The payment deadline passed rather uneventfully in comparisson to CPC1. There were a handful of team dropouts since the tournament was announced, but they quickly were replaced by qualifier teams as stated in the details here

Dropouts & Replacements since Invites

CoD - iR replaced by dSLASH
ET - Murso replaced by KiH
ET - Helix replaced by mQ

It does look like we'll have one spot free in the ET tournament after having to remove suXus and potentially one in the CoD, however we're waiting for a number of payments to clear and then sort the matter out. International bank transfers are anything but efficient in their time to clear, and whilst we are currently short of the money generated from the signups, many people have provided receipts of transfer without us having yet got their money.

The first come first serve payment lottery will be used for the one ET spot and any potential more spots that become available in any of the tournaments however not until at least next Tuesday when we've given the banks time to get their act in gear for those that paid this week. Do not fear, explanations on how this process will work will be posted 24 hours prior to any opening of signups for the place.

Note that if you've not been contacted about your payment then its gone through fine.

None of the information below is new, however just to refresh the memories of those who may not have seen, here is a small refresher of the information for CPC2. If you're not playing but wish to come along, please do! There will be limited access for media, but general spectating is free and we encourage to come along and watch on the big projectors with iTG commentary!

Dates & Tournament Schedule
April 13/14/15
Enschede, Holland
Match Schedule[/hide]
Payment Information
Each ET and CoD entry is 35 euros per player (if you are playing with 7, 7 payments are due), RTCW payment is 25 euros per player. We urge teams to pay well in advance of March 9th to avoid any problems and the risk of losing your spot to another team.

Please make your payment to the following bank (note we only accept bank transfers):
- Payments Made payable to: Crossfire
- IBAN: GB24MIDL 403913 21363751
- Swift/Bic Code MIDLGB2152H
- Sort Code 403913
- Bank: HSBC
- Bank Address: 65 High Street, Ruislip, Middlesex

The deadline for payments is March 14th at 18:00 CET[/hide]
Map Contest Info
Announcement URL
Map Contest Is Now Closed
Maps Announced[/hide]
Queries?
Please send any queries regarding the event to tosspot at gmail dot com for a prompt reply.[/hide]

Late Payments

Due to a SIGNIFICANT amount of late payments, we will be contacting teams this evening with regards to missing payments. More news to follow. Additionally could the following people please Identify themselves, as we have their payment but cannot link it to their team or game handle:

Manni Danielle
Manolito
teemu seijri
salexjulfalexbully <-- ?

The Crossfire Prizefight Challenge Payment deadline was initially set to March 9th, however a number of teams have contacted us saying they only just realised and that, and there was potential for payments to be late. Therefore I've extended the deadline to March 14th at 18:00 CET. At 18:01 we will accept any replacement offers for teams that have not paid on a first come first served basis.

Each ET and CoD entry is 35 euros per player (if you are playing with 7, 7 payments are due), RTCW payment is 25 euros per player. We urge teams to pay well in advance of March 9th to avoid any problems and the risk of losing your spot to another team.

Please make your payment to the following bank (note we only accept bank transfers):
- Payments Made payable to: Crossfire
- IBAN: GB24MIDL 403913 21363751
- Swift/Bic Code MIDLGB2152H
- Sort Code 403913
- Bank: HSBC
- Address: 65 High Street, Ruislip, Middlesex

Copenhagen eSports have today announced two Eurocup champions coming onboard to boost their chase for glory! After some disapointing results the side had been left crippled after the loss of influential players, but have now come back with a bang!

The team lead by dane fRiJeC has moved away from its danish roots and picked up two check6 heroes and some of Europes greats. They've added plaekki and sacrim to their lineup to give the side a multinational feel to the brand and will pushing on all fronts.

Their lineup is now as follows:

fRiJeC
riviera
sticky
sacrim
plaekki

The side will be competing in the upcoming Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge in April.

For more info, visit www.copenhagen-esport.dk or visit #cph

The rollercoaster that is Call of Duty 2 has been taken on another ride, the scene has not seen any team take two back to back major titles and after shgOpen, digitalMind looked like they would be in a strong position to do just that, but with the rollercoaster in motion their form took a massive nosedive!

In the Eurocup final played on Wednesday, Dignitas challenged digitalMind after losing TWICE to them at shgOpen and walking away from shg without playing the EC final which was due to take part in Copenhagen. However one swede more and Dignitas are back with a bang defeating digitalMind and winning Eurocup.

[flag=uk Dignitas 25 - 20 digitalMind]
Dignitas 13-11 digitalMind (Toujane)
Dignitas 12-9 digitalMind (Dawnville)
demo (Toujane and Dawnville) [POV: Trainee]

That shocking result, which overturned digitalMind's PERFECT record at shgOpen sent Dignitas into the OGC exhibition game against TeK-9 as favourites. That match was played tonight on the exact same maps as dignitas vs digitalMind, surely someone could at least win two nights in a row?

Nope, TeK-9 in a match organised by them to show off Online Game Challenger went to town on the newly crowned Eurocup champions, winning €250 in another surprising result:

[flag=uk Dignitas 13 - 25 Tek-9]
Dignitas 8-16 TeK-9 (Toujane)
Dignitas 5-9 TeK-9 (Dawnville)
demo (Toujane) demo (Dawnville) [POV: Davy]

If I were a betting man, Call of Duty would be a game I'd go nowhere near! Form guides dont exist and it's all to the joy of the spectators!

We've had a number of inquiries with regards to new players joining a variety of rosters, with Dignitas picking up mint and soon to replace Night, with Impact gaming recently adding m1lk, I felt it important to clarify the rules on such scenarios.

You are allowed to make 1 roster change without us being concerned, this rule applies to all teams no matter when it is made. However upon making replacing your 2nd player, you must get approval from Crossfire for that player to be added to your CPC roster (unless you are replacing your first addition). Each case will be treated subjectively.

Additionally, the qualifiers finished tonight with the following results:

Call of Duty:
oxid 13-6 dSLASH (adocom)
eSuba 13-6 takecare
scubadivers 13-9 impact
iNFlux 13-9 eliteplayers

ET
Pingwings 4:0 infrag (who replaced retro4u)

And finally payments are due for all teams attending the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge. Each ET and CoD entry is 35 euros per player (if you are playing with 7, 7 payments are due), RTCW payment is 25 euros per player. We urge teams to pay well in advance of March 9th to avoid any problems and the risk of losing your spot to another team.

Please make your payment to the following bank (note we only accept bank transfers):
- Payments Made payable to: Crossfire
- IBAN: GB24MIDL 403913 21363751
- Swift/Bic Code MIDLGB2152H
- Sort Code 403913
- Bank: HSBC
- Address: 65 High Street, Ruislip, Middlesex

After a period of suspended activity German Call of Duty giants Speedlink are back with a bang, and their first target is across the border in Enschede. After placing second in a thrilling Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge 1, their first event after returning from inactivity will be CPC2.

The german side have after trialing 15-20 players finally come to their decision some months after losing their last man. However they are now set with former rewind call of duty player z1N. Trigger cited his motivation and excitement z1n will bring to this aging CoD team. Coming from one of the top Call of Duty: United Offensive teams, z1N is one of the first UO players to earn recognition in Call of Duty 2 and the young German has finally been given an opportunity to show his talent.

Fuchstute, the team's inspirational captain, talked of the team's effort to regain the number one spot in European Call of Duty 2.

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"After we played very successful in the last year, our performance decreased at the end of the year. The reasons were that we played too much and practiced too little. We didn’t move forward but rather on the same level. Other teams outran us.

At the beginning of the year we decide to accept the challenge to fight back to the head of Europe. But L-King decides to leave us, because he saw more potential in Tek-9.

It was not possible to work for new tactics with a 4 player lineup so we started with the search for a new player. After some discussions we thought about a 6 player lineup because not every of us wanted to play 5 days per week nearly the whole year. Thus the search for 2 new players which could help us with our comeback started. Comparatively fast we decide to take in z1N as the first player. His friendly character, his ambitions and the behavior in the game convinced us.

Unfortunately we didn’t find a 6th player who fit in our lineup. We played with a handful different players but nobody couldn’t convince us. We really wanted to have a 6 player lineup, so we are a sad about this fact. But no we are very motivated to get back, why we don’t want to wait till we will find a last player."

That leaves the new 'junnnggggs' screaming Speedlink lineup as:

Fuschstute
Trigger
phy1
nightwalker
z1N

We have released a tentative schedule for the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge 2, this schedule is designed to give you an idea when you can plan your travel, however we do stress if you are a team that expects to be in the finals, please keep good time free on Sunday evening just incase of delays.
You can download the schedule Here

The CPC Qualifiers started Monday night, with oxid getting out of the blocks early against german side adacom (dSlash), beating them 13-6. And becoming the first team to qualify for the event in enschede. Hot on their heals were the next two qualifiers in ET: vib and cZar respectivly.

Tonight sees the remaining five ET qualifiers take place:

morrigu 0 - 4 Fear Factory - ETTV
dtekt 4 - 2 Agony Realm - ETTV
suXus 4 - 0 clanALIS
pingwins 4 - 0 retro4u - ETTV

Update: Due to rewind being unable to play their qualifier and dropping from the competition team helix have been given an invite, they where the next in line. This means suXus will play clanALIS in a qualifier.

And finally payments are due for all teams attending the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge. Each ET and CoD entry is 35 euros per player (if you are playing with 7, 7 payments are due), RTCW payment is 25 euros per player. We urge teams to pay well in advance of March 9th to avoid any problems and the risk of losing your spot to another team.

Please make your payment to the following bank (note we only accept bank transfers):
- Payments Made payable to: Crossfire
- IBAN: GB24MIDL 403913 21363751
- Swift/Bic Code MIDLGB2152H
- Sort Code 403913
- Bank: HSBC

12/1 odd outsider Martin "mint" Röjder has joined the Dignitas CoD2 team today. After leaving serious gaming during the past few days he has moved across to pond to one the UK's biggest gaming organisations. Mint placed third at the first CPC with WHOCrew and since moved on to bigger and better things with Check6 and serious Gaming, winning Eurocup XIII in glorious fashion.

He had the following to say:

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I'm happy to join team dignitas at this moment in time. I really feel like I can fill a role in the team and the more we play together I'm positive it will develope into something really good. I've always believed in trying to get better and develop as a player all the time and in joining this team I believe I have found the right place for that. The opportunity also came at a good time having just left serious due to a mix of lineup issues and real life commitments, everything is sorted now and I think that the stable organisation and the people running it will be a major part in shaping this team that I'm very pleased to be a part of.

Source: Team Dignitas

We're sorry that we had to delay the CoD2 announcements, but with such an active lan scene and such a large signup list we needed to make sure we were right with our decisions. After talking with a panel of leading players and admins, we're proud to announce the following invites and qualifiers for CoD2 at CPC2 (in no ranking order).

Invites:

Reason Gaming
Serious Gaming
PCPoint (Zboard)
Dignitas
CPH.eSports
digitalMind
suXus.eSports
Speedlink
Logitech
TeK-9
inteRaction
h2k

Quaifiers:

eSuba vs takecare
Scubadivers vs Team Impact
dSLASH (adocom) vs Teamoxid (Fepox)
eliteplayers vs influx

Qualifiers are to be played on Carentan, using MR12 and No Smoke (shgOpen cfg). Teams should arrange the qualifiers themselves by contacting their opponents. Matches must be completed by 24:00 CET on Thursday March 1st, teams should contact TosspoT with regards to when they've scheduled their games for and then what the result was.