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| Idiot's Guide to EDL | 2015-10-05 13:32 | claire |
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Groups are up, schedule is up, we are currently in round 1, START PLAYING!
For those new players who are unaware, and the old clueless players, here is a quick and dirty guide to EDL. Remember, you're still responsible for reading (and understanding) the rules, but here is an abbreviated version of the procedure:
Idiot's Guide to EDL
1. Click on the and find your next match based on the round dates. Click the "---" link to the left of the match and leave a comment when you can play. Specific dates/times. Once you decide on a date/time you can message and admin on IRC or email us at quake2edl@gmail.com and we'll put it on the calendar. Notifying us is not really necessary, but nice if people want to watch.
2. Show up in IRC or on a predetermined server a few minutes before the scheduled time.
3. The home player (listed first (on the left)) gets to pick the first map. The away player (listed second (on the right)) gets to pick the second map. If a third map is required, you take turns kicking remaining maps until one is left. The player with most frags decides who starts.
4. Before starting any map, start recording a demo ("record demoname" in console). Every map of every match you play must be recorded. Don't expect the server to stuff a record command to your client, not all of them do. "It didn't record automatically" is not an excuse. You can bind it to a key if it's really that difficult.
5. At the end of every map while the intermission screen is up (the scores) take a screenshot. This is your F12 button by default. Again, don't expect the server to stuff a screenshot command to you automatically, not all of them.
6. Once the match if over both players are responsible for emailing all of their screenshots to quake2edl@gmail.com with a quick description of the match (who picked which maps, what server you played at, any problems you ran into, etc). Both players need to do this, not just the winner.
7. Once the crew adds your match results on the website you'll receive an email containing a URL to upload your demos. You are expected to do this promptly. |
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| Groups are up! | 2015-10-02 10:32 | claire |
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Groups are now up.
If you feel like we've personally offended you and your prodigious skill by placing you in the group, let us know and we can probably move you around. However, do this quickly because once the schedule goes up and matches created there will be no shuffling around. I'm planning on doing this in a couple of days.
If your name is not in a group and you signed up, that means you didn't give us your email address. I personally contacted everyone with a missing email via Q2Scene messenger and a few of you didn't get back to me. There is still time, but once the schedule is up, it's too late. |
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| New Q2 servers!!! | 2015-09-30 15:50 | ceba |
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New season of EDL is coming. Soon groups will be announced.
And once again Revo strikes :)
He set up few servers in different locations.
Go check them out so that you know what server is good for you.
GameServices.eu - - AT Vienna 151.236.10.184:27910
GameServices.eu - - DE Frankfurt 5.1.75.216:27910
GameServices.eu - - DE Mannheim 93.186.171.252:27910
GameServices.eu - - DE Nuremberg 88.198.255.194:27910
GameServices.eu - - FR Roubaix 151.80.207.249:27910
GameServices.eu - - NL Amsterdam 193.235.147.126:27910
GameServices.eu - - NL Dronten 91.243.75.79:27910
GameServices.eu - - NL Rotterdam 95.46.199.156:27910
GameServices.eu - - RU Moscow 95.163.107.45:27910
GameServices.eu - - RU St Petersburg 94.242.59.251:27910
GameServices.eu - - DK Copenhagen 83.221.132.163:27910
GameServices.eu - - PL Poznan 195.64.159.254:27910
GameServices.eu - - EE Johvi 159.253.22.22:27910
GameServices.eu - - SE Stockholm 31.220.7.21:27910
All these servers are connected to GTV
Ceba also hosts a server:
The Best Q2 Server :: OpenTDM :: Norway 80.203.132.79:27910
So warm up the guns and have fun playing.
/The EDL Crew |
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| Mystery Prizes | 2015-09-27 20:05 | claire |
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Our good friend  Tei0ch has offered (again) to support the scene and EDL in a rather unique way, with mystery prizes:
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To help things run more smoothly (hopefully) in EDL, I could provide cash prizes for various achievements. Yes, this is no ordinary money collection which would only go to the winners with pre-known amounts. My way deals with 'unknown' amounts (not even the Admins know) and it is also unknown where and how the prizes are given out. They are hidden to everyone but me and can only be 'revealed' (thusly rewarded) if they're triggered with right conditions pre-determined by me.
If a player would happen to 'activate' one of those triggers - a few are rock sturdy while others are more resilient - he/she would be asked to accept the Reward Prize for activating it (using Paypal only) and if the person cannot or will not accept the cash, prize is then going back to the funds and will be merged with the rest (this may vary 'how' exactly). If the last remaining prize ends up like that, it is going back to myself. If un-triggered prizes are left behind, they too are going back to me.
Same prizes cannot be won twice (not the same as amounts), and also same trigger points cannot exist more than one time.
The total number of triggers is unknown as well.
This is in other words NOT compensation for a potential EDL Prize pot, but simply a separate independent system meant to experimentally have some fun yet reward those who deserve it; either logically (like skill-wise) or bit more random.
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So throughout the whole season Tei0ch will be watching and rewarding players for random bits of awesome Quake 2 playing. I would assume there are triggers like hitting more than 1 air rocket in a match, or perhaps making the jump from GL to the mega-room door on DM1 during a game, or not hes not telling us what they are.
I think this is a great idea and would like to thank Tei0ch for supporting us like this. I hope this will help reduce the number or W/O games this season.
Thanks!
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| Season 14 Official Map Pool | 2015-09-21 08:29 | claire |
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Votes were cast, counted and in some instances ignored, but we have our map pool:
- aerowalk
- koldduel1
- ptrip
- q2dm1
- q2duel5
- q2rdm1
- q2rdm2
- ztn2dm2
- ztn2dm3
Chances are you will already have all of these maps on your computer. If not, you can download the pak containing all them and their associated media here:
If you're interested how the pool was decided, check out the I used to count the votes. |
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