Group A strenx, evil, shrek, Slav1k
Group B agent, ash, k1llmaster, lordsmeagole
Group C Cypher, pavel, zhorez, bzd
Group D Cooller, amai, cnz, alfaomega

* 05:00 CDT - Groups A & B - Round 1

strenx vs Slav1k
evil vs shrek
agent vs lordsmeagole
k1llmaster vs ash (on stream)

* 05:45 CDT - Groups A & B - Round 2

strenx vs shrek
evil vs Slav1k
agent vs k1llmaster (on stream)
ash vs lordsmeagole

* 06:30 CDT - Groups A & B - Round 3

strenx vs evil (on stream)
sherk vs Slav1k
agent vs ash
k1llmaster vs lordsmeagole

* 07:15 CDT - Groups C & D - Round 1

Cypher vs bzd
pavel vs zhorez
Cooller vs alfaomega (on stream)
amai vs cnz

* 08:00 CDT - Groups C & D - Round 2

Cypher vs zhorez
pavel vs bzd
Cooller vs cnz
alfaomega vs amai (on stream)

* 08:45 CDT - Groups C & D - Round 3

Cooller vs amai
Cypher vs pavel (on stream)
cnz vs alfaomega
zhorez vs bzd

* 09:30 CDT - Quarter finals (bo3)

* 10:15 CDT - Semi final #1 (bo5)

* 11:00 CDT - Semi final #2 (bo5)

* 12:00 CDT - Bronze final (bo5)

* 13:00 CDT - Final (bo5)

This cup will be for everyone and anyone to enter. Once a week there will be a tournament with points to play for, the points can get you qualified to the Playoffs hosted at the end of the month where you can compete for the 160€ prize pool. The 2nd Open Duel Cup held during the week can also get you qualified for the monthly invitational, there will be a cash prize for the 1st place contender.

- 25€ up to 100€

This arena, created by Dan "Scancode" Gold originally for Quake III Arena, is a classic CTF arena suitable for 4 on 4 play. Bases have entrances on two levels. Once inside, attackers have no less than six paths to take. Taking the low middle route can result in a Regeneration and a Mega Health pickup, but this puts you in a tactically disadvantageous spot against the flag defense, and being unable to take the same path out without damage means you will have to rethink your escape plans. Spider Crossings makes a great addition to the QUAKE LIVE CTF list of arenas, and as mentioned will be free for all for the first week.

Electric Head is a small arena created by Adam Bellefeuil, centered around a high area and a low area. Controlling your enemy's movement is the key to victory; knocking them into the middle, or forcing them to move to the low side of the arena. Accomplishing either of these will result in a vast positional advantage, giving you the freedom to control the pace of the game. Electric Head is also available for free for the first week of play.

Making its second appearance as our annual Holiday Arena is the perennial favorite, Winter's Edge. A port of Quake II's The Edge, which last week saw it's 14th year passing since release, this year we are allowing the ability to play this arena across all gamemodes that support it. Along with The Edge, also return the most important part, the decorations! With a dimmer tree in the center of the map, we hope there will be less reports of temporary blindness as players run out into the iconic center area of the map.

Making it's third appearance is the terrain-based CTF arena, Silent Night. Otherwise known as Distant Screams, Silent Night is a fast-paced map taking place in a nameless tundra. Bases are peppered with (my personal favorite) jetpack style Flight powerup, along with the self-damage reducing Scout rune. Combine the two, and a bit of skill, and you're able to achieve breakneck speed. There's not much else to say about Silent Night, just hop on and play!

- 1 Hour Lesson from your featured coach

strenx
Cypher
Cooller
agent
ash
amai
evil
pavel

This cup will be for everyone and anyone to enter. Once a week there will be a tournament with points to play for, the points can get you qualified to the Playoffs hosted at the end of the month where you can compete for the 160€ prize pool. The 2nd Open Duel Cup held during the week can also get you qualified for the monthly invitational, there will be a cash prize for the 1st place contender.

- Series Points for final playoffs with 160€

In this stage, players will be able to apply for the position of team captain for their respective nations. They can do this, by using the designated menublock on the right side of the cup page.

Please keep in mind that your application should be well motivated. All players will be able to see who applied for their own nation by using the menublock, mentioned above. This stage will run until Sunday, the 25th of December. No applications will be taken into consideration after this day.

Once all the applicants are known, players will be able to vote for their favourite candidate. There are few details to which we would like you to pay special attention. First of all, once you have voted, you cannot vote again or change your previous vote. Second, an applicant cannot vote for himself and third, when voting, you will be asked to motivate your vote. We would like to ask you to take this seriously.

All votes are kept anonymous. This stage will run from the 25th of December until the 3th of January. In the end, the cup supervisors will determine the captains.

After the votes have been taken into consideration, the cup supervisors will announce all team captains on Thursday, the 5th of January.

If you have any questions concerning this system, please feel free to contact both supervisors in any way you see fit.

11.12.2011 - 25.12.2011: Candidate Captains Apply
25.12.2011 - 03.01.2012: Players Vote
05.01.2012: Captains announcement
12.01.2012 - 19.01.2012: Qualifier week
23.01.2012: Start of the first match week

- Invited teams: Expendables, Unknown, Angels of Chaos (pending), Pros of Pain (pending), Drugs n Porn (pending)
- Starting time: 10:00 CDT
- Cup format: Round robin
- Match format: best-of-3
- Meeting place: #csn.ql on Quakenet