The Heatwave Challenge Sign Ups are closing in the next 48 hours, on 24th July. Here is a list of all the teams and players for each team that has already successfully signed up as well as a list of teams that will need to make changes to their sign up to be accepted.

We made a visit to the LAN Center for the upcoming PHX-1 event, to get some pictures of inside and outside and an idea of the surrounding shops and so on for people hoping to attend. We also managed to get some details on anything in particular you may need for the PC's as well as what monitors they have there.

PHX-1 Updates
11/05/2011: Initial Announcement
11/06/2011: Latest Update
11/07/2011: Signups open
20/07/2011: Location Information & Pictures
11/08/2011: Signups Close*
18/08/2011: Payment Deadline*
10 & 11/09/2011: PHX-1 Takes place

The Heatwave Challenge Sign Ups are now open. To sign up to play in the competition please follow the link below and leave the following information in a reply on the forums:

• Team name:
  
• Lineup: PLAYERNAME (SLAC ID), PLAYERNAME (SLAC ID), etc
  
• IRC Channel:

By signing up you agree to play all your games on the schedule shown below, admin decisions are final all games must be completed on time. On the 24th of July, once the sign ups are closed, Four teams will be invited to play in the competition as the top four seeds with the other 12 places being decided by a multi phased qualification process over four days. The deadline for lineups is before the opening tournament week, on 31st July 2011.

Announcing the Next Evolution Heatwave Challenge, a tournament that will take place over the summer with the aim to have the lower bracket and grand finals to take place at PHX (as long as all teams are attending). Below you can find the format, the (tight) schedule as well as the prizes for the top 4 positions.

Tournament Details
Teams: 16 (4 Invites, 12 teams determined by Qualification)
Format: Groups & Double Elimination Playoff
Prize Pool: €500 (Courtesy of Next Evolution ESC)
Map list: Goldrush, Supply, Radar, Adlernest, Frostbite and Bremen
Sign ups open: 18th July
Sign ups close: 24th July

The sign ups for the tournament open on the 18th of July as outlined above, a news post will come with further details on how to do this. By signing up you agree to play all games in predetermined schedule shown below.

The sign ups for PHX-1 are now open, below you can find the signup pack in which any team wishing to take part will need to download and fill out the correct form and then email it onto the details within the sign up pack. Sign ups are first come first served based on which email is received first

Sign up pack: LINK

PHX Updates[/u]
11/05/2011: Initial Announcement
11/06/2011: Latest Update
11/07/2011: Signups open
18/07/2011: Payments Requested from teams
11/08/2011: Signups Close
10 & 11/09/2011: PHX-1 Starts

As you can see Payments will be requested from teams on Monday the 18th of July, each team that has signed up will have 7 days to make payment or there place will be offered to any teams who did not make it into the top twelve sign ups.

As some of you may already know, SAGE is now over! the Eventual winners of the Enemy Territory competition were Anexis eSports who managed to beat Team Dignitas in the Grand Final with Next Evolution topping off the top 3 positions.

Anexis eSports
Team Dignitas
Next Evolution ESC

[bOverall Standings[/b]] Anexis eSports
Team Dignitas
Next Evolution ESC
4th NORDIC eSport
5/6 gaming2perfection
5/6 teamoxid
7/8 Almighty
7/8 Team WinFakt
9th Spot 16
10th epic eSports
11/12 enhanced
11/12 Team reVeal
13-16 High Heels
13-16 Team Refuse
13-16 Titanz
13-16 wnbpro
Teams and Lineups

SAGE took place over three days, Friday the 1st to Sunday the 3rd of July but for some of the admin team it started a little earlier, below are 291 pictures from the event itself as well as pre event and the trip home! enjoy

This is the third episode of ET Cast, covering all the top news since the last update over May and June.

In this update:

• Scene News
  
• Team News
  
• Competition Updates
  
• SAGE Event special feature, Preview and Interview
  
• ET Cast Top10 June
  
• Fragmovie of the Month

This episode covers as much as we could since the last update, mainly the upcoming SAGE event as well as competition news and team news.

The time has come for the main groups to be drawn for the SAGE Enemy Territory tournament! After a lot of preseeding and seeding games, teams have been neatly put into poules for the upcoming event, which is already fast becoming one the most competitive LAN events Enemy Territory has ever seen with at least 5 or 6 teams feeling like they have a very good chance of winning the event.


For those of you looking for the poules, click here

Poule 1
Anexis eSports
Next Evolution ESC
Team WinFakt!
4th Spot 16Poule 2
Team Dignitas
NORDIC eSports
gaming2perfection
AlmightyPoule 3
teamoxid
epic eSports
Team Refuse
SquirtlesPoule 4
enhanced
wnbpro
Titanz
reVeal

Just a quick update from us on PHX, to let you all know it is still happening! The main reason we have not been so spammy with news is with the SAGE event less than 3 weeks away we want to hog as little limelight as possible from that event - this post is merely to get an idea of what already established teams are interested in attending and let people know our aims in terms of signup opening and closing etc.

Event Details[/u]
Location: Crossfire LAN centre, Swansea, Wales
Date: 10th-11th September 2011
Format: 12 team 5on5 Enemy Territory competition (maximum)
Minimum games per team: 5
Signup: £250 per team
Prize pool: £1500 minimum (For 12 Teams)
BYOC: No

As you may have seen in our original news post, owzo will be on hand to shoutcast at the event itself and Msh100 will also hopefully be there to ensure ETTV support.

11/05/2011: Initial Announcement
11/06/2011: Latest Update
11/07/2011: Signups open
18/07/2011: Payments Requested from teams
11/08/2011: Signups Initial Close
10 & 11/09/2011: PHX-1 Takes place

As you can see from the dates above, the signups will be open for one month. This is because if Enemy Territory does not get the full 12 signups we will open the competition to a second game (most likely a 1v1 game) which will probably have no restrictions on who can play, more information on this (if it is to happen) at a later date.

A Forum post has been made, and this is where you can find up to date information on the event as well as a list of teams interested etc. This will be more regularly updated once the SAGE LAN event is completed.

Organisers: Ethr & MerlinatoR
IRC: #PHX
Forum post: LINK

Playoffs for the SAGE seeding tournament are due to take place this coming Sunday & Monday, and a full schedule can be seen below. The draw was made LIVE on IRC! an hour after the preseed groupstage and we are happy to announce the first sets of games for the playoffs.






[bHow does this work?[/b]]
Each group at LAN will consist of one team from each poule, randomly drawn at a date after the seeding tournament playoffs. The draw will take place live on IRC and Shoutcasting brought to us by owzo at a date to be confirmed!

All rounds of the playoffs are on a strict schedule, and must start by the latest at 20:30 (CEST) on Sunday evening, 12th June 2011. However, due to it being a holiday in some countries, the initial rounds may be played on Thursday 9th 2011, if both teams agree. A full rundown of planned schedule can be found below.