I think we more or less all agree that this wasn't the perfect NationsCup season. There were two no-shows during the playoff stage from Team Portugal. However, there were two intense matches between Team Belgium / Team France and The Netherlands / Team France.

Winners

Thanks to all the ones who helped us during this cup, especially the awesome GTV coverage from #urt-tv. You made a wonderful job, providing entertainment for everyone.

Your supervisors,
skaz and bambak

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FRA defeats BEL in 3 maps. Screenshots & potm inside!

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POR won the match against POL after FOUR maps ! Screenshots & more inside.

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Playoff Tree

Matches

Maps and Gametype

Nation	Map	Gametype
Portugal	Kingdom_rc6	TS
Poland	Tohunga_b8	CTF
Australia	Turnpike	TS
Netherlands	Turnpike	TS
Brazil	Casa	TS
Belgium	Turnpike	CTF
France	Turnpike	CTF
Germany	Casa	TS

As the title says, the signups are closing this Sunday at 23.59. If you still want to signup your team for a cup, click read more !

Matches

Maps and Gametype

Nation	Map	Gametype
Sweden	Turnpike	CTF
Poland	Casa	TS
Australia	Turnpike	TS
Spain	Abbey	CTF
Italy	Casa	TS
Belgium	Turnpike	CTF
Argentina	Tohunga_b8	CTF
Germany	Casa	TS

Belgium won against Canada the bomb map to broke the tie. In the same way, Germany defeated Spain.

You can now start challenging your matches. Please challenge your match before Sunday 13th march, otherwise we will set a date. You can also contact us on irc and tell us what time you agreed.

Playoff Tree

Maps

As we will be using a single elimination scheme for the playoffs stage, matches cannot end anymore in a draw. If this happens, a third map has to be played, the gametype will be picked by the supervisors while the map will be chosen by the teams using the well-known elimination system.

Please do not forget to send us what map and what gametype you are picking for your playoff match when you make your challenges!

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We didn't really talk about what happened with some teams which dropped out or problems that occured like conflicts and cheat cases during this NationsCup. It's time to clarify the situation about a couple of things before the playoffs start.

UK and Turkey left us

As you certainly know, United Kingdom and Turkey left the competition by their own request :

• UK had internal problems with their players.
• For the Turkey case, their captain Raven has been banned on UZLeague for cheating and that's why they decided to leave us.

However, due to C&A (Cheat and abuse) policy of Clanbase, we can't ban Raven on Clanbase with the UZLeague proofs.

About some national players

Now that the Raven case is closed, there are two other ones we need to talk about :

• s3cT : this player from the Switzerland Team has been caught cheating in another competition. We requested a bannishement on Clanbase and he's now banned. However, there's no proof that s3ct cheated during the NationsCup. So switzerland is always in the competition (even if they didn't win any match), they will not be removed.


• eWo*Destructive : I don't think it's necessary to explain the well known story of the UAC3 screenshot with a Mombot folder on the desktop. To be clear : a folder named "Mombot" isn't a sufficient trace of cheat (we couldn't see what was into this folder) to ban him 3 months according to the C&A policy.

Holland vs Italy case

The Netherlands won against team Italy in two maps a few days ago.

UAC3 is mandatory and everyone has to use it (if one of the team wants to play with it, otherwise everyone has to upload his demo on Clanbase website). There was one NL player without any screenshot. This player wasn't in the players list with their screenshots on UAC3 program. That's why a forfeit has been stored and the match result has been changed.

Then, we discovered it was a bug (or something like that) because this player was connected to UAC3. Indeed, though the anti-cheat was launched, it didn't take any screenshot during the match (but the connection logs prove that this player was really connected to UAC3 when he was playing).

The match result has been re-edited since we discovered that was a mistake caused by a bug plus a human mistake. I should have check the connection logs before change the match result and I should'nt have edit it without warn The Netherlands before and talk with them.

I'm really sorry for this mistake even if the problem is solved now. I should be hung, cut, then burnt and finally thrown into ocean.

About the playoffs

As you know, playoffs are now about to start. We're just waiting one match between Canada and Belgium to know who will be qualified. They are tied and will play a bomb map this sunday at 21:00 CET to break the tie between them.

Even if the final play-off tree isn't generated yet, you can see it in the rules. There is also a weblink to know the current ranking below :

• Current ranking
• Play-off tree

I hope these clarifications can help you to understand what happened during the NationsCup.

Your Supervisors
skaz and bambak