The ESL recently announced that the ESL Pro-Series XVI will feature QuakeLive. It will be played in 1on1 format, featuring a pizepool of 3,200€.

After the 4 qualification tournaments are over, the 16 participants for the first 1on1 QuakeLive Pro-Series are the following:

Sebastian 'Tornado' Heidacker
Cris 'dk' Torrents
Sebastian 'abso' Wanek
Niko 'R1EPA' Rehor
Peter 'cYmoZz' Sellmaier
Dennis 'psyr3x' Baltus
Alexander 'razr' Haus
Uli 'slain3' Krumb
Philipp 'reload' Kotecki
Marjan 'majo' Basic
Dominik 'slax' Huber
Steffen 'oldsplatterhand' Baam
Marcel 'k1llsen' Paul
Benjamin 'calipt' Jakob
Felix 'smoke' Pafel
Mikael 'PURRI' Tarvaine

Beside 'top-notch' players like the ESL Intel Extreme Masters participants calipt and k1llsen, we can find the swedish Quake2 legend PURRI (who is currently living in cologne and is therefore allowed to play.)
Team-Germany TDM players Tornado, dk and abso or the 4Kings War§ow player reload within the 16 participants.




related link:
ESL QuakeLive Pro-Series announcement (german news)

This news item is intended to give two really well written and researched articles the attention they deserve and make sure any Crossfire reader will have the chance to read it.

With a project idea that could be well continued and get some following works the contributer proficio not only interviewed four of the best ET players, he also gives you the chance to connect the particular player with his country by listing some background information about the countries. His article "Scandalnavia" is fun to read and interesting at the same time. Make sure to not miss this great interview collection delivering you an insight into the Scandinavian ET history.

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Ladies and Gentlemen throughout the years the Scandinavian countries have had players among the very best in Return To Castle Wolfenstein & Enemy Territory. Quite comfortably the virtual world lends itself to a disguise, a special place where people can be whoever they want to be or do whatever they like to do.

In this article I will be taking you to a journey where I will be talking with 4 of Scandinavias finest and most experienced players. The people of these countries share all common bonds wrought by their culture and history. It sets their world apart – and is poised to inspire yours!

Clanbase is pleased to announce the first WinterCup hosted by ClanBase and supported by YCN-Hosting.
With GoldoraK and iMmi as Cup Supervisors and Killerboy as supervisor aswell.

Rules
Since this is a Hosted Cup we do not need to follow the global rules and thus making the cup more user friendly and can give what the community wants much easier. thus the following:

• Clans can decide in not using GV Streaming when both clans agree.
  
• Clans can decide in not using PunkBuster when both clans agree.
  
• Clans can allow the usage of a "merc" when both clans agree.
  
• Clans playing with a person having a wrong pbguid will not instantly result in a forfeit loss, instead the pbguid used will be crossreferenced on ClanBase or Crossfire in order to prove the player was not a random merc but their own clanmate with a wrong guid.

Maplist

• adlernest
  
• braundorf_b4
  
• coast_b1
  
• frostbite
  
• reactor_final
  
• radar
  
• supply
  
• sw_goldrush_te

Maps will be forced, cointoss procedure will decide about decider map if needed. Clans will decide about maps on their own only in the Great Final of each league.

With the 3 decisive qualifiers have being played over the past week (well actually 2) the final team list for this season's NationsCup is complete. Including Norway, Lithuania and Romania as the winning Nations of the qualifiers, the final roster for the Nations Cup is ready.

Without further delays, Clanbase is proud to announce this season's Groups:

The Battlefield : Bad Company 2 PC beta launches today, and our friends at I3D have 10,000 beta keys to give away inside 48 hours!

BF:BC2, due to be released March 2nd 2010, is the sequel to EA's 2008 FPS Battlefield: Bad Company, and brings the spectacular Battlefield gameplay to the forefront of next-gen consoles and PC.

But you don't have to wait until March to try out this game - there are four easy ways for you to get a beta key from I3D today!

After winning last year's Nationscup, Team EE had to defend the title this year without the support from Night and RELOAd. This way definitely a big loss, resulting in not even getting a spot in the top 7 predictions of the community! The Blight star players probably wanted to focus more on their LAN team than on the Nationscup.
People blamed them for not caring about this cup, but not anymore! That's right, today we witness the comeback of Night and RELOAd to our dearly beloved Nationscup!

With the recent team change of Matias in favour of Blight Gaming and the unsure situation around olBaa's ability to attend CiC7, rockit's team captain Clown has had the task to complete the team again without losing strength. As the main goal for ET's biggest ever held LAN event is still to place at the top, the replacements had to be made wisely and the team took its time finding suited players. As a more or less new addition rockit.ET can sign Italian multigaming talent XyloS who was already part of the legendary aMenti lineup in the past. He'll mainly take the role as the rifle-nader in the team and everybody knows he is able to deliver that. Having to finalize the roster with a fifth player we can happily say that olBaa will be back in the team as now everything's been arranged and sorted out.

• rockit. Clown
• rockit. XyloS
• rockit. mAus
• rockit. Winghaven
• rockit. olBaa

Seeing that the lineup now looks neither new nor weaker we can trust in the strength this team has shown and go positively tempered into the upcoming tasks such as the CiC7 seeding tournament as well as the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 itself. We caught up with Clown to give you more information regarding the changes and the condition of the team.

After all the e-drama team YoYoTech has once again completed their line up. The Most Improved Player of 2009, Worm lost motivation after his friend Jere was removed from the team and so the team had to go looking for another fifth. That fifth became none other than CPC veteran M1lk!

This makes the line up now as follows:

• R0SS
  
• toxic_
  
• twidi
  
• M1lk
  
• wiaderko[/b]

R0SS had the following to say:

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After the removal of Jere resulting in the departure of Worm we needed to find a replacement. It didn't take long to find a replacement that fit straight into the line up. I contacted milk and he was interested. It took a bit of convincing as he has been inactive for a while, but after a few pracs he fit straight in the line up and we are proud to announce him as our 5th. Our goal is still to reach top 3 minimum.

Team YoYoTech.co.uk

After the initial information was posted, a couple community members contacted us about slight details that could be improved.

The matches have been rescheduled to give the teams the chance to build up their performance. That's why we moved the most important matches to the back of the groupstage, while keeping the less important matches at the start.

If a group would have 4 teams A, B, C, D ordered from top seed to low seed, the match schedule looked like this:

Today, we are pleased to watch the first ettv match of such a good known team for us called Blight Gaming. They want to show us, despite their very long break of team inactivity, they will still be able to play perfectly and surprise us with their teamplay. Unfortunately, that will be only a practices, but it all is going about such a professional gamers and the come back of oldschool team called idle.ee, who took the name of their sponsor Blight Gaming. Certainly, there will be a big audience, and also a nice athmosphere on the ettv servers. We all are waiting for this show.

Blight Gaming is going to play with following line up:

- Night
- RELOAd
- feruS
- drago
- Matias

Line up is said by squall, if it will be changed, I'll correct it.

Schedule:

20CET - TEAM UK - http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=news&mode=item&id=5301
21CET - nOu - http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=clan&mode=item&id=5409
22CET - phantoms - http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=clan&mode=item&id=5645

For ETTV IPs check #blight at irc.quakenet.org

Just take some cookies or order a pizza with coke and have fun during show. :)