Dignitas, the i33 champions have made a big change to their roster ahead of the summer season. The side who are rumoured the have struggled greatly for activity in this spring have swapped out plazma for compatriot Zenith joining from the Oslo Lions.


Whilst plazma was an indispensable figure in the i33 squad, he has announced that he not only dislikes CoD4 now, but hardcore gaming in general. Many will remember plazma making such statements after leaving games such as ET and earlier CoD titles.

Quote by raz

We've taken Zenith onboard this team as we think he will allow us to keep our stability and maintain our activity as plazma had no motivation to play the game we had to find a 5th that was good enough to take plazmas spot and be able to have the motivation to win. In Zenith we saw this and offered him the chance to join us for these summer LANs, we hope that Zenith has a long and exciting time in Dignitas.

plazma confirmed that zenith was a logical choice to replace him, as he had been merc'ing for the side a lot recently and zenith and raz have a 2on2 side together.

Dignitas Site & Statements

After various issues, errors, and whine, we bring an update, which we can only hope will provide positive results. Our changes may be considered controversial, but it must be considered that our original decisions were pretty controversial also, so hopefully you're conditioned adequately.

Our [iolder[/i] announcements can be seen here.]
- Wrobel will no longer be the captain of Team Poland. As well as this, the entire Fear Factory team's active lineup will be banned from competition in this cup.
- n00n will now be the captain of Team Poland.
- The server config used during matches will be the ESL 6v6 EMS config, available here.
- Due to an urgent request for the army, Israel's captain will no longer be FrAgOn. We are currently searching a replacement captain.
- Captains will be required to put their players pb guids rather than ETPro guids on their team page.
- No qualifiers will be required in the tournament.

As well as this, the tournament structure and matchweek dates are now available:
Group A:
1) Belgium
2) Israel
3) Austria
4) Czech Republic

Group B:
1) Finland
2) Japan
3) Estonia
4) Greece

Group C:
1) Germany
2) Turkey
3) France
4) Malta

Group D:
1) Latvia
2) Australia
3) Hungary
4) Republic of Ireland

Group E:
1) Netherlands
2) Chile
3) Italy
4) Romania

Group F:
1) Poland
2) USA
3) Norway
4) Slovakia

Group G:
1) Sweden
2) Russia
3) Portugal
4) Slovenia

Group H:
1) United Kingdom
2) Canada
3) Switzerland
4) Ukraine

Please note that the numbers do not represent seedings, but are simply numbers.
The top 2 teams at the end of the group stages from each group will reach the playoffs.
This means a total of 16 teams will be entering the playoffs. For the first matchweek of the playoffs a single elimination layout will be used, followed by a double elimination process from the quarter finals and onwards.

Our new changes are:
- The crossfire nationscup page is now available here.
- Russia have chosen to quit the tournament after various players being disallowed. We are searching a replacement team.
- We are currently awaiting proof of nationality from many team turkey players. MousS has been removed from the cup due to his history suggesting repeated cheating (5 pbbans listings).
- aphesia will not be allowed to compete with Poland!
- Sheep has been banned from the cup due to competing with raskL, a known cheater and cheat distributor.

Any questions, per usual, can be asked in #crossfire.nc

Your captains for this NC are as follows:
Australia - kad
Austria - spion
Belgium - Anaconda
Canada - sHAUN
Chile - Max101
Czech Republic - Flash
Estonia - EmeRica
Finland - Squall
France - milit
Germany - Kuraigu
Greece - HellHammer
Hungary - Tuvok
Israel - TBA
Italy - neve
Japan - Kirark
Latvia - Clown
Malta - KilL3rBoY
Netherlands - perfo
Norway - Lakaii
Poland - n00n
Portugal - setupj
Republic of Ireland - flushje
Romania - quad
Russia - Joke
Slovakia - blade
Slovenia - carniee
Sweden - rat & tornis
Switzerland - Rapt6rr
Turkey - TanQ
Ukraine - malczik
United Kingdom - Mztik
USA - vader

Totaling at 32 nations, qualifiers may be required. News regarding this will be announced shortly.

Rules and the cup config can be found here.

Notes to captains:
- Can all captains please idle #crossfire.nc when possible, and can be recognised via +av
- Captains must issue their lineup by the 9th of July.
- Captains are expected to create a team page for their nation on crossfire (i.e. http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=clan&mode=item&id=3840). Once teams are made, a url to the team page must be sent to NCAdmin via crossfire pm. Once this is done, players in the team must be added by the 9th of July. A leader is responsible for adding each players ETPro GUID to the clan page. Leader rights will be removed on the 9th July, effectively locking the page, meaning any changes must be done by contacting either hentai or Rafiki.
- Players can be added at any point during the cup, but will be forced to wait 24 hours before they can play if added after 9th July. Team lineups are unlimited in size. For a player to change a GUID, approval from hentai or Rafiki must be gained.

Good luck to all Captains and nations - get your lineups together, and don't forget to post news on crossfire via the contribute url if you wish to do so!

Any further questions may be asked in #crossfire.nc

Activision and Infinity Ward have released an update for Call of Duty 4.

Fixes:
+ fixed an exploit that allowed players to access certain console dvars during multi-player matches
+ fixed a crash that could occur when a Chinatown Sabotage match would go into over-time
+ fixed a bug where the MP icons (Bomb, Defend, Capture, etc) were always showing up as English regardless of the install language

You can download new patch from FileFront, FilePlanet or GamersHell

To celebrate Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory's five years birthday Splash Damage and id Software have today released the source .map files for the six original maps of the game (Battery, Oasis, Fueldump, Goldrush, Radar, Railgun). With these source files map makers can now change these maps to their liking.

Quote by Splash Damage

We are happy to announce that we have received approval from Kevin Cloud over at id Software to release the source maps that we created during our development of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. This is a belated present to mark Wolf:ET's fifth birthday that we reported on last month. The package is a modest 6 Megabytes in size and includes source .map files for all six of the officially released maps.

This is great news for the competitive community as map makers can now freely make changes to the stock maps in order to make them more competition friendly.

News article on the Splash Damage website
Download link of the map source files

Tonight we cover 3 seperate competitions for you on QuadV TV1 starting with the EMS Season II Playoffs then hoping over to Live2Win Playoffs and finishing with the ESL Summer Cup Final Q3.

EMS II LB Round 3 - 20:00 CET 26th June - Fnatic vs TEK9 - Map choice on Elimination

Fnatic lost last night to Reason Gaming in a thrilling match on Crash that saw many clutch plays from LINQAN. He was by far Fnatics best player on the night and they will need him to perform again tonight if they are to beat TeK-9. They knocked out Dignitas last round though and with money at stake I expect them to raise their game.

TEK9 have started to become more active since Stevy joined and are getting slowly back to their former self with a superb result over choZen in the last round. However defeat to Reason Gaming in the FGL Consilation Finals proves they still have some way to go as we get closer to the Antwerp ESports Festival.

VOD Link: EMS II LB Round 3 - Fnatic vs TEK9

Live2Win Playoffs Round 1 - 21:00 CET 26th June - Oslo Lions vs oXmoze - Crash

Oslo Lions are a team I have somehow never covered yet with QuadV. They have always been in and around the playoff stages of every competition but never quite made it to the finals stages. They have a tough draw in oXmoze so this should prove to be a good match.

oXmoze recently won the cod4invite.fr Cup against Redline but lost in the finals of the iPower French Qualifiers to H2K Gaming. We saw them knocking out the current Live2Win Holders Revolution monday night in a tight match but will have to raise their game against Lions.

VOD Link: Live2Win Playoffs Oslo Lions vs oXmoze

ESL Summer Cup Final Q3 - 21:30 CET 26th June - Reason Gaming vs KomaCrew - Map TBD

Reason Gaming are playing well right now with victories over all the big names in the FGL, Live2win, EMS III Qualifers and victory at theSGL SummerSlam at the Omega Sektor. Their form is hot and it will have to be as they come up against a team that is also on a winning streak.

KomaCrew managed victory at the Acer Challenge taking home 1500 euros. They won the CODQCUP and are looking to pickup another win tonight. However alongside Speed-Link, Reason are the team to beat right now taking the scalps of every major MGC in europe. While winning the Acer Challenge and playing well in the finals they didn't exactly play well during the event but then the same could be said for Germany in Euro 2008.

VOD Link: ESL Summer Cup Final Qualifier 3 - Reason Gaming vs KomaCrew

I am expecting to see some great games tonight and you can watch it all live on QuadV TV1 starting at 19:45 CET.

For those who've not yet noticed, crossfire's nationscup was recently announced. To follow this, the release of the rules & config for the cup are also now available.

Rules can be seen in the sticky article to the left, along will results, captains, and lineups soon. The config can be found here.

It's time for the play-off stages at last in the Live2Win League and as you can see there are some fantastic matches coming up over the next few weeks.

Live2Win Playoffs - 20:00 CET 25th June - Fnatic vs Reason - Crash

Fnatic are still playing well despite being hugely inactive over the last couple of weeks. We saw them sunday night in a fantastic match against Dignitas in the EMS II LB Round 2 and I expect them to raise their game further tonight.

[flag=se Fnatic Line-Up] mintr (captain)
odyx
LINQAN
tidde
zEm

Reason Gaming are playing well right now having won theSGL SummerSlam event at the Omeka Sektor and last night beating TeK-9 in the FGL LB Finals (13-07). Being an active team you would expect them to win tonight but i guess you can never rule Fnatic out!

[flag=uk Reason-Gaming Line-Up] Juszn (Captain)
lighters
rze
phantasy
nreo

As always you can watch it Live on QuadV TV1 with Deman, the man that knows absolutly nothing about CoD4 and gets blind lucky on his predictions everytime!

After some fantastic matches last night in the EMS Season II we turn our attention to the Live2Win League as it approaches the play off stage.

Live2Win Group Stage - 21:15 CET 23rd June - Revolution vs oXmoze - Backlot

Revolution are the holders of the Live2Win League, beating Fnatic in the finals. They need a win tonight to qualify however with a defeat against SP-Gaming on Crossfire (13-10) and a win over Grievous Bodily Harm on Vacant (13-1). If they could pick up a good rounds margin tonight they may just be able to qualify ahead of SP-Gaming.

oXmoze recently won the cod4invite.fr cup and having switched a few team members are looking like their former self. With victories over SP-Gaming (13-7) and Grievous Bodily Harm (13-0) they are leading the group with 6 points and a good round difference however a slip up tonight could still see them not qualify.

Join me tonight on QuadV TV2 for all the action.

Recent Video on Demand
EMS Season II - LB Round 2 - Dignitas vs Fnatic
EMS Season II - LB Round 2 - TeK-9 vs choZen

Clanbase today released the groups in which all participating teams have been divided. A total of 160 teams will play in this cup and give 5v5 a further chance for acceptance. Whether 5v5 could be an option for the future of ET remains to be seen. Now let's see what this cup will bring for us let's have some fun during the summer.

Quote by ClanBase

As you may see on the right side of the screen our groups have been made public. With 160 clans competing mUnduS and myself did our very best to put everyone in a good league.

All teams can now start challenging each other and all games fror the first week must be shedulled before Saturday the 29th at midnight. All games not set by then will be forced to a date which will be best for the team that chalenged or the team that has the most dates available.