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CSS Pre-season Tournament

Posted by sgl Blizzard on 24th Sep 2009 @ 10:42am
Last week saw me announce the CS1.6 Pre season competition, today I’m proud to announce the CSS Pre season competition the format is very similar to the one used for CS1.6 with a few little tweaks to suit the CSS teams. Counterstrike Source has been moving along quite nicely over the summer with the one night stand cups filling up within a day.

So onto the details, I’m just going to bullet point them so they are very clear.

Important Information
  • You must play in this cup to be considered for season 11
  • Majority of the seedings will be based on this event.
  • If you default without good reason you will not play in season 11
  • If you reschedule you must contact Blizzard via pm on the site (Not IRC) to get it confirmed, the games will all need to be played by a certain time which you will be informed of.
Format

  • The cup will hold as many teams as want to play so no one will be left out.
  • Teams must have five on there roster
  • Standard format with Group stages leading to a Single Elimination cup.
  • Depending on sign ups there will be a qualification round or two to decide who is entered into the group stages
  • The teams which lose out in the qualification round will be placed into a separate cup/groups. This will be completely separate to the other cup. As someone else has said one game isn’t enough to seed a team on.
  • All games will be best of three (even the group games) you will choose your maps in the standard way which will be explained in the FAQ. The five maps will be de_dust2, de_train, de_inferno, de_tuscan, de_nuke
  • All games will be played on your own servers with SGLAC being mandatory and Source TV must be provided also in eye demos must be recorded and provided when asked.
  • Some games will be picked out to be played on SGL server with admin etc.
Schedule

  • Sign Ups open: Now
  • Sign Ups close: 1st October 2009
  • Qualifier Teams Announced: 2nd October 2009
  • Qualifier Commences: 6th October 2009
  • If needed Second Round qualifier: 7th October 2009
  • Groups for both Cups announced 8th October 2009
  • Group Game 1: 11th October 2009
  • Group Game 2: 12th October 2009
  • Group Game 3: 15th October 2009
(All group games must be played by the 17th October 2009 if not I will void the game)
  • First Round of Knockout: 18th October 2009
  • Second Round of Knockout: 19th October 2009
  • Semi Final: 22nd October 2009
  • Finals: 25th October 2009

The whole idea of this is to get teams playing as many games as possible to see who will turn up and play. All teams will play at least 3 or 4 games best of three so it should give an idea where everyone stands skill wise and activity wise. I plan on running a smaller one of these in the Second or third week of season 11 so if there are any new teams wanting in to replace teams they will have there opportunity. If you have any questions please PM me (Blizzard) on the Website please. Good Luck have fun.

Sign up here.
 

Comments

#1 | sgl Blizzard | Posted on 24/09/09 11:24am
Link is now fixed at the bottom
#2 | en Treb | Posted on 24/09/09 12:27pm
Will it be first to 16? or full 30 rounds on each map?.
#3 | sgl Blizzard | Posted on 24/09/09 12:31pm
First to 16, we never play full 30 rounds in any SGL competitions dude Big grin
#4 | en Treb | Posted on 24/09/09 12:32pm
OK! Blizzard you monkey Monkey
#5 | ie abeyance | Posted on 24/09/09 1:35pm
sweet !!!
#6 | en wAnd | Posted on 24/09/09 4:10pm
nice
#7 | en Arky | Posted on 24/09/09 5:25pm
games at 21:00?
Also will season 10 results effect us as we won the playoffs to the invite?
gj Blizzard
#8 | uk DKX | Posted on 24/09/09 5:51pm
GL to everyone involved Big grin
#9 | en NoFear_^ | Posted on 24/09/09 8:29pm
Gl to me Big grin
#10 | pk Moe2K8 | Posted on 24/09/09 8:57pm
yeee boy
#11 | sgl [HeaT] | Posted on 24/09/09 10:49pm
Sounds good.
#12 | hu GSPLR Goku | Posted on 25/09/09 12:51am
SPARTAAAAAAAAAA !
#13 | sgl Blizzard | Posted on 25/09/09 8:36am
Arky i will use season 10 results yes but as there been such abig gap between seasons i need to know which teams are still playing/want to play etc so we need this competition to give me a good idea where to place people. Im sure you know yourself how fast things change in CSS and CS1.6 regarding teams Smile
#14 | de snajdan | Posted on 25/09/09 10:25am
nice blizzard, i hope my team become a accept "league join" Big grinBig grinBig grin
#15 | hr Rocket-zd | Posted on 25/09/09 2:30pm
anyway to see all signed up teams?
#16 | sgl Uzi | Posted on 25/09/09 2:33pm
not till we publish them no - sorry.
#17 | ro Arkad | Posted on 26/09/09 8:07am
hopefully we also get accepted ^^
#18 | tf webbz-- | Posted on 26/09/09 9:21am
sammmee Big grin gl all
#19 | pk Moe2K8 | Posted on 26/09/09 7:53pm
"The cup will hold as many teams as want to play so no one will be left out. "

stop worrying about being accepted plx
#20 | 00 nazima1 | Posted on 27/09/09 12:33pm
source is crap
#21 | ie abeyance | Posted on 27/09/09 5:19pm
but counter forces sauce is win ... dunno what this source you speak of is ^^
#22 | wa caution` | Posted on 28/09/09 12:31pm
nice one, looking forward to it!
#23 | en Arky | Posted on 28/09/09 6:07pm
cheers blizzard invite cup ftw Big grin
#24 | ro SpeedMan | Posted on 02/10/09 10:13pm
Hope the qualifiers will be announced soon, otherwise I don't see how can team schedule their game in such short notice...
#25 | hr Rocket-zd | Posted on 03/10/09 12:45pm
behind Schedule already Sad
#26 | en avaLancHey | Posted on 03/10/09 1:28pm
It could possibly be they don't feel they have enough teams interest to run the cup. In which case they won't run on time naturally. This kind of league deserves more applicants but because of the problems sgl has had before with teams dropping out it might be hard.

I for one recommend for everyone just to go spread the word. get 20 or so, otherwise its pointless.
#27 | hu BRN` | Posted on 05/10/09 12:57pm
When will they be the first matches? I got confused!
#28 | en tP. | Posted on 05/10/09 2:19pm
An update on what is happening would be nice...
#29 | sgl [HeaT] | Posted on 05/10/09 5:26pm
Any updates? Saw that the signups are closed now.
#30 | wa caution` | Posted on 05/10/09 7:48pm
What HeaT said!
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