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  Capture the Flag
Capture the flag (sometimes CTF for short) is a popular and well-known game without water guns, and can be made very interesting by their addition.
Capture the flag cannot be played successfully unless players are either permanently or temporarily removed from gameplay when they "die," but there are some alternatives to prisons.
A player carrying a flag who arrives at a command point not controlled by their team may claim the command point for their team by placing a flag on the command point, and picking up any flag that is already there.
www.mindflare.com /water/games/ctf.htm   (1334 words)

  
  Capture the flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capture the flag is a traditional outdoor game often played by children where two teams each have a flag and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base", and bring it back to their own base.
CTF is often used as an educational exercise to give participants experience in securing a machine, as well as in conducting and reacting to real attacks using commonly available tools, in order to demonstrate the level of effectiveness of their chosen defensive strategies and tools.
Capture the Flag is among the games that have made a recent comeback among adults as part of the urban gaming trend (which includes games like Pacmanhattan and manhunt).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capture_the_Flag   (825 words)

  
 Capture the Flag Chess
Capture the Flag Chess is a translation to the chessboard of the traditional children's game of Cpature the Flag, where the goal is to sieze the opposing side's flag and carry it to your side of the playing area.
Flags may not be moved by their owning player, nor may the owning player's pieces ever move into the same square as the flag.
Flags may be captured by a piece of the opposing side by making a normal capturing move, at which point the capturing piece is considered to be carrying the flag.
www.chessvariants.com /42.dir/capture-the-flag.html   (590 words)

  
 Achaea - Dreams of Divine Lands
Capture the Flag, with and without the "Game of the Eyes" variation, is a game that pits cities against each other.
For every second that a flag that was planted by a member of your city is there, your city gains a point.
Flag Disappearance ------------------ Flags will disappear if taken inside, to the Skies or Above the Skies, onto another continent or plane, if held by a denizen or any container, or if held by a graced person.
www.achaea.com /irex/helpview/help.php?q=ctf&x=Help   (401 words)

  
 Game - Capture the Flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On a signal the teams proceed to set their flags at any point within 200 steps of the starting point The flags must be visible, although it is permissible to place them as inconspicuously as possible.
The object now is to enter the enemy's territory, capture the flag, and carry it across the line into home territory without being caught.
If niether side captures the enemy's flag within the time agreed up on (say, 1/2 hour) the game is won by the team with the most prisoners.
www.usscouts.org /games/game_cf.html   (714 words)

  
 Capture the Flag
Flag is a standard flag during the day or a glow stick at night.
If the flag is found and the carrier from the opposing team is captured within the defenders’ territory, the flag is left where the carrier was captured.
If a player runs/plays substantially outside of the set boundaries he/she is considered captured and must return to the line or be escorted by the pursuing defender (for example, if an offensive player is being chased near the road, s/he is captured if s/he runs out of play or across the road).
www.sal.ksu.edu /studentlife/www/captureflag.html   (1203 words)

  
 Capture the flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
No guarding the flag or the jail (within 50feet) unless there is a person on the other team within the 50 feet of the flag or jail.
Flag cannot be hidden for red in the U area of building number 34, or the area between the dining hall and Sus.
Any player hiding or blocking their flag in any way may be given one warning and then removed from that game.
www.umbc.edu /rsa/pages/cabs/sus/capturetheflag.htm   (411 words)

  
 UCFC: Capture the Flag
If the flag carrier is defeated behind enemy lines, he is taken prisoner, and the flag is planted at the site of his defeat.
If the flag carrier is defeated in no-man's-land, he must return to his home fort, and the flag is taken back by its team and placed no more than 20 feet behind the frontier of its home turf.
In the event all members of one team are captured (excluding the guard at the fort), the free team must inform the remaining member at the fort before proceeding with any further action.
www.geocities.com /uofcfencing/flag.html   (1274 words)

  
 Capture the flag
The flag, which features the stars and bars of the Confederate emblem, was captured by the Minnesota 1st Volunteer Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Members say Minnesota is obligated to return the flag under a 1905 congressional resolution that says flags captured in battles should be returned to their originating states.
One reason the flag is so coveted is the high casualties suffered in the battle, which may have turned the tide of the war.
www.roanoke.com /roatimes/flag/vote.html   (410 words)

  
 Capture the Flag - The Ultimate Camp Resource
The object of the game is to penetrate the other team's area and capture their flag.
A flag is "captured" after it has been returned to the captor's jail area.
The game continues until a flag is captured, or time is up.
www.ultimatecampresource.com /site/camp-activity/capture-the-flag.html   (244 words)

  
 Jazz2Online - Earlong Royal Encyclopedia entry: Capture the Flag
Capture the Flag involves the division of players into two teams, the blue team and the red team.
The objective for both these teams is to capture the flag of the opposing team and bring it back to their base.
Capture the Flag is often the game type used in competitions, between clans for example.
www.jazz2online.com /J2Ov2/wiki/index.php?Capture_the_Flag   (834 words)

  
 Capture the Flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Flags may be hidden high or low, but must be clearly visible from at least one direction and within reach of the youngest player, about 4 feet high.
A captured player must be escorted to jail by the person capturing them, where they remain until freed by a teammate.
The flag must remain at that location and cannot be re-hidden by the defending team.
www.y-indian.com /CapturetheFlag.htm   (460 words)

  
 The Guide - Mods - Capture the Flag
Capture the Flag is team-based modification that replicates the old game of capture the flag.
It appears that the development of CTF is analogous to the invention of calculus: developed simultaneously by two separate groups.
Threewave CTF, by far the most successful mod to be created in the fertile Quake Community, was developed by David "Zoid" Kirsch.
www.bluesnews.com /guide/ctf.htm   (994 words)

  
 Capture the flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Brown, the Army's chief of military history, cites an 1814 law making captured flags the property of the War Department and a 1905 law instructing the department to return captured Union and Confederate flags to their respective states to support his claim that the flag belongs to the Army, not the historical society.
Though the flag bears a mark showing that it belongs to the War Department, Sherman apparently took it back to Minnesota and kept it until his death in 1896.
The regiment's colors were captured at the moment traditionally regarded as the high-water mark of the Confederacy.
www1.roanoke.com /roatimes/flag/govt.html   (591 words)

  
 The 2006 UCSB International Capture The Flag
The Capture The Flag was held on December 8th, 2006.
The UCSB International Capture The Flag (also known as the iCTF) is a distributed, wide-area security exercise, whose goal is to test the security skills of the participants from both the attack and defense viewpoints.
The Capture The Flag contest is a multi-site, multi-team hacking contest in which a number of teams compete independently against each other.
www.cs.ucsb.edu /~vigna/CTF   (2606 words)

  
 Capture the Flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
All looks quiet around his flag for the moment, but seldom is Jayna quickly pulls her hands in and leans back a bit.
I think they got those flags but only one streamer was grabbed...which dragon doesn't have two?" Kassima howls with glee and waves the red flag above her head for a moment, before wisening up and holding it protectively close to her person.
Her objective--that pretty fl flag, not to mention that brown dragon her rider is trying to pass the white flag off to.
www.filidh.org /~kassima/logs/dragntag.htm   (15406 words)

  
 Capture the Flag Game: Capture the Flag Download & Capture the Flag Shareware
Capture the Flag is a traditional outdoor game often played by children where two teams each have a flag they try to capture.
The objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base", and bring the captured flag back to their own base.
Capture the Flag rules are simple but the strategy can be involved and exciting, our capture the flag rules make for great game action.
www.carrsoft.com /ctf/capture_the_flag_game.html   (725 words)

  
 Capture the Flag with Stuff
If a player is captured with an opposing team's flag in his possession, he must drop the flag at the spot where he was tagged before being escorted off to Jail.
If a flag is dropped in an elevator, the judge should move it outside the elevator on the same floor on which its carrier was captured.
If the captor is stunned or captured on the way to his jail, he must drop the Belt (which immediately reverts to a magic item) and cannot pick it up again for one minute.
www.cmukgb.org /activities/ctfws.php   (5377 words)

  
 Gameaholic dot Com - Capture The Flag
Simply to say - Capture The Flag (or simply CTF) is the most successful implementation of teamplay there is. The reason for this (aside from the brilliant additions) is that while CTF is a teamplay mode, there is a great element of deathmatch present.
Latest version of CTF (3.0 and later) requires you to download a file and install in in Quake's directory in order to see all the new graphics and new levels.
This is considered a successful 'capture' and all teammates are awarded points.
www.gameaholic.com /addons/ctf   (719 words)

  
 Ultimate Capture the Flag - The Ultimate Camp Resource
Played with two teams, this version of Capture the Flag uses the whole campus as its playing area and is probably very different from the traditional game most of us know.
Each flag is worth 5, 10 or 25 points depending on its color and the difficulty of that flag’s location.
When a flag is captured the point value of the flag is multiplied by the point value of the player who captured it.
www.ultimatecampresource.com /site/camp-activity/ultimate-capture-the-flag.html   (786 words)

  
 Capture the Flag
When a player successfully "captures the flag" of another player; the capturing player may bid for an alliance with the player.
At that time, or if the FLAG is not successfully carried, the referee dismantles the ship and instructs the losing player to build another FLAG on a specific planet which has a starbase.
At no time may a player have two FLAG ships, since the FLAG ship is only a FLAG ship when it is owned by the referee, the referee is responsible to ensure this rule is never broken.
www.shc.edu.bz /les/stars/Flag.htm   (642 words)

  
 Capture the Flag - CHiMERiC
Note: This was made for Unreal, before UT was released and came with Capture the Flag builtin, so its now kind of obsolete, but I've retained it simply because its a good exercise in making a new gametype.
DiscardInventory is called whenever a Pawn dies, and since we don't want a flag destroyed if a player dies we must override this to put it back to its original position.
NOTE: It would be a good idea to expand this to drop the flag wherever they died and only send it back after a certain time or if it is touched by a player of the same team.
chimeric.beyondunreal.com /tutorials/tut7.html   (907 words)

  
 How to Play Capture the Flag - eHow.com
Capture the Flag is played outdoors with two teams.
The flag must be hung at head height and be visible from 20 yards away on at least one side.
Once you capture the flag, you have to carry it across the border.
www.ehow.com /how_311_play-capture-flag.html   (649 words)

  
 Paintball: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Capture the flag is a traditional outdoor game often played by children where two teams have a flag each and the objective is to capture the other teams flag,...
(the first game of paintball was played in 1981 in New Hampshire as a type of capture the flag but with special guns (used to mark cattle or trees with paint) to mark people out instead of tagging them.
Todays average recreational paintball game has been reduced to some variation of either elimination or capture the flag....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paintball.htm   (4430 words)

  
 Capture the flag
I think I know what that flag is when I see it, but let’s face it, here in the South Bay I don’t see the thing all that often.
Nonetheless, it is still widely considered the Confederate Flag and it is the one that generates all the controversy.
Possibly the person owns a Confederate Flag, not because it is a racist symbol, but because he or she wants to celebrate Southern heritage.
www.theaesthetic.com /NewFiles/flag.html   (681 words)

  
 PlanetStarSiege: TRIBES Strategy Guide- Capture the Flag
A strong recommendation of mine is to have the flag capturer be in light armor with an energy pack.
The first of these is that it is extremely hard to capture the flag without protection, so always go in groups.
Make sure the flag capturer knows that you have this place wel guarded, so that he can take this way back to the base.
www.planettribes.com /version1/strategy/capturetheflag.shtml   (1580 words)

  
 CampusProgress.org | Re-Capture the Flag
She also soon realized that every American flag erected seemed to cover another American’s eyes from the despotic corruption that became constitutional policy in the backrooms of the Capitol.
Our other option is to take back the flag, the flag that was created in the face of revolution and in the eye of liberty.
Let’s challenge the right-wing to a winner-takes-all game of capture the flag – they may have all the guns, but we have the brain power and a whole lotta street smarts.
www.campusprogress.org /features/665/re-capture-the-flag   (1112 words)

  
 Capture The Flag Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Capture the Flag: Military Simulation Meets Computer Games Capture the Flag: Military Simulation Meets Computer Games Some of the more complex AI testbeds are not that different from computer games.
The flag is a critical component of the capture the flag games, it's the object that...
Capture The Flag Games Below is a small sample of what kind of capture the flag game we can offer to players at our paintball site or try our Corporate Team Building Fun Day Packages.
www.ukpaintballgames.com /paintball-information/Capture-The-Flag-Games...   (983 words)

  
 Laser Edge -- Capture the Flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Capture The Flag is a variation of team DM, in which each team has a "flag", which all the other teams try to capture.
They must try to defend their flag from the enemy, while also trying to "capture" the enemy flag.
If the enemy has your flag, then it's a "stand-off" and your team must try to frag the enemy flag carrier, so your flag will be returned to base.
www.laseredge-usa.com /flag.htm   (305 words)

  
 TFMapped : Knowledge Base : CTF Tutorial
A Capture the Flag map is basically composed of three different parts - the game setup entities, the flags and the capture points.
For a CTF flag you would generally want certain areas in each base to be respawn rooms - where the player spawns after they are killed.
In a Capture the Flag map, you would generally want to have certain doors that only one team would be able to go through i.e.
tf.valve-erc.com /kbase.php?id=24   (1827 words)

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