The prize ceremony is at 4:00!

Quake 3: Arena competitions aren't finished yet, and we will have a separate prize ceremony for it later.

1st place: Dominator
2nd place: UltraleXX
3rd place: Brufser

Gratz!

The Counter-Strike competition has finished, here are the results:

1. place: zX9
2. place: Northern Star
3. place: The Feared

Congratulations!

Results for the UT2003 competition:

1. place: Viruz-2kr
2. place: swiffer
3. place: indrazor

Congratulations!

The BF1942 competition is done! Here are the results:

1. place: Norwegian PimpSquad
2. place: 99th Norwegian Batallion
3. place: TNA

Congratulations!

The remaining matches (the final matches in the winners and losers bracket, as well as the final itself) will be played in a moment - if you want to spectate, connect to the HLTV server at 194.0.254.120, ports 27020 through 27023.

1. place: uGu
2. place: TAN
3. place: PWD

Congratulations!

No competitions will continue earlier than 11:00 on Friday.

The deadline for finishing your round 1 matches in Unreal Tournament 2003 is Friday 11:00. Those of you who still haven't found your opponent: Be in the channel #TG-UT on the EFNet IRC network at Friday 10:00, and meet your opponent there. If you were in #TG-UT at 10:00 and still haven't found your opponent by 11:00, you win by walkover.

Find your opponent and meet on EFNet IRC #tg-game.bf to receive server-details. Brackets: http://zepo.party.gathering.org/tg03/game!

The competition starts now (02:30), so please find your opponent on #tg-ut (on the EFNet IRC network), and when you have found your opponent, ask an administrator for a password.

The brackets can be found here:
http://nql.fps-gamers.com/~tg03/ut2k3/

Brackets can be found at http://nql.fps-gamers.com/~tg03/

Meet at #TG03.Q3 on the Quakenet IRC network (irc.no.quakenet.eu.org) before the matches to find your opponent. Failing to meet here will be regarded as a no-show.

Match results must be reported to R|flabbert on #tg03 or #quake3.no, also on the Quakenet IRC network (irc.no.quakenet.eu.org).

Round 5 will start tomorrow (Friday) at 11:30.

The UT 2003 competition will start at 01:00! Detailed schedule will come shortly - check back on this page from time to time.

The Q3A compo has been delayed until further notice. Keep checking the web page!

The new bracket for Warcraft III has been moved to Cyberleagues! Check out the link below...

http://www.cyberleagues.org/popup_CL.php?act=tree_info&ligID=24&tID=1476&mstep=1&rd=1&rf=4

There are still teams who haven't played the first round in the BF1942 competition - find your opponent in the channel #TG-Game on the EFNet IRC network and play on one of our servers ASAP!

Q3A: http://games.party.gathering.org/q3a4on4.cfg
CS: http://games.party.gathering.org/files/server.cfg

Battle.net
Our local battle.net server is at bnet.party.gathering.org. Note that the battle.net server will only accept usernames containing only alphanumeric characters, hyphens (-) and underscores (_) in them.

Battlefield 1942 servers
The official Battlefield 1942 servers are as follows:
194.0.145.14
194.0.145.15
194.0.145.16
194.0.145.17

Counter-Strike servers
A list of our Counter-Strike servers can be found at http://biff.wolla.biz/div/cs/.

Public servers
For a list, go to http://games.party.gathering.org/qstat/. If you want to have your own server listed, send a message containing address, port and type of game to nmee on the EFNet IRC network.

Support
StarCraft howto: http://games.party.gathering.org/HOWTO_Starcraft.html
WarCraft III howto:
http://games.party.gathering.org/HOWTO_Warcraft3.html
Counter-Strike FAQ: http://games.party.gathering.org/FAQ_CounterStrike.html
Questions regarding this post? per@gathering.org

The official tournaments at The Gathering 2003

Counter-Strike 5on5
WarCraft 3 1on1
Battlefield 1942 8on8
Unreal Tournament 2003 1on1
Quake3 4on4
StarCraft:Broodwar 2on2

Questions regarding this post? per@gathering.org

Planetarion-lovers; beware! Planetarion will be at this years TG! Not only will we host the largest LAN-version of Planetarion ever, but you will be among the first ones who will be able to play the next generation of this great game! There are some great new features in this edition and we're sure you'll go head over heels for them when you get to begin your new reign of power..
The game will only be accessable from within the hall.
Here is a preliminary play-schedule (not final, likely to change):

18. April
10:00
Registration Opens
12:00
Game starts, 1 tick = 1 minute
18:00
One hour break
19:00
GAME ON!
kl 01:00 We Pause the game until next morning
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19. April
10:00
Game starts up again from where we stopped
13:00
One Hour break
14:00
GAME ON!
18:00
One Hour Break
19:00
Last inning
kl 22:00
GAME OVER!

Some more Info about the Electronic Sports World Cup
First The URL:http://www.esworldcup.com/main.php

This is the deal:
The best NORWEGIAN player/Teams will be sent to France july 8th - 13th to play for NORWAY in the cup.

Notice how I keep emphasising NORWEGIAN?
Guess why ?
Because it's the NORWEGIAN QUALIFYER :) get it? :D

How hard are we going to be on this point?
ROCK HARD!
Keep it norwegian guys :)

The Rules will soon be announced too, stay tuned.

The Gathering 2003 is hosting the preliminaries to the Electronic Sports World Cup, which is to be held in Poitiers, France on the 8th to the 13th of July, 2003. The best norwegian clan/players in the following competitions will win a trip to France where they will participate in the ESWP.

Counter Strike 5vs5 (5 persons)
WarCraft 3 (1 person)
Unreal Tournament 1on1 (1 person)

The trip includes hotel with breakfast and The Gathering will pay for the trip itself. More information about the ESWP can be found on their official pages - http://www.esworldcup.com/
[ESWP] Questions regarding this post? per@gathering.org