“It is a pleasure to host the first North American Team Fortress 2 event here at CEVO. Many of the staff have been playing the game nonstop for the last week and a half and have had nothing but tremendous things to say about the game play and graphic quality,” said Charlie Plitt, CEO / President for CEVO LLC. “With the conclusion of this event, we will be looking to launch league based play with multiple divisions and we will be hiring on several gaming officials to support this effort so if you are interested apply today.”

The CEVO Team Fortress 2 Tournament is a double-elimination online event for gamers in the Team Fortress 2 community. The format of the tournament will be 6 v 6 using both ctf and cp maps. Registration is open starting Thursday, September 27, 2007. There are only limited team slots available (16 Atlantic, 16 Central, 16 Pacific) to the first teams that are fully registered (6 players on roster with SteamID's entered), so get your team signed up quick! The tournament dates will be announced when registration is complete.

NOTE: Team registration will open at 5:00 PM CST on Thursday, September 27th.

Prize Distribution:

• 1st - $500.00
• 2nd - $350.00
• 3rd - $150.00

Matches will be played twice per week on Monday and Thursday evenings. Teams will be permitted to dispute a maximum of two players per team. The CMN3 will be enabled for all matches.

Map Rotation and Scoring:

ctf_2fort - Two 15 minute halves, the team with most points after 30 minutes wins the match.

cp_dustbowl - First team to 4 points or most points after 60 minutes wins the match.

cp_granary - Play to 3 points or 30 minutes and switch sides. First team to 4 points wins the match or the highest score after 60 minutes.

cp_gravelpit - First team to 4 points or most points after 60 minutes wins the match.

cp_well - Play to 3 points or 30 minutes and switch sides. First team to 4 points wins the match or highest score after 60 minutes.

NOTE: All CP maps will be played until one team reaches the amount of points needed for that specific map. If the time limit expires, the score of the match will be reported as the score when the time limit expired.

General Rules and Configs:

In an effort to simplify the match process for all players, we have created a config for each of the 5 maps being used. The official CEVO TF2 server configs are required to be installed every match server. You can find the configs here: http://www.cevo.com/FILES/cevo_tf2_server_configs.zip or in the downloads section of our website.

- Friendly Fire: ON (If the cvar is available at the time of the tournament).
- Format: 6 v 6.
- Class restrictions - No more than 2 of any class is allowed at one time.
- Matches will be played on Mondays and Thursdays.
- The CMN3 must be used for all matches.
- ALL disputes must be filed within an hour of the conclusion of the match.

Feedback:

As this will be one of the very first Team Fortress 2 events, we NEED your feedback. We would love to hear what you think of the format, rules, configs, class restrictions, etc...

After our first tournament is over we will sit down, and with the communities input and make any necessary changes to our current format and rule set.

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CEVO would like to thank Layered Technologies (enterprise server solutions), NationVoice Communications (top quality ventrilo servers and service), and NuclearFallout Enterprises, Inc. (premium competition game servers) for their support of CEVO's Team Fortress 2 Tournament.

Source: CEVO