*** UPDATE ***
After just an hour and a half, the registration for SOTF9 filled up.  The first ten teams signed up in the first ten minutes and the remaining teams followed suit shortly thereafter. Despite spamming refresh and registering as fast as humanly possible, Team Pandemic was the second team to register.

SOFT9 Registered Teams
1. MugNMouse
2. Pandemic
3. Playgrounds
4. Battlegear Gaming
5. Check-Six
6. Area 51
7. 20ID
8. Audacity Gaming
9. GameSlaves
10. Going Live
11. KillaHurtz
12. Random Precision
13. Nothing 2 Prove
14. iLLicit
15. Eximius Sports
16. Enervate

The Team Pandemic Call of Duty 2 division has registered and will compete in the ninth installment of the Survival of the Fittest tournament series. Self-proclaimed as "The Only Call of Duty Tournament That Matters," SOTF has been a staple of the Call of Duty community since November of 2003 when they held their first tournament in the original Call of Duty. In SOTF 7, current Team Pandemic players, Nabore and stevE led a Shockwave to a championship.

Survival of the Fittest 9 Official Press Release

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.

You can find out more at the official SOTF site here: http://www.sotf-gaming.com