ClanBase is proud to announce the start of the Fall 2010 Cup Season. The signups are open right now and remain open until the 12th of September. The Enemy Territory ClanBase Admin Crew has decided to host yet another EuroCup and another OpenCup in 3 different formats for the community.

UPDATE: VOD's of the interviews with k1llsen & MorroW can be found on Lo3 #57 & WoC #9.

"Live On Three" is hosted by Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham, Rod "Slasher" Breslau and Scott "SirScoots" Smith.

Today's "Live On Three" #57 will be a special post-GamesCom edition of the show, which will also involve djWHEAT's other show, "Weapon of Choice", which specializes in Starcraft 2.

GamesCom 2010 winners Marcel "k1llsen" Paul and Stefan "MorroW" Andersson will be coming on both shows to talk about their victories, and their immediate afterthoughts. k1llsen will join "Live On Three" to dive into his first major international LAN victory, how it felt to play and win in front of his home crowd, and the difficulties in taking down last year's Season 4 champion, Shane "rapha" Hendrixson. MorroW joins "Weapon of Choice" to discuss his last-minute entrance into GamesCom to begin with, the many cries of 'imbalance' for Terran in StarCraft 2, and how he was able to take out the machine that is Greg "IdrA" Fields in the finals.

Tune into "Weapon of Choice" at 20:00CET/2 PM EST for MorroW, and "Live On Three" at 22:00 CET/4 PM EST for k1llsen, all broadcasted on djWHEAT.tv.

And here it is, the end of season 6 of the ESL Major Series. This season was extraordinary and if you ask me why, I would say mainly because we had so many surprises in the Group Stage, Relegation Phase and again, in the final match. If you want to know about what surprises I'm talking, you can see them here!

The QuakeCon 2010 took place at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas between the 12th and 15th of August 2010. This convention was hosting 3 sponsored tournaments for Quakelive and several tournaments in the BYOC.

Masters Championship
Alexei "srs/rzr/Cypher" Yanushevsky - $14,000
Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov - $7,500
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone - $4,000
4th: Sebastian "fnatic.spart1e" Siira
5-6th: Tim "EG|DaHang" Fogarty / Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson
7-8th: Kévin "fnatic.strenx" Baéza / Dan "dandaking" De Sousa
9-12th: dkt, clampOK, whaz, chance
13-16th: vamp1re, kgb, sparks, Flysher

CTF Championship
Evil Genius - $15,000
Fnatic - $6,000
QUAD Gaming - $4,000
4th: Loaded

Open Duel
jovire - $1,500
_boots - $750
id_ - $250

Live On Three is hosted by Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham, Rod "Slasher" Breslau and Scott "SirScoots" Smith.

Live On Three #56 is now online featuring discussing regarding several aspects of this year's QuakeCon including Cypher and Cooller's epic final, proZaC's banning, and the multitude of DNS, streaming, and coverage issues at the event. Special guests on the show include first-time top 3 QuakeCon finisher Stermy, the infamous proZaC, and QuakeLive.tv's Ben "FishStix" Goldhaber.

Stermy's thoughts on Cooller gg'ing him with 3:30 left on Furious Heights:

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What can I say? I mean..that's Cooller, ya know? it was probably 10 frags ahead with 3 minuted left, and I knew that the match was pretty much over, but I gusss he wanted to get into my head because I won the first map. I don't get scared of those things anymore. I played during the time when 2GD was playing, and I mean that guy's trash talk is definitely worse than Coollers even, so i have enough experience from that, I don't get annoyed anymore by it. Cooller is like that, gotta take it for what it's worth.

proZaC on getting booted from QuakeCon:

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...I'm playing my game which is awesome - I kept it sexy. I thought sparks was a half-newb, and wanted to show the world you can play Quake without pressing +back, just keeping it fucking sexy, and i lost int he last 15 econds because i missed a rocket jump to red armor. If I got that rocket jump I would have won hands down. When I lose to sparks I'm steaming so I go to the pool - I'm out. Go to the pool, get my swim on, get my drink on, when my CTF team comes and says I have to come back and play

Listen to the show now on djWHEAT.blip.tv. QuakeCon talk starts at 5:00, FishStix on at 38:00, Stermy on at 46:00, proZaC on at 100:00.

The ESL Intel Extreme Masters V: Global Challenge Gamescom 2010 is now finished with some awesome games during throughout the whole five days. The Quakelive tournament ended with a huge surprise as k1llsen unleashed his fearsome railgun and took down rapha, the reigning ESL Intel Extreme Masters champion. In the StarCraft II tournament, MorroW, who wasn't even supposed to be at the event, beat IdrA three maps to one.

We have reached the second round of group games and there are three games up tonight where some teams need points to have a good chance to stay in the cup. Here are the games played and predictions from Team UK captain dusty:

First up and the featured cam game tonight is Germany vs. Belgium - in a must win game for the Belgians to stand a good chance of going through to the playoffs, the pressure is on syL and team captain edge to pull their team through. Standing in their way though are phate and the rest of the active German lineup - this should be a top game!

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This German team is a well oiled tactical machine, but even they will struggle in trying to get those all important documents back off syL as he runs around each map seven times before transmitting. With all things considered, Belgium will win simply because Mouly rocks and they have the aim. Germany have the lotto though which will make it a fantastic spectacle, a real feast for the eyes.

Yes, they are back in action with a new and fresh team that will show us what they are made of in the future ESL/CB competitions and of course, at the next lan events. I bet you are all eager to know who is this new team and if they are capable or not to qualify in two of the most important online competitions, EMS and EC, and also, how will they perform offline. So here they are, now known as the MVP's of this organization:



zeroE. mvp
razz (c)
Jinosta
numeric
Frag`Stealer
zMk


zeroE`razz: I'm hoping we can do well as a team, ET is a great game and we don't want the game to die. We plan on trying to stay together and getting good teamplay and compete against the top level clans in the ET scene at the moment.
zeroE`Jinosta: Everyone has said that the team wouldn't last long to me but I believe it will and in our prac's numeric's mouse has been playing up but we still been winning so I believe we will go far and hope to go to either aef2 or cic8 but none the less let's just think about EC first :) and thx to zeroE for picking up us so early.
zeroE`numeric: We are hoping our partnership with Zero Empathy to be long and full of successes. Thanks for taking us in!

zeroE. Gunny: I'm very pleased that these players decided to join us and I hope they will proove themselves as a good addition in the following ESL/CB competitions. Good luck guys and also good luck to our COD4 team that will attend the i40 event!
zeroE. IMag: I think that the Zero Empathy MGC is now stronger than ever with the last team that joined and I know for sure that they'll manage to win important matches against good teams, in the upcoming competitions. What's left to say, just good luck to all the ET and COD teams that will go to the upcoming lan events. Have fun!

After a successful 4th season, ECC' staff is pleased to announce its 5th season.
Site is once again open to everyone, and each member will be able to create his team as soon as he registered on the ECC site.

Registration & signups[/u]
Registration is now open from the 15 August to the 30 August @ 23h59
Groups ( 5 team max ) will be online on the 02 Sept. Cup will start the 05 Sept.
The first match week is between the 05-09 to 12-09, all the maps will be forced

Remember that each player has to register on the web site to participate.
As soon as the player joined his clan, leaders have to accept it by browsing "player invitations" from the profile pannel.
Then, to verify with ease each clan, it is required to add your clanbase clanpage link and players'GUIDS.

Watch out : You can maybe not recieving the confirmation e-mail, in case of /q ECCMasterseries on #easy.cup

Tr3b, head developer over at the XreaL Project, announced yesterday that he plans to port ET to his "XreaL Engine". One of the main advantages of the XreaL Engine is its renderer, based in id Tech 3, but massively improved - and able to compete with modern commercial game titles. Tr3b has already started working on the project, and says "I already diffed the vanilla Q3A renderer code with the ET one and there aren’t many changes. Most changed lines contain the new skeletal animation code and there is some new foliage and decal rendering code. It is not particular difficult to merge those changes into the XreaL renderer."

For years there have been calls on Crossfire for somebody to "just update the graphics and leave the gameplay alone", could this be the update so yearned for by the community?

Tr3b has also posted a YouTube video of "Parallel Split Shadow Maps" in the XreaL engine, leaving us to imagine an ET that looks as good as, if not better than what is in the video.



XreaL-Project.net
Official Announcement by Tr3b