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Draft Tournaments - August 23rd & 30th

Last month, in the first ever NSL draft tournaments, over 100 players were divided into 13 never before seen teams. Players ranging from Premier division skilled to pubbers who had NEVER played a 6 v 6 match competed side by side to see which rag tag upstart team would come out on top. In the North American / Australian Draft, Team Carnage prevailed, while Team Ownzor won the EU Draft.

August brings around another chance to form new teams and play this mixed format again. It's encouraged that you invite friends and new players who might be slightly interested in playing 6 v 6 competitive matches. It's a small time investment and not too much pressure to perform well.

BOTH draft tournaments will be held on the same weekends. Play begins on Saturday, August 23rd and 30th at 20 CEST for the EU Draft and 5PM PDT / 8PM EDT (Sundays, 10AM AEST) for the NA/AUS Draft.

The EU Draft will be held on Friday, August 22nd at 19 CEST.

The NA/AUS Draft will be held on Friday, August 22nd at 7PM PDT / 10PM EDT.

Basically, the same start and draft times as last month. Sign ups for both below:

EU Draft Sign Up & EU Draft Responses

NA Draft Sign Up & NA Draft Responses

If you're really a fan of this fun filled format, you may be able to play in both tournaments on different teams and be able to play an inordinate amount of matches those two weekends.

Nations Cup - September 6th & 13th

The highly anticipated annual Nations Cup will be held on Saturday, September 6th & 13th. Teams from every nation will battle it out to see which country will be named, "Best in NS2". The number of players from a normal team will not be limited on a national team. More than 1 national team may form. If a country has more than 1 team signed up, those teams will have to play a best of 5 match to determine which team represents that country in the group stage of the cup. These pre-qualifier matches must be completed before the start of the September 6th round robin stage. Round Robin / Playoff format follows.

Instructions on how to create a team and sign up are below.

Season 5 - Week 1 Starts September 27th

Although Season 4 ended less than two months ago, it seems like ages since we've had official matches or any activity. Have no fear, Season 5 starts soon! Sign up early and have your team seeded into divisions. A seeding/divisional list will be posted in a few weeks when we have more teams signed up. Let's make next season the best season.

Season 5 will be very interesting. With the work the Community Development Team has put towards performance and other server options and the continued effort of the Competitive Mod, it's almost a guarantee that we'll have an amazing experience.

Instructions on how to create a team and sign up are below.

 

If you don't have a team, it's easy to create one with the following steps. If you want to register a pre-existing team, skip to step 4.

  1. To create a team, register an account and go to Agenda -> Create a new team
  2. Get your players to register and tell them to Join your team in their Agenda.
  3. To accept your players on the team, go to Agenda -> Click your team name -> Edit (scroll down) -> Members -> Change their status from Joining to Member, Leader, or Deputee.
  4. To join the tournament, go to Agenda -> Click your team name -> Edit (scroll down) -> Contests -> Join Nations Cup 2014 Sign Ups or NSL Season 5 Sign Ups.
  5. Check the Contest page for your team name to see if you've done it correctly.

 

This wraps up everything planned until the holiday season this year. More annoucements and concrete news will be posted as we get closer to the dates for Nations Cup and the start of Season 5. If you have questions about anything, PM me through the NSL website, message me on Steam, or leave a comment below.

Let's start playing!

Zefram on 03 August 14 08:15

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Blank Robby

Awesome!

7 August 2014, 07:57

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

Woohoo, time to get back to reffing.

7 August 2014, 10:59

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Blank maxamus | IG

No Yaluzan, you mean time to get back to "lerking" :P

7 August 2014, 11:42

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

Only if NS2 works properly again, i can't pay for a new PC, yet.

7 August 2014, 12:22

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Blank Pelargir | We're grumpy

Yaluzan lerking? lol

7 August 2014, 12:22

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

Says the worst fade in the universe ^^

7 August 2014, 12:29

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Blank MYMOMENT | Angry Chickens

Worst fade in the universe? That's me. Hi!

7 August 2014, 12:54

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Blank Pelargir | We're grumpy

Haha, my fade is awesome, sorry but I have to agree with MYMOMENT. :D

7 August 2014, 13:48

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Blank maxamus | IG

Pelargir's only weakness as fade...... Crevice :P

7 August 2014, 15:05

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Blank Malware

It's okay my lerk can carry Pelargir's sweet fade ass over Crevice to slaughter the rines, waiting eagerly with shotguns in the other side.

7 August 2014, 15:17

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Blank RedDog

Wooooot!

7 August 2014, 18:08

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Blank Zefram

It's a RedDog!

7 August 2014, 19:42

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

I'll be sure to ref whenever Reddog casts, well aslong as its not at 1 AM.

7 August 2014, 20:43

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Blank Pelargir | We're grumpy

@Maxamus, I can counter this now, do not go through Crevice. huhuh.
First message from RedDog for a while, what a good new!

8 August 2014, 00:06

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Blank skyice | Div2orDisband

Surprised you didn't start this next draft tourney a bit later zefram? Or maybe at least ask if people would prefer a start time change? Considering more than a few asked for it....

8 August 2014, 08:40

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Blank ryssk | Ram Ranch

September would be nice, cause of many people have their vacations in August!

8 August 2014, 10:18

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Blank east

is kicking refs from a server still legit?

8 August 2014, 12:25

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

Only if its Super Sars.

8 August 2014, 12:28

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Blank dePARA | Heidis Bergziegen

"The number of players from a normal team will not be limited on a national team."
Finals= America vs France, aehm Titus vs Snails

8 August 2014, 14:10

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Blank Pelargir | We're grumpy

@dePARA, you know that Snails won't participate as a team since they disbanded or at least, stopped playing together.

8 August 2014, 16:07

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Blank Aioros

you should have a limit of arround 3 players from each team ... otherwise its (national) prem teams winning without a fight. And some country's with a smaller player base got no chance to play/win at all.

8 August 2014, 18:42

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Blank Zefram

I'm not sure if any Titus players will be participating in the Nations Cup either, but wouldn't you want the very best players to represent a country? It's like the Olympics. The very best from the nation should show up. Also, it helps countries with smaller player bases, because there doesn't have to be an exception to a team player limit rule.

9 August 2014, 00:04

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Blank ZEBROE

Yaluzan come back! Your the only mod that gives me 1 min timeouts on streams. All others are 5 mins =[

10 August 2014, 09:34

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

1 minute? i think you mean 1 second. then it turns into 5 minutes and then 10+ minutes.

10 August 2014, 09:43

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Blank simple

Edit: See below.

10 August 2014, 13:25

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Blank swalk | Xeon

+1 Aioros - limit amount of players from same teams to 3.

10 August 2014, 18:09

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Blank Jackson | Bad Gather Group

Limiting players from the same team is BS. Hey, this is the NATION cup, and as Zefram said it's like Olympics or FIFA world cup (Germany's national team is half Bayern Munchen or something, and nobody calls it BS). Finland, France and USA got a large player base with a solid comp player base, that's normal for these countries to have "national" PremDiv teams. And shall we remember that Snails were formed after the experience of the nation cup. Moreover, limiting players from the same team goes against having the best of the best players of a country in the national team, which is kinda the whole purpose of the nation cup, right?

11 August 2014, 21:00

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Blank Aioros

so u prefer a nationscup of 3 to 4 teams where the winner is already clear xD?!

12 August 2014, 10:53

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Blank Tane | HasBeens & NeverWas

Aioros you are over exaggerating power of Finnish national team! Even if we have won last 5 nation cups on row those baguette eaters have always been good losers in finals! For more serious note, you have to choose is it either lowlevel tournament or competition. For example I would not play in tournament where I have to play with some random players. Some people get their kicks from those draft tournaments others can't stand them.

12 August 2014, 11:14

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Blank Syknik | Skill Issue

I have a feeling Canada will not be participating. :)

13 August 2014, 14:54

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Blank Tachi

it would be nice to have some rules for mercs in draft tourney. Same as for ordinary match. It's kinda strange to see how some mediocre players a getting replaced by the best prem. div players.

13 August 2014, 15:59

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Blank Cr4zy | SpookerZ

I agree Tachi, the EU draft was all about who could find the most prem mercs.
*cough*valks team*cough* :D

13 August 2014, 17:30

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Blank Jackson | Bad Gather Group

I see your point Aioros, but then if we want a "balanced" tournament, let's not call it a regular nation cup, where only the best players per country are supposed to be participating. It could be interesting to have a "nation cup" with skill limitation (2 PremDiv, 2 Div1, 2 Div2 players), but that wouldn't be the same, would it?

I think the same thing as Tachi and Crazy on the EU Draft.

13 August 2014, 19:48

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Blank Zefram

We can definitely have some sort of skill limitation for mercs in the next round of draft tournaments. I was a little lax with the rules because it was either allow mercs or have a team forfeit the entire day of matches. I did tell captains looking for mercs to look for someone with semi-equivalent skill. With something a little more relaxed, I opted for games to be played.

About Nations Cup - I equate the Nations Cups to the Olympics of NS2. The very best team from a nation should represent that country. While, for regular league play, we always strive to have divisions with teams that can compete with one another on some sort of level field to preserve "fairness" (but mostly so people can actually enjoy playing and not get stomped or steamroll their opponents), the Nations Cup is another animal. Some countries have, historically, put together teams that are better than others. The French and Finnish in particular have done this year after year. I'm fine with that. It may not be "fun" for other countries who can't field teams that can perform/compete as well, but that doesn't make it unfair.

It's like people complaining about the NS2WC and how the same 4-5 teams only had a chance to make it to the live event. Do you really want to see subpar teams competing in these sort of competitions? Or do you want to see the very best matches this game can offer at a given time? While I love watching competitive NS2 at all levels, it's a special treat when titan teams play and bring the game to another level.

Long live the French and Fins.

14 August 2014, 11:20

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Blank joshhhy

LOL Tane.

On a side note, I vote for 6 Zeframs to represent 'Murica.

14 August 2014, 15:58

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Blank Zefram

I'd win some sort of cup, but it wouldn't be for NS2. Maybe the Spreadsheet Cup.

14 August 2014, 17:07

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Blank Yaluzan | Admin Abuse

Yea, you do make the best Spreadsheets. +1

14 August 2014, 17:27

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Blank skyice | Div2orDisband

sorry to blow a hole in your thinking zefrem but
"THE OLYMPIC GAMES ARE RESTRICTED TO AMATEURS
The Olympic Games are held every four years. They assemble
amateurs of all nations in fair and equal competition.
No discrimination is allowed against any country or person on
grounds of race, religion or political affiliations.
Only persons who are amateurs within the definition laid down in
art. 26 of these Rules may compete in the Olympic games"

Tennis is the only part of the Olympics that allow professional players?

Therefor any teams who had to ability to play for money should be banned, sorry snails, titus, and saunamen. Up team bulgaria!

15 August 2014, 08:57

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Blank Zefram

Tennis, hockey, basketball, golf... The amateur status at the Olympics was long ago discarded. Now the IOC allows each sport federation to determine if and what sort of professionals may participate in the Olympics. FIFA very strictly defines the type of football player allowed to be on an Olympic team (and they are strictly amateurs). Professionals are allowed in to participate in some sports on the reasoning that it increases the overall quality of the sport.

15 August 2014, 11:20

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Blank PS_Mouse | -/AUS/-

Are there any plans for a Custom Map Cup before the next season?

19 August 2014, 00:05

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Blank simple

Please take me out of the draft. If I can make it, I will merc.

21 August 2014, 09:44

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Blank Durkmons

Got other stuff coming on, cant play the draft tournament.

21 August 2014, 15:06

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Blank swalk | Xeon

Delete me from the eu draft pls

22 August 2014, 17:01

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Blank east

Delete me from both drafts s'il vous plait

22 August 2014, 17:47

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Dilligaf

I want to play the draft but i have no idea where to join (server).

24 August 2014, 19:17

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Blank duster | WASD

I'm same as simple. I may not be able to make it, but if i'm available at the 30th i'll merc.

26 August 2014, 20:55

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