After coming back from the Antwerp Esports Festival our Enemy Territory lineup took a well deserved break, as kARnAJ went on holiday and sQUALL decided to go inactive as he can't put up the necessary time needed for the team. After careful consideration they have now found the suitable replacement in one of Finland's finest.


Joining our ranks is Oula 'olBaa' Räsänen who comes from the Fintastic 5 lineup. We are confident that he can help the team maintain their winning streak both online and offline. As mentioned this means that sQUALL will take an inactive role in the lineup.

Team Dignitas ET is:

Hendrik-William 'Anderson' Kinks
Jaka 'JaKaZc' Kejzar
Sebastian 'drago' Ohrmann
Travaillé 'kARnAJ' Hugo
Oula 'olBaa' Räsänen
Taneli 'sQUALL' Härkönen (inactive)

Related: http://www.team-dignitas.net/2010/9/4/olbaa-joins-team-dignitas/10730/

As I'm sure a lot of you are aware after reading MerlinatoR's journal, our favourite Welshlad Owzo has entered a competition called "So you think you can shoutcast?" where he is in with the chance of winning an fully-paid trip to the World Cyber Games in Los Angeles, California to be featured as the commentator for the WCG TV at this year's event finals.



To win the competition, Owzo, real name Owain Howard, had to submit a video with him shoutcasting the match as if it was happening live. The choice was between Tekken or Counter Strike. An easy choice for Owzo then considering he mentioned last night how Tekken wasn't a game that tickled his fancy and that he had played Counter Strike a few times back in the day. So he downloaded the clip, shoutcasted over it in true Owzo style by "steamin' in" and then uploaded the video to YouTube as per the competition guidelines. This is where you guys come in...

So after seeing this news post - http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=news&mode=item&id=6142 , I decided to look into it more as I got more interested since I wouldn't mind going to another lan.

However, I noticed a few things:

It's been a long and exciting journey and after seven weeks of travelling, blogging and crossing Europe we have reached the conclusion of the Alienware Backpacking Challenge.

The time has come to announce the winner. Who will walk away with $5,000 and an Alienware M11x? And without further ado, the winner is...

Leading German side Speedlink was recently forced to search for a replacement for their long time member krest as a new internet provider with limited bandwidth did not allow him to keep on playing like he used to. The gap in the line could be eventually filled with non other than former Crossfire.ATi as well as zeroPoint! Gaming player Michael 'potter' Kantringer!


The team now aims to improve its performances such as the recent 5th coming at the Antwerp E-Sports Festival in Belgium. As the new EuroCup and ESL Major Series season is already waiting, the goals are set and the motivation should be high enough. New LAN events such as CC8, AeG or a possible tournament in Croatia are - if they happen - planned to be visited as well.

• SPEEDLINK | duKe_
  
• SPEEDLINK | FLoPJEHZ
  
• SPEEDLINK | Bl4d3
  
• SPEEDLINK | Potter
  
• SPEEDLINK | sTOWNAGE

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As I really missed it to play seriously and to have the chance of going to larger events, the offer from Speedlink came perfectly right. After some games with the guys it bacame clear to me that this may appeal to me. I hope I can contribute a lot to play at the top with the team. I will give my best for certain. - Potter

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The EuroCup final is once again heading to epic proportions. With five official shout casts in four different languages, more than 2000 spectator slots available and over 500,000 euros of virtual money in bets, the excitement of the most prestigious online competition is felt everywhere.

Fintastic 5

ENSAM
Matias
olBaa
Sample
Lepari

Impact

sqzz
hayaa
R0SS
mAus
XyLoS

Belgian Fraternity is a team that has it’s roots in teams like Beringenmijn and Phantasmagoria. All players know each other for years and were even related to each other in some cases. All these factors allowed us to create unique bond. One that no other team has. This bond allowed us to make 2010 our best year. Starting off in January with winning OC premier, through ending 5th at Crossfire Intel Challenge 7, fighting on ET’s hardest battlefields like EC and EMS and ending it with astonishing performance at Antwerp Esports Festival where the team gave their very best and ended up 4th. Now the Fraternity moves on, preparing for more epic battles, both online and offline. And we’re not going to walk alone here.

Stream is now LIVE on MLG's site.

Starcraft 2 will be making it's circuit debut at Major League Gaming's 50th live event in Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend.

All of North America's best players will be in attendance with the exception of IdrA and Artosis who both live in South Korea and will be attending the GSL qualifiers. Notable names include TL.Tyler (NonY), coL.silver, EG.Machine, M.HuK, root.KiWiKaKi, root.qxc, EG.LzGaMeR, fnatic.TTOne and SLush. Europeans d.SjoW and Socke will also be in attendance to try and dash the American and Canadian hopes.

All matches will be casted by Day9, JP, Husky and HD, rotating out with different pairings. The live stream can be found on the front page of http://www.MLGPro.com all weekend. Brackets have not been released yet.

Schedule is below, with the finals taking place Saturday night.

All matches listed are in EDT, CET is +6.

Schedule:
Friday:
5:00 PM EDT/23:00 CET - 5:30 PM EDT/23:30 CET Pregame Show (Day9, JP, HD/Husky, Vhell and Vansilli)
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Winners Round 1
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Losers Round 1
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Winners Round 2
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM Losers Round 2
9:30 PM - 11:30 PM Winners Round 3 / Losers Round 3
11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Post wrap show

Saturday:
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Saturday Pre-Game Show
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Losers Round 4
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Winners Round 4 / Losers Round 5
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Losers Round 6
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Winners Round 5 / Losers Round 7
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Losers Round 8
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Winners Finals / Losers Round 9
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Losers Finals
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Finals
7:00 PM - 7:15 PM Post wrap show

Dear community,

I'm sure many of you wondered which match might be the one with the highest viewer peak, the most comments or simply has been requested on demand most often.
This "top 10 of all times page" is long overdue. Next to the matches we also listed some interesting team statistics, a server hall of fame and an overview about GamesTV.org and its contents (like GBooky and GTVd).

I think all the numbers speak for themselves or are explained properly on the page so with no further delay I give you:
GamesTV.org :: Top 10 of all times

You can get there from the link "Top 10 stats" in the navigation box.

The AWC is coming to an end with one final vote which will most likely decide who wins the $5000 cash prize.

Some of you will have doubtlessly been following the Alienware backpacking challenge, an event that saw four gamers travel across Europe while trying to accomplish a series of testing tasks.
During that time the public were encouraged to vote for who they thought had performed each task to the best of their ability. Well now, with the end in sight after the contestants all convened at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, it's now time for the final vote to be cast to see who will emerge victorious and take home a $5,000 cash prize.

This final vote will make up a massive 40% of the total, so if you haven't voted before, or want to ensure that the most deserving person wins, now is the time to make it count.
Here are the four contestants lined up for you again:

Livia Teernstra
Netherlands
23 Years Old
Former CGS Player


Matthijs Hoving
Netherlands
24 Years Old
Shoutcaster for QuadV


Ben Balcombe
United Kingdom
23 Years Old
Teaching assistant


Alasdair Sparrow
United Kingdom
23 Years Old
Inter/Student