The tournament rules for the upcoming Quakecon tournament were revealed today. For Quakeworld it is a quite standard setup with the exception that games will be 15 minutes instead of the regular 10 in Quakeworld because the tournament staff wanted to streamline the rules as bit and felt that timelimit wasn't such a major concern in Quakeworld.

Concerning the map issue in this tournament they choose two maps for each Quake game. In prior discussions DM4 and DM6 were mentioned. Now that they have made the rules official you can tell that they have dropped DM6 in favour of Aerowalk. Thus the two maps for Quakeworld are DM4 and Aerowalk.

Below is a summary of the Quakecon tournament rules:

Maps: DM4 and Aerowalk
Client: EZquake Client 1.8
Server: MVDSV 0.26
Server mod: KTX 1.33
Timelimit: 15 minutes
Overtime: 2 minutes
Deathmatch: 3 (says 1 on the rules page, but check the forum for confirmation on DMM3)
You can examine the server configs at the Quakecon site.

There are of course rules on how settings works in the other Quake games and how the actual game selection works when you are going to play an opponent. I'm not going to cover that in any long article here though. It's basically that you choose game/maps like you usually only choose maps, and in a 1-1 tie, the third game and map gets randomly picked.

They have also made up their mind on the prize purse distribution issue. Below are the amount of dollars each top place finisher receives.

First Place: $20,000
Second Place: $12,500
Third Place: $7,500
Fourth Place: $5,000
Fifth-Eighth Place: $1,250

This would be a welcome addition to anyone's wallet i think. I might try doing some interviews with people who are going to Quakecon and are going there with the QW skills sharpened up.

Stay tuned!