http://www.urban-zone.org/ Urban Zone en-us Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:45:00 GMT 1440 Dragonfly CMS Urban Zone Content http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.urban-zone.org/images/logo.gif http://www.urban-zone.org/ http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=217 All unscheduled matches for week 2 were forced to proposed times or Sunday February 26 at 21.00 for the CTF league and 22.00 for the TS league. If you still manage to agree with your opponent on a new date and time, talk to your division supervisors or other staff in #urban-zone. Attention We will start removing unreplaced dropouts. Please note that some of your points may be removed in the process. List of Division Supervisors: The list may change, keep an eye on this post for any alterations. CTF Division 1 – Gnurkus, Raider CTF Division 2 – Vachette, cjoke CTF Division 3 – Sailormoon, Checkmate CTF Division 4 – Richie, Questor CTF Division 5 – MasterHat, Denzi CTF Division 6 – ButterdBread, Novaya CTF Division 7 – Supremo, Gighen CTF Division 8 – Zoro, CroCop CTF Division 9 – Trittin, Ballon CTF Division 10 – Doornroosje, Chamonix CTF Division 11 – Blacksoul, Benzo CTF Division LA – Touma CTF Division AP – SevenofNine TS Division 1 – eya, Godness TS Division 2 – Vachette, cjoke TS Division 3 – Simca, ETRNL-JG TS Division 4 – Sailormoon, Checkmate TS Division 5 – MasterHat, Denzi TS Division 6 – ButterdBread, Novaya TS Division 7 – Supremo, Gighen TS Division 8 – Zoro, CroCop TS Division 9 – Trittin, Ballon TS Division 10 – Laser, Thug TS Division 11 – Blacksoul, Benzo TS Division 12 – Soki, ETRNL-JG TS Division 13 – Vogels, Keridil TS Division 14 – doornroosje, Chamonix TS Division 15 – Vogels, Keridil TS Division 16 – Laser, Thug TS Division 17 – Xesya, Questor TS Division 18 – ETRNL-JG, Zoro, J4n TS Division 19 – Xesya, Godness TS Division 20 – Malcon, Chamonix TS Division AP 1 – Nvb, Benzo TS Division AP 2 – azul TS Division LA – Terr, Touma Matches covered last week: Kinda forgot to post our coverage of UZ matches here. Visit our YouTube channel and subscribe to be up-to-date. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:45:00 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=216 All unscheduled matches for week 2 were forced to proposed times or Sunday February 19 at 21.00 for the CTF league and 22.00 for the TS league. If you agree with your opponent on a new date and time, talk to your division supervisors or other staff in #urban-zone. Reminders: 1/ Schedule your matches in the website. 2/ Set your timezone. (You can read the start-up post for more info.) 3/ Everyone must record demos and take screenshots. 4/ Everyone needs to wear the correct name/alias in matches. You are allowed to have only ONE alias listed in the website. 5/ Make sure all your teammates have been added to the roster before the match. 6/ Read the RULES! We are also looking for a few replacement teams for both ctf and ts. Let us know if you would still like to join the competitions. List of Division Supervisors: The list may change, keep an eye on this post for any alterations. CTF Division 1 – Gnurkus, Raider CTF Division 2 – Vachette, cjoke CTF Division 3 – Sailormoon, Checkmate CTF Division 4 – Richie, Questor CTF Division 5 – MasterHat, Denzi CTF Division 6 – ButterdBread, Novaya CTF Division 7 – Supremo, Gighen CTF Division 8 – Zoro, CroCop CTF Division 9 – Trittin, Ballon CTF Division 10 – Doornroosje, Chamonix CTF Division 11 – Blacksoul, Benzo CTF Division LA – Touma CTF Division AP – SevenofNine TS Division 1 – eya, Godness TS Division 2 – Vachette, cjoke TS Division 3 – Simca, ETRNL-JG TS Division 4 – Sailormoon, Checkmate TS Division 5 – MasterHat, Denzi TS Division 6 – ButterdBread, Novaya TS Division 7 – Supremo, Gighen TS Division 8 – Zoro, CroCop TS Division 9 – Trittin, Ballon TS Division 10 – Laser, Thug TS Division 11 – Blacksoul, Benzo TS Division 12 – Soki, ETRNL-JG TS Division 13 – Vogels, Keridil TS Division 14 – doornroosje, Chamonix TS Division 15 – Vogels, Keridil TS Division 16 – Laser, Thug TS Division 17 – Xesya, Questor TS Division 18 – ETRNL-JG, Zoro, J4n TS Division 19 – Xesya, Godness TS Division 20 – Malcon, Chamonix TS Division AP 1 – Nvb, Benzo TS Division AP 2 – azul TS Division LA – Terr, Touma Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:24:40 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=214 Wintercup 2011 Awards 1st place b00bs 2nd place HiV|+| 3rd place vex.- Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:25:39 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=213 Welcome to the Season 14 of UZ CTF League and Season 7 of UZ TS League. To start with, set your profile time up properly. Look left. In the left-hand column, toward the top, you can see My Preferences. Click. Select your timezone AND your daylight saving time (example: GMT + 1 as timezone and European Union - Central GMT + 1 as daylight saving time). Click on SAVE CHANGES. Now continue reading. Schedule for Seasons 14 and 7: February 02 – February 05 - arranging wars for Week 1 February 06 - February 12 - Week 1 (arranging wars for Week 2) February 13 - February 19 - Week 2 (and arranging wars for Week 3) February 20 - February 26 - Week 3 (and arranging wars for Week 4) February 27 – March 04 - Week 4 (and arranging wars for Week 5) March 05 – March 11 - Week 5 (and arranging wars for Week 6) March 12 – March 18 - Week 6 (and arranging wars for Week 7) March 19 - March 25 - Week 7 (finishing wars, deadline) You will have the rest of this week to arrange your first wars, and the first matchweek will start on February 06. Don’t forget to update your team info, squad list and especially contact info! Also, we would like to remind you that your servers and clients MUST be updated to 4.1.1. You can see your match schedule in FIXTURES in the competition menus: CTF HERE and TS HERE. Individual teams can also see their own matches in the Calendar and Results tabs of their Team Profile. Please start scheduling your first wars for the following week as soon as possible. You can do so by talking to your opponents but we advise you to use the website challenging system which makes it easier for admins and referees to see who challenged who and when and thus honor your choice in case the match needs to be forced. If you RESCHEDULE the match with your opponent, contact staff to change the date – that way your match can still be streamed and cast. Keep your scheduling up to date. DO NOT FORGET TO READ THE RULES. There have been no significant changes but not knowing the rules is not an acceptable excuse. DIVISION SUPERVISORS We appointed division supervisors for each division - they are your people of first contact, so do not hesitate to approach them. Their contact emails are all the same name@urban-zone.org and they can be contacted in the league channel - #urban-zone. If the supervisor for your division happens to be unreachable, talk to any other referee or staff member, we are all opped in the league channel. And here is the list for both leagues: CTF Division 1 – Gnurkus, Raider CTF Division 2 – Vachette, cjoke CTF Division 3 – Sailormoon, Checkmate CTF Division 4 – Richie, Questor CTF Division 5 – MasterHat, Denzi CTF Division 6 – ButterdBread, Novaya CTF Division 7 – Supremo, Gighen CTF Division 8 – Zoro, CroCop CTF Division 9 – Trittin, Ballon CTF Division 10 – Doornroosje, Chamonix CTF Division 11 – Blacksoul, Benzo CTF Division LA – Touma CTF Division AP – SevenofNine TS Division 1 – eya, Godness TS Division 2 – Vachette, cjoke TS Division 3 – Simca, ETRNL-JG TS Division 4 – Sailormoon, Checkmate TS Division 5 – MasterHat, Denzi TS Division 6 – ButterdBread, Novaya TS Division 7 – Supremo, Gighen TS Division 8 – Zoro, CroCop TS Division 9 – Trittin, Ballon TS Division 10 – Laser, Thug TS Division 11 – Blacksoul, Benzo TS Division 12 – Soki, ETRNL-JG TS Division 13 – Vogels, Keridil TS Division 14 – doornroosje, Chamonix TS Division 15 – Vogels, Keridil TS Division 16 – Laser, Thug TS Division 17 – Xesya, Questor TS Division 18 – J4n, Benzo TS Division 19 – Xesya, Godness TS Division 20 – Malcon, Chamonix TS Division AP 1 – Nvb TS Division AP 2 – azul TS Division LA – Terr, Touma If you have any questions, contact 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 web IRC client from 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. SERVER CONFIGS Don't forget to upload league configs to your game servers – you can find both here – www.urban-zone.org/ind...s&c=11. LEAGUE SERVERS Like before, Urban Zone has several servers available in case you need a neutral server for your matches. Some of those servers were donated by participating teams and two very nice Dutch servers were donated by our sponsor, Taranis's octoris.com - a server hoster you may want to check out. FACEBOOK For all the Urban Zone news in bite size and announcements regarding streams & shoutcasts like us! TWITCH.TV We stream the live matches on Twitch.tv so if you follow us there we'd really appreciate it! Especially because the more viewers we get the more features we can get to make your experience as nice as possible. YOUTUBE All the matches we shoutcast end up on our YouTube channel so don't forget to subscribe. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:30:00 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=212 This is an alert for all of you that hosts or rented an UrbanTerror game servers. Recently, Urban Terror servers has been targeted as a proxy for DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. Meaning: your game servers are being abused by 'third-party' to conduct their DRDoS (Distributed Reflected Denial of Service) attacks on other targets (hosts) on the Internet. There is now an official update to remedy this, as well for other known server exploits. * If you hosts your own game servers, go to http://www.urbanterror.info/downloads/security/ (or uses our local mirror) and update your dedicated server binaries/executables now! * If you have rented a game server, please contact your game server hosting provider and inform them of this important security update; it might cost them bandwidth resources if they don't. News links: http://www.urbanterror.info/news/351-security-update-27th-january/ Download: http://www.urbanterror.info/downloads/security/ or our Urban-Zone download section Forum discussion: http://www.urbanterror.info/forums/topic/28081-security-update-27th-january-2012/ Additional forum discussion and information: http://www.urbanterror.info/forums/topic/27825-drdos/ Consequences of not updating your dedicated servers might be: - Not being listed from master server query results (which will take into effects in a few days) - Excessive bandwidth usage, which might leads to.. - Server lag - Potential extra cost due to the bandwidth 'wasted' on the DRDoS - Server being shut down So update now! Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:45:00 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=208 The first half of the year is always the best when it comes to Urban Terror, two seasons back to back, packed with loads of action! Let’s kick this first season off! From this moment onwards the signups are open for our 14th! CTF League season and the 7th TS League season. We hope you will join us for another season and maybe even break that record number of signups. SIGNUPS The signups will close on January 29, a couple of days later the divisions will be posted and you’ll have the remainder of the week (until February 5). To schedule your fight for week 1. As always you will need a minimum of 5 players to join the league. (NOTE WE ONLY HAVE 10! DAYS FOR SIGNUPS, FROM THE MOMENT THIS HAS BEEN POSTED) INSTRUCTIONS FOR SIGNING UP: 1. Clan leaders – see the top of the front page or click on the COMPETITION menu. 2. Select the competition you want to sign up for. 3. Now click the “chain link” button (you can see the text “sign up” when you hover your mouse over it) next to the competition you want and you will be signed up! 4. Do not forget to edit your roster, erase all players who left, add all new players, and edit permissions for your trusted players and captains. Sign-up instructions for NEW team leaders and registration instructions for other players can be found in our manual HERE. If you are new to this website we also have a pdf with useful information, you can find it here. Please do not forget to fill in your team contact information in this website (team website, irc channel, contact email, etc.) – if we are unable to contact you and verify your signup, you will be removed from signups. IMPORTANT: ALL players in both leagues have to be registered. Multiclanning within one competition is not allowed. However, players are allowed to play in one CTF team and another TS team. Do not – repeat: DO NOT – create accounts for your teammates. We are able to reference IP addresses and your team will not be allowed to sign up if we find one person faking accounts for others. Because we also have clans competing from outside Europe we want clans to set the correct country flag or you may end up playing vs 300 ping opponents, so no funny stuff. Also we expect all players to know the rules and abide by them, so (re)acquaint yourself with them, your teammates may be punished for your wrong doing, and nobody wants that! Now that that’s out of the way: Good Luck and Have Fun! Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:30:00 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=206 The winter break and the winter cup are over. Just like last summer- and winter cup, the b00bs clan is the winner again. It is getting a bit boring, hopefully next summer cup they will have more opposition. Their achievement is huge tho: they played 102 matches resulting in 434 points and we would like to like congratulate them on their win. The second place is going to [HiV|+| and third place goes to [vex.- Medals will be available later on this week. Furthermore we would like to thank and congratulate all 93 teams that participated in the winter cup. Most matches were fair and we have seen a lot of good sportsmanship. Unfortunately, like always, we have also seen a few clans and people bending and breaking the rules. They already have been, or will be, punished for that. Both TS and CTF Leagues are going to open their signup today or tomorrow! So go and grab your spot! In other news, the signups for the upcoming CTF and TS league seasons are going to open this week (so stop pm'ing us) Also the Urban Zone Download Area has been updated with 14 new maps, which should bring us up-to-date with all the latest releases! SevenofNine and =low=Anderson are also adding screenshots to the jump maps that were uploaded. Eventually we not only want to have the most complete collection of Urban Terror maps but also have screenshots for all maps so have an idea what you're downloading. May the frags be with you! Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:15:00 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=205 On the 19th of January a new mapping contest will start specifically for jump maps. This isn't related to Urban Zone but as many people get their news about the community from our website we thought we'd highlight this! Details about the contest can be found on the UrtJumpers forum. Check it out because there's a cash prize up for grabs, €100 will be given to the winner (or split between the winners). We wish all contestants luck with map making, feel free to pm SevenofNine the details of your (finished) map, and he'll include it in the Urban Zone Download area. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:15:00 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=204 We are now starting the 5th and last week of this Wintercup. Before anything else, a little checkup : b00bs are actually 1st with 355 points and 86 matches played. If you think that you can still beat them, I wish you good luck because you will need to work hard for the win! If you are more realistic, you can try to reach the second or the third place, currently taken by vex and HiV clans. And if you do not want to finish in the top 3, you can still play for fun during this last week that will offer you the possibility to win 1 extra point. Week Dates : 9/01/2012 - 15/01/2012 Week Gametype : All the cup gametypes Week Map pool : cemetery666, sliema, paris_v2, village and finally sewerlair. Playing one of these maps in any mode that can run it during your wintercup war will make you earn one extra point. The sponsors of the week are : Vachette, Xesya We also processed a team ban for mk clan which had 3 banned players, and one that returned. We advise you to recruit trusted players to avoid this kind of story happening. Maps Over 200 jump maps have been added to the Urban Zone Download area. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:00:00 GMT http://www.urban-zone.org/index.php?name=Content&mid=203 New year begins -> January 2nd - January 8th Week gametype : TS & CaH Week sponsors: J4n, Laser Week maps : All the Cup maps rules : This week you will be able to win one extra point : If you play one map in TS and one map in Capture and Hold. We want to remember you that you need to upload demos and screenshots for every match. For the leaders or trustee, we remind you how to enter the scores: TS, FTL: number of rounds for each team CTF, CAH: number of flags for each team on the map (that means the sum of the 2 halves) and not the number of halves won TDM: number of enemies killed for the 2 halves for each team. BOMB: number of rounds won in red side for each team. If you want to get your extra-points contact one of the sponsors of the week on IRC. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:45:00 GMT