Dear friends! This Sunday ended Captain's Cup 2016, and I want to express my gratitude to all the participants of my tournament. In the absence of the eight teams I was forced to change the format of the matches, and made the group stage. In my opinion, group stage gave the Cup in this year's special interest. Each team will play at least 3 matches and only one team could not win no one matches. MTA Racing community for a long time will remember the incredible confrontation AFE and SGA, crazy comeback SGA in the final of the winners and a great game AFE in the final confrontation. I hope you all enjoyed the cup this year, and even the emotion of the matches had gone, I still want to ask you to express the memories of good things, express all complaints, comments and suggestions. Express your opinion about maps and adding time to the Draft Stage. Unfortunately, this year decided to skip the tournament teams such as SiK and the SKC, as well as some other groups. Friends, why play MTA Race, if you miss the main event of the year? Next year I will organize the cup again, then I look forward to the participation of your teams!

Closer to December we will calculate statistics of each player and determine the top 3 best.
 

Good afternoon, everyone! Racing team Legal Street Racers wants to pay your attention to our 8th tournament entitled “Captain's Cup”, where we will glad to see the best race teams from “Multi Theft Auto” such as: SGA, SiK, FoX, AFE, IDC, TC. The last slots will be played in public qualifications, participation in which can take any team. In the main stage of the tournament will participate only 8 teams.

You can’t get known which maps your opponents will choose, you can only try to guess. Teams will pick and ban 5 maps every match from the list of 101 maps. This year we are adding an important innovation, and now each team has 450 (7:30 min) seconds to pick and ban maps.

Description of the tournament:

Open Qualification:

All the registered teams except invited collectives gonna fight for the right to play in the main event. The scheme of qualification will be created based on the number of participating teams. 3-5 teams - group stage, in case of registering more teams there is another scenario of qualifications.

Main Event:

8 Teams randomly split into 4 pairs of 2 teams, the winning team goes further among the winner bracket, the losing side falls into the losers bracket and plays match play/off. Thus, if your team lose one match at the tournament – it will continue to participate. The loss of 2 matches means that your teams is eliminated. Totally the tournament will consist of 14 matches: 5v5.

Multiplayer: Multi Theft Auto 1.5.1 (MTA)
Registration is opened November 1,2016, and will close November 8, 2016
Script: Captain’s Mode 3.0

Open Qualifications:
12 November, Saturday
13 November, Sunday
Main Event:

19 November, Saturday (Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Winner’s Final) [7 Matches]
20 November, Sunday (Losers Round 1, Losers Round 2, Losers Round 3, Losers Final, Grand Final) [7 Matches]

Schedule:



19 November, Saturday:
Quarterfinals A – 15:00
Quarterfinals B – 16:10
Quarterfinals C – 17:10
Quarterfinals D – 18:20

Semifinals A – 19:20 (Winners of A and (( B )
Semifinals B – 20:30 (Winners of C and D)

Winner’s Final - 21:30 (Match for getting into the main tournament final)

20 November, Sunday:
Losers Round 1(A) – 15:00 (Loser team of A and B )
Losers Round 1(( B ) – 16:10 (Loser team of C and D)

Losers Round 2(A) – 17:10 (Winner Losers Round 1(A) vs Loser Semifinal (( B )
Losers Round 2(A) – 18:20 (Winner Losers Round 1( B ) ) vs Loser Semifinal A)

Losers Round 3 – 19:20 (Winner LR2(A) vs Winner LR2( B )

Losers Final – 20:30 (Loser Winner’s Final vs Winner Losers Round 3)

Grand Final – 21:30 (Winner Winner’s Final vs Winner Losers Final)

The server of the tournament:46.33.229.185:22003

Tournament rules:

Show unsportsmanlike behaviour (cursing, insults, threats, flood, abnormal behavior) the team will be disqualificated;
Fake the team players (punishment: disqualification;
Use: cheats, trainers, mods, and any programs that give you an advantage below others (punishment: disqualification);

Connection problems:

If a player on your team lose the connection (Timeout) during the first 12 seconds of the race, pause is allowed and the race will be restarted after rejoining the player to the server.
If Timeout (connection Loss) happens after 12 seconds – the race is going on.

Matches are playing according to the schedule, but it is possible to re-schedule the match to another time by agreement of both teams and then you must tell your decision to the organization.

Schedule Matches | Registration | Map list | Discussion

Captain's Mode 3.0

There were added time to pick maps for the teams: 450 seconds (7.30 minutes) for each team.

Referee can stop the timer for any team in case of the connection loss of the team captain.

There were added notification for the captains. Now if your opponent had already chosen 2 maps from one class, script won’t let you to ban map from this class because your ban will be useless.

Notification: Team is allowed to pick only 2 maps from one class.

From now on in the case when two teams write /rdy in the chat, map will start automatically, earlier referee was that guy who started the match.


Scoreboard is a little bit modified and now it is placed in the bottom right comer, also u can change the size of this table by your own self (lctrl+u)

Also there were added logotypes in the scoreboard for each race team in MTA.

Team selection button (F2) was changed and now there is no error, when player isn’t able to join the team.
 
Draft control panel is now possible to open with the combination of buttons lctrl+j.

New soundtrack was added for the draft stage.

There were deleted the voice, which was announcing the doings of team captains during the draft stage. Unfortunately, google voice doesn’t wanna help to create gaming atmosphere and we don’t have replacement for it.

New maps for each class.

Like last year, I have tried to choose maps for each team, for example, in the list there are maps that have been added specifically for CoDEx. This year the total number of maps is 101, on the Captain's Cup in 2015 in the stage of draft there were picked and banned 81 maps, but National Cup 2015 was also held by Captains Mode, where the team took the maps that were not used in the Captain's Cup in 2015, so I think that 101 maps - a well-balanced solution, also this year the last slot in the tournament will be played in public qualifications
From classic category were deleted such maps as Admiral Race, IyonUKs Evil Time Trial 3, LSI, Airport Speedway – Season 4.
They were replaced with following maps: High Noon.
Maps in each class are sorted out according to the alphabet.

All about time innovation in the script.
Captain's Cup - a unique event with a unique and interesting scenarios for the match, it divides the game into two stages, the first stage - the stage of draft, the second stage - the gameplay.
I think that the draft stage is the most important match process, because here the captains and teams compete with each other separately, it is like a little game of chess, and the stage of the pick depends on a lot, you need to think what maps you can ban against each opponent, wherein take into account the huge number of factors: the existence of the players in your roster for certain map, the existence of players in the opponent's team for this map. You can pick your map specifically for strong players, or, contrariwise, for players who know how to play a short list of maps. You can choose maps from one subclass especially against a team that plays really bad this subclass. In short, captain's mode makes a lot of captains think, this year time will harry up you. but is true that the addition of timer will make this tournament mor difficult?

Each team now has totally 450 seconds or 15 minutes on the draft stage. And even if we consider the fact that your opponent can ban and pick all the maps in 3 minutes, you still have your 7:30 + time of your opponent, do not waste your opponent’s time, think over your next selection during this time. The most important thing for the captain - be careful, remember! Draft stage takes place in such order that your team have to make 2 selections in a row, for example, the second team picks map №2, and immediately bans map №3, and the first team picks map №4 and bans map №5, the timer of your team in these moments will not stop, so read the chat that you won’t miss a moment of your ban / pick.
Attention! If your time runs out, and you do not have time to pick map or ban it, all the following maps will be automatically selected in random order! Closing the topic of this innovation, if you think that the addition of the time is a bad idea, remember the draft stage in the final match in the National Cup 2015 (Germany - Poland), which lasted 36 minutes.
 

Dear friends! Today our team turns 7 years old. We’ve come a long way. Our racers repeatedly were taking prize places on different competitions, and our team many times pleased our community by tournaments. For 7 years there were a lot of racers in my team, on this image you can see nicknames of players, whose staying ,I think, is very important. Exactly these players were creating team’s history, thanks to some of them team still exists and play in this damned game.

Good day, dear friends!
Today I decided to write latest team news.
For now our team is in a list of weakest MTA teams, and we need help, that’s why we invite all active players to our team.
New players joined our team: Sharingan, Bruno_Wilson, Scorpion, KeNwOOD, Demetr1us, Giza, Attacker, Mr.Freak, Madmaus, wish you nice pastime in our team, and ask you to be more active in game in next months. 

Sharingan is now a new leader of team. Congratulations to our brother, wish you not to lose face.
We held our 8th tournament “The Battle Begins”, where 32 teams of 64 players took part. Event was very interesting in terms of battle, and result of some battles was decided by 2 points. From our team were playing: Sharingan + KeNwOOD, Bruno_Wilson + Scorpion, SANTA and Omega. Sharingan and KeNwOOD couldn’t pass first stage of tournament, Bruno_Wilson, Scorpion and SANTA finished on 2nd stage. To be honestly, it is very bad results, but based on our players and inexperience most of them we just need to accept it.
Soon we are going to play a few clan wars.