The Qualifiers for the ESL EMS Season VI for Enemy Territory are ready to start. A total of 100 teams has signed up and wishes to join the EMS VI qualifiers. Four teams were invited to join the EMS VI ET Groupstage and the 32 best remaining teams now join the four qualifier cups. The first matchweek of the Qualifiers starts today - Challenge your opponent now!!

The Invites

The Qualifiers

Based on ESL activity, stability and skill rating we have chosen the 32 best remaining teams who join the four 8-slot ESL Major Series VI qualifier cups. Teams that place 1-4 in these qualify for the EMS groupstage, whereas places 5-8 form the Spring Leauge Premier Division.

The votes are over and 50 out of 75 teams sent in their vote to decide about the mappool of the upcoming Clanbase & ESL season. The votes were multiplied with different multipliers dependant on teams' skill. The results are as follows:

Mappool:
Supply, Sw_Goldrush_TE, Radar, Adlernest, Bremen_b3, Sp_Delivery_TE

The signups for the upcoming ESL Major Series Season VI for Enemy Territory featuring 750 € as prizemoney will close Saturday night 23:59 CET. There will be no chance to make a late signup as the qualifiers will start right away Monday 22nd March! So make sure to sign up in time.

The EMS Grandfinal of Season V is up next. It will happen at the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7, Friday at 22 CET. The two teams who have proven worth to challenge each other in this great final are well prepared and eager to take home victory!

DH are the clear favourites of this final as they dominated the playoffs until now and only gave away a map versus TAG in round1. nOu way! on the other side had a very unfortunate start vs Guarana but fought their way back and deserve the grandfinal spot!
Supply, a very solid map, was chosen by DH and nOu will have a hard stand against their line of defense with star player Night. nOu way decided on Radar. This map always ensures a thrilling round!
nOu way! have to beat DH twice in order to safe the victory!


nOu way!

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Nonix



DH

Matias
Night
abortji
drago
butchji


Date: 5/3/10
Time: 22:00 CET
Maps: Supply, Radar
Livestream: QuadV by TosspoT

We are proud to present the signups of our upcoming leagues. Naming them the ESL Major Series VI featuring 750 € as prizemoney and the 1on1, 2on2, 3on3 and 5on5 Spring Leagues. As last season the 5on5 Spring League will be linked to the EMS Qualification system.
The top seeded 32 teams who sign up for the 5on5 Spring League will get the chance to proof worthy in the qualifier cups. Furthermore 4 teams will be directly invited to the EMS groupstage based upon teams' activity and skill.

Following columns such as KDL's "5on5 or 6on6 ?" or overdrive's "Care to debate" back in the days of 2006 this news is dedicated to the current 5on5 or 6on6 topic.

With the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 Crossfire reintroduced the 5on5 format which right now is the most played format by far. The LAN will take place next week and the question is what happens then?

A decision has to be made in order to counteract an unneccesary split of the competitive community. Who might dare to make this decision? Obviously the three major forces, to name them Crossfire, Clanbase and the ESL.

So this is the time to decide that we will continue with the 5on5 format. To support the change to 5on5, Clanbase and the ESL hereby announce to close their 6on6 ladders and fully concentrate on 5on5. Also the upcoming Spring Leagues, the EMS and the EC will run the 5on5 format.

Statements by the parties:
[flag=mt CB|Killerboy]

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This decision should have been taken 3 years earlier, but atleast it finally has been made and there won't be any turning back like last time and will stand strong as we believe this is the right and correct decision for the community and ET. We are pleased all major leagues supporting and keeping ET alive (CB, ESL & Crossfire) have cooperated together and concluded 5on5 is the way to go, it would
have made no sense to have 1 or more leagues running a different format as this will split up the community and decrease activity. 5on5 has given ET life again.

5on5 is way easier for LAN's and lets be serious, without LAN's a game realy isnt anything.
"5on5 didn't work 3 years ago so why should it work now" The reason why 5on5 didn't work last time is because it wasn't given a chance, as overdrive explained during that time:"was there any testing? Not really. 5on5 might have been a good idea, we'll never know as we didnt really give it a chance. We might have played 5on5 but that was just 6on6 with one guy less. We didnt really think a
bout making a new config or about maps not being suitable for the 5on5 format. There wasn't any real testing. We just changed to 5on5, hoping everything would turn out fine. I think we were all very naive in the 5on5 drama. Its a sad story as 5on5 would have made it easier for ET to get into LANS that would never considered hosting a 6v6 game."

All recent 5on5 cups have been a success and has made ET more dynamic, almost all clans have switched to 5on5 and in the past 2 months there have only been 1 or 2 6on6 matches a week. We hope people understand this decision, as from a player, specatator and admin perspective, after playing, training and adjusting to the 5on5 format, I have no doubt the 5on5 decision is a correct one.

[flag=de ESL|eiM]

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I will not deny that both, 6on6 and 5on5, do work out great as format for a game like Enemy Territory. Both could theoretically be continued. But as mentioned in the newspost this would only trigger an unneccesary split of our already quite limited competitive scene.

The decision against 6on6 was taken as 5on5 just showed to be very successful. Let me elaborate. Whereas the most Enemy Territory action takes place online and by far Crossfire would have never become what it is without the great online activity of our community, today the Crossfire Lans aid the Enemy Territory scene incredibly much.

For example from the time that CIC7 was announced some month ago the participants of our ladders have increased noticeable. Right now all ladders have already doubled their participant numbers since CIC7 was announced and also the 5on5 ladder is far more successful than the now to be closed 6on6 ladder. This just as a statistic example what CIC7 did to our competitive scene. Many cups were and are hosted in preparation for the LAN. Each sunday you see dozens of ETTV matches from various competitions.

To get back to the initial point. The 5on5 format simply increases the chance for Enemy Territory to be featured on LAN events. And as pointed out these LANs greatly aid the competitive scene. No Opencup or Major Series would ever achieve what a LAN like the Crossfire Challenge does at each incarnation.

Thus this is just the right time to finally make the transition to 5on5 as right now 6on6 is pretty inactive already. We do know this decision will cast quite some hatred, but it is time to change!

The Enemy Territory Section of the Electronic Sports League is looking for some new Admins with fresh ideas to push the ET Section. Our ladder activity is increasing day by day and the new EMS season along with the upcoming Spring League needs alot of admin work!

We especially wish to fill the following positions:

• (EMS) Coverage Supervisor
  
• Coverage Admin
  
• Spring League/Ladder Admin (General jobs)

We have listed the usual tasks, benefits and requirements to become an admin in the ESL Newspost.
If you plan to apply please keep in mind to do that in English. We also expect a detailed application, so take your time.

For questions and further information you can read the Admins Wanted page or talk to our staff in #esl.et.

We look forward to your application. Get involved!

ESL Newspost
Admins Wanted Info
Apply now!

We proudly present to you the sixth season of Europe's top online league at Electronic Sports League. Thirteen of the finest leagues, more than a thousand players competing, several thousand will try to qualify - and €13,000 worth of prize money. Get ready for the ESL Major Series Season VI!

The ESL Major Series is the highest level of European competition in the ESL for disciplines not included in the Intel Extreme Masters and has already awarded more than €85,000 in prize money to hundreds of gamers in the past three years.

The Enemy Territory grandfinal of the ESL Major Series Season V will be held offline at the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 in Enschede, Netherlands.

We are proud to announce that this grandfinal will be hosted on a LAN event. Dickheads and nOu way! will travel to Enschede and try to take the victory home. The exact date and time of the match will be published at a later point once the exact schedule is known.

We will introduce this final with a great precoverage containing interviews, predictions, statements staticstics and what not. Pictures and video footage of the event will be available as soon as possible once the match has been finished!

The ESL Crew will be live on site to cover the event and the EMS grandfinal!

• ESL Newspost (EU)
  
• ESL Newspost (DE)
  
• EMS V ET Playoff Brackets
  
• EMS V ET Mainpage[/b]

After Clowns' column "How to make Bremen better." and the strong community support of the idea Dersaidin sent me a bit outdated mapsource of beta2 and I started my work.

The map has been played in all kinds of competition for years. That is the reason why there is not much change needed to improve it and adapt it for the new 5on5 format. Only few changes were made and are supposed to improve gameplay at the last two changes.

Changelog:

• moved truck barrier
  
• wooden barrier constructable (indestructible)
  
• barred parts of office windows
  
• truckicon for axis
  
• lampmodel fix
  
• corrected maplocation of bremen