We already saw Dickheads and ESL Winners succeed over TAG and european elite in the first two playoff matches. On Sunday it is time for the other four teams to determine upper and lower bracket teams!

nOu way! face Team Guarana in a match that promises to be exciting. How will the new lineup of Team Guarana perform versus last seasons 3rd?

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I rly dont know what we should expect from this match. Lineup of guarana changed a lot and now they seem to be a mix of skilled players and with almighty lagging frenchie they will be surely tough challenge. But we are aiming for the victory and rolls gonna get nerded!

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We haven't played for quite a while now + we got some new faces in the lineup so I have no idea how this will turn out !

The Intel Extreme Masters for Quake Live European Championship has almost finished the group stage. In eight groups of four, 32 of the best European QL players tried obtaining a spot in the European Championship Finals. The top two of each group will advance to the finals at the ESL TV studios from the 21st until the 24th of January.

These are the players that already qualified for the finals:

Group A
1st Cooller
2nd fooki

Group B
1st cypher
2nd qreboGroup C
1st k1llsen
2nd guard

Group E
1st Spart1e
2nd dravenGroup F
1st fox
2nd calipt

Group H
1st av3k
2nd noctis

Two groups have yet to be finished, group D and G. Group D will see its final duels tomorrow, the 3rd of January. Group G has an unscheduled match, but will most likely be played in the upcoming week.

Contestants are playing for a total prize purse of $13.200 with the finals having a staggering $8.000 at stake.

The Groupstage finished recently. We are now ready to start the playoffs and already have the first matches scheduled for today. We will see some of the best teams battle for glory and the 500 € prizepurse in week one of our double elimination playoffs!

In the first match ESL Winners will face e2 - european elite who finished on top of a 3-mapper relegation match. Will ESL Winners live up their name and go through to round two of the winner bracket?

The following teams are the 16 invites:

• BB
  
• nOu
  
• YYT
  
• eCW
  
• aToon
  
• dnan
  
• team-aow
  
• desire
  
• dave
  
• nkNn
  
• FiF
  
• highbot
  
• validus
  
• n1ce.ee
  
• disposable
  
• pistoleros

That means that the qualifiers will be as follows:

• phantoms vs TBD
  
• muovail vs gamecloud
  
• target vs quickie
  
• excess vs w3st
  
• anticlimax vs rodcad
  
• angeldust vs Deathless
  
• canada vs independents
  
• herois do mar vs n-inv
  
• impressive.et vs lost soldiers
  
• turbot vs swat
  
• NL masters vs vae victis
  
• system6 vs bestwins
  
• ukraine vs nietykalni
  
• 6 angels vs pallot.et

Make sure you are in the private channel, if not, query krosan on irc.
These matches need to be played by 17:30, so get a move on it!
Maps for the qualifiers are: Supply, Radar (Adlernest)

Dear Crossfire and Enemy Territory community,

After our recent tournament announcement we are quite glad to see the discussion the announcement triggered. Apart from the original discussion it is nice to see that the community is not dead and even able to deal with such a topic in a quite objective and neutral way.

... (expand the full statement)As it stands right now, the time for a new and innovative start of a tournament for nations has not come yet. Negotiations with Clanbase were not possible or just failed from the beginning.
The result of this is: Two announced Tournaments.

This was not the aim of the collaboration between the Electronic Sports League and the Crossfire team. The reason for this tournament announcement was based on several requests done by the community and not a fast and illplanned idea from scratch. After the complaints about the recent seasons the ESL and Crossfire decided to give it a try and to start that new project during the winter. A project which was meant to be a project by the community for the community and not limited by rules given by somebody which might even not be involved into that tournament.

We do not want to split up the community into two parties. We care about your issues: That is the reason why we - the ESL and Crossfire crew - are ready to postpone the announced Championship until further notice. However this is a stark warning to Clanbase ET, that there will be another player in the house in future and that is the ESL. So it is time Clanbase gets their house in order!


Nevertheless we will not be inactive. Crossfire and the Electronic Sports League hereby partner up for the official seeding tournament for the upcoming Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 in March. Stay tuned for more information and the soon to be opened signups!

ESL Newspost

That's right folks! We're done with EuroCup XX. Certainly a lot has happened during that season. What exactly? You can check it only on main cup page. Final newspost contains:

• Interview with Sample
  
• EuroCup Qualifiers review
  
• Groupstage review
  
• Playoffs review
  
• Awards
  
• Detailed info about EC Allstars Game
  
• Thank you's
  
• Several additional links including EC XX Grand Final's war report, several videos, full award votings, full ranking of CB EC Experts league
  
  and many more!

The Crossfire admin team wishes you a very merry Christmas and many happy returns!

Enjoy your food, dont eat too much! Happy Hangover

First of all, I would like to wish anyone here Merry Christmas on behalf of the Crossfire Admin Crew. As a little present for you, we decided to have a 4th Intel Sunday Night Cup after Christmas.

Due to the high demand of the previous onedaycups, we will do it a little different this time around.
There will be 16 invites for teams that excelled in the previous cups. Next to these teams, 16 more teams will have the chance to participate in this cup, but they have to win a qualifier match.
In other words, there will be 16 qualifier matches giving 32 more teams the chance to participate. In the end 48 teams will have the chance to prove themselves in this next onedaycup, but only 32 will be playing the actual playoffs.

The mappool: Supply, Radar, Goldrush, Delivery, Adlernest. Furthermore, its free mapchoice in the Grand Final.

The Signups will open Friday 00:00 CET and close on Sunday 14:00 CET. So theres enough time to signup, its one of the last chances to play such a Intel Night Cup. The Qualifier matches will start on Sunday at 16:30 CET. The actual Tournament starts at 17:30 CET.

Signups closed @ 14:00 CET

Enjoy Christmas !

After 2 managers from xt6 Gaming left, we decided to move because they couldn't support us anymore. We decide to join the portugues multigaming Phantoms eSports for the upcoming CIC7 and the online tournaments.

The newly formed CIC7 team:[/b]

Gengis
Player
EURUZ
isENxl
TEKN0

The Relegation Stage is completed and we found the eight best Enemy Territory teams of Europe. Ladies and Gentlemen it is time for the last stage in the ESL 500€ competition: The EMS Play Offs are ready to start!

Due to the advent period the Relegation Stage was a bit extended but finally we can turn to the decisive part of the tournament. The play offs were drawn. Like announced the Play Offs are a double elimination stage where the lower bracket winner must beat the upper bracket winner twice to be the champion.Round 1



Schedule

WB Round 1
WB Round 2
WB Final



Grand Final

Rule excerpts:
Global EMS Rules
Map choice
General ET Rules
There are no Wildcards
Lineup Changes
Penalties
All Rules



LB Round 1
LB Round 2
LB Round 3
LB Final







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