CAL Season III Begins in 2 Weeks

CAL-HL2DM season 3 will be kicking off the preseason on Monday, July 23rd.

There are four leagues this season:
1v1 Deathmatch
2v2 Team Deathmatch
4v4 Team Deathmatch
5v5 Capture The Flag

Match format for all leagues will be best 2 out of 3 rounds, with the away team choosing the round 1 map, the home team choosing the round 2 map and the weekly default map being used as the round 3 tiebreaker.

Playoff format in all leagues will be top 8, double elimination. First match loss will send the player or team into the lower bracket; a second loss will remove them from the playoffs.

Rosters are open for signups to all leagues as of now; teams previously entered will not need to re-signup, though any player or team that forfeits both of their matches during the preseason will be deactivated before the regular season starts.

Match dates, maps and mapcycles, rules changes and updated cal.cfgs will be posted within the next 48 hours.

http://www.caleague.com

We'll see you punks on the 2v2 and 4v4

i guess they counted the 3v3 season as s1?

ninojman wrote:i guess they counted the 3v3 season as s1?

s1??

s1 - 3v3 / 1v1 back when pro came out
s2 - last season 1v1/2v2/4v4
s3 - this coming season

just checking to see if i missed a season since last season was 4 months ago almost....

Season 1 was in late 2006. The last match I played in was 12/06/06. At that time it was only 2v2 and 4v4.

Season 2 added the 1v1 competition at community request through a poll on the CAL forums (just ended as you said).

Upcoming Season 3 has expanded into CTF 5v5 competition. I am glad they havent dropped any divisions, but for them to survive, we need get more teams involved in the 4v4 and 5v5 especially.

Walking Target wrote:Season 1 was in late 2006. The last match I played in was 12/06/06. At that time it was only 2v2 and 4v4.

Season 2 added the 1v1 competition at community request through a poll on the CAL forums (just ended as you said).

Upcoming Season 3 has expanded into CTF 5v5 competition. I am glad they havent dropped any divisions, but for them to survive, we need get more teams involved in the 4v4 and 5v5 especially.

k so they aren't counting 3v3/1v1 from Jun 26, 2005 - Oct 2, 2005
(er nvm jeez i missed so much goddamnit i need a team)

If anyone needs a player for 4v4 i'm game for whatever, I need a good partner for 2v2 also.

ninojman wrote:
k so they aren't counting 3v3/1v1 from Jun 26, 2005 - Oct 2, 2005
(er nvm jeez i missed so much goddamnit i need a team)

If anyone needs a player for 4v4 i'm game for whatever, I need a good partner for 2v2 also.

I might be game for 2v2 with you if you are interested, but then again it depends if i end up in $W before cal starts. We'll see.

Edit: Actually I'm on a team called 'beta' with gas.mask. You can probably join up with us if you'd like, I'll make sure you play some games.

I'm thinking the CTF season is more of a "test" because it goes a tad far from anyone else is used to on league gameplay (Meaning you can't spam to win this time) But If I can find 4 commited people I may join it :O

I also hope other people would give some changes a chance and join, otherwise the CTF season will phail.....like the ones before it D: D:

looking to get a legit win, no more owning cs players who forefit after one round.
to all who beat me in cal last season:
ninjins
trousersnake
wt
eclipSe
master

thanks, i had a blast!

team play i need a teamate. hard enough to get two people on a server at the same time, can't imagine how much ofa pain it would be to get 10 in a 5 vs 5.

which leads me to my next post about ctf, see my next post thanks.

Is there any way to keep forfeits down in the new 1v1 season? I was thinking maybe deactivate someone after a no reply in match comm one time and make them contact admin to be put back into rotation. That's only if they failed to communicate in match comm or don't make an effort of some sort. I'm sure everbody may have to forfeit after one time or another but I had so many no shows last season it wasn't funny.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Yeah it sucks. That's on of the reasons I asked some of you from GoTg to play, coz CAL desperately needs people that will show up and play.

If they could weed out the inactives earlier it would match up two players who want to play instead of all the players who want to play being matched with all the players who are just signing up for no reason.

I wonder if there is a way to code all the people with no match comm into inactive status and pair them with each other so that all the active players get paired.

If it's stored in a database..there's a way...the question is, will CAL feel it's worth the effort.

i am going to play in all four leagues

Players and teams who forfeit both preseason rounds will be deactivated for the regular season.

Players and teams who forfeit their first round, or 2 total rounds at any time in the regular season, will be deactivated and unable to rejoin the schedules until the match(es) are made up.

The 1v1 league, which was particularly harshly hit with forfeits last season, will close completely to signups after regular season begins. Other leagues will close to signups after week 4 of regular season.

The mapcycles and optional maps lists are now up. Check the CAL site news and sidebar areas of each league for details.

in the ctf maps are you able to switch flag to gravity gun like in the mod? or at least drop it? i assume theres no relics or weapons? maybe i should just download the maps and find out now that they're up.

Me and my clan mate are gonna play in the 2vs2. We dont have enough players for the 4vs4, therefore, no CTF 5vs5. =(
Anyway, hope to see ya all in there. Good luck, have fun .

Actually, in DMCTF maps, you have to hold the flag with the Gravity Gun anyway. So yeah, in some maps, you can actually kill enemies with the flag.

Ko-tao, I know you're the 1v1 admin but maybe you know this anyways...

When do the files for the maps, and configs come out (for all divisions)? Next season starts in about a week and I just want to get all the maps and everything on my server as soon as possible.

Maps here:

http://www.caleague.com/?page=files

Both Maps & Configs are available from the Division sidebar.

I think....

CTF maps arent out there yet, other divisions, use the existing maps and configs until the updated ones are released.

I should have all the completed maps up in a day or two. The ctf maps are being rushed to completion (there was alot that needed fixing and tweaking) so theyll likely make it in just in time for the season start.

The reloaded aim arena likely wont be finished until the last day before preseason, but then its not like there will be anything majorly different from b4 except lights.

Alrighty than, ty

team redlight is going to need 1 or 2 to compete in the ctf division, if your interested in joining hitme up on xfire: st00p

we were sittin tight but we had some people bounce, but the rest of us are still looking to compete if we get a roster filled.