UnFreeZe Tournament Summer 2026

[adminless]

ok guys it happened, the tournament has finally concluded with a draw between the second and the third that resulted in a split outcome, ilm keeps the second place of the second leg and dt takes the second place of the tournament thanks to the point advantage they got over ilm in the first leg, maximum excitement. I think it's pretty clear both read these comments and check the stats as if they had missed on thawing on previous games this night they based almost their entire strategy on thawing and it showed. the first map was a clear, almost one sided, win for ilm despite being a dt pick however what followed was very different once olc showed and dt assembled in full. the keys were the second and third maps were despite trailing in the scores almost all the time dt never conceded and ultimately completed two legendary comebacks that are indeed worth a more than disputed second place of the tournament. finally in the last map ilm managed to hold their edge over dt till the end to secure a draw that gives them a notorious second place of the second leg as well. overall a very exciting and epic match to enjoy and close the tournament in a positive note, one of the most balanced overall, so congrats to both on the second places respectively and thank you for participate, well played that was quite a show. ok, as usual I now go update and post all this and probably later at night after the dinner I'll post here all the usual awards, comments and the highly anticipated follow-up all-star event for those that might interested so stay tuned.

[fernandinho1337]

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yes, unfortunately the same fight that opened the tournament closed it this night, which is highly unusual btw, but still I think it has been a epic tournament. easily one of the best editions so far here so thank you and congrats to everyone on completing it. ok, finally everything complete now, it definitively took me quite a while to add and review everything this time, very difficult picks. so as for the results and takeaways, as already known, ass finished first in the second all the same as in the first and then finally this night ilm secured the second place over dt with the draw (same points/maps but higher round/score difference) and then followed ofp and tto in fourth and fifth respectively. this time it wasn't as disputed as the first leg since both ass and tto won and lost everything but as I said, it's what it's, that's the way it played out. it's not like I made any changes or anything over the first leg, those were the actual results. in that regard before moving on into the honors I'd like to remark that I neither build nor encouraged/promoted these teams, all these formations were exclusively the result of your own choices. this time I neither cut nor add anybody so now it's up to you as well to determine whether your choices made sense or not. for another edition some people have already suggested to simply add a draft and setup the teams in a similar fashion to how the all-star game is organized. we'll see first how the upcoming all-star game turns out to begin with and then we might discuss it for another edition. overall I'm on the opinion that I already offered it other times and that was actually the indeed the way the first tournament here was organized and people systematically scrap it in favor of building their own teams. that being said, I have no problem in setting that up in the future if people prefer that format. as said, so far that's just a commentary since no other tournament is gonna be organized at least in months. the earliest, I'm looking at for another edition would be after the Christmas holidays to start February/March, as usual, if nothing bad happens and just as a reference, and then we can probably decide. I think that probably rather than scrapping everything, the most reasonable would be just make a few adjustments and hopefully get a sixth team. for the most part that's only real improvement I'd see for this edition, a sixth team, so every one play every week and there's no this kind of random breaks that just completely mess up rhythm. speaking of that, since it was also a topic of debate, now that it ended I stand by what I wrote, don't expect any drastic changes in terms of activity for another edition, more or less is gonna be something like this (i.e. a serious months long tournament with weekly schedules). I'm not gonna change it, the only thing I'll take and keep from this edition will the extra mid tournament justify and properly announced free player change to account for potential unforeseen circumstances or even straight up penalization that given the case at some point it could happen that someone gets straight up kicked and thus would need to be replaced. other than that from my side just expect the usual minor adjustment here and there but that's all.

well, let's move to the second leg results that I opened the post almost with the conclusion. as for the second leg individual awards after accounting for everything this is the list for the best eight of the second leg in order *DT*Miroslav, -=ASS=-LITHY!!!, [ILM]ironmonkey, -=ASS=-G3RMAiN!, -=ASS=-Infin!ty, [ILM]Sarasti, blrskj[OFP], *DT*olc and with Miroslav as surprise mvp over lith. I wrote in italic as it should not really come as a surprise but with sensible underperforming team he has literally topped lith in every single metric, jumped like 600 rating points in the ranked stats and it's even listed player number one at the moment there and that's even without accounting off-game behavior/leadership etc that it's like it doesn't even compare this time so I personally don't think there should be any controversy there this time. the only argument in favor of lith for the mvp is that his team won the tournament which is why he will take the tournament mvp but in the second leg beside some moments here and there he wasn't as decisive as he was in the first leg. in the other hand if it wouldn't have been because of miro dt would have been disqualified to begin with and in-game just this night was the key player that made possible the dt final second place in the tournament against a team with higher averages over the tournament. matter of fact, the dt second place can only be explained individual as overall ilm performed better in the stats than dt which is another important takeaway.

ok, now for the grand results that you all have been waiting for these months. finally after adding everything here it's the final list for the best eight of the tournament in order -=ASS=-LITHY!!!, *DT*Miroslav, blrskj[OFP], -=ASS=-G3RMAiN!, *DT*olc, [ILM]ironmonkey, [ILM]Sarasti, *DT*lihensior with now lith as mvp of tournament as anticipated due the actual win and better performance all around. liha that could have been notoriously missing from previous list finally makes it since as opposed to infinity or cTh that mostly only stood out in one of the legs he has proven one of the most stable players of the tournaments so congrats on making it that far as well. the rest are exactly the same names as in the legs just some in some order or another so no surprises I guess. finally for the usual tournament sportsmanship award this time it clearly goes for The Team One that despite the results not only completed all games without a single incident that they even finished it earlier so once again thank you for participate and looking forward some reinforcement for another edition, ggs.

ok and I think that's all for today while I wait to upload the YouTube videos. tomorrow I'll probably post the all-star draft to played within the next weeks and I guess I'll write some more and that should be all for this edition then.

[fernandinho1337]

thanks to adminless for organising and gg to everyone

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yeah, ggs. this morning I finally fixed uploading/posting the YouTube videos that finished too late yesterday and reviewing, noting everything. as said, a epic edition, the number of draws was lower than I had expected just a 15% (3 out of 20 fights) but that's probably a good thing as that mean that now people really pushed in the opponent maps which was another serious issue with the traditional best of something format that people almost completely skip them and then fight basically just to almost to a single, fixed, map duel. not good, everyone got a draw except for dt that got two one bellow and one above it final position still the clear winner would have been ass as even if dt would have converted both draws on wins ass would still took the championship with a 14/12 points difference. what hurt the most tto was their thaw performance that just sinked in the second leg, tc/oKo were always teams well know for their solid thaw performance typically in the 0.2 or above thaws per death. in the second leg they just performed bellow 0.15 which is the bare minimum for elite offensive teams and that was probably the determining factor. anyway, looking forward having them in another edition potentially with some solid reinforcements. ofp finished fourth both legs comfortably above tto but also bellow dt/ilm that pretty much but draw each other for the 2-3 place. very meaningful and exciting results to be honest.

on the topic activity that I missed it yesterday as I started to write, again, in the second leg everyone played except for Sib Vassek for ofp and shantu/masin for dt. as said, they still participated at least in some in-record game in the first leg so it's ok (meaning I won't take any action) still that's not the game it's supposed to be especially giving all the circumstances. in particular the dt case is flagrant, if they had so many troubles with availability they could have perfectly replaced one of them that the rules allowed for it. anyway, I hope that for a next edition if those guys are not gonna really play they will be replaced since if they systematically don't play they will be kicked. finally on the maps topic that I also missed to comment about it ultimately this is the list of maps that were set to be played along the tournament and that would have been the base for the super final schedule:

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      9 reqdm5
      8 q3shw14
      7 hub3tourney1
      7 bal3dm3
      6 teddm1
      5 7++
      5 6++
      4 q3dm8
      4 q3dm14
      3 storm3tourney1
      3 pro-q3tourney7
      3 pro-dcmap7
      2 q3dm7
      2 pro-q3dm13
      2 goldleaf
      2 focal_p132
      2 bloodcovenant
      1 pro-q3tourney2
      1 pro-q3dm6
      1 poq3dm5
      1 phantq3dm1_rev
      1 nodm9a
      1 charon3dm9

so basically reqdm5 was played virtually every week (i.e. close to 50% of the matches) and q3shw14 that was a new edition for this skill level it seems like it finally ended sticking. to be clear if there would be to be a super final now it would have been disputed at reqdm5, q3shw14, 6++, hub3tourney1, bal3dm3, 7++ since there's a triple tie at 7 occurrences among hub3tourney1, bal3dm3 and 7++ the first place would block one of those and that basically would be then the super final maps. if there would be more map ties then the second would start blocking as well and so on until come up with a best of five and no other choices would be made. as said, finally a very varied edition (by far the most varied) and everything was actually scheduled except for overkill that got blocked the times it got picked. as already commented 13hell/13excave just do not work for this skill level and despite 13hell was still picked once, it's just not enough and after various editions I'll just remove them in place of phantq3dm3_rev for future editions that was previous left out for reasons similar to q3shw14 (i.e. probably too big unless the skill level is this high for 5vs5).

ok then I think I'm all set to launch the follow up all-star game of the tournament as announced previously. following just the previous paragraph I think that I'm going to keep the map format of the super final just for the all-star thus the all-star game will go q3shw14, 6++, bal3dm3, 7++ and the newly added phantq3dm3_rev as promotion testing as it's usually the case for this kind of events. reqdm5/hub3tourney1 are obviously removed form the list as they are barely enough for 5vs5 let alone above that as it's typically the case in the all-star game. the initial dates I see are either the next Friday 20 of November of 2026 20:00 CET (UTC+01) or the Sunday 22 of November of 2026 19:00 CET (UTC+01) approx and to discuss as usual. the server would be the new spare fpsclassico.com:27969 for testing as already commented (I hope I can bring the alternative ip in time if not the main ip is more than enough and actually the recommended anyway). finally the moment that probably everyone was waiting about the initially list of nominees to participate is lith, st.germain, infinity, ricky, miro, olc, liha, iron, sarasti, blaze, blrskj, odin, cth and ami from the tournament and additionally I'll invite as well roxor and d4wid0V as legendary former ozaru and team over leaders as promotion as well. the format should be well know by now, best of five in the maps I just posted and the final teams will be posted once the final list of participants is know sorted according to a mix up of fair play human and synthetic team balance algorithms. the teams then are typically between 5vs5 and 7vs7 max depending on who shows up and in case of overbooking then there will be replacements/changes. as usual, the event is not mandatory therefore if you're not interested or anything (i.e. you don't like the maps, you might dislike your team etc) simply do not participate and skip it, nothing more than that is asked. for the rest that are interested, as usual I'll send later/tomorrow some invites for that then feel free to reach back or sign in here to note you and participate. I believe that I have contact for everyone expect blrskj so I guess I'll just ask odin to bring him along him if he/they want. and I think that we're finally set for the all-star.