CEVO Announces Left 4 Dead Survival Tourney

CEVO has just announced their free Left 4 Dead tournament which will start Monday May 18th. The Survival Tourney will be a 128 team, double elimination tournament with matches twice a week on Monday and Thursday.

Every competitive L4D player will be looking forward to this since CAL died. Since CAL stopped after Week 1 there has only been the Infected Cup, TWL, and GameBattles, so CEVO picking up L4D should give the game a boost, along with the upcoming update with Death Toll and Dead Air.

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CEVO LLC (CYBER EVOLUTION) is excited to announce the CEVO Left 4 Dead Tournament, featuring prizes courtesy of CEVO (www.cevo.com).

“It is a pleasure to host our first Left 4 Dead event here at CEVO. Many of the staff have been playing the game religiously since its release and have had nothing but good things to say about the game.” said Charlie Plitt, CEO / President for CEVO LLC. “With the conclusion of this event, we will be looking to launch league based play with multiple divisions.”

The CEVO Left 4 Dead Tournament is a double-elimination online event for gamers in the Left 4 Dead community. The format of the tournament will be 4 vs. 4. Registration is open starting Thursday, April 16th until Thursday, May 14th with Round 1 matches beginning on Monday, May 18th.

Prize Distribution:

• 1st – OCZ PC2 8500 2G Pack, OCZ Vendeta CPU Coolers, Razer Goliathus Mouse Pads, and FREE Entry into ANY paid CEVO Event ($443.00 value)
• 2nd – FREE Entry into ANY paid CEVO Event ($80.00 value)
• 3rd – FREE Entry into ANY paid CEVO Event ($80.00 value)
• 4th – FREE Entry into ANY paid CEVO Event ($80.00 value)

Matches will be played twice per week on Monday and Thursday evenings. Teams will be permitted to dispute a maximum of two players per team. The CMN3 will be enabled for all matches.

Campaigns and Scoring:

Blood Harvest – Teams will play maps 1-5 and the team with the most points when finished will win the match.

No Mercy – Teams will play maps 1-5 and the team with the most points when finished will win the match.

General Rules and Configs:

The official CEVO L4D server configs will be released in the downloads section of our website. We’ll also be using an updated version of Smirnov’s Ready Up Mod. Both files will be available later this week.

• Friendly Fire: ON
• Format: 4 vs. 4.
• Matches will be played on Mondays and Thursdays.
• The CMN3 must be used for all matches.
• POV demos are required for all players, in all matches.
• Teams will play matches on their own private servers.
• ALL disputes must be filed within an hour of the conclusion of the match.

How To Register:

All players will need to a personal CEVO user account to participate in CEVO events. If you do not already have one, click “register now” under the CEVO Members section of the website and follow the instructions.

Team Captains:

The Team Captain or Manager is responsible for registering their team for the event. Captains who have already created a team for another CEVO Left 4 Dead event do not need to create a new team – you can simply join this event with your current team. To sign your current team up for this event, login to your personal user account then go to “teams”->”view my teams” (or click “Manage My Teams” on the main account page). Click on the “manage” link corresponding to your team and then click “Sign Team Up for a CEVO Event”.

If you are a Team Captain needing to create a team, login to your personal user account then go to “teams”->”create a team” (or click “Create a Team” on the main account page).

Once the team is created/registered for the event, each team member may join the roster by logging into their personal user account on the website and clicking “Join A Roster”.

Team Players:

In order to join a roster, your team captain must have already registered your team for this event. Once that is done, to join the roster, login to your personal user account and click “teams”->”Join a Roster” (or simply click “Join a Roster” on the main account page).

On the Join Roster page, choose this event from the drop-down menu, then type all or part of the team name and click “Find Team”. When the search finishes, click the “join” button corresponding to your team.

Feedback:

As this will be one of the first competitive Left 4 Dead events, we NEED your feedback. We would love to hear what you think of the format, rules, configs, class restrictions, etc…

After our first event is over we’ll sit down, and with the communities input, make any necessary changes to our current format and rule set.

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CEVO would like to thank Layered Technologies (enterprise server solutions), NationVoice Communications (top quality ventrilo servers and service), and NuclearFallout Enterprises, Inc. (premium competition game servers) for their support of CEVO’s inaugural L4D Tournament.

Source: CEVO