Newcomer tournament

The second Newcomer Tournament has been played out which consisted of seven teams, congratulations to Flightless Lerks for being the victors. All of the games were enjoyable to watch, we hope those participating had fun playing and had a good introduction to the competitive side of Natural Selection 2.

For those interested in the replays, the following streamed: Vindaloo, KingCovert, Prommah, Hoeloe & Luchs and artem streamed for our russian members.

We'd like to thank infamous and kmacg for organizing the tournament and tudy for his work on the previous tournament which helped tremendously.

Season 7 is close

There is no time to rest, check your rifles, sharpen your fangs and get ready for Season 7 of the NSL. As of the time this post is written, there are 18 signups including some from the newcomer tournament and more to come. 

You will have until Friday the 25th September to sign up. The contest page will start being filled out at 23:59 CEST friday night with at least the week 1 matches being added that night, rest will be added on saturday.

Let's get this season going with our new staff in the hopes everyone will have a great time playing it.

Seedings

Since we will be setting up the contests right after signups close, we have been working on seedings this past week. The divisions are decided by cutting a ladder type team list into pieces which will give every division the same amount of weeks in the season. You can find the seedings here with a topic on the forums for feedback right here. Please give your input on the topic regarding which teams should be where.

If you want to help us out even more, please contact another team and an NA/EU/Head admin to set up a seeding match before friday night. This will allow us to more accurately rank the teams to get more balanced divisions.

Maps

 So the maps for Season 7 are mostly decided. We're sure these 8 maps will make their way into Season 7:

1. ns2_summit
2. ns2_tram
3. ns2_veil
4. ns2_descent
5. ns2_biodome
6. ns2_jambi
7. ns2_mineral
8. ns2_nexus

Due to the amount of feedback we got, we are thinking about adding Docking2 to this list, Please fill out this form to tell us if you want docking2 in the season or not, and which maps you would prefer to play twice in the group stages of the season.

Oh and Nightsy made this sweet NS2 fan song !