This month we will be doing a straight JA cluster race. Following all Rules of Combat fight your buddies in any approved game mode on any approved server. Only entries that are submitted via the gaming bot (Fist-O-Matic) in #dbgaming on IRC will count.

Submit through gaming portal to this competition, at the end of the month most clusters earned by a single member submitted to this comp wins. All participants earn themselves 5 Clusters of Fire to be awarded after the end of the competition.

RoC

JA Rules

Approved server list

How to use the Fist-O-Matic

Make sure to thank James for the Bot.

Quick command reference:

• When people join the channel and are not logged in, they are greeted by the bot, telling them to use the !login command for instructions on how to log in.

• !login - will respond with instructions on how to login (go to a URL, and paste the code into the following command). Note that this command is not required to log in, it just provides instructions, so can by bypassed by people that know how to login already.

• /msg FIST-o-matic authorize <code_from_site> - (replacing <code_from_site> with the code retrieved from the website) logs you in. This tells the bot who you are, and also authorizes it to report matches on your behalf. This opens up the rest of the commands. Note that the code used is one-time-use, so there shouldn't be much of an issue if somebody accidentally pastes it into a channel.

• !list - shows you which queues you are enrolled to (if any), and shows you a list of available queues

• !join <queues> - (e.g. !join JA JO SC2) adds you to queues

• !leave <queues> - removes you from queues.

• The bot will match up people queued up for a game that have not played each other that day for that queue. Matchups are announced in the channel. Once matched up, players have five minutes to confirm, or they will be kicked for idling. If both confirm within the time limit, the match is started, and the !report commands become available:

• !report <yourwins> <theirwins> [competition_id] - reports the results to the website, and marks the game as done, allowing both members to join queues again. Theyourwins and theirwins parameters are viewed from the perspective of the member performing the !report command, and competition_id is an optional parameter that allows attaching a competition to the report. Note that this takes a competition ID, not a competition title. (e.g.: Valhavoc vs. James. James types: !report 3 6 1337, resulting in 3 wins for James, 6 for Valhavoc, with the competition with ID 1337 attached to the report).

• !report failure - Can be used if for some reason the members are unable to proceed with the match (e.g. server connection issues, or one member disappears before any matches could be completed). The bot confirms this in the channel, considers the members as having played eachother so they won't be matched up again right after, and allows them to rejoin queues.

• !rejoin - Allows a member to quickly rejoin the queues they were in after they're done playing a match, or after their opponent was kicked for inactivity.