Survival of the Fittest

Registration is now CLOSED.

Visit our forums for the list of confirmed teams.

Ten teams registered within 10 minutes. All 16 spots were filled in an hour and a half.

UPDATE (5/8): Seedings are done. View them here or on the bracket.

After nearly six months since the end of SOTF 8, it is time for a new cycle of evolution. Registration for Survival of the Fittest 9 will begin Monday, May 7th at 7 PM EST.

SOTF 9 will be a 16 team tournament with a $3200 prize pot. Prizes will be distributed to the top 4 teams as follows:

1st: $1600 (50%)
2nd: $800 (25%)
3rd: $480 (15%)
4th: $320 (10%)

And as a bonus, the winning team will also receive 5 SteelSound 5H v2 headsets courtesy of EGLN and SteelSeries.

SOTF 9 is, as in the past, a first-come first-serve, double-elimination tournament. The entry fee is $206 per team via credit card or PayPal. Full details on how to register will be given out on the day of registration. All 32 spots in SOTF 8 were sold out in less than 6 hours. This time it should go even faster, so be prepared.

Although the format remains the same, seeding will not be random and will be done by the SOTF administration. The seeding will be announced shortly before the tournament begins. The tournament will be run Sunday, May 13th through Wednesday, June 6th with rounds being played on Wednesdays and Sundays. Here is the schedule for your review:

Winner Bracket Round 1: Sunday, May 13th
Winner Bracket Round 2/Loser Bracket Round 1: Wednesday, May 16th
Winner Bracket Round 3/Loser Bracket Round 2: Sunday, May 20th
Loser Bracket Round 3: Wednesday, May 23rd
Loser Bracket Round 4: Sunday, May 27th
Winner Bracket Finals/Loser Bracket Round 5: Wednesday, May 30th
Loser Bracket Finals: Sunday, June 3rd
Grand Finals: Wednesday, June 6th

Servers for the matches will once again be provided by NuclearFallout, who is thought by most, and certainly by us, to provide the best gaming servers on the market. To achieve the best pings possible, matches will be played on their Chicago and Dallas servers.

SOTF 9 will bring fans and competitors even closer to the game. For the first time in Call of Duty history, SOTF will have detailed statistics for every match, team, and player. Electronic Gaming Live Network (EGLN) will provide great and exciting shoutcasting of the tournament's matches along with live video streams. Each match will also have a scorebot in an official SOTF 9 IRC channel. You won't be missing any of the action.

About Survival of the Fittest
The Survival of the Fittest organization has provided the greatest in online Call of Duty competition since 2003. In 2006, SOTF, run by the very community it services, gave out nearly $5000 in prizes. Since its inception, Survival of the Fittest has provided competition in Call of Duty for over 150 teams and more than 950 players.

About NuclearFallout Enterprises, Inc.
NuclearFallout Enterprises, Inc. (NFE) was established in March 2002 as the business counterpart of the NuclearFallout Gaming Community (NFoGC), providing them with the bandwidth and hardware necessary to keep the community running smoothly. Its other primary focus is to provide gamers who need the flexibility of their own server with such a server at a cut-rate price.

Tonight we held the Grand Championships of SOTF 8, which was a tremendous bout between United 5 (u5) and Enervate (ENE). It was revealed to the world that United 5 is the Fittest, the best Call of Duty 2 team in North America.

United 5 rampaged through the upper bracket, just stomping on every team that they faced. Enervate had a very tough road throughout this tournament, facing many of the top teams in North America before being defeated by United 5 in the upper bracket finals. After defeating Area51 in the lower bracket finals, Enervate would get yet another chance to beat United 5 and make the difference between walking away with either $1600 or $800.

United 5 picked mp_burgundy and Enervate picked mp_carentan, and on both maps we saw some terrific action by both teams.

mp_burgundy: United 5 over ENE (13-11)
mp_carentan: United 5 over ENE (13-3)

Final Standings