Challenge Cup 2 we mentioned about in some other news items kicks-off on today. 40 European clans signed up their players and will participate in the second edition of this Polish tournament. 8 teams that will not need to play qualification-phase matches are:

AgonyRealm
dfiance
Fatal Aftermath
kojak
Lucky-Bitches - vero?
Palmarium
pstarZ
Team infrag

Qualifications phase will last for 6 days. 16 winners of these matches will be put into 4 groups with the teams mentioned above. All the teams have the opportunity to book one of four Challenge Cup 2 official servers that are sponsored by Gameservers.net. Could the players have better conditions?

Good luck to all the teams involved, and thank you for all the positive comments we are receiving from you. Visit us at our website and IRC channel: #challenge-cup.

Challenge Cup 2 - Polish Enemy Territory tournament - is approaching at a rocketing pace. Signups are open until Saturday, 24:00 CET, and every European clan is welcome to take part in the tournament. If you are not convinced whether to play or not, keep in mind that:

AgonyRealm,
Fatal Aftermath,
pstarZ,
uAznia Team,

and many other good teams are already in! All Cc`2 crew will try to fulfill all ET teams needs and assure 100% fun. It is worth mentioning, however, that Challenge Cup 2 is against any unfair practices, thus every team must fill in all players` full ETPro guids. We will check them strictly, so you can be sure that fake-nicking won't appear in any case.

Are you still confused? Visit our website and IRC channel (#challenge-cup) and believe us that second Challenge Cup edition is going to be a great success on ET scene.

Challenge Cup 2 sign-ups have been opened. If you are a European team, feel free to visit Challenge Cup 2 website and enter Sign up section. We will wait for you till Saturday, 24:00 CET. Then, qualifications phase will kick-off and the cup will be started.

As some of you remember, we planned to introduce three major changes in the game config. After the showmatch between Polewka and stfu - cdap we decided on the following two modifications:

- as for heavy weapons: only panzerfaust is enabled; mg42, mortar and flamethrower are disabled,
- mines amount reduced to 3.

As for spawn times, we intended to reduce all spawns by 4 seconds, but after the showmatch we received negative comments that persuaded us not to do so. As a result, spawn times are not modified.

All accepted teams are listed in Teams section on our website. If your team is not here, it means that either you are not accepted yet (it may take some time for us to check all your input data) or you haven't filled in the sign-ups form properly. Please do check teams section in some time and make sure you have been accepted.

We are trying to do our best to make Challenge Cup 2 as successfull as it is possible. Thus we look forward to seeing your team in signups! Visit our website and IRC channel: #challenge-cup for more details.

Wednesday, 21 CET. That time Polewka will fight cdap - stfu in Challenge Cup 2 showmatch. You have probably heard about that. However, some changes have been introduced, so this news will cover a number of issues.

Both teams will test cup config, which means:
- 3 mines, not 5,
- Respawn times reduced by 4 seconds,
- Panzerfaust is the only heavy weapon available. At first it was mortar, but after a lot of negative comments we decided to replace it with panzerfaust.

What is more, we planned that Polewka’s competitor will be Northern Darkness, but it turned out that they won’t be able to play. As a result, we talked to another Eurocup team, cdap – stfu, so it still is a high-skilled team that will surely make some problems for the best Polish team.

As for shoutcasts, the match will be available in Radio iTG thanks to FlyingDJ who will comment both teams actions. Polish #Pr3dS.Radio will shoutcast the showmatch as well.

Last but not least, we’d like to publish the XXX map we mentioned in our recent news item. So, what’s the map that will be played in Challenge Cup 2? Nachteinbruch occurred to be the one that was assessed by us as a appropriate choice. It will be played as the 3rd map (besides adlernest and supplydepot2) in the showmatch, so don’t wait and download it if you don’t have it in your /etmain/ directory. You can try the following location:
- new-etmaps.de: http://www.new-etmaps3.de/maps/Nachteinbruch.rar

To sum up:

Polewka vs cdap - stfu
Time: Wednesday, 31 May, 21:00 CET
Maps: Adlernest, Supply Depot 2, Nachteinbruch

See you on ETTV, players. Visit us at #challenge-cup, too!

Challenge Cup 2 preparations are coming to an end. In recent days we have set a final maplist and introduced necessary config alterations – in order to let the teams present their actual teamplay. Here is the official mappool:

- Adlernest
- Battery
- Braundorf_b4
- Frostbite
- Supply depot 2
- xxx

Some can ask what xxx means. Of course it’s not a name of the map. It is a secret map that won’t be revealed yet. We are going to present it before the group phase kick-off or just after the end of qualifications.

The second important matter is the config. Obviously, it is based on the ClanBase and Warleagues ones, but we introduced some modifications.

- mines amount has been reduced from 5 to 3! It should make the game more attractive and less predictable than it was before.
- soldier will only be able to use mortar (panzerfaust, flamethrower and mg have been disabled). We would like to minimize respawn camping and killing 3-4 players at the same time and, as a result, give players more action and direct wars showing their skills.
- respawn times have been reduced by 4 seconds. Thanks to this alteration it will be impossible to predict enemy’s spawn time which will make spawn camping less effective. It will speed up the game as well.

The cup is almost here, but what would be the new config if not immensely tested? So there comes a showmatch! Two great teams – Polewka and Northern Darkness (Goliath) will fight one another and test Challenge Cup 2 config. The atmosphere seems to be hot, so don’t wait and book upcoming Wednesday at 21:00 CET. See both teams in action! The match will be shoutcasted by #Pr3dS.Radio.

Remember: visit us at #challenge-cup and follow showmatch ETTV servers!