Tournament system

• Season: 7 weeks group stage (no catch up week)
• Playoffs: 8 teams from each Division.
• Play-offs will be single elimination
• Third place deciders will be played


• To separate teams with equally many points, MW, ML & +/- are used.

Team Restrictions

• Player limit of 10 players per team
• Addition/Swaplimit: 3/season
• A player can only play in 1 team at the same time
• No team may add/swap more then three players
• Teams can not add new players once regular season is over
• Players should use the nick they are registered with on the EQL website
• All players have to be approved by an admin

Maps and match procedure

Map pool

• Claustrophobolis (dm2)
• The Abandoned Base (dm3)
• Castle of the Damned (e1m2)
• Silverdome (cmt1b)
• Andromeda Nine (cmt4)

Maps to win

• Base groups: 2 (Best of three)
• Playoffs: 3 (Bo5)

Match procedure

• First map is decided by coin toss (/cmd rnd Team1 Team2)
• The winner of the coin toss decides who picks first
• If a decider map is needed the team that picked last, toss first
• Match duration should be no longer than 2 hours

Match Reporting

• In order for a match to be valid you'll need to have screenshots from each played map
• If possible please provide log files from the match

Scores and ranking

Points in Group Stage

• Each map win gives 1 point
• Each played match gives 1 point (activity point)

Walkover

• Walkovers are 3 pts (2 map points + 1 for trying to play the game).
• The team giving out a WO might be further punished with points deduction if they did not try (or refused) to play their opponent.

Clients and modifications

Allowed clients

• ezQuake 1.9.3 stable (build 2572)
• ezQuake 2.0 Stable (and 2.0.1 Stable)
• ezQuake 2.1 Alpha build 3143 only.
• Fodquake 0.2
• FTE 3343
• Exceptions in using following clients due to problems:

Allowed modifications

• Required ruleset: smackdown (ezQuake), nqr (FTE), eql (Fodquake). How? ruleset smackdown (in console) / disconnect / reconnect , allow_scripts 0 works without reconnecting.
• For routing, Qizmo 2.91 is allowed, prefered method is however the new QWfwd proxy

Scripting and cheats

Allowed

• cl_fakeshaft (only mentioned here as it used to be forbidden)

Banned

• movementscripts (cl_idrive must be turned off)
• kfjump
• custom rocketjump scripts
• Any other kind of movement scripts
• Teamoverlay
• Automated teamsays
• Different enemy skins
• Skin changing depending on health/armour/weapon
• Custom models not allowed by f_modified
• Hacked clients (recompiled quake-executables)
• Coaching, (timing quad and other items, relaying enemy positions and giving teamplay suggestions)

Warnings and disqualification

• 2 warnings will result in disqualification

Other offences

• Having one or several players intentionally drop from server during a game without replacing them
• Playing in more than one team, or playing under someone else's name in another team (mercing)
• Fakenicking to get into a division where you don't belong

Servers and settings

Server Settings

• Timelimit: 20 minutes
• Overtime: 5 minutes if match is a draw
• Deathmatch mode: 1
• Teamplay mode: 2
• Spawn mode: Either KTX/KTX2 Respawns or KTPro Spawn is to be selected
• Powerups: ON
• Discharge: ON
• FPS: A max of 77 fps is allowed.
• KFjump: Toggled OFF (command = tkfjump)
• Airstep: OFF
• Jawnmode: OFF
• Fallbunny: ON (if server allows)

Server and minping

• Choice of server should be suitable for both teams
• If the teams can't agree on a server, clientside minping can be used (/cl_delay_packet xx)
• The value for the minping must not be higher than the lowest pinging player in the highest pinging team, unless both teams agree otherwise. The maximum minping that can be required is 51.
• In cases of American clans meeting Europeans the games should be played on servers where Americans ping the best in Europe. Which are usually UK and NL servers.
• Ping is still considered the decider of the server. Antilag differs on servers and can't be required. Ping is still the last decider but we recommend playing on servers with antilag ON.

If the team with lower ping wants, they can reroute via proxy to raise their ping.

Spectators

• A team can require that all players use qtv to prevent ghosting (nospecs)

Server problems

• The current map should be played to the end, no mather the servers condition
• Admins will decide if a map should be replayed on another server

The EQL rules is based on NQR, Challenge-Smackdown and previous EQL rules combined. Admins can change/fix rules if problems occur.