The Clanbase Eurocup has progressed along in this season, somewhat bouncing off the coverage radar however tonight cannot go unnoticed as number 1 and 2 seeds both capilulated to high seeded opponents. It was the last night of the group stages and was to be played on bremen_b1, karsiah_te2.

CPC Champions TLR were unable to continue their sintilating form as Polar eSports claimed vengeance for their loss at CPC with a big win on the two new maps. Polar were well prepared for the maps and wanted to use this against TLR. Both maps were fairly open, but resolute defending saw TLR unable to overcome the side they met in the knockout stages of CPC.



Unbeaten in 14 months, but now as unbeaten as Chelsea's title challenge, Dignitas fell apart on Bremen and then on the decider radar to see Insignia Cadre pick up a famous win over Dignitas. A dignitas side that still havent resolved their roster crisis were without reload this time around, and also without preparation. A capital crime against a Cadre side who were out to prove a point, and that they did. All in all it was a very exciting game, which maybe could have gone either way



These two results see Dignitas and TLR sitting second in their group and thus creating some must win fixtures in the first round of the elimination stages. Be sure that tonights losers will be back with a bang!

Now that the group stage for the Intel Core 2 Extreme Challenge CoD2 tournament has been completed Kytey, one of the Enemydown admins, has put pen to paper and written a review of what actually went on over in the ED camp.

A snippet can be found below:

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One of the tournaments early favourites, uMu appeared in group 7 along with ED ladder leaders, Twsquad. There was no doubt that uMu would qualify through the group round, but they capped off the performance with several emphatic wins

The article gives a complete breakdown of each group, a results overview and some other useful information leading into the bracket phase. You can read the full article Here on the hub.

This past Saturday the trailer for the latest instalment of Call of Duty was released. Named Modern Warfare, there is very little news about this title for available for public consumption. The trailer suggests no release date, just that the game is situated in a global combat between warring national factions in a variety of scenery.



The title WILL be on the PC, as published by Activision some time ago. The PC titles are being developed by Infinity Wards who are actually owned by Activision according to word on the street.

You can download the trailer Here

oxid and Logitech have rung the changes ahead of the summer schedule. Both sides were present at the CPC and whilst oxid finished in the lower tiered places (9th-12th), Logitech placed 2nd after a thrilling final.

Logitech have replaced wiNkz with former Check6 & Copenhagen player Sacrim - Both Sacrim and Plaekki who have played together for a considerable amount of time, decided to leave copenhagen esports. Sacrim sourced the reason behind leaving copenhagen as being his desire to speak in his native language once again.

Source: TeamLogitech.Fi

Team oxid who had a disapointing CPC have again run the changes with Flow and zEm deciding to part ways from the organisation. Zem, like Sacrim above has had a torrid time finding success since the collapse of the Eurocup winning Check6 side and was the last of that side to leave what was once the organisation. Oxid have been quick to get back in the game announcing their new lineup, built mainly from the former fukyuu team.

Their new lineup is as follows:

Wnkr
Zsilts
Stoffey
Karpz
Fleck

Source: Gotfrag

The second edition of the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge is over and we have ourselves 3 champions! All three tournaments had some phenomenal matches and moments that will live long in the memory of the teams involved and you can relive them on the VOD Player which will feature all the matches in the coming days! Also be sure to check out the Gallery

Hello and welcome from the home of Call of Duty, Enemy Territory and RTCW in Enschede for this weekend. Day One has been and gone. Today teams will play begin their playoffs in ET aswell as the COD groups being finished.

:: This page for the log and the current news
:: GamesTV.org for the bets and games
:: EZBash for the grids, rankings and results
:: Crossfire Gallery for photos
:: Video On Demand/ - Watch Interviews and Matches

Finals in the Cinema!
Thats right the grand finals in ET and CoD2 will be the Cinestar Cinema here in Enschede! Players and Fans alike will be able to experience gaming the way its meant to be, with popcorn and a big chair. One after the other, the finals will be consumed in a way it never has been before for these teams!

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Next Live




Here it is! Live in the cinestar in Enschede within the Wzzrd Center both teams will be shown their. Just minutes left before Impact Gaming will face The Last Resort in the first and possibly last best-of-three in ET at the CPC2 this weekend. While both won in a very close match against the allmighty dignitas, a winner has not been made yet even if the odds are cleary for TLR after 3 streight wins this weekend against the impact guys. Get yourself up and tune in the live stream or ETTV! The maps will be SW Goldrush TE and Frostbite, if needed the decider is Supply.

Match Logs
Dignitas vs. Impact Gaming (Result: 2 - 4)
ETTV: Tune in - While the ET-Masters have found their proud winner with TLR beating Impact seconds ago, the consolation final is getting on it's way in the next minute. Impact gaming - called overrated weeks ago - is now facing Dignitas. After they got raped in the upper bracket round 2 match impact will try their best to make a grand come back and to show some intense moments for ET's history. Also, Dignitas will do their best to get a chance proving TLR is not worth winning the CPC2 today and will try to get the chance facing The Last Resort in the Grand Final.


Upcoming:
CoD2 - Serious Gaming vs. Reason
CoD2 - Dignitas vs. Tek-9
ET - Dignitas vs. Impact Gaming
CoD2 esuba vs. Logitech
ET - TLR vs. Impact

Final Rankings
Call of Duty 2
1. Serious Gaming
2. Logitech.FI
3. TeK-9
Enemy Territory
1. The Last Resort
2. Impact Gaming
3. Team Dignitas
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
1. one.soldier
2. Verdiend
3. Knö I Hörn

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Hello and welcome from the home of Call of Duty, Enemy Territory and RTCW in Enschede for this weekend. Day One has been and gone. Today teams will play begin their playoffs in ET aswell as the COD groups being finished.

:: This page for the log and the current news
:: GamesTV.org for the bets and games
:: EZBash for the stats, grids and rankings and Results
:: Crossfire Gallery for photos

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:: QuadV SOPCAST Stream

Now Live


One soldier face Verdiend in the RTCW final, after the shock defeat of KiH the competition has been thrown wide open and could go either way...


Update: one.soldier are crowned RTCW Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge Champions

Impact gaming face Dignitas in the second winners bracket semi final, which should be an interesting match with neither team been living up to their potential but leaves us with some questions such as, is a mix of big name players enough to topple the dominating force in ET for the last year? Will Dignitas regain their form in the important stages of the tournament?

Both teams should have a lot more to give based on previous experience ...or is it time for a new star in the Enemy Territory universe?



The second, running simultaneously sees pre-tournament joint favourites TLR take on k1ck. Both matches are currently live.




Upcoming
15:30 ET Playoffs Start
17:00 CoD2 Speedlink vs. inFlux
18:00 CoD2 Groupstage finished
18:30 ET Winner Bracket matches (ETTV)
18:30 RtCW Looser Bracket Match
19:00 RtCW Winner Bracket Match
19:30 RtCW Winner Bracket Match
20:00 ET Winner Bracket matches (ETTV)
20:30 RtCW Lower Bracket Matches

Match History
Just played
13:00 ET Octense 0 - 4 k1ck
17:00 CoD2 esuba 13 - 04 oxid
15:30 CoD2 Speedlink 10 - 13 Reason
15:30 CoD2 H2K 13 - 03 influx
14:00 CoD2 eSuba 13 - 08 EDiT
14:00 CoD2 ephix 05 - 13 adocom
15:44 RtCW Verdiend < one.soldier
12:30 CoD2 Dignitas 13 - 04 adocom
12:30 CoD2 logitech 13 - 03 ephix
12:30 RtCW Verdiend > kih
11:00 RtCW wh00ps < one.soldier
11:00 RtCW rTg < Verdiend
11:00 CoD2 H2K 11 - 13 Speedlink
11:00 CoD2 Copenhagen 13 - 08 Duckies
9:30 CoD2 tek-9 13 - 09 Duckies

Match #1

Map: TBA

After dignitas struggled in their first match against logitech yesterday, they need a two wins now to continue to the playoffs, otherwise this group will be the closest. Adocom, known as the former dSlash team has to prove the worth of their recived LAN support by attending the CPC instead of the Summit in Germany. With the draw against Logitech their door is still wide open to get a spot into the playoffs but did this mean they are strong enough to face dignitas?


Match #2

Map: TBA

A first deciding match for eSuba. After beating the SHGopen Champs serious gaming yesterday on the new map valente, they don't have a save way into the playoffs even if they deserved it. This match can be their first step on the top of the group and to make a save jump in the first round of the upcoming single elimination bracket. eSuba is worth playing it and has a lot of potential as they showed on diffrent events and EuroCups already. EDiT is a new face finished top 3 at the NetGamez. They have nearly lost all their chances to reach the playoffs loosing against oxid and serious yesterday, rank 3 or 4 for them?

Where are the ET Matches?
The schedule for ET matches are delayed due to the RTCW tourney at the moment. The delay is about 2 hours now. For recent schedules check the GamesTV.org Times within your timezone.

Match #3

Map: TBA

eSuba needs the win to make their way into the playoffs save. After the czech team won against Dignitas on vallente yesterday, these two teams will decide who will progress. While EDiT is without chances but still playing as well, currently against eSuba ofcourse, it's all on the swedes from oxid. After a loss against serious but aswell a clear win against EDiT, it can be close - may the allmighty CoD2 god tell us what will happen - (hopefully) together with the livestreams powered by iTG and QuadV.

Maps: Bremen, Frostbite
Shoutcast: AVI - tune in Radio iTG / QuadV

A deciding game - atleast for zeroPoint who are not playing in here but who will hope to see zerobarrier win against one.soldier to get the last small chance to join the playoffs. The realy great gameplay in their last matches made zerobarrier one of the top in this tourney for now while one.soldier as second favorite next to zP! needs the win or a draw to save their second place. Who's going to pass in the playoffs in group c?

Maps: Supply, Radar, Frostbite (Decider)
ETTV: GamesTV

While both teams have already qualified for the playoffs, they will fight each other for the top spot. Impact played a tight game against Auxilia coming out as winner and are now preparing to face off with polar - the 3rd of the PGS. Who will continue his winning spree? Make sure you tune in.



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London, April 11 – Crossfire.nu the leading Wolfenstein and Call of Duty community has today announced a new partnership with QPAD. QPAD join the Crossfire community ahead of the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge 2 where 6000 euros will be won by the biggest congregation of the communities elite to date!

Devoted to community driven events Crossfire welcomes QPAD’s as a partner with a common goal. Through both online and offline events Crossfire and QPAD will work together to drive the games in the Crossfire community forward.

“I am both honoured and excited.” Said Stuart Saw Owner of Crossfire.nu. “I’ve had the pleasure of working with the people at QPAD before and to now be working side by side with them on a daily basis is a big step for us. They offer us both experience and expertise that will help us in our goal to champion our games to the maximum”

QPAD will be supporting the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge 2 this weekend aswell working together for the coming two years to help build our community further. Additionally, QPAD will be joining forces with GamesTV.org to add even more hype to the craze that is Gbooky!

“It's a special pride for us to announce that we join forces together with such a well respected and famous community of gamers worldwide, such as Crossfire and GamesTV. It's one more significant move from the Q|Massive in order to support and grow the gaming phenomenon, close to our roots than ever, at the historical core of gaming.” Said Jean-pierre 'TaZzMAjazZ' Ceccaldi QPAD|CM

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Crossfire is on the scene in Newbury for the i30 tournament as Dignitas look to retain their crown. What should be a routine route for both Dignitas and Reason to the grand finals has had a few ups and downs along the way.

Dignitas had a shakey first half against infused, having drawn the half on trainstation the side needed to dig deep to overcome their compatriots.

Crossfire's very own Scarface had this to say:

Quote by scarface

The event murmours suggest that Reason will win the i30 tournament and I happen to agree with them, I think they're on hot form and could do well. Dignitas however cant be underestimated, they often leave the best until last not wanting to show all their cards until they have to, espcially with CPC next week

Reason are steaming through the bracket and do look on the hot form that people have mentioned. They took down SnD in convincing fashion 13-5 and now face frantiC in the semi final to set up the dream final against Dignitas. Dignitas must face eSource with the prospect of Reason in the final. The semi's are just about to get underway with the final scheduled for 14:00 GMT on Sunday.

Results -

Dignitas 13-4 eSourceUK


Coverage:

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Today has been a day with a couple of changes to CPC2, we've updated the schedule after some requests, we've changed one of the ET teams aswell as making a change to the ET map pool and last but not least we're proud to announce another sponsor!

Schedule - You can view the changes to the schedule Here, alternatively you can download the updated schedule Here. We'd like to draw the attenion of suXus, EDiT, vae, FF.org, Dignitas.ET and mQ inparticular to the new schedule.

ET Map Pool - After not being able to get Frost Final to the liking of the teams attending we have taken a poll of the teams attending and by a resounding 15/1 vote, the map has been removed by popular request. It will not be replaced, the ET map pool will become 5 maps.

ET Teams - Unfortunately the NETRunners dropped from CPC2 despite moving heaven and earth to attend. They have been replaced by OCTENse who were the first team to apply for the spot available.

New Sponsor! - The fantastic people at Creative have joined the Crossfire community to provide us with some hardware prizes aswell as an onsite 'baloon'. The Prizes will be used in both spectator competitions and player of the tournament competitions.

CPC Directions Guide - This Image features the overlay of the area of the event with directions for those staying in a bungalow. This journal features directions for those driving to the event. Both are courtesy of Nuke

WZZRD Gamestation's specification - WZZRD Gaming Cafés has released their specifications for the 44 brand new game computers which will be used for the official tournament. They are as followed:
MB: Asus MBI P5B intel S775
Proc: Intel core duo E6300 1,86 ghz
RAM: 2x Crucial 512 mb DDR2 PC2-5300
GFX: Point VGA 7950GT 512 PCI-E
HDD: Maxtor 250 GB 7200 rpm SATAII
Mon: Samsung SM 960 BF 19 inch TFT (4 ms GreytoGrey)

As always ALL information is located on the Lan Holding Page HERE please keep yourself up to date with it.