The first round of the playoffs is over as Belgium beat Switzerland earlier today, so we are down to the final 8 teams. Lots of exciting matches are scheduled and we are inching ever so closer to the illustrious Grandfinal. As the Bracket shows, we are going to behold some colossus matches:


The games should be spread troughout the following weeks and the clash of the nations can be seen on ETTV close to you so be sure not to miss all the action that is just waiting for you at the Crossfire NationsCup! if you're interested on contributing by writing match reports, previews and so on, you may do so by messaging pedro or hentai at #crossfire

In competing in the Crossfire Nations Cup both Aza and teKoa agreed to abide by the competition rules, and in turn the anti3 T&C. In doing this, they agreed to not leak and / or share their anti3 client with anyone. It has come to light that both teKoa and Aza leaked their clients, spreading it around irc and GamesTV.org.

At best this was inherently childish and disrespectful to the anti3 dev team, at worst it was a malicious attempt to sabotage a new ET anti-cheat.

And as such teKoa has been disqualified from competing in this seasons Nations Cup and banned from Crossfire for 3 months, and all subsequent Crossfire hosted and affiliated tournaments during this period. As he is currently perm banned from Crossfire, Aza should never have competed for team Netherlands in this tournament - and we apologise for this mistake on our side. He continues to be banned.

It's sad to see that the '3v3 World Cup' successfully adhered to the anti3 'no leak' policy, whilst it's more prominent 6v6 counterpart obviously couldn't.

Crossfire accepts that the Netherlands team as a whole and their captain perfo did what they could to avoid this, and as such Crossfire chose not to punish the Netherlands team. However, as both Aza and teKoa where disqualified from playing, the Dutch team where unable to find adequate substitutes to field a team. Meaning that team Hungary will progress to the next round following a default win.

Crossfire will remind all players competing that only they and their clan leader should ever have access to the client download link. And only the player should download it. anti3 and Crossfire both monitor who has accessed the client. Any player caught leaking their client will also receive a 3 months ban from Crossfire and all hosted and / or affiliated competitions.

Anti3 have also stated they will not be allowing teKoa or Aza to use any further private anti3 client.

What a great day for NC matches, it's just a shame we have so many at the same time! Oh well, it doesn't matter, you can always catch ETTVoD later if you missed any of the action. Remember to checkout my preview article for some extra match analysis for the upcoming games today and remember, they're just predictions, don't take them too seriously. :P

You'll also notice a change to the site in relation to our XF NC. If you look at the top of the page, you will now see a NationCup button with our NC information integrated onto your CF page!

Again, we have to thank that lovely man Fusen, who's relentless work puts everyone else to shame!

Anyway, I hope you manage to catch as many games as possible today! ETTV will be added/updated throughout the day, with some statements from the players/teams involved.

Unfortunately, TosspoT won't be able to shoutcast today, as he's had other things come up. He'll be casting tomorrow though, so be sure to tune in then to hear the dulcet tones of lanky giant!

Today we are proud to announce the last Summer Cup Series draft before the EMS Season 3 starts. The last two cup series ran really good thats why we start a third edition. We hope the teams play this also as serious as in the last two. All informations you can get in the news bellow.
First of all it's also possible to qualify via the 5on5 Ladder as it was in the last cup series. The first and the second team will be directly invited to the Final cup. The ladder shot is for this series 04/09/08 20:00. So play as much matches as you can.

If anyone missed it, you can catch it on ETTVoD! Spoiler; my prediction preview wasn't too far off!

Be sure to spec haste, HM and nozzy, as it is great too see these talented shooters on a more familiar ping scenario.

Dignitas, the leading gaming team in the UK have returned to Call of Duty after their 24 hour hiatus from the game. The side have come together with two of the former MYM team who were released from their team earlier this week, it presents some interesting dilemas for the lineup that looks as follows;

blackmane
Mick
raz
Soclon
Lookzor

The dilemmas start with Blackmane and Soclon both being two of Europe's leading snipers and both having played very well as such this summer. This is a throw back to when Dignitas recruited Blackmane the first joined dignitas who possessed trainee, at the time Europe's top gun with the sniper. However, Blackmane will have other things on his mind as he takes over comms leadership for the first time.

Not exactly a titan-clash to get things started you might say but with a quarter-final place up for grabs, it doesn't make the match any less important for either side! For more coverage you can check my last-sixteen preview here.

An interesting piece of gossip comes in the form of the new coach of Japan, drago, who hopes to guide his team past the experienced Russian outfit!

Reason Gaming have followed the recent trend of making changes after the summer season by dropping two of their most recognisable players. The changes come after a mixed batch of summer results, at times brilliant others not quite so.

As such the side have dropped Juszn who starred in the sides rise the fame with Exabyte and also phantasy. With there being a shortage of big events in the coming weeks the side will be taking their time about picking the replacements.

That leaves reason with the following lineup;

rzE
nreo
lighters

You can read statements from Reason Gaming and more reasoning for the change over at Reason Gaming's Website

As of today the long lasting rumours which had been influencing nearly everyone their thoughts about the dignitas CoD4 squad have been confirmed, as the management has decided to release the team from their organisation.

This move by the management is most likely no surprise for the ones who have actively followed the Call of Duty 4 scene as Dignitas were not able to perform on, and retain their old level they once reached back in the time of CoD2.

The team's performance have gone into a downwards spiral this interesting summer season with 3 major LANs offering major prizepurse, though the team wasn't able to achieve any top 3 placing at both the Antwerp eSports Festival and the Experience, nor i34 where they were defending champions.

Because of the lack of results, the chemistry within the team reached a low level, causing internal affairs. Blackmane was mainly being the one who suffered the most by these affairs, with Mick not picking him up at the i34 LAN, and the incident with SKO earlier before.

Dignitas has however said not to have lost their interest in the CoD4 scene as they told on their website they are going to announce a new CoD4 team this weekend. On this matter rumours have also struck down upon the community as the team would most likely be UK based, and Mick and raz are said to become a part of that roster.

To see whether these rumours will be confirmed is only to be answered by waiting for this weekends announcement at the team's website.

Related:
www.team-dignitas.org