The latest spot for the SAGE LAN event has been filled, and it is with a built for LAN lineup consisting of some very skilled and familair names, presenting the 'Spot16' lineup:


With the assitance of Next Evolution ESC. this team is able to attend the event and will hopefully be able to challenge for a top position in the playoffs. The team will first be taking part in the seeding group phase and will come up against WinFakt, NORDIC and epic over the course of the evening.

UPDATE: Due to low interest the cup has been abandoned. Teams attending LAN please make sure you play the maps asap, as the map makers only have this week to make any last changes.

As announced Last Week - There will be a cup this sunday testing all the maps in the TLR Mapping competition. New releases of all the maps will be used in this competition although sadly the maker of the map jungle was unable to update his map entry. Feel free to download and test the latest editions of each of the maps in the map pack below.

Details
Date: Monday 23rd May
Time: 19:00CET
Group stage games: 40mins allowance each (will finish at 22:15 at the latest)
Grand Final: 22:30 (best of 3, each team picks one new map each and eliminates if they need to play a third)
Format: 5on5
Map Pack: LINK

Currently all the interested teams from last week have not confirmed that they can play in the competition so we are welcoming more teams to become interested. Teams competing at the eSports Challenge will be a higher priority to play in this competition - Final list of teams will be down to myself, and in general the more skilled teams will be selected.

Six teams to play:
TBA

Confirmed They can play:
vital Gaming
draakjes

Interested & Unconfirmed:
Anexis-eSports
Team WinFakt!
Team Rockit
UV-Gaming


Maps Feedback Thread: LINK
Competition Schedule: Schedule
Round 1 - 19:00 on map: Pirates
Team 1 vs. Team 2
Team 3 vs. Team 4
Team 5 vs. Team 6

Round 2 - 19:40 on map: jungle
Team 1 vs. Team 3
Team 2 vs. Team 6
Team 4 vs. Team 5

Round 3 - 20:20 on map: Tounine
Team 1 vs. Team 4
Team 2 vs. Team 5
Team 3 vs. Team 6

Round 4 - 21:00 on map: Frozen
Team 1 vs. Team 5
Team 2 vs. Team 3
Team 4 vs. Team 6

Round 5 - 21:40 on map: Midnight (formerly castle)
Team 1 vs. Team 6
Team 2 vs. Team 4
Team 3 vs. Team 5

Grand Final - 22:30 each team picks on map each
Groupstage Team #1 vs. Groupstage Team #2[/hide]

UPDATE: To play the updated maps yourself, join one of the public server IPs @ 213.108.29.145:27030 or 213.108.29.184:27050

Next Evolution have decided to make some major changes to their ET department in the last few hours with their entire roster being removed from the organisation. The previous team were:

Robert "numeric" O.
Maciek "Frag'Stealer" P.
Jorryt "abort" D.
Florian "Gifty" G.
Tobias "sNoOp" U

Im going to sort a simple cup testing out the new 5 maps that were released in the mapping contest - the cup will be 6 teams all in one group stage with bo1 then the top two teams go into the final picking one map each from the map list. Each round of the group stage will feature a different new map from said mapping competition.

Details
Date: Sunday 22nd May
Time: 19:00CET
Group stage games: 45mins allowance each (will finish at 22:15 at the latest)
Grand Final: 22:30
Format: 5on5
Final map submission: Friday 20th May, 20:00 BST (to be played in this cup)

There will be no prize for this cup, but realise that one of these maps will be at the eSports Challenge LAN so it is in your interest to test them and get any issues out the way early.

Teams who are attending the eSports Challenge LAN in July will get priority to take part as well in this event. If you are interested please let me know here on crossfire or IRC.

Interested:
Anexis-eSports
Team WinFakt!
Power-Gaming
Team Rockit
UV-Gaming
vital Gaming

Backup team:
zoniac-esports


Update: Seanza has agreed to include an additional deadline for mappers as it has become apparent that a lot of them have made significent updates to their map. The new 2nd deadline will be 20:00 (BST) Friday 20th May, this means that the final deadline will be 20:00 (BST) Tuesday 7th June. Mappers get ready!

some oldschool ETTV action will be given by Anaconda.

This is the second edition of ET Cast, covering all news since the last update. With a slight change in how and when we cover items, we will release an episode of ET Cast after a major event or announcement on hopefully at least a monthly basis.

ET Cast Covers the following in this update:

• Scene News
  
• Team News
  
• Competition Updates
  
• ET Cast Top10 March
  
• Fragmovie of the Month March

This episode covers as much as we could since the last update, including the Clanbase Nationscup XIV, 3on3 Nationscup as well as major team news and high skilled competitions.

After finishing 3rd in the recent Frostbite Sunday one-day competition, the team has made some changes for the upcoming EuroCup XXIII competition and in the runup to the TLR eSport Challenge. After losing karnaj due to inactivity, the team have been searching for a replacement for the last week or so. Added to that, it was decided the team was not working with the current lineup so zMk was replaced as well. The N-Evo ESC lineup for the upcoming ET season is as follows:

gifty and sNoOp join the lineup after Team Speedlink fell apart at the end of last month, with both players still wanting to play at the the TLR eSports Challenge and the upcoming EC it seems to be an obvious choice for them and N-Evo.

Today is Frostbite Sunday! the competition kicks off between eight highly skilled teams - the main aim to test some small changes made to the map frostbite and see if these changes are competitively viable for ET 5 versus 5, but also to see some top games between some skilled teams.

• 18:30 CET - Check in, #FrostbiteSunday
  
• 19:00 CET - Group game 1 - Frostbite & Supply - decider is adlernest
  
• 20:00 CET - Group game 2 - Frostbite & Goldrush - decider is adlernest
  
• 21:00 CET - Group game 3 - Frostbite & Radar - decider is adlernest
  
• 22:00 CET - Semi Final - Frostbite & Elimination - decider is elimination
  
• 23:00 CET - Grand Final & Third Place Game - Frostbite & Elimination - decider is elimination

Here is a rundown of the teams taking part, the group games they will be facing and potentially their most important match of the group stage, semi final matchup and the Grand final.

Update for the Frostbite Sunday one day cup on the 10th April 2011, The groups have been drawn as well as the full map list being released.

• 18:30 CET - Check in #FrostbiteSunday so we know you can still play
  
• 19:00 CET - Group game 1 - Frostbite & Supply - decider is adlernest
  
• 20:00 CET - Group game 2 - Frostbite & Goldrush - decider is adlernest
  
• 21:00 CET - Group game 3 - Frostbite & Radar - decider is adlernest
  
• 22:00 CET - Semi Final - Frostbite & Elimination - decider is elimination
  
• 23:00 CET - Grand Final & Third Place Game - Frostbite & Elimination - decider is elimination

Announcing a small one-day cup to take place on Sunday 10th of April 2011, this cup will mainly be seeing if some changes made to frostbite bring it back into top level competitive scene after recently being looked over in favor of Karsiah.

Today we welcome another organisation into Enemy Territory, as the former e-WAVE squad join Ultraviolet Gaming. UV-Gaming have been on the lookout for an ET team for a little while and picking up e-WAVE is a great move for the org and the team themselves.

So I happily present UV-Gaming.ET