The prize ceremony

With cheques been given, the CC5 getting over the edge and close to it's end. Soon we will see each other online again, flaming and hating, beeing annoying to each other, but for now we stick having some fun.
For ET, the new generation raised sky high winning the tournament, surprisingly, with a very new but great team - Epsilon. Many newcomers proved themself, just like naga who successfully got an award now proving himself on LAN.

The review

CC5 Daily
:: The day before
:: Day 1
:: Day 2
:: Day 3
:: Admin log (wasn't updated that much)

Highlights
Contributing the columns, highlights and reviews, we had chosen, eiM, Hentai, oBs, nellie and TosspoT before CC5 and onside to keep you up to date on crossfire.
:: The Grand Final: Enemy Territory
:: The Grand Final: Call of Duty
:: EuroCup Final on it's way (Wasn't played though)
:: Unproven polagz tie the veterans
:: VAE vs. Epsilon
:: AoW in the spotlight
:: Latest ET Rankings
:: Epsilon vs. Overload
:: Dignitas vs Fatgames, Clash of the Britons
:: The vicious, the evil, the tag
:: Who's going to win CC5
:: Statistics, why VAE win
:: Why do we go to LAN?

Interviews
Next to all the great matches, we had many special guests in the admin room and Baggiez, eiM and hentai made some interview for you to read through:
:: Senji and Urtier: Ever been shy?
:: Naga: Ever met a cheater?
:: smithz: About CoD4
:: Ross's flame and fun
:: Unblind: And now you see...
:: xpaz: looking back and ahead
:: overdrive: all details over the head
:: Impact players toxic and syK on the chair
:: Oldschool lesson with Ron and Mav
:: Twidi the evil!
:: Bit of a delay for Mark
:: Toxic meeting up
(there is another interview coming with butchij from saturday night)

Latest News

1.40 Cheating or not?
We have Fast2Kill and AoW on their first bigger European LAN and both, read all about AoW and their performance in our spotlight and find out all the major things around their team managers and the team with it situation.


history

9.00 muse vs. impact

The first match coming up, starting in a few minutes as soon as both teams prepared their computers. Two very strong teams facing each other to give the day a kick start! Will syK and wiaderko shine at their first Crossfire LAN? Will the french be able to compete against potential favourites for the gold? Tune in and find out - but don't forget to ETTVoD if you miss it, this is the first of many great games coming to you today.






11.38 Currently live


vae vs charism
Impact vs TR
muse vs (C)
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gtv
gtv
gtv


The ET tournament is running well so far, with the first game having gone smoothly. The Call of Duty tournament has just started, and should hopefully go just as well. Vicious and Evil have just lost delivery against Charism in a surprising turn of events, and we're now going into a decider.


12.38 Getting the crowd running

The CC5 is running well and healthy with only the Call of Duty 4 tournament is delayed caused by game server issues from this morning. The small delay in the ET tournament doesn't stop the surprises. Eventhough impact took the first two wins with straight 4:0 results, VAE struggled against charism on one map and landed the first surpise taking the first map.
Keep tuned in with bets on XLBet for CoD4 and on GamesTV for ET and the crossfire and quadv crew on side!


13.10 Vicious and Evil facing Dignitas
The highest seeded teams in Group B will face each other to find the possible winner coming on top of it to meet up with the 4th ranked of group A in the playoffs. Kleineman promised a close and tight match. Hopefully QuadV will be able to catch up and bring you some CoD4 action soon!

14.21 ET's first playoff participants
Impact as group winners and runner up muse take the first tickets to ET's playoffs. Both through with wins over copyright and team randoms. They've yet to compete for the tournament top spot and a BYE through the first round of the latter stages.

15.21 CoD Live on QuadV
The battle of the Brits, Dignitas vs fatgames will be broadcast live via QuadV and TosspoT. QuadV

19.30 VAE facing TAG.et

Currently live with TosspoT on QuadV the highly anticipated ET encounter between vae and TAG. Can TAG take down the faltering Fins?





20:49 Vicious and Evil in play offs
They're viscous, they're evil, they're through to the knockout stages. vae cruise through Goldrush and Frostbite to earn an easy two map victory over TAG. Tales of their demise were greatly exaggerated!

23.00 epicfail vs. AoW

"I will flame theme" that's what faky just said right before the match versus AoW gone live second sago, "i will truely insult them.". With epic fail and AoW teams seeded 3rd and 4th in their group prepare their fight against HighBot. "If we win, I will flame them!", Faky added in the end. So let's find out the result for that live with GamesTV!





0.19 overload vs. AoW

The deciding map for the second place in Group D came up. Overload, well known as Highbot formerly, and Team AoW will fight it out right now on Supply. The winner will pass to the playoffs, the losers goes with the rest. Expect a great last fight with 2 even teams!

Interviews

No mather if you are oldschool and known since CPC1 on crossfire's event or if you are interested in the CoD4 players showing up with their opinion, we got something for everyone over here, so start checking it out. Baggiez, eiM and Hentai are the editors on side for these interviews.

Betting

You can place bets for the Call of Duty matches on XLBET.com. For ET Fans keep enjoying GamesTV.org's gbooky system.

major stuff

- CC5 Rules
- Group overview
- Admin Log
- CF Gallery
- QuadV
- GamesTV.org
- YouTube Review

Webcam Link watch LIVE http://en.justin.tv/wzzrdtv

The EMS qualifiers will start within the next two weeks for a few national and international sections. The ESL have released the new 6on6 config for the ESL Major Series powered by Asus now. With currently 79 teams signed up the interest of teams is quite big for a qualifier on a high class prize money event eventhough it's nothing compared to over 200 signups for the ClanBase OpenCup. Two major events for ET are making their way, stay tuned for entertaining weeks on Crossfire, ETTV and ingame.

Major Settings
- maxpackets in 60 - 100
- maxfps in 43 - 125
- helmetprotection eq 0
- maxMg42s eq 0

Mappool
The ESL match system will be loser's choice: With the first map forced in each match the loser of a map will decide the upcoming map until the winner of the match is decided. In the case of a fullhold a cointoss will come up to decide the next map.
And the maps are:
- Adlernest
- Braundorf
- Bremen
- Radar
- Supply
- SW Goldrush TE
The most recent version of each map will be played.The sign ups for the ESL Major Series qualifier stage are possible till Monday, 17.59 CET.

Sign Up
Participants
Download the EMS config

The doors have closed on the biggest event to hit Crossfire yet, after hundreds of matches and some nail biting moments we have our winners!

Final Rankings

Call of Duty 4
Fnatic (3000€)
The Last Resort (2000€)
eSuba (1000€)
4th oXmoze (500€)

Enemy Territory
The Last Resort (1500€)
New Project (1000€)
EDiT (500€)

ET: QuakeWars
Dignitas - (1500€)
Epsilon - (1000€)
Speed-Link - (500€)

Warsow
scoobz
h1o
jannis

3:24 The last match for day two is coming up in a moment with Vicious and Evil facing Random in the very last ET match this night. VAE went well in the tournament and just lost against TLR in Upper Bracket before. It's the deciding match for both about keeping in or getting on it's way right now, so don't miss this late and deciding main event.

23:27 Because some people did not have been able to scoll down a few lines the Gallery and Streaming pages are actually on the front page.

22:45 ET has been going strong along side CoD4, with the big guns finally starting to show their true quality. np breezed past 8 Bit-gaming and equally, EDiT made quick work of our multi-talented mix Random. Both losing teams move down into the loser bracket, so it's not over yet! As we progress through the early hours of the morning, our last 8 games should be over, leaving some mouth watering prospects on our hands.





For all those ET: Quake Wars fans
ETQW was up and running since the start till now and probably was hard to find on other pages, so here you go for the IPs and the most recent mod version just created for the CDC:
ETQW Stream 1: 85.12.10.21:27777
ETQW Stream 2: 85.12.10.21:27787
ETQW Mod: http://etqwpro.net/misc/etqwpro004nonpublic3.zip



Make sure you check the scores section at the top of the main page along with this news post, as both will give you everything you need so that you won't miss a beat.

That's right ladies and gentleman here on crossfire, the CDC is coming up within not even 24 hours. The first matches will come up from tomorrow morning. With 30 packard bell powered pc's just arravied 1 hour ago most of the crew on side are busy setting them up with a proper installation to run the biggest and hopefully best CDC LAN event ever. Teams such as Fear Factory.X-Fi and The Last Resort are bootcamping since 15.00 CET today and prepare themself in Call of Duty and ET:Quake Wars. There should also be n1ce.it coming up soon praccing for ET.

You can already find a few pictures in our very new and improved gallery system every user registered on crossfire can upload to. Check out the gallery.

A few things will change on crossfire tomorrow. Here are a few details on what will change and what you can find where actually:

The cup will start at 18.00 CET this Sunday evening with 16 participants and be a simple knockout bracket (single elimination). Every match will be played in Best-Of-3 while the first map is forced and the second and third maps are loser's choice. It's time to prepare the upcoming ESL Major Series with 1.000 € prize money for ET to offer an advantage in the seedings with this second international cup.
This is the last cup with the chance to earn one Top 4 seed for your team in the international qualifier for the ESL Major Series.

Final Ranking
Team Finland
Team EDiT
authentic
Rank 4-16
4. Ephix
5-8. unKind
5-8. emo
5-8. Tag.et
5-8. m0nkeys
9-16. Luck
9-16. Zycie na Goraco
9-16. replay
9-16. Regnet Team Cz
9-16. a.ToOn
9-16. eLemenT
9-16. fASTEN
9-16. Savak


Cup Tree

Coming up next for the competive world of the latest Call of Duty release is the ESL Major Series Season 2 with a 1500 € prizepool to statisfy the participants and allow every possible clan a chance to participate. The doors are widly open to sign up and participate in the national qualifier for 16 nations.

Prizemoney
750 €
450 €
300 €

Qualifiers
To decide the 24 teams for Season 2 the ESL has expanded the qualifying system equal to the resemble of the ESL Extreme Masters system to have two knockout rounds in addition to direct qualifiers for each nation and the international qualifier spot.

Phase 1 – National Qualifiers
Phase 2 – QR1 – 24 Teams
Phase 3 – QR2 – 24 Teams
Phase 4 – Main Round – 24 Teams
Phase 5 – Playoffs – 8 Teams

As announced earlier today in another newspost on the official website, the latest and not that long awaited patch for ETQW is available to download! Over 400 MB of brand new and special features requested by the community and implemented by SplashDamage over the past months are now public to make your very own ETQW life much easier and requieres less brain especially with the brand new training system! Anyway, the waiting time is past and the reason why ETQW is realy awesome comes with the support of SplashDamage. In addition to the latest patch release, SplashDamage will release a new demo version to get more players interested in competing with their skill in 1.4.

Major Features
- Advanced and simplified HUD modes
- Improved Server Browser
- Basic Training for New Players
- Support for Auto-Downloading
- Network Fixes
- ETQW:TV
- Gameplay Balance Improvements (Hit box fix, Weapon balance fix, MCP fullhold fix)
- Bug Fixes
Find all details about major changes in the ETQW.com Dev Blog.

[bFull Changelog[/b]:]

Quote by changelog

Front End
- Hot Servers listing added to the server browser (includes listing of number of players considering joining the server)
- Server browser now updates player count the instant somebody chooses to connect to it
- Added panel to the server browser screen that displays the users stats and awards progress
- Ticker on server browser screen now links to external web sites
- New options available on Play Computer screen
- Additional option on the Game Settings screen (Advanced HUD, Respawn Text, Draw Fireteam List etc)

Play Computer
- New Tutorial mode with pre-set bot skill levels
- Key tooltips now briefly pause the game in tutorial mode to help lead the player
- Tooltips played in tutorial mode now highlight corresponding HUD elements where appropriate
- Additional new tooltips
- Updated bot AI for Tutorial mode: bots play less aggressive, assist more and pace the completion of objectives

General
- Head hitbox for player models adjusted, damage now scales better based on accuracy
- New VO added for tooltips
- Subtle Motivators added - When players achieve various records in-game they are told so via a pop-up message
- Vehicles at the main base of either side are now immune to damage after spawning, immunity is lost when used by a player
- Spawning vehicles are now static until used by a player to avoid exploiting
- Mines are now highlighted by green or red dots on the HUD
- Fireteam leaders are now displayed with White player arrows, fireteams with Yellow arrows and friends with Cyan arrows
- Vampire Strike beacon smoke effect has been updated
- Revive missions for Medics/Technicians are now Tasks
- Matches can now be paused mid-game via 'pausegame' or 'admin pause/unpause'
- Player models on the limbo menu now rotate 360 degrees when a class is first selected
- Buttons added to mute limbo menu voice tutorial
- End game stats screen has been updated with new stats info (Next Award, Rewards gained this campaign, Personal Bests, Mouse over info on map awards like Best Engineer)
- Advanced HUD option (moves text, reduces space used by obituaries and moves subtle motivator pop-ups)
- Deployables now display the owner's name on Crosshair info
- New HUD icons for parachuting/air-shield and Third Eye Camera
- Reduced decoy fire rate on Tormentor and Anansi
- Reload time increased on Anansi Rockets and Tormentor Plasma Cannon
- Reduced damage done to deployables by Anansi Rockets and Tormentor Plasma Cannon
- Re-balanced Anansi and Tormentor XP
- Basic hacking has had its time reduced and can now also cause damage when hacking an already disabled deployable
- Slightly updated effects on Violator
- Sniper Rifle and Railgun trails are now more obvious/longer duration
- Stroybomb reload time increased slightly
- Adjusted the point at which the attacking team gets a reduced spawn time
- Progress decay on some objectives has been adjusted
- Player's now receive a warning when a turret is targeting them or when they have triggered a mine
- Added more support for loading mods
- A message is printed on the HUD when someone finishes hacking a shield generator
- The game running in fullscreen no longer forcefully captures the mouse, resulting in better multitask behaviour
- 'vstr' now evaluates immediately, rather than adding its output to the end of the command buffer
- Workaround for certain ISPs filtering out legitimate authentication and match making packets
- Multiplayer stereo sound separation algorithm alternative from Quake 4 added, s_earSeperationAlgo 1 to enable (Default and legacy is 0) two additional cvars for control: s_esa1_minVolume (sound never drops below this fraction for either ear), s_esa1_maxWindow (window size in which volume is maxed, fraction of full range)
- Text declarations now take priority over binary ones to make mod development easier
- WriteJumpStartDemo now overwrites existing files
- Added local stats tracking for offline play
- Increased XP reward for players picking up your Health Packs, Ammo Packs and Stroyent Cells
- Added green repair indicators if someone repairs your vehicle.
- The icarus is now more forgiving to lock on to
- The MCP auto-deploys when it has been in the deploy zone for half a second, deploy text on HUD removed.
- MCP does not take damage unless it can move
- MCP driver can now remain inside the MCP when it is disabled
- MCP driver MG cannot be used when the MCP is disabled
- Shotgun pellet count reduced and fire rate increased
- Assault Rifle and Lacerator base weapon accuracy increased
- Sprinting will now pull you out of sighted/scoped mode
- APT turrets now have a 1.5 second delay before it starts turning towards the player.

ETQW:TV
- Added support for spawning repeater server on dedicated server, net_spawnRepeater 1 to enable
- Added support for connecting repeater relay servers to other repeater servers, net_spawnRepeater 1 to enable
- The port the repeater will use can be controlled by net_repeaterPort, the default is 27833 is no port is specified
- Use ri_maxViewers to control viewer slot limit for repeater servers
- Access to the repeater can be limited by the use of ri_useViewerPass, g_viewerPassword, g_repeaterPassword, ri_privateViewers and g_privateViewerPassword
- Repeater server name can be controlled by ri_name
- Viewers may chat to other viewers on the same repeater server, this can be disabled with g_noTVChat
- Viewers may cycle through player views by pressing the attack key, and free fly using the alt attack key
- Broadcasting can be delayed by changing net_clientRepeaterDelay, this is only supported on repeater relays
- Repeaters can be set up to auto-download required content by setting net_clientRepeaterAutoDownload to 1
- For additional information on the ETQW TV feature, please see the ETQW TV Readme file.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed saving some passwords causing the local account to be corrupted
- Fixed typing quickly scrambling user input
- Fixed typing while holding down Shift sometimes causing text overwrites
- Fixed low apparent texture quality if texture quality settings were below the baseline
- Fixed an intermittent crash on startup during the "Loading UI..." stage
- Fixed crash when loading a map on ATI brand cards
- Fixed serverInfo command incorrectly reporting server status
- Fixed filters being applied to History and Favorites list
- Fixed auto-updater being used when running from the Steam version of the game
- Fixed ServerLauncher not reloading the last opened profile
- Fixed ServerLauncher not properly setting the mod
- Fixed being able to corrupt user chat history
- Fixed a crash when deleting the last item in the replay list
- Fixed sometimes being able to send empty messages when chatting
- Fixed jittery bots & vehicles when playing against the computer with unlockFPS on
- Fixed clipping through ceiling when getting out of the Husky in specific locations
- Fixed Player.cpp bad floating point dump-to-console error
- Fixed GDF deployable "jerk" on landing
- Fixed servers having incorrect antilag tuning - antilag tuning CVars are now read-only
- Fixed infiltrator being able to teleport without having full charge
- Fixed bugs with accurized lacerator/scoped assault rifle scoping & unscoping
- Prevented vehicle view FOV issues - FOV limited to 90 when in vehicles
- Fixed loading screen sometimes showing previous server's information
- Fixed relative directory name detection incorrectly marking certain paths as relative, resulting in problems when attempting to create directories or files
- Fixed offline friends in the friends list incorrectly appearing as if they were on a server
- Fixed 5.1 and 7.1 audio not working in certain surround configurations
- Fixed mouse buttons not being swapped correctly when the raw input api was used
- Fixed autocompletion not working in certain situations for files that exist in PK4s
- Fixed bindings.cfg able to be being executed multiple times in a frame due to input language switches, potentially resulting in keys not being bound
- Fixed projection matrix jittering being applied in cases where it shouldn't (for example, waypoint icon coordinate calculation)
- Fixed not always clearing the fireteam name edit box before opening it.
- Fixed 'create' on fireteam menu when trying to create more than 8 fireteams.
- Fixed playing OOB tooltip even though player was dead.
- Fixed inverted "blocked you"/"unlbocked you" tooltips in the friends list.
- Fixed campaign tab being fullscreen when restarting map and going straight to the vote tab.
- Fixed seeing the action icon on enemy mines even though disarming was impossible from that distance.

(thanks to jazze for url, http://www.speltorrents.se/details.php?id=764 )



According to minor rumours, GamesTV.org is already preparing for mass ETQW:TV coverage in the near future! You can also prepare for the Crossfire organized European Allstar battle coming soon with the server updated and the following announcement by swine. So stick to crossfire and stay tuned for the first major ETQW:TV action powered by GTV.org and CF!

- ETQW.com
- [bDownload[/b]] # eXp.de
# FileFront
# Fileplanet
# Gamers Hell
# i3d.net
# jolt.co.uk
# Multiplay.co.uk
# PlanetQuakeWars.net
# QuoVadis Clan
# Student Net Twente
# The Patches Scrolls
# Worthplaying
# Official .torrent

For Linux and server files visit the official community page and read the ETQW.com 1.4 announcement.

- Source

Minor note: There is a server issue making servers crash very often, the issue has been tracked down and a fix will be released shortly!

The final day has arrived and tonight we will finish the list with the participants of the upcoming Crossfire Devotii challenge 4 with the 6 remaining matches coming up tonight from 20.00 CET kicking off, it's Dark&Beyond facing Friends in Force with dnb as clear favorites. Right afterwards a tight match according to the best gamestv.org might came up with the UK mates UnKind facing the germans a.ToOn without a single favorite. At the same time Team Ephix will try to save their lan spot beating gameDivision and the Open Cup winner Tag with a brand new mix will try to beat visualise. Kojak will face the second Czech team Magic Balloons. Last but not least we have the eastern europe clash with Necroraisers facing Authentic to finalize the night with the last major and hopefully very close fight.