One day soon you will wake up and Crossfire 2 will be gone! Crossfire version 3 is in the final stages of its completion. The one and only taLa has been working harder than a chinese kid in a sweat shop and now to complete his coding masterpiece we need some works of art on the front page.
For both Crossfire 3 and the upcoming Lan we are looking for a few people to make some specific Logos for us. I have called in alot of favours from some volunteers with their art work and they've delivered a fantastic amount for us, but we're hungry for more!

If you are a designer with some spare time on your hand in the coming days please drop me a message in #Crossfire and I will happily fill your day with requests that are beyond my magical MS Paint skills!

Thats right, with Webone dropping out of the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge we have one place available in the CoD2 tournament at the Crossfire lan.
With 3,000 Euros up for grabs the oppourtunity is nigh to show who rules the roost in CoD2! If you are interested in the place please email [email protected] for information.

zeroPoint have applied for the spot, may I remind all teams that applications should be made through email only!

Thanks

From the slow news department:

Dell are currently under attack for burning someones house down! The Inquirer reports that a man in Florida is claiming his laptop nestled on his couch caught fire!

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According to the Florida Herald-Tribune, Louis Minnear, 36, said the computer was on a pile of papers on the family’s sofa. Minnear said that he first smelled fire at about 5am but after checking the house, returned to bed. About 45 minutes later, he re-awoke and found his couch engulfed on fire.

In 20 minutes the fire destroyed the house leaving the family without a bean. So far the State Fire Marshal's Office in South Venice, Florida has not decided what caused the fire.

It seems Americans will do anything to burn down their house, even an XBOX is capable of doing it which you can read fully Here

The payment deadline for the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge has now passed. We were extremely strict with this 19th of August deadline as we desperately required a window of oppourtunity to replace clans that were not going to attend. We have been extremely understanding and spent alot of time helping clans on how to best pay, and due to the administrative and geographical restrictions posed on some clans, accepted travel plans as proof of attendance. Each case has been treated subjectively as paying the bills internationaly, for gaming, from a mixed age group is not a straight forward procedure. Unfortunately the teams below could provide us with no travel bookings and no payments and thus with 14 days to go, we must actively search replacements to fill the tournament.

Any places that have not been paid, are now open on a first come, first served basis. This means that the teams listed below still can attend the lan, they just go into the same pool as everyone else.
The following places are available for replacement:

Call of Duty
dFiance - STILL AVAILABLE
Enemy Teritory
rewind - Replaced by dHb

Attention Replacements - Please do not just pay first and talk later, to avoid any double payments and complications please contact me on irc in #Crossfire - We will accept any team for the place, at this point we just want to fill all our spaces.

We will still accept proof of travel from these two clans as confirmation for their places and will still work with them to get the places at this event that they earnt. We have worked with the clans an incredible amount to make sure that we get the teams to the event, and have made the best of many mitigating circumstances. For that we thank the clans for their understanding and desire to make this event the best it can be.

Update

Rewind have been replaced by dHb who are paid and have provided travel plans.

After 3 Polls we have now completed the ET map pool and Braundorf will be the fifth map in the ET map list for the upcoming Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge.
Whilst the methodolgy used in chosing this map pool has come under scrunity, the goal was to make sure that we got the RIGHT map for the tournament. When a poll ends 50/50 with over 800 people voting, the result is not only inconclusive but also clear that its possible neither map are ideal as there is such a split. We offered Braundorf a chance and by a huge margin it has been voted as an outright favourite to complete the pool.

Tonight in the ESL matchse played on Warbell we saw a prime example of putting in a map that just isnt right for such a large competition. We were not going to take the risk of getting the wrong map, and are now happy that we have the right map pool to set the stage for this prestigious tournament.

Crossfire today became 8000 members strong and to celebrate our 8000th member we've added a new ubb feature for users to spa....enjoy!

Yup we've now added score through to the ubb code section and you can access it the same way as you can bold, italics and underline, using S instead of b, i or u.

Miks was our 8000th member and to him we award a pair of Fusens underwear, congratulations!

Following a few mix ups with the Paypal system and ever shortening deadline of needing to complete our full clan roster we have decided to now accept direct bank transfers as a method of payment.

We are now accepting lump sum bank transfers for the total of:

ET = 180 Euros for an ET team (6 X 30 Euros)
CoD = 150 Euros for a CoD team (5 X 30 Euros)

To make a bank transfer you will require the following details:

- Payments Made payable to: Crossfire
- IBAN: GB24MIDL 403913 21363751
- Swift/Bic Code MIDLGB2152H
- Sort Code 403913
- Bank: HSBC

The Prizefight payment page will remain open for the duration of the tournament offering an alternative route for those that have already started a transfer via that method. You can pay there using the information Here.

Issue resolved, teams should continue to pay their entry fee for the upcoming Crossfire Prize Fight Challenge. Deadline for payment is this, 19th August.

Please report any problems regarding payment to a Crossfire admin.

This evening saw the last team qualify for the lan, after this point if any team drops out they will be replaced on a first come, first served basis. This newspost will collect alot of information so you may wish to bookmark it for later reference.

On the 2nd and 3rd of September, in Rotterdam - Gaming gods do battle.

CoD - Speedlink, Dignitas, TMPClan, Gummi, DigitalMind, Cadre, RAW, dSlash, FF.org, Webone, dFiance, esuba.
ET - idle, Northern Darkness, riZe Gaming, Rewind, Team NL, V&E, Delta, sFx.

The Maps:
CoD - mp_dawnville, toujane, burgundy, matmata, carentan
ET- Radar, Frostbite, sw_oasis b3, sw_Goldrush, ??

Payment - Payment is DUE NOW until 19th of August, Full Information and Instruction are HERE. On the 20th of August we will actively search replacements for teams that have not paid, and have not contacted us due to problems.

Travel / Rotterdam - Ronner has posted a small guide to Rotterdam HERE

This week a full document with rules and information for players will be published. The schedule for the event is tentatively available HERE it is not final, but very close.

Here is the ugliest, yet most informative newspost you're ever likley to see:

Live Scores

Round 1
sFx 2-1 SPRD
xfire 2-0 dFiance
dtekt 2-1 vib
oVr 2-0 o8

Round 2
Dtekt 2 1 Crossfire
sFx > oVr - sFx default win

Final:
sFx 2-0 Dtekt

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