Competition: MLF - Season 1

Scoring. A team gets 3 points for every map win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing a map.

Cheating

MLF has a 1 hwguy limit, using more than 1 hwguy at a time will see the offending clan penalised.

Excessive use of MM1 (messagemode1 i.e. talking in public), during the match is not to happen. Players doing this excessively could see their clan deducted points as a result. Get a demo, complaining mid match will not do anything.

Constantly switching teams within a match is not allowed.

Mercing or using banned players is strictly forbidden, and will result in severe punishment for player and clan. Clan leaders will be punished if it is believed they knew what was going on.

Bans vary depending on the severity of the cheating. Cheating in the form of a game hack (wallhack/aimbot etc.) will result in a permanent ban.

Lying to the admins about details of a case will be treated very severely and can result in a permanent ban.

Users of racist slurs within MLF will face permanent bans

In match cheating:

These are NOT cheats:

8 Engineer Defence on Rock2 - This is not a cheat. It's just being un-sportsmanlike.

Bunny hopping/ strafe jumping are not cheats.

Using an ammo dispenser/SG in some weird way to keep lifts up/down. Is not cheating.

Dropping det-packs into holes is not cheating (i.e. On crossover2, from yard into basement). Nail Grenade and Mirv Bugs are not permitted in MLF; if you are found using these exploits you will be penalized.

Altered rocket flares are allowed


These ARE cheats:

Exploiting most map bugs is cheating. i.e. concussion jumping out of the water tunnels in Monkey (the map maker emphasises this in the readme for the map). However, due to map exploits and bugs being discovered in the beautiful game all the time, this list most probably will be extended. If a bug or cheat is not in this list and is deemed illegal points can be deducted, this is at the Admins discretion. Play fair and sportsmanlike! If you do find new map bugs the best thing you can do is post it on the forums. (N.B. Getting through the lasers without taking security down on shutdown type maps is a cheat, HWGuys using the pipe-lip to protect themselves from being hit on well is a cheat, double capping on rock2 by using the switch bug is a cheat).

Using 'invisible' spies/medic/scouts is a cheat. If you spot this then get a referee instantly, or after the game contact the server admin to obtain copies of the server logs, and most importantly GET A DEMO

Using game cvars to avoid Sentry Gun fire, or to wallhack is a cheat.

Getting through the lasers without taking security down on shutdown type maps is a cheat

HWGuys using the pipe-lip to protect them from being hit on well is a cheat.

Double capping on rock2 by using the switch bug is a cheat.

Using the lift on 2fort to trap a nail grenade is a cheat

Any altered explosions that make it easier to see are illegal.

Global timers or any modification that lets you hear your enemies grenades any different from standard is illegal.

The ONLY modifications that can be made for hwg tracers are colour and alpha value, all other modifications on this will be flagged as a cheat.

_special is banned. fullupdate is banned

Any console command that simulates lag is illegal.

Team changing in game - Is not permitted since it can be used to see what classes the opposite clan are using, view their chat and also avoids a 5 second re-spawn delay. Players abusing this will find themselves punished, and if persistant, can find themselves costing their team the match in the form of a default loss.

Use of console commands to effectively lock any axis when conced is illegal.

Clans/Players found 'guilty' of cheating will subject to the disciplinary action, affiliated Leagues will be informed and appropriate action taken there too.

A comprehensive, though not all-inclusive, list of banned cheats within the MLF will be provided when possible. It is recommended that server admins use this list for MLF matches.

Servers

MLF has a 1 hwguy per defence limit and a 2 engineer limit in 8v8 and 9v9 matches. The config will have the variable cr_hwguy set to 1 and cr_engineer set to 2 to allow for this. If a hwguy lags out, it would be very sportsmanlike of the clan with rcon control to pause the server to allow the affected team to be able to set another player to hwguy.

The MLF config must be running on the server, the only thing that can be edited is the server name, the rcon on the server, server password (remember to tell your opponent), and the sv_rate if your gisp has a specific limit to it. Config is available here The Config will be updated and version number is reported at every map change so we can know if clans are using the latest version and banned lists.

Server used must be the server which gives both clans about an equal ping, excluding 56k users, or users from very distant countries (outside of europe). If there are problems in agreeing on a server, come and get help from the admins.

It is recommended to run the server in secure mode (with valve anti cheat), by adding: secure "1" to the liblist.gam if it is not already there and then rebooting the server. Other cheat prevention tools may be considered by the league such as Cheating Death, all this will be announced if it happens.

The rule list is not definitive, and anything not covered in the rules will have a decision made on it as it happens. Just because a specific hack or cheating method is not mentioned above, does not mean that it will not be banned, with the abuser facing punishment.

If a server has major problems mid match, please take a demo of the incident as it occurs, and if it is deemed to unfairly affect one clan, than a map replay may be ordered.

When arranging matches it is always recommended to keep logs as proof of conversation if the match runs into any problems. There will always be forgetfulness, so both clans are encouraged to compromise, but we cannot mediate in any decision fully without proper proof to back up either claim, whether in the form of hltv demo/first person demo's/irc logs or whatever. Faking any of these items will be dealt with very severely.

Servers with various game altering addons like neo tf, or bunnyhop servers are not to be used for league matches.

Spectators are not allowed, only referee's and hltv will be allowed to watch the match. We will make a hltv.cfg so people can easily setup hltv for the match, information for that will be updated to here.

Rules are subject to change at anytime. Admin decision is final.