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"Purity" 3v3 Capture the Relay Opening Cup

Crysis 3 is about to be released, and once again Flawless Victory is bringing you, the Crysis community, an e-sports gaming event to celebrate the occasion. It's very close to the release, so we're keeping the prizes and the tournament small. 32 teams is the absolute maximum. The tournament will begin February the 23rd, and end the 24th. It's going to be an intense weekend for everyone involved, that they won't soon forget.

The swift start of this tournament will make it interesting to see who will be able to stay on top. People won't have had much time to memorize the maps or to prepare tactics. The rounds will be played on custom servers with custom gamerules brought to you by us. We'll provide a server for each match, and guide you to your next match and answer any serious questions in the "Purity" IRC-chatroom that we'll be bringing up shortly before the start of the event.

It's going to be a 3 versus 3 Tournament with Capture the Relay. You're allowed 1 reserve player.

When do we need to be and where?

Sign-up closes February 22nd, at 23:59 GMT +0.
Before you sign up, make sure to check that your team can make these times:

NOTE: BEING LATE WILL LIKELY RESULT IN A LOSS/FORFEIT
Team Captain in IRC: February 23rd, 16:00 GMT+0.
Round 1 start: February 23rd, 17:00 GMT +0
Round 2 start: February 23rd, 18:00 GMT +0
Round 3 start: February 23rd, 19:00 GMT +0

Team Captain in IRC: February 24th, 16:00 GMT+0.
Round 4 start: February 24th, 17:00 GMT +0
Round 5 Start: February 24th, 18:00 GMT +0

Check what time GMT+0 is at http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

This is all you need to know to get your teams ready, so get to it!

The rules will be decided and announced only a few hours before the start of the tournament. We'll try to do this as early as possible, but remember this is the second day of Crysis 3, and we won't have all that much time to familiarize ourselves with what will keep it competetive and balanced. Some rules that you can already expect are, naturally, rules like no perks, no alien weapons, killstreaks or pinger, friendly fire on, everything up to banned weapons and attachments.

Sign-ups are already open and can ONLY be done on the fVic forums here
---> http://flawless-victory.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=865

Just remember, that by signing up you agree to the rules which will be set in stone shortly before the start of the tournament.
SIGN-UPS CLOSE FEBRUARY 22ND


PRIZES
We've pitched in for a total prize sum of 300€ for the winning team, and 150€ for the second team. That's 100 and 50 per person. Keeping it small and nice since this is the first few days of the game.



There are likely going to be streams with both real-time camera, commentary and ingame streams from the Flawless Victory LAN in Finland where some of us are going to be playing and organizing.

If you want to be involved in any way ranging from donations to contributing with servers or being a tournament admin, get on the Flawless Victory TS3 server and ask for Crazyfist.


It's going to be tons of fun, the best will earn some pocket money, and there's a lot for everyone to learn. We'll be updating this thread, and even more information will be found on the forums http://www.flawless-victory.net/forums in the tournament forum.

Stay tuned!

- Flawless Victory

Stickied! I hate the fact that we can't use modules.

Stickied! I hate the fact that we can't use modules.
What about a rule like "everyone must use Maneuverability"?

I would really like that.

Stickied! I hate the fact that we can't use modules.

cmon dubsy, in such an early tournament we want to eliminate as much potential "op" stuff as possible.

cmon dubsy, in such an early tournament we want to eliminate as much potential "op" stuff as possible.
I don't want anyone tell how to organize tournament cause I'm sure you guys will handle that perfectly!

But in my humble opinion - it would be better if everything is allowed. Especially in such an early tournament when there is a chance that Crytek will react with balance patch afterwards.

I don't wanna be some bad prophet, but I guess nobody really expects balance patches one year after the release (although, constant balancing would be awesome). And we all know that the game will be imbalanced right after the release. No matter how much are developers trying to balance it - as soon as you give the game to the hands of the players, something will pop up. We've seen it in alpha, beta and we'll see it in the final build as well (and this is not the fault of the developers).

Again, I don't want to tell you guys which way to go. I'm sure the tournament will be awesome no matter what. I just wanted to give you some hint for doing "greater good"

But then, wouldn't it limit the imbalances and OP combinations that the players cause by not allowing perks and stuff?

Depends if it's a "serious" or "just for fun" tourney...

Every tourney is about fun. Decide for yourself how much fun you want to have and how serious you want to be =)

Alien Weapons and the Pinger can be disabled via cvar on the dedicated server, as can Rip & Throw and the VTOL; we thought people might be concerned about them destabilizing competitive play