship 2008'. This fantastic event is the first of it's kind for Counterstrike 1.6 on ED with a prize fund totaling a massive £1500!
This event will start with a league tournament containing 128 clans split between two leagues and will conclude with a straight knockout cup containing 32 clans.
The league stage will begin on Sunday 27th January with matches being played on the Thursday and Sunday of each week. The knockout stage will start on Monday 25th February and the match night will be a Monday.
The prizes for this event are as follows:
First place = £750 Second place = £400 Third place = £250
Locked rosters are in force for this tournament. Please do not sign your clan up for this until your roster is accurate. No roster changes will be allowed once the tornament has started, there will be NO exceptions.
Normal ED Rules apply. All Matches must be ran to MR15. 1.45 minute rounds. Friendly fire on. FCC2. Knifes decide starting side. No Shields. 35 second bomb timer where appropriate. 10 second buy time.
All 30 rounds must be played. All Default wins will be entered as 16-0
The ED mr15 cfg MUST be used, failure to do so will result in a default win for the opposition.
Clans must either have HLTV recording or personal demos made to be sent to an admin at request.
League match results must be accepted before the next match takes place.
Please take note of the following extra rules:
1 All normal ED rules apply unless otherwise stated in this section.
2 HLTV demos or personal demos (all players) must be taken which should be made available to the admins upon request. Any cheating accusations will be looked at by the league admins and passed to Steambans for clarification.
3 In the event where a cheating accusation is confirmed then the clan will be removed from the league and further punishment will be at the admins discretion.
4 Abuse towards other clans or the admins will not be tolerated. The punishment for abuse will be determined by the admins and can result in a point deduction, player/s suspension or removal from the League.
5 Rescheduling is allowed but matches MUST be played BEFORE the the next fixture takes place. Clans MUST post in match notes that a reschedule is requested. It is upto the teams invovled to come to an agreement and post in match notes the outcome of the reschedule. If the match is not played before the following game it will be defaulted against the team who requested the reschedule.
6 Should a clan leave the league during this event all their results will be awared as a default win to the opposistion. This includes fixtures already played.
7 The scoring system will be as follows:
3 points for a win 1 point for a draw 0 points for a loss
8 In the event of a no show a default will be awarded with the result being 16-0.
9 All matches will be played using MR15, 1.45 minute rounds and 10 second freezetime. All 30 rounds must be played
10 Pausing on the server will be enabled. Games should only be paused at the very start of a round and should last no more than 4 minutes, which should be plenty of time for a player to reconnect.
11 Shields are prohibited.
12 There will be no restriction on throwing flashbangs over walls, however using a bug is not permitted.
13 Knife fights should be used to choose sides. Pistols should be kept and the bomb should be dropped at Terrorist spawn. If you fire a gun and hit a member of the opposite team then your side loses the knife fight.
14 Taking advantages of map bugs is not allowed. Using these bugs will result in 2 rounds being deducted from the clans score for every offence. For examples please refer to CS rules section 7.
15 XAC is Mandatory for this event.
This league runs for 7 weeks and contains a total of 64 clans. Matches take place on Thursday, Sunday.