Dignitas in partnership with ZyXEL have announced their own Call of Duty 1v1 S&D Challange. Sign ups are avalable here on the dignitas web site. The tournament will be running EuroCup rule set, each game will consit of 7 rounds and round time will be 1:30. Dignitas have also chosen to limit the map choice to only crash as they feel this would best fit the 1v1 format.

There will be 2 qualifiers where only the top 16 players will progress through to the Grand Final which will take place on May 25th. The first qualifier will be held on the 4th of May followed by the 2nd qualifier on the 11th of May.

A maximum of 256 players will be able to sign up for each qualifier however there will be a waiting list in place if there is a surge of signups over the maximum 256.

Prizes are as follows:

(Dignitas Website)
1x ZyXEL NSA220 Storage Device
1x ZyXEL DMA1000 Digital Media Streamer
1x ZyXEL P660HWP PowerLine HomePlug Router
1x ZyXEL PLA400 Single Pack PowerLine Adapter
QPAD UC
QPAD UC

To sign up, click here

Related: Dignitas Challange

"Better late than never right? Despite several unfortunate complications that caused delays, Team EG's videos from i33 are finally up! With everything from a venue tour to group play to EG vs TLR, there's tons of footage for everyone to check out."

Team EG have tonight released their own footage of i33. The videos cover mainly match footage from an over the shoulder perspective of the players. The videos show the team playing top teams such as Fnatic and 4Kings. With all the videos totalling just over half an hour, it provides quite an indepth coverage of the teams goings on at the event. For more infomation and to watch the videos check out myeg


Source: EG|Nosko

Evil Geniuses have had a good start to their Call of Duty 4 career placing 3rd at i33 and 2nd at NERV LAN however despite this they have decided to drop former team mate maven in favor for deny who before now played for rival team neXus Gaming.

The new team line-up is:

wombat
ntt
w!$eGUy
rob-wiz
deny

related: http://www.myeg.ca/

Fnatic.CoD4 have today announced the removal of Jonny 'klanne' Wahlqvist as they currently feel that he 'unfortunately didn't meet the standards of the team'. However with old blood out, we also see Martin 'MintR' Röjder returning to active duty in his place.
To add to further changed Mikael 'zsilts' Smedberg will be saying goodbye to the team as he is currently feeling a lack of motavation to play and would like to take a break from gaming. Johan 'Linqan' Lindqvist will be filling in the role and comes as no novice to the team as he has played in such teams as 'Banging it Eurostyle and team dignitas.

With the new line-up Fnatic.CoD4 will certainly be looking to reassert them selves as the champion of champions in esports.

The new Fnatic CoD4 line-up is as follows:

Martin 'MintR' Röjder
Rickard 'zEm' Intveld
Daniel 'tidde' Asp
Marcus 'odyx' Nilsson
Johan 'Linqan' Lindqvist

For more infomation please visit Fnatic homepage

The team is packed full of potential and are looking to improve on their recent impressive 5th-6th place at i33 at upcoming lans such as Antwerp Esports Festival, The Experience.dk and i34.

Today we see that Reason Gaming have decided to compete again with a new Call of Duty 4 team. Today they have signed the European ranked 10 team Exabyte. The new team will be looking to make an impact at the Antwerp Esports Festival and The Experiance LAN, along with i34 later in august.

The Reason Gaming line up consists of:

Jasdev "JUSZN" Virdee
Mark "rZE" Rzepka
Chris "Lighters" Lightburn
Mark "Phantasy" Pinney
Ryan "Duffer" Duffy

For full statements and anymore infomation please visit Reason Gaming

eSports Community website gotfrag.com have released their top 10 ranked European Call of Duty 4 teams. The ranking has this time been decided by an 'expert panal' but also conciders the input and opinions of top CoD4 teams.

The panel consisted of:
Head Panel
- Liam Crowley (GotFrag CoD4 Game Manager)

European Panel Members
- Kenneth Jensen (GotFrag European CoD4 Senior Writer)
- Stuart Saw (QuadV CoD4 Shoutcaster)
- Robert Black (Tournament admin)
- Davy Sysmans (TEK9 player)
- Mick Bradshaw (Dignitas player)
- Martin Rojder (fnatic player)

The ranking they came up with swayed towards teams offline perfomances however their online play certainly were taken into concideration.

The Top 10 teams are as follows:
1. MeetYourMakers
2. fnatic
3. Team Dignitas
4. eSuba.HAL3000
5. H2k.Qpad
6. TEK9 Networks
7. SK Gaming
8. LowLandLions
9. Roskilde Ravens
10. Exabyte


Source: GotFrag Rankings

The Danish esport promoters at Roskilde have made a push to further cement CoD4 as the future of competitive FPS and try and attract teams not only from Europe but as many international teams aswell.

There was no end of hype over the i33 CoD4 tournament about how it was shadowing the CS:S tournament in terms of prize purse however now the Danish LAN event, 'The Experiece', have now created a prize fund over double that of i33. The total prize fund at i33 was an impressive 12,000€ however The Experience CoD4 tournament will see a prize fund of 25,000€!

This mightly LAN will take place in Roskilde, Denmark on July 31 - August 2 and will hose a Call of Duty 4 and FIFA 08 tournamnent. The FIFA 08 tournament will have a prize purse of 3000€. There will also be a Counter-Strike:Source tournament which will be played between July 24th and July 26th but will boast a modest in comparision 12500€ first prize.

Tickets will be on sale on April 21. Ticket price for 5 players and 2 staff members for Call of Duty4 will be 500€.

Today MYM have ventured into the realms of Call of Duty 4 and have picked up the young and consistant TLR boys. With the earlier announcement of MYM shutting down their CS:S section they have decided to focus on Call of Duty 4.

The new MYM.CoD4 line up is as follows:

Morg (manager)
LoOkzor (captain)
SoCLoN
D1ablo
Mark
Stat

Statement LoOkzor: “Firstly I would like to say thanks to MYM for taking an interest in Call of Duty 4 and our team. It's going to be a real honour playing under the MYM colours, and as a team we hope to really make an impact with Call of Duty 4 and show everyone that this game has the potential to be big. And with that, as a team we are the best in Europe, under the MYM brand we hope to continue our strong form which we have held recently.”

Statement Morg: “I would like to thank MYM for taking the team in, and putting faith in us to grow the MYM.cod4 name. It is a really exciting time for Call of Duty 4, with it going from strength to strength. With already over 10 big LAN events announced for the summer it’s going to be a busy time for the MYM.cod4 team. Expect to see a lot from us in the coming months and be sure to check out what we are doing on the MYM website.”

It is also currently rumoured that TLR are considering lodging an official complaint to the g7 teams, of which MYM are a part of. TLR feel that MYM have steped out of line and broken some fundamental goals which the g7 set to achieve.

These goals are:
"To promote the cooperation, amicable relations and unity of the whole esports community."

"To promote cooperation and good relations between teams, players and esports organisations."

In responce MYM Mark Peter Fries, the COO of MYM has stated:
"If a team doesn't have a player on contract in anyway and the player hasn't signed any other legal binding documents that ties his/her stay to the team, then we consider them free agents. We might add the G7 organization offers free professional binding contracts for download on their member site www.g7teams.com . In case a player or a whole team would have been under one of those contracts we would, at any time, have consulted with them first, for a transfer with or without fees, or simply have waited for their contracts to expire if negotiations for a transfer, while being under contract, would fail."


Related: MYM

Source's : MYM
Fnatic

The number one Norwegian Call of Duty 4 team fastswitch have had to make some recent changes follwing hardware and internet problems that nitrAm is currently having.

Decemebr 2007 saw Norway become reinstated on the Call of Duty map when team fastswitch were created. Starting with the initial lineup of: PSIR, Gizzor, ajzZ, robon and Nitram however ajzZ was released to make room for Zenith and the team are going from strength to strenght since.

nitrAm has recently had notorious internet problems over recent weeks and has unfortunatly been replaced helping the team secure a degree of activity which any team needs to survive and prosper. The team decided to bring in Alex to the team and officially welcomed him.

Look out for team fastswitch at the Norwegian LAN event The Gathering at the end of March where Alex will be making his LAN debute under the fastswitch tag.

The current lineup consists of:

PSIR
Gizzor
robon
Zenith
Alex

Related
www.fastswitch.no
#fastswitch.no

Over the course of the coming weekend in the shadow of CDC4 will be the 19th central LAN UK (cluk19). Despite the goings on of CDC4, CLUK19 will be held at Uttoxeter Racecourse, Staffordshire. The event takes place from 29th Feb - 2nd March starting at 4pm on Friday running through until 6pm Sunday and costs just £45. It will be hosting the following tournaments

Counter-Srike: Source 5v5 with a max limit of 8 teams and a £500 prize fund.
Call of Duty4 5v5 SnD with a max limit of 8 teams and a £500 prize fund
World In Conflict 4v4 with a max limit of 5 teams and a £500 prize fund
An Expert and Medium Guitar Hero 3 fun tournament, a newly announced Audio Surf fun tournament and an eagerly anticipated Boat Race.

This LAN is certainly small but in the past 6 years it has gone from strength to strength. I realise it is no I-series or CDC4 but this LAN will be a good pre-training camp for team E-buyer who are signed up for the CSS tournament and the recently announced Team Packard Bell Cod4 team who are signed up for the Cod4 tournament.

With the wake of CDC4 I don’t expect much attention to the LAN however it is meant to be a social LAN with a competitive edge to it, and I feel it has and will achieve what it has set out to do.

Good luck to the event organiser and all teams and participants in CLUK19, and good luck to all attending CDC4.

With 114 paid participants and 8 spectators, CLUK19 will be a nice weekend LAN and good practice for upcoming LAN's such as I33 which teams participating in the tournaments will be aiming for.

For any more information please visit

http://www.centralanuk.co.uk/cluk19