At May 23rd ESL's Brink Championship will launch the first qualifier stages available for 11 countries and extended by an additional international qualifier. Currently a total amount of 85 teams are trying to compete for the top spot to have a chance to attend the finals at GamesCom 2011 in Cologne and of course to grab some of the 15.000€ prize money as reported earlier.

National Qualifiers

• Germany (News / Sign Up)
• United Kingdom (News / Sign Up)
• Spain (News / Sign Up)
• Poland (News / Sign Up)
• Sweden, Norway, Finland, Island and Denmark (News / Sign Up)
• Russia (News / Sign Up)
• France (News, Sign Up)

International Qualifier:

• News
• Sign Up
• Participants

Brink received a pretty decent hype on Reddit and the community over there just released it's first official version of their own official config tool named Brinkkit.

It allows you to easily access different values on vars that have already been tested successfully. It gives you more options than the Rushed's tool especially regarding your system's performance.

Requirements:

• Windows XP or 7 with .NET Framework 4 Client Profile

Features:

• Actual working cvars. I didn't add cvars that don't work or aren't supported by Brink. I took time to research each cvar, verify the function and test the performance. There are other tools out right now but I was annoyed by data entry and wanted a fun project to give back to the community.
  
• Auto-updating. If a new version gets dropped, you'll know when you start the application. You don't need to come back here and re-download the setup.exe ever again. One and done, gents.
  
• Hosted on Amazon so it should always be available and fast. I'll accept Reddit server jokes here.
  
• Fluid and efficient design. Tab order makes sense. Use keyboard shortcuts to save (ALT+S) test (ALT+T), or exit (ALT+E). Yes, that is right, you can launch the game right from the app and it'll save your settings before hand.
  
• Fast updating for hardly any effort. See a bug? Message me. I can probably fix & deploy the update within minutes. This game doesn't wait.

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The winner of the second German Community ET Challenge, OpenCup Fall season's runner up, EuroCup Qualifier and YCN Spring Challenge participant did process some major changes during the previous weeks to set themselves up for the new season's arise. With fireball leaving and tites taking a break from esports two new additions were made to attend the upcoming TLR eSports Challenge in July as well as participate in the major online competitions this season.

Former Team Speedlink player Bl4d3 and the Europe's best ET player pumu are the new additions to our lineup to compete in the current season.



ekto
Team Manager

Bl4d3
Player

kevji
Player

stray
Team Captain

eujen
Player

pumu
Player

After previous articles once again Team Dignitas is represented at Intel's GameOn website. This time with anderson (reload) speaking out what we all have in mind and posting comments on crossfire for a while on the portal where new games meet and developers should be interested in as well.

As critique on the games released in the past 2 years he is addressing the game developers for not coming up with anything worth a competitive game with a serious chance to reach a bright and long future - not a single release that has all the pc gamers need:
- competitive features
- dedicated servers
- mod & anti-cheat support
- etc.

Compared to previous beloved titles such as RtCW, Enemy Territory or Call of Duty 4 where you had have everything you need to come up with clan wars immediantly after it's release.

Quote by Anderson

Let me illustrate. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the first major FPS title to introduce peer-to-peer matchmaking and that one change alone enflamed the PC community. In total, over 250 000 signatures were collected to replace the system and introduce dedicated servers. First Person Shooters (FPS) on the PC have generally always been based around dedicated servers and they form the backbone of many FPS communities. They allow users the freedom to control a variety of settings; different rule sets, player limits, custom maps, mods, etc. For me, it’s abundantly clear that, with peer-to-peer connections, competitive gaming cannot survive.

:: Read the article: Are developers listening to gamers?
:: Source

Teamoxid, in cooperation with own3d.tv and Team-Rockit, are proud to announce the first 3 Days Left HoN Tournament!

Bring it on and pick your heroes! Teamoxid just announced their first out of many Heroes of Newerth tournaments to decide the rising champion in the European scene. While the guys over the oceans and all those dreamhack attendees can be happy about the support S2 Games offers, there are not many tournaments to play day by day in Europe. A new opportunity for you to bring your competitive feelings up is the Teamoxid 3 Days Left HoN Tournament. Even though Teamoxid did not announce any prize pool or hardware to be won you can be sure that this is just the first out of many tournaments and therefor you can expect prizes coming sooner or later but not for this time.

If your team does not focus on winning prizes only but you want to present yourself to others you should take your chance to be broadcasted live on own3d.tv - Also, our coverage partner will add reviews and reports on their website.

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Good Morning, Enschede!
The new day brings you the one and only killerboy into your seat: Starzi went on the road to catch up with him and and bring you the probably most anticipated video of the whole event: Watch it

QuadV up with Infused versus fnatic
QuadV is up and running after different issues yesterday their stream is up live and you can tune in to listen to Quadv's Deman casting fnatic facing Infused. View livestream

CoD and ET on QuadV
Call of Duty and Enemy Territory is recently up on the stream. ET with YoYoTech facing rockit, YYT is meant to do the surprise when u listened to numerous opinions in QuadV's Prediction topic.
Other than that the tournament is up and running, keep up 2 date with twitter:
http://twitter.com/Crossfire_nu

Past midnight: Battle of the losers
While most teams still playing in the ET winners bracket have (hopefully) found their way to a suitable bed there are still some interesting matches to follow for the late night ET addict. With both teams perhaps underperforming during their group matches, Overload versus S'Agapa should be one of them. Tomorrow we will return with coverage from the Enemy Territory and Call of Duty grand finals.

Crossfire is proud to give everyone another opporturnity to grap one out of 25 keys over the next week. With a little work or a little luck you will have numerous chances to get one of those.

The HoN League $500 Tournament is expecting an entertaining Grand Final Match live streamed on E-REV.TV. 64 Teams from all over the world participated in Heroes of Newerth's first cup with prize money held from 1st October. This weekend will bring the deciding match.

Two of the lower seeded teams successfully won against numerous favourites and now these two are able to fight for the first few dollars in the competitive HoN scene. We Heart Pigs and fiVe! are the teams facing each other.
The bets expect a close match coming up - Prediction from the official article can't decide whether fiVe or WHP will take it in the end eventhough WHP is with a few American DotA stars ready to go while 5! already proved their talent in the previous round.

More Than Four!
(But Less Than Six)

First in the final match was fiVe! beating the Swedish talents from Clan Clan with players such as fnatic.loda.

Road to the final
Round 1 - Lobsters go PEENCH PEENCH
Round 2 - Pubtrash Collectors
Round 3 - Chinese Gold Farmers
Round 4 - FFS
Round 5 - Clan Clan
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We Love Pigs

Beating 1up! in the half final WHP created a hype around them as being one of the most ambitious HoN teams at the moment. You can find their half final battle on E-Rev's VOD archive.


Road to the final
Round 1 - Void
Round 2 - Black Flags Pink Joints
Round 3 - Team Bromance
Round 4 - Team Get
Round 5 - 1up
_________________________________Scheduling information have not been published yet. We will update this post as soon as it's announced.

• Official Article
  
• Official Thread
  
• Tournament Details and Bracket

With 96 participants in the grand opening cup the first event hosted by the worlds biggest league is on it's way with round 4 coming next. Due to the high amount of teams willing to participate in the cup, the ESL is about to start their 5on5 ladder for your daily HoN pleasure. It will be the first european league but will also allow more western or eastern teams to participate.

• Official News
  
• Ranking
  
• Sign Up
  
• Rules

The ESL has always been great with support regarding prize money and hardware as soon as there have been teams proven to be active and reliable to the game and the league. Once the trust and faith is here, we can look forward to some more intense competition with a major series or - when it becomes way to incredible - even with an extreme masters challenge.

Furthermore, there are a few others around you can join as well:

• CyberGamer International Ladder
  Ladder is open to both international players and or teams, and we encourage you to join.
  
  
• Xtreme Gaming League
  Offers a challenge system which allows teams to battle for the top position effectively. Requires very little to sign up and is easy to use

GameReplays.org revealed another knock out tournament for up to 32 teams to participate. Sign Ups will be open until 1st November 18.00 GMT.

For the seedings - They are going to put some trust in the PSR system by S2 Games, it will be a good way to prove how well this system works. Though, there might be some doubts about the game stats from different pub games are relevant for an official clan match, it might be a good start before teams have proven themselves.

For the rules - GameReplays.org have adapted the rules from their previous event a little. Before they are going to introduce a ladder system they will try to prove their position on them though some have been proven in different DotA leagues and a few HoN cups. Some opinions in the official HoN Forum state "those are not up to date" and "not strict enough regarding the 'backdooring' and items" - time will tell which people enjoy most in the end.

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Competitive wise HoN receives alot of support. But not only that - There are a few videos around to bring the in game action on your screen - All of them have been casted on previous GameReplays.org Tournaments:

• 143 vs. Transcendence (E-Rev)
  
• 143 vs. fiVe (E-Rev)
  
• 143 vs. Quality Control (E-Rev)
  
• Transcendence vs. The Village Hacker (GameReplays) [Recorded by Kustodian, Casted by ichigotowar]
  
• 143 vs. Quality Control (YouTube) [Casted by StRiDaH]