This changes take effect with 1st January 2012 - 00:00 CET!

Screenshots 1 Penalty point max for missing screens per match. Normal status will be valid. No match deletion due to missing screenshots even if there are none at all. If one team doesn't agree with the result, a replay has to be filed as proof. What has changed: normal status valid Penalty points: 1 per match - either player or team

Demos In general for a missing / incomplete / defect replay the player/team gets 3/3 penalty points and the match will be deleted. Up to two rounds (first two rounds) are missing: Match deletion and no penalty points A missing knife round won't lead to a match deletion anymore but it will be punished with 1 penalty point for the player as well as the team. If more than two rounds are missing: Demo counts as missing Upload period reduced to 24 hours. Subsequent time period remains 24 hours. What has changed: Penalty points: Now player and team get 3 penalty points If the first two rounds are missing, the match will be deleted without penalty points (knife + pistol) Missing knife round leads to 1 penalty point for the player and match will be rated. (Besides, 'knife round' or similar requests are not valid.) Penalty points: Missing or incomplete - Player 3 / Team 3 Missing knife round - Player 1 / Team 1

Linesman In general for a missing or an incomplete Linesman file the player / team gets 3 penalty points and the match will be deleted. If ESL Wire Anti-Cheat was not running at all, only penalty points for missing Wire Anti-Cheat file will be given. Linesman won't be punished in that case. Apart from this rule are all players which have an evidence (screenshot with the bug and time from the ESL Website) that Linesman stopped/crashed due to an error. Errors: 'Too many config files' as well as 'All files are too big' lead to 3 penalty points and a match deletion. What has changed: Penalty points: Missing Wire Anti-Cheat - Player 3 / Team 3 - Match deleted Errors - Player 3 / Team 2 - Match deleted

Cvars 1 Penalty point per player per clientsetting + specific amount to the team, a maximum of 3 penalty points per player/team. Match will be deleted in these cases: 1on1 Matches: Player must have 2 or more wrong client settings xonx Matches: At least 2 players with wrong client settings What has changed: The team gets 1 penalty point per player using wrong cvars. Amount of penalty points decreased from 2 to 1 Penalty points: Player 1 / Team 1

Restarting during live match To prevent these situations we increased the punishment. If the server owning team does restarts while the match is live a default loss will be given independent from the score. Moreover, the team will receive2 penalty points. Penalty points: Player 2 / Team 2

Overtimes Overtimes are still forbidden but if both players/teams agree on overtime and one player/team opens a protest afterwards complaining about it that player/team will get 2 penalty points for unsportsmanlike behaviour and the match will be rated as draw. Penalty points: Player 2 / Team 2

The rule pages for the particular ladders will be updated during this week as well. Til then, this news represents the current rules.
We hope you are quickly getting along with the changes.

We'd like to use this opportunity to wish all of you nice Christmas/Hannukah/Eid-ul-Fitr or whatever you're celebrating during the next days/weeks and we hope to see you next year again.

Your Admin Team