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BRINK Release Date

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In an official press announcement, Bethesda tells the release date of BRINK. The game will ship in North America on May 17, with Europe and Australia following later that same week on May 20.



Source: Bethesda press announcement
by: gamingpalace.de

IEM 5 EC Aftermath: Lo3 & VODs

image: 121_bigLast night the 68th episode of Live on Three aired with the ESL Intel Extreme Masters Season 5: European Championship Finals being the main topic. All three champions,   Russia Anton "Cooller" Singov,   Sweden Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi   and    Sweden Patrik "cArn" Sättermon from fnatic's Counter-Strike 1.6 team join United States of America Slasher and United States of America djWheat to discuss the event, the future and other stuff related to their respective games. Click here to watch the show.

Also VODs have started to appear for those who missed the live action. All Grand Finals are already up, I personally recommend everyone to watch the epic battles between Cooller and av3k and fnatic and mTw. More VODs can be found at ESL TV's VOD Archive. As usual, Level Up TV did an awesome job covering some of the Quake matches, including the the Bronze Final between Cypher and strenx. All other VODs from Level Up TV can be found here.

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Today is the day you all've waited for. The newly formed team around GermanyDaniel "humM3L" M. is already praccing hard to challenge the top Clans. With their good results which they've already achieved the past few days they are totally motivated for upcoming events. Their goal is is to play and reach the next CB:OC Premier playoffs. Also attending lans is in their mind. At the moment they are playing actively in the Clanbase 5on5 Ladder.

OverDose Development Ramping Up

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So what is OverDose? Put simply, OverDose is an over the top, team play orientated First Person Shooter with tons of options for customization. Now in a world that’s riddled with First Person Shooters, what exactly makes us think we can compete with the likes of the heavy hitters such as Call Of Duty and Minecraft?

OverDose WebSite
OverDose ModDB Page
OverDose Latest Design Doc

NationsCup XIV Groups

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The groups have been officially published and consist of 8 groups; each group has 4 teams, thus resulting in 32 teams this NationsCup.

ESL WL Playoffs

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The last match of the ESL Winter Leagues Group Stage was played several hours ago, and with the end of it, we are now announcing the start of the ESL Winter Leagues Playoffs. For those who haven't seen the match between the estonian team, K1ck, and the germans of teamoxid, you can still watch it by clicking on the image below and requesting a replay.

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At the beginning of the ESL Winter Leagues Group stage we had the following number of teams signed up:
  • 5on5 - 111 teams
  • 3on3 - 92 teams
  • 2on2 - 54 teams
  • 1on1 - 73 players

ESL IEM V: European Championship Finals

image: iem5headerIt is time to determine the next set of champions in the ESL Intel Extreme Masters: Season 5. The best European players head to a new destination as the European Championship Finals will be played at Cybersport Arena in Ukraine Kiev. Someone has the honor to become the first European champion in Star Craft II while Germany mousesports and Belarus Cypher return to defend their titles in Counter-Strike 1.6 and Quake Live respectively.

Final Standings:

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Russia Cooller - $4,000
Poland av3k - $2,000
France strenx - $1,150
4th Belarus Cypher $750
5th/6th Germany k1llsen - $500
5th/6th Sweden fazz - $500
7th/8th Sweden Spart1e - $400
7th/8th Austria noctis - $400
9th/10th Sweden madix - $350
9th/10th Poland tox1c - $350
11th France GoHLinK - $300

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Sweden SjoW - $7,500
Ukraine White-Ra- $3,500
United Kingdom DeMusliM - $1,800
4th Poland Tarson - $1,200
5th/6th Germany Socke - $800
5th/6th Germany GoOdy - $800
7th/8th Ukraine Kas - $500
7th/8th France SarenS - $500
9th/10th Italy ClouD - $400
9th/10th Finland Naama - $400
11th/12th Czech Republic PredY - $300
11th/12th Sweden merz - $300

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Sweden fnatic - $20,000
Denmark mTw - $9,500
Poland Frag eXecutors - $5,500
4th Ukraine Natus Vincere - $3,200
5th/6th Sweden Lions - $2,150
5th/6th Russia Meet Your Makers - $2,150
7th/8th Denmark TCM Gaming - $1,500
7th/8th Sweden SK Gaming - $1,500
9th/10th Russia forZe - $1,250
9th/10th France esahara - $1,250
11th/12th Germany alternate - $1,000
11th/12th Germany Mousesports - $1,000



In addition to the prize money, the top 6 of Quake Live, the top 7 of Counter-Strike 1.6 and the top 4 of Star Craft II will qualify for the ESL Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 World Championship Finals to be held at ceBIT 2011, Germany Hannover in the beginning of March.

Links: Article, ESL IEM5 EC
Coverage: Tek-9, SK Gaming, fnatic, Team Liquid, ESFI World, Germany Fragster
Interviews:
with Cypher (by SK)
with spart1e (by SK)
with fazz (by ESFI)
with GoHLinK (by ESFI)
with Na'Vi Zeus (by SK)

eSport Challenge LAN Announced

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I am pleased to bring you the great news of 'eSport Challenge', A LAN hosted by TLR which is due to take place Friday 1st July - Sunday 3rd July 2011 at the very recognisable Wzzrd LAN centre, Enschede. The LAN itself will feature two tournaments - a 16 team Enemy Territory competition as well as a 16 team Call of Duty 4 competition.

3o3 NC Groups

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After a couple weeks, qualifiers to the main tournament has come to the end. 32 teams will compete in 3on3 NationsCup. They will be separated in 8 groups. The best 2 teams from each group will proceed to the playoff stage. Without a further ado, I hereby present the groups of the main tournament:

Finished: German Community ET-Challenge #2

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Right now the tournament is about to end with 16 teams participating only the best German teams are left in the tournament: Germany Speedlink Teamoxid and noBra!n are the Top 3 ranked teams for sure. So be prepared for some intense fights in the upcoming minutes.

Live Stream
Live Stream with special guests dignitas' drago and Team-GER captain shmoe will be with oxid's FimS and chosen live on stream from 21.45 CET.
- HD Version (1500kbits)
- LQ Version (768kbits)
- GamesTV for further details

21.45 - Next up on the list: noBra!n beat Legendaray and will face Teamoxid in the consolidation final.
21.30 - The livestream will be up any minute and will show you the Lower Bracket Final with Legendary facing noBrain. Legendary with humm3l, murDa and atrox and noBrain with gross and s1lent.
21.28 - Germany Humm3l complained about the noBrain ET lineup with gross and s1lent recruited especially for this cup. Both teams meet each other in the consolidation final right now. Check #et.de for details and flame.

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