An opportunity to compete for your country - what could be better? Prepare for another season this summer as nations from all over the globe battle for the prestigious title of the world's best! Whether an opportunity for new blood to shine, the community to rejuvenate, or even some games to watch on ETTV, NationsCup is something the community can only welcome! Hey, and guess what - It's 6v6! So regardless of who you have your money on, be it The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, or even Malta, as new players come and older players go, look forward to fresh action coming your way very soon!

ET: Quakewars is alive...
At least the Eurocup is going on, currently less default wins than in the ET Eurocup.
Tonight, the Consolation Final will take place between Wiechury and Vicious and Evil.
Both teams already lost against Four-Kings in that tournament and guess what: The winner will face Four-Kings in the Grand Final again.
The game, which starts at 21:00 CET, will broadcasted by ET:QW TV and remember that you don't need a valid ET:QW key to watch it.


* Wiechury Lineup: aA, suri, nsk, Marte, nexoge, bhn, Rzezn1k
* VAE Lineup: valiant, Madknut, Noorgrin, madbone, Jeebs, Vexx




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That's right tonight I miss out on Spain vs Italy and instead bring you all the action from the ESL in Call of Duty 4 and Team Fortress 2.

CoD4 ESL LB Round 2 - 19:00 CET Sunday 22nd June - choZen vs TeK-9 - MAP TBD

choZen come into this match on the back of defeat in the play-offs to LowLandLions (13-3). It was a heavy defeat but they will no doubt bounce back against a reasonably inactive TeK-9.

[flag=de choZen Line-up] Lynx
dexterrr
morpH
snX
z1NSTAR

TeK-9 started the play-offs with defeat to the now finalists Speed-link (13-11). A close run match they no doubt feel they could have won and went on to smash Roskilde Ravens (13-4). TeK-9 have had activity problems in CoD4 but recently have started to play more. This is possibly down to the recent player change with Stevy replacing Kammyz or just a step up towards the summer lans.

[flag=be TeK-9 Line-up] Davy
Stevy
haya
strelok
OZWALD

CoD4 ESL LB Round 2 - 20:00 CET Sunday 22nd June - Dignitas vs Fnatic - MAP TBD

Dignitas are in a rough patch of inactivity due to Mick's real life activities (<3). Something will have to give if they plan to go far in the summer lans as at the moment they are purely playing official games and not finding time to practise. Dignitas play-off path saw them defeating Roskilde Ravens (13-7) but then falling to current finalists Speed-Link (13-7). They now face a team they know everything about. They knocked Fnatic into the lower brackets at the CGS lan only to be defeated in a 2 map thriller in the finals in a match to quote PlaZma "We played like spastics".

[flag=uk Dignitas Line-Up] Mick
Raz
blackmane
PlaZma
Sko

Fnatic find themselves in the losers bracket after a thrilling double overtime match with LowLandLions (19-16). They then went on to rage DEFEATERS (13-2) and now face one of their rivals Dignitas. As mentioned they managed to win the CGS Lan finals over them recently and we shall no doubt see this battle of the giants repeated in the summer but for now they are two fairly inactive teams. Mintr claims they will start to ramp up their activity in July so it will be interesting to see how much pride the players have when facing each other tonight.

[flag=se Fnatic Line-Up] Mintr
LINQAN
odyx
zEm
tidde

TF2 ESL WB Round 2 - 21:00 CET Sunday 22nd June - excello vs Pandemic - Bad Lands, Gravel Pit

excello are possibly the 2nd best team in europe currently, 2nd only to Four-Kings. They recently came 2nd in the ETF2L Premier League. They defeated uber in the play-offs so far and Four-Kings await the victor tonight.

[flag=se excello Line-Up] Glufse
Sommie
ins
appe
FeTTe
weqo

Pandemic are undoubtedly the top US team right now and kudos to them for coming and playing an online european league such as the ESL. They knocked out The Last Resort in round 1 and will be looking to face the european number 1 should they take victory tonight.

[flag=us Pandemic Line-Up] oPlaid
alexwut
newby
REP
Reptile
scknss
TheFragile
carnage

Join QuadV TV1 Tonight for all the Live Video Coverage as it happens with Deman and A_Spec (TF2).

After a teaser trailer earlier this morning, Activision has released a full length official trailer for the latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise: Call of Duty: World at War. The game will feature a pacific and a Russian campaign and takes place during the second world war.

Gametrailers High Definition
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CoD: World at War is being developed by Treyarch and uses an enhanced version of the highly praised Call of Duty 4 engine. The game is set to be released on various consoles and the PC in Activision's current fiscal year which ends in March 2009.

After many matches, some forfeits and a column by TosspoT, our current EC season is coming to a close. What many people expected to be a fantastic season, has turned out to be a disappointment, after dropouts due to lack of motivation, many losses due to what is clearly a lack of practice, and even removal from the cup due to the likes of gnajda! We can only hope that what remains in the final will please both the players and the spectators, and redeem what has so far been a poor season.

The lineups of the teams will be:
megaProGaming
Clown
wEAK
butchji
haZer
razz
potter

Impact
toxic
sNoOp
drago
Mztik
Reload
Winghaven

As the lineups show, impact have been forced to use a merc due to what toxic has stated is summer inactivity. Whether or not this will be a deciding factor in the outcome of the match is yet to be seen.

eSports weekly a new show from Wipido, Xleague and QuadV bringing you your weekly 'dabble' with all things competitive gaming has returned for episode 3.

On this weeks show we talk about all things Swedish as Dreamhack Summer concludes in style, we've action from SK's match against Fnatic, and Rocaat's match against MYM aswell as an indepth sit down with Warcraft 3 hero, Grubby!


As always I'm eager to hear your thoughts and feedback on this weeks show, so please keep them coming! You can watch this weeks show HERE

After the second season of the ESL Intel Extreme Masters ended with the Finals at CEBIT 2008 in Hanover, Germany, ESL announced today the third edition of the global challenge coming along with several changes.

Instead of Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft wil be the second game next to Counter-Strike. The world's most popular MMORPG, played by more than 10 million players, continues the reduction of Warcraft 3 at some ESL countries. Some weeks ago, ESL Germany announced already that WC3 will no longer be part of all Intel Friday Night Games followed by ESL Alpes which removed WC3 completly as ESL Pro Series game. After the Blizzard and Intel Warcraft Weekend in Hamburg and the Intel Extreme Masters at DreamHack the ESL hosts now the third big tournament for WoW.

The third season will start in August at Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig, Germany. It features a total prize money of $750 000 and will end once again at CEBIT 2009. ESL will host several events in Europe, America and for the first time at the Extreme Masters also in Asia. The American and European continental league seasons will culminate in continental finals. Individual country finals will be hosted in Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of South Korea. More information on the ESL Intel Extreme Masters will be announced quite soon.

ESL Intel Extreme Masters
ESL Newspost

This Sunday, Excello will be hosting their fifth WarSow duel cup! This time around is special however - two years ago, the first ever Excello WarSow duel cup was held. The cup was a massive success, with the gaming superstar Sander Vo0 Kaasjager claiming first place - fighting off a torrid amount of new players. This competition was the first of many for Warsow, and helped it gain a strong foothold in the competitive FPS scene. To celebrate this, Excello are proud to announced the ‘Excello Warsow Anniversary Cup’.

The rules:[/u]
- The cup starts on Sunday 22 June, 18 CET, and it will be finished the same day
- Single elimination bracket system
- Best of three (BO3) format
- Timelimit of 10 minutes
- Players must check-in 10 minutes before the tournament starts
- For a full set of rules click HERE

Here is the official map list:[/u]
- wdm3
- wdm5
- wdm6
- wdm10a
- wdm15

The best of the action from the cup will be shown on WarSowTV provided by the ever helpful dendrofil - and take your fingers out of your ears and cross them! We hope to get the voice of Warsow itself, QuadV A_Spec, to cast the later stages! Make sure you tune in!

Prizes:[/u]
1st place/ NF-P12 120mm fan
2nd place/ SWiF 921R 92mm fan
3rd place/ NT-H1 thermal compound

If enough players sign up, you can expect top quality prizes from our sponsor SteelSeries in the next hosted cup which will be in the coming weeks. Get practicing!

If you have any questions, join #excello.warsow and msg xlo^vicek.

After this intense Enemy Territory EuroCup and OpenCup season will come to an end sometimes during this week, another amazing ET competition provided by our beloved Clanbase will kick in! With many teams losing their players to hot summer weather or Clanbase banlist, 5on5 is a great opportunity to enjoy this game during summer even without full 6 player lineup.

*UPDATE*

Great success! 157 teams signed up before deadline hit.

Today (June 18) is the last chance to sign up for the ET 5on5 Summer Cup! Signups will close at midnight so be quick if you still want to compete.

So far a total of 143 teams have signed up.

Clanbase also will announce maplist for this season shortly and there will be changes from current OC maplist, so expect some surprises!

[bSchedule[/b]]
Signups close - 18th of June
Groups created - 22th of June
First match week - 30st of June
First playoff round - 28st of July
Season ending - 17th of August

Links:
Cup page
Sign-up page

After several weeks, many tight matches and only 2 no-show games in play-offs, ET SW 6v6 OpenCup Spring 2008 has come to the Grand Final. On the one hand we saw one4one with an impressive 17 wins in a row in official games. This magnificent serial has started on 08.04.2008 and has not been finished yet. ElitePlayers couldn't stop this "The Bold And The Beautiful". Both teams have already met in group stage and 141 won after decider. Also this time both teams did everything to take the glory. Hovewer, one4one appeared to be stronger team and are now marching in with ET CB OC Premier League 6on6 tryumph. This fight took place on Wednesday, 18th of June, 21.30 CET on maps supply, radar and frostbite - decider.