Tonight saw IndeWEB (www.indiweb.de) host the second day of their Painkiller Challenge Cup #1. The Cup consists of single elimination brackets, starting from a huge 128 players. The Cup makes use of the CPL rules, and latest PK++ over an astonishing 25 servers.

As partly expected, early rounds had a large number of defaults. But the later rounds provides some interesting results; most notably, Aim beating Stelam, and Worre beating Ztrider. The games were covered live by TsN (www.tsncentral.com) by TsN|Stile and TsN|Dusty.

You can view the current brackets here.

The final games take place on the Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th next week with the top three going on to recieve mouse and mousemats as prizes.

SK-gaming (http://www.sk-gaming.com/scene/7696/) has reported that SombrA, the top Spanish PK player has left his team Alliance eSports due to staff difficulties.

I am going to practice very hard to be well prepared for the WT stop in Barcelona. I want to show my skills to possible teams to join because I want to attend as many tour stops as possible. Having the stop in Spain is a very lucky situation and will hopefully make me even stronger

You can check the rest of the article, here.

To set up ASE to separate PK++ servers from VPK servers, do the following:

1. Open ASE
2. Filter|New
3. Add in the filter string

1 if modname ~!= “*PK++*” remove

4. Open the filter on the right-hand panel, now showing PK++ servers.

If you want to be more advanced you can separate them by PK++ version number also, since PK++ gives the version in modname, such as: PK++ 1.0.1.64

This one is important, so its being posted as an article – hopefully well see more servers following this path.

PK++ offers many things, but the most important is the fact the game is being continuously updated. Steamfish aids gamers to be able to keep up to date with the latest patches/maps*, but this is slightly harder for servers.

For Windows servers it is possible to make use of Steamfish to be updated also, as discussed here:

http://www.pkeuro.com//comments.php?blogid=2&eid=113

For Windows this allows the server to undergo a full update when an rcon quit is issued by an admin/gamer on the server.

For Linux hosting, some great work has been done by i365-klaude in developing a Steamfish version for Linux.

http://public1.insomnia365.com/pk/pk++/update.sh

The work consists of a shell script that installs and updates PK++ for Linux PK servers. This hugely reduces the amount of work which is required by a server admin. If coupled with a similar run/update/run script as in the Windows example, Linux servers can be made to obey the same autoupdate behaviour.

IndiWEB, www.indiweb.de, have announced their Painkiller Challenge. The Challenge consists of a series of ten cups, the first of which will take place during Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th of April with the finals on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th of April. Prizes will be available for each of the cups, and you can find details of the cup prizes on the IndiWEB site.

At the end of the cups, a grand final will be held for which the 32 top players will be invited to play for a real cash prize.

Signups for the cups have already begun, and close on the Tuesday 12th April. You can signup here. Details of the competition are here:

http://www.indiweb.de/de/gaming/index.php3?gaming_id=29

Information can also be found on quakenet IRC in #pk.1on1