With Logic having been disallowed from the cup from a recently erected pbban and Poland almost entirely focused on the UGS LAN, this match has been postponed slightly, however tonight will show the game i personally will feel will be the best of the quarter finals. This match will be the final game of the quarters, after Sunday held the clash of the other 6 competing nations (See here for coverage).

[center HUNGARY vs POLAND ]
With Hungary coming through the group stages with a win over Australia and Latvia, we're certain we can play well at their best, but missing Logic may play a critical role in the outcome of this game. With a forfeit win against The Netherlands, one can never be completely sure what the outcome would have been with the Hungarians against a top team, but tonight we shall see them compete again. Poland come well prepared straight out of LAN preparation. After winning against USA and Slovakia, Poland have yet to prove their full potential.

Date and Time: Tuesday 26th August 2008, 21 CET (time open to minor change)

wiesiek
Xanah
krisek
dialer
s4rna
zMk Nonix
adze
Boristen
varadi
xrayne
inf3rno



Prediction: Whilst Hungary have faced stronger opponents than Poland and come out on top, Poland have certainly come from the UGS well prepared. I predict a 4:2 win for Hungary.[/center]
The winner of this game will reach the final four teams of the competition, a success from any angle. Whoever wins will be taking on Finland in what will clearly be a struggle to win. Which team will be more prepared to take on the fins in the coming week? Tune in tonight and see!

As ET grows older by the day, players naturally come and go, and this will of course affect the competitive side of the game. Over time, clans in search of practice have began to struggle to find opponents worth playing against for various reasons. In an attempt to regain the excitement amongst practice wars, and provide a refreshing experience for those competing, #offi-et is now open, where teams can search for official wars in both ClanBase and ESL ladders, and in multiple formats. Naturally, were teams to arrange their games in advance, gamestv can also be used in order to provide ETTV coverage for the matches, providing entertainment for spectators as well as players.

Players are also reminded now that ClanBase ladder games are often included in the consideration of division placement, therefore teams aiming to reach as high a division as possible should relish the opportunity to boost their team's recognition amongst the ClanBase supervisors.

Formats we will support include the most popular of 6v6 and 3v3, as well as other supported formats such as 1v1, 2v2, and 5v5. Teams may begin searching already, and opponents can be found in #offi-et. Naturally, all levels of skill are welcome, and opponents of a similar skill level will hopefully be found.

Good luck and have fun!

Having finished the group stage phase of the tournament, the next segment of the nationscup will begin. With potential cup winners Team NL coming second in their group after a forfeit loss to Chile, Latvia not making the playoffs despite a strong place in the previous nationscup, and France's exit from the cup, we've by no means been short of any surprises. We've also received an excellent spectacle from our non-European peers, Australia, Chile, Japan and USA who've all made the playoff stages, proving their place amongst the competitors of Europe.

For those of you who've missed anything gamestv and our dearest pedro have left nothing missing, providing heaps of coverage. Match reports can be found here, whilst ETTVoD is also available here. Results tables from the group phase can be found here.

After issues with France potentially having cheated, the responsibility to take further action against cheats was taken, and as a result of this, thanks to chaplja & quad, anti3 will soon be available for the remaining matches in the cup. Any questions about anti3 can be asked to chaplja in #crossfire.nc.

As for the playoffs, the eager amongst you will be glad to know that they'll be beginning very shortly, the first match week Monday 11th August to Sunday 17th August. A preview will be available very soon, including details such as which teams have been playing especially well, predictions, and previews of the upcoming games. Details about the cup can be read below:

In a surprising course of events, Team France has withdrawn from the Crossfire Nations Cup after discovering they had played their group stage games with a cheater.

After captain milit decided that fellow Team France player keeji was doubtlessly cheating, he chose to withdraw his team from the cup, also resulting in all other teams gaining forfeits against them. The action is a first in ET's history, where a team captain takes full responsibility for letting a cheater play under his command. So far, milit has been applauded for having the courage to apologize on behalf of his team to the community and withdrawing their results, despite some of his teammates disputing this.

This means that Malta are now second in the group and will progress to playoffs.

Info regarding keeji can be seen in the following threads by our beloved Killerboy:

Au Revoir France
FRA.Keeji busted

After various issues, errors, and whine, we bring an update, which we can only hope will provide positive results. Our changes may be considered controversial, but it must be considered that our original decisions were pretty controversial also, so hopefully you're conditioned adequately.

Our [iolder[/i] announcements can be seen here.]
- Wrobel will no longer be the captain of Team Poland. As well as this, the entire Fear Factory team's active lineup will be banned from competition in this cup.
- n00n will now be the captain of Team Poland.
- The server config used during matches will be the ESL 6v6 EMS config, available here.
- Due to an urgent request for the army, Israel's captain will no longer be FrAgOn. We are currently searching a replacement captain.
- Captains will be required to put their players pb guids rather than ETPro guids on their team page.
- No qualifiers will be required in the tournament.

As well as this, the tournament structure and matchweek dates are now available:
Group A:
1) Belgium
2) Israel
3) Austria
4) Czech Republic

Group B:
1) Finland
2) Japan
3) Estonia
4) Greece

Group C:
1) Germany
2) Turkey
3) France
4) Malta

Group D:
1) Latvia
2) Australia
3) Hungary
4) Republic of Ireland

Group E:
1) Netherlands
2) Chile
3) Italy
4) Romania

Group F:
1) Poland
2) USA
3) Norway
4) Slovakia

Group G:
1) Sweden
2) Russia
3) Portugal
4) Slovenia

Group H:
1) United Kingdom
2) Canada
3) Switzerland
4) Ukraine

Please note that the numbers do not represent seedings, but are simply numbers.
The top 2 teams at the end of the group stages from each group will reach the playoffs.
This means a total of 16 teams will be entering the playoffs. For the first matchweek of the playoffs a single elimination layout will be used, followed by a double elimination process from the quarter finals and onwards.

Our new changes are:
- The crossfire nationscup page is now available here.
- Russia have chosen to quit the tournament after various players being disallowed. We are searching a replacement team.
- We are currently awaiting proof of nationality from many team turkey players. MousS has been removed from the cup due to his history suggesting repeated cheating (5 pbbans listings).
- aphesia will not be allowed to compete with Poland!
- Sheep has been banned from the cup due to competing with raskL, a known cheater and cheat distributor.

Any questions, per usual, can be asked in #crossfire.nc

For those who've not yet noticed, crossfire's nationscup was recently announced. To follow this, the release of the rules & config for the cup are also now available.

Rules can be seen in the sticky article to the left, along will results, captains, and lineups soon. The config can be found here.

After many matches, some forfeits and a column by TosspoT, our current EC season is coming to a close. What many people expected to be a fantastic season, has turned out to be a disappointment, after dropouts due to lack of motivation, many losses due to what is clearly a lack of practice, and even removal from the cup due to the likes of gnajda! We can only hope that what remains in the final will please both the players and the spectators, and redeem what has so far been a poor season.

The lineups of the teams will be:
megaProGaming
Clown
wEAK
butchji
haZer
razz
potter

Impact
toxic
sNoOp
drago
Mztik
Reload
Winghaven

As the lineups show, impact have been forced to use a merc due to what toxic has stated is summer inactivity. Whether or not this will be a deciding factor in the outcome of the match is yet to be seen.

After months of hard work and editing, the 4Kings ETQW team have released their very first fragmovie!

ETQW player 4K^rglaf took up the challenge and has pulled off a movie that culminates both frags and editing to create a movie which lets you see the best parts of this team!

After many hours of putting the movie together, it is finally ready for release and is available for download. Great job to rglaf for the movie, and a great job to the whole 4Kings.ETQW for providing the content!

Quote by Statement from 4K.rglaf

After a couple of months really hard work (12 hour editing days etc), I am finally done with the 4K.etqw fragmovie. Originally intended to be made by someone else, I stood up and took the job when nothing seemed to happen. Pete "nkm" Newcombe has been a really good asset helping me out and giving suggestions throughout the whole editing period, and even though it's not a heavily edited movie, I still think it contains a couple breathtaking frags that I think everyone can appreciate.

Download links and article with over-the-top adjectives can be found here.

With impact having just announced their new lineup, many thought the competition for the EC gold was over. Then we saw the return of the epically titled megaproesports, raising questions of who this title belonged to. However, an even more epically titled team by the name of kirwa kirwanderin kirwurit has made will make it's presence known upon this day ladies and gentlemen, a presence consisting of the following:

Azatej
Jauhis
Mztik
teKoa
Tiigeri
Xpaz

Azatej kindly provided the following to say:
we'll win, if we dont, et is dead

Xpaz also kindly provided the following to say:
we're here to kick ass and chew bubble gum.... And we're all out of gum

perfo rudely demanded that i say the following on his behalf:
kirwa kirwanderin kirwurit will demolish EC final contenders with anime pictures

You can support the winners to be at #superkirwat

Crossfire is happy to present the ET:QW ruleset and mappool for the upcoming Crossfire Devotii Challenge 4.

Quote by Rules

ETQWPro must be used in all matches and all features that are included in ETQWPro are allowed or specified through cvars.

You need to wait for your latest heavy vehicle to respawn before you're allowed to take a new one.

Please make sure that the ETQWpro auto record is running. Demos are required from all matches.

Heavy vehicles are not allowed during the last objective, even if you were using the vehicle during the objective was enabled. You have to leave the vehicle.

Use of 3rd Eye Camera is not allowed.

Maximum 1 Heavy Vehicle per team.
Maximum 1 Medium Vehicle per team.
Heavy Vehicles include: Cyclops, Desecrator and Titan.
Medium Vehicles include: Hog and Trojan APC.

NOTE: No external crosshair is allowed to help firing in 3rd person mode. (Tape, dot on monitor or similar) This is looked upon as cheating.

ETQWPro version: 0.04

ETQWPro cvars
si_allowAttackLean 0
si_allowLean 1
si_maxAPTs 1
si_maxAVTs 1
si_maxAITs 1
si_maxHeavyWeapons 1
si_maxSnipers 1
si_maxRocketLaunchers 2
si_allowProne 1
si_allowRadar 0
si_allowVehicles 1
si_allowVehicleAnansi 0
si_allowVehicleBadger 1
si_allowVehicleBumblebee 0
si_allowVehicleDesecrator 1
si_allowVehicleGoliath 1
si_allowVehicleHog 1
si_allowVehicleHornet 0
si_allowVehicleHusky 1
si_allowVehicleIcarus 1
si_allowVehiclePlatypus 1
si_allowVehicleTitan 1
si_allowVehicleTrojan 1
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#crossfire for any further related questions!