Finnish side Masculine Mans have tonight overcome the so called Eurocup Winners by defeating eCW at the second time of asking. The match, which was replayed after famously being suspended half way through the initial attempt, took place this evening and it was the Finnish side who made best use of their second chance. The result has sparked some calls of foul play considering eCW were widely considered to be about to win the first map last time out, though this time they were comprehensively beaten.

EC Admin Killerboy had the following to say:

"Good fight by ECW on all maps, bit unfortunate sometimes by MM always showed good strength when needed (6/7 minutes defence upstairs on supply)." Ironically Killerboy highlighted snoop as his man of the match stating: "sNoOp, highest fragger, most killingsprees best SMG, showed how important he is for the ECW side."

First of all I want to welcome you all to a new Enemy Territory NationsCup!

Yes boys and girls, it's that time of year again. National Teams will be battling each other in what will hopefully be an epic Nationscup XIII !
The supervisors for this season are going to be the oldschool favourite Anaconda followed by the german powerhouse Rayzed. Our Coverage Supervisor ReWolf will be doing the written coverage! Killerboy will also lend a hand and make sure everything is working like a charm.
We would like to remind everyone that this season the NationsCup will be hosted in a 5on5 format and of course we hope that with the new layout many more countries will signup!
Like every season, we of course need some extra crew, be it as a Team Captain or a Referee / News writer. Here we explain the needed procedures to signup for the tasks above.

Our first 5v5 invite only ET-Cup is over. With 20 teams, more than 120 players, 12 matches live on GamesTV.org and all in all 864 spectators is was a really nice event. First of all I want to thank all the teams for their attendance and patience during the tournament and all the other people involved. I enjoyed doing the admintasks and it somehow remind me of the old #ET-Cup times. It was the first time I was able to follow some 5v5 matches and I have to admit that the new mode is quite refreshing and nice to watch. Furthermore I would recommend watching the videos on demand atleast the e2 vs. BB and BB vs. nOu.Zowie match (even though nearly ever match broadcasted by GamesTV.org had it highlights) but the mentioned games were just awesome. Actually there were some amazing multikills (dyna kills included) and crazy actions. Read More for the final standing and more information about upcoming events!

Tomorrow, the last Intel Sunday Night Cup will kick off. It will be the last Night Cup before christmas, so you'll be happy to take the trophy home as christmas present.
As the cups have been a success for Crossfire and the Community yet, we are planning to have more cups until the Lan kick off.
With the announcement of the Crossfire Country Championships today, there is a guarantee that most players will be active until Crossfire Intel Challenge 7.

We are proud to announce that Crossfire and the Electronic Sports League partner up for an ESL hosted Country Championship. One of the most prestigious competitions within the Enemy Territory scene which will this time take place just after new year.

Last year's captains of nations such as Germany, Croatia Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria,
Estonia, Poland, Finland, Netherlands and many more have already confirmed their interest in this ESL CF event and we hope for many more countries to apply later on!

We will publish more information on this season and how to apply as captain on the 27th of December. This is the date when national captain applications will be opened for all countries.

The aim of the partnership between Crossfire and the ESL is to create a fair, new and proper ruleset together with the teams and players. This will be done once the captains are appointed. Stay tuned for more information within the next days!

In the meantime feel free to post ideas and comments or even prepare your captain application. We look forward to a great event with you all!

- ESL Newspost

There is still time to vote in the Heaven Media Awards 2009

The polls will close TODAY at MIDNIGHT.

A couple weeks ago we told you about the Heaven Media Awards, and gave you the chance to vote for the people you thought best deserved it in a number of different awards ranging from best aimer to Team of the Year.

There is still time for you to vote in these awards and make your views heard on who will receive one of the Heaven Media Awards. Currently the race is extremely close in some of the categories, and so every vote will help towards it. It only takes a few minutes of your time.

The semifinals are about to come. After some very intense and exciting matches just four teams survived the straight knockout mode. The Cup started on yesterday evening with four qualification matches. All of them started as supposed @ 19.30 CET and with Squad.ee, Highbot and pstarZ the favourites won. Just the sublime vs. Be.Fraternity match was hard to evaluate and the result was very close but sublime was a bit better. Thus we had our four qualification teams and the real first round started with a short delay. ET fans were able to follow some matches live via GamesTv and I am sure a lot of you tuned in to the BB vs. e2 game at least I hope so because it was a hell of a match. e2 was able to take a map and forced BB to play the decider. On the 3rd map BB turned upward and won the game with 4:2. Other things to mention from round1 were a very close game between aTo0n and sublime and nOu vs. Highbot. Although aTo0n and nOu won the games their opponents were able to give them a good fight. All quarter-finals were broadcasted by GamesTV.org and once again we were able to spectate some very tight games. To name just one of them: dNan vs. nOu. Some actions from Radar are still in my mind - really enjoyed to ref that game. Now enough text. Check out the brackets for the remaining four teams and fixtures and dont forget to tune in at 20.00 CET and right after the semifinals to the grand final (proposed to be played around 21.15 CET!) and click the read more button to get crumbs prediction about the upcoming matches!

Update 22.38 CET: game over - BB won 4:2 against nOu! detailed news coming later

For the first time, the mappool will be announced some days before the cup kicks off. This way teams can take the opportunity to practise the maps that will be played in the Intel Crossfire Night Cup 3 next Sunday.

The mappool is: bremen_b2 reactor supply radar braundorf_b4 - hell yeah.

We decided to test bremen_b2 to see how it works in a 5vs5 format. A little change has been made though. As reactor was flamed like anything new here on crossfire, we decided to take braundorf instead of reactor. Adding supply and radar as well known maps to have a well balanced mappool.

Signups will open at Sunday 00:00 CET and close Sunday 16:00 CET this time. The Cup will kick off at 17:30 once again. Be sure to sign your team up in the newspost coming later this week.

Most likely, it'll be the last Intel Night Cup in 2009, but there've always been exceptions.So prepare and have fun.

rockit 5v5 invite ET-Cup

Update - 22.44 CET: Finally we got the last 4 teams - check brackets. More news coming!

Update - 22.12 CET: nOu vs. dNan and ato0n devilry vs. Pallot playing both decider atm!

Update - 21.53 CET: BB finally won 4:2 vs e2 in a hell of a match!

Update - 21.30 CET: Guarana won 4:2 vs. deathless and nOu 4:2 against Highbot! BB vs. e2 now decider on Radar!

Update - 21.11 CET: sublime just lost their first match in a close game to ato0n devilry (2:4) and Squad.ee won with 4:0 against dESIRE!

Update - 20.55 CET: We got the first surprise: e2 just won Adlernest agains BB. Now playing sw_gold_te! In the meantime dNan, pstarZ and Pallot won their first Round games!

Update - 20.00 CET: The Qualifiers are played - pstarZ, Squad.ee, Highbot and sublime are qualified for the first Round!