Wednesday night we saw an intense matchup on hospital for the first round of playoffss in the intel id/activision wolfenstein championships betweem Team Dignitas and Hubris.

Dignitas being a UK based team definately had the ping disadvantage as they were playing on an east coast us server, but they didnt let that deter them.

Starting off on the defense, Hubris did an excellent job of closing down the second objective of disrupting the experiment, as a lot of teams in multi-objective stopwatch do, they let dignitas get the first objective with relative ease while setting up shop in the experiment room.

Once the door was blown however it took dignitas at least 4 minutes to get to the objective let alone disrupt it, but disrupt it they did at 6:13.

So with some leeway and playing room, Hubris took over as the attackers, but they were held to a full hold as they were unable to get past the Dignitas defense. They did sucessfully manage to plant on the experiment but unfortunately it was defuse and the second plant ran out of time.

Into the second round we go, with Hubris having first crack at the cake. Again dignitas let them get the doors with relative ease although did put up some formidable resistance in that area, but once the doors went that was a totally different ball game.

New Modern Warfare 2 footage has hit the net, via North America's Spike TV.

The latest episode of GT TV delivers a ton of single-player and Special Ops footage from the big sequel, as well as revealing new details such as the solo game's multiple characters and the new Estate Takedown map, a sniper mission with jugernaut opponents.

This is a list of new stuff and highlights that can be found in the video:

Regarding Single Player:

• Minor submarine gameplay
  
• Real vehicle physics
  
• Special motion capture animations throughout campaign
  
• U.S.A. invasion confirmed

Regarding Spec Ops:

• 23 Missions in total (3 Stars x 23 = 69)
  
• No checkpoints (You can be revived by a teammate)
  
• Different difficulties (e.g. Dogs in harder modes)
  
• Different enemy types (e.g. juggernaut, hiding snipers)
  
• Snowmobile mission (Race with your friend in co-op - you can kill each other)
  
• Breach 'n Clear mission(s)

Regarding Multiplayer:

• U.S.A. multiplayer map(s) (likely Washington)

Extra:

• Robert Bowling again says 10th of November is the release date (while rumours said the PC version was delayed)

Links to the video:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/57238.html
http://www.spike.com/full-episode/modern-warfare-2/34288

In the latest issue of DuRuS' blog on Cadred, Ryan "raf1" Palmer elaborated on his plans concerning promod for the upcoming CoD4 successor Modern Warfare 2.



Raf1 points out that he won't be releasing his mod before it is properly beta tested by a select few among the top players of CoD4. Igniting a mod-race will only be harmful for the community and could tear the scene apart.

Also, raf1's intentions aren't to make a copy of another game, but only change superficial things without modifying the new elements that make MW2 unique. His reason for this decision is that the CoD community doesn't hold on to a game for very long and therefore would get bored with a CoD4 copy.

He will also keep the media features already in the current CoD4 promod, such as shoutcast overlay, and add some more on top of it.

This sounds very promising, but somehow I don't think we will be seeing a CoDTV soon.

You can read the entire summary of the chat with raf1 on Cadred:
Cadred.org

The next grandfinal of our ESL Summer Leagues is just around the corner! This time we will see the best of the best 3on3 teams face each other.

Both teams had a tough way through this seasons playoff tree and in the end JRP managed to come back out of the loser bracket and join the grandfinal versus re+play
As follows, information for the ESL 3on3 Premier Division final tonight at 19:30 CET:

The groups have been sorted and the teams are gearing up - EuroCup XX is well on it's way to another fine season. Tonight's match takes place in Group B, with Polish newcomers invitium taking on the European powerhouse EC Winners, consisting with some of the most talented players in the game.

Predict the score in the ESH Alienware Invasion tournaments and get fully kitted out by Alienware and Team Dignitas!

The Esports Heaven Alienware Invasion has arrived, supporting both Call of Duty 4 and Counter Strike: Source. With Alienware providing cash prizes for the winners, both cups are all but full. However, now you have the chance to compete in this tournament even if you aren't playing.

From the playoff stages onwards, you will be able to predict every single game in this prestigious Alienware tournament, for both CoD4 and CS:S. At the end of the tournament the winner will walk away with a fantastic prize courtesy of both Alienware and leading UK organisation, Team Dignitas.

• Alienware M15x Gaming Laptop as used by Team Dignitas
  
• Team Dignitas T-Shirt with their Name printed on it
  
• Team Dignitas coat
  
• Team Dignitas hat
  
• Razer gaming accessories as used by Team Dignitas[/b]

This competition is open to Europeans, it however requires them to fly to London for a day to both collect the prize and do the neccessary PR work.

The Sign Ups for the European Qualifiers of the fifth ESL Major Series Season featuring Enemy Territory have closed some hours ago. We have found the best 32 teams all over Europe which will battle for the 16 Slots of this season's ESL Major Series Group Stage. Read on for all Qualifier Information!

Based on the last season's results, stability, the team-ratings and the Admin ratings, the Qualifiers will look as the following ones:

Infinity Ward released their new Modern Warfare 2 trailer called "Infamy".
It reveals quite a lot about the single player story, including a battle to reclaim Washington D.C. after an apocalypse. This surely has to ring a bell for people who played Fallout 3!

This time's EuroCup has got published poules. In fact, whole Qualifiers system was organized in a way that clans were actually fighting for a higher seed. Now, the time to publish EuroCup XX groups has come. Before that I'd like to mention that groups have been made according to following rules:

• 1 clan from each poule
  
• clans met in the EC Qualifiers can't face each other in the groupstage again
  
• clans from the same countries can't meet in groupstage

After over a year of having one of the most stable lineups in Call of Duty 4, Team Dignitas today announces two new faces in that lineup. We had a successful year winning ESL EPS UK Season 1, OOF3 Champion and we did well in various other competitions. The new season is starting and of course with Modern Warfare 2 not very far away we are looking to secure a stable lineup for that new challenge.



Returning to the lineup is our old friend Chris 'nreo' Mead together with former TCM player Mark 'Phantasy' Pinney. We are also glad to announce that Chris 'blackmane' Kinnair will be returning from his inactive role and step into the starting lineup as team Captain.

Team Dignitas COD4 is:

Mark 'mark' Horner
Jonathan 'raz' Baker
Chris 'blackmane' Kinnair
Chris 'nreo' Mead
Mark 'Phantasy' Pinney

Source
http://www.team-dignitas.org/index.php?id=8983&page=1