The Championship Gaming Series has closed it's doors and the multimillion dollar organisation has left eSports. The organisation ran a televised gaming league featuring CS:S, FIFA, DOA4 & Forza using a unique team format to award winners rather than individual competitors for each game. The show aired in DirecTV, SKY & Eurosport 2 to name but a few of its broadcast partners. The CGS world finals had a $500,000 prizepurse and all of its players (over 100) were salaried to play.

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While the concept was ahead of its time and we are extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished, it became increasingly clear as this ambitious project evolved, that profitability was too far in the future for us to sustain operations in the interim.

You can read about it and more, plus extensive community reaction on Cadred

As promised for the Crossfire Challenge 5 we'll be running seeding tournaments to give the most accurate groups and seeds for the event. The goal is to use this tournament to directly place teams into their groups for the Crossfire event, however we don't want to actually determine winners of course!

So the two seeding tournaments will operate in a ONE day cup format that will stop short of crowning champions. There are pro's and con's to running a one day cup, the biggest con being 'what if our star player cannot make that 1 day', however the number of exams ongoing right now and the other tournaments that already live make running a longer event a bit of a minefield for that same reason. So we're of course going to have to be lenient with use of merc's but of course we will be looking at teams and saying well if you lose Ronner from your lineup you cannot replace him with mystic (or for CoD fans, you cannot replace Morg with someone who can shoot) for example.

So here are the dates for the tournaments (we've put them as close to the LAN as possible)

Enemy Territory - Sunday December 7th

Call of Duty 4 - Sunday November 30th

The exact bracket system designed by Adacore to give the most accurate reading will be posted in due course. However the goal is to 100% transparent so if Pink Gorillas lose both matches, then they're in the lowest seeding group. Put it in your diary!

On a side note, in the past week we've had a number of either late signups or 'oh shit my manager didnt pay' comments. This is not fatal, but it must be sorted out ASAP, contact me on either irc or via email to sort yourself out.

We have already seen over 100 Teams and 80+ 1on1 players signing up for the upcoming ESL ET Winter League '08. But with the last week of signups starting we would like to remind you once more that you still have the chance to be part of this competition!

All the necessary information about how to signup can be found in the last Newspost: ESL ET Winter League '08

The main reason of this release is to fix some exploits of Enemy Territory servers. It includes the latest LUA module provided by the ETPro team.
We have noticed an increase number of players using some inadequate net settings and scripts to cause lag or simulate packet loss, thus we have decided to fix the net settings for all the players.
We are also including the new map hashes and scripts to fix some minor bugs and avoid some exploits.

Last but not least, I want to give a special thanks to the following: reyalP, SPU, eiM, doneX, Killerboy, Bartichello, overdrive, mortis, DerSaidin and many others for their suggestions and support to make this config available.

You can download the configs here: Official ClanBase ET server config pack

Important Note:[/u]

This set of config are the official release from ClanBase Enemy Territory and must be used in all matches. All servers to be used for any match at ClanBase must be updated with this configs. All old configs are deprecated and must not be used anymore.

It's Sunday evening, you're contemplating how dull the following week will be, however, to the delight of all Enemy Terriroty fans is the ladder finale of EuroCup XVIII.
Facing each other today are two great teams, k1ck (formerly Fear Factory X-Fi) and ButtonBashers (formerly TheLastResort). It will no doubt be a great spectacle, full of emotion - unfortunately, as always, there is only one winner. Who will it be?

Just like last season, the Powerhouse Fear Factory has been raging over the EC. By an unfaithful turn of events they were expelled last season however, but this time all the signs are pointing in the good direction, that of the EC XVIII Finals. And that is not the only direction in which they pointed. Having been spotted several times claiming they didn't get enough support from their current organization, Fear Factory X-Fi, their succes in ET has been picked up by another legendary ET MGC!
It is k1ck eSports who have picked this team up for the remainder of the EC Season and after that hopefully many other events to come! It even meant for some of the players to return to their old roots, since they were in one of the first few ET teams that k1ck has already had. The Manager and Wrobel had the following to say:

After the game got released in the US today, it was just a matter of time till the first patch would be out.

So here we go! The 317mb big patch features a huge amount of bugfixes, which can be found in the changelog.

Short description of the changes:
*Mods are now enabled in Co-op, Single Player, and Multiplayer.
*Players will now be notified when a new patch is available.
*Improvements for SLI support.
*G_Spawn: no free entities crash has been fixed.
*Server no longer runs out of script variables.
*License key is no longer required to run a Dedicated Server.
*A Dedicated Server can now be started from the Command Line via Remote Desktop Connection.
*Various fixes in Server Browser.
*Players will no longer see multiple friend invites from the same friends.
*When a player calls in a recon plane in a Hardcore match, the HUD will properly appear.
*Clan Tags will now display in game where appropriate.
*Map holes fixed
*Spawn improvements and weapon balancing

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Warleagues is organising ET season XI.
We wanna make this season big succes but then we need your help.

Details
- 6v6
- signups open on monday 17 november and close on 27 november
- groups will be online friday right after
- first matchweek should start on sunday 30 november .

signup
www.warleagues.com
Only one member needs to create a clan, others need to join it.
The one who creates the clan, is the teamleader.

admins
- wl|godfragger
- wl|sylvester
- you?

We are also asking to help us out with all the work. We have a shortage on admins for the ET section.
If you wanna apply for it, join on irc and talk with wl|godfragger.
mIRC: #warleagues

For more info check www.warleagues.com
grtz wl|sylvester and wl|godfragger

After a break, your favorite News poster is back! And back with a vengeance, because this game has all the makings of a historic one! Sunday we will see the likes of the now-named ButtonBashers (former TLR) play it out against Vicious & Evil. Both teams already met before in the Don Baker Cup (News post here) the previous week, where VAE surprisingly managed to take the win in front of all the ETTV viewers. Also, ButtonBashers made another surprising step this week, by leaving the well known organization of TLR in favor of this new MGC for a better participation in future event for the team. Will these events influence this game on any level?