Today a completely new competition map sees the light of day. I am proud to release Coast beta1 into the communitys custody. The map was designed for the 5on5 format and proved to be great gameplaywise. I'll be glad for any critique and feedback to improve it within its way to the final status.

Without further ado I present you the Coast beta1 presentation video by phaloid:

With the end of the group stage it is time to set the course for the EMS Playoffs. But before the final stage of the EMS V is ready to start, we will see the last teams fighting in the Relegation for the last slots in the Playoffs.

The ESL Major Series Relegation starts today and all matches have to be finished next Sunday. Default date is Sunday, 21 CET. All teams which have added 0 / 1 player, are now allowed to add 2 / 1 new players. To add a player to your team send in a support ticket to EU EMS ET section stating your wish.

Prior to the actual relegation matches we have to announce that Team YoYoTech FiF decided to drop from the competition in order to prepare for the Crossfire Intel Challenge in early march. Due to this one 4th placed team gets the chance to win a relegation match!

Relegation matches

Qualified teams
Guarana
ESL Winners
mASCULINE_MANS
Dickheads

Last night was supposed to be the grand final of the Clanbase Eurocup but as many random journals illuded to yesterday the final was not played, for those who dont know (I didnt until now) this is what happened:

Quote by Killerboy

Francis & Homer had a radio shoutcast, and francis invited taZ and matias to shoutcast aswell apparently there was a misunderstanding (ecw thought it was a for pre-match only) only 1 could join the server due to insufficient slots and matias gave up (before the match started) and he quit without much problems but tazor kept on joining the server during the match and radio shoutcast connecting with voice changer and ruining it. After we kept on kicking him we got another CB admin Rayzed, and that solved the problem cos nobody could connect server was full so taz pasted the server ip & pw on #et-finland actually this happened before we got rayzed first he pasted the ip & pw then "grzesiek" connected with what we believe an rcon hacker. ETPro logs show he tried to crash it we kicked him from the server and rayzed joined, 5 minutes later everyone was kicked we dont know who it was for sure yet since we are waiting for the server console logs skooli and arni have all the details.

When will the match be next played? Potentially tonight, both sides were looking to play tonight however snoop came down with a rare condition of nerdrage and deleted his entire profile and buddylist (serious stuff) and claimed he wont play again. One of the reasons for this was that ECW had defended radar for 9 minutes and started attacking well by taking the CP within 2 minutes so map 1 looked to headed their way.

Update The Clanbase Eurocup XX Final will now take place on Sunday night. On the same day that BA's Trade Union was shot down so were the scheduling problems for the EC Final. That has left many with the question of what lineup will roll out for ECW in the final?

The signup for the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 are progressing nicely with CoD4 currently leading the way! There is still plenty of time to signup however we'd much prefer it if teams signed up as early as possible to give us as much indication of how to structure things as soon as possible. We've also already had a handful of teams pay their entrance fee already!

- Who’s Signed Up?Key – Bold = Paid
ET

Charism
Team Even More Randoms
TvLAN.GOSSIP
reVeal
fiLth.UK
Team YoYoTech
Lost Soliders
FIF
dESIRE

COD4

DOK Gaming
Team Thermaltake
Team Corgz
Sublime
Speedlink
Infused
TLR
burning!
fuZion
Power Gaming
Arm3d
MAMUT

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To signup for a tournament at CIC7 you need to do the two following things, firstly you need to create your clan profile and get all your members into that Clan on Crossfire. You can create your clan profile here and add new members into it on the Add Members button. Once complete mail your Clan Profile, Your primary contact email address and phone number and which tournament you want to play in to CIC7Signups AT googlemail DOT com. Once completed you need to pay for your entry ticket, each player must pay €50 to enter either the ET or CoD tournaments (QL Info later) – Managers & Spectators are free.

How to Pay your CIC7 Entry Fee We urge teams to pay their whole entry fee in one payment, rather than individual player payments.
Bank Transfers & PayPal:
- Payments Made payable to: Crossfire
- IBAN: GB24MIDL 403913 21363751
- Swift/Bic Code MIDLGB2152H
- Sort Code 403913
- Bank: HSBC
- Bank Address: 65 High Street Ruislip Middlesex HA4 8JE (UK)

PAYPAL Address: stuart at quadv dot com – Paypal users must pay a 5 euro fee ontop which we get charged for receiving the money – so it would be 255 Euro per team

Once you have paid you can send an email to the signup address to let us know, though you dont have to. You will see your signup go bold on the signup list when we confirm receipt of your money.

All payments for ET and payments once the CoD tournament has been formally triggered are nonrefundable. Do not pay unless you're sure you are going to attend.[/hide]

Signups for ET are open until January 24th, For CoD4 initial signups are open until January 1st – If 10 teams for CoD4 have paid by then we will extend the signups to the 24th of January. In February, Crossfire will run a seeding tournament for all competitions, and results of this tournament will determine the seedings for the event. All teams who have completed their payments will be assured a spot in the tournament.

Team Rockit is proud to announce another big event this December. We will host a 5v5 invite only ET-Cup in cooperation with E-Sports-Server.de. The tournament will kick off tomorrow evening @ 20.00 CET and we already have competent teams (for example ButtonBashers, guarana, nOu way!, aToOn devilry, dESIRE, dNan and more).
But due to some cancellations we have 6 free slots for the cup. Therefore everybody can signup for the event by pmming me the teamname, country and lineup. We will choose the most suited teams and publish the tournament tree tomorrow midday.

Prize:
E-Sports-Server.de will reward the winner with a 14 Slot Gameserver of your choice for 2 months (those games are available: RTCW:ET, all CoD series, and nearly all Steam games). May the best team win!

Rules:
The Global5 Config will be used, Single Elimination and Admins can request ETTv for the games (feel free to do so as well). The cupchannel is #rockit so be there to get in contact with your opponent!

Note: nOu is playing the Grand Final even if they lost to MixMix. MixMix offered their Grand Final spot cause two of them have to leave. Thanks to MixMix !

Ladies and Gentlemen, red-hot game of EuroCup XX is on it's way. After a running battle two teams have fought their consecutive road to the Grand Final. Stunning performance they shown allows us to expect the very best of Enemy Territory on monday's evening. Expect the highest viewer peak, tune in radio commentary, connect to ETTV. And prepare for blood bath between Masculine Mans and EC Winners !


Masculine Mans are the defending Champions. Their winning streak of EuroCup matches reached 12 games already. Not being prejudiced, they believe they will win another game. They lost only 2 maps in the current season. After sending bossid to loserbracket, they had a close thing against Team YoYoTech. Luckily for them, they managed to win decider map and secure 4:2 win in Upper Bracket Round 2. Then they had to face their monday's opponent - EC Winners. After good performance on goldrush, viewers expected the match to be ended with 4:0 score for Fins. However, EC Winners made it more interesting after Meez delivered documents to transmitter. Radar - decider was a one sided game. Masculine Mans shown all of their best here, set time 3.01 in attack and won the game 4:2.

Because of the loss in Upper Bracket Final, EC Winners needs to beat Masculine Mans twice to live up with their name. Their performance in early playoff stage wasn't outstanding. Lost map to Sublime Gaming, 50/50 game against Celsus couldn't satisfy their fans. They were forced to change their roster because of NuggaN's pc problems. Their new 6th player is teKoa. With the new lineup, they shown their potential in the Loser Bracket Final, beating TAG 4:0. If they perform like that, perfo, Meez and wiaderko can believe that their team is able to repay for last season's final where they lost playing under Overload.SNB's tag.

The ESL Intel Extreme Master American Championship finals are now over. EG hit the jackpot taking the 1st and the 3rd places in Quake Live, the 1st spot in Counter-Strike and placing 4th in World of Warcraft, and we will see all those players in the World Championship finals in CeBIT 2010 in Germany. Before that, however we need to get them some decent competitors and that means the IEM European Championship finals need to be played, and that is not far away at all. The European Championship finals are played in 14.-17. January for CS and WoW and a week later for Quake Live. I personally would like thank the ESL crew in Edmonton, especially Carmac, the guys from iD Software for giving the LAN support and last but not least the awesome people at ESL Studios and the great casters TosspoT, 2GD and Joe. See you in January!

»Quake Live Final Standings«

EG.DaHanG $3,500 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
SK-rapha $1,500 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
EG.Chance $1,000 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
4th col'Vo0 $700 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
5-6. griffin - $400
5-6. gellehsak - $400
7-8. dkt - $250
7-8. sparks - $250

»World of Warcraft Final Standings«

CheckSix - $7,500 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
SK Gaming - $3,500 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
fnatic - $1,500 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
4th Team EG - $800 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
5-6. Loaded - $500
5-6. compLexity - $500
7. From Quitters... - $350

»Counter-Strike Final Standings«

Team EG - $15,000 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
compLexity - $7,000 + Ticket to World Championship Finals
Blight Gaming - $3,000
4th Sway Gaming - $1,500
5-6. Berserk - $1,000
5-6. Team Exigent - $1,000
7-8. Kindred - $750
7-8. Facepalm - $750

[b»Quake Live Finals«[/b]]
The Grand Final: SK-rapha 2 : 3 EG.DaHanG
3rd Place: col'Vo0 0 : 3 EG.Chance

[b»Quake Live Semifinals«[/b]]
EG.Chance 2 : 3 SK-Rapha
coL'Vo0 0: 3 EG.DaHanG

[b»Quake Live Groups«[/b]]
Group A:

Player
EG.Chance
coL'Vo0
EG.griffin
coL'dkt
Points
6
6
6
0
Wins
2
2
2
0
Losses
1
1
1
3


Summary of the Events

Before the event Group A was considered a battle of three, with EG.griffin being the definite 4th place finisher. coL'dkt was supposed to be the winner of the Group but that image was pretty much destroyed in the very first match when he went head-to-head with his new compLexity teammate Vo0. The result of the match was a total surprise to many, Vo0 beat dkt straight in two maps. In the meantime EG.Chance beat his teammate griffin in two maps as well, which was to be expected.

The following match between Chance and Vo0 was a real thriller. In the first map, which was tourney9 (aka House of Decay) it seemed Chance was punishing Vo0 quite convincingly before the Dutchman started his furious comeback with five frags or so to catchup. The game was 7-6 in favor of Chance who tried his best to hide from his opponent and it seemed he had the game in his pocket with seconds to go. However, the nerves of the American failed him and he moved out from his hiding spot, which resulted in Vo0 tieing the game in the very last second and the game went on to overtime. Chance had already given to mapcontrol to Vo0 who kept it the entire overtime, fiinally beating Chance 13 to 7. The American found his way out of the misery in the second map (ztntourney1 aka Blood Run) and gave Vo0 the beating he wasn't expecting, with the result being 10 to 2 in favor of Chance. Even if Chance dominated in ztn, Vo0 had some aces in the sleeve in the deciding map (dm13 aka Lost World). Vo0 didn't give up even one frag, and took his second win with 6 frags to 0.

At the same time griffin showed he is no pushover when he beat dkt 2:1, meaning the final round could possibly result in a three-way tie. And that's exactly what happened. Griffin vs Vo0, dkt vs Chance. As impressive as Vo0 had been, griffin certainly didn't let that bother him as the Canadian picked up the pace with the help of his unreal rockets, the result being a close mapwin in ztn, the score being 4 to 3. The following maps were dominance from both players, Vo0 took 9-1 victory in dm13 and griffin somewhat suprisingly win dm6 (aka Campgrounds Redux) with the score of 10 to 2, causing Vo0 to lose his first game in the event. At the same time Chance beat dkt in two maps, meaning the favorite of the Group, dkt had lost all his games and was left on the 4th place instead. In a three-way tie between Chance, Vo0 and griffin map wins/losses had to be inspected resulting in, despite giving a good performance, griffin is left out from the playoffs with Chance and Vo0 going through.


Group B:

Player
EG.DaHanG
SK-rapha
EG.gellehsak
sparks
Points
9
6
3
0
Wins
3
2
1
0
Losses
0
1
2
3


Summary of the Events

Group B on the other hand was a lot clearer prior to event, with SK-rapha and EG.DaHanG going to the playoffs, in that order. Everything was going just as planned, rapha and DaHanG both beat gellehsak and sparks 2 to 0 respectively, although for a moment it seemed gellehsak could cause a huge upset versus rapha. In tourney7 (aka Furious Heights), gellehsak was only one frag away from rapha with 3 minutes left. He had all the chances to tie the game and even possibly take a mapwin but for some reason he threw that all away by first giving up both Megahealth and the Red Armor without challenging rapha and then picking a fight by the Yellow Armor by the railgun for no apparent reason. Truthfully I can't remember if rapha extended his lead in that situation but atleast he had a total mapcontrol now and gellehsak's hopes for a miracle faded away.

Now the plans were re-written in the final and the most anticipated match of the night when rapha and DaHanG faced each other in a match that'd determine the final Group order. Rapha was a clear favorite but as gellehsak has hinted, DaHanG has improved a lot and according to the Canadian, DaHanG would eventually be the American to beat. DaHanG showed some of his potential in this very match when he beat rapha straight in two maps, meaning DaHanG would be winner of the Group B without losing a map and rapha would be the second.

[b»World of Warcraft Finals«[/b]]
The Grand Final: SK.USA 3 : 4 CheckSix
3rd Place: Fnatic 4 : 3 Team EG

[b»World of Warcraft Semifinals«[/b]]
SK.USA 4 : 1 Fnatic
CheckSix 4 : 1 Team EG

[b»World of Warcraft Groups«[/b]]
Group A:

Team
CheckSix Gaming
SK-Gaming USA
Loaded.Wow
From Quitters To Winners
Points
6
6
6
0
Wins
2
2
2
0
Losses
1
1
1
3

Group A:

Team
Evil Geniuses
Fnatic.Wow
compLexity
Points
6
3
0
Wins
2
1
0
Losses
0
1
2


[b»Counter-Strike Finals«[/b]]
The Grand Final: Team EG 2 : 0 compLexity
3rd Place: Blight 2 : 1 Sway
[b»Counter-Strike Semifinals«[/b]]
Team EG 2 : 0 Sway
Blight 0 : 2 compLexity

[b»Counter-Strike Groups«[/b]]
Group A:

Team
Team EG
Blight Gaming
Berserk
Kindred
Points
9
6
3
0
Wins
3
2
1
0
Losses
0
1
2
3

Group B:

Team
compLexity Syndicate
Sway
Team Exigent
NERDSMASHERS
Points
9
6
3
0
Wins
3
2
1
0
Losses
0
1
2
3




VODs
ESL IEM American Championship
Interview with gellehsak
Interview with Vo0
Interview with DaHanG
Interview with rapha
Interview with dkt

To aid the transition from 6on6 to 5on5 at the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 we're running some 1 night cups to get teams playing 5on5 together. The format is very much like the old ingame.de cups, one night only, max 32 teams, Best of 3 SW Rounds on that 1 map, Single Elimination. Only the strongest will survive! Rumour has it that a number of the CIC7 oldschool top teams will be returning to activity during these cups!

Sunday December 13th

Signups Open: 00:00 CET - A new thread will be made where you'll need to post your lineup
First Round (Round of 32): 17:30 CET - Goldrush Adlernest (Delivery)
Second Round (Round of 16): 18:30 CET - Frosbite Delivery (Goldrush)
Third Round (Quarter Final): 19:30 CET - Adlernest Frosbite (Goldrush)
Fourth Round (Semi Final): 20:30 CET - Goldrush Delivery (Adlernest)
Last Round (Grand Final): 21:30 CET - Frosbite Goldrush (Adlernest)

It'd help greatly if you can show your interest in playing in this cup in the comments below!

This weekend the best players in the USA and Canada are fighting to get their share of $53,000 prizepot and tickets for the ESL Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in CeBIT 2010, Hannover, Germany. The fierce battle takes place in West Edmonton Mall in Canada.

[b»Quake Live Groups«[/b]]


Group A
Chance
Vo0
griffin
dkt
Group B
DaHanG
rapha
gellehsak
sparks


[b»Quake Live Prizes«[/b]]
- $3,500 + Ticket to World Championship
- $1,500 + Ticket to World Championship
- $1,000 + Ticket to World Championship
4. - $700
5-6. - $400
5-6. - $400
7-8. - $250
7-8. - $250

Note: rapha has already qualified to World Championship (by winning in Dubai) so if he places in top 3 his extra-ticket is given to player who places 4th


[b»Counter-Strike 1.6 Groups«[/b]]

Group A
Team EG
Kindred
Frag Dominant
Team Devious
Group B
compLexity Syndicate
Team Exigent
NERDSMASHERS
Sway


[b»Counter-Strike Prizes«[/b]]
- $15,000 + Ticket to World Championship
- $7,000 + Ticket to World Championship
- $3,000
4. - $1,500
5-6. - $1,000
5-6. - $1,000
7-8. - $750
7-8. - $750


[b»World of Warcraft Groups«[/b]]

Group A
SK Gaming USA
Loaded.WoW
CheckSix Gaming
From Quitters To Winners
Group B
compLexity
fnatic.WoW
Evil Geniuses


[b»World of Warcraft Prizes«[/b]]
- $7,500 + Ticket to World Championship
- $3,500 + Ticket to World Championship
- $1,500 + Ticket to World Championship
4. - $800 + Ticket to World Championship
5-6. - $500
5-6. - $500
7-8. - $350
7-8. - $350



Streams are of course offered by ESL TV (Alternative Host) and now that the Quake Live groupstage is over Counter-Strike will begin in a moment!

[b»Quake Live Results and Schedule for Friday«[/b]]
Round 1:
- 22:00 CET: dkt 0 : 2 Vo0 on ESL TV
- 22:40 CET: DaHanG 2 : 0 gellehsak on ESL TV
- 23:20 CET: rapha 2 : 0 sparks
- 23:20 CET: Chance 2 : 0 griffin

Round 2
- 00:00 CET: Chance 1 vs 2 Vo0
- 00:00 CET: dkt 1 vs 2 griffin
- 00:40 CET: rapha 2 : 0 gellehsak
- 00:40 CET: DaHanG 2 : 0 sparks

Round 3 (Most relevant game will be covered on ESL TV)
- 01:20 CET: gellehsak vs sparks
- 01:20 CET: DaHanG 2 : 0 rapha
- 01:20 CET: Chance 2 : 0 dkt
- 01:20 CET: griffin 2 : 1 Vo0



ESL IEM American Championship
Interview with gellehsak
Interview with Vo0
Tek-9 previews the Quake Live tournament