The registration deadline may have been moved back once or twice, but none of that matters now as the CEVO OCZ tournament is set to get underway this Wednesday night. Each week, matches will be played on Wednesday and Sunday nights with the exception of this coming Sunday as it is a holiday weekend. In keeping with the CoD tradition of interseason tournaments, the administration at CEVO has decided to play around with some different rule settings. For starters, side choice will be determined by a knife round because of the arbitrary, random nature of the bracket seedings. Knife rounds were used with great success at ETS LAN and perhaps they will be equally well received in CEVO. Additionally, CEVO has joined TGL in experimenting with single bomb, no deep impact, 45 second bomb timers, and 1:45 round lengths. In a departure from the current trend, however, CEVO will be allowing red dot.

The original tournament format called for four double elimination brackets with sixteen teams competing in each such that the top two from each bracket could advance to a single elimination grand championship bracket. Sixty-four teams did not sign up though, so there are three brackets with thirteen teams and one bracket containing twelve. The upper and lower bracket winners from each group will still advance to an eight team single elimination championship bracket. The maps for the championship bracket are mp_strike, mp_crash, and mp_citystreets which will be played on 6/18, 6/22, and 6/25 respectively.

First place in the tournament will win five OCZ GameXStream 700W Power Supplies, second place earns five OCZ 2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum Revision 2 Dual Channel and five OCZ ATV 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drives, while third takes home five OCZ Vendetta CPU Coolers. The fourth through sixth place teams will be awarded with free entry into CEVO's second season. Additionally, the top two non-CEVO-P finishers will be automatically invited into the season two professional placement tournament.

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