It's been a while since we saw a large scale ET Lan, the last one was the Antwerp eSports festival where we saw this squad under a different name come 2nd, since then the squad made lineup changes with mAus coming into the team replacing meez and for a short while m1lk replaced an inactive hayaa. The squad went on to win Eurocup twice amongst other tourneys.

It was only a few months ago that Epsilon renewed their interest in W:ET. Unfortunately, for both parties, the partnership didn’t last long and ended on a sour note. Fortunately they have decided to renew their interest and faith in W:ET by snapping up another team. Epsilon hopes that with this pickup they will be around in Enemy Territory for the long run and enable them to cement their place in W:ET history alongside the likes of Team Dignitas.

The team that Epsilon has decided to add to their ranks is AEF runners up and joint EC XXI winners Impact Gaming. With the recent addition of “mAus” Impact looked to have solidified their lineup and plan on competing with the likes of Dignitas for that number one spot. We believe that in joining Epsilon we are now part of an organization that matches our own aspirations and ambitions and enables us to have a long term partnership with a prestigious, well established organization.
Epsilon currently boasts top teams in both COD4 and TF2. They believe that with the addition of Impact Gaming it enables them to reach the pinnacle of another game in eSports in the form of Enemy Territory.

Unfortunately it seems that Week 2 of ET Masters has not been a successful one, 3 teams have now had wins overturned after being issued yellow cards due to breaking the rules of the tourney.

Tag 4 - 0 Masculine Mans
Masculine Mans win by default.
Reason: Tag player Euruz caught using 180 degree script
AVI
Punishment: Yellow card and forfeit match loss.


MouK 0 - 4 GzCon
MouK win by default.
Reason: GzCon player rizzle caught using 180 degree script
AVI
Punishment: Yellow card and forfeit match loss.

ET Masters brings you 3 games tonight from division 1. First up at 21:00 CET


dESIRE will come up against the top seed ButtonBashers to see who will take the early lead in their group. ButtonBashers are hot favourites for this one but with only recently adding lettu to their lineup their could be an upset on the cards as they adjust to the change. Oasis / Radar will be the maps for this game.

Clown:
Will be interesting to see how we do on our first official after the break we took, and picking up a new player. I guess we will see a pretty close game because i think we arent yet at our full strength. Looking forward to this match.

Bruceh:
To be honest i don't think we have any chance to win over bb. They are strong, we havent pracc a lot since duKe_ have to play with team germany.


Mamut will face up to GzCon and on any normal day you would assume a win would be simple for Mamut but tonight they have a yet unanounced 6th standing in for Jakazc so lets see how that affects them.

Urtier:
It's going to be an extremely close game, we don't really know how good our opponent is and with Jaka not being here we are definately a lot weaker.

saken:
I think it's clear that we are the underdogs in tonight's game and perhaps even in Group B as a whole. Nevertheless we will be trying to show what we're worth and I hope we can bring you an interesting game today. We've been doing pretty well in practice games, I just hope that we play the same in tonight's game. I think the game can go either way so I'm expecting a 4-2, don't know for who.



Last but not least its 8Bits vs diversus in what i think could be one of the closest games of the evening. For me this will be 4-2 with 8Bits just taking it but tune in to find out.

jere:
We have won one prac this far, so we are very confident! We aren't underestimating them, because they have really nice players. GL hf to all, hoping to see a nice match.

wodzian:
We haven't won a single pracc since we started playing together. Some additional info: the list of the teams we have beaten so far:....

Siwa Oasis will be the 6th and final map in this years ET Masters tourney. After careful consideration and after having watched the show match games we decided that this could once again be used in competition.

Of course some will say that it is a bad idea since there used to be a mentality that full holds were too common on this map however this is not actually the case. Of course there will be full holds on defence as there are in plenty of other maps such as goldrush supply and radar to name a few, the issue with the map only occurs if double full holds become common. This is not something that we believe is as big an issue as a few would make out since what we have seen and what is actually more common is that the best team usually always sets a time. Nonetheless we believe the risk of a full hold is actually preferable to maps such as frostbite / adlernest etc where very quick times and the lotto factor tend to often determine the outcome. Of course we expect some people to be dismayed at the map, after all you can't please everyone however i'm sure many of you look forward to playing this map again and viewing top games on ETTV.

• Maps: You can pick every map twice during the group stage
  
• Interviews: Team captains must add a pre match statement
  
• Config: We will use the european config - If we pick oasis as 6th map, we will introduce a new config

Many rules have been written, check them in yet another google spreadsheet. All players must read these rules, failure to follow them can and will result in strict penalties.
:: Rules


As announced earlier the qualifiers will be held starting this weekend. In short, here is the schedule. We will offer game servers and organize coverage for every match:
Match 1 - Sun 20.00 - Upper Bracket Round 1
Match 2 - Sun 21.30 - Upper Bracket Round 2, Lower Bracket Round 1
Match 3 - Mon 20.00 - Lower Bracket Round 2
Match 4 - Mon 21.30 - Upper Bracket Round 3, Lower Bracket Round 3
Match 5 - Mon 21.00 - Lower Bracket Round 4
Make sure you keep your schedule and inform admins if you can't play your match in time.
:: view the detailed schedule


Team captains have to contact an admin in the official irc channel to report their line up and mail adress. We will use them to publish google documents for each match including a match preview and review for each match. Team captains have to add their statements to these documents and have to pick their map.
:: #etmasters

It is with great pleasure that Impact Gaming announces almost 2 years since the first instalment that a second season of the highly successful ET Masters CUP is currently being organised. As with the previous season we hope to bring you a highly entertaining and well organised tournament, we will throw in the odd old school map just to keep interest alive and allow people to consider some new tactics for a change. More information on dates for the first match week of the tournament will be announced soon however we are planning on having the tournament finish on or around the time of the next Crossfire LAN instalment, this is because currently we are working with the crossfire management to hopefully bring you the final from the next LAN as we managed with ET Masters season I.

FatGames is proud to announce it’s comeback to Enemy Territory!


With the forthcoming EC and CC5 LAN announced we want to make an Impact and target Gold in both competitions, clearly this is a daunting challenge with the quality of teams that are about in the scene and the return of some previously champion squads, that being said we feel we have put a team together with a working formula capable of winning all that is currently out there.

Well as you have all heard (a little sooner than i would have wanted) Sheep has left the Impact Gaming lineup, fear not though before we let him leave we had a replacement lined up. Basically Sheep is a very active guy and wants to play very actively whereas Impact at the moment are content with 2-3 days per week. We wish Sheep all the best with his new team. That being said the show must go on...

So onto his replacement, well we feel with r3vers and Night returning to their old partnership of rifle and engi rotating it allows us now to look more towards a medic with firepower and teamplay as opposed to an SMG engineer direct replacement for Sheep. To that end the obvious player to recruit is none other than Reload. He has bags of experience playing with Night and r3vers from his time at Idle and Dignitas and therefore fits into the team perfectly.

We'd also like to thank Dignitas and Odee for kindly allowing Impact to use a player contracted to them <3

So the final?? (hopefully) lineup of Impact is:
Toxic
Night
Reload
r3vers
Matias
mAus

#Impact.Gaming
www.impact-gaming.org.uk (back online soon)

In order to avoid situations like last season I'm asking every team that has big lineups on their profile to put them in groups and putting the intended lineup of the OC/EC in one group. You can name them everything you want as long as they aren't some stupid throw-together of numbers and 'ET team'/'inactive' would be best.

You can make the groups and put people in it as a clan leader or a trustee. Go to your personal admin page on the top of the bar with your account. you can add clan properties there if you are logged in on the correct account. create a new property as group and give a few team names( fi. team, management , inactive). After this confirm and go to member properties and select which player goes in which section.

This is so we can make the best decision of who to invite to this cup. All players can only play for one team so for players that are aware of their teams fighting over a place in EC I suggest choose one and stick with it.

Clans that ignore this request might lose their chance at qualification for the EuroCup so don't come complaining afterwards.

Also remember sign ups close this Sunday the 9th or March. If you still want to sign up be quick.