Try downloading an ISO of quake and mounting it on Daemon tools. I downloaded a few different copies of quake off torrents, most were the wrong version and the others didnt let me in most servers.
listen xen, i know you're being honest and that is something that needs to be appreciated. however, given the lax tools to enforce anti-hacking/cheating on q3, especially on 1.16, it is almost impossible to accept you right away. certainly, if you can get some chs member to vouch for you then perhaps you could be considered.