Lions roar, eagles soar… tonight, the first Enemy Territory 6(ish) Nations Championship kicks off! We’ve the start of this weeks three encounters and it’s going to be a cracker. It’s Azzurri against England, blue against white – tonight, ‘nations collide’.

England vs. Italy

Date: Tuesday, 10th February 2009
Time: 23:00 CET
Format: BO4
Maps: Reactor / sw_goldrush_te / tba / tba
ETTV: GamesTV.org
Shoutcast: mistaken (English)

Saturday’s rugby clash was an unspectacular affair, dogged by a myriad of Italian errors making life easy for the unimpressive English – errors the Italians will be eager not to replicate tonight. Will they settle the score and reclaim national pride? English captain Starzi thinks not “we can win today”, this despite difficulties arising due to the ET Masters “We haven't had a lot of training due to exams and the ET Masters, but I think we've got a good strong line up”.

What does the caster think? "4-2 either way, depends on if Italy brings their gameface."

Tune in, support, enjoy.

#6nations | Tournament Bracket

The tournament for the last 4 spots in the first division and the last chance to play for the sex, the drugs and the money is about to start. With the first two rounds of the double elimination bracket played today the next deciding rounds won't be missed for long. On Monday and Tuesday night we will face the important matches.

A pretty cold Saturday evening ? You dont know what to do ? What about watching an Enemy Territory match live !? Israel and Russia are going to have a clash tonight. Its the first match for both Israel and Russia. Both teams had to play a Qualifier. Russia has beaten Ireland 4:0 in a pretty easy match. Israel had to play Norway, but they could beat them 4:2 in an exciting three-mapper. Just from the lineups there is no real favourite team tonight. Can Russia beat the old eSrael allstars of Israel without CC5 Champion zerender ? Only time will tell, and YOU gotta tune in tonight.

Israel
destiny
Ranje
pliss
wAffle
elfa
mASSION
Zer4tuL
2:4 Russia
humM3L
jago
JokE
slaw
rivz
murDa
freezer



Date: 07.02.2009 / 21:00 (CET)
Maps: Radar / Special Delivery TE / Decider: SW_goldrush
ETTV: GamesTV.org
Who to watch: destiny & JokE
Admins: szczurek & b3ck
Coverage: essAh

• Maps: You can pick every map twice during the group stage
  
• Interviews: Team captains must add a pre match statement
  
• Config: We will use the european config - If we pick oasis as 6th map, we will introduce a new config

Many rules have been written, check them in yet another google spreadsheet. All players must read these rules, failure to follow them can and will result in strict penalties.
:: Rules


As announced earlier the qualifiers will be held starting this weekend. In short, here is the schedule. We will offer game servers and organize coverage for every match:
Match 1 - Sun 20.00 - Upper Bracket Round 1
Match 2 - Sun 21.30 - Upper Bracket Round 2, Lower Bracket Round 1
Match 3 - Mon 20.00 - Lower Bracket Round 2
Match 4 - Mon 21.30 - Upper Bracket Round 3, Lower Bracket Round 3
Match 5 - Mon 21.00 - Lower Bracket Round 4
Make sure you keep your schedule and inform admins if you can't play your match in time.
:: view the detailed schedule


Team captains have to contact an admin in the official irc channel to report their line up and mail adress. We will use them to publish google documents for each match including a match preview and review for each match. Team captains have to add their statements to these documents and have to pick their map.
:: #etmasters

The deadline to complete your UKeSa registration is fast approaching and for CoD4's chances of making it into the premier league teams need to act quickly to complete their registrations! The registration is completed in 2 parts, firstly all teams MUST have a complete roster of filled in GUID's on their ED profile and secondly, teams MUST pay their entrance fee, all of this must be completed by SUNDAY (8th Feb). CoD4 stands a very good chance of making it as a premiership game if teams mobilse themselves, so far TF2 looks to be the only dead cert of being there with a whopping 30 teams paid and complete.

UKeSa CoD4 Tourney Page

Yo lads and boys, we are done with the seedings and can present to you the announcement for the direct invites and qualifiers for the second season of the ET Masters!
With 147 Teams signed up we are proud to bring you the best tournament we could think of, including the last 3 sign ups being at the waiting list for dropouts or teams not playing after losing their qualifier match. This opportunity goes for others as well, if you still want to sign up, go for it and send over your PM to sign up as written in this news post.
Every team not mentioned in the following list will participate in the second division.

Division 1 & Qualifiers

Direct Invites
ButtonBashers!
H2k-Gaming.ET
mamut.si
impact-gaming
8bits.FiF Green
#TAG.et
S.N. Battalion
HighBot
diversus
cortana
mouK zZz
OVERLOAd Gaming Qualifiers
PIDAR
No pracs is our tax
mASCULINE MANS
Sublime gaming
The Pin Pals
plixplax
Zero Empathy
invitium
dESIRE.et
Gamerz-Connexion
dECLINE
nSens
InfernaL.et
devilry
Team-FatGames
mYrmidons
unKind
Qualifier Tournament
The tournament to decide the last 4 teams for the first division will be starting this Sunday at 20.00 CET. Matches are forced so either contact an admin and reschedule your match to an earlier date or drop out of the qualifiers.
:: Bracket Qualifiers
:: Schedule Qualifiers

Back Up Teams
If there is one or more team not attending the ET Masters anymore we will have the following 4 Seeds replacing them if needed:
mYrmidons
Turbot
re-play black
secunda doping
Get our detailed poules with all seedings and the full schedule for the tournament here.

Division 2

There is one part finished (Group A - H, Division 2 Part 1) and one part waiting on the qualifier matches (Group I - P, Division 2 Part 2). Remember to read the schedule in our spreadsheet to make sure you know how to handle the proposed match times and where to find your opponent.
:: Division 2 Groupstage Part 1 (Groups A - H)
:: Division 2 Groupstage Part 2 (Groups I - P)
:: Division 2 Schedule

Team captains!

Every team needs it's captain! If your team is without a captain on this spreadsheet make sure you get one in by contacting chosen via IRC in #etmasters. Make sure your captain is in this channel.

Rules and Maps

Official release of the rules will be tomorrow evening. Stay tuned until the release is done and make sure you read the schedule and seeding document properly.
We will keep to the basic rules published in our tournament announcement. To decide the 6th map we will have a cup coming up this Sunday, starting at 18.30 CET to decide the final map for the ET Masters. If you have spare time, make sure you sign up!

Welcome to the reinvented 6ish Nations Championship! The Scots, threatening the wrath of Wallace (after seeing what they did to York in Braveheart, toss intervened), will now compete alongside the current six nations. Sorry sol, but in this Sixish Nations Championship – we'll see seven teams compete! Portugal offered to get me out of a bind, and I've no intention of removing them from the competition.

The fixtures have now been reworked and finalised – with the first match week beginning Monday, 9th February. Each team will have a one week 'respite' during the competition due to the uneven number of competitors.

Matches will continue to be played in a best of four (BO4) format and teams should schedule their match and contact myself with a time and date. If there's any scheduling difficulties contact me and we'll work something out – don't leave it to the last minute.

The reworked fixture list has thrown up an even more intense first match week! The four tournament favourites face off in clashes many would claim too close to call, and Wales vs Scotland kicks off the first of the Home Nation ties. Team Ireland will sit out the first match week.

The finalised fixtures for Match Week 1 (w/s 9th February)

Maps: sw_goldrush_te / Reactor

Wales vs. Scotland
England vs Italy
France vs Portugal

Many thanks to the captains and teams for being so gracious in reworking the fixtures!

#6nations | Tournament Bracket

Europe continues to feel the winter chill, so tonight, sit back, sip a hot chocolate, relax and enjoy the latest instalment of the ClanBase NationsCup. Tonight sees probable finalists team Germany begin their arduous trek to the playoffs, in what should be a whitewash over the hapless Croats. A nation of allstars, lead by the enigmatic EU allstar captain and Quakecon and Crossfire Challenge champion; team urtier.

[bGermany[/b]]
urtier
drago
snoop
butchji
haZer
wEAK
fireBall
ph4te 4:2 [bCroatia[/b]]
gmx
calisto
frozz
komar
rimi
suVi
danL

Time: 19:45 CET
Maps: sp_delivery_te / Radar
Group: Group D
Israel
Slovenia
Croatia
Germany
Russia
USA
ETTV: GamesTV (1430 slots)

The people have already spoken, Group D was voted by far the easiest group of this years NationsCup – in no small part due to the presence of the Germans. Can Croatia offer any kind of resistance and perhaps sneak a victory on the always exciting Radar?

Tune in tonight to find out.

We are one week into the NationsCup XII Season and it's time to introduce a new feature: The national teams coverage pages! These pages will be used by the national teams to provide live updates and extra coverage about what's happening with their team on the different NationsCups.


The national team pages are a pilot project this season and its aim is to provide even better coverage to all of you national team fans. In the pages you will be able to find news and updates about your team in the ClanBase NationsCups as well as fast links to the cups themselves. We are also looking into adding more features in the future.

We are happy to kick off the project with not less than 13 different national teams. Here's a link to the team pages for each team:

• Belgium
  
• Denmark
  
• Finland
  
• France
  
• Greece
  
• Hungary
  
• Italy
  
• Lithuania
  
• Netherlands
  
• Norway
  
• Romania
  
• Turkey
  
• United Kingdom

The people in charge of the pages are our wonderful National Team Managers. If you want to help out your team and become a National Team writer please address your National Team Manager. You can find the full list of Managers right here.

We wish all the national teams good luck and to all of you an eventful season!