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This month’s tournament, in 2v2 format, will be held on 23rd August 2014, starting at 10:00 UTC (10AM). The winners will receive the usual awards of 75, 50 and 25 kudos for gold, silver and bronze places respectively.

Registration is open until 23:59 UTC of August 22nd. Keep in mind that due to daylight savings time in UK is UTC+1, in Central Europe UTC+2, etc. Current time in UTC can be seen here.

Players and teams not present at the start time will have a 30 minute grace period, after which they will have a choice of accepting a substitute, forfeiting, or playing as possible (e.g. 2v1).

The bracket will be seeded and sorted by teams’ average elo after the registration closes.

You can view the current bracket here.

Rules:
– Single elimination
– First map of each round is predetermined, the following maps will be selected by the loser of the previous game from the featured 1v1 map pool.
– Finals are best of 5, all other matches including the bronze match are best of 3.
– Default ZK version of Spring Engine will be used. If both teams in a round agree to use a different version, it may be used for that round.

As always, there are no skill restrictions on signing up and any teams of two players are welcome to participate. To sign up, make a post indicating so in this thread!

The main changes in this version are for the ongoing sea rework. Duck has significantly less range underwater which should make it counterable.

=== Sea ===
Amphib
* Duck torpedo range halved.

Hover:
* Claymore recieved a number of small buffs, most notably to its health. It has had its cost increase slightly to compensate.

Ships:
* Snake has fast forwards firing torpedos. Now has skirmish AI.
* Hunter tweaked to have burst-fire effect, but similar behavior. Given slight impact to help slow down attacking raiders and repel floating amphibs.
* Skeeter is slightly faster.
* Crusader depth charges nerfed for tracking slightly.
* Typhoon gained damage increased slightly.

Urchin has slightly more sonar range.

=== Other Changes ===

Kamikaze units (Tick, Blastwing, Dirtbag, Roach, Skuttle, Puppy) drop wreckage.

Shield Link:
* The visualization is less spammy.
* Large shields are better at transferring charge between themselves.

Fixed Cloakybot Factory animation and Slasher aiming.