Im sure many of you know, Painkiller.euro is running a 16 player invitational tournament on Saturday November 6th – 7th. In which, you will see such talent as fnatic.Vo0, SK|SteLam, uts.Stermy, mouz|Burnie and many more. The full list of competetors can be found here.

I think the tournament is going to be a very special event, and hopefully produce some very exciting games even though it is online. I wish the best of luck to all players, and may the best man win.

You can find the bracket here and a fancy version of the bracket here. Please be sure to stop by #Painkiller.euro @ Qnet for more information.

Last night saw Brian Gladman from DreamCatcher Games & Adrian Chmielarz of People Can fly in a nice Q&A over at GameSurge. The questions were mainly SinglePlayer focused, but when something about MP finally came up.. it got explained in quite a lot of detail.

[PCFAdrian] The code is completely new now. Its not updated, its not upgraded – its a brand new multiplayer code. Its so good, that I wanna run around naked screaming it ownz0rz, but some more rational people keep down to the ground and ask not to get anyones hopes too high 😉

Further more to this IRC interview, there was the first ever “Feel the Pain” episode from TsN, which you can find a fairly detailed summary of here.

The IRC log of the Q&A can be found here.

Painkiller.euro 16 Player Invitational Tournament

Players:

1. Vo0 – confirmed
2. SteLam confirmed
3. Stermy – confirmed
4. Gellehsak – confirmed
5. impulse – confirmed
6. AphexTwin – confirmed
7. Ztrider – confirmed
8. zhrance – confirmed
9. CPLains – confirmed
10. razorb – confirmed
11. Forrest – confirmed
12. Burnie – confirmed
13. Hiten – confirmed
14. elpajuo – confirmed
15. Mad – confirmed
16. Sakh – confirmed

16 confirmed players – seeded
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Info:

The Painkiller.euro 16 player invitational tourney will be held on 6/11/2004. The tournament will feature 16 top european gamers (hopefully), not all exclusively proven to be good at Painkiller, but they will have their chance to prove that. We are providing this tournament to give the players a chance to experience a little taste of what they will see at The CPL, and also for the community.. to see what great spectator potential this game really has. The tourney will be straight knock-out format.

Rules:

* A legitimate copy of Painkiller with a valid cd-key is required to play in this tournament. Along with that, you will require the latest patch. (1.35) Mods such as “minimod” may be used also.

* Admins will call the players in turn to the server to play the matches. Players are to remain in the channel and not join the server unless requested to by an admin.

* At the end of the match, both players will leave the server and return to IRC.

* All matches will be played on pkeuro supplied servers. These will be based in the UK.

* Power-ups will be disabled.

* Forward Rocketjump will be disabled.

* Time-Limit will be 15 & Frag Limit will be 0.

* Brightskins will be on.

* WeaponStay will be off & Weapon Respawn will be 15.

* Best of 3 maps will be played. Each player will pick there own map, and the 3rd map out of the map list not chosen will be the 3rd map played.

Maps:

The maps to be used are:

* DM_Sacred
* DM_Psycho
* DM_Fallen2te (DM_Fallen2 tourney edition) – Can change to default Fallen2 if players want.

There is a new version of DM_Fallen2 available for download. The new version was tweaked by gellehsak, and features such changes as:

2 rls, 1 lg, 1 sg, 1 ga, 1 sa, 1 mega, 6 25 health, 2 small lg packs, 1 large rl pack, 1 small rl pack, 1 freezer ammo pack, 3 cg ammo packs, 3 shiruken ammo packs, 3 shotgun ammo packs, 3 stake gun packs, mega moved to the center platform in the old-ga room, mega from center “pillar” in lava is now a 25h bubble, lg has 30 ammo on pickup, and the ammo packs have 15 each.

Its a very good edit to the map, and will make for much more exciting games. Fallen2 originally is pretty boring, as its mostly all LG with no exact flow. Hopefully The CPL will take a look at this.. and use it in their upcoming $20,000 tournament.

You can download the map here.

*INSTALLATION*

Extract the DM_Fallen2te.pkm to Painkiller/Data.

A final version of the floorplan for the The CPL – Winter 2004 event has been released.

In addition to hosting two gaming tournaments, the event will also host the first North American Qualifier for the $1,000,000 CPL World Tour. The World Tour competition game is Painkiller and the qualifier will offer $20,000 in cash prizes and $10,000 in air travel to the World Tours first $50,000 stop in Istanbul, Turkey.

The online registration for this event will close Monday, November 15, 2004 at noon Central.

You can find the floorplan here.

The event is getting closer and closer. Its sure as hell going to be a great event for Painkiller, but I suspect that everyone is still learning.. and we will see the best Painkiller has to offer as the year 2005 progresses when everybody has perfected their style and learned everything there is to know. Only 16 days to BOOH also!