Crossfire, the home of online Wolfenstein has today announced that it will be spearheading a fund raising appeal to send a European based Enemy Territory squad to compete at Quakecon 2006. After the announcement on July 12th that there would be a $30,000 5on5 ET Tournament, many European players and teams looked unlikely to go due to the large travel bill required in such a short period of time.

However Crossfire plans to raise in excess of 5,000 Euros to fund the greatest 5 ET players in Europe to travel to Dallas and return home with the Gold! Since its creation in 2002, Crossfire has flown the flag for the Wolfenstein series and with one of its most prestigious events now upcoming, its time to make sure there's a piece of Crossfire at the Con!

How does the appeal work?

Crossfire has on average above 10,000 unique users per day on the site. If each user donated just 1 euro we'd raise 10,000 Euros and be able to send two teams! In reality the likelihood of that is slim, however if every other user gives just 1 euro we can send a team across to Dallas! All users who donate will be entered into a prize draw that involves the upcoming unannounced Crossfire event, and take their place on the Crossfire hall of fame.

What happens if we win?

In Enemy Territory history, Europeans can count only 1 defeat to an opponent from outside its borders on LAN, and, with a flailing North American community, the chances of a cash placing are extremely high. So, what would Crossfire do if it won that money? Give it back to the community! Once paid Crossfire would run a tournament with the prize money, minus costs for its community - be that online or on lan - thus offering the community at least one more large cash tournament based in Europe. Consider it an investment in your games future!

Who picks the team?

YOU! Crossfire will give the opportunity to its community to select its own team to represent the site and community and fly the flag for old "Belgian blue".

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Want a place on the Crossfire hall of fame? Crossfire will publish a full list of all donations from users and keep it on the site. In addition, organisations and companies wishing to sponsor or invest are more than welcome to get involved in return for large exposure within the site. The high chance of success for a European team means that this is a ripe investment opportunity from which large contributors may wish to make a return. Should this be the case, do feel free to mail TosspoT.

How to Donate?

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

[*]Paypal - Payments should be made to the paypal account of: [email protected] (Note for every 100 cents sent on Paypal, Paypal will deduct 23 cents [include your username in the comment box])


Read more for terms and conditions.

Prize Fight Television starts this Friday, on Sumo TV (Sky 146) at 20:30 BST. It features the UK's first televised Counter-Strike: Source match - including commentary by Inside The Game favourite's, ReDeYe and TosspoT.

That's what we do for you over here in the Prize Fight Bunker. We spend all our time thinking up ways to keep you entertained and off the streets. So as well as playing games for cash prizes - now you can watch those games, televised and analysed. After all, that's the purpose of Prize Fight TV - showcasing the games played on the Prize Fight servers.

PFTV will also become the UK's first televised gaming league. If you've been keeping abreast of PF news, you'll know that big money sponsored tournaments are coming to Prize Fight and it is exactly these kind of events which will be covered on the show. Key matches from the forthcoming leagues will be covered and deconstructed by subject matter experts.

For now though, we're keeping things pretty simple. We'll be taking a look at matches played on our servers; but you'll also get gaming-culture chat; tips, tricks and special guests. And with military tactics offered by a professional, tougher-than-a-coffin-nail, British soldier - you'll also get a chance to raise your game by learning tried and tested real world techniques and see how they can be applied to the game environment.

Get with the programme. Starts Friday 20:30 BST, Sumo TV, Sky 146.

Source: prizefight.com

Matches will be available for Online Streaming at a later date!

Crossfire will launch the Crossfire Appeal in the coming days in a bid to raise 5,000 Euros to send a European ET team to Quakecon.
There are many logistical challenges involved in this plan, AND there is no guarantee of success, however who knows?

The Idea
On an average day, Crossfire has 10,000 Unique visitors - If every user gave 1 Euro we'd receive 10,000 euros and send two teams to Quakecon. Ok lets be realistic, that ain't gonna happen, but if every other user gave 1 Euro then maybe we'll get enough to fund a team and send it there, in addition we'll advertise this to high heavens around the web and hope to hit on internet browsing generosity.
The fund raiser will then see the users of the site select the team and Crossfire then send them to Dallas either via vote or tournament.

The Problems
Sending money - How do you send money over the internet without losing some? If you sent Crossfire 1 Euro over Paypal, Paypal would quite happily take 23 cents of that away. Thus meaning we would be required to raise 6,000 Euros!
Other options that don't take so much commission are those like MoneyBrokers.com which would be fantastic IF they did not use a verification system that required you looking at a transaction on your account for a figure. The amount of effort required to do that will deter so many people.

There will be a small print for the details of the challenge that outlines every eventuality and liabilities, we understand that and we understand the need to be professional regarding the idea.

However the first part of this plan is to request information and knowledge on how best we can run this Appeal without seeing users donations stripped by Paypals commission or by seeing users enthusiasm stripped by verification actions.

Stipulations
This thread has a 12 hour lifespan until we go ahead with Paypal.
Anyone wishing to be considered for this and any subsequent qualification tournaments should start thinking about teams and players NOW (this is not guaranteed as a method of selection but might be used).
Anyone with any reservations about why should we do this for just one major event should take note of the following, Crossfire has delayed the announcement of another major event briefly, so it will be worth your while.

Players wishing to attend should contact their nearest consulate or embassy immediatly regarding a VISA

Tonight Quakecon has announced its tournaments and surprise surprise, ET got itself a $30,000 tournament!

The tournament that last year saw Estonia take home a big chunk of Texas is back for another year with the return of the Nvidia championships!

However Quakecon not without its surprises has tossed in a trump card to the Competitive community. ET a game that has been 6on6 in Europe has for this tournament at least been changed to a 5vs5 tournament. Heres Quakecons Snippet of the tournament:

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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 5v5 - $30,000

A crowd favorite from many years past, get ready to gather up the best team possible to trounce the competition in round after round of Nazi-killing goodness.

[*] 1st Place $15,000
[*] 2nd Place $10,000
[*] 3rd Place $5,000

Readmore for the Crossfire Wooden Spoon Challenge!

Those hoping to fill their autumns with Enemy Territory:Quake Wars action are to be disappointed, as it's been revealed in the first GameSpy developer diary from Paul 'Locki' Wedgwood, the Lead Game Designer at Splash Damage, that ET:QW won't be out until at least the start of 2007.

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It's also been a challenging year, as the team here has given extraordinary effort towards completing the game this year. Unfortunately, sometimes effort isn't all you need -- sometimes you just need more time. To ensure the quality we want, we've decided to push the release out of 2006 to allow for extended testing, feedback and game balancing.

Some may be angry that they'll have to wait even longer for this hugely anticipated game but when you see that Splash Damage isn't doing the "rush the game out and patch later" approach it should be worth it in the end, as you should end up not having to download a 400MB patch a week after the final release which is so often seen with past games.

Movie makers Smartazz and Cage have released their latest movie and it's one that even plaZma of dignitas has rated at 10/10, and by Call of Duty standards that does still raise an eyebrow!

With frags collected by an abundance of North America's finest CoD players the creators have added a unique flavour with some intense editing and some powerful rifle frags.

Download it Here

Read Gotfrags Interview and Review Here

The makers of Get Quaked 3 arguably the most "beautiful" Quake 3 movie to date have published a lenghtly article on how to get the most from your movie making experience! With the ET scene being awash with budding movie makers, its perhaps appropriate to bring to attention the tips from the stars of the fragmovie world!

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It takes a lot of patience to make a video like Get Quaked 3. The learning process involved in getting to know the software (and hardware) I was working with had a big impact on the final product. Because Fei (my editing partner for the movie) and I took our time in getting to know what was available to us, as well as using initiative to obtain what wasn’t available to us, we were able achieve whatever we wanted.

Our idea was to create a video, showing the world the best frags (or shots / kills) seen before in a popular video game. Quake III Arena was played competitively for money at events such as ESWC (Electronic Sports World Cup), WCG (World Cyber Games), CPL (Cyberathelete Professional League) and QuakeCon. Prize money was anywhere between $3,000 and $50,000 USD for first place. Now with Quake4 and the increase in popularity and exposure in the gaming industry, we are sure to see more tournaments like these, bigger and better than before.

So, our main goal was to expose Quake 3 in a way that would make people look back on the game and see the huge potential for upcoming videos and entertainment for other games the future. This is how we did it.

You can read the full article HERE at VIA CGA

After spending some 30 minutes trying to find a new piece of news, this writer felt it appropriate to steal from another site!
The Global Gaming League has written many girl gamer articles in the past, asking "Do boys like sex?" for one, however yesterday they did come up with a rather interesting article about Girl Gamers and Online dating agencies!

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Besides curiousity -- who doesn't want to know if people like you or not -- I thought it would make a nice research area. My goal was to see how people react to a profile of a girl who plays games. Freaky nerds or some cool guys who are worth checking out?

A litte part of the text in my advert: Who's not afraid to go to the next level and get his ass whooped (in gaming, that is)?

If I would have thought this experiment through a little bit more, I would have realized that it could and would lead to some strange reactions, some even a bit frightening. I registered on a Thursday at 10 p.m. When I woke up the next morning and eagerly checked my inbox, I already had 42 messages. OMG! After two days the total was 154! Quite some work to read them all, but I laughed my ass off. Let me share it with you:

You can read the full article and the many replies, HERE

The Call of Duty Eurocup has so far has captivated everyones imagination and as we get down to the business end of the season, its time for us to say "See you @ LAN" or just...See you later.

Whilst details on the LAN finals themselves are currently in short supply, we do know theres $9000 up for grabs between 4 teams!

Qualified
Last night Check Six booked their place in the finals with a stunning victory over reigining Eurocup champions Speedlink. Check Six are really gunning for top spot at the moment, having last week taken on former EC champions Dignitas, now pulling off an impressive display against the Germans.
Prior to that TeK-9 had already booked their place in the playoffs. The team who were expected to crash out of the EuroCyo quite quickly once their exams had begun have now pulled off stunning victories over DigitalMind and Northern Darnkess in a run of form that has seen them earn a place at the Lan Finals against all the odds.

Last Chance Saloon
Speedlink, the EC X winners under the Ocrana tag in CoD1 and reigning EC CoD2 champions got a rude awakening as Check Six raised their game and knocked them into the losers bracket. They now face an unpredictable DigitalMind side in the final online EuroCup match.

Speedlink & DigitalMind must fight it out knowing the loser goes away empty handed and the winner will have scraped their way into the EC lan finals!

Tonight sees the grand final of the Clanbase Open Cup! Another successful season is almost complete, but the grand prize is still there and up for grabs!
The contestants? None other than WoW and aD. It was aD that had the harder route to this final, overcoming iGods along the way, yet cdap were no small challenge for the poles.

WoW vs aD
Time: 21.30 CET
ETTV: GamesTV.org
Shoutcast: iTG`TosspoT

WoW might be the favourites here, with many a familiar Polish face, but with NationsCup champion mize in the aD roster along with some strong players, this one promises to be close!

Read more for the lineups!