The QTOUR Championship, the most prestigious 1on1 aim tournament in the world will come to the United Kingdom for the first time at the famous i-series lan parties organized by Multiplay.

Compete for £500 plus products, honor and glory. QTOUR Championship UK will host a professional 1on1 Counter-Strike Source and Call of Duty 4 tournament. The best COD4 and CS:S players at i34 will be invited by Crossfire.nu and Cadred.org to compete on the legendary QTOUR stage, visited by some of the most famous star players in the world! The tournament takes place on QPads unique 1on1 aim map!

CoD4 Players invited by Crossfire

robwiz
deny
zem
tidde
mint
blackmane
raz
joepoe
nreo
soclon
lookzor
wombat
juszn
qwerty EG
EG
Fnatic
Fnatic
Fnatic
Dignitas
Dignitas
LowLandLions
Reason Gaming
MeetYourMakers
MeetYourMakers
EG
Reason Gaming
LowLandLions


CSS Players invited by Cadred.org
James "wilzOOO" Wilson | Birmingham Salvo
Lewis "Hughsy" Hughes | London Mint
Edouard "SmithZz" Dubourdeaux | emuLate!
Elliot "weZ" Welsh | Birmingham Salvo
Tomáš "wt" Herout | Reason Gaming
Sam "RattlesnK" Gawn | Birmingham Salvo
Luke "KritikaL" Green | Fragmasters
Richard "shox" Papillon | emuLate!
Jonas "nordQvist" Nordqvist | Four-Kings
Pete "pt" Wright | Birmingham Salvo
George "hudzG" Hoskins | London Mint
Carlos "dumbazo" Garcia | k1ck
Laurent "AsP-" Gautier | emuLate!
Will "RedH" Manson | Team Infused[/hide]

If you have been invited you need to confirm your interest by sending a Crossfire PM to This user with your email address, MSN & Phone Number so that you can be contacted by the event admins with the tournament schedule (which will be built around the i34 match schedule). The 14 invited players are autoberthed into the finals which take place on Sunday.

If you have not been invited and wish to compete you can qualify on location at i34 by going to the QPAD booth and qualifying for the final spot on Friday & Saturday! Former Clanbase admin Sorcerer will be administering both tournaments. The winner of the tournament will walk away with £250.

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This years Quakecon has flown by and whilst it went off without too much of a bang on the competitive community there were still some big prizes to be won in Dallas and some familiar faces took home the big prizes in the Anatole.

Quakewars PC

Mamut $8000
Kompaniet $4000
H2O $2000


Quake Live 1vs1

srs.Cypher $5000
SK.Zero4 $3000
Griffin $1500

There were also Quakewars on XBOX and Quake Live CTF and you can grab those results on the Quakecon site. Quake Unity had some coverage of the event which you can catch on demand on their site.

Call of Duty 4's biggest LAN event is live in Roskilde, Denmark with 25,000 Euro up for grabs and the games biggest names in attendance. Crossfire is live on site with Danish dynamite Arachon providing regular updates alongside Danish women's #1 fanbois, TosspoT & Deman.

Crossfire will be bringing you updates from the group stages and playoff's aswell as QuadV's broadcasting schedule as it happens and a special XLBet feature that allows you to make money off the games as they happen!

FINALS Live on QuadV - Tune In

Consolation Final - EG 13-8 Pandemic
Grand Final - LowLandLions 11-13 and 10-13 EG

PLAYOFF UPDATE

Tek-9 vs Infused has been thrown into controversy after davy arrived 1 minute after the doors closed, despite having stated he was just going to the toilet. Tek-9 have been penalised 3 rounds but their opponents Infused have opposed the ruling and stated they will selfkill for the first three rounds to even up the game[/hide]
PLAYOFF BRACKET

Group Stage Recap
The group stage is finally over with some surprising results along the way, but most top teams have managed to secure one of the two top seeds, which grants a seat in the winner bracket for the playoffs. H2K is one of victims that fell pray to one match of less concentration as they lost 13-06 against the much lower ranked Begrip, resulting in missing out the winner bracket round 1 BYE.

MeetYourMakers redeemed themselves from a mediocre start on Thursday, now topping the group by winning all remaining matches. And while Team Pandemic and Fnatic have managed to top their group as expected, the surprise of the past 36 hours must be LowLandLions that managed to top their group beating Team Dignitas and drawing against H2k.

In another news flash, in the game between weGamehotel and Druidz, Hanna from Druidz was caught with an illegal variable value; r_lodscaleridig. It is possible to set this to 2, using the in-game menus and therefore legal. However, Hanna's was set to 4 and therefor illegal, which means the match between weGamehotel and Druidz, which originally ended in a draw, is now a default win (0-7) for weGamehotel.
The decision is in great scrutiny by the community as the advantage of this setting is considered very limited as it only enhances pixels and details of the game.[/hide]
Final Group Standings
Group A
Team
Pandemic
Evil Geniuses
Copenhagen eSport
Infused Gaming
NCS Gaming
Team Zetta
Points
15
10
7
6
3
0


Group B
Team
Fnatic
Tek-9
Olso Lions
Druidz
weGamehotel
Team Fr33dom
Points
15
12
6
6
3
0


Group C
Team
LowLandLions
Team Dignitas
H2k Gaming
Begrip
Reason Gaming
Snoopy
Points
13
10
8
3
3
3


Group D
Team
Meet Your CREW
eSuba.HAL3000
Roskilde
Team Impact
Midat
Tenax Gaming
Points
13
10
9
9
3
0
[/hide]

Playoffs were scheduled to start at 11:30 CET on Friday, however it seems that this has been postponed until 17:00 CET. More update will follow soon.

Full Groups & Results From A Tournament
Full Groups & Reults from B Tournament

The dust has barely settled on Pandemic's huge win in the Antwerp eSports Festival and already the Call of Duty scene is rife with transfer activity and in Germany its bad news for the biggest name in the game.

SK Gaming have dropped their Call of Duty squad after a disappointing performance this past weekend. Finishing outside the prizes and having not shown the same performance levels since joining SK the former Six Devils roster now find themselves homeless and with the likelihood of some teams being out on the poach in coming weeks, the side could cease to exist.

Speedlink have disbanded after a fruitless LAN event once more, the side were not popular amongst other players at AEF after their match conflict against SP Gaming, claiming the Greeks were using the screen to their advantage. However more importantly for the Germans they have returned from another LAN without any major progress and Trigger chosing to move on.

At the moment neither stories have sources but will be updated when they're available. The rumour mill isnt done there though with heavy stories questioning the future of both MYM and KomaCrew, though those remain rumours at least until after The Experience this weekend!

In other AEF Coverage news, QuadV has the VODs uploaded at QuadV.com. Atarax has unearthed this feature from Belgian national Television - Other coverage including an indepth gallery on TEK9

The Asus Summer Open has chosen Call of Duty 4 for its Summer tournament, the tournament has chosen the 5on5 shooter over its traditional Quake 3 tournament selection according to Swedish source Rakaka.

The tournament has put up 75,000 Rubles (approx 2,000 Euro), which puts it alongside its other secondary tournaments such as TF2 and Starcraft. The main focus as always will be the CounterStrike Pro tournament which has 375,000 Rubles (10,000 Euro).

eSports weekly a new show from Wipido, Xleague and QuadV bringing you your weekly 'dabble' with all things competitive gaming has returned for its final episode of the pilot series, Episode 7.

On this weeks show we talk about all things Quakelive, with interviews with some of the games current top pro's who give their opinions on ID's upcoming release. On top of that we've some captivating footage from the ESL EMS TF2 tournament and the very latest news from around the games including roster changes and results from the CGS.

You can catch this weeks episode right HERE and view any episodes from the series that you may have missed Here

SK-Gaming this week released a newspost this week stating that 'ESL demands halt promod progress' with regards to the development of Call of Duty 4 competition mod, Promod. However the post has sparked controversy in the community both for those who believed the post and those at ESL who were bemused by the story. To clarify the stories legitimacy TheRogue, Head Admin of the ESL has given Crossfire this statement;

Quote by TheRogue

As the article says, CoD4 admins from the ESL have been talking to the promod developer to give our input as we are of course interested in using the mod in our competitions. According to one of our senior CoD4 admins who have been involved in the talks, we have however not demanded a halt to the mod's progress, or demanded C4, claymores or the grenade launcher be reintroduced nor would we boycott the mod. We have asked for the ability to add our own rule files (i.e. for other gametypes), but we understand the primary goal of the mod is to be ready for the upcoming LANs. We believe the discussions so far have been good and look forward to being able to the use the mod in our competitions. Of course at the end of the day, it is up to the community what mod or rules are used.

So with some light coming through the dark the same eager anticipation remains about the mods release. The mod promises more features than the CoD series has seen before and is widely expected to be adopted for most major events.

eSports weekly a new show from Wipido, Xleague and QuadV bringing you your weekly 'dabble' with all things competitive gaming has returned for episode 6.

This weeks dabble is all things ESWC Masters, with extended highlights of both the Quake & CounterStrike tournaments from the semi finals onwards. In addition to that there are interviews with both Quake and CS Winners! Make sure you catch this weeks episode as its 100% gamefootage and interviews!

Watch it HERE

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Quote by Game Hosting

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