Survival of the Fittest

Survival of the Fittest (SOTF LTD) regrets to announce that we will be retiring our name and no longer hosting tournaments. Most of our staff is busy with other activities or/and has lost interest in the Call of Duty franchise. We have always prided ourselves on holding the finest events and feel that we no longer have the proper dedication necessary to do that.

We have hosted 9 tournaments since Call of Duty was first released in November 2003 and none of them would have been possible without a lot of help. First, we’d like to thank anyone who was a staff member and volunteered their free time to help make these tournaments run. We’d also like to thank all the teams and every player that ever competed in an SOTF tournament; our tournaments offered the highest level of competition but it was the players and teams that actually competed to make them great. Finally, huge thanks go to the other organizations that helped us out: TsN, iTG, and EGLN for casting; NFO, UnitedFrag, and Locked on Hosting for providing us with great servers.

In July, SOTF and CEVO announced a partnership for CoD tournaments. We were looking forward to working with them to help the CoD community grow. Unfortunately, with our retirement from hosting tournaments, we are also ending our partnership with CEVO. We wish them the best of luck in their upcoming "Finish the Fight" Call of Duty 4 Tournament.

After many months of procrastination we have finally released SOTF Stats. Ed and Scott have been working together to parse logfiles to display statistical data.

SOTF Stats allows you to see individual player statistics including kills per round, damage per round, +/- (kills minus deaths), and weapon statistics.

Our team statistics allow you to easily keep track of the players on a team and the matches they played. Each match page shows you the scoreboard along with the normal player statistics with the totals for each team calculated at the bottom.

You will find that SOTF Stats is similar to GotFrag's GameSense and logfiles that are generated by mohstats.

In Survival of the Fittest 9's last stages of evolution, the Grand Finals, met two titans of the North American Call of Duty 2 community, Check-Six and 20ID. After a best-out-of-three battle, Check-Six came out the undefeated victor, walking away with $1600 and bragging rights as the greatest Call of Duty 2 team in North America.

Check-Six marched through the winner's bracket, sending every team they faced to the loser's bracket and one step closer to elimination. When they did just that to 20ID in round three, 20ID would have to defeat some tough opponents in Pandemic and Enervate if they wanted a chance at vengeance. They would get that chance but to no avail as they would be defeat once again by Check-Six in overtime on the second map.

Check-Six picked mp_carentan and 20ID picked mp_dawnville.

mp_carentan: Check-Six over 20ID (13-8)
mp_dawnville: Check-Six over 20ID (13-8)

Final standings:

1st: Check-Six ($1600) + 5 SteelSound 5H v2 headsets
2nd: 20ID ($800)
3rd: Enervate ($480)
4th: Pandemic ($320)

5th-6th: Eximius
5th-6th: Snowmen