Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner of both QuadV and the CGS has today published his article on the upcoming US Election titled, The Gamers' Election, inspired by Nellie's most recent Poll

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Is Crossfire a polarizing community that represents the true views of most gamers when it comes to the general election? I think probably not, but I was interested to investigate further and find out which candidate would be best for gamers. Which candidate supports professional gaming and casual gaming? Which candidate would like to banish games from our lives and regulate more?

You can read the full article here

The early bird discount for the Crossfire Challenge 5 is fast approaching. The deadline passes at 23:00 GMT on Wednesday 15th of October, after that date all payments will cost 10 Euro more per player. On Tuesday 14th of October I will post a list of all the teams/players that have paid and had their money received, bare in mind this list is pretty much only accurate until Thursday or so as it takes a few days for payments to clear. If you are not on the list, simply get a screenshot of your payment and send it to me and all will be well.

In addition the official Crossfire Challenge 5 thread is now posted, it will be constantly updated and should be your first source of all information for the event, you can find it here

Crossfire is proud to announce that it will supporting the Expekt.com cup with integration into the Crossfire site. Where currently there is the Nations Cup tab in the navigation bar soon there will be the Expekt Cup tab.

After lengthy discussions with head admin Flash of NecroRaisers he went to great lengths to secure communication between Expekt and Crossfire to confirm their financial support for the event and as such Crossfire is proud to be involved as a hosting partner. The Necroraisers team will still be administrating and delivering the tournament, however as a new partner of your tournament registration you must keep your Crossfire clan account up to date.

Flash has followed up this with a tournament update here

Crossfire is today proud to announce a sustainable increase onto its prizepurse for CC5! The Call of Duty tournament will have a purse of €7500 and the Enemy Territory will have a €5000 prize purse for the upcoming CC5 Tournament.

To Signup to the tournament you must Register Your Clan and add your members to it. Then you must click 'manage clan' and tick that you are attending CC5. Beyond that you must then send payment to the following bank:

Payment Details
Entry fees are different for CC5, so pay attention. If you pay before October 15th you get the early bird discount of 10 euro off your entry. After October 15th all payments increase 10 euro per player.

- Payment - ET 40 Euro Per Player - CoD4 50 Euro Per Player (with earlybird included)
- Payments Made payable to: Crossfire
- IBAN: GB24MIDL 403913 21363751
- Swift/Bic Code MIDLGB2152H
- Sort Code 403913
- Bank: HSBC
(There are no refunds, so make sure you're coming before you pay)
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As mentioned in the first newspost - There are NO qualifiers for CC5 anyone who signs up will be welcomed to play. In November all entrants will be entered into a seeding competition, the higher you finish the higher your seed for the event.

Map Pools - The ET Map Pool has been decided, though the COD4 one has not, dont expect any surprises there. The ET Pool is as follows: Supply, sw_Goldrush_TE, sp_delivery_te, adlernest, frostbite, radar, bremen_b2.

The PCGamer Showdown taking place at the end of September at Stonleigh Park in Coventry has teamed up with Enemy Down to offer 11 free tickets for the event. 5 of those are to be won in CounterStrike Source, 5 in Call of Duty and 1 special ticket for those who play in the most BE Mixes

The Call of Duty 4 Tournament can be found HERE. It's a single elimination cup that takes place over just two nights. Full details can be found on EnemyDown

In addition to that, the ticket prices have been dropped for the event from £60 to £48 for the weekend. Entrants are competing for up to £30,000 worth of prizes in CoD4, CSS, TF2 and WiC.

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Crossfire.nu is proud to announce the fifth installment of its Challenge LAN Series running from December 12-14 2008. The event which has become a focal point in both the Enemy Territory and Call of Duty series returns with an improved prized offering and greater capacity to house teams wishing to attend. The event will take place in the WZZRD Gaming Center in Enschede powered by their new project, WZZRD.tv, this the venue which crowned Fnatic and The Last Resort champions in CoD4 & ET respectively.

The event will also feature an online tournament for each game in November to determine the seedings for the tournament before kicking off in earnest at 9AM on Friday the 12th of December in Enschede. QuadV as always will be live on location broadcasting both the tournament and all the fun of the event both to the web and to the local audience!

Entry fee's will work differently for this event featuring an early bird discount in September - Signups will open in September with the announcement of the prizes and all entries in September will be 40 Euro per player for ET and 50 Euro per player in CoD4. Signups will remain open in October but will be 50 Euro per player in ET and 60 in CoD4 and will only be accepted via online credit card payment (google checkout system). So if you pay before October you get it 10 Euro cheaper.

eSports Weekly returns with a one off i34 special show! This weeks dabble is not only the twice the length of your regular dabble but also features Hollyoaks stunner Gemma Atkinson!!

This weeks show is all about Multiplays i34 the biggest gaming event in the UK to date and follows the main tournaments for Call of Duty 4 & Counter Strike Source. More than that though the show also features indepth interviews with gaming veteran Mark 'wombat' Larsen, CGS World Champion GM Michael 'Odee' O'dell and QuadV Director and CGS Commentator Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner. On top of all of that theres a round of the UK WCG Qualifiers.

You can watch the show right here you can also watch another one off special from CLUK Lan right here

Dignitas, the leading gaming team in the UK have returned to Call of Duty after their 24 hour hiatus from the game. The side have come together with two of the former MYM team who were released from their team earlier this week, it presents some interesting dilemas for the lineup that looks as follows;

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Mick
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Soclon
Lookzor

The dilemmas start with Blackmane and Soclon both being two of Europe's leading snipers and both having played very well as such this summer. This is a throw back to when Dignitas recruited Blackmane the first joined dignitas who possessed trainee, at the time Europe's top gun with the sniper. However, Blackmane will have other things on his mind as he takes over comms leadership for the first time.

Reason Gaming have followed the recent trend of making changes after the summer season by dropping two of their most recognisable players. The changes come after a mixed batch of summer results, at times brilliant others not quite so.

As such the side have dropped Juszn who starred in the sides rise the fame with Exabyte and also phantasy. With there being a shortage of big events in the coming weeks the side will be taking their time about picking the replacements.

That leaves reason with the following lineup;

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lighters

You can read statements from Reason Gaming and more reasoning for the change over at Reason Gaming's Website

i34 is over, Low Land Lions have won the Call of Duty in an epic 2 map final and defeated Evil Geniuses in the final. The benelux side lost on Backlot but a phenominal come back on crash gave them 6000 euro and their first major tournament victory in CoD4. It was also good news for Qwerty who on the graphic below won the QTOUR.