With only four days remaining until the next CoD frenzy will kick off, it is time for the groups and schedule to be released.

Starting from 09:00 CET until "Crossfire-ish late", the best Dutch and one French team will battle it out for € 3000 in cash. The complete schedule can be found here, which will also be indicative for spectators anxious to follow the event on QuadV.

Ten teams have been divided into two groups of 5 for the group stage, thereafter the playoffs will be single elimination between the two top ranked teams of each groups.

The groups are as followed:

Group A:

KomaCrew
Serious Gaming
KaoS Contingency
Core89
codehook


Group B:
H2k-Gaming
Sample This
DOK Gaming
ctx gaming
Devil Heart

Schedule

As the ET community flexed its mighty muscle once again, the Crossfire team has bowed to the fierce demands of the community. Therefore, we swiftly adapted its qualifiers and direct invites.

There will be implications by allowing 16 teams on LAN, which will be decided upon later tonight and thus more info on this will follow very soon. However with the limited time at hand for the qualifiers to complete, we cannot wait with the qualifiers as they need to be completed by January 10.

The qualifiers for ET:QW have also been altered as H2K and overload will not be able to attend either, next to nextlevel.

No changes have been made for Warsow. The direct invites and qualifiers for CoD4 will be released later tonight. All CoD4 teams bear in mind to be available to play in the upcoming two days between 20:00 and 23:00 CET.

We have selected teams on past performance, (future) potential, stability and last but far from least, the likeness of attendance. The latter might stir up the seeds if they were solely based on the strength of each teams, but based on our past experience from the previous Crossfire installments it came evident that we should include this variable.

[bImportant: Cheater Policy[/b]]
In retrospect of the past events concerning cheaters, there is much uncertainty which players are banned or are legal to attend CDC4. To avoid any ambiguity, we ask ALL teams to post their final lineup on their clan profiles by midnight today. There are no exceptions.

This will allow everyone to see which players will be competing in the upcoming days.
Meanwhile, players can make an appeal for investigation of direct opponents on their eligibility to compete. This means that if you wonder if a certain player is illegal to compete, please make us aware (PRIVATELY) and we will investigate that player and hopefully come to prompt decisions.

Crossfire holds the right to ban at any time and therefore revoke qualifier match if a player turns out to be illegal nonetheless. It is the sheer responsibility of the team captain to be absolutely sure that his team is "cheater-free". We all know that certain players have a somewhat "blemished" record and we are sure that players are very well aware of this. Therefore, instead of trying to squeeze a player through the mazes of the rules, our suggestion is that you think of the long run benefits of playing with legal, clean players only and do the community a favor.

[bEnemy Territory[/b]]

Direct Invites: (8 slots)
New Project (formerly aMenti)
EDiT
Kreaturen
TLR
VAE
Random Clan
Team <[o]>
n1ce

Qualifiers: (8 slots)
First qualifier round. 8th / 9th January: (6 games)
You can reschedule your game to the 9th if the opponent agrees. Please inform an admin in #crossfire if you want to change the time or date.

1. 21:30 CET FiF 4-0 Inspired
2. 21:00 CET gD 4-0 Disqonnect (ETTV)
3. 21:30 CET Fayntic 2-4 Unique (ETTV)
4. 21:00 CET Snd-gaming 0-4 Visualise
5. 20:30 CET CoF 4-0 Brotherhood of Steel (ETTV)
6. 9th Jan 21:00 CET Authentic 4-0 Hyperion (ETTV)

Second qualifier round. 10th January: (8 games)

1. 9th Jan 22:00 CET Mazz 0 - 4 Slayers Team (forced) (ETTV)
2. 9th Jan 21:00 CET Muse 1-3 Unique (ETTV)
3. 20:00 CET Dark&Beyond 2-4 FiF
4. 21:00 CET aToOn 2-4 UnKind (ETTV)
5. 21:00 CET Team Ephix 4-0 gD (ETTV)
6. 21:30 CET Tag 4-2 Visualise
7. 22:00 CET Kojak.et 4-0 Brotherhood of Steel (ETTV)
8. 22:00 CET NR 0-4 Authentic

All games have been prescheduled, rescheduling is allowed but please keep the short period of completion in mind. We are lenient for today's matches if teams can guarantee to play on the other two days. However, we urge teams to be available today as requested before. For the second round the final deadline of 10th of January 23:59 PM has been set.[/b]

The maplist for the qualifiers will be sw_goldrush, radar, supply, bremen_b2, frostbite and braundorf. Teams will each pick a map, there is no restriction on picking the same map multiple times, deciders will be picked by elimination.

The deadline for completion of these matches has been set at 10th January 23:59 CET. Winners of each second round qualifier match will be granted an invitation for CDC4.

[bEnemy Territory Quakewars[/b]]
For ET:QW, it was possible to allow all teams to be included to the qualifier as nextlevel has announced they would not be able to attend CDC4.

Direct invites:
4Kings
Dignitas
Kompaniet
Pelit
Speedlink
OCRANA
eGamespoint

Qualifiers
9th January 21:00 CET KomaCrew 4-0 Triada
9th January 22:00 CET Logitech.fi 1-0 Inferno eSports
10th January 20:00 CET delta 0-4 Team CoolerMaster
10th January 21:00 CET Frag Executors 4-0 Infinity
10th January 22:00 CET w4sp 2-4 Stofftiere Online

Rules (Community rule set)

Vehicles
:: NO Aircrafts Allowed (does not include Icarus).
:: 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.

:: 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.

Weapons
:: Maximum 1 Sniper Rifle/RailGun per team.

Deployables
:: Maximum 1 of each turret per team (Anti Vehicle Turret / Anti Personel Turret / Artillery Interceptor Turret).
:: Maximum 1 artillery deployable per team.
:: NO Radar Allowed (includes the usage of 3rd Eye Camera).

The qualifiers will be played best of 3.

Home team (left) start attacking first map and the team losing 2nd map starts attacking on decider.

All players must record demos from all rounds in all matches and store them for the duration of the cup in case of disputes.

Maplist:
1st map: Sewer
2nd map: Area 22
Decider: Island

The deadline for completion of these matches has been set at 10th January 23:59 CET. Winners of each qualifier match will be granted a ticket for CDC4.

P.S. TosspoT loves you all again, but next time be a tad faster signing up. That way we can make better decisions on the tournament sizes and you can save yourselves from being "online only" for future events.

One of the UK's leading gaming organisations has today returned to the Call of Duty scene picking up an all UK lineup. The organisation has not been seen in the game since CoD1 when the remains of their RTCW squad took on the new title. They were never replaced despite many rumours contrary in CoD2. Yesterday they announced the following lineup for Activisions next title;

crow
palmz
junior
corp
wiz

The lineup is not as flamboyant as an organisation of their caliber could have attracted, however their CS history has shown that flamboyance is not always a winning attribute and they'll be hoping for a secure and stable future with the lineup. This is 4kings second pickup this week after taking a finnish CSS division from the now dead Insignia Cadre.

You can read the official announcement on the 4K homepage here.

In the wake of the lastest successful installment of the Crossfire Challenges, QuadV has released some of the community interviews, which were conducted by TosspoT over the past weekend.

A total of five interviews have been put on the Video On Demand section, featuring Winghaven, dav1d, PLU173, Gifty and Bulld0g.

TosspoT touches the everlasting hot topic of cheating with Bulld0g, where he explains some of the tough decisions he has to had to make in the past and how he looks at this "losing battle".

Prior to Sunday afternoon, the big question was who would go win CDC 3, Gifty, dav1d and Winghaven all shed their lights on the current strengths of the teams, the changes that have been made in ET over the past few months and what the future holds for some of the top ET players as ET:QW is rapidly approaching.

The last interview of the weekend was with no one less than the first Crossfire Challenge Poker Champion, PLU172, who is also known as Frituurkoning (or as TosspoT pronounces it...frutirukroning) He explains what his secret is why he won the MCPoker tournament over DMasterX and what his favourite game is...(it is not ET or RtcW!)

To check out all of these insightful and interesting interviews, go to the VOD's section of QuadV.

With the release of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars coming up at September 28th, Activision has organized a special treat for the Dutch (and Belgian) ET:QW fans to play the retail version of the game, days before anyone else can. (if you consider that the game is expected to be sold out in the days after the release)

This upcoming Thursday, the TGS CyberCafés in The Hague and Rotterdam will house 200 of the fans that just cannot wait to play ET:QW and allow them to win some prizes by showing of your skill during that evening.

Starting at 18:00 CET, all gamers will be assigned a computer where you will start playing to be one of the top fourty gamers at each location. Following that those 40 gamers of each venue will go head to head with the other location to figure out which city has the better ET:QW gamers.

Concluding, there will be an opportunity to relax a little bit with your fellow ET:QW friends with some drinks. In addition, the winners of this ET:QW competition will be announced and given one of the very first ET:QW copies or (for the best gamer of the evening) a brand new video card. As a consolation to the lower skilled, every gamer will receive an exclusive ET:QW poster at the end of the evening.

The ET:QW release party will kick off at 18:00 CET. Gamers can sign up by mailing to [email protected] in which you enter your full name, place of residence and which location you would like to play for.

As the days to CDC are rapidly, but gladly declining, there are a few final important notices that players need to be aware off.

There have been some problems with people booking a place to sleep and there have been questions on what is and is NOT allowed to install. Here are your answers or how to get help. If you have any other questions, please PM me or comment in this post.

The Crossfire Crew can't wait to see you sexy bunch of ET and wSw people in Enschede! Until then!

[bFor everyone playing[/b]]
We have assembled a package of software which include the (so-far) allowed software which should accommodate most players attending. If you want anything added into the standard package, please make your request by email (remao.tummers at gmail dot com) and we will look into it.

We stress that people do bring their USB keys (NO CDs) to make sure you have everything you need, regardless of that software package. We are purely trying to save you critical time when setting up.

To be clear, it will be allowed to add stuff beyond the software package, however we kindly ask you to let us know in advance.

[bThe Software Package[/b]]
Mice Drivers, Utilities and Registry Files

5.548 accelfix.exe

This program will remove the acceleration in windows, when you use this no
reg file is need anymore since this program changes a file in windows.

386 AntiMouseFix.reg
381 MouseFix.reg

This file is the opposite of what the CPL Mousefix does, this means that
this will set back the settings of the mouse
as they were before using the CPL Mousefix.

102.400 dx_mouse_timer_dialog.exe

For checking your settings, like the hz.

938 MouseFix+10sens0thres.reg

This file will do same as CPL fix but also put your sens in windows on
10(Middle) and put the thresholds on 0, meaning no accel.

370 RemoveMouseFix.reg

This is the CPl fix for removing accel in windows, if you completely want to
remove accel you need accelfix.

19.968 mouserate.exe

Checking your Mouse hz.

155.648 mwadvanced_enu.exe

Advanced settings for the Logitech mouse.

506.880 UsbRate.exe

For changing your USB hz, Don't use realtime!

Other Software:

24.064 etmin.exe

ET Minimizer

1.035.271 wrar362.exe

WinRaR

60.816.768 Setpoint 4.0


Mice Drivers and Installation Files

Logitech Laser Mouse, MX518
MXT300,MXT500 Optical Mouse
MXT510

Microsoft Habu
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0
Microsoft Reclusa

Razer Barracuda
Razer Boomslang and Boomer Driver
Razer Copperhead
Razer DeathAdder
Razer DiamondBack
Razer Diamondback 3G
Razer Krait
Razer ProClick
Razer ProType
Razer Tarantula Driver v2.10
Razer Viper

[bFor people staying (or wanting to stay) in the Cabins:[/b]]
- You need to bring your own pillow a bed sheets and your own sleepingbag.
- For those that have reserved and paid, you are certain of your rooms.
- For those that have reserved but have not paid yet, you need to hurry If you choose the latter, please inform WZZRD about this to avoid having your reservation nullified if you come later. If you do not pay on time, you risk losing your reservation.
- Keys and Cabin information pick up location will be the WZZRD LAN Center.
You should be able to pick this up, throughout the entire evening until 1 AM CET at least. If you arrive late, please make yourselves known at +31641724640. We will accommodate you.
- For those that currently do NOT have a place to sleep yet, please make yourselves known to me (by PM) ASAP. In the upcoming hours, I will know more on what (hopefully cheap) options there are to stay in Enschede.

Smoking is allowed in the venue, however we ask people to avoid this to a minimum in the player areas.

[bTravel Information[/b]]
For those traveling by car, there are free parking places near the venue.
For those traveling by train check out the http://ns.nl/servlet/Satellite?cid=1075985690180&pagename=www.ns.nl%2FPage%2FSuperHomepageEnglish&c=Page]Dutch Railway site You want to travel to Enschede Drienerlo, not just Enschede (unless you are staying in a hotel downtown).
For those coming from Schiphol, there is a train every 30 minutes. One at xx:21 and xx:51 leaving from track 1-2 ( HERE )

[bCabin Division[/b]]

Cabin 1: Crossfire Crew & QuadV (15)
Cabin 2: Thierry (unknown team name) (15)
Cabin 3: GGT (2), Harald Helder (u.t.n) (13)
Cabin 4: Baggiez, Leonneke, HNKN, Mauritz (u.t.n) (12)
Cabin 5: SRP (5), M.p. Graus (u.t.n) (10)
Cabin 6: Highbot (7), Chris Talen (u.t.n) (6), Alexander (u.t.n) (2)

Logica Hotel: Dignitas, Mamalukes

Hotel Van der Valk: Team NR, possibly Muse
Bad Boekelo: TLR

To all participating teams a few very important reminders:

Following's Bullvox and Ronner's (serious and funny) checklist, here is a quick reminder of what you should bring beside the obvious:

If you are bringing our own laptop:
1. Make it identifiable that it is yours on the outside. (a sticker for example)
2. Put a password on it.
3. If you have a laptoplock, bring it just to be safe.
4. If you need internet access, either ask evo POLITELY if you can join his wireless access point or bring a UDP cable of at least 10 meters.
Passport (It is mandatory in the Netherlands to have it with you at all times)
Travel and health insurance cards
Good humor ofc.

Up until this time, we have received the phone numbers from only three teams (Auxilia, Verdiend, Dignitas). Please notify whoever is in charge to send us their contact information ASAP. Mail them to tosspot at gmail dot com and cash at clanbase dot com please.

For those that are bringing their own systems, such as laptops for coverage purposes. Please also bring an UDP cable (regular LAN cable) with you that is at least 10 meters and preferably close to 15 meters. We will be very short on wiring, so that is something that we cannot provide you with.

Last, but probably most important. Please uninstall en reinstall your gaming hardware a few times to find out the proper working order, so you know how to install your stuff swiftly. It will reduce the stress for you to be ready in time and it gives you some decent warmup minutes.

We are also still looking for someone who would be able to transport 3 monitors (2 crt and 1 tft) and a shuttle pc from Amsterdam on thursday or in worst case scenario friday morning. We will compensate for gas and perhaps the invested time.

See you all in Enschede!

As the sign up period is about to close, the preparations for the qualifiers have been set in motion by the Crossfire crew.

Even though it will take us some time after the signups close at midnight to announce the qualifier matches, we have decided to release the maps that will feature in the first, and only, qualifying round in order to give teams the opportunity to use this Sunday as a good practice night.

The ET map pool will be Radar, sw_Goldrush_te, Frost_Comp_b2 (teams select one each) with the non chosen map being the decider map.
Teams need to be aware that their matches HAVE to be played on one of the two qualifying days, February 27th and 28th. You can download Frost Final Here

The CoD2 map will be carentan.

Based on the current sign ups, the matches will be pre-scheduled spread out over both nights with mandatory starting times at 20:30, 21:30 and 22:30 CET.
If teams want to reschedule, it can only be done if the opponent agrees to reschedule. However the starting time HAS to be within the two qualification days.

Video Gaming community Crossfire.nu have partnered with WZZRD to launch their new venue in the Cinestar cinema in Enschede with the second instalment of the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge.

WZZRD's new gaming centre will be the largest in Holland and will feature state of the art systems as well as a complete refurbishment of a venue integrated with Cinestar's cinema. The venue will be officially opened on Friday the 13th of April together with the Crossfire Prizefight Challenge. The event takes place from Friday 13 till Sunday the 15th. Offering 6,000 Euros, teams from Call of Duty, Enemy Territory and Return to Castle Wolfenstein will battle their way to glory over three days.

"We're extremely honoured to be working with WZZRD to launch their latest location" said Stuart 'TosspoT' Saw, owner of Crossfire.nu. "As gaming grows, centres of this pedigree are what we as gamers need to evolve the competitive aspect. We're looking forward into making our second tournament into a more spectator orientated event and we're thrilled that through a unique partnership with WZZRD and Cinestar we're deep in planning a true cinematic experience for the finals."

"For the opening of our newest location, we wanted a special event to mark this happening. With Crossfire I think we have found a perfect example of professional competitive gaming events that boost eSports constructively, " said Tymen Boon, founder of WZZRD. "In the future we expect and aim to host more of their events as they are a fundamental brick to built eSports in the Netherlands and Europe. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship..."

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Additionally, Steelseries, the market leader in professional gaming gear, has joined the Crossfire Challenge and Crossfire.nu throughout 2007. As with the previous edition, Crossfire will collaborate with Inside the Game to deliver exclusive match commentary, who will be joined by Multiplay TV for professional video production.

About Crossfire.nu - Launched in 2003 Crossfire has been the home of competitive Wolfenstein and Call of Duty. In 2006 Crossfire launched its first live offline event to great applaud and driven by its 10,000 members continues its pledge to champion the smaller games through exposure, events and original media.

About WZZRD Gaming - Starting in 2005, WZZRD Game cafés has rapidly grown in the Dutch gaming scene. Over one year, WZZRD has been providing gamers with the best possible gaming experience offering the best hardware, competitions and services in the their cafés.

Currently with two establishments in Utrecht and Groningen and one near completion in Enschede, WZZRD will soon be opening the doors to the largest gaming center in the Netherlands, accommodating the needs of the casual and competitive gamers and event organizers to be the host of LAN events such as the Crossfire Prizefight Challenge 2.

In addition, WZZRD Game cafés organizes any type of gaming related events varying from product releases to company days, at one of its locations or externally.[/hide]

It is just over a month since the EuroCup finals in Aarhus, Denmark and since the day Check Six lifted the cup speculation has been abound as to their future, if there was to be one. Today that has come to an end though, with the news that Check Six will be joining up with the top European organisation Serious-Gaming, the home of the Polish Quake 4 prodigy av3k and a successful Warcraft 3 team. They will provide the former Check Six side full support to attend LAN events around the world and after the trouble they had with former organisations the move should come as a relief to the players themselves. Their first event will be the WonderBase LAN in Boras, Sweden where they will take on their old rivals Dignitas as well as a host of new challengers such as Copenhagen-Esports, Logitech.fi and Cubic.

The lineup remains unchanged from the one that took the EuroCup crown except for one addition. Stim, formerly of Logitech.fi and Idle.ee will join the team as Plaekki travels to work in Germany for a few weeks. Stim was a star performer at both the Playz LAN and the original Call of Duty EuroCup X LAN finals so should slot nicely into the all-star Serious lineup. Plaekki was a big performer for the team at the recent EuroCup finals though and it will be interesting to see how the team reacts to his temporary departure. Ever since Stim left Logitech it was rumoured he was playing with the Check Six team and not for the first time, the rumours have been proved correct. He will be playing at WonderBase with the team and will be looking to impress on his first competitive outing.

The following players will be representing Serious.CoD2:

Liam 'Crow' Crowley
Martin 'mint' Röjder
Rickard 'zEm' Intveld
Sami 'Sacrim' Nieminen
Timo 'Stim' Arminen
Otto 'plaekki' Kuisma