Play in the largest European Call of Duty 4 Trophy !

Reload your AK-47 and practice your in-game tactics for the Ipowergames Call of Duty 4 (PC) Trophy. Created by Packard Bell, the Ipowergames will invite 8 of the best European Call of Duty 4 teams to Paris for a huge final taking place during the Paris Gaming Show in Paris-Bercy the 4th, 5th and 6th of July

But first, gamers will have to win their qualification through a set of offline and online national tournaments in the following countries:

Germany
Spain
France
The Netherlands
Italy

The winning team in each country will get a free trip to Paris for the Ipowergames finals, 3-star hotel and gourmet-dinner, all expenses paid. The finalists will have the opportunity to play on stage, in the famous arena of the “Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy”, in front of thousands of spectators. At the end of the competition, Packard Bell will reward the winning team with 5 iPower computers, the ultimate gaming machines from Packard Bell.


Starting May 20, registrations for the Call of Duty 4 qualifiers will be open on www.ipowergames.net so don’t wait any longer and apply with your team. The challenge awaits you now!

Official Website: iPOWERGames.net

The Championship Gaming series UK & European combine is underway at Omega Sektor in Birmingham. The tournament has drawn the worlds best in CS:Source, DOA, FIFA & Forza however for Crossfire our eyes are glued to both the CoD4 tournament and Crossfire favourite feruS who is hottly tipped to get drafted into either of the CS:Source teams!

The tournaments are just about to start and the seeds have trickled out though they're a little sketchy at the moment. We have confirmation that Fnatic are seeded 1st & Dignitas are seeded second, with Wizzards (aka blacksouls) third and then L3 in fourth. There are 15 teams in total, with another notable name being Reason Gaming. There is unfortunately no streaming of the tournament.

feruS watch has begun with the Swede giving his best interview yet which will be uploaded to TheCGS.com this weekend which will fuel the fire that is the tug of war between the Berlin Allianz and Stockholm Magnetik both of whom will want to pick up the player who has just turned 18 and thus old enough to play in the CGS. The prize is a full contract for him to the team and he will compete both locally and live on DirecTV in LA later this summer.

We'll be keeping you updated with the results as soon as they become available, though the tournament isnt due to start for a little while.

Update

FeruS has played and won his first game with the Stockholm Magnetik though it is expected he may be picked up by Berlin for a challenge match also.

CoD Brackets -

WB Final

Dignitas 2-0 Wizzards

LB Semi Finals:

Reason 2-0 ephix
Fnatic 2-0 L3

LB Final:

Fnatic > reason

Consolation Final:

Fnatic 2-1 Wizzards

Final

Fnatic 2-0 Dignitas

The Acer Challenge is rapidly approaching and we've made some changes to the tournament to aid some of the teams attending. Many people who were interested in coming said that they were struggling with the date due to it clashing with exams and with that being the case and a few less teams than expected we've made some big changes.

The tournament will now run all on Saturday June 7th only, with the oppourtunity of a Free bootcamp on Friday for those that want to. On the Friday there will also be a 1 off cash exhibition match with the teams and reason all to be announced.

Because we got less teams than we wanted we've changed the prizepurse to 3000 Euro, with 1500 to first, 1000 to second, 500 to third. If signups rapidly change based off the new dates then that prizepurse will increase, but it will not go lower than 3000.

WZZRD have a deal with the local hotels that will get you cheap accomodation and they provide a variety of options for you, those can be found HERE.

To signup You must register your Crossfire Clan Account and mail that registration to [email protected] that completes your Crossfire reigstration. However to fulfill your registration you must then send your payment (40 euro per player) of either yourself or your whole team to the following Dutch Bank Account;

Account# 51.45.57.893
WZZRD BV
Utrecht
IBAN: NL12ABNA0514557893
BIC/SWIFT: ABNANL2A

Please be sure to state your team name in the payment note.

If you have any questions please dont hesitate to contact me.

More than £10,000 in Cash and Prizes at Stake in Highest UK Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Prize Purse Ever

The CGS will be adding to the excitement of the upcoming 2008 UK and Europe Qualifier and Draft in Birmingham, England May 16-18,by announcing today that it will host the CGS European Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Kick-Off Tournament at the event.

At the tournament, teams will compete for their share of £10,000 in prize money,. The tournament, which is expected to attract the region’s best teams to compete in 5v5 search-and-destroy double-elimination format, will be free to enter, with the top eight placing teams receiving cash valued at £10,000, there will also be Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Soundcards and Fatal1ty Gamer Headsets awarded as prizes.

Sasquaando, once a small dutch LAN have gone and become anything other than small with a total 100k Amsterdam based LAN Tournament featuring CS:Source and Call of Duty 4

On the 25th to 27th of July (The same dates as the Antwerp eSports Festival) in the Jaagslek Trio Studios in Amsterdam the tournament will be filmed and aired on TV 101 in the Netherlands aswell internet streaming being provided.

Frits “Jerkle” Vandenhoff, the tournament organiser of SASSQUAANDO made the following statement :

We are very pleased to be provided this opportunity, both to run an amazing tournament and to help the progression of eSports. Although our previous events have been on a much smaller scale, with the financial support OnGame have provided us we feel we will be able to provide an almost unrivalled event, and one that will go down in the history of gaming.

The website is currently being revamped to the new owners, but will be available soon, along with more tournament information.

Prize Distribution
24000
17000
9000€

To counter this great news however, GotFrag's Liam Crowley has cast doubts over the legitimacy of this tournament, those can be read here

Update

The organisers have responded to questions from fnatic and gotfrag you can read them;
Fnatic & Gotfrag

Crossfire is proud to have once again partnered with WZZRD for a special international Call of Duty 4 event to be held at this years ESWC NL qualifiers. WZZRD have today announced a prizepurse of 5000 Euro for the Acer Challenge to be held in their WZZRD Game Cafe in Enschede on June 6-8.

After huge success with both last years ESWC NL and previous events with Crossfire its fantastic to have been invited to work on this latest project. As such Crossfire is proud to be home to the administration of the Call of Duty tournament and will be onsite providing tournament administration and coverage. QuadV will also be on location providing live video streaming of the tournament and ESWC NL!

To signup for the Call of Duty tournament;

Signups for ESWC NL are on a first come first serve basis meaning that the when you've paid your entrance fee you are assured the spot in the tournament. You must signup for the tournament here on Crossfire and then pay your money to WZZRD. Tournament entry is 40 Euro per player and must be paid either individually or as a team via bank transfer. The tournament will start on Friday 6th of June and finish on Sunday 8th of June.

Indeed, the title says it all as tonight brings another two big matches to your screen. It is time to round up the first groupmatches round and these four teams still have their parts to play.

Yesterday evening saw, to some surprisingly, ephix take a round versus the Finnish side of vae but eventually bowing out with a 4-2 win for the Finns. Then there were ze yermans of MegaProGaming who did what they had to and took a relatively easy win against the 8Bits team. Very interesting was the game between cortana and Fear Factory X-Fi as the Poles definitely put their shoulders in to it and showed everyone that they are here to stay. Even though still very early in the groupstage, it seems FF are likely to be pushing through to the playoffs if they keep up their game.

But that was all yesterday and as said, there are three games left to be played for the first round two of which are due tonight!

X-RaY anti cheat has today announced its support for ET and have recently added it to its game list. The software which is used in many other games has the backing of the UK's largest league, Enemy Down and has a very active development team.

The software is clientside and requires users to create an account and download the x-ray software. The software then forces screenshot uploads and scans your computer for cheat processes. On top of this the software has a very active support system in which the ET community is welcome and encouraged to participate in aiding them detect new cheats that have been released.

Crossfire is very happy to be supporting X-RaY and thanks their development team for a prompt response to our request for support in light of Punkbusters recent exposures. As such we will be launching prized ET and CoD4 tournaments using this software in the coming month.

:: X-RaY Homepage
:: X-RaY Guide

Fatgames have rung the changes in their ET squad after successfully qualifying for the Eurocup season. The side have gone out and picked up two of the old TLR/aMenti CDC winning side in a huge transfer that puts them right in the thick of things for upcoming prizes.

Their new roster is;

sol
kot
Holz
s4rna
mAus
aCozZ

Urtier and buzka will remain backups for the side, whilst Holz will continue to rifle until he changes his PC. Kot had the following to say about the team;

Quote

We've gone out and got two fantastic players that state our ambitions as a team. They've won CDC and that has always been my life long ambition, not just for myself, but also in honour of the great and prosperous nation of Poland. We're expecting to perform well in the upcoming spring seasons and then move on from there.

Its been a while since the community heard anything from Dignitas however thats not to say that they've not been plotting their long awaited return to ET! This their third squad has something of a familiar feel to it and will send out shockwaves in the community!

Dignitas' new lineup;

Darkie
FeruS
civ
Spear
zAm
tba

This latest squad from Dignitas has all the potential needed to become top dogs the question is whether they will be putting in the hours to achieve that!

Quote by Darkie

Its great to be back in Dignitas and back playing again. We've all missed not being active as a team, and we're trying to get back into the groove once again. I'd imagine it'll take a while to get good again, but these former powerhouses are more than capable of being at the top come CDC5!

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