Thursday, January 2, 2014

Take a trip back to the past in this week's Euro FNF in some scarily nostalgic maps recreated with fine, dated style. Stop by American FNF for Eon Deathmatch, a Cacoward-winning mapset designed around a blend of old and new school.

European FNF
When: January 3rd, 2014, 19:00 UTC
Where: Grandvoid, UK
WADs: Doom 2 the Way id Did, Classic LMS, ZandroSpree, Fuzzball's text colors, connect sound
Mode: 20-Player Last Man Standing
Maplist: MAP01-32

American FNF
When: January 3rd, 2014, 20:00 EDT
Where: Best Ever servers
WAD's: Eon DM, railgun, ZandroSpree, Fuzzball's text colors
Mode: 16-Player Deathmatch
Maplist: MAP01-06, 08-14, 32

If you want to join, you'll need to download the latest version of Zandronum. You can find out anything else you need to know about Zandronum here. More specific details for this event can be found here.

Join us for the first ZDS this year! We will be going through the all-new 2013 edition of 32in24, with 48 all-new maps to blast through. It will all be played on ZDaemon 1.10 with full bright skins.

Game mode: Deathmatch
IWAD: Doom 2
PWADs: 32in24-13 zds_addon_3 monster_skins_heretic5 miekskins-r3 UTvox1d
WAD URL: KrawaServ
Date: Saturday 4th January 2014
Times: Euro: 19:30 BST (14:30 EDT); USA: 02:00 BST (21:00 EDT)
Locations: [SDA] / Dwango United NJ
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Get ZDaemon and enjoy Doom the way it was meant to be played.

The folks from Speed Demos Archive are organizing the fourth annual Awesome Games Done Quick, a live speedrunning charity marathon held for 7 days from January 5th till 11th. Donations raised during the event go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

Last year, kubelwagon raced through Doom and Doom 2 in pretty decent times and he added Chex Quest for extra Doom-related fun. This year, Doom will return on January 6th (or 7th, depending on your timezone) as Dime will tackle Plutonia on Ultra-Violence! The speedrun will be followed by a race between him and Vortale on either Doom or Doom 2, depending on a bid outcome. There will be an extra donation incentive to make Dime suffer through Go 2 It as well.

Simply follow Dime's instructions to watch the show:

Watching and joining in on the action is easy! Just head to the Speed Demos Archive website or the Games Done Quick homepage on January 5th, at 12PM EST (GMT-5)! An embedded video player, a chat window, and directions for how to donate will be right there on the page. It's as simple as that! So mark your calendar, and don't miss a second.