With Humm3l preparing for a EuroCup qualifier match tonight it is time to say welcome back Russian: The team captain of disQonnect will try to lead his young and truly talented team to the path of honour and glory. After a few successful years in ESL Pro Series and numerous Euro Cups in Call of Duty 4 it is humm3l who did find his way back to the roots with an OpenCup season to build a team he prepared well for the next step.

It is the newly formed Teamoxid side that will have to stand strong to not let them pass into the season. But as stRay just created a team out of nowhere - and yes, I am talking about the EuroCup Announcement Day - he did find 5 motivated members and delivered a strong message to his opponent as "[he] will beat Humm3l without a doubt" in the clash between two pioneers.

The battle of two German teams did not happend for ages in ETs EuroCup Qualifier history. Time to get things written down and to find out who's stronger - or better prepared: stRay or humm3l.

Update: Due to the huge amount of temper flying around about this match former Teamoxid player eujen decided to pull out his microphone again and start a show. He will shoutcast this match in German. Tune in.




Teamoxid
gr0ss
kiwi
sNoOp
stRay
Brandon
Webe




disQonnect
humm3l
Jago
jOke
boNg
kevji
predi
freezer (back up)



Date: Tonight
Time: 22.30 CET
Maps: sw_Goldrush_te, Supply Depot
League: EuroCup XXIVRead the German news

The third qualifier for this months JeeSports tournament is about to happen tonight at 20.00 CET. Participants spread from all over Europe will try to earn their spot in the monthly grand final tournament. strenx, kRoNic and agent already signed up to farm some more points in the monthly ranking.

Related:
Tournament page with streams, JeeSports September Schedule

A few minutes left before Zotac cup for Quake Live celebrates its 100th edition. The weekly series with a regular prize fund of 100.00€ will feature over 93 Quake Live players including stars such as strenx, k1llsen, cypher, agent, fazz, mad1x, Garpy and more.

Update: Cup is over, result goes here:
strenx - 100.00€ + ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition
k1llsen - Customized Cooler Master Enforcer case with ZOTAC imagery
pavel - Cooler Master CM Storm Spawn Gaming Mouse

Streams: LevelUp, HoQ TV, BloodyWarriors
Related: Bracket, Hall of Fame

It has been a while since G-DATA's Saturday cup has been gone from Quake Live. As replacement the new installment of the JeeSports cup series is up and running for a felt decade already. The system from JeeSports is to gain points through regular cups and ladder to qualify for the monthly final with € 160.00 up for grabs.

Next to the monthly prize money the JeeSports Open held on Saturday offers a prize pool based on its sign ups. For a bracket of more than 128 players the organization offers € 100.00 prize money for the winner of the cup. If fewer players take part this pool is reduced by 25€ each bracket size (128, 64, 32).

Today the JeeSports Open for September will be live from 14.00 CET with everyone allowed to participate.

Streams: JeeSports TV, Emire TV (both live later on)

European Qualifier

The first teams to qualify successfully for the group stages of the ESL BRINK Championship. The list of teams includes big names for the Enemy Territory community like Team Dignitas and the Dutchies from Team ET including saKen, siL, NoHead, Jo0f, L4mpje, SQuid and YJZZ. In the lower bracket it's H2K and Epsilon who are in the best position to reach the third and last remaining slot for the group stage on Sunday.

While the ESL is running the ESL Championship qualifier and many public whores expecting to see a global ranking site released it is time to sum up the international BRINK scene with some important community projects worth to give them a try.

The Splash Damage Forums are base and starting point for most of the players while the ESL forums are used for competitive talks. As both are somehow not the best base for the competitive and public scene it might be a good heads up on what BRINK offers the bandwidth of gamers, may it be beginner or pro.

Update: With the cup starting in less than 2 hours ESL reveals a new set of rules including further limitations and a new map as decider. Details here.


With the delayed tournament but already closed sign ups the ESL released the slot distribution based on the amount of sign ups in each region. The qualifier stage will launch tonight with 170 teams participating from all over Europe. Most teams did sign up in Germany followed by France and the UK.
The teams coming on top of the qualifiers will be split in 4 groups with 4 teams each. The finals will be played on GamesCom in Cologne during this years fall and will fight for 15.000€ prize money.




Previous news
Announcement
Qualifiers
Rule announcement
Source

Yesterday night Splash Damage released the third update on BRINK. As announced Friday last week the update delivers a rather small list of changes but includes the major sound bug that appeared on a few maps which is gone by now and the FPS/performance boost was adressed which was successfully confirmed by a few players already.

• Fixed sound dropping out when playing networked games
  
• Improved graphical performance, especially when using Ambient Occlusion
  
• Fixed voice packs being reset to default when you delete another character
  
• Removed ability to use certain cheat protected commands in challenges
  
• Fixed memory leak/crash when alt-tabbed out

• Full servers are no longer filtered out of the browser
  
• Added support for entering a range of numbers (i.e. 10-12) in server filters
  
• Reduced font size in the server browser
  
• Exiting Head customization returns to the correct menu
  
• Fixed being unable to bind KP_Enter in the UI
  
• Increased font size of in-game text chat
  
• 'Enter' now closes text chat prompt if empty
  
• Fixed challenge in menu flashing even after completion

By looking at the changes expectations to receive the first major and big update might be disappointed as most of the competitive community will most likely not care much about things like the chat font size and a flashing challenge.

To get the game updated just log on to steam and the update will be downloaded immediately.

A moment ago the ESL revealed the config and rules for tomorrows BRINK championship qualifiers. Very arguable are the restrictions set for every class and character which also requires everyone to reskill and redefine their abilities on an immense short notice.

Here's what their announcement says:

• Using the Adrenaline and the Self Resurrection perk is forbidden.
  
• Furthermore all level 5 abilities are forbidden.
  
• Removing the hackbox or using the antihack perk
  
• Hacking the target and leaving the area. You have to stay in the same area as the target.

A total amount of 158 Teams signed up so far. Luckily some teams did play their practice matches with BrinkTV's rule set where at least the adrenalin and hackbox topic suits them right now.

Team Dignitas player Anderson was able to give a quick thumbs up on the topic stating "It is good", but also adds a further request: "the only thing missing is the g_spiderSenseDuration 0 var in the config and a limit on turrets is required". First feedback in the German news release brings a few comments with a complain about the amount and weight of these restrictions.

ESL news and server config download
All qualifiers and sign ups

The German multigaming organization Team Hardware4u adds the German ESL Release Cup winner Bumblebee To The Rescue to its roster. The team previously playing ET:QW for n!faculty and BF:BC2 for zeroPoint! consists of some members known to the Crossfire community already: HEADi who did play for shuuk and gods.inc in the early days of ET and Team beta player aFa.

Line Up

Mike "mikeX" Krack (Team-Captain)
Martin "outc1der" Janowiak (Team-Captain)

Andre "HEADi" Neumann
Sebastian "Shortje" Kulle
Artur "aFa" Lazarus
Sebastian "Wuki" Hofer
Andreas "cRks" Günther


The team's first appearance under the new tag will be Tomorrow's ESL BRINK Championship qualifier.