1) razor (out)
2) Hib (out)
3) Milton (out)
4) reppie
5) XalibuR (out)
6) Gamer (out)
7) mrlame (out)
8) Avenger (out)
9) fifi (out)
10) interceptor (out)
11) fix (out)
12) Serox (out)
13) blixem (out)
14) Insane (out)
15) jogihoogi (out)
16) Spoink (out)

Clients allowed:

FuhQuake v0.28
MQWCL v0.96

Game settings:

Timelimit 10 minutes
Overtime 3 minutes
Deathmatchmode 3
Powerups disabled
Discharge enabled
Fairpacks none
Spawns Normal qw spawns
maxfps 77

no berzerk-midair-instagib or other unusual modes.

Maps:
Allowed maps are DM2, DM4, DM6, Aerowalk and Ztndm3.
Both players will choose a map. Both players must tell their maps before the match starts.
The first map to play is the one of the higher seeded player.
Winning the match requires winning two maps.

In 1-1 situation:
If one map has been played twice, it will be the decider aswell. If there has been two different maps played, the third map will be determined by this formula: each player tells which one of the remaining 3 maps he doesn't want to play. The map which is left over will be the decider. First map winner picks first.

Finals is best of 5 (3 maps to win). A map cannot be played twice. Map selection is as above. If a 4th. map is necessary, it is chosen by the player who is behind 1-2 in maps. The 5th. map (if necessary) is then the map which haven't got selected yet.

Servers:
Since there are players from several different nations in ESo, be prepared to play with higher ping than you're used to.
The match must be played on a server where the average ping difference between players is smallest.
To assist you in finding servers you may refer to the [url]http://duelmania.quakeworld.nu/?sid=1&mod=servers&act=view&opt=[url]updated serverlist[/url] at duelmania.
If you cant agree with your opponent about the server, please contact admins about it. Admin decision is final.

Admins:
It is required to have an admin present during your game. The games are scheduled and there will be an admin available for all games.
If you have any questions ot problems prior your game, you can find us at channel #eso.qw on QuakeNet, everyone who has “@” in front of their nicks should be an admin.

Other important stuff:Tournament schedule and results--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[hide=Round 1:]

This round is over - see detailed results at www.CyberLeagues.org

razor (1) vs Spoink (16) [Razor won 2-1]
[hide=Match preview by xhrl]I think spoink is going to have big trouble against razor on both aerowalk and dm4. Another thing is that dm6, which is thought to be spoink's best map, is also a decent map for razor. I predict that razor will move on to the second round.

This is a match up of the dm4 hater and the dm4 specialist. It is really a battle of one map in my opinion: however dm4 is not the map in question. Dm4 will go to avenger, as long as he doesn't fall asleep while playing it. I suggest that fifi just sleep through dm4 and then wake up in time to play dm2 against avenger; I don't think avenger will beat fifi on dm2 unless fifi goes back to snoozing. The most interesting map is aerowalk; both of these guys can play it quite well and they both play it in a similar speedy fashion. Fifi is one of the few guys who will regularly use a circle jump to make the lg to ra jump; in a tight game I find that move to be very useful and difficult enough to be impressive. I predict fifi will have to win dm2 and aerowalk to win; but I think fifi would be wise to study ave's game against razor on aerowalk during duelmania3, for the avenger played well against the brutual razor_total_ownage shaft. Fifi will have to be on his guard against the avenger's ability to avoid prediction rocket shots by almost out running the flying projectiles. I think if this game gets decided on ztndm3, then avenger will have an advantage over fifi because fifi doesn't excel on tight dm4-like maps.

It is the dark horse versus the wily, skilled veteran who may or may not have been on a server in the last week. Mrlame is deadly when he has been practising with his buddy, the well-known nemesis of pietro, griffin. When mrlame has such a skilled friend to warm up against, who'd not think that he'd take out the_interceptor in two games straight? Well the dark horse comes in unseen, bringing woe to those that doubt he is what he is. I predict the interceptor to surprise mrlame and to defeat him. I saw the interceptor in a recent series of games and he does look like a contender. Again, the fact that he is a dark horse is probably much to his advantage: he will make a few surprise attacks before this tourney is over.

Well reppie is my prediction to win this tourney, so he has to win in this first round! I think his clanmate Blixem will give him a run for his money, but reppie is so bloody good on dm4 and aerowalk that I don't think blixem will win 2 maps against the flying_dutchman. That said, blixem is always underestimated and he seems to thrive on being the under_dog; perhaps it will be to his benefit against the deadly reppie?

If you want to see fireworks, then watch this match. Insane has a good dm4 game; miLTon went through a recent qw duel tournament without losing a game on dm4. Milton has ice running through his veins; he appears to me to be a man of ice_blood, whose nerves do rack up against him before or during games. Insane has been playing qw for quite a while; his dm2 game is one of the most entertaining qw spectacles a manly man can enjoy; well, next to Estella Warren, perhaps. I predict Milton will take dm4 and insane will take dm2. If they play aerowalk as a decider, this match up will get too close to call. I just hope that insane has been practising, for I know MiLTon is going to on top of his game; he'll be wanting to show that his duelmania3 championship can be duplicated.

I think Ser surprised me the most: a big set of congratulations and digital applause go out to serox from me! Taking out xalibur was something I think may have even surprised ser a bit; but if you look at the match up of skills and the games, you can see just how clever a player ser is in terms of his tactics. Ser took full advantage of his skills and really made xalibur to play in a way he didn’t want to. The ping issues aside, serox played a brilliant game. Against reppie, the man_who_can_fly, serox is going to have to duplicate his game; I still think reppie will take ser out in this second round: he better win, as I have my money on him taking the tourney! Seriously, though, ser will push reppie, and I do think he can take a map off reppie for sure. I know some people are predicting serox to upset the flying_dutchman; but listen to none of that: reppie is solid on all five of the maps and two in particular: dm4 and aerowalk. But I don’t think the maps matter much in this match up to reppie; he will just play well on the map that happens to load: reppie’s worst enemy is his own nerves. Socrates, the great Greek thinker, has been attributed the saying: ‘Know thy self.’ If reppie can know himself and learn of a way to stay calm, then I think serox will find himself up against a qw zen master _dueller who is going all the way. But if reppie blows a fuse, ser could do the unthinkable and make me lose some of my hard-earned cash!

I thought jogihoogi would upset hib but I was very wrong in assuming this; I still do think in another time and in another tourney jogi will get his revenge on the versatile Finn! Hib is favoured to win this eso2 by others who follow qw duelling quite closely, so putting money on hib to beat the_interceptor in the second round makes some sense. But I would take the risk and put my money on the lower ranked dark_horse. It is just that inter is playing well even when he isn’t really on his game; and sad to say, even though he played fairly well against mrlame, I don’t think mrlame put up enough of a fight to really test the dark_horse in this race. Had mrlame played well and if inter had been as sharp with his aim as I have seen it recently, then you might agree with me that my dark_horse still has yet another pace he run at. I had expected mrlame to take dm4 from inter or at least play him closer on that map. We will see how inter’s nerves get to him, for hib will in all liklihood take a map from him.

These guys are friends who fight together in the same qw tdm clan, firingsquad. I have long been a fan of fs; and so it follows that this match up has a particular interest for me. Razor has been ranked higher by his peers, mostly for his skill on aerowalk and his speedy surprise attacks which tend to wear away armour and cause woe. But reppie can call dm4 his home away from home; so I predict this match to go to a third map. However I am going to make a really bold guess that reppie will actually turn razor inside out on aerowalk by using the teles defensively to preserve armour and to position himself to snag the odd RA from razor. After taking razor on his own home map, I think he will take razor to school on dm4, teaching him the woes that can occur on the manly man’s map. That means I suggesting a sweep. Of course if reppie can’t bring his broom tomorrow, then things get more complicated. If they both win their respective home maps, as most will agree is least risky proposition, then I say that reppie will still make razor suffer untold woes on dm6 or ztndm3. Now how can I make such a strong and bold comment as this about reppie on an unbalanced map like ztndm3? Well it has to do with blind faith: reppie has to win or I might lose my hard-earned dollars; thus I have placed my hope on reppie. The sad thing for reppie fans is that he doesn’t feel he will win unless I split my profits with him…..I might just have to learn to share my profits :P I wish both of these very fine players a competitive and fun match tomorrow!

[hide=Round overview by xhrl]This finals preview is being prepared prior to the set up being official. We only had a few minutes to do it, so please be aware that it was done in an over hasty fashion, making one huge assumption: reppie would beat razor. If that doesn’t happen, then razor can just sit back and laugh at my preview below.