UnFreeZe Tournament Summer 2026

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btw just as a reminder in just about a hour now is the highly anticipated encounter between the last tournament first place, ofp, and runner-up, dt, in what will probably be more like than not their final match-up of the tournament until a new edition so make sure to not miss out. following that as usual with every Monday for the duration of the tournament here are the upcoming fights to leave scheduled along the week for the next one:

• Week 3
  • ASS Clan VS Double Trouble (Tuesday 27 of October of 2026 20:00 CET [UTC+01])
    1. picks: storm3tourney1, reqdm5, hub3tourney1, bal3dm3, goldleaf, q3dm8
  • ILM Clan VS Team One (Thursday 29 of October of 2026 20:30 CET [UTC+01])
    1. picks: q3shw14, pro-q3dm6, hub3tourney1, pro-dcmap7, teddm1, charon3dm9
  • rest: OFP Clan

as said along with this week these are probably gonna be decisive so I hope that now people all of the sudden don't go on vacation, sprained their wrist at the servers or any other stuff and they get scheduled in time as it has been the case lately so please check those out and get back for that along the week.

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breaking finally the highly anticipated fight between ofp and dt has concluded with a solid 3:1 win in favor of dt that doesn't lose pace and remains just two points behind the lead, enough distance to depend on themselves so far to get to a potential super final. as usual ofp opened with their flagship map, teddm1, and as expected they did not fail to deliver and took it promptly. however what followed was a very different story, both goldleaf and 6++ were a total toss up 10:9 that could have gone either way with back and forth fighting. at times one looked better than the other just for the other to equalize later on and so on. finally be it for some reasons or another dt managed to edge both maps and that's what granted the advantage on their second home and last map of the night. bal3dm3 similarly to teddm1 for ofp played as favorable to dt and this time here they had no major problems to took it either and with it a very important victory towards the final result and the second leg as well. overall I'd say that probably dt played better the key moments but nevertheless a pretty much neck to neck fight with both teams in full force that should prove for a fact that the overall balance was indeed about realistically right. ok, I go update and post everything now as usual so stay tuned, ggs and very well played both, intense.

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ok, everything done now just waiting for the YouTube videos to complete. great games, statistically for other than the first game they were not as close as the in-game reflected but nevertheless a titanic battle. as for the results following tto exit from the championship dispute now with this result ofp drops as well mathematically from the battle for the champion as now the most they could achieve would be four points in the second leg and seven in total. none of that is enough for a first place or forcing a super final so it appears like their ceiling in this edition is gonna be around the fourth place they achieved in the first leg which coincides by the way with the last place of the original Сборная России at a major tournament here before apparently their previous leader, ixsy, withdrew from these tournaments so nevertheless a strong showing and a more than respectful position. now as usual for this night comments, in the first map someone requested and later complained about a game pasue. I checked the game in-game when prompted and I even reviewed the entire match in full now to be sure and I did not observe any significant incident that would have deserved a match break so consequently it was not conceded. the in-game feeling to me due the timing and the context was that the game break was being called for tactical reasons, it was later said that it was due ping at two rounds from one specific player, whatever the case is, I repeat, I checked and followed the game and I don't recall the exact ping number at the time but it didn't look like it and at the review it doesn't seem to have occurred anything extraordinary outside of the normal variance at a game as to justify breaking the game. in that regard as can be seen if on a team game we are gonna be breaking the game every time some client ping, has a few spikes, red bars or anything, well, in such case every tto game would take hours to complete and this is a clear example of among other things why the timeout isn't there. it doesn't work like that, it can not even really verified in a meaningful way (i.e. not saying it was the case here but were you lagging or were you making you lag? who knows, it can not be told) and the reality is that the vast majority of those 'mouse' timeouts and similar even at top level are clearly simply tactical so the game here is only orderly broken when it's clearly justified due a major verified issue (i.e. someone drops, the game is unplayable and similar major incidents) and not because someone lags or other minor issues. other than that once again remind everyone that they need to have all the maps that are gonna played before the start of the match and that people can not routinely wait to get dropped from the server to then install them. in regard also remind people that the maps on the links in this site are distributed in zip form and therefore require to extract the pk3 inside them into your actual running baseq3 folder and not in another one to be available in these events. ok and I think that's all for now while we await for dt-tto tomorrow 20:30 so have fun and see you tomorrow, ggs.

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breaking as expected from a fight between a tittle contender, dt, and the fifth place, tto, dt cleared the night with a triple 10:6 win without much problem. that being said, given all the circumstances and the people that showed I'd say that tto still beat expectations, at least mines, and although keeping the fight competitive was simply unrealistic they managed at least to keep it fun and going so big shout out to them. as usual once the more than exciting off-the-record game ends I'll update and post everything and then I'll come back with some more results and comments. ggs and well played both.

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ggs so far. as said for our team its now a little bit critical because of vacation time. the earliest possible by now might be around 6th november, than everyone should be back. i think everyone looking forward now for the games with "final" character, so i hope its gonna be ok to play both games vs ilm and ass at that week.
see you soon and good night

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as usual I don't see how your guys are gonna be coming back from holidays in September just to go back on holidays again in October/November?! not to mention that who really goes on holidays in these dates? honest question, I personally don't know anybody so I highly doubt that figure to be very high (of course not saying to be zero, someone will to rotate labor force, but it's obvious it's gonna be the majority). with that I'm not saying that perhaps one or two of your guys might be out these weeks for some reason but I'm quite confident your entire team wasn't coming back from holidays in September to now just barely one month later going out on holidays again. either way, I'm just saying, look it's not worth the drama so if you just want to schedule your drama show against ass for the last date of the second leg again I think that given the circumstances (i.e. scores/results, calendar, the advanced fights etc) it can probably done, no problem. I'm just telling you that for other edition under normal circumstances you pull something off like this and you are probably gonna need to find other people or you're out. in this specific case we have ilm-tto next week and then the final showdown among the top three, ass-dt, ilm-ass, dt-ilm so probably something can be done the next week.

anyway, everything done already with this night games. finally although it doesn't count and it was clearly played in a more casual/relaxed manner but tto even managed to take the off-the-record game. in that regard comment since there seemed to some confusion that although in the event of a 3:0 win there's no need to play the fourth map, if the circumstances allow for it (i.e. there's enough time, the spirits are high etc) it can be played anyway off-the-record in some shape or form. in fact, I'd say that's even intended to be played for fun and fairness even if I repeat it won't count and it won't hurt the tournament record in any way. ok, so with this result tto finally finish now mathematically alone in fifth place and will probably have little at play in their final showdown against ilm. probably the most notable would be to see if they can finally win a map since after their initial draw against ofp they have counted all their fights as 3:0 loses. unfortunately for them, the team level is just currently way too high and while they peaked at the beginning the rest of the team were just warming up but in any case I'd like to put some respect on these guys and remind everyone around that to finish a tournament in fifth place not only you have to sign up in the first place if not that you need to be consistent and complete/honor it in full which is a lot more than many other people/teams around have done. people should definitively not forget that and have a lot more respect toward the lesser places, at the end of the day, this can only be played like this thanks to everyone who joins and everyone helps make the tournament bigger and more exciting, not the other way around.