Packard Bell, one of the leading PC brand in Europe, official PC supplier of the Electronic Sport World Cup (ESWC) and ipowergames e-sports tournaments invites all gamers across Europe to take part in a short, 15 questions, gaming survey.

Packard Bell commitment towards gaming communities has been amply demonstrated by the numerous sponsoring of famous teams and e-sports events. (ESWC, 4Kings, Antwerp eSports Festival, ipowergames, CDC4). Today, Packard Bell needs the community’s voice.

The survey will help Packard Bell to determine what gamers want the most from their PC, and what would be the best possible configuration for the gaming community. It will only take a few minutes, and it will help Packard Bell to have a much better understanding of the gamers’ expectations.

A random drawing will reward 16 participants with the Eclipse MP4 Player from Packard Bell and 14 others with ESWC Masters tickets. Your judgement matters to us!”

Take the survey here

CB EC Finals - 21:00 CET Wednesday 18th June - H2K Gaming vs Speed-Link

H2K Gaming enter the finals a wash with controversy after a rather bizarre decision to call a default win over Dignitas. Prior to this however they played extremely well throughout the playoffs defeating KomaCrew (25-22), SK Gaming (25-20) and Speed-Link (25-22). They recently came 2nd at the Acer Challenge at wzzrd in Enschede picking up €1,000 after losing to KomaCrew in a 3 map thriller that went down to overtime. Despite so many great results I still can't call them the favourites in this match up as their opposition have hit such a rich vein of form recently that it will be 50-50 all the way.

Speed-Link played well last night blasting their way into the EMS Finals with a swift defeat over LowLandLions. There path to the ClanBase finals however first met with defeat to none other than H2K Gaming (25-22). From then on though they've left a path of destruction beating CMAX (25-15), Sample This (25-18), KomaCrew (25-15) and Team Turpo (25-14). Having beaten Dignitas in the EMS Winner Bracket Semi-Final they can perhaps be let off getting a free bye into the finals.

So there it is, a Final that could possibly be the last real EuroCup in terms of team attendance. Fnatic took the first step to boycott before the event but with Dignitas and MYM following there may well be more to come, especially when every other competition out there is offering more prizes. Nevertheless it should be a fantastic match and one you will not want to miss!

You can watch it all live with Deman on QuadV TV1.

Recent Video on Demand Matches
Acer Challenge Final Map Picks with TosspoT Roman, Svo, Raigeki and Vazy.
Acer Challenge Final Map 1 - KomaCrew vs H2K Gaming
Acer Challenge Final Map 2 - KomaCrew vs H2K Gaming
Acer Challenge Final Map 3 - KomaCrew vs H2K Gaming
Acer Challenge Semi-Final - KomaCrew vs Sample This
Acer Challenge Group Stage Round 4 - KomaCrew vs KaoS
Acer Challenge Group Stage Round 3 - Codehook vs KaoS
Acer Challenge Group Stage Round 2 - H2K Gaming vs Sample This Map 1
Acer Challenge Group Stage Round 2 - H2K Gaming vs Sample This Map 2
Acer Challenge Group Stage Round 2 - KomaCrew vs Codehook
Acer Challenge Group Stage Round 1 - DOK Gaming vs Sample This

EMS WB Finals - 20:00 CET 16th June - Speed-Link vs LowLandLions - Backlot

Speed-Link are flying right now having reached the ClanBase EuroCup XVII Finals and now the Winner Bracket Finals of the ESL Major Series Season II. During the playoffs they have knocked out both TeK-9 on backlot in a tight match (13-11) and Dignitas on Crash (13-7). I would put them as favourites tonight as there certainly playing well right now.

LowLandLions came through the playoffs after an outstanding match against Fnatic taking victory in double overtime on Backlot (19-16) and then destroying choZen on District (13-03). While they are the underdogs they should not be ruled out as Backlot can offer some suprises.

As you can see both teams have great results on Backlot so tonight should be an epic match and you can watch it live on QuadV TV1 with Deman.

DInput is written to change the use of Windows API mouse coordinates (in games or applications) to Direct Input coordinates. Direct Input has got the following advantages compared to Windows API coordinates:

Features:

» No pointer ballistics (impossible cause of acceleration)
» It's designed to work on high resolution mice (win coordinates aren't)
» Faster (in theory)
» Different and mostly smoother feeling
» Because of the above reasons it mostly helps against negative acceleration

Default supported games:

Return to Castle Wolfenstein (profilename: rtcw)
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (profilename: et)
Enemy Territory : Quake Wars
Quake 2 (profilename: q2) *
Quake 3 (profilename: q3)
Quake 4 (profilename: q4) *
Call of Duty (profilename: cod) *
Call of Duty II (profilename: cod2) *
Call of Duty IV (profilename: cod4)
Counterstrike Source (profilename: css) *

Make sure to read the readme to get it working.

* Those games are untested but should be working if they use win32 mouse coordinates. If it doesn't work just add your own profile (instructions are in the readme).

» Download URL #1
» Download URL #2

Last weekend the Dutch Electronic Sports World Cup qualifiers took place, featuring various talented players from the Kingdom of The Netherlands battling it out to qualify for the ESWC Grand Finals held at the NVISION event in San Jose later this year.

In a close and exciting final the experienced and extremely talented Quake 3 Arena player Lemmy "if-22" de Groot defeated Painkiller champion and Dutch gaming celebrity Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager, securing an ESWC invite for if-22, as well as a fully financed trip to San Jose.

Today Wsquared Media, the company organizing the Dutch ESWC qualifiers has however announced a second invite for a Quake 3 Arena player to be available, which has been given to Vo0 who ended second at the qualifying event. This invite does not include travel expenses, however this should not be an issue for the highly decorated Dutch player.

Other games featured at the ESWC Grand Finals are Trackmana Nations, Warcraft III, Defense of the Ancients and Counter-Strike 1.6.

Gamelux news article (in Dutch)

eSports weekly a new show from Wipido, Xleague and QuadV bringing you your weekly 'dabble' with all things competitive gaming has returned for episode 2.

On this weeks show we bring you an in depth interview with CPL World Tour star, Vo0 on his experiences and desires. Theres the weekly round up of results from across the various events and news of ongoing complaints towards Clanbase! And footage from the thrilling finale in the Quake 3 tournament at ESWC NL!

Be sure to watch it HERE and just as last week I'd love to hear your feedback as we continue to try to improve the show for you. Next week will feature a great interview with Grubby so be sure not to miss that, next weeks show will go online on Wednesday (as it will for the rest of the series).

Like every tuesday night it is time again for some matches of the Gamestar League ( GSL ). Tonight, the game-tv.com team will show you the ET: Quakewars clash between Four-Kings and VAE.The british clan, who is on the first place at the moment, is currently unbeaten in the Gamestar season and VAE, placed on three right behind GaB, will go into that match as the underdog.

Fnatic report that Dignitas hotshot Mick has been banned from Clanbase for repetitive abusive behaviour. Dignitas had already been removed the tournament after one player had the wrong GUID in their match and now salt has been rubbed into the wound.

However the fnatic article raises some interesting points about the ruling and the objectivity behind it. The admin who made the ban is also a manager of the team they were playing against when this happened (h2k) and h2k were also in violation of Clanbase rules themself by not taking demos from the match which is a forfeitable offence.

The post ends stating the Dignitas and MeetYourMakers will join fnatic in boycotting Clanbase's premier competition.

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Doncaster based UK Call of Duty LAN SYChosis has partnered with TV channel Xleague and UK ISP Plusnet to put up £1500 in their CoD4 tournament.

More than three hundred gamers are set to battle it out at a large LAN gaming event, sponsored by Sheffield-based ISP, PlusNet. Cash prizes totalling over £3,000 plus other goodies will be awarded to the winners of the tournaments, which are taking place at the event organised by the South Yorkshire gaming group, Sychosis. The event will be held at Doncaster Dome, (Bawtry Road, Doncaster) between July 4-6, 2008.

The event unfortunately does clash with the iPOWER tournament meaning that UK side MYM wont be attending the event, however the SGL Summer Slam Champions Reason Gaming will be in attendance and should be considered hot favourites for the event. You can find out more about the event here

In other news, MYM are poised to announce their latest player with Mark predicting the new player "will be best player in the game in a month". The official announcement for the replacement of stat is to come shortly.

Starting from today to Sunday the 22nd of June teams can sign up for the ClanBase Hosted Summer Cups 2008.

This year there will be two Summer Cups hosted at ClanBase, organized by the ET:QW EuroCup supervisor Vitez:

ET:QW StopWatch 6on6 (Sign up!)
ET:QW StopWatch 4on4 Infantry (Sign up!)

The schedule for both cups look looks as following:
• Signups open - 9th of June (Today)
• Signups close - 22nd of June
• Creating groups - 22nd until the 29th of June
• First matchweek - 30st of June
• Season ending - 31st of August or earlier (depending on number of signups)

In related news, ClanBase is still searching for a Co-Supervisor for this season, for more information visit the cup pages.