Season has officially started, matches are up for this week. Every week we will be adding more matches up for scheduling. Please schedule your matches adding any forms of communications in the match comms. I’m assuming by now all teams know the rules since we scheduled two preseason matches. It is mandatory for all teams to use the anti cheat client with the UAC2 Match ID. Every match has a different ID, you can find the ID in your match communication. Needless to say, good luck to all teams and wish you all the best of luck in the season.

Global Amateur Competitive Gaming League - Alliance of Valiant Arms Season 2 has officially started. However, preseason is a full week with two matches present. We would like all teams to play at least one preseason match even though it doesn't mean anything. Gives all players and teams to adjust to the rules here at GACGL so the preceding week when it officially starts disputes don't start blowing at us like crazy.
Preseason matches aren't scheduled using the Match Communications here. If you cannot get in contact with the team seeing there is no match comms, go to their roster and view their squad and add anyone on xfire(if you have). Or you can message me on xfire and i'll get a hold of them for you. You can post a comment under this annoucement leaving your teams name and xfire for teams to see and able to add you.
The following map for preseason week is: Black Scent for Pre-Season Week 1 and Cannon For Pre-Season Week 2.
Match Date and Default Time: Sunday, August 15th, 2010 and Wednesday, August 18th, 2010.

Match-ups:
Preseason Match 1: Sunday, August 15th, 2010 ; 9:00pm EST Default Time

UAC2 MatchID: gacglpa1

eMazing Gaming vs. 1nControlZ Team
EpicGaming vs. BrazilArmy2
BrazilArmy vs. everStrive
Rampancy vs. Join
Reacharounds vs. opulence
teamKATZ3 vs. Team Hausen
unRestricted eSports vs. TeamKATZE
SWAY vs TopAlliance
lEvolutioNl vs. zeroempathy

Preseason Match 2: Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 ; 9:00pm EST Default Time

UAC2 MatchID: gacglpa2

eMazing Gaming vs. zeroempathy
EpicGaming vs. everStrive
Team Hausen vs. BrazilArmy2
lEvolutioNl vs. Join
SWAY vs. unRestricted eSports
teamKATZ3 vs. BrazilArmy
opulence vs. TeamKATZE
Reacharounds vs TopAlliance
Rampancy vs. 1nControlZ Team

To all non North American teams, if you think your team cannot participate due to the time and length of the league, please message me on xfire we'll see if it's possible to work something out. Although there are teams that are waiting on the reserved list, I feel that if the timezones aren't working out for you guys, teams that can meet the minimal requirements should play to avoid teams dropping out mid-season.

To match report, please leave a comment here with both game screenshots. Also send in a support ticket if any team was caught breaking the rules so we at GACGL can warn them before week 1 begins.
Good luck to all teams.

Congratulations to the 18 teams completing their rosters in time guaranteeing a spot. Over the next couple of days, the group divisions will be completed and finalized with a full schedule and how long the regular season is going to be.

On a side note, registrations are still not over. However, if we can get an additional 6 teams signed up and ready to play by Friday at 11:59pm that'll be perfect and we'll add you guys in. Please be aware we're going to have a preseason match so everyone could get used to the rules and setup. Preseason will not affect your teams record. If a team drops out before or after preseason, we'll add on another team. So still make your team active if you haven't gotten into the final 18.

A few players have messaged me saying they would like the idea of having two matches per week. I'll reopen another poll if you guys would like to play two matches per week (dates not finalized, but looking for Tuesdays and Thursdays) or keep it at one match per week. I've opened a nice and simple poll located at the right side of the screen. Feel free to vote.

If you have any questions, feel free to submit a ticket. Otherwise good luck to all teams participating. Hope we have a wonderful season.

Signups have been extended, due to teams not being "ready." Teams will be on a first come, first serve basis. If your team is not ready to play, you won't be able to play in this season. So, get your teams ready as soon as possible.

Update: 10/08/2010.
Guys theres 15 teams registered. First come first serve. It's either 18 or 24 teams to evenly balance out the brackets. So once we hit 18 teams those teams are guaranteed a spot. We'll keep sign ups and team roster completion open until friday night. If we cannot reach 24 teams by then, we'll put you on the reserved list if a team drops out before preseason or after preseason.

Teams that are ready(18):

Join
SWAY
teamKATZ3
teamKATZE
EpicGaming
zeroempathy
eMazing Gaming
everStrive
Rampancy
unRestricted eSports
Reacharounds
BrazilArmy
BrazilArmy2
lEvolutioNl
Team Hausen
1nControlZ Team
TopAlliance
opulence

Contact - AVA In-Game Name
ID - UAC2 USERID/USERNAME
Other - Contact information, i.e: xfire.

Here is an example if you need it.

Good luck to everyone in season 2, and hope to have a wonderful season.

Registrations for GACGL Alliance of Valiant Arms Season 1 is almost coming to an end. Team leaders need to make sure all team members on the roster have their proper ID's entered (AVA In-Game Name and UAC2 ID). Everyone needs to make sure they have the anti-cheat client downloaded and ready to go. See the GACGL AVA Rules which can be found HERE for more information about the anti-cheat client (how to download, how to run, how to fix black screenshot bug, etc) . This is highly important because if any player participates in a league match without UAC2 running, you will be suspended and preceding team will then get a loss. If you have registered your team but you do not have 5 players on your roster yet, you have a week to do so.

As of now there are no teams that are ready-to-go. I will update the list everyday with updated teams that are set.

Basically this is how it goes we're either going to have:

18 teams with 3 divisions; 6 teams in each.
Or
24 teams with 4 divisions; 6 teams in each.

All this depends on the amount of teams registered, as of now we're looking at 18. But it may change. It's currently first come first serve. All teams that are ready to go will get higher priority. Doesn't matter now if you registered your team before the other.



Again, I can't stress this enough to make sure that everyone's anti-cheat client is working properly.
Please test your anti cheat client prior to your first match. Especially Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. This guide is a setup for MW2, but it's also the same for AVA. Just look for your AVA.exe located in your ijji/ENGLISH/AVA/Binaries folder.
Refer to this link: UAC2 Black Screenshot Tutorial

**Important for all TEAM LEADERS**

You must make sure everyone on your team has registered, and downloaded the UAC2 anti cheat client. For more information regarding the anti-cheat client, scroll all the way down in the rules section. On your team's roster where you edit your players ID's. Under the section 'ID', please put everyones UAC2 UserID's in that category. Please make sure this is correct and accurate because it will be locked after the first week to prevent smurfing.

UAC2 Download can be found here:

Universal Anti-Cheat 2 Download

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GACGL is looking for two Casters who can cast our matches. One will be lead caster and the other will be co-casting. Applying for a co-casting spot only to is acceptable.

Requirements:
-Must have a good upload rate. (Both should, if only one does acceptable)
-Good voice.
-Good Microphone.
-Know the maps and the names of the spots of the maps.
-Be able to show up to cast. (Dedicated)
-Good Communication With the Administration

If you feel that you have the abilities to do this, send in a support ticket with the following information:

Include:
-Name
-Age
-Contact Information (xfire, email, steam, etc)
-Timezone
-Experience (if any, none is acceptable)
-Speed Test