Survival Guide – Survival of the Fittest tournament

Please read carefully through this Survival Guide for essential information on the tournament:


Complete Registration

To participate in the tournament your team must have at least 4 players on the roster by Thursday, August 6th. When you have completed this, you will see your team status changed to ‘ready’ on the competitors page.

Only the first 256 teams will be assigned a slot to participate in the tournament.

Rosters

You are permitted to make additions to your team rosters until Sunday, August 16 at midnight Pacific Time, and then on every subsequent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday until August 30 at midnight pacific time.

Please have each member of your team enter their Steam ID in their profile. Your opposing teams may request that this information is accurate prior to starting a match.

All members of your team must be 13 years of age of older, and residents of either the United States or Canada (excluding Quebec).

Scheduling Matches

All fully registered teams will be assigned to a group on Friday, August 7th. At that time matches will be entered into the system such that each team will be scheduled to play a match against each other team in their group.

Each week features a new campaign map. Check the schedule page for details.

Through the website control panel, it is your responsibility to use the match scheduling and contact features to negotiate specific match times with your opponents. You must use the site for this purpose. If your opponents are non-responsive, is it possible that they are no longer competing and you will need to report a forfeit (default) win.

You will be expected to complete your match against your first assigned opponent by Thursday, August 13th. Then from that point on you will be expected to complete two matches per week against your assigned opponents – the deadlines for these matches are each Monday and Thursday.

You can play on any night and time, as long as it is by the deadline day specified for that match. Deadlines ensure that teams remain active and on track throughout the competition.

Servers

Your team should have a dedicated server for match play. Servers must be configured with the latest competition server plug-in which is available on the files page of the event micro-site (http://www.alienwarearena.com/event/l4d-sotf/files/). The server plug-in is required.

If neither your team nor your opponent’s team has a dedicated server, you can contact us at Support to see if we happen to have any servers available. We only have a limited number however, so you take a risk if you choose to rely on these.

Match Client

Download the Match Network Client: http://www.alienwarearena.com/account/client/

When it comes time to play your match (at the time you negotiated with your opponents), all players competing in that match must login to the Match Network Client. You use your site username and password to login to the client software.

The Match Network Client establishes contact between teams through a chat lobby and ensures that everyone is competing fairly.

Please make sure you load up and ready in the Match Network Client prior to loading Left 4 Dead.

If you encounter any technical difficulties with the Match Network Client, contact us immediately through Support for assistance.

Reporting Scores

At the conclusion of each of your matches, the team with the best in-game score over the course of the campaign is the winning team. At this point, please login again to the control panel on this site to report the score in the system.

You must report the score so that we know the match is completed and your team is still active in the competition.

Questions? Help?

Tournament support is available Monday through Thursday night –

1) Web Support: http://support.cevo.com/

For non-urgent support please contact Web Support and allow up to 24 hours for a response.

2) Ventrilo Voice Support: address: 70.86.151.52 port: 4000

For urgent support during match hours please use Ventrilo Support for immediate assistance.