Approximately five months ago Urban Zone organised its first 2vs2 tournament which, thanks to the generous donators, had a prize pool of €119,69. With the release of 4.3 we’d like to organize the second tournament.
The tournament will be held on Sunday the 2nd of October it will kick off at 14:00 CEST and will finish when final gets played, probably 20:00 CEST. In other words it’s another frantic day of matches, though stressful at times we had lots of fun the last time. With a prize pool up for grabs it’s both entertaining for viewers and worth the effort of players.

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Welcome to the new CTF & TS Urban Zone Season ! We've got a sunny summer behind us, for the first time since 2008 without our annual Summercup, but we are ready and set to go for seasons 28 and 21.

!REMINDER! First match weeks will be forced on Thursday, September 15th to the either proposed or forced date

CTF
Since some little birds have told us that 4.3 is around the corner, we're gonna tighten this season up in terms of scheduling, hoping not for a mid-season release from FS. Therefore we'd like to introduce a new format for CTF: Double-elimination bracket. We aren't gonna use the division system this time, so we'll start in the best-of-16 round of the playoff tree. Some teams will be lucky and get a first round bye. We'll strictly enforce the matches so that we stay in our timetable, so we won't give you extra time to schedule after the deadline.

12.09. - 18.09.	First round WB
19.09. - 25.09.	Quaterfinal WB
26.09. - 02.10.	Semifinal WB	9th-12th place LB	7th/8th place LB
03.10. - 09.10.	Final WB	5th/6th place LB	4th place LB
10.10. - 16.10.	3rd place LB	Final

As you can see, once you land in the loser's bracket, you'll have to play two matches per week, so please keep that in mind when scheduling your matches.

TS
For TS, we're gonna stick to a division system whereas the first division is divided into two groups of 4. The top 2 will advance and then battle it out in a semifinal and the Grand/Little final. The deadline for the division 1 groupmatches is the 02.10., for the other divisions it'll be the 16.10. The semi final & the finals will be played in the two consecutive weeks.

Please make sure that you have played your matches until the deadlines, else they may end up in a doubleforfeit.

For the TS playoffs UrbanZone presents you a personnal preview of all the coming matches. It was writen and thought by ShouShou, the leader of the somewhat sleeping Aera eSport team.


It comes out pretty obviously to me, but regarding the coments I received I prefer to highlight the following : this preview and all it's points are only based on a player's gameplay. They were expressed by the writer based on the match and information he has gathered himself. It only represents his personal analysis of a given situation, it is definitly not an objective critic and is of course subject to contradictions.

The number on the right of each playe represents their Rating during the 2016 seasons in TS games. It paints how great they played during this period. It only includes the fragging department and does not necessary highlight the contribution they have to their respective team (medkit/supportive players are fucked :P).
- A rating of 1 should represents the exact average division 1 player.
- A rating of 2 would mean a player is twice better than average in "fragging" stats.

To make it short, the rating ranks are more or less just based on K/D ratio.

Now, click on Read more... to see what Shoushou has got to tell us !

It's time for the 27th CTF season, the 20th TS season and the 12th BM season. The group draw was not live on twitch this time due to time limitations and some technical challenges. Nevertheless it was recorded live and is available below.
Like every season, the referees will be available to answer any questions via PM or on IRC #urban-zone. If you would like to assist us in the competition's organization, please contact an admin.

For rule changes click "read more"

The first Urban Zone 2vs2 tournament was held on Saturday the 23rd of april. It was the first event that had a cash prize consisting of 20 euro's. However this prize could be increased by the viewers of the live stream. Donations and subscriptions would be added to the prize pool. Several very generous members of the community did just that! With a whopping €99,69 euro's donated within an hour there was a real incentive for the players to do their utmost to win!

To continue reading click “read more”, *spoiler warning* if you don't want to know the result and watch the match first stop reading now.