We know you have been waiting for this day for a long time, and we apologise it took this long! We are sending cheaters packing their bags! Its been a long road partly due to some complications of leaked files that made us verify the integrity of the anti-cheat system. Today we are happy to announce that all systems have been verified and we can now release the detected cheaters between versions 4.2.015 and 4.2.017.

We have been working closely with Urban Zone League and have given them priority updates and early access to this list already. In future we hope other leagues will join a special early access group.

The following 72 user accounts (and their duplicates!) have now been suspended for violation of our terms of service:

Lennonw8, Xixion, Almeria, Zhapoo, Torres, Supersuperluca99, Ho91337, Af4y, Odisey, Downuri, Se7up, Germanu, Duoro, Dr4g0n, MoNsTeRjAn17, Xiner, Sakuracan, Drdre, Tygas69, Swaaaag, Burrsheesh, Wrrdiego, Savage, Xhelazzjew2, Lobose3, Kevinmoler, Lunatic95, MAGNI, Porkje, Trump, Johnnykiller, Sophisticated, Konekp, Fisken, Brutosbrutaloz, Hellxxx, Krayz, Bebert17, Maqicx9, R1shex, Scenery1, Gordobasto, Sasio, Pickup, Tsetung, Sulukek, Lavezzi9874, Xstriker, Nocryfr, Hustle, Romao355, Buncha, Dothox, Aludogje, Ollx, Testik, Stayycautious, Nazgul, Bkao, Frostflake, Dspr3d, Cre4, Merek19, Zay3, Nemoonline, Kwizatse7s, Penthos, Kiki, Headshotgg, Marcel, Pleasedontcampme, Nitr0x

The UTSC Team is excited to announce the opening of 2 new additions to its array of tournaments!

5V5 CTF Tournament
The UTSC team now has decided to expand on the gametypes that would be played in its league! We introduce you to our first ever 5v5 CTF regular season and cup playoff. Teams will be split into groups and play a regular season round robbin. The top teams from each group will face off in a final bracket for medal placement!
Don't forget to register here www.utschamps.org/t/ctf1

North America Knockouts (NAKO)
With 4 successful editions of the Asia-Pacific Knockouts, in which multiple North American and European players took part. UTSC team decided to host an event where players from both region would be able to get a fair chance in being the last one standing! To serve this purpose, UTSC will run the NAKO on a server located in the USA. Be sure to sign-up for this at: www.utschamps.org/nako

Now that the captains have been elected for the national teams it is time to see which nations will be facing off in the group stages. This group draw will be done live on stream this Sunday (19 January) at 20:00 CET.

The stream address is www.twitch.tv/urbanzone and feel free to join the chat before the start of the draw!

It's that time again...

APKO#4 is uppon us. It will be held this Sunday at 2pm UTC.
The map list will be as follows:

Sign up here: http://utschamps.org/node/669 . For more info visit: utschamps.org

The NationsCup has always been the high point of competitive Urban Terror but it was uncertain whether or not it would be held this year due to the problems at ClanBase. Unfortunately they could not be resolved in time. Urban Zone has stepped in and offered to host it. Sotone, the CB game supervisor, has joined Urban Zone to make sure the NC will run smoothly.

Normally the run up to the NationsCup starts in December with the captain applications however due to the issues there is now a time constraint. In order to catch up the application period is shortened to January 5th, 2014. You can find more information on how to apply as captain of your nation on the Urban Zone website.

FrozenSand has worked hard to fix the autobalance bug and is happy to release the fix in 4.2.017. Please note that dmaHD is turned on by default so if you prefer the older sound engine remember to turn it off from the sound menu.

CHANGELOG

The Electronic Sports League has released a news statement about re-opening a league for Urban Terror starting with a 5on5 Team Survivor cup. This is what they had to say:

"Do you want to get the game back onto the ESL? Do you think you have what it takes to become the winner of the Test Cup? Gather your team and head on over to the sign up page where you will be given the option to get your team into the cup."

Signups are now open and will close on the 12th Jan 2014. Anyone wishing to join the tournament may register here.

Ho Ho Ho!
Santa's elves have been hard at work with FrozenSand to release an update to fix the autobalancer and a few other bugs this Sunday Dec 22nd at 22:00 CET. Check the changelog to see what else has been updated.

CHANGELOG

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UTSC are organizing their first Open 2v2 Cup.
Teams may play as few or as many matches as they like. This cup uses an ELO rating system (the same system used in the XLRstats skill component), so teams cannot spam wins against lesser teams to ensure high placing. Playing more often won't necessarily mean a higher rank, so only the most truly dynamic duo will emerge victorious.

There won't be any restrictions on map choices, however, the game type will be limited to Team Survivor for now. Teams can have as few as 2 players or as many as they choose. This is an open cup, so all are welcome and there is no limit to the number of teams participating. The only restriction is that players may not represent more than one team.

Sign ups will remain open until New Year's Eve, and the cup will be held for the first 2 months of 2014.
Visit http://utschamps.org for more details and to enroll your team.

KABOOM! - That is the sound our self destruct mechanism will make on the 1st of January 2014 at 00:00 CET. It has been activated for our 4.1 Master Servers and the count down has begun!

In just over two weeks time we will finally shut down the 4.1 master servers for good. So, if there are any server admins or players that have not yet upgraded to the latest Urban Terror 4.2 release, now is the opportunity to upgrade to version 4.2 and test the latest additions and changes!