We are half way into the new GetQuad! Draft season; 29 of the 56 group games have been played and some teams are already showing they are a hot ticket for the playoffs, while some others got more work to do, to get their team into the postseason. 8 of the 16 teams advance to the playoffs.

This weekend, The Keep is organizing a "CLASSIC ArenaFPS" charity event. During the weekend they will host a cooperative game of DOOM Survival and a King of the Hill type duel tournament in Warfork, both are open for donators to participate in.

For us QuakeWorld lovers, they will feature a QHLAN 2019 Duel Rematch between champion LocKtar and runner-up bps.

The event is raising funds for the Egyptian Cure Bank on behalf of Suplex, a young Egyptian Doom player stricken with leukemia.

Schedule:
Friday, 18th October
06:00 PM West/09:00 PM East/03:00 CEST (19th Oct)
Friday Night Survival w/ USQC (Doom)

Saturday, 19th October
10:30 AM West/1:30 PM East/19:30 CEST
Exhibition Match - LocKtar vs bps (QuakeWorld)

04:00 PM West/07:00 PM East/01:00 CEST (20th Oct)
King of the Hill (Warfork)

Useful links: Discord | Signup | Donate
Stream: InTheKeep

GetQuad! Season 2 kicked off this sunday with multiple matches. A couple of matches were played earlier in the week but it seems that sunday still is quakeworld day. Every team now got 1 game played.

We are pleased to announce the Thunderdome 12 "Dozen" Duel tournament is stared now!

52 players registered, 47 in Europe and 5 in America: 6 divisions in Europe and 1 in America, Double Elimination no more than 8 players each.
Brackets are here:

• Open Division
• Pro
• Regular High
• Regular Low
• Advanced Rookies
• Rookies
• America

The games starts from today, first deadline is 13th of October. This season is not supposed to be long and planned to finish by the 1st of December.

Find your opponents on Discord and on servers (here and here), don't forget to report your epic games and inform admins so we can have a chance (whenever is possible) to spectate and possibly stream the games.

Let the fight begin!

The freshly crowned QHLAN duel champion LocKtar was recently featured on the In The Keep podcast. Here he talked about his duel victory at QHLAN, the state of kenya maps in duel, his appetite for competitive QuakeWorld and finding his true love, prompting him to move into tVS country.

In The Keep is an ArenaFPS podcast hosted by TheMotherload.

Apart from the latest episode featuring LocKtar, the podcast has also had other notable QuakeWorld figures on.

(about, youtube, audio) In The Keep Podcast - #20 LocKtar
(about, youtube, audio) In The Keep Podcast - #10 BPS
(about, youtube, audio) In The Keep Podcast - #08 M3ssia
(about, youtube, audio) In The Keep Podcast - #07 LocKtar

For future episodes, it's possible to subscribe to the podcast via a bunch of modern services on the In The Keep website, with Spotify being one of them.

Quakeworld 4v4 is back again and 83 players (+ additional standins) have been drafted into 16 teams by 16 captains over 2 divisions. The GetQuad discord server is "reset" and teams are ready to go.

This year it looks like the Thunderdome is able to keep a pace of 2 seasons per year.
We are happy to announce that the new season Thunderdome 12 is starting 2019-10-06.
The registration is open now!

Join our Discord server for more information and scheduling of the games. Alternatively one can find admins on IRC channel #Thunderdome QuakeNet server.

The rules for this season are similar to those in Season 11.

The main change from the Season 11 is the map pool. To facilitate the participation of the new players, the last traditional QuakeWorld map dm4 was removed from the main pool. It is still possible for both players to form their own map pool if both players agree and therefore form a custom pool. Additionally the new map The Catalyst is introduced into the main pool. Administration hopes these changes will make the participation more active from the new coming players.

The registration is open using the following link and will be closed 5th of October 2019. The admin team will perform division placements and creating the schedule and brackets on 5th, and the 6th the first games could be started.
We are welcome everyone regardless of the skill level to join and enjoy the tournament together with us!

After 83 signups we are ready for the pre-season main event: The Draft!

We are ready for another Quakeworld 4on4 Draft Cup: Season 2. Signups are live and we are counting 24 signups since the signups opened last night.

With QHLAN over and server activity starting to pick up again it is time for Quakeworld season to kick off once more. And here at HammerTime HQ we have been hard at work over the summer break putting together not just one but two new tournaments for the autumn/winter period.