The qualifiers have just passed and this week, the Call of Duty 2 EuroCup gets on the road with the first matchweek. Yesterday the ClanBase have published the groups and sent their go to the teams participating in their very own 15th edition including lan finals for CoD2:
Group A 1 dignitas
2 emuLate
3 eSuba
4 evoplay
5 uMu
6 Vicious and Evil

Group B 1 cadre
2 EDiT
3 hMg
4 Logitech.fi
5 SPEEDLINK
6 adocom

Group C 1 defusekids
2 nEcro
3 Teamoxid
4 stheno
5 Tek-9
6 Reason Gaming

Group D 1 B4Y
2 CPH
3 H2k
4 team impact
5 nEophyte
6 srs


Prizemoney
With overall 6000€ in cash the lanfinals in August will show who's the richest CoD2 Team:
2700 €
1500 €
1000 €
4th 800 €

More details can be found on the ClanBase Website.

Hello and welcome from the home of Call of Duty, Enemy Territory and RTCW in Enschede for this weekend. With the first match running at the moment the CPC is well underway and with it the Friday 13th. Today teams will play their group matches in ET aswell as in COD and we are proud to be bringing you the important coverages together with

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A major game is coming up for both sides on their way to the playoffs - zP and one.soldiers draw threw this group wide open. Both teams require wins to progress.

Latest results and Rankings:
- For ET
- For CoD2

Last Matches
Within this awesome hide tag you will find all details about played and covered matches so far with the report, score and so on - have fun reading what u've missed:

Results

21.30 CET ET polar 4-0 Auxilia
21.30 CET ET Vicious and Evil 4-0 morrigu
20.30 CET CoD2 Hard2Kill 4-13 Reason
20.30 CET CoD2 logitech 13-9 adocom
20.00 CET ET zeroPoint 0-4 cZar
20.00 CET ET Vicious and Evil - FearFacotry
19.00 CET CoD2 inFlux 13-10 reason
18.30 CET ET Auxilia 4-0 KiH
18.30 CET ET dignitas 4-0 octense
17:30 CET CoD2 dignitas 11 - 13 logitech
17.00 CET ET polar 4 - 0 KiH
17.00 CET ET impact 4 - 0 Auxilia
16:00 CET CoD2 tek9 13 - 9 Copenhagen
16:00 CET CoD2 serious 13 - 9 EDiT
14:30 CET CoD2 serious 13 - 6 oxid
14.00 CET ET zeroPoint! 2 - 2 one.soldier
14.00 CET ET cZar (zero) 4 - 0 el vigorz
13.00 CET CoD2 Teamoxid 13 - 10 EDiT
13.00 CET CoD2 serious 13 - 8 eSuba
12.30 CET ET Octense 2 - 2 Clan.ALIS
12.30 CET ET The Last Resort 4 - 0 Fear Facotry
11.00 CET ET Fear Factory 4 - 0 morrigu
11.00 CET ET The Last Resort 4 - 0 Vicious and Evil
11.00 CET ET Dignitas 4 - 0 k1ck
09.00 CET ET zeroPoint! 4 - 0 el vigorz

Match #1

ETTV: GamesTV.org
Maps: Bremen_b1 / Frostbite
Group C, Match 1

In the first match right now the underdogs formerly known as vib playing under the flag of el vigorz now are fighting zeroPoint. Due to passport issues with Fette yesterday, zP had to draft in the last minute replacement of shy. He'll be deputising for the weekend. Both team will try to prove they're lan worthy, lets see who will come out on top.

Update: zeroPoint full hold bremen with relative ease. vigorz are on the attack.


Match #2
While the ETTV issues gets solved the matches scheduled for 11.00 CET will be delayed!
Update: Dignitas nearly live - where to? We will see. Atleast 1 Player left on the server.

ETTV: Not Avi
Maps: Radar, SW Goldrush TE
Group A, Match 1

Unexpected - Thats how we call it when Dignitas is on the way owning on LANs. But as the PGA qualifier showed in 5on5, Dignitas is not as strong as they could be without one of their major players Night. In their first group match dignitas has to prove themself facing k1ck, the former pingwins, to prove their ability with the replacement sol. k1ck on the other hand will be able to show their No-Lag-Skills and are able to get kicked off without connection issues this time.

Match #3
The CoD2 Groupstage kicks off at 13.00 CET with the first matches in the hottest group - A. For a pre sum up read Crow's latest article and find your own favorite.

Map: TBA
Livestream: In progress! Not avi yet

If the dutch sided serious gaming is up to the business as SHG Open winner with their new player kasparov is something this match will show. The czech underdog of eSuba will try their best to stay a chance and proving their LAN worthy again. While serious goes in the first CoD2 match as favorite, this will show some hot actions for sure.

Match #4

Map: TBA
ETTV: GamesTV

The ET Tourney will come up with it's first important clash with the international mixed team one.soldier including names as overboost and the stars including butchji, gifty and potter for zeroPoint. It's the first time one.soldier is in hot action and we will see some hot shots for sure from both of these teams, but is a winner already decided or not? Hopefully both teams will make a hot clash on ETTV.

The CoD2 Matches
With currently 2 matches up and running the CoD2 groupstage is delayed by 1 hour.
Update: Dear Unexpected CoD2 LANs, I've a new line for your book right after eSuba faced serious gaming and took the win home with a 13:08.

Match #5

Maps: SW Goldrush TE, Bremen
ETTV: GamesTv.org

Mystic - The one and only - playing with Impact in their first match. We urge you to get an ETTV spot as fast as you can! The mystics fanboys are plenty. Blink and you'll miss it.
Just seconds left before you can see the turkey and russian power of Auxilia facing one of the last surviving true dream teams. Is impact strong enough to compete on the CPC against the fairly known internetstars and posers from Auxilia?! The odds are clearly set and every mystic fan will just increase the gap in possible money earned between these teams. Still we don't have a winner yet and the match will come up within just 50 minutes.

Match #6

Map: Matmata
Livestream: http://www.crossfire.nu

While serious gaming as top seed struggled a little bit in their first match dignitas has to prove their favorite position with winning against the ambitious fins of Logitech.fi. The match itself should be very close and including the hottest CoD2 action with two top teams.

Match #7
Live with a voice stream right off from the LAN TosspoT and Redeye will cast this - somehow - so called thriller between the deep underdog octane and dignitas. The match will be casted on ETTV ofcourse and you can tune in right on GamesTV.



Primary coverage partner
:: GotFrag
:: eSreality
:: Teamoxid.de

secondlevel coverage partnerTBA

After seeing an release of this years WSVG Games with the funny games WoW, Guitar Hero 2 and Fight Night Round 3, the WSVG have added an announcement about additional games. While the USA stick playing Counter Strike: Source, but without a big amount of clans, it's been a new and especially a big choice coming up for the whole CoD2 community there.

Call of Duty 2 and Quake 4 will be the shooter games on this years season in the USA while the european and asian stops will be held with Counter Strike 1.6.

The WSVG stops in Dallas and Orlando during July and August will have their very own Call of Duty 2 Tournament. Still this announcement is not as good as it sounds, since the step from getting there as a european team and not playing it on a european lan neither the final event at the dreamhack. Still everyone can expect to support the WSVG and CoD2 by attending as a european team on the US events as well as getting some IRC channel and columns up.

Quote by WSVG

This is the news you've been waiting for. Four primary games, six stops, $750,000 in prizes. World of Warcraft. Is there a bigger game? It was on South Park! Quake 4 is back with the fast paced competition you've grown to love since you downloaded that demo of Thresh back in '98. For the metalheads, Guitar Hero 2 rips onto your console, groupies included. Just don't belt out Freebird at your next party. Last but not least, the bruises and scars look oh so real in EA Sports' Fight Night Round 3. The game is phenomenal; it takes ultra-realism to a whole new level.

:: Source
:: WSVG Website

Next to the major events, the ClanBase just announced their prize money distribution for the LAN event taking place in august. 3 Games have been picked and their u go:

Counter-Strike 1.6 - 10.000 € 1. 5.000 €
2. 2.500 €
3. 1.500 €
4. 1.000 €


Call of Duty 2 - 6.000 € 1. 2.700 €
2. 1.500 €
3. 1.000 €
4. 800 €


Warcraft 3 - 4.000 € 1. 2.000 €
2. 1.000 €
3. 600 €



Overall, this means 20.000 € for the two major games CS and WC3 and additional money for the maybe most ambitious competive game. According to their newspost, ClanBase will not have prize money in the CoD2 CTF and not in the ET 6v6 EuroCup:

Quote by clanbase

The prize distribution of each game is available on its cuppage. LAN finals are scheduled to take place sometime in August. Final dates, location and more detailed information will be posted very soon. Next to € 20000 in prizemoney we will be giving away hardware worth over € 10000 to many of our 92 other cups.

Source

Comming up in just some minutes, the first really important match of the two unbeaten teams:


It will be the first of properbly 3 clashes of the current ET top teams while the bets are one sided for the former idle.ee squad and with the current perfomance of zeroPoint! without Butchji they struggled in the groupstage but got better from match to match and didn't loose any single map - as dignitas. Just a week ago they met each other in the Winner's Bracket Final of the EuroCup XIV - a clear win for dignitas - but tonight can be everything different and their first match will be a way to decide the attention for the LAN: Is it going to be the unexpected thing ever?

I've caught up with Lightning for a short prediction:
Dignitas will win this, last time they already won with ease and especially with the best player of zeroPoint named butchji played, without him it will be easier for idle, also LAN makes no difference in this case - unless they made a deal - so a clear 4-0 for Dignitas.

Also the one and only - zP manager and iTG caster - TosspoT had some words left about the upcoming match: zP! are confident, I've never seen them this confident.

Quote by live coverage

Time: Today, 18.00 CET
Maps: TBA
Shoutcast: not confirmed
ETTV: GamesTV.org

The ET-Playoffs are coming up within the next hour. From now on, we'll try to keep you up to date with the bracket and result live in the article and the current live matches here in the post!

:: The Bracket

The winner will pass to the next round, the team eliminated will go into the loser's bracket. Please check this article for details![/hide]

Overall Final

After an intense match in the consolation final, it's as unexpected as nothing else: zeroPoint! will come out of the Loser's Bracket to face the Dignitas at 23.00 CET. As always, the maps will be announced right at the start and as the whole ET event, we got the most possible coverage and ettv slots available by GamesTV.org. Also, GIGA2 will cast the match live with FlyingDJ and also, there is a shoutcast available from iTG's TosspoT.



Time: Saturday, 23:00 CET
Maps: Frostbite & sw_goldrush_te
ETTV: GamesTV.org
Shoutcast: iTG's TosspoT
Livestream: GIGA2


Consolation Final


Time: Saturday, 21:30 CET
Maps: TBA
ETTV: GamesTV.org

Video on Demand Live!
GGL has just published the VoDs for the match zeroPoint! vs. BlackMagic on their page. And the records from yesterday are live in their archive.

:: GGL.com Website

Loser's bracket outdated
Due to a small lack of information the team, already losing two matches: Defining Stars, will continue their road in the playoffs and are going to face dtekt in the upcoming match. Therefor, the LB Bracket is totally outdated and won't be updated again:

The next round: Loser's Bracker Round Unknown

Time: Saturday, 20:30 CET
Maps: TBA
ETTV: GamesTV.org


Matches upcoming // Matches played
Sat 17 Feb 20:15 - Black Magic 4 - 0 defining stars (GamesTV.org)
Sat 17 Feb 21:30 - zeroPoint! 4 - 0 Black Magic (GamesTV.org)
Sat 17 Feb 23:00 - Dignitas 4-0 zeroPoint!

Call of Duty 2

The groupstage
15 teams playing in 5 groups for the top, overall, every teams will pass into the double elimination bracket: Bold beams have saved their spot in the upper bracket, underlined teams will play a second groupstage for two spots in the upper bracket and a spot in the lower bracket and all other teams will pass to the lower bracket.
Group A 1. DigitalMind
2. Dignitas
3. Roskilde
4. Old Geeks
5. eXplicit

Group B 1. Logitech.fi
2. Team-coolTronik
3. suXus eSports
4. Nordsjælland eSport
5. eXplicit.CTF

Group C 1. Tek9
2. Copehagen-Esport
3. Turtles
4. Roskilde eSport Team 2
5. eXplicit Penguins


The advanced groupstage
Final ranking:
1. suXus eSports
2. Roskilde
3. Turtles

The playoff grid
Starting at 14.00 CET just 1 hour left for the teams to prepar and get up and running into the playoffs. The following matches will come up in the first round:

:: Loserbracket Round 1
Sat 14:00 - mp_toujane - Old Geeks 13 - 0 eXpPenquins
Sat 14:00 - mp_toujane - nsesports 13 - 6 eXplicit
Sat 14:00 - mp_toujane - roskilde 2 13 - 8 eXpCTF
Sat 14:00 - mp_toujane - turtles vs. (def win)

:: Winnerbracket Round 1
Sat 15:15 - mp_burgundy - digitalMind 13 - 7 suXus
Sat 15:15 - mp_burgundy - Team Logitech.fi 4 - 13 Dignitas
Sat 15:15 - mp_burgundy - TEK9 vs. coolTronik
Sat 15:15 - mp_burgundy - Copenhagen 13 - 3 roskilde 1

For the full ranking and grid visit this article.

The first major European LAN of 2007 has got underway in Denmark. With ETTV, SourceTV and HLTV confirmed we will recive tons of live coverage. For those who's only vice is ET and CoD2, keep yourself here on crossfire for the latest results and rankings.

Just played // On the way // Coming up next ET

(A) Sat 17 Feb 00:30 - dignitas 4 - 0 defs
(A) Sat 17 Feb 10:30 - dtekt 0 - 4 defs
(A) Sat 17 Feb 11:30 - dignitas 4 - 0 GiB
(B) Sat 17 Feb 12:00 - zeroPoint! 4 - 0 vae.KiH (ETTV)
(B) Sat 17 Feb 12:00 - Black Magic 4 - 0 MERC.dk (ETTV removed)

:: All ET Matches and Rankings

Next Article: It can be a decider

Time: Saturday, 0:30 CET - Maps: TBA - ETTV: Not avi

As earlier posted Kapow has a great base behind their players with a long and, somehow, well history. Also they reached something, kih didn't get yet: The OpenCup Playoffs. If Black Magic beats KiH, this will be the deciding match for the third rank and saved ticket to the playoffs.


Just played // On the way // Coming up next CoD

(C) Fri 16 Feb 23:00 - turtles 3 - 13 tek9
(B) Fri 16 Feb 23:00 - eXpCTF 7 - 13 suxus
(B) Fri 16 Feb 23:00 - TcT 10 - 13 Logitech
(A) Fri 16 Feb 23:00 - dignitas 13 - 8 eXplicit
(P) Sat 17 Feb 00:00 - suXus 13 - 5 Roskilde
(P) Sat 17 Feb 00:30 - suXus 13 - 6 turtles
(P) Sat 17 Feb 01:00 - turtles 7 - 13 Roskilde

:: Call of Duty 2 Teams and Groups

Media Coverage
As TosspoT just announced iTG casting, the German casters of GIGA2 will also be live covering the shgOpen. A few hours ago they published their first impressions of the set and a view on the big area. GIGA will focus on Counter Strike with Nik "DeSchlang" Adams, David "Faust" Stephan and the one and only Uli "FlyingDj" Schulze. As always the highlights will be drawn on freeTV later at GIGA1. For those who want to see more than ET you should check the livestream starting from 20.00 CET tonight on the PPV stream and the highlights will be shown this sunday from 20.00 CET on GIGA. For the English viewers another live stream is available powered by the former EuroCup XIII Caster DK4. With the label game-tube.tv, they will cast different matches in English.

:: Gotfrag
:: GIGA2 News
:: GIGA2 Photos
:: Shoutcast by radio iTG
:: GIGA2 Livestream (not free)
:: Game-Tube.TV Livestream
:: ClanBase ET Log
:: ClanBaes CoD Log

ETTV avi!

Last night, all ETTV confirmed matches where added to the GamesTV.org schedule. Whenever you need some hot stuff just visit the page and get ready to tune in to get one of the most wanted slots this weekend.

:: GamesTV.org

With a match in the second division we are going to bring you the first GIGA2 live stream with CoD2's S&D tonight at 23.00 CET. Two ambitious teams will face each other to win the match on Caen to gain a better position in the rankings and higher chances to continue to the playoffs. Both teams are still on the top in group D with 3 wins and no single loss. Only the score makes the difference and tonight you can check out which team is able to get the first place in their group.

With a high quality 1mbit stream, GIGA2 will is the best alternate to not existing tv mod for our beloved game. Therefore, you should get up and invest some cents each day to get hot on GIGA2 with CoD2 matches in every upcoming week!
:: GIGA 2
:: Tune In

When the groupstage is gone the playoffs are not far away! This week we are gonna start the playoffs for our beloved 6on6 stopwatch to run into success with having the top teams of each division in to fight for no ads with hot premium accounts!

Division 1
8 Teams will participate in the playoffs to find the elite of the ESL fall series and with the summer's top team Retroactive and the new european top team one4one in as favorites to get one of the top ranks and the chance to participate in a possible IPS season #2 we will have a very hot action coming up before Santa Clause is here. Check out all participants of the playoffs:
:: Rankings
:: Playoff Tree

[img|left]http://www.webstylestudio.de/cod2news/div1.jpg[/img] Universal Warriors vs. Retroactive
FBI - Team vs. Azure Fate
aurea Jamaica vs. roYality - eSports
infrag vs. one4one.ET

Find all details about the upcoming playoffs on the ESL website.