Some decisive matches of the ESL Major Series Group Stage took place yesterday. We already know half of the final stage teams and what is more interesting the seeding! What is up in the groups and an interesting interview with Aero Robaciek can be found below!

The last official matchweek of the ESL Major Series Group Stage is about to finish today! Nevertheless we have several wildcarded matches still pending. These matches will be played during the back up week starting tomorrow. After that additional week we will know which teams will join the play offs!
All pending matches must be played till Friday, 5th November!

Maybe you have notice that some matches from Group A disappeared. The team HIGHBOT 2k10 was removed due to reaching 3 Major Penalties. The reasons can be found here. Furthermore we ask all teams to stick to the rules and to schedule the matches in time! Penalties do affect the prizemoney!

Again we have talked to all teams to get some match statements. The complete statements can be found here!

The Sapphire Movie Contest at TEK9 has now been concluded, all the votes have been counted up by the community and all the panelists have had their say and the top 5 prize winners have been announced, they are as follows:

PureMind by Or1onUA (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550 + €250 CASH)
Megatech Body ID by cho-media (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550)
SkyChase by RavenTL (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550)
4th Copyleft by Cla (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550)
5th The Expendables by recqn (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550)


As many of you know a handful of ET movies were entered into the competition, in which there were over 100 entries! One ET movie got into the top 20, which was "Woody and Nothing More" by requem

The second part of the Tier 1 training for our lucky competition winners revolves around weapons training. They learn how to strip weapons, use sniper rifles and close combat techniques for out in the field.

The contestants find that even after the gruelling physical element of the training they still have to be sharp and focused to learn the skills that will prove vital for the final part - a hostage extraction exercise.

See for yourselves how they get on and what they learn and be sure to keep an eye out for the final part.


Those of you who missed the first video can find it here.

i3D.net seem to be playing Santa a bit early this year - offering free servers for everyone. Your server will be online until the tenth of November so this deal is perfect if you want to experience the quality of i3D's servers or want to see what managing your own gameserver is all about.

At the tenth of November your server will automatically shut down without a catch. If you do however decide to extend your server you will get a twenty five discount and will not have to pay for any setup costs. At the same time you can order a voice server alongside your game server with a fifty percent discount.

The rules:
- Maximum of 1 server per person
- Only available at the i3D.net London location
- Only valid for the following games: Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield Heroes , Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Counter-Strike: Source, Medal of Honor and Team Fortress 2
- Maximum of 32 slots (public or private)
- Only valid on new servers, this offer cannot be used to extend or discount existing servers (existing clients can order an additional server)
- Registration at i3D.net required, no credit card details or payment needed
- Not valid in combination with other promo deals
- All free servers are branded: The servername needs to start with i3D.net

How to apply (before the fifth of November):
1. Create a client account at i3D.net;
2. Log in and go for the option "order a new gaming package";
3. Among the options in the dropdown menu on the next page, select "Free London Gameserver";
4. Enjoy your server!

After a successful summer the Team Dignitas Enemy Territory squad made some changes to its lineup to ensure their activity and motivation was kept up high. Everything is now falling in place and some last changes have been made which means we can welcome a new player to the family!

In this case it is more appropriate to say we welcome back a player as both Matias 'Matias' F and Taneli 'sQUALL' Härkönen are joining the starting five in the lineup again. Matias helped us win CiC7 and sQUALL recently went inactive due to real life commitments after winning AEF with us.

Both Matias and sQUALL have decided to return to the lineupwhich means we have to say goodbye to Jaka 'JaKaZc' Kejzar who is stepping down from the lineup as he decided to quit playing ET. We wish him the best of luck in the future and thank him for his great addition to the team over the last few months.

Team Dignitas Enemy Territory is:

Hendrik-William 'Anderson' Kinks
Sebastian 'drago' Ohrmann
Matias 'Matias' F.
Oula 'olBaa' Räsänen
Taneli 'sQUALL' Härkönen

Configs & demos can be found at our file section!

Source: Team Dignitas

This Thursday will bring us another great evening with some fast-paced Enemy Territory ESL Major Series action. The well known Dignitas crew will face the self-appointed EC Winners right at 21.00 CET and you all can enjoy this intense battle live via GamesTV.org. According to the matchinformation both teams will battle it out on Radar and Bremen and with brilliant aimers like perfo, Anderson or olBaa I am sure that we will see a great show.

I argue that this clash will decide about the first two spots in Group D because it is very unlikely that both EC Winners and Dignitas will lose their next matches. Rumor has it that both teams are currently not performing at it`s best and with most players voting Impact as best team one can see a so called unbeatable Dignitas crew slowly sinking. Whether it is the loss of Night or the fact that their motivation is not at top - I am sure EC Winners don`t care about it and will make the Dignitas boys work hard for the win. Lean back and enjoy tonight`s topmatch!

Update: The game is rescheduled to 31.10.2010!

The online groupstage of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5: European Championship kicks off tonight with five matches. All the matches are played as bo3 and the maplist is as following: Aerowalk, Blood Run, Dismemberment, Furious Heights, Hektik, Lost World, Vertical Vengeance. The winner of each match earns $50.


27/10/10
27/10/10
27/10/10
27/10/10
27/10/10
27/10/10

21:30 CEST
22:15 CEST
22:15 CEST
22:15 CEST
22:45 CEST
22:45 CEST

strenx vs spartaz0rd @ Level Up TV
noctis vs daxio
k1llsen vs GaRpY @ Level Up TV
fazz vs Nitrino @ ESL TV
guard vs UwU @ ESL TV
calipt vs serak

The following matches from round one will be played later.

31/10/10
2/11/10
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21:00 CEST
22:45 CEST
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Spart1e vs plaZmaa
winz vs av3k
fox vs zsx
Cypher vs dem0n
draven vs stermy
Cooller vs GoHLinK


The groups have changed a bit, as Balk and Cny are unable to play they are replaced by plaZmaa and zsx.

Source: IEM 5 European Championship

Reminder: All team captains have to pm essAh to gain further information about the tournament page and the private irc channel.

As announced in Giant Gaming's Team presentation, we are willing to held an ET Cup starting in November. Other than in Dignitas' Sunday Cup, our cup will be in Groupstage mode. In the past days Giants Gaming organized some prizes to show the effort we are willing to put into the ET community. As main prize we offer 350 Euros cash, plus 5 mousepads for the winners sponsored by ZOWIE!. We have invited the 16 best ET Teams at the moment to fight for the money. The Cup is sponsored by ZOWIE Gear.

Tonight, Monday the 25th of October, will feature the three final EuroCup XXII group stage matches. The outcome of these matches will not only impact the battling teams, but their whole group and their EuroCup futures.



Epsilon secured their place in the EuroCup playoffs, topping Group A after two flawless victories, yet both gZcon and Giants are in murky waters: last night Giants beat TAG 3-1, setting their rounds ratio to 7/5, but they might be left behind if gZcon beats Epsilon without losing a round.