Read about it HERE.

Urban Terror has just finished their first annual 9-day speed-map-a-thon. Level designers had to create a map from scratch in a very short time frame. This years theme was "super villain lairs" and a giant death ray model that none of them knew about until the competition started had to be included in their creation.



Now it's time for all of you to vote on your favourite map.

The submissions can all be found on the submissions thread. Please head on over to this forum thread and vote for your favourite map from the speed mapping competition.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered the competition!

eChain has opened sign-ups for season 2 of their league, which will start on october first, 2008.

Go ahead and sign up!

Forum thread

Quake Expo 2008 needs YOUR help!  All of the modding and mapping is about to be struck... with TERROR...

Global Gamers and Scintle invite you to take part in:

Terror at Quake Expo 2008

This is an Urban Terror 5v5 single-elimination tournament with prizes to be claimed by the best of the best.  Grab your team and compete for your chance to win!

First place winners: $25 ThinkGeek gift certificate per player

Second and Third place winners: $10 ThinkGeek gift certificate per player

Winners can opt for a box of surprise swag instead of the TG gift certificate.

Scintle will be providing match servers on USA's East Coast to showcase their awesome new software!

Visit http://tournaments.globalgamers.net for tournament news, to register your account, and set up your team.  Registration is open through Sunday, September 7, and matches will be played Monday (8th) through the following Sunday (14th), with the schedule to be posted on Monday.  Hurry and sign up!

Forum thread link

Edit: Site has shut down due to personal reasons.

A Dutch member from our community has been working on creating his own site dedicated to Urban Terror maps. He had this to say:

I have been a fanatical Urban Terror gamer for years. My gameplay is passable, but the most important is to HAVE FUN. Every time I go into a Urban Terror server, it is most enjoyable. In the past I have tried many other online games, but I always come back to Urban Terror. The game is just perfect and it runs smoothly. Everything about Urban Terror is just perfect. That is my opinion anyway.

Why this site? It is my dream to have the biggest map-depot there is. Not just for myself, but for all the Urban Terror gamers. At the moment there are over 400 Urban Terror maps on my site. I have a Reseller with super speed. So maximum download speed!!! Test it and experience it for yourself.

I have extended my site with an Uploadlink. Here you can upload maps which are not yet in the map-depot up to 300Mb (5 maps at the same time). It would be great if all the Urban Terror gamers would cooperate. I will donate $1 to the Urban Terror development team for every new 100% playable map that is uploaded to my site. Help me and I'll help Urban Terror.

I wish all the Urban Terror gamers good gameplay. And don't forget: HAVE FUN.

Greetings!

Edit: Site has shut down due to personal reasons.

Two Open Cups (fall 2008) opened on ClanBase. Urban Zone started season 4 of their CTF league. [US] is having an Ibiza weekend. Go ahead and join the fun!

Organiser d_a_n_ from CB let us know the following via IRC: I hope we do get enough clans to run both cups at the same time. Also I hope to find another supervisor for CB UrT crew. Another organiser (Tidus) posted in our forums.

Organiser eya from Urban Zone let us know the following via the forums: Urban Zone is happy to announce that signups for SEASON 4 of the Urban Zone CTF League are now officially open. Just click sign ups in the League website. The new season will begin as soon as all teams are ready to play, most probably between the third week of September and first week of October. Watch our website and irc channel, we will keep you posted.

Another upcoming Urban Terror event is the [US] Ibiza weekend. A whole weekend full of fun and fight.

Links:

ClanBase ioUrbanTerror CTF OpenCup

ClanBase ioUrbanTerror TS OpenCup

Urban Zone CTF League Season 4

[US] Ibiza Weekend

We're proud to announce that the Frozen Sand Development Team has two excellent new members:

$Null and Sinni. Both were interviewed for the occasion :)

Forum thread here

Click 'Read the rest ...' to read the interviews!

The lucky gamers who are attending quakecon 2008 can download Urban Terror 4.1 from http://files.at.quakecon.org  This is an internal Qcon link only. Have fun and good luck.

BladeKiller has put together a zip file to assist the community make funstuff. The zip file contains the player model head scenes set up for funstuff and the uvw unwrap for skinning. Instructions for making the models is included. You can download the funstuff_heads.zip here.