After all the e-drama team YoYoTech has once again completed their line up. The Most Improved Player of 2009, Worm lost motivation after his friend Jere was removed from the team and so the team had to go looking for another fifth. That fifth became none other than CPC veteran M1lk!

This makes the line up now as follows:

• R0SS
  
• toxic_
  
• twidi
  
• M1lk
  
• wiaderko[/b]

R0SS had the following to say:

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After the removal of Jere resulting in the departure of Worm we needed to find a replacement. It didn't take long to find a replacement that fit straight into the line up. I contacted milk and he was interested. It took a bit of convincing as he has been inactive for a while, but after a few pracs he fit straight in the line up and we are proud to announce him as our 5th. Our goal is still to reach top 3 minimum.

Team YoYoTech.co.uk

After the initial information was posted, a couple community members contacted us about slight details that could be improved.

The matches have been rescheduled to give the teams the chance to build up their performance. That's why we moved the most important matches to the back of the groupstage, while keeping the less important matches at the start.

If a group would have 4 teams A, B, C, D ordered from top seed to low seed, the match schedule looked like this:

The groups have been drawn at random, much like the FIFA lottery system. Each group has one team from each seeding pool. In other words, each group has one top seed, one high seed, one mid seed and one low seed. The only exception to this rule is the two extra low seeds which were added to two randomly picked groups.

Group 1
Plug & Pown
Trial and Error
Nothing is impossible
Validus
Group 2
rockit
oceans6
Infinitus Gaming
famas
Group 3
polagz
ePROX
Boondocks
EU United Soldiers
Group 4
nOu
dESIRE
aGu
WCTNCTCPI
Group 5
yyt
reveal
nkNn - angeldust
Normality
Group 6
pstarz dNan
AoW
inteRaction
TEMR
Group 7
blight
Phantoms
plasa
Lost Soldiers
section9
Group 8
myRevenge FIF
logiX.et
perception
eXcess energy-WAVE
enLANced
Read more for the tournament schedule, rules and maplist.

Update: Technical problems have been resolved, start scheduling & playing your matches!

These are the seedings for the Crossfire & ESL Intel Seeding tournament:



Some things to pay attention to:

From a couple teams we still didn't receive the ESL account information, so we can't add you to the seeding cup manually. These teams should pm me as soon as possible with their ESL account.

The teams are:

• Boondocks
  
• Section9

ALL OTHER TEAMS: Make sure you got all your players added to the ESL team account asap! Your full line up has to be on the ESL team by Tuesday!

If your Crossfire clanname differs from the one you use in the ESL make sure
to pm krosan to be sure to be added to the seeding cup!

The teams that are in the seeding tournament already are these:

[bTeamlist[/b]]

• rockit
  
• YoYoTech
  
• Blight Gaming
  
• european elite
  
• pstarz dNan
  
• polagz
  
• ePROX
  
• AoW
  
• reVeal
  
• Phantoms
  
• Plug & Pown
  
• dESIRE
  
• Nothing is Impossible
  
• inteRaction
  
• Infinitus Gaming
  
• Boondocks
  
• Lost Soldiers
  
• EU United Soldiers
  
• Team Even More Randoms
  
• enLANced
  
• Normality
  
• WCTNCTCPI
  
• Validus
  
• nOu
  
• Trail and error
  
• aGu
  
• eXcess eSports / energy-WAVE
  
• oceans6
  
• Fama$
  
• FiF
  
• Section 9
  
• nkNn - angelDust

[*] perception

If your team isn't in this list, send krosan a pm, and we'll figure it out!

In order to be considered for the Crossfire Intel ESL Seeding tournament you need to have paid your entry fee. If you are planning on paying your entry fee in the coming days you must provide a screenshot to prove your payment. Blight gaming have requested to pay next week and this is an option for known teams with a proven CC track record, again if you're going to do this you MUST provide a screenshot and this extension only lasts until Wednesday and must be approved.

After releasing their configs & settings, the Blight ET team has now come up with their second community contribution in the form of inviting the community to watch their practice matches.

They will hold a weekly ETTV practice session every Tuesday from 20 until 22 CET starting on the 26th of January.

So if you want to see how pracs are going amongst the top teams of ET, or if you want to see if Night or ferus always got their gameface on, make sure you don't have anything to do on Tuesdays!

In order to get the password to the private ETTV server, you only have to idle on #blight, and ten minutes before the match you'll be given the password.

Night had the following to say:

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Lately we have gotten a lot of messages from people wanting to spec us and we thought this is a nice idea.

This is just the beginning, they have loads of stuff planned!

#blight
BlightGaming.com

The Intel Extreme Masters for Quake Live European Championship Finals have reached the semi finals!

The games are played, the results are in and the winners are known. The Quake Live IEM European Championship comes to an end with cypher taking the golden platter home!

After the idle.ee line up joined the American Blight Gaming MGC, and a quick line up change, the team now starts their community contributions.
We could read the following on their website:

Quote by blackfoger

The team will be releasing loads of content for all their fans including videos, commentaries, Articles, Blogs, and lessons.

And now the side has released the first bit of content in the form of the players' configs and settings.
Find out what makes these players perform the way they do over at BlightGaming.com

A little preview:

Blight|Night

• OS: Windows XP
  
• Mouse: Logitech MX310 (800dpi)
  
• Mousepad: SteelSeries QcK Heavy
  
• Misc: 500hz, Accelfix.exe
  
• Windows sensitivity: 3/11
  
• Ingame sensitivity: 2.7

Download config

The former idle.ee line up announced that the Finnish CC champion Matias will join their ranks for CIC7 in early March. With two Crossfire Challenge victories and two silver medals under his belt, this player seems like a perfect addition to the already boasting line up.
The reason for this addition is the inactivity of long-time idle.ee member JaKaZc.

This makes the Blight line up:

ferus Night bulldozer drago Matias

With backups: Squall urtier JaKaZc

Matias explains why he left Rockit to join Blight:

Quote by Matias

Okey, I needed full support to come lan, because I didn't get one job which would've last for 3 weeks. so when blight asked me to join it was a perfect offer to me since we had some troubles with rockit, olbaa not going as well etc.

Urtier will be handling coverage for the team at CiC7!

News on Rockit's line up change will come soon.

Gamerbase have a long standing tradition of running small, well organised, local LANs across a range of games, the most recent of which is to be held in The Trocadero in London.
Details were released of how to sign-up through Gamerbase and they are as follows:

Date: 17th February 2010
Time: 14:00 - 23:00
Location: Gamerbase London Trocadero
Contact: [email protected]

There are spaces for eight teams. Sign-ups are first come first served. All sign-ups must be accompanied by a deposit of £10 due to past events having teams not turn up. Deposits can be paid by popping into the store before the 17th Feb 2010. If your team still hasn't paid by the 17th, places will be offered to those on waiting list.

Format will be as follows: