diff --git a/event_notification/python/README.md b/event_notification/python/README.md
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index 00000000..636b6371
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+++ b/event_notification/python/README.md
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+source venv/bin/activate
+pip3 list
+pip3 install mysql-connector-python
+pip3 install discord.py
+pip3 install scrapy
diff --git a/event_notification/python/create_tables.sql b/event_notification/python/create_tables.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a6313a8c
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+++ b/event_notification/python/create_tables.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+CREATE TABLE unloze_event.event (
+  `event_title` varchar(256) NOT NULL,
+  `event_server` varchar(256) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `event_maps` varchar(512) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `event_date` varchar(512) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `event_url` varchar(512) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `event_time` varchar(256) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `event_reward` varchar(256) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `set_map_cooldown` boolean DEFAULT NULL,
+  `posted_event_on_discord` boolean DEFAULT NULL,
+  `created_on` datetime DEFAULT current_timestamp(),
+  PRIMARY KEY (`event_title`)
+) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;
diff --git a/event_notification/python/discord_event.py b/event_notification/python/discord_event.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..13c791a7
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+++ b/event_notification/python/discord_event.py
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+#!/home/nonroot/event_scrapy/venv/bin/python3
+
+import discord
+from datetime import datetime
+from discord.ext.tasks import loop
+from settings import get_connection_event, token
+
+intents = discord.Intents.default()
+client = discord.Client(intents=intents)
+
+@client.event
+async def on_message(message):
+    if message.author.bot:
+        return
+    if client.user.mentioned_in(message):
+        wanted_server = None
+        if "ze" in message.content.lower():
+            wanted_server = 27015
+        elif "mg" in message.content.lower():
+            wanted_server = 27017
+        elif "zr" in message.content.lower():
+            wanted_server = 27016
+        if wanted_server is None:
+            await message.channel.send("You did not specify a server. Either write ZE, MG or ZR.")
+            return
+        with get_connection_event() as conn:
+            with conn.cursor() as cur:
+                sql_statement = f"""
+                     select 
+                        event_title, event_server, event_maps, event_date, event_time, event_reward, event_url 
+                     from unloze_event.event where event_server like '%{wanted_server}%'
+                """
+                cur.execute(sql_statement)
+                res = cur.fetchall()
+        event_msg = ""
+        for res1 in res:
+            event_title = res1[0]
+            event_server = res1[1]
+            event_maps = res1[2]
+            event_date = res1[3]
+            event_time = res1[4]
+            event_reward = res1[5]
+            event_url = res1[6]
+            event_msg += f"Title: {event_title}\nServer: {event_server}\nMaps: {event_maps}\nDate: {event_date}\nTime: {event_time}\nRewards: {event_reward}\nURL: {event_url}\n\n"
+        await message.channel.send(event_msg)
+
+@loop(seconds = 10)
+async def discord_task():
+    with get_connection_event() as conn:
+        with conn.cursor() as cur:
+            #only ze needs the cooldowns set
+            sql_statement = f"""
+                select event_maps, event_date
+                from unloze_event.event e 
+                where e.set_map_cooldown is null 
+                and e.event_server like '%27015%'
+            """
+            cur.execute(sql_statement)
+            res = cur.fetchone()
+            if res is not None:
+                event_maps = res[0].split(" ")
+                event_date = res[1].strip()
+                today_formatted = f"{datetime.now():%d-%m-%Y}".replace("-", "/")
+                #print("today_formatted: ", today_formatted)
+                #print("event_date: ", event_date)
+                if today_formatted == event_date:
+                    sql_statement = f"""
+                        update unloze_event.event 
+                        set set_map_cooldown = true 
+                        where event_server like '%27015%'
+                    """
+                    cur.execute(sql_statement)
+                    for r in client.get_all_channels():
+                        if r.name == 'rcon-css-ze':
+                            print("event_maps: ", event_maps)
+                            for map in event_maps:
+                                #silly white space none sense 
+                                if len(map) > 3:
+                                    cooldown_msg = f"""sm_nominate_exclude_time {map} 1 0"""
+                                    await r.send(cooldown_msg)
+                                    conn.commit()
+
+    with get_connection_event() as conn:
+        with conn.cursor() as cur:
+            sql_statement = f"""
+              select 
+                     event_title, event_server, event_maps, event_date, event_time, event_reward, event_url 
+              from unloze_event.event where posted_event_on_discord is null
+            """
+            cur.execute(sql_statement)
+            res = cur.fetchall()
+            if res is not None:
+                for res1 in res:
+                    event_title = res1[0]
+                    event_server = res1[1]
+                    event_maps = res1[2]
+                    event_date = res1[3]
+                    event_time = res1[4]
+                    event_reward = res1[5]
+                    event_url = res1[6]
+
+                    sql_statement = f"""
+                         update unloze_event.event 
+                         set posted_event_on_discord = 1 
+                         where event_title = %s
+                    """
+                    cur.execute(sql_statement, [event_title])
+                    try:
+                        event_msg = f"NEW EVENT POSTED:\nTitle: {event_title}\nServer: {event_server}\nMaps: {event_maps}\nDate: {event_date}\nTime: {event_time}\nRewards: {event_reward}\nURL: {event_url}\n\n"
+                        for r in client.get_all_channels():
+                            if r.name == 'events':
+                                await r.send(event_msg)
+                                conn.commit()
+                    except Exception:
+                        import traceback
+                        error_msg = traceback.format_exc()
+                        print("traceback happened: ", error_msg)
+
+def main():
+    discord_task.start()
+    client.run(token)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/event_notification/python/main.py b/event_notification/python/main.py
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index 00000000..616a8f70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/python/main.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/home/nonroot/event_scrapy/venv/bin/python3
+
+from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerRunner
+from scrapy.utils.project import get_project_settings
+from twisted.internet import reactor, defer
+from scrape_event import unloze_spider
+
+@defer.inlineCallbacks
+def handle_urls(result, runner, reactor):
+    for item in result:
+        yield runner.crawl(unloze_spider, item = item)
+    #this finishes the reactor.run()
+    reactor.stop()
+
+def main():
+    result = []
+    urls = []
+    #mg     
+    urls.append("https://unloze.com/forums/events.79/")
+    #ze
+    urls.append("https://unloze.com/forums/events.76/")
+    #zr
+    urls.append("https://unloze.com/forums/events.80/")
+    #jb but there are no events yet
+    #urls.append("https://unloze.com/forums/events.90/")
+
+    for url in urls:
+        d = {"event_title" : None, "event_server": None, "event_maps": None, "event_date": None, "event_time": None, "event_reward": None, "url": url}
+        result.append(d)
+
+    runner = CrawlerRunner(get_project_settings())
+    handle_urls(result, runner, reactor)
+    reactor.run()
+    print("reactor finish")
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/event_notification/python/pipelines.py b/event_notification/python/pipelines.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5efcd8de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/python/pipelines.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+from settings import get_connection_event
+
+class contentPipeline:
+    def process_item(self, item, spider):
+        print("entered process_item:")
+        print("item: ", item)
+        with get_connection_event() as conn:
+            with conn.cursor() as cur:
+                try:
+                    sql_statement = f"""
+                         select * from unloze_event.event e 
+                          where e.event_title = %s
+                    """
+                    cur.execute(sql_statement, [item['event_title']])
+                    res = cur.fetchone()
+                    if res is None:
+                        sql_statement = f"""
+                            delete from unloze_event.event
+                            where event_server like '%{item['event_server'].split(":270")[1]}%'
+                        """
+                        #very cheap way of replacing rows
+                        cur.execute(sql_statement)
+                        sql_statement = f"""
+                             insert into unloze_event.event 
+                             (event_title, event_server, event_maps, event_date, event_time, event_reward, event_url)
+                              VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)
+                        """
+                        cur.execute(sql_statement, [item['event_title'], item['event_server'], item['event_maps'], item['event_date'], item['event_time'], item['event_reward'], item['event_url']])
+                        #context manager does not seem to work with this mysql library so manual commiting seems needed
+                        conn.commit()
+                except Exception:
+                    import traceback
+                    error_msg = traceback.format_exc()
+                print("error_msg: ", error_msg)
+
+        return item
diff --git a/event_notification/python/scrape_event.py b/event_notification/python/scrape_event.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..57333583
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/python/scrape_event.py
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+import scrapy
+import traceback
+from scrapy_settings import EXT_SETTINGS
+from pprint import pprint
+
+class unloze_spider(scrapy.Spider):
+    """
+    Main unloze event scraper 
+    """
+
+    custom_settings = EXT_SETTINGS
+    
+    def __init__(self, item):
+        self.url = item["url"]
+        self.item = item
+
+    def start_requests(self):
+        request = scrapy.Request(
+            url = self.url,
+            callback = self.parse
+        )
+        yield request
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        """
+        Parsing content in the events sections
+        """
+        newest_thread = None
+        threads = response.xpath("//div[@class='structItem-title']/@uix-href").extract()
+        for thread in threads:
+            if "poll" in thread.lower() or "nomination-thread" in thread.lower():
+                continue
+            newest_thread = thread
+            break
+        
+        if newest_thread is None:
+            print("no thread found. url: ", response.url)
+            import sys
+            sys.exit(1)
+        request = scrapy.Request(
+            url = "https://unloze.com" + newest_thread,
+            callback = self.parse2
+        )
+        yield request
+        
+    def parse2(self, response):
+        """
+        Parsing content on the actual newest event thread
+        """
+        try:
+            event_title = response.url.rsplit(".", 1)[0].rsplit("/", 1)[1]
+            event_server = ""
+            #several event managers do the threads differently in terms of highlighting and marks, they dont use standardization
+            index = 0
+            for r in response.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'TL;DR')]/../../../text()").extract():
+                if "\n" in r or len(r) < 4:
+                    continue
+                if index < 2:
+                    event_server += r
+                if index == 2:
+                    event_date = r
+                if index == 3:
+                    event_time = r[:-1]
+                if index == 4:
+                    event_reward = r
+                index += 1
+            event_maps = ""
+            for r in response.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'TL;DR')]/../../../a/text()").extract():
+                event_maps += f"{r} "
+            if not index:
+                tldr_count = 0
+                for r in response.xpath("//b[contains(text(),'TL;DR')]/../../../span//text()").extract():
+                    if "\n" in r or len(r) < 4:
+                        continue
+                    if "TL;DR" in r:
+                        tldr_count += 1
+                    if tldr_count < 2:
+                        continue
+                    if index == 2 or index == 4:
+                        event_server += r
+                    if index == 7:
+                        event_date = r
+                    if index == 9:
+                        event_time = r
+                    if index == 13:
+                        event_reward = r
+                    index += 1
+                for r in response.xpath("//b[contains(text(),'TL;DR')]/../../../a//text()").extract():
+                    event_maps += f"{r} "
+
+
+            self.item["event_title"] = event_title
+            self.item["event_date"] = event_date
+            self.item["event_time"] = event_time
+            self.item["event_server"] = event_server
+            self.item["event_maps"] = event_maps
+            self.item["event_reward"] = event_reward
+            self.item["event_url"] = response.url
+
+        except Exception:
+            error_msg = traceback.format_exc()
+            print("traceback msg: ", error_msg)
+            print("url: ", response.url)
+            import sys
+            sys.exit(1)
+        
+        #pprint(self.item)
+        return self.item
diff --git a/event_notification/python/scrapy.cfg b/event_notification/python/scrapy.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..55ad923f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/python/scrapy.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[settings]
+default = scrapy_settings
+
+[deploy]
+project = scrapy_unloze_events
diff --git a/event_notification/python/scrapy_settings.py b/event_notification/python/scrapy_settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cbafda34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/python/scrapy_settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+BOT_NAME = "unloze_events"
+
+SPIDER_MODULES = ['scrape_event']
+
+EXT_SETTINGS = {
+    "ITEM_PIPELINES": {
+        "pipelines.contentPipeline": 1
+    },
+    "DOWNLOAD_DELAY" : 0
+}
diff --git a/event_notification/scripting/event_notifier.sp b/event_notification/scripting/event_notifier.sp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8b718108
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/scripting/event_notifier.sp
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+#pragma semicolon 1
+#define PLUGIN_AUTHOR "jenz"
+#define PLUGIN_VERSION "1.0"
+#pragma newdecls required  
+#include <sourcemod>
+
+Database g_hDatabase;
+
+public Plugin myinfo =
+{
+        name = "event notifier ingame",
+        author = PLUGIN_AUTHOR,
+        description = "plugin simply tells information about the last announced event on this server",
+        version = PLUGIN_VERSION,
+        url = "www.unloze.com"
+};
+
+public void OnPluginStart()
+{
+    Database.Connect(SQL_OnDatabaseConnect, "Event_notifier");
+    RegConsoleCmd("sm_event", Command_Event_notifier);
+    RegConsoleCmd("sm_events", Command_Event_notifier);
+}
+
+public void SQL_OnDatabaseConnect(Database db, const char[] error, any data)
+{
+    if(!db || strlen(error))
+    {
+        LogError("Database error: %s", error);
+        return;
+    }
+    g_hDatabase = db;
+}
+
+public Action Command_Event_notifier(int client, int args)
+{
+    if (!g_hDatabase)
+    {
+        Database.Connect(SQL_OnDatabaseConnect, "Event_notifier");
+        return Plugin_Handled;
+    }
+    //only 3 servers with events, none exist on jb
+    int i_port = GetConVarInt(FindConVar("hostport"));
+    char sQuery[512];
+    Format(sQuery, sizeof(sQuery), "select event_title, event_server, event_maps, event_date, event_time, event_reward from unloze_event.event e where e.event_server like '%s%i%s'", "%", i_port, "%");
+    g_hDatabase.Query(SQL_OnQueryCompleted, sQuery, GetClientSerial(client));
+    return Plugin_Handled;
+}
+
+public void SQL_OnQueryCompleted(Database db, DBResultSet results, const char[] error, int iSerial)
+{
+    if (!db || strlen(error))
+    {
+        LogError("Query error 3: %s", error);
+    }
+    int client;
+    if ((client = GetClientFromSerial(iSerial)) == 0)
+        return;
+    Panel mSayPanel = new Panel(GetMenuStyleHandle(MenuStyle_Radio));
+    char sTitle[256];
+    if (results.RowCount && results.FetchRow())
+    {
+        char sBuffer[256];
+        results.FetchString(0, sTitle, sizeof(sTitle));
+        Format(sTitle, sizeof(sTitle), "Title: %s", sTitle);
+        mSayPanel.SetTitle(sTitle);
+        results.FetchString(1, sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer));
+        mSayPanel.DrawItem("", ITEMDRAW_SPACER);
+        Format(sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer), "Server: %s", sBuffer);
+        mSayPanel.DrawText(sBuffer);
+        results.FetchString(2, sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer));
+        mSayPanel.DrawItem("", ITEMDRAW_SPACER);
+        Format(sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer), "Maps: %s", sBuffer);
+        mSayPanel.DrawText(sBuffer);
+        results.FetchString(3, sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer));
+        mSayPanel.DrawItem("", ITEMDRAW_SPACER);
+        Format(sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer), "Date: %s", sBuffer);
+        mSayPanel.DrawText(sBuffer);
+        results.FetchString(4, sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer));
+        mSayPanel.DrawItem("", ITEMDRAW_SPACER);
+        Format(sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer), "Time: %s", sBuffer);
+        mSayPanel.DrawText(sBuffer);
+        results.FetchString(5, sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer));
+        mSayPanel.DrawItem("", ITEMDRAW_SPACER);
+        Format(sBuffer, sizeof(sBuffer), "Reward: %s", sBuffer);
+        mSayPanel.DrawText(sBuffer);
+    }
+
+    mSayPanel.DrawItem("", ITEMDRAW_SPACER);
+    mSayPanel.DrawItem("1. Got it!", ITEMDRAW_RAWLINE);
+
+    mSayPanel.SetKeys(1023);
+    mSayPanel.Send(client, Handler_Menu, 0);
+    delete mSayPanel;
+    delete results;
+}
+
+public int Handler_Menu(Menu menu, MenuAction action, int param1, int param2)
+{
+    switch(action)
+    {
+        case MenuAction_Select, MenuAction_Cancel:
+            delete menu;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/event_notification/systemctl/discord_event_notifier.service b/event_notification/systemctl/discord_event_notifier.service
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..76e4dc9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/systemctl/discord_event_notifier.service
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=runs discord event notifier
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+User=nonroot
+Environment=PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+Environment=PATH=/home/nonroot/event_scrapy/venv/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/snap/bin
+WorkingDirectory=/home/nonroot/event_scrapy
+ExecStart=/home/nonroot/event_scrapy/discord_event.py
diff --git a/event_notification/systemctl/discord_event_notifier.timer b/event_notification/systemctl/discord_event_notifier.timer
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0def1997
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/systemctl/discord_event_notifier.timer
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Discord event notifier launcher
+
+[Timer]
+OnCalendar=*-*-* *:55
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/event_notification/systemctl/event_scraper.service b/event_notification/systemctl/event_scraper.service
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4effc93a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/systemctl/event_scraper.service
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=runs event web scraping on the unloze forum
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+User=nonroot
+Environment=PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+Environment=PATH=/home/nonroot/event_scrapy/venv/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/snap/bin
+WorkingDirectory=/home/nonroot/event_scrapy
+ExecStart=/home/nonroot/event_scrapy/main.py
diff --git a/event_notification/systemctl/event_scraper.timer b/event_notification/systemctl/event_scraper.timer
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c5765b92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event_notification/systemctl/event_scraper.timer
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Decides when to scrape the event section on the forum
+
+[Timer]
+OnCalendar=*-*-* *:0,30
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target