With just two months till CC6 kicks off in Enschede Team Mamut.si has to say goodbye to Nico “senji" Sinning, due to Exams right on the CC6 weekend. He has been in the team from the very beginning back in 2005 and was one of the core players during idle’s prime time in 2006/2007.

The player that will step up is no other than Taneli “Squall” Härkönen.

The new mamut.si lineup:

Vaiko “Night” Vainola
Hendrik “RELOAd” Kinks
Jaka “JaKaZc” Kejzar
Sebastian “drago” Ohrmann
Tore “urtier” Trimpop
Taneli “Squall” Härkönen

urtier had the following to say:

EuroCup Spring Season Invites This Sunday!

Find out this Sunday who the invites are for the EuroCup Spring season live on CBRadio. Next to that, CBRadio will give out the two remaining QcK+ mouse pads from SteelSeries Limited Edition.

As the signups are closed, it seems only a matter of time before the titans amongst our games are selected to face each other and become this season's ultimate champion! This Sunday, ClanBase announces who these titans are for each EuroCup game.

Next to the #EuroCup announcement on IRC, we are able to give you a live show on CBRadio including interviews with people from the scene. Your hosts Nex and Ins0mnia will entertain you and will give away the last two QcK+ pads from SteelSeries Limited edition. If you want a piece of that action, or you don't want to miss out which teams can consider themselves as the giants of your game, then tune in this Sunday at 20.00 CET on CBRadio.

Source: CB NEWS


Update:

The schedule:

20.00: Introduction
20.10: Enemy Territory
20.25: Call of Duty 2
20.40: Medal of Honor AA
20.55: SteelSeries Contest Part 1
21.00: Call of Duty 4
21.15: SteelSeries Contest Part 2
21.20: Counter-Strike: Source
21.35: Announcement of winners of both contests

Whilst the third season of the ESL Major Series is still running we are proud to announce the fourth season. Over 150 teams and 1000 players took part in the last
season and battled out Europe's best! Our competition expands again and this time
even more Crossfire Games are featured by it!

Yes ladies and gentlemen this time again Enemy Territory and Call of Duty 4 are
listed in the team disciplines. This is a little Thank You for the great Winter League and we hope for a continuing activity by our community:

[bThe 14 games and their prizepurses:[/b]]Team Games:

• Enemy Territory (6on6): €500
  
• Call of Duty 4 (5on5): €3.000
  
• Counter-Strike: Source (5on5): €3.000
  
• Counter-Strike Female (5on5): €1.500
  
• DotA (5on5): €1.500
  
• Dawn of War 2 (Clanwar): €1.000
  
• FIFA 09 (5on5): €1.750
  
• Team Fortress 2 (6on6): €1.500
  
• America's Army (4on4): €500
  
• Day of Defeat: Source (6on6): €500

1on1 Games:

• Quake 3: €750
  
• StarCraft: Brood War: €750
  
• PES 2009: €500
  
• Trackmania: €500

The Enemy Territory tournament will consist of different stages of qualifiers and a final groupstage + playoffs. As for now we plan to host 4 national qualifiers ( , , , ) and 4 Qualifiers to find the 16 teams for our groupstage (depends on signups). Just take a look on the following image. Any more detailed information on the system will be published in the next post!

A trilling night it is with the upcoming matches today. You better be having your popcorn popping when its about to start. First two games will be between S. N. Battalion vs H2k Gaming and MASCULINE MANS vs versatile. Both S. N. Battalion and H2k Gaming are potential winners in this cup, only time can tell which one deserves it more. MASCULINE MANS being the only full finnish team atm, can they deliver it for their nation or will versatile put a stop on it? You can see it for yourself on Gamestv.

hentai: We've beaten h2k before but they were missing their rifle and we don't really prac as much anymore with NC killing our available days down. Then again, we've improved a lot recently. I think it'll depend on the maps, but we should win 4:0 or 4:2 if meez doesn't fuck up. I'd suggest watching Rk, i've got a feeling he'll be on fya tonight.

potter: well to be honest i cant really say who is going to win tonight. we are praccing almost everytime with a diffrent lineup. luckily gifty is here today and we can finally play with a normal lineup. snb has a strong lineup and it will be hard for us but we try everything to win this time

One month ago the ClanBase NationsCup XII began. Following these four weeks of intense matches full of action, we’re now down to the all important battle for the playoffs, the candidates – the likes of Germany and Belgium. But there's still everything to play for!

The Group Stage offered us many surprises, like Czech Republic having a streak of 4 wins in a row and thereby currently leading Group B. Or Spain, currently 2nd place in Group A having only lost against the tournament favourites Poland.
Regrettably, we’ve also had some disappointing teams this Season in the same way we have surprises. Having yet to win any map, Austria and Hungary will have to battle hard to avoid the so called 'Wodden Spoon Award'. Being the overall most outsiding team Romania is fulfilling the list.

Tonights game between TAG and Cortana are about to take off. Looking back at their previous results against each other, Cortana won twice with 4 – 0, 4 – 2 and TAG ones with 4 – 0. Is it TAG’s turn to take the victory this time? With the new players edain, krein and euruz in TAG, Cortana might be in for a tough challenge. Can TAG pull it off without overdrives level 4 mining skills and the absence of Hope for tonights game or will cortana go for strike 3!? Tune in Gamestv for the fight!

frozz: they have the most stupid style of playing, so we gonna lose

Lightning: Will try our best to make it an interesting game, the game comes kinda early for us but will make the best out of it. And were hoping on a good connection day from Hope. I think it will be a draw.

Group B goes down to the wire tonight in this the penultimate match week of the group stages. Following the United Kingdom's surprise victory over Finland last night they've thrown open the gates on any sense of normality and left all three qualifying places up for grabs. The big four have been decided, but who will be the unlucky loser that just misses out?

Group B has been the shining beacon of this seasons ClanBase NationsCup. It was billed in the tournament preamble "group of death", and has lived up to that billing spectacularly. To date both of the group favourites, Finland and Netherlands, have lost at least one match. The only team to as yet have a perfect record in the competition being tonights competitors and perhaps new group favourites, Czech Republic.

The Czech's have impressed this time round, performing heroics in overcoming initially the dogmatic Brits, and more impressively, taking down the Dutch. They've played three won three and currently sit top of Group B - though strangely, as yet not guaranteed a playoff spot!

It's tonights challengers that could throw this group on its head once more. Should they replicate their impressive performance against the UK on Delivery, they can at the very least force a decider. What this decider will be will surely determine not just the fate of these two teams, but of the group as a whole.

One thing can be certain, tonights winners will guarantee their place in the latter stages. Tune in from 22:00 CET!

Czech Republic vs France

Time: 22:00 CET
Maps: sp_delivery_te / sw_goldrush_te
Competition: ClanBase NationsCup, Group B
Fixtures to Date

Czech Republic 4 0 Austria
Finland 4 2 France
Netherlands 4 2 United Kingdom

France 4 2 United Kingdom
Finland 4 0 Austria
Czech Republic 4 2 Netherlands

Czech Republic 4 0 United Kingdom
Finland 4 2 Netherlands
France 4 0 Austria

Netherlands 4 0 Austria
United Kingdom 4 2 Finland
Czech Republic vs France

Final Match week

Austria vs United Kingdom
France vs Netherlands
Czech Republic vs Finland

Current group standing

Czech Republic
Finland
France
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Austria
ETTV: http://www.gamestv.org/event/9801-czech-republic-vs-france/

Not satisfied with only offering that great tie, GamesTV and ClanBase have again teamed up to showcase two other great matches as a warmup to the match of the night. Starting from 21:00 it's up to you the viewer to chose your poison and catch one of either Germany or Estonia in match week four of this NC.

Estonia have so far played two, won one lost one - and tonight will endeavor to climb into the all important third place qualifying position in the group, which a win tonight will ensure. Hungary have struggled to date this season, failing as yet to take a map, let alone a match and so will not fancy their chances against the old giants of Enemy Territory.

Estonia vs Hungary

Time: 21:00 CET
Maps: sp_delviery_te / sw_goldrush_te
Competition: ClanBase NationsCup, Group C
ETTV: http://www.gamestv.org/event/9798-estonia-vs-hungary/

Running consecutively Germany look to continue their domination of Group D with what should be an easy win over Slovenia tonight. Even Quakecon champion jackazc will be hard pressed to carry his team against the might of the Germans tonight.

Germany vs Slovenia

Time: 21:00 CET
Maps: sp_delivery_te / sw_goldrush_te
Competition: ClanBase NationsCup, Group D
ETTV: http://www.gamestv.org/event/9794-germany-vs-slovenia/

That's your Monday evening sorted, courtesy of ClanBase NationsCup! Tune in from 21:00 CET.

UKeSA Premier League - Dignitas vs ButtonBashers - Thursday 5th March 20:00 GMT

This Thursday sees the clash of the titans as the two top teams according to Cadred Rankings Dignitas and ButtonBashers meet for the first time in the UKeSA Premier League.

They met recently in the EMS III Grand Final with ButtonBashers picking up the first map on Crossfire but failing to secure the win as Winner Bracket finalists Dignitas destroyed them on Strike to take victory. Dignitas then went on the next weekend to pick up more glory in the EPS UK Finals where they ran away clear winners over Infused taking home more cash and glory.

So with Dignitas coming into the match the favourites the question remains who will be the better team on Backlot? Neither have particularly great records on the map so it really is open for debate on Thursday Night.

You can catch all the action right here on QuadV TV3 with Deman at 20:00 GMT.

After the work of Nellie with the Crossfire Movie Awards 2008 http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=column&mode=item&id=413 I got in contact to do something monthly. So we give you the Crossfire Movie of the Month awards.

The Criteria will be very similar to the awards by Nellie

• All voting has been done by you, the Crossfire user.
  
• Months are 25th - 25th in general.
  
• Movies must have a minimum of 30 votes.
  
• All ratings as of last day of the month.
  
• Movie length now must be at least 2mins, 30seconds.

This months movies are from January 26th - February 23rd any movies release after 23rd will go into March awards.

Welcome to the first Crossfire Prediction League! It's long been tradition for members and players to predict the evening’s matches. So we thought, why not spice up the predictions and offer a competitive nature?! With that goal, the Crossfire Prediction League was born. The Crossfire Prediction League will allow members to compete amongst themselves over the period of a competition to show they've the best knowledge of the scene!

What is this?

A simple league of predictions garnered through the comments made in the news on Crossfire. A weekly table will be updated and published each Monday showing the winners & the losers of that week. At the end of the selected competition, the totals will be tallied and the winners announced.

How do I enter?

It's simple! Just add a comment in the relevant news for that days matches of the ClanBase NationsCup & that's your prediction made. The cut off date for predictions will be the scheduled start time, and predictions made after this point will be void. There's no correct format to enter, but clarity helps! (i.e. GamesTV 6 4 Crossfire)

How does it work?

It's simple! Each correct prediction will be awarded a score and entered into the league. Each correct score prediction earns 3 points (i.e. Crossfire 8 6 GamesTV) and each correct winner earns 1 point (i.e. GamesTV > Crossfire). At the end of the competition the points will be collated and the winners announced! Make sure you get your prediction in for each & every match!

What if I change my nick?

It’s simple! Just contact the CPL admin and your nickname will be changed on the database.

How is this different to GBooky?

Discretely! There’s very little difference ["cheap immitation"] other than this allows users to bet on an individual match score and offers an end game. Everyone loves to gamble, play both!

What can I win?

Everyone loves to be top dog, and they love it even more when there’s something on offer. But as this is a brief trial period we're still working on a suitable prize. Dependent on the success of the competition, we aim to be back bigger and better for future events and with a sponsor onboard!

When does it start?

From Monday 02 March 2009 and all ClanBase NationsCup matches thereafter.

That’s the blurb done with. Get out there, get watching and get predicting!