Unfortunately yesterday's grand final ended in a bad fashion and two players of the opposing team got disqualified. Because of the special circumstances the teams that placed 3rd, 4th and 5th will receive a equal share of the prize pool.
We want to congratulate: 

3rd place: Team Vollbluthustler
4th place: Team dgt.
5th place: Team Simba and Team Fairy Tail

Bracket Link

We thank every team for participating and for their good sportsmanship and again are sorry for the delays and failures in communication during and prior to the event.

There are some players demanding that we should refund the money because they feel their time wasted so at the very end I want to paraphrase a statement from both top donor and finalist Nexus:
"I donated the money to reward the players for their great performance. Because this wasn't present in the finals the money should go towards the teams placed after us since we are out."

We know there were errors on both ends during and after the torunament but we hope that the decision makes a stand against the rising toxicity and lack of respect within the scene.

Cheers,
The Team
pixe1, Pata, Krooked, .Pryde & Co.

Pata will contact the teams regarding the prize money.

Fixed some issues, thanks to the guys pointing stuff out.

First of all I would like to thank every player and supporter for their interest and contribution. With your help we raised 200EUR for this tournament's prize pool. As of February 1st over 30 teams signed up for this tourmanet which is pretty overwhelming for a small mod such as gCTF. I'm really looking forward to this event (@ 19 February 2017 12PM UTC+1).

Today I finally found the time to publish this year's ruleset which can be found here: cup.kosmos.tw/ruleset
A quick glance:

Format: Double Elimination @ Best-of-3
Scorelimit/Timelimit: 1000/15
Mappool: ctf3, ctf4_old, ctf5, ctf_tantum, ctf_mars

This year's map pool contains two maps that are pretty uncommon: ctf_tantum by Sonix and ctf_mars by Chi11y. You can download them here or play them at our Kosmos gCTF servers.

Also Imba reached out to us and suggested a Pick/Ban system for the mappool which we will adapt for this tournament. Basically each team can ban 2 maps before every match (Best-of-3). This whole thing will be realized through votes and will be fairly simple.

That's it,

pixe1

Current standings

Master server signs A
A signs B
A signs C
C signs D
E signs F

So any if A-D are valid because you could say C signed D, so if c is valid, d is also valid. C is signed by a, so if a is valid, d is also valid and because a is valid (signed by the master server) d in turn is also valid. Neither e nor f would be valid, though, because there is no link to the master server. (Note that this implementation would also greatly add traffic because one key would need to send all public keys until the master server on every authentification}

It's this time of the year again!
After the successfull tournament earlier this year we are thrilled to host a 2nd gCTF tournament in 2017.
Once again the best of the best will compete against each other to get the golden Launcher trophy.
Grab a mate and prove yourself!

Teams: 2 man teams (+ optional 1 substitute)
Format: Double Elimination
Misc: As in the previous event a special client will be provided.

Tournament date: 19 February 2017 12PM UTC+1

More information @
cup.kosmos.tw

Thank you to all supporters, your contribution is really appreciated.

Cheers,
pixe1