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1st)
some info has been made more clear, some guides re-written and some old stuff removed. Information forum ( viewforum.php?f=13 ) should be more accessible now.
There were no rule changes, just re-phrasing and cleaning up threads.

2nd)
A new subforum has been created for all ban information: "Hall of Shame / Public Records" ( http://www.soldatgather.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=37 )

It holds all public information ("public records") about the people that are currently banned from #soldat.gather, including all the rules they have broken in the past - as far as we know - and the ban times they have received as punishment, including the date they will be unbanned.
This was done to make it more transparent for everybody, and to possibly encourage people to stop making the same mistakes again and again, increasing their ban time by huge chunks in the process..

3rd)
Unbans: The following people have been unbanned as of 11/APR/2012, because they have not broken any more rules since the last unbans (24/JUL/2011), and the ban time has run out:

m4c
dutchflame
proud
munky

4th)
Ban Time Reductions: The following people have had their ban time reduced by 50% as of 11/APR/2012, because they have not broken any more rules since the last unbans (24/JUL/2011):
the ban times are currently being updated on the bot, i.e. ban times will soon show up when trying to add (e.g. "you are banned until 04.07.2012"), and will be removed automatically when the time is up.


note due to popular demand: "d" = "days" ...

morvan 18d ---> 9d
rz3snik 88d ---> 44d
magik 104d ---> 52d
sooly 192d ---> 96d
vinteek 242d ---> 121d
atomic 328d ---> 164d
neadej/nedej/deesel 435d ---> 218d
flym/soldat17 1512d ---> 756d
destiny 1550d ---> 775d
viper 1624d ---> 812d
aril/funty 1656d ---> 828d
caeya/kri 2274d ---> 1137d
bananasan/maid 2545d ---> 1273d
laxness 2957d ---> 1479d
chaotic/taifter 3835d ---> 1918d
cast perm ---> 2000d

5th)
In the future, we will do the following things to make things better in general:

1. keep public records of broken rules and punishments (ban times) up to date (as best we can)

2. have a round of "ban time review" (like what we did just now) every couple of months (3 to 6, or at least once a year).
During this, the ban times will be reduced for those people who did not break the rules since the last round of review.

- it will NOT be 50% reduction every time, though
- the next round of review is scheduled for the "anniversary" of the first amnesty/unban, i.e. 24/JUL/2011

next gather cup is on sunday mar 11th at 16 gmt+0 (17 for poles and germans etc)

read more about our cups at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=333

the first 24 sign ups will get to play, if we get less than 10 people in i'm gonna do a dm triathlon cup (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=317) and with like 14-20 people i'm gonna do a smaller ctf cup (example: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=333)

remember:
we are not aiming for this cup to be anything dead serious, we demand a relaxed atmosphere between all participants at all times. this also includes respecting your fellow participants, do NOT be late because it's fucking annoying. i couldn't highlight it enough that there is going to be a certain chance that you will end up in a team that you don't like due to various factors. if this possibility bothers you, then i can't but encourage you to NOT SIGN UP. we will not tolerate any kind of flaming or hate towards other players. if we find your behaviour inappropriate it will have a direct effect on your status on #soldat.gather.

rules
-we play a knockout cup with 8 teams of 3 people
-sctfl freeplay rules apply for matches. red team picks first map, blue team picks second map, rotten is the tiebreaker. IF the match remains tied after rotten, a sudden death round with be played on guardian (first cap wins)
-guardian can be picked as a regular map, although it's a tiebreaker map, HOWEVER ROTTEN CAN NOT

-don't complain about lag when playing against people of other continents. soldat is a heavily international game which means that you will have to be able to tolerate lag if you ever want to really play it. our general aim here is to let anyone play

-minigun is allowed, but if a minigunner is asked to change his weapon it would be most appropriate to do so considered the nature of the cup, am i right?

-if you're banned, you cannot participate

rewards
members of the winning team get to pick a custom nick to appear on the bot when they play. it may consist of
-2-20 characters
-bold text (no underlining or background coloring)
-directly taking other people's nicks not allowed (poop not allowed while poop_sucks is allowed)
-each character of the name may be colored individually
the running-up team may pick a color in a similar way for their nick but just one color

pm YMMEES on irc to sign up

sign ups:
foggy
kaze
knave
skoda
premiumkill

dezerteur
dicko
cabron
devalou
kool

berni
maxxie
whiz
leprosy
eeneku

creed
vodka
dotd
crespo
voltex

quinoman
downlight
chukcha
lxshorin

subs: maluk, aveh

match 1
Team1: Crespo` Creed voDKa`
Team2: downlight Leprosy Whiz
soldat://soldatgather.com:23873/d5ca
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match 2
Team3: Cabronnnnn Quinoman dezerteuR
Team4: knave Kaze- eeneku
soldat://soldatgather.com:23874/bbb2
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match 3
Team5: dicko Foggy` Maxxie
Team6: Devalou Astra|Chukcha Skoda_
soldat://soldatgather.com:23875/9e16
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match 4
Team7: DotD PremiumKill LxShoRiNcL
Team8: archy[ K001 voltex/dotd
soldat://soldatgather.com:23876/4251