At May 23rd ESL's Brink Championship will launch the first qualifier stages available for 11 countries and extended by an additional international qualifier. Currently a total amount of 85 teams are trying to compete for the top spot to have a chance to attend the finals at GamesCom 2011 in Cologne and of course to grab some of the 15.000€ prize money as reported earlier.

National Qualifiers

• Germany (News / Sign Up)
• United Kingdom (News / Sign Up)
• Spain (News / Sign Up)
• Poland (News / Sign Up)
• Sweden, Norway, Finland, Island and Denmark (News / Sign Up)
• Russia (News / Sign Up)
• France (News, Sign Up)

International Qualifier:

• News
• Sign Up
• Participants

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

Brink received a pretty decent hype on Reddit and the community over there just released it's first official version of their own official config tool named Brinkkit.

It allows you to easily access different values on vars that have already been tested successfully. It gives you more options than the Rushed's tool especially regarding your system's performance.

Requirements:

• Windows XP or 7 with .NET Framework 4 Client Profile

Features:

• Actual working cvars. I didn't add cvars that don't work or aren't supported by Brink. I took time to research each cvar, verify the function and test the performance. There are other tools out right now but I was annoyed by data entry and wanted a fun project to give back to the community.
  
• Auto-updating. If a new version gets dropped, you'll know when you start the application. You don't need to come back here and re-download the setup.exe ever again. One and done, gents.
  
• Hosted on Amazon so it should always be available and fast. I'll accept Reddit server jokes here.
  
• Fluid and efficient design. Tab order makes sense. Use keyboard shortcuts to save (ALT+S) test (ALT+T), or exit (ALT+E). Yes, that is right, you can launch the game right from the app and it'll save your settings before hand.
  
• Fast updating for hardly any effort. See a bug? Message me. I can probably fix & deploy the update within minutes. This game doesn't wait.

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With only a few spots left in the upcoming Liga4fun season - a league known and proven for ages in the German Enemy Territory community - it was right on time to release an updated version of their rules with finally including an English version for the first time ever. Those were obviously created to allow international teams to find a place where they can actually have fun competing as a team.

If you are interested and willing to participate in this summer's season check out their website and sign up. If any help is required you can feel free to contact D4vid in the official IRC channel #liga4fun.

Deadline to sign up is June 6th, 2011.

• Liga4Fun.de

An interesting idea has passed through the lips of Valve's top dog Gabe Newell suggesting that popular gamers (he obviously was referring to Krosan) should be allowed onto games on the Steam platform for free. He states that current payment methods such as purchase, pay per play and in game micro transactions are inherently flawed!

Tournament Overview and Rules

The Brink TV 5v5 Tournament is an experiment in competition. Please keep in mind the game has only been out for a week and many rules and settings will surely be tweaked collectively by the community over time. Until then, we've reached out to various teams and community members to get feedback on what feels right for competition at this early stage of the game. Rules found below are subject to change so be sure to check them again before the tournament begins.

It's been a long day for a lot of us, but not as long a day as it's been for Power Gaming and OVERLOAd. After a lot of initially-worrying delays, we have pulled through at the first edition of ET E-Series by Kaos TV. Your champions, ladies and gentlemen, are OVERLOAd - a team who had everybody talking about whether or not they would actually go once they had signed up. For those who doubted them, let this be a lesson.




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Date: 15th May 2010
Time: 21:30 CET
Maps: Frostbite, Goldrush, Supply
Event: Kaos TV E-Series

The ESL have announced a mammoth tournament for BRINK culminating in a grand final at one of the ESLs Premier events at Gamescom. The tournament starts ASAP as the Gamescom clock is ticking (its in August) with signups already open for teams to get into the tournament. Qualifiers will start on May 23rd with the group stages getting underway in earnest on June 13th.

Here is a quote from the official ESL Press Release:

"We proudly announce that we will start a European Brink Championship, the day this new title will be released! €15.000 are waiting für Europe's best teams! The big final will take place in August 2011, at the Gamescom in Cologne. Prepare for the battle now and maybe you will be on the stage while about 4 million people are watching you, at the world's biggest fair for interactive games!

Brink is the brand new post apocalyptic tactic shooter by Bethesda! It will be released May 13th 2011. On the day of the release we will start several opening cups, release cups in different modes and of course the Brink Championship with €15.000 prize money. Celebrate BRINK with us in this firework of fun events and serious challenges!"

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The time has now finally arrived for the first ever Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory E-Series LAN event to take place. After a few bumps along the road in preperation, we are finally ready to go live at the Kaos Gaming Centre in Weesp, The Netherlands. Unfortunately, there will be no stream for the event due to the cost of Owzo's flight rocketing up by the time the last team confirmed their attendance.

UPDATE3:
Through the wonders of Hamachi, we've managed to get around the port issues with the network and will be able to start bringing you ETTV, just in time for the last group match and the playoffs! Thanks to Marcus from YCN for suggesting the idea and to h3ll from GamesTV.org for setting it up.

UPDATE 2:
Sadly there has been further issues with servers and the games will now continue to be played in offline mode meaning no ETTV for the moment.

UPDATE!!
As it was only one team complaining about having to play online, Jere has decided to take the majority vote and force all matches to be played online for the benefit of ETTV! The first match is about to go live!