The Games Mini Video Contest, sponsored by Dell, will launch on February 3rd 2009 and is being followed by German eSport communities with great interest. Leading gaming portals will host video competitions for the following games:

• Counter Strike 1.6 - readmore.de
• Warcraft III - readmore.de
• Counter Strike: Source - eFever.de
• Quake III Arena - derQuaker.com
• Enemy Territory - own3D.TV
• DotA - own3D.TV

Winners will receive one of 10 Dell Mini Notebooks and cash-prizes totaling € 3000. With this project - Dell and the contest-organizers intend to support the evolving gaming culture, which utilizes videos for promoting games but also gamers. „We aim at providing a platform for talented moviemakers through which the best can be honored and recognized“, explains Nescho Topalov, General Manager of the gaming agency Top Ideas Marketing & Events GmbH and organizer of the Video Contests. „We expect a thrilling event of high quality due to the selection of popular eSport themes, attractive prizes, a short preparation time and a runtime restriction of exact 99 seconds. The eSport community has high demands which we intend to satisfy“.

A profession jury will appoint 9 finalists for each contest category. Then the community will be given 9 days to vote for their favorites and to elect the final winners of the Games Mini Video Contest. Videos will be hosted on own3d.tv - a platform exclusively for gaming videos. own3d.tv offers video streaming in high- and low-quality that can be embedded on blogs and social networks.

Contest Prizes for moviemakers and voters:
• 10x Dell Mini 9
• Cash-prizes total of 3000 €

Terms & Conditions:
• Short video of exact 99 seconds runtime
• Video with unique ingames scenes
• New and unique video –

Dates & Timeline
02.03.2009 – Launch of the contest – enrollment and uploads
02.27.2009 – End of uploads
03.02.2009 – Jury Announcement of the 9 finalists - start of community votes
03.10.2009 – Vote analysis & winner announcements

All relevant information regarding the Games Mini Video Contest will be published on Tuesday 02.03.2009 on partner portals.

It took us nearly 2 intensive months to get this site online and we welcome all of you to take a look. This new Beta release offers you high quality x264 videos from all genres for all eSport games. Nearly all own3D.at / own3D.eu users can simply login with their old account, only those users with special characters in their name will have to re-register, because we disabled special char-nicknames. This beta site will remain for around 1 month, after that we will make a closer step forward to the finished site.

So what is new between the old video section and beta.own3D.at ?

• Convert your movie via website or offline with our own3D x264 converter.
  
• Edit your movie information afterwards.
  
• Change your thumbnail or upload your own thumbnail for your movie!
  
• Comment, rate and discuss movies, no page-refresh will disturb you!

and much more ...

Please help us to improve this video site. How? Just use it, find bugs or something you do not like and post it at our bugblog - Yours nAxiD!

Incoming weekend seems to be a bombshell of emotions and deadly battles between the best European Enemy Territory clans. Thanks to Crossfire organization, we will be able to see two famous teams there - zeroPoint! and CDAP.pi. Both are looking forward to the clash between them, as well as to the skirmishes with the Polish teams ( NETR.et, Fear Factory X-Fi, Logitech UVM and inVert). valk1r decided to bring them to the spotlight.


zeroPoint!

Team history by Rapture:

The main idea of building our own clan grew after my mates, darky and potter had a great time at QuakeCon 2006. Somehow I got infected and was asked if i'd like to play again,if both of them started the action once more - so I was in and it was 3 of us. As I didn't know the community very well at this time, I just let them go ahead with picking the other 3 players and I have to say I am, and we are,very, very satisfied with the choice of butchji, hatred and gifty - all excellent players I didn't know during the time off gaming (soz).