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Signups are now OPEN for the Take The Crown: VesperDM FFA Event, taking place during QuakeCon 2023! QuakeCon 2023 will be held from August 10-13 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. This is the main event and we will only be accepting registrations by players who will be attending the event in-person. Take the Crown will be a free-to-play deathmatch event played on Vesper Deathmatch. Vesper is a shiny new weapon mod which showcases a full arsenal of high-tech & demonic weaponry. All signups are accepted through the Toornament link included. You may also join the Doom Central Discord server for further information. We look forward to seeing you there! https://discord.gg/2ZgZ9vXh?event=1135437433824088105 https://play.toornament.com/en_US/tournaments/6964166708054089728/

For anyone that would like to see content from our last Take The Crown: FFA Tournament that we held for QuakeCon, several videos exist on YouTube. There is a great 7-hour sequence that covers the Group Stage that was uploaded from KingDime, take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n32Pr7pnO7I

Thank you for the opportunity to be involved in this issue. Awesome job everyone!

Multiplayer Doom Federation

We are celebrating the release of Odamex 0.9 with the first-ever organized Survival event for Freeplay Sessions #1! We hope to see you there: MDF Freeplay Sessions #1: WHEN: Saturday, March 27th @ 5pm EDT / 10pm CET WAD: Back to Saturn X E1 GAMEMODE: Survival (20 players) PORT: Odamex 0.9 MAPS: 01-25, 31-32

Multiplayer Doom Federation is excited to announce what we are calling Freeplay Sessions, a series of casual events to be chosen and submitted by YOU! That’s right – Freeplay Sessions will allow everyone to submit their own idea for a casual session. Players will choose the source port, the gamemode, the wad, the maps, the day of the week and other settings. Once submitted, the MDF staff will take care of setting up a specific date, server, and highlighting for the public at large to come and take part. If it sounds easy, that’s because it is! We’ve created a simple-to-use SUBMISSION FORM that is open for everyone to utilize, with each submission notifying staff to begin working on it. Events will be organized on a first-come, first-serve basis AND are subject to staff availability. Although there may be a delay between when an event is submitted and when it gets organized, all submissions will be run. The form will be located at the top of our web page in the menu bar. We hope this gets more players involved in the community and we’re looking forward to seeing your ideas! MDF Freeplay Sessions #1: WHEN: Saturday, March 27th @ 5pm EDT / 10pm CET WAD: Back to Saturn X E1 GAMEMODE: Survival (20 players) PORT: Odamex 0.9 MAPS: 01-25, 31-32 MULTIPLAYER DOOM FEDERATION DISCORD SERVER

Ralphis founded the clan Unidoom in the late 90s, which later gained fame through releasing the critically acclaimed UDM series of deathmatch wads. Many of the maps in those wads are considered to be the best DM maps of all time, being played in various tournaments and events. He founded the source port Odamex in late 2005, which has grown into an actively competitive port with ongoing leagues and events, including being selected as the official port of QuakeCon doom tournaments for 3 separate years. As if all of this wasn't enough, he created the International Doom League, known now as the World Doom League. Spanning 25 seasons, the combined heritage of the IDL and WDL make it the largest and longest enduring Doom league in history. LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher

Buu342 has flown under the radar for years while working on several innovative mods & projects, the most well-known of which is DoomWare. Based off the video game series WarioWare, DoomWare is a multiplayer minigame wad that requires players to survive &/or complete the tasks of minigames that are swapped every few seconds. DoomWare was presented with a Multiplayer Award in the 2020 edition of the Cacowards. Buu also recently developed a new game mode entitled Dominatrix, which utilizes ACS to inject control points into your favorite maps for easy access to games like King of The Hill & Double Domination. He is also a council member of the Multiplayer Doom Federation where he is involved in week-to-week event planning. LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher

We currently have 47 signups - we hope more of you will join us!

Multiplayer Doom Federation is pleased to announce another edition of the Take The Crown series, a two-day FFA Tournament that will officially be a part of the QuakeCon @ Home celebration! Beginning with the group stage on Saturday, August 8th @ 3PM EDT, participants will battle through a series of rounds to accumulate the most points. The top 6 players with the most points in the group stage will advance to the FFA Finals, being held on Sunday, August 9th @ 12PM EDT, for their chance to take the crown. That’s not all – the FFA Finals will be streamed LIVE on https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda! You read that right – you’ll get a chance to showcase your fragging skills on the big stage and show the world that Doom II will never die. But wait, there’s more ~ we’ll be giving out a $750 prize (350/250/150), along with t-shirts and posters (some items given out randomly). Signups are now open and will close on Friday, August 7th @ 11:59PM EDT. You may signup through our Toornament page or in our Discord server, however you will be required to join our Discord 1 hour prior to gametime to check in. Odamex: The tournament will be held on the source port Odamex. You must make sure you have the latest version downloaded. Please follow the download link to find the latest version, and join the official Odamex Discord for help and support. How does the FFA Tournament work? All players of a particular round join the server at once and will play the same number of maps, but the actual lineup of each round will be randomized. Admins will announce the player lineup for every following round, and the selected players will join the game and the map will be restarted for them. This should speed up the proceedings while keeping the event spiritually free-for-all. If it’s not your round, you simply idle in the server. The maps have been chosen for their variation of styles (pace, spam, player/frag/time limit) and we’ll try to make sure everyone plays across all of them, but this part will be heavily dependent on the player signups and randomization. It should ensure, however, that you don’t meet the same opponents often. Point Distribution: Maplist: WAD: TBA (link provided soon) The event will be supported by the stat-tracking system Plasmabump, which will give us real time stats updates as the games happen.

Here is a permanent invite link: https://discord.gg/YQyg4cf

The Multiplayer Doom Federation is really looking forward to seeing your submissions, and we're super excited to team with Steve on this session!!

AlexMax has been an influential member of the Doom Community for almost 20 years, as a hugely successful mapper, coder, community organizer, and so much more. You've played his work in such mappacks as the ZDCTF series, UDM3, UDMX, Odamex CTF, the 32in24 series, ChaosCore CTF, and Eyedea_. He is the maintainer of the Duel40 compilation wads, which introduced hub maps into the Doom universe. In 2020, AlexMax was credited as a contributor to the Doom Classic Unity Port, providing uncapped framerate into the official release. LISTEN ON: Buzzsprout Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher

RottKing is the premiere mapper for an entire generation of Doom players. His contributions to the single-player and multiplayer community are endless, being credited in hugely popular WADs such as UDMX, Greenwar II, Doom 2 The Way Id Did, Back to Saturn X, and the entire 32in24 series. He is the co-author of Double Impact (with Ralph "Ralphis" Vickers), an episodic replacement PWAD for The Ultimate Doom that was adopted by Bethesda as one of the official add-ons for the Doom Classic Unity port. He has also dabbled in Heretic with the critically acclaimed Elf Gets Pissed. As a player, he was part of the championship team in the IDL Winter 2011 season. LISTEN ON: Buzzsprout Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher

March 14 was the final bracket of KingDime’s Take the Crown DooM II Duel Tournament where 16 qualified players battled for a piece of the $1500 prize pool. It was set to be quite a tournament with top talent from all around the world competing. The qualified players were as follows: Qualifier 1 Qualifier 2 Qualifier 3 Qualifier 4 Denzoa D’Sparil Dant3 DevastatioN Langrenus GhostKiller Zakken Tai Animal JWarrier thebestkiller Dastan Ammar proteh Seifer Legion Link Link Link Link In the grand finals it came down to two players, Denzoa against Langrenus. Denzoa took the grand finals 4-2, to secure the top spot, and the $750 USD first place prize. Final results are as follows: 1st: Denzoa ($750 USD) 2nd: Langrenus ($450 USD) 3rd: JWarrier ($225 USD) 4th: Dant3 ($75 USD) Congratulations to the top finishers! You can checkout the final brackets here: https://www.toornament.com/en_US/tournaments/3385591799358144512/stages/3385669756701843456/ The events were streamed by Tastyspleen, KingDime, TheMotherload and Xenaero. Missed out on your action? Check out video recordings of the streams at the follow links: Thank you to all of the volunteers and players that made this event a success. The MDF looks forward to organizing more great successful events like this in the future.