News:

2009-06-29
Screens and demos are online now. Please note, that next time we will only allow teams that have been signed up via email or via a message in our IRC channel BEFORE the respective qualification game is supposed to start! This still does not mean that we will always take you (as this is only guaranteed if you sign up before 5pm via email) - but we will no longer accept teams that will cause delay by lacking a teammate, lacking cthe anti-cheat-client, like we did yesterday. For your own good, do all the sign-up in advance and get the client ready.

We would also like you to inform that the commercial Electronic Sports League (ESL) now also features Cube2/Sauerbraten. We are in talks with the organizers there and we have agreed that will at least peacefully coexist, propably even do some things as joint ventures in the future. As we know that many of you are dissappointed that PSL offers only few games and only on a monthy basis - this is a good spot to have even more games! Check out ESL for Cube2 here.

2009-06-28
Good games! Hero qualified for ffa, Honzik1 for insta, RB in capture, qu4nk in CTF and w00p in iCTF. Screens and demos will follow tomorrow, results and details are online. See the sections above. TC won last months title in CTF against w00p. Please also notice that the maps for the qualification games changed and will therefore be different ones next time. Check them out here.

2009-06-21
The CTF final w00p vs TC will be played June 28th, 5pm (thats one hour before the next qualification games take place).

2009-06-18
We got a job for a native english speaker, or maybe even better a crew of 2-3 native speakers: "PSL Live Reporter". The idea is to provide a stream that features live audio comment on the games, giving backgrounds, comments, maybe even some interviews, etc. Its all up to you. There are some requirements, but not strong ones as the ones to become a referee and we would like this to be semi-independent from us, meaning we would only watch if the quality of your show remains at good standard and if you are equally fair/unfair to all participants in your comments. The requirements are on the bottom of the staff-page (click here). Looking forward to your samples! If too many should apply for the job we will have the community decide.


2009-06-07
In case you didnt watch the PSL title matches - you missed something! Thrilling games again with several surprising winners! Majikal defended his title in ffa 2-1, Liugam won against tenshi and became new titleholder in instagib (2-1), w00p dethroned RB 2-0 in capture, and TC became the new Champion in iCTF! Congrats to all winners! CTF (TC vs. w00p) is postponed to Sunday June 21st, 9pm german time. See the sections for the details!

2009-06-07
The CTF title match is postponed to either next Sunday or the Sunday after. FFA will be played at 9pm instead of 6pm. The Client stays the same.

2009-05-31
The first PSL qualification games took place with our anti-cheat-client. We detected no cheaters, and only very few accidentally forgot to use the right client so that the client-part of the games went pretty succesful. Thanks a lot for the faith in us and all your support.

The new autosubstitution feature did not work yet and a tiny bug in the server code caused a lot of trouble here and forced us to do everything manually. We apologize and would really like to thank all of your for your patience and good humor!We will do our best to make it work properly next time.

But now, finally: We would like to congratulate the new challengers for next week: ConMan in ffa, Liugam in insta, w00p in capture and ctf, and TC & QS in instaCTF! Thrilling games! See the sections above for the details, screens, demos, etc! 


2009-05-30
Make sure you sign up for the games in time. If you want to know who has done so so far: here
The client will be available tomorrow at noon German time, as promised.


2009-05-17
We are ready to let the games go on!

First of all we would like to welcome der_andi to the PSL team. We are happy to have him as he is a very creative mind and knows a good lot about coding. Just like all referees he will not take part in the games himself anymore. Unfortunately noone else applied for the job. We could still need a helping hand and would be especially happy if it was someone not from TC! Details here.

Second: We ran a poll among selected clans regarding the extent and the duration of the block for Grand Champions. The result was pretty unanimously. Therefore there will be a shorter block period of just one month instead of two (100% of all votes) and that the block is only valid for those clanmembers, who actually played, but not the rest of the clan's members (approx. 80% of all votes). Thanks to all clans that participated!

Third: We have changed our rules in several ways. In a nutshell from now on....:
- we require you to use binaries that we provide at least 6 hours before the games (to prevent cheats). Download and instructions will be here on May 31st.
- we require you to use a TC server-account and be logged in during the games (for autosubstitution and several helpful features we plan to integrate in the future). If you dont have one yet, but want to play on May 31st, get it soon as they may take up to 24 hours to be verified.
- we require you to sign up via email for the qualification games (to make everything more organized and especially not to have a chaos and delay with people who want to participate but dont have the client yet or haven't even read about it).
- all modes now follow the exact same rules, which is now the classic "best of 3": whoever wins two games first is the winner (easier to understand and less influenced by mapsize, etc).
- as already mentioned, we changed the grand champion rule in duration and extent (now the block is only 1 month and it applies only to players who actually played, but not for the rest of the clan anymore).
- You can only choose maps that can be found in the official game menu and work with the respective mode anymore.

Fourth: As requested quite frequently we will change qualification maps more often and they are already different for the next games. Part of the mentioned poll among the clans was to name good maps for the games. The suggestions that the clans gave are now part of the map-pool of maps that will be played in the future. Check them out here.

Fifth: Please take a close look at the rules in detail and also mind the new pages on top of this page.

Sixth: We opened up a server for clan-games and 1on1s that is not in the masterlist so it is not crowded all the time. It allows everyone to take master (/setmaster1) and set mastermode 0, 1 and 2. It automatically records demos of every game that is played from the first to the last second and keeps the last 10. To fetch them, take master and use /listdemos and /getdemo (nr). To connect to it type:
/connect psl.sauerleague.org 20000


Last but not least: The next qualification games will be on Sunday May, 31st, starting at 6pm german time as usual. See the sections for the details andd don't forget to run through our check list! As the Grand-Champion-Block is now shorter and only applies to the players who took part, only tenshi, teppo, Jay-EM, and majikal are blocked in iCTF.

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