What's up guys? On sunday rocket-, Zmb and rkq had an intense battle in the final round of the very first Last Man Standing Cup of Urban-Zone. All three of them had many viewers rooting for them, but rocket this beast still managed to get the first place and winning 20€ with that. Congratulations for that!
Also a big thanks to everyone else for participating in the event and to all the viewers supporting the stream with many subscriptions and follows!!

1st Place - r0cket
2nd Place - Zmb
3rd Place - rkq




Now the time has come to bring back the Knockouts. After the LMS-Cup some people asked me to organize another knockout and I just thought "Yea why not?" since people seem to enjoy it way more than LMS.

SAME PROCEDURE AS ALWAYS:

• The first 15 players to comment a "+1" at this post are going to participate
(Feel free to comment your discord name too, so I don't have that much work finding you guys on discord when the cup is about to start)
• 5 maps are going to be played with 10 minutes time limit for each of them
• The last 3 players will be knocked out. SCOREBOARD DECIDES!

Maps will be announced on saturday
The event will be held on Sunday 9th of December - 16:00 CET

PLEASE SHOW UP ON URBAN TERROR DISCORD AT LEAST 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT STARTS. SO U CAN GET THE SERVER INFORMATIONS



But that's not all! I'd also like to announce that there is going to be a 2vs2 Cup after the NC is finished!! It'll also have a little prize for the winner since we're getting closer to christmas!

The Signups are going to start pretty soon so all of you got some time to chose your favourite team mate!

Rules and prize will be posted very soon.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me on discord.
See you soon! - crimzon`

While the 21. Nations cup is going on and many players decided to crawl out of their caves, the time has come to arrange the first Urban-Zone Last Man Standing Tournament. Let's see who's going to be our first champion.

HOW TO SIGNUP:

The first 15 players to comment a "+1" at this post are going to participate.
Don't hold back commenting if there are already 15 players. Some players might not show up, then we're going to need a replacement.


The rules are easy

• 5 Maps are going to be played
• Each map has 10 rounds
• The last 3 players will be knocked out


The maps will be announced on Saturday.
The tournament will be held on Sunday 2nd of December - 16:00 CET

PLEASE SHOW UP ON DISCORD AT LEAST 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT STARTS. SO U CAN GET THE SERVER INFORMATIONS

Of course the whole tournament will be streamed on Urban-Zone
Let's all have a moment to thank SevenofNine for shoutcasting the baby. Follows, subs and donations will be appreciated with many hearts, but of course you don't have to! Being there and having a nice time is also great!

Interview of Zmb from Team France

Yoan "Zmbiie" S. is the current captain of the French team paired with Biddle. France have been untouchable since 2012 without loosing a single match and are once again part of the favorites to win this year's Nations Cup! We find 16 teams qualified for this edition, seperated into four groups, where the top 2 of each group will advance to the playoffs.

What's your age and how long have you been playing this game?

Yo I'm 23 and I've been playing for almost 8 year now, seriously started early 2011

How its feel to have a total domination of the Nations Cup last years?

Welp, it's true that we've been winning every year for a while now but I still don't really consider it as a domination, I mean, we never had a top 2 line-up on paper, top 3 was probably the best and also we never ever managed to get the best out of our players, I just guess other lineups were doing their training job worse than us AND didn't have as much as self control as us which allowed us not to tilt after loosing something we shouldn't have. I'm still super proud of what we've done and I look forward to seeing what we can do this year.

Where do you see yourself this year?

About this year, as always, aiming for the gold. As always, it's gonna be tough which makes it exciting.

Who are the 5 starters players for team France this year?

Tough to talk about 5 titulars, as players will play depending on the maps and what they showed to us -captains-. Obviously you're gonna see me in every lineup, I won't let my big ego hide ;). Brey, Keon and Slide should be seen in pretty much every TS map also.
In CTF you should see more of Biddle and also Xionix !

Who is the ingame Captain, AKA the real Captain?

Welp, since Simca is gonna be less active than planned, I'll be leading the TS. For CTF it's gonna be a two-man's job with Biddle.

As most of you have noticed, this week has been a busy one for the Urban Terror eSports scene, especially regarding the Nations Cup combined with the Fall Cup finals that got slightly delayed.

We'd like to give an additional shoutout to Mexico as this is only the second time they participate in an Urban Terror Nations Cup. For the full nations ist, please find them on the cup's page.

Furthermore, groups have been drawn and if you missed the live stream, here it is:

You may notice that we are already in the first week of this Nations Cup, please remember that this Competition differs from the regular Urban Zone events, therefore WildCards are making a comeback as well as forced matches! (*wink*)
Like in every Nations Cup, teams are free to play their prefered maps and modes, as long as the modes are called "CTF, TS or BOMB" and the maps are listed in the official mappool. You can find the mappool in the rule section of the Cup.
Teams have usually time until Sunday before their matchweek to pick their maps/gametypes and schedule their matches accordingly.
As we are already in the first matchweek, teams had till last night to pick their map and mode, for those who didn't mail their map & mode on time it has been set to the default week's mode and map: Bomb Mode on Orbital_sl and Team Survivor on Austria.

If you miss this deadline. Teams have 24 hours AFTER the deadline to change (only) a forced map. Changes past that time will only be able with the opp's consentment.
To choose your gametype, please post it on match comments of your upcoming match and inform me by mail (nationscup at urban-zone.org) or on Discord.

The first week schedule looks as follows:

Group	Date	Match	Maps	game type
A	Sunday 11th November 23:00 CET	UK vs Belgium	Uptown / Austria	Team Survivor / Team Survivor
A	Sunday 11th November 23:00 CET	Brazil vs Mexico	Sanctuary / Algiers	Team Survivor / Capture The Flag
B	Sunday 11th November 21:00 CET	Australia vs Poland	Turnpike / Tohunga	Team Survivor / Capture the Flag
B	Sunday 11th January 22:00 CET	France vs Colombia	Algiers / Orbital	Capture The Flag / Team Survivor
C	Sunday 11th November 22:00 CET	Hungary vs Argentina	Orbital / Austria	Bomb / Team Survivor
C	Sunday 11th November 21:00 CET	Canada vs Germany	Orbital / Kingdom	Bomb / Team Survivor
D	Sunday 11th November 21:00 CET	Nordic vs USA	Orbital / Abbey	Team Survivor / Capture The Flag
D	Sunday 11th November 21:00 CET	Chile vs Portugal	Casa / Austria	Team Survivor / Team Survivor

A few months have passed already since this summer's World Cup concluded, so it's time to show off your flags again and represent your country in this year's Urban Terror NationsCup.



SCHEDULE

• Captains applications: until October 20th,
• Captains voting process: until October 29th,
• Announcement of Captains: 31st of October
• Match announcement: Sunday, November 4th,

The tournament will start on the 1st of November and will end sometime in December. Make sure to submit your application on time!


CAPTAIN APPLICATION AND VOTING PROCESS

If you would like to apply for the captain role of your country, send your application at: nationscup@urban-zone.org before the deadline.

Join the community on the Urban Terror discord!

Also, if you would like to help and got some skills on video editing, writing, shoutcasting or anything else, let us know!