As we get closer to the official start of our very first COD4 tournament, we would like to announce a few updates to our rules and tournament structure.

Tournament Structure:

To clear up any confusion regarding team sign ups, there are an unlimited number of team slots available and all teams will be randomly moved into groups of 7 teams. Registration will be open to any team that is able to fill their roster by Thursday, November 22nd. Remember, you must have 5 players that are @ready (with pbguids entered) to be moved into the "A" group.

The tournament will use the traditional 5v5 Search and Destroy format, two minute rounds with a one minute bomb time, five second plant time, and ten second defuse time. G_multibomb 1 will be on.

With the group play format, the top team from each group will advance to the single elimination bracket to compete for $1000.00 in cash prizes and NuclearFallout servers.

Map Rotation & Start Date:

Round 1 - mp_crash (Thursday, November 29th)
Round 2 - mp_strike (Monday, December 3rd)
Round 3 - mp_pipeline (Thursday, December 6th)
Round 4 - mp_citystreets (Monday, December 10th)
Round 5 - mp_backlot (Thursday, December 13th)
Round 6 - TBA (Monday, December 17th)

We are considering one of two maps, either mp_vacant or mp_overgrown for the week 6 map. Leave your opinions in the comments section of this news post, we do listen.

Class Restrictions & Perks:

After reading our forums, and talking to teams and players in the CoD4 community, we are pleased to have made changes to our class restrictions.

The class restrictions are now as follows:

1 Sniper
1 Shotgun (possibly looking at upping the damage on the regular shotgun.)

After some careful consideration we've came up with an initial idea on how the perks are going to work for the tournament.

The perks allowed will be :

Perk 1:

TBA

Perk 2:

Sleight of hand
Stopping power

Perk 3:

Steady aim
Deep impact
Iron lungs

NOTE: Perk 1 and Bandolier. We are currently looking to see if we can limit the amount of ammo given with Bandolier before we make a final decision on this perk. As of now we are not including extreme conditioning either. If it is found later that we can restrict it to only one person, we may consider allowing it.

Miscellaneous Restrictions:

There are a few additional things that competitors should know about. such as no air strikes, no UAV, no choppers. They are:

- No air strikes, UAV, or choppers.
- No grenade launchers.
- The p90 will be limited. (either in amount of damage it takes to kill, or amount of ammo given.)
- Auto shotguns and Auto snipers are ALLOWED.
- Auto snipers however will not have the strength of the bolt-action.
- We will also be limiting hit blips on grenades,stuns, and flashbangs tossed over walls (But leaving in hit blips on spraying through walls).
- Multibomb will be on.
- We will be upping the damage given on the regular shotgun.

Also note, we will have our modwarfare configs updated and available for download by the end of the week in the CoD4 downloads section of the website.

Feedback:

As always, we are still looking for your feedback. We would love to hear what you think of anything related to competitive CoD4 as we are still trying to come up with the best set of rules for the game. Again, we would like to remind everyone that one of the main purposes of this initial tournament is to tweak rules and regulations for our regular league events which will open up immediately following the conclusion of the tournament. As such, all settings are subject to change as we see fit, and this tournament should be a great way to test out the planned settings. We hope to gain more valuable input and feedback from all of you so that we can make our CoD4 events the very best they can be, so make sure to visit the forums and and reply to these news posts and tell us what you think!

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