All week 6 unaccepted matches have been forced to default times which as usual are: Sunday 16.06 @21:00 CEST for CTF, Sunday 16.06 @22:00 CEST and Thursday 13.06 @21:00 CEST for BOMB. If you still manage to find a different agreement please report it to your division supervisors. Here you got a reminder of the list.

Division Supervisors

Cup Playoffs - CTF, TS, BOMB – Gnurkus, AlexDenton, eya_allam, Xesya
Division 3 - CTF, TS, BOMB – nikkerz, KaKo, OneBullet (`OB)
Division 4 - CTF, TS, BOMB – mifo, sard, Zoro, kronoz
Division 5 - CTF, TS, BOMB – Laser, Checkmate, MasteR-HaT , kronoz
Division 6 - CTF, TS, BOMB – dcdd, Fucky, czybka
Division 7 - TS, BOMB – N3R0_R3, ETRNL-JG, Andros
Division 8 - TS – Chamonix, Vogg, Liq (Seraph)
Division 9 - TS – Stephen (Heathen), Andros, eya
Division 10 - TS – Xesya, Supremo, Liq (Seraph)

Playoff's unplayed Quarter-finals
Most of the quarterfinal matches haven't been played yet. This current week was supposed to be semi-finals' one already, therefore we forced every unaccepted quarter-final match to Sunday 16.06 night.
The teams who'll make it to the SF will be given untill Wednesday 19.06's 23:59 CEST to find an agreement with the opponent, on thursday 20.06 morning semi-final matches will be forced according to the schedules or to default time. Hit the Read more button for an updated overview of the playoff trees.

Here you have an outlook of unplayed playoff matches (times are CEST):
Capture the flag
GD vs efx|: Thursday 13.06 @21:00
[b00bs] vs {GG}: Sunday 16.06 @21:00
.aCe. vs FKs|: Sunday 16.06 @22:00

Team Survivor
)O,O( vs [b00bs]: Sunday 16.06 @22:00
:3` vs strayA.: Sunday 16.06 @22:00

Bomb & Defuse
)O,O( vs :3`: Sunday 16.06 @21:00
.aCe. vs -21-: Sunday 16.06 @21:00

- [b00bs] and )O,O( have both a match @21:00 before their TS Quarter-final. If [b00bs] vs {GG} or/and )O,O( vs :3` ends up to a 3rd decider map and one of the 2 teams (b00bs and Owls) can't play later than 22:00, )O,O( vs [b00bs] will be automatically postponed to Monday 17.06 @21:30.

- Team strayA is obviously unable to play @22.00 which means 5-6am for them. This is a european competition but we are sure Highend Gaming team will show us their fairplay and they'll work out an agreement on next Saturday or Sunday afternoon to make :3` vs strayA. happen.

Hit the Read more button for an updated overview of the playoff trees.

We're sorry for this slightly delayed newspost. Week 5 matches have been forced to either team's proposal or default time which means: CTF on Sunday 09.06 @21:00 CET, TS on Sunday 09.06 @22:00 CET and BOMB on Thursday 06.06 @21:00 CET. If you're still find a different agreement please report it to your division supervisors. Here you got a reminder of the list.

Division Supervisors

Cup Playoffs - CTF, TS, BOMB – Gnurkus, AlexDenton, eya
Division 3 - CTF, TS, BOMB – nikkerz, KaKo, OneBullet (`OB)
Division 4 - CTF, TS, BOMB – mifo, sard, Zoro, kronoz
Division 5 - CTF, TS, BOMB – Laser, Checkmate, MasteR-HaT , kronoz
Division 6 - CTF, TS, BOMB – dcdd, Fucky, czybka, mOx
Division 7 - TS, BOMB – N3R0_R3, ETRNL-JG, Andros
Division 8 - TS – Chamonix, Vogg, Liq (Seraph)
Division 9 - TS – Stephen (Heathen), Andros, eya
Division 10 - TS – Xesya, Supremo, Liq (Seraph)

Playoff trees published
Due to some technical issues we couldn't publish trees on Sunday late night as announced. They're now out though, so you can start working on a agreement with your opponents. You can find playoff trees in the bottom of competition's table page. Teams will have untill Thursday 06.06's 23.59 CEST to find an agreement and report it to a supervisor or just drop it into a comment to the match page. On Thursday late night/Friday morning matches will be forced to default times.
Both Urban-Zone and UrT-TV crews ask you to please inform us about when you play your matches so as we can guarantee a better referee and gtv coverage, most matches aren't covered couse we just don't know when they're happening. Help us to bring more entertainment to our community!

Ban Hammer struck again
This time the team who was hit by our ban hammer is Team btchz which collected an insane number of bans in something like 2 hours. They were banned couse they knowingly allowed banned people actively play in their team. Therefore they're banned as a team and any other team whose roster lists more than 2 btchz members will be considered as btchz clan revival and thus it will be banned aswell.

KNOCKOUT #3
Last Sunday the third knockout event was held. Krath0s was the winner!
If you'd like to read more about it click here.


KNOCKOUT .PL
With KNOCKOUT #3 only just finished news has reached us of a great initiative from the polish community. M4tys has opened the signups for an all Polish event which will be organized in stages. The best players of the preliminary matches will be invited to the grand final to crown a .pl KO champ! So are you polish and do you want to battle it out vs some knockout veterans like KrathOs, fruk brejnless and szejdi?
Signups close tomorrow, 05.06.2013 at 21:00 CEST.
Signup here

Maybe this will inspire other countries as well to organize a similar event and we can have the KNOCKOUT world cup sometime soon.

As we announced, every unplayed match has been forced to Sunday night. Here you got a list of forced matches:

Capture The Flag
Group B
.aCe. vs =[TSK]=: Sunday 02.06 @21:00
Group D
efx| vs =vSC=: Sunday 02.06 @21:00
efx| vs strayA.: Sunday 02.06 @22:00
[b00bs] vs strayA.: Sunday 02.06 @23:00

Team Survivor
Group B
.aCe. vs 3F`: Sunday 02.06 @22:00
Group C
tb. vs strayA.: Sunday 02.06 @21:00

Bomb Mode
Group B
vA. vs :3`: Sunday 02.06 @21:00
FKs| vs :3`: Sunday 02.06 @22:00
Group C
)O,O( vs QA-: Sunday 02.06 @21:00
Group D
.aCe. vs strayA.: Sunday 02.06 @20:00

Times are to be considered as Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Teams can still find a different agreement as long as it is BEFORE the forced time, every match must be played within Sunday night. Teams who fail to show up to the forced date will lose the match by forfait, if none of the teams manages to show up, the match will result in a double forfait. First Playoff week will start on Monday 03.06, Playoff trees will be published on Sunday's late night.

Team strayA.
We know forcing matches at european default times means forcing Australians to play @3:00-6:00am CET and we know it's impoissible for them to show up at those times. Urban Zone is an european based competition though, so we have to give the priority to european teams. That said, we would like to ask to every strayA's opponent to try and play the match against our australian guests in next week-end afternoons. We're asking you to show your sportmanship there!

Playoff Map pools
We would like to remind you that our playoff deciders have a dedicated map pool which consists in:

Capture The Flag: Abbey, Algiers, Austria, Turnpike, Tohunga_b8, Uptown, Village, Paris_v2, Orbital_sl, Beijing_b3, Casa, Pandora_b6.
Teams Survivor: Abbey, Algiers, Austria, Casa, Kingdom_rc6, Orbital_sl, Prague, Sanctuary, Thigley, Tohunga_b8, Turnpike, Uptown, Cambridge_fixed, Facade_b5.
Bomb Mode: Abbey, Algiers, Austria, Casa, Dust2_v2, Mandolin, Sanctuary, Subterra, Turnpike, Orbital_sl, Kingdom_rc6, Facade_b5, Cascade, Raiders, Bohemia and Uptown.

*other news* Knockout #3 has just been posted on www.facebook.com/urbanzoneleague , you can signup!

We regret to inform you that for the foreseeable future we will not be able to give prizes to the winning team of the cups. Both of our sponsors, Clan Outpost Gameservers and ProGamers Gameservers, have unfortunately halted their activities. We'd like to thank both companies for supporting UZ and UrT.

We have already contacted some members of the community who have graciously donated their servers for UZ matches that require a neutral server. We’d like to thank NVB and KronoZ for this. If there more members of the community who have spare servers and would like to help out you can contact one of the head admins on #urban-zone on quakenet.

If you have a company or know a company that might be interested in sponsoring Urban Zone in return for publicity both on the website and shoutcasts, please PM SevenofNine.

As per usual, week 4 matches have been forced. CTF on Sunday 02.06 @21:00 CET, TS on Sunday 02.06 @22:00 CET and BOMB on Thursday 30.05 @21:00 CET. If you still happen to find a different agreement or if you have any questions about your matches please contact your division supervisor as fisrt choice since they will gladly help you out and they know your division better than other staff members. If they happen to be offline, any other staff member will help you out aswell. This is a reminder of the supervisors list:

Division Supervisors

Groups A-D - CTF, TS, BOMB – Gnurkus, AlexDenton, eya_allam, Xesya
Division 3 - CTF, TS, BOMB – nikkerz, KaKo, OneBullet (`OB)
Division 4 - CTF, TS, BOMB – mifo, sard, Zoro
Division 5 - CTF, TS, BOMB – Laser, Checkmate, MasteR-HaT, KronoZ
Division 6 - CTF, TS, BOMB – dcdd, Fucky, mOx, KronoZ
Division 7 - TS, BOMB – N3R0_R3, ETRNL-JG, Andros
Division 8 - TS – Chamonix, Vogg
Division 9 - TS – Supr3m0, Hinata, Heathen
Division 10 - TS – Supr3m0, Hinata, Heathen

If you have any questions, contact directly the referee for your division or ask your question in the league channel - #urban-zone (irc.quakenet.org) and don’t forget to idle there. You can use this IRC web client on our website to join the channel. Please be patient though. It may take a few minutes before someone answers and sometimes you will have to ask two times.

Group stage catch-up week and playoffs
Many group stage matches are still unplayed. We're giving you one more week to make them played. You have untill Wednesday 29.05's 23.59 CET to find an agreement and report it to one of your supervisors. Matches where no agreement is found will be forced to default times.

Playoff week will start right after the catch up one and playoff trees will be filled in on sunday night.

Rules reminder
Again there's something we want remind you:

You are allowed ONLY ONE ALIAS.
The old alias box has been finally deleted. Please enter your new alias by filling in the new dedicated box. You can do it via "My Player Profile" menu using the new tab named "Alias". More accurate instructions are in past week's newspost. Please note that using a non listed alias will end up in a penalty for your team. You are allowed one only alias, so entering more than one is completely useless since we'll be removing them. Only the first lised one will be considered.