One of the oldest names in RTCW has returned to competitive action recently and today has finalised its lineup for CDC3. Kreaturen's name is most famous for its silver medal in RTCW Eurocup XIII and numerous endeavours into ET and its Eurocups.

They return with this lineup;

BuLL
M1lk
teKoa
Lun4t1C
Azz0r
gifty

Latest recruit and Kreaturens first ever swiss player, gifty had this to say;

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As I can speak for the whole team, we are all very excited about the following weeks. Old players like Lun4t1C are back, with motivation to come far the LAN, and thats exactyle what we need. Afterall we hope we can take the advantage with us, that the other 5 players have been playing together for ages, so the teamplay should be already quite far. We'll of course aim for the first place places, means we have to use our remaining time as good as possible to give the standing favourites a good fight, where we want to come out as winners!

You can find out more and follow them in action in #Kreaturen

John Carmack's keynote speech has never been quite so eventful. ID Software will be very busy in the coming years and won't be leaving the headlines any time soon! Carmack had these important announcements to say, you will be able to watch the whole speech courtesy of GGL shortly.

- ID Software's next game will be named "Rage". It will be both an FPS and Racing game. You can see the tech demo on Quakeunity

- QuakeCon 2008 is confirmed, but for a week earlier this time. It will start July 31st ending August 3rd.

- ID are currently working on Quake0, a free web version of Quake3 which is in development. The game will be supported by advertising.

- There will be a Quake 5 for the new id tech 5 engine, but there is no ETA on the project.

- ID Software will be putting ALL their titles on Steam from right NOW. Including Doom & Quake, but will not include ET nor Quakewars

- European Quakewars release date will be the 28th of September and the US release date will be the 2nd of October.

Quakecon is underway, the crowds are bigger, the venue is bigger and of course the tournaments are bigger! This weekend in Dallas, Texas, Crossfire is live on location for Quakecon 2007. ET:QW debuts on the big stage alongside the Quad Damage tournament for Quake, let us not forget the promised news from ID Software about the next Wolfenstein installment and ID's next engine release. Keep it here on Crossfire for all the latest!

Enemy Teritory: Quakewars 6vs6 - All times are local times to Dallas (CET -7)
:: *NEW* Gallery
Dignitas: http://www.team-dignitas.org/gallery.php?gid=213&fid=4
Qcon: http://gallery.quakecon.org/v/2007 [/hide]
:: Seeds
1 - Team HOT
2 - Team Dignitas
3 - 20ID
4 - Demis
5 - Check-six
6 - 20ID Garbage Day
7 - 50 Cal
8 - c5
9 - Team HOT-5
10 - Check Six Deceptions[/hide]
:: Tournament Preview
:: Prizes
$22,000
$16,000
$8,000
Fourth Place: $4,000[/hide]
:: Day 1 Schedule

Grand Final Dignitas vs HOT

SET ONE - Team HOT 1-3 Dignitas

Valley - Dignitas 1-1 HOT - Double Fullhold
Area22 - Dignitas 2-0 HOT - Dignitas set 11:49 and hold

SET TWO HOT 0-2 Dignitas

Area22 Dignitas 2-0 HOT - Dignitas set 6:06 on Area
Valley - Dignitas 2-0 HOT - Dignitas full hold

Lower Bracket Round 6 (Losers Bracket Final)

Dignitas 2-0 Check 6
Upper Bracket
Upper Bracket Round 4 (Winners Bracket Final)

Dignitas vs Team HOT

Valley [0:1]
Area22 [0:1]

Upper Bracket Round 3

7PM Team HOT 2-0 Demise
7PM 20ID 0-2 Dignitas

Upper Bracket Round 2

3PM Dignitas 2-0 50CAL - VoD Cast with TosspoT
3PM 20ID 2-0 20ID Garbage Day
3PM Team HOT 2-0 Team HOT-5
3PM Check6 0-2 Demise

Upper Bracket Round 1

9AM HOT 2-0 tbs
9AM HOT-5 2-0 c5
9AM check6 2-0 AwesomeNaders (default win)
9AM Gunit 0-2 Demise

11AM 20ID 2-0 Purius
11AM NUC 0-2 20ID Garbage Day
11AM 50 Cal 2-0 Check6 Decepticons - VoD Cast with TosspoT
11AM The Boardmen 0-2 Team Dignitas
Lower Bracket

Lower Bracket Round 5

Demise 0-2 Check6

Lower Bracket Round 4

Demise 2-0 20ID: Garbage Day
20ID 0:2 Check6

Lower Bracket Round 3

Team HOT-5 0-2 Check6
20ID: Garbage Day 2-0 50 Calibre

Lower Bracket Round 2

Team HOT-5 2-0 Check-Six:Decepticons
Check6 2-0 Numero Uno
20ID: Garbage Day 2-0 Gunit
50 Calibre 2-0 c5

Lower Bracket Round 1

-)tbs(- 0-2 c5
AwesomeNaders 0-2 Gunit
PIR'ÜS 0-2 Numero Uno
Check-Six:Decepticons 2-0 The Boardmen
Qualifiers
Dignitas 2-0 TE - VoD Cast with TosspoT
Team HOT 2-0 DAWGS
20ID 2-0 Guild Hall
Demise [2:0] Team Lan Maniacs
Check Six [2:0] FDS - 4PM
20ID Garbage Day [2-0] Car Ramrod - VoD Cast with TosspoT
50 Calibre [2:0] Nuts
c5 [2:0] Dragon Kill Points - (result missing)
LTK [0:2] Check6 Decepticons
Team Hot 5 [2:0] SSN
NUC Gaming [2:0] p*h
Awesome Nades [2:0] S*A*W
Skullriders 0-2 tbs
Gunit 2-0 Premptive Strike
Team Central Slayers 0-2 The Boardmen
Rockn- 0-2 PURIUS
Official Quakecon Bracket

Quake: Quad Damage

PURRI has progressed through his group and will be in the knockout stages tommorow, as has griffin who defeated Slasher but did manage to lose a map in Quake 2 to him. Stermy. Fox & Tox have all progressed to the single elimination round. 32 players will battle it out with no loser bracket.

There will be a special exhibition match between Europe and America, played BO3 over Quake 3 & Quake 4 - probably 5v5 CTF. Representing Europe will be Toxic, fox, purri, Stermy & Assasin. America will be DaHang, Clamp-ok, mik3d, griffin, chance, LoSt-CaUzE, ermac & rapha.

Quake Damage Grand Finals - (Will play all four quakes, q4 monsoon is 5th if needed to tiebreak)

Toxic vs fox - TOXIC WINS 3-2

Quakeworld - Areowalk - Fox 40-2 Tox
Quake 2 - Edge - Fox 29-3 Tox
Quake 3 - Dm6 - Fox -1 19 Tox
Quake 4 - Phranticv- Fox 2 - 18 ToX
Decider - Quake 4 - Monsoon - Fox 7-10 ToX

[b3rd / 4th Place[/b]]

PURRI 1-2 DaHanG

The Rage [7-20]
Monsoon [10-7]
The Bad Place [4-32]
Quad Damage Semi Finals

Toxic 2-1 DaHang
Fox 2-1 PURRI[/hide]
[bQuad Damage Single Elim Round 3[/b]]

Toxic 2-1 naymliss
DaHanG 2-1 Lost-Cauze

Fox 2-0 griffin
PURRI 2-1 chance
[bQuad Damage Single Elim Round 2[/b]]

Toxic 2-0 roo
naymlis 2-0 ERMAC

DaHanG 2-0 Thump4
Lost-Cauze 2-0 dorkiz

fox 2-1 Kovaak
griffin 2-1 Stermy (to be vod'd)

Purri 2-0 Prox
Chance 2-1 Black Stallion
[bQuad Damage Single Elim Round 1[/b]]

Toxic 2-0 Kassi
hs 0-1 roo
naymlis 2-0 obsolete
CoDro 0-2 ERMAC

Striker3175 0-2 DaHanG
Thump4 2-0 plop (To be VoD'd)
Carb0n13 0-2 LoSt-Cauze
dorkiz 2-0 FienD

Requ13m 0-2 fox
dkillone 1-2 Kovaak
GameTraveller 0-2 griffin
Phillipio 0-2 Stermy

Purri 2-0 dardik
Prox 1-0 Clamp
Mr Cram 0-2 Chance
BLack Stallion 2-0 Rapha

German flagship Speedlink have rung the changes post OOF in a bid to guide them back to the top of the pile once again. After returning to activity at CPC2 the side emerged with fresh face z1n, however after a few months the team have decided that this was the wrong move and have replaced him with one new and one old face!

Leader Trigger had this say;

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It's unfortunate that after only 5 months we already have to say goodbye to Igor "z1N" Manschin. After we had decided against K1ckzZ in favour of z1N in the beginning of the year, we soon noticed that the chemistry between z1N and the rest of the team was not optimal and differences were apparent when we had to perform as a team. It gives us joy that we are still able to welcome Timm "K1ckzZ" Lücke to our team, he has great potential and was able to collect a huge amount of experience through playing with his former team, OCRANA.

The comeback of Michael "spaR" Ege pleases us as well, because he had played for our team already for over a year during Call of Duty 1 and Call of Duty 2 and therefore perfectly knows what we expect from a player. Due to his long inactivity he will be integrated as a back-up player at the beginning until the EuroCup LAN Finals. From then on we will work out a 6 player rotation line-up, the way we used to play when we achieved our biggest results.

Speedlinks new roster will look like this;

Trigger
Fuchsstute
phY1
Nightwalker
K1ckzZ
spaR

Source

Splashdamage owner Locki has today announced that after successful demonstration at last weeks E3, Quakewars Beta 2 will be released first to the Quakecon BYOC and then to the general public after. The second beta will contain the following upgrades;

- The map will be Valley (the one from the original QW videos)
- Bug and Balance fixing
- Improved Bots
- Improved Prediction and Player Physics
- Improved Vehicle Physics and Controls
- Improved Interface
- Improved Audio
- Improved Game Performance
- Improved PunkBuster
- Unranked Server Support
- New Statistics Website

The new Beta dosent have an exact date of release, although it will be shortly after Quakecon. Further in his newspost, Locki mentioned that Quakewars has been nominated for 2 awards at E3, after winning awards last year also.

Source

Quakecon have announced some small last minute changes to the rules for the Quakewars tournament this weekend in Dallas;

After a week of moderate testing with the closed beta, the following map specific changes will be made to the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars 6v6 Tournament:

On the map "Valley":
The defending team, Strogg, may not use either the Tormentor or
Cyclops during map stages 1 (bridge) and 2 (MCP)

On the map "Ark":
The defending team, GDF, may not use the GDF base Titan during
map stage 1 (generator)

On the map "Area22":
No changes.

As the game does not currently allow these changes to be enforced directly, teams will be required to honour them and report if opposing teams are in violation. Any team found in violation will forfeit the entire match.

Chaos descends on Antwerp this weekend as the big guns of Call of Duty head to the Outpost on Fire for one of the biggest competitions this summer. European's elite are in attendance and it should promise to be a cracking tournament, one that is already underway! Day 1's results are flooding in and are as follows;

Group A
Reason Gaming 10:13 FLS-Gaming - (Dawnville)
The Last Resort vs BYE
Reason Gaming vs BYE
The Last Resort [13:10] FLS-Gaming - (Burgundy)
Reason Gaming [12:12] The Last Resort - (Matmata)
FLS-Gaming vs BYE

Group A is already over and Reason Gaming have got a boring weekend ahead of them after going just one round away from the knockout stages, but the last gasp draw from TLR knocked the brits out!
Group B
TeK-9 13:04 Aksioo Gaming - (Dawnville)
CNO Gaming 13:08 cZklan - (Burgundy)
TeK-9 13:04 cZklan - (Dawnville)
CNO Gaming 13:03 Aksioo Gaming - (Burgundy)
TeK-9 13:08 CNO Gaming - (Carentan)
cZklan 13:11 Aksioo Gaming - (Toujane)

TeK-9 cruised through their group with three convincing wins over their opposition, CNO gaming did put up a little resistance and it was that which merited their second place in the group. For cZk it was a long trip that ended in 3rd place, their match versus CNO was always going to be the second place decider but five rounds seperated them from the knockouts.
Group C
Team-Dignitas 13:11 pewpewLASER - (Dawnville)
infusedGaming 13:01 mCstriker - (Burgandy)
Team-Dignitas 13:04 mCstriker - (Dawnville)
infusedGaming 13:07 pewpewLASER - (Carentan)
Team-Dignitas 13:04 infusedGaming - (Matmata)
mCstriker 06:13 pewpewLASER - (Toujane)

Dignitas got off to a slow start however still managed to rack up 3 victories including a domination of the otherwise very promising Infused Gaming. pewpewLASER managed to restore some pride with their victory over their fellow countrymen mCstriker but were unable to cause any upsets.
Group D
Team-Impact 13:08 here2own - (Burgandy)
AlienGaming 13:11 extremeGaming - (Burgandy)
Team-Impact [12:12] extremeGaming - (Dawnville)
AlienGaming 13:07 here2own - (Dawnville)
Team-Impact [13:08] AlienGaming - (Burgundy)
extremeGaming [13:03] here2own - (Burgundy)

One more round for extremeGaming against Team-Impact would have seen them become the 2nd French team to reach the knockouts, but that was not to be and Team-Impact topped the group. AlienGaming managed to take 2 victories and sees them also progress into Day 2.
Group E
eSuba.SteelSeries [12:12] Dfiance - (Dawnville)
HFD [13:07] Retroactive - (Toujane)
eSuba.SteelSeries [13:03] Retroactive - (Toujane)
HFD [13:10] Dfiance - (Carentan)
eSuba.SteelSeries [13:11] HFD - (Toujane)
Retroactive [08:13] Dfiance - (Dawnville)

No surprises here as eSuba tops the group with just a draw with Dfiance against them, although the latter couldn't capitalize and went down by 3 rounds to HFD who take 2nd place.
Group F
H2k.Qpad [13:05] We Are Retards - (Dawnville)
KomaCrew [13:10] Amazing-Online - (Burgundy)
H2k.Qpad [13:06] Amazing-Online - (Toujane)
KomaCrew [13:02] We Are Retards - (Dawnville)
H2k.Qpad [13:03] KomaCrew - (Dawnville)
Amazing-Online [13:07] We Are Retards - (Burgundy)

Neither Amazing-Online or We Are Retards could cause any upsets here, as H2k topped the group with a convincing win over the 2nd placed KomaCrew.
Group G
SPEED-LINK [13:03] idStar eSports - (Toujane)
OCRANA [13:10] overloAd Gaming - (Dawnville)
SPEED-LINK [13:08] overloAd Gaming- (Dawnville)
OCRANA [13:09] idStar eSports - (Toujane)
SPEED-LINK [13:07] OCRANA - (Carentan)
overloAd Gaming [13:06] idStar eSports - (Toujane)

Speed-Link continued their recent form to dominate the group whilst fellow Germans Ocrana proved that they won't be a walkover in the knockout stags.
Group H
tempkids [12:12] inFlux Gaming - (Dawnville)
HYPERACTIVE [13:07] Raptor Gaming - (Matmata)
tempkids [13:10] Raptor Gaming - (Dawnville)
HYPERACTIVE [13:05] inFlux Gaming - (Matmata)
tempkids [12:12] HYPERACTIVE - (Burgundy)
Raptor Gaming [05:13] inFlux Gaming - (Carentan)

2 draws for TempKids sees them advancing to the playoffs but only in second place, as Hyperactive capitalized to top the group.

Winner Bracket Round 1
The Last Resort [13:6] TempKids - (Dawnville)
TeK-9 [13:3] Ocrana - (Toujane)
Dignitas [8:13] KomaCrew - (Burgundy)
Team Impact [6:13] HFD - (Carentan)
eSuba [13:5] AlienGaming - (Dawnville)
H2k.QPad [10:13 InfusedGaming - (Toujane)
Speed-Link [13:7] CNO Gaming - (Toujane)
Hyperactive [13:6] FLS-Gaming - (Dawnville)

A number of surprises here, the most notable being KomaCrew's defeat of Dignitas on Burgandy, whilst Infused took down H2k on Toujane and The Last Resort had a convincing victory over TempKids. There were easy victories for Speed-Link, eSuba, Tek9 and Hyperactive, whilst HFD managed to defeat Impact.

Winner Bracket Round 2
The Last Resort [11:13] TeK9 - (Toujane)
KomaCrew [8:13] HFD - (Dawnville)
eSuba [13:8] Infused Gaming (Burgundy)
Speed-Link [13:9] Hyperactive - (Carentan)

TeK9 were taken down to the wire by The Last Resort and Infused weren't a walkover for eSuba and the same can be said for Hyperactive's performance against Speed-Link. HFD also managed to take a victory over KomaCrew.

Lower Bracket Round 1
Tempkids [13:11] Ocrana - (Burgundy)
Dignitas [13:16] Impact - (Matmata)
AlienGaming [11:13] H2k.QPad - (Dawnville)
CNO Gaming [13:11] FLS Gaming - (Toujane)

Dignitas went crashing out at the first hurdle, with Italians Impact impressing on Matmata. Tempkids managed to defuse any issues that arose with Ocrana, whilst the Dutch pair of H2k and CNO Gaming took 2 round victories over their respective opponents.

Lower Bracket Round 2
TempKids [13:10] KomaCrew - (Carentan)
Impact [13:6] The Last Resort - (Toujane)
Hyperactive [9:13] H2k.QPad - (Matmata)
CNO Gaming [13:8] Infused Gaming - (Carentan)

The successful runs of The Last Resort and Infused Gaming came to an end here as neither could continue their form, with H2k again struggling to just see off Hyperactive. Impact started from where they left off with Dignitas, as TempKids managed to see off KomaCrew.

Lower Bracket Round 3
TempKids [13:11] Impact - (Burgundy)
H2k.Qpad [13:7] CNO Gaming - (Toujane)

The Italians failed to make the required impact on Burgundy as TempKids scraped through, whilst H2k dispatched of their countrymen on Toujane.

Loser Bracket Round 4
TempKids [2:13] Speed-Link - (Toujane)
H2k.QPad [13:8] HFD - (Carentan)

Winner Bracket Semi-Final
TeK9 [13:4] HFD - (Carentan)
eSuba [13:10] Speed-Link - (Burgundy)

The tactics and teamwork of TeK-9 easily overcame loyalty as HFD were no match on TeK9's favoured Carentan. Speed-Link put up some resistance but eSuba clung on to advance into the final.

Winner Bracket Final
TeK-9 [22:20] eSuba - (Matmata) [3 OT's]

Loser Bracket Final
H2k.Qpad [13:10] Speed-link - dawnville

Consolation Final
Esuba [9:13] H2k.Qpad

Grand Final
TeK-9 [10:13] H2k.QPAD
TeK-9 [13:11] H2k.QPAD

Standings
#13-16 OCRANA
#13-16 Team Dignitas
#13-16 AlienGaming
#13-16 FLS-Gaming
#9-12 KomaCrew
#9-12 The Last Resort
#9-12 Hyperactiv
#9-12 Infused Gaming
#7-8 Impact
#7-8 CNO Gaming
#5-6 TempKids
#5-6 HFD
#4 Speedlink
#3 eSuba
#2 H2k.QPad
#1 TeK-9


Related:
:: Preview
:: Group Scores
:: Day 2 Playoff Scores
:: GotFrag Coverage

one2 have made the headlines for all the right reasons tonight after defeating Quakecon bound Dignitas in straight maps in the Clanbase ET:QW beta cup Semi Final. They will face spaniards wArning or cause in the grand final of the cup.

The figures dont look good for Dignitas who were held for around 18 minutes on the first stage. Their defence was breached in little under 10 minutes and the second half got even worse for the side off to Dallas in just over a week. The Swedes set a time of 12 minutes and then fullheld Dignitas at the EMP stage. Substitute aneki had this to say:

Quote by Aneki

It feels good to be a part of the strongest etqw team at the moment. Dignitas and Kompaniet are teams not to be trifled with and both are extremely good teams which made the victory so so much sweeter. However I count on Kompaniet will be coming back with full force, trying to take the spot.

In the other match lolicon were no match for the spaniards as wArning powered through them, in truth the side offered little to no resistance and hentai was quoted as saying the side were under prepared for the match.

Tonight sees THREE massive online matches in three different games! The Call of Duty QCUP reaches its loser bracket final for July, The ETQCUP reaches its Loser Bracket Final and the biggest two Swedish teams battle it out in the Clanbase QW Beta Cup. Tonight is your lucky night!

Quakewars one2 4-0 Kompaniet


Its been a long time since Sweden has held a dominant position in team games. Gone are the days of iNfensus, SK.swe and Iceclimbers, however Quakewars may just be the rebirth of all things Swedish! These two teams currently occupy two spots in a vague ET:Quakewars top five, and some may place these two teams right behind Dignitas at the top. For one2 they've called on a man who knows all about Swedish dominance, former iNfensus star aneki has recently joined their ranks (he wont play tonight).
Kompaniet will look to stop one2's powerful form, having won 5 games in a row one2 are looking good, their annihilation of 4Rng was clear for all to see. However clean wins over Logitech and PiC make Kompaniet tough opponents for anyone!

Call of Duty eSuba 16-13 Logitech.fi - 20:00 CET

The CoD QCUP for July has seen eSuba on something of a downward spiral since their 4th place at CPC2. The team who rose to shock everyone havent quite found the going so easily in recent tournaments. Defeats to oxid and Speedlink have shown that the team is far from on top form, remembering that this is the side that beat Speedlink and took TeK-9 to three maps at CPC2.
For Logitech they've recently undergone changes to their lineup. Losing the influential stim might have been the 'stimulus' for collapse. However not so, as Eplot1c has come in and taken the up the reigns of guiding this roster to victory once again. They're looking good again the Finns and they enter the Loser Bracket final as favourites.

Coverage TGBF

Enemy Teritroy Cadre 2-4 The Last Resort - 21:00 CET

Read oBs' etQcup preview here!

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British television channel Xleague have announced their latest league, this time for Call of Duty 2 offering teams the chance not only to play for cash prizes, not only to have a LAN final but to be broadcast on TV too! With a prize of £1000 (1480 Euro) for first place, and on top of a filmed LAN final XLeague is the latest big organisation to take to Call of Duty.
The tournament works that teams will playoff in a ladder format with the top 8 teams at the end of the season progressing through to the playoffs.

Those 8 Teams will compete in the playoffs with the grand finals being played in the XLeague Studios in London. Whilst the ladders will be open from now until 16th of September, teams simply need to get themselves into the top 8 positions when the league closes as those will be the teams who progress into the playoffs.

Xleague works on a pay to play subscription and in order to play in the tournament each player does require an active subscribed account, which costs £4.49 per person, however XLEAGUE are currently running a promotion that anyone who signups to the Call of Duty league gets a FREE gold account on top of their subscription. The league is open to all European teams.

To signup to the league and find out more you can visit Xleague.TV there are also some support videos and examples of the shows that they put out.

Any queries or problems, you can contact [email protected]