Today's top ET games!

Today is Sunday, it is summer and it is hot - not just outside but ingame! This sunday will bring us a hell of Enemy Territory action with - up to now, 14 games overall broadcasted by GamesTV.org. Thus means you can chose between 84 players or 28 teams who to spec! And that`s not an easy task because we do have the CGS Seeding tournament running, the Clanbase SummerCup is under way, the Australian CyberGamer ET Draft Cup got it`s big final and the ESL Evolution Challenge is, with it`s upper bracket round 3, at it`s peak. Unfortunately I am not able to give you an insight view about all the games but with OVERLOAd vs. JB and colt45 vs. mPG I have chosen two of the finest battles to write about so go ahead and enjoy reading my short preview!


Both games will start at 21.30 CET and that`s not the only thing they have in common. All four teams are fighting for the top spot and some great prizes sponsored by Ozone Gaming Gear for this ESL Evolution Challenge. Although the tournament got a lower bracket I am more than sure that one of those four teams will end up taking home the shirts, mousepads, wristbands and lan bags.

Enough for the formalities! Let`s take a deeper look on the teams. I want to start with the well known side of OVERLOAd. The core lineup is relative stable and with beating BDSM in their last official they have shown a winner's mentality. According to GamesTV they might switch L4mpje for SQuid but this will not hurt their skill - both are great players and capable of doing some sick damage. Sick damage is a good point. Their opponent, JB, got 6 potential sick Enemy Territory players - at least on paper. The crew around olbaa, sNoOp and zerender are definately awesome players but as we all know ET is about teamplay and I am not sure if they were able to get this key factor working. I would predict a 4:2 with either An7ho/joshua or Matias/sNoOp saving the decider map for their team.

OVERLOAd saKen JALLAAAAAA An7ho karnaj L4mpje joshua

Time: 21.30 CET Maps: TBA

Jungle Brothers abort Sinnu zerender sNoOp Matias olbaa

The next match got the same quantity of high quality players and I can`t recommend a single player to spec because most of them are able to turn a match around. You should just spectate and try to see as much action as possible. There is talk of colt45 versus mPG! The teams are consisting of superb NationCup players, EuroCup winners and impressive lan players. I can start with sqzz, miNd, FLoPJEHZ and NuggaN then comes bN or perfo and that`s just the half of tomorrow`s ETTv spectacle. By checking their lineups you will notice that it will not be a walk in the park for neither of them and I think this match will be decided by either Kamz or miNd. And no, I don`t expect a great 6 men pf or something similar...no, I think whoever can motivate and coordinate his superstars better will advance.

colt45 Kamz sqzz lettu FLoPJEHZ bN Kevin

Time: 21.30 CET Maps: TBA

mPG miNd perfo Baggiez razz NuggaN SQuid

And to round this newspost off I gathered some player opinions:

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c45 vs mPG: Just looking at the lineups mPG is the favourite to win this game, but c45 shouldn't be underestimated. Now that it's summer both teams most likely don't come to the game well prepared, which makes the game a bit harder to predict. mPG should win this one, 4-0 or 4-2.

ovr vs JB: OVERLOAd is one of the very few teams left that has managed to stick together for a long time, eventhough they've had to make quite a few lineup changes. JB on the other hand was recently reformed and has many players who are coming back after a long break and haven't reached their full potential yet. The result would be easier to predict if I knew the whole lineup of JB, but in any case it should be a pretty close game that could go either way. I'm predicting JB to win 4-2. - twidi

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colt45 vs mpg- I think this one should be fairly one sided with mpg taking the win since they have a lot of active players who seem to be at the top of their game. Kamz has done well to get the players he has done though after all of his trolling on gtv (:D) but i still think mpg will win it pretty comfortably, but i hope i'm wrong as i'd love to see kamz shut baggiez up (if thats possible?) 4-0 mpg unless colt45 play well and get their teamwork in order, they could take a map.

overload vs JB- Havn't seen jungle brothers play since their return but they obviously have a talented lineup, not sure how snoop and zerender will fair after their inactivity but i'm sure it hasn't taken them long to get back into shape. Overload have been playing well recently with the arrival of karnaj & antho and they could give JB a good game if their teamplay is as good as it has been, but i'm gonna say jungle brothers to scrape a win 4-2. - stKz

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I'm kinda mercing for colt and only played few games with them. But I have to say our lineup is pretty strong with players like sqzz in it. I dont know too much about MPG either, never played that team, but it should be a strong team ofcourse and likely the favorit for majority.
I'm a positive person and have faith on this team so I'll say 4-2 for us! ;)

I feel JB has just more individual skills than overload and the fact that overload has played together more is not gonna matter too much here. Its not like overloads team is weak, looks quite good actually, but JB just has some of the highest lvl players!
I dont know how zerender and snoop will perform, if they have been active lately etc. Still gotta say 4-0 for JB.. - lettu

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Colt45 vs MPG - I'd see MPG taking this 4-2. simply because MPG seems slightly stronger on paper. I think it'll be a good match for the viewers tho!

OVERLOAd vs JB - JB will just have to hope that their better players will be avi and not having to use that many mercs. I'd say 4-2 for JB, but could easily be the other way around. - xPERiA

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Colt vs MPG - I can't say this match is easy to predict, but MPG recently won EC golden pocal in pretty easy manner. That certainly puts them in better position to win this match against newly reformed Colt45. However with sqzz in lineup, they might surprise with a map win, but I don't think they can pull a victory on this field.

OVR vs JB - This one is a real pickle to me, on one side there is OVR, which has been performing strong in past season as well as changing lineup on almost daily basis due to summer time. In oposite corner, we have JB full of ET allstars (+Sinnu :P), waiting to take anyone who crosses their path down. If JB players can perform as good as when they were in times of their prime, this match can go either way and should be entertaining. I predict 4-2 for JB, two fins are better than 0! - FiLuS