QuakeWorld Duel League Season 2/Information

• Overview
• EU Div1
• EU Div2
• EU Div3
• EU Div4
• NA Div1
• NA Div2
• AU Div
• Information

Tournament system

• Players are sorted into divisions reflecting their skill level and their performance in Season 1.
• The tournament consists of two stages:
  • A round-robin group stage.
  • A single elimination playoff.
• The first 8 players of each division advance to their respective playoffs.
• The playoffs will have a 3rd place match.
• Players have to play two matches per week.
• Each player play eachother once in a GO3 (game of three, not best of three) in the group stage.
• Playoff matches are BO5.

Points

The ranking is determined by taking the following stats into account (in order):

• Points (1 point per map win).
• Map difference.
• Internal fight.
• Map difference in those internal fights.
• Frag difference in those internal fights.
• Total frag difference of all games.

Match procedure

Map Pool

• dm2
• dm4
• dm6
• aerowalk
• ztndm3
• bravado
• TBD (voted in each division)

GO3

• The procedure is "drop-drop-drop-drop-play-play-play".
  • /rnd player 1 2
  • Player 1 drops map 1
  • Player 2 drops map 2
  • Player 2 drops map 3
  • Player 1 drops map 4
  • Player 1 picks the first of the remaining 3 maps.
  • The losing player (meaning whoever is down in the series) picks map 2, and the last remaining map is played as map 3.
• Each match will be three maps.

BO5

• The procedure is "drop-drop-play-play-play-play-play".
  • The player (1) who finished higher in the regular season drops map 1.
  • The player (2) who finished lower in the regular season drops map 2.
  • Player 1 picks map 1.
  • The losing player (meaning whoever is down in the series) picks map 2, continue until the series is over.

Scheduling

• All matches have a deadline (consult the division page for the dates).
• Players should schedule matches on the Discord server and tag the admins when a time and date has been found.
• If a player is not making any efforts to schedule a match it will be taken into consideration when a WO has to be assigned.

Ping

• The primary driver for server selection is to find a server where the players have similar average pings (+/- 2ms) and to minimize that average.
• The pings should be the most even for the two players and measures like cl_delay_packet or proxy rerouting to balance pings should be employed. A player with a higher average ping than their opponent on a given server may request the opponent to do this (or change server to somewhere with lower average ping).
• Servers that are providing significant packetloss that cannot be avoided by proxy rerouting should generally be avoided unless both players agree to play there.
• If players still can't agree on a server, please contact admins about it. Admin decision is final and refusal to play on a server designated by neutral admins will be considered a WalkOver loss.

Server Settings

• Timelimit: 10 minutes
• Overtime: 3 minutes
• Deathmatch mode: 3
• Spawn mode: KTX2
• Powerups: OFF
• Discharge: ON
• Airstep: OFF
• Jawnmode: OFF
• Antilag: 1 or 2
• Fallbunny: ON
• No berzerk, midair, instagib or other unusual modes.
• If a player requests /nospecs, the other player is obliged to comply.

Client Settings

• Allowed clients: ezQuake 3.2.x or 3.6-alphaX, unezQuake (NA/AU)
• Allowed ruleset: smackdown, qcon, modern2020/thunderdome (NA/AU)
• Allowed proxies: qwfwd, Qizmo 2.91

Match Reporting

• The winning player has to report the match in the corresponding channel on Discord.
• A report consists of screenshots and server-side MVDs.