Sauerbraten has over 10 years of competitive history to its name. The list below contains results from nearly all of the various leagues run during that time, ordered chronologically.
PSL ran from 2007-2010, administrated and organized primarily by oo|shmutz. It was the first Sauerbraten tournament in history, and one of the longest running. PSL laid the groundwork for future leagues with the allvall qualifier format, best of three title matches, and, in the later stages, public polls to decide which maps were played.
SDMC was a series of tournaments run from mid 2010 to mid 2011 by the Dangerous Monkeys clan. While it had somewhat less pomp and circumstance than PSL or SWL, it was a huge success – well administered, with a wide variety of modes and a distinguished list of competitors.
SWL ran from 2011-2013, administrated and organized by Achille|sp4nk|, with technical assistance from Markku and Pisto. Also of note was the first nations cup, which was won by Germany, and the SWL insta and effic ladders, won by notas and Acuerta respectively.
Sauerbraten Day of Sobriety (SDoS) was a tournament organized by mefisto in late 2013. It originally planned to host multiple modes and events, but, due to a number of factors (mostly ddos) only managed one – Insta 1v1, won by {QS}ConMan after the later disqualifiaction of Apollon (Bounty).
DKSC ran frequently from June 2014 to May 2015. It is remembered, among other things, for the 3rd Advent effic cup, which was and still is one of the most exciting effic tourneys of all time.
SSL was founded by swatllama and ran for all of 2015. It restored a level of consistent prestige to competitive Sauerbraten that hadn’t been seen since the closing of SWL in 2013.
note: raffael was convicted of triggerbot usage in tourneys from 2018-19, and stripped of all titles during that period. swatllama is not of the belief that he was cheating during SSL, and has therefore allowed those titles to stand.
Various tournaments from 2016-2018 – two eCTFs (one a round robin) run without official organization, an FFA round robin run without official organization, a 2017 SSL one off, a holiday eCTF tourney also run by swatllama, 3 eCTF tournaments run by Frosty, and one iCTF.
Sauer Duels ran for about 2 years, from October 2017 to December 2019, and was hosted by Frosty and Origin. Building on the lessons of the last decade, SauerDuels provided some of the best organized and highest quality competition that Sauerbraten has ever seen. It introduced a glicko2 rating system that delivered a level of nuance and insight previously unheard of in Sauer’s competitive ranking, as well as allowing for fairer, more results based seedings.
note:Events up through SD #33 took place with the community unaware that w00p|raffael was using a triggerbot. Upon discovery of this, he was disqualified, and rankings and placements were recalculated.
JS30 was two beginner-only FFA events run by notas during the SD era. While these were not major events with the best of the best, the participants deserve recognition and the events deserve remembering, because they were ridiculously fun.
note: SL took place during the period of raffael’s triggerbot usage, and as such, all of w00p’s results involving him were disqualified. You can still see the results that were achieved at the time in the challonge bracket.
In May of 2020, with the world in lock-down due to Covid-19, swatllama hosted Sauer’s 3rd World Cup event. 2020 saw the balance of power in Sauer shift somewhat from the last world cups, with USA winning the gold, Eastern Europe falling to second, and France coming in third, knocking Germany off the podium altogether.
Between the end of Sauer Duels and the release of the new version of Sauerbraten, notas organized a number of informal events on the beta version of the game for the purpose of testing new mechanics, finding bugs, and playing new maps.
note: In eCTF, w00p’s main team was again dq’d due to raffael sneaking in by faking another member, and once again, it does not appear that his teammates were aware. Seriously, it’s a long story.Vods
Sauerbraten Competitive League
SCL is the currently running tournament adminstered by swatllama, running a wide variety of modes.
Results
Insta
Effic
FFA
Teamplay
eCTF
iCTF
DarkFire’ ★
lagout ★★
swatllama ★
tDMC ★★
!s ★★
!s ★★
Gangler ★
starch ★
Tay|Z ★
w00p ★★
sp4nk ★
RB ★
Galaxy ★
Partizan ★
Plata ★
sp4nk ★
w00p ★
sp4nk ★★★
Rexus ★★
BRO ★
RB ★
sp4nk 2 ★
Plata ★
!s ★
sp4nk 2 ★
sQ ★
Frosty ★
tBMC★
w00p ★
Gangler ★
Frenshi★
sQ ★
=DK= ★
w00p2 ★
BRO was notas and swatllama, Frenshi was Frosty and tenshi.
Detailed Challonge results available here amongst unrelated brackets, and also here for the first eCTF.
Twitch Vods (notas), not including the first FFA and first 2 eCTFs available here. Alternate (swatllama) streams of teamplay and the FFA tourney (still no eCTF) can be found somewhere in here
Special Events
FFA ladder: Master★ DarkFire’ ★Tay|Z★ See other divisions here
eCS is an eCTF tournament series run by Avior, Mod and Fohlen, running multiple divisions and formats.
Results
eCTF Div 1
eCTF Div 2
eCTF Open
eCTF Mix
!s ★
sQ ★
!s ★
cr4zeout ★
sp4nk ★
DM ★
RB ★
wrexweapon ★
RB ★
Banana Gang ★
sp4nk ★
darottifly ★
Banana Gang was Furry Degenerate, 1989, Qur, and Emma. cr4zeout was cr4sh, Raze and lagout wrexweapon was Rexus, bioweapon and Wollmilch darottifly was Alkfly, Darkfire’ and Rotti
The eCTF ladder was run with two divisions sorted by skill, brackets: here
“The Off-Meta Tournament Series is a casual-oriented series of tournaments featuring the lesser played game modes such as tactics, hold, protect, capture etc. The idea is to provide a fun environment where everyone is encouraged to participate and have fun!”
Results
Tactics: Won by DarkFire’★ after Frosty★ no showed the final. Third place went to swatllama★.
Insta-Team: Won by !s★, with sp4nk★ taking second and DM coming in third★.
FFA: Won by swatllama★, with Master★ taking second and tenshi coming in third★.
