After the usual dull and boring Champions League games that never quite deliver we return to the exciting world of Call of Duty 4 where overtimes, aces and clutch plays are rampant.

22:15 CET 24th April - MeetYourMakers vs eSuba - Best of Three, Backlot Decider[/u]

MeetYourMakers managed to cruise through the quarter-finals against Snogard after being bombed out the Clanbase Eurocup XVII by Epsilon. With no EMS for them either this really is the last of the online competitions for them to win before the summer.

eSuba have played well throughout the competition with good wins over Speed-Link and Sample This in the last 2 rounds. They struggled in the Eurocup though, winning only 1 of their games and finishing 3rd in the group. Tonight will also be there last shot at an online cup before the summer.

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Video on Demand:
CODQCUP Semi-Final - MYM vs eSuba
CODQCUP Semi-Final - KomaCrew vs Reason
Live2Win Lower Braket Final - Fnatic vs Bangin it eurostyle

A note on streams: Please use the weblink as it will point you towards the nearest empty stream link rather than using the direct mms links. If everyone does that it simply fills, lags and you all whine. k thx bye.

Yesterday the famous Swedish multigaming organisation known for their successful Counter-Strike 1.6 and Battlefield teams presented their addition of a Call of Duty 4 team, formerly known as sTRASH (Swedish Trash).
The team surprised many by defeating MeetYourMakers in CoDQCup, topping their group and reaching 5-8 place.

Begrip-Gaming - Call of Duty 4
Andreas ”midnajt” Forsberg
Conney “KyoChi” Sjöberg
Tom “Multra” Andersson
Kalle “FrGzR” Carldén
Isak “Isaak” Danielsson

Fnatic.CoD4's star sniper, Martin 'MintR' Röjder has today released his frag movie showcasing kills from various online tournaments and the prestigious i33 LAN. The movie produced by Mathias 'goLd' Thijs, is 350MB big lasting eight minutes.

Gold said the following about his latest production..

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"With great pleasure I present my first big CoD4 Project. Made in my own usual style with good syncing, stuning graphics, great unused music and on top of that martin's awesome frags which are truly the best u can get on his level of play. It was great working together with him as he's a great and supportive guy, without him this movie wouldnt be like it is now. Hope you all enjoy it as much as i did making it! See you all soon"

The video is available to stream Fnatic.tv.
Original News post: here.

After the last matches of the three different qualification stages for the ESL ENC finished last week, the ESL presented today the groups of the € 55 000 tournament. The ESL European Nations Championship exists since 2004 and has become the most important nations competition in Europe. It features the games Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3, Counter-Strike: Source and FIFA 2008 and shows year for year, that representing and fighting for your home country can be rewarded with more than a solid prize money.

The Grand Final will be held once again at Games Convention 2008 (August 21st to 24th) in Leipzig, Germany. The drawing of this years European Nations Championship Main Round was shown some minutes ago live on ESL TV and this are the groups for all four games:

Sasquaando, once a small dutch LAN have gone and become anything other than small with a total 100k Amsterdam based LAN Tournament featuring CS:Source and Call of Duty 4

On the 25th to 27th of July (The same dates as the Antwerp eSports Festival) in the Jaagslek Trio Studios in Amsterdam the tournament will be filmed and aired on TV 101 in the Netherlands aswell internet streaming being provided.

Frits “Jerkle” Vandenhoff, the tournament organiser of SASSQUAANDO made the following statement :

We are very pleased to be provided this opportunity, both to run an amazing tournament and to help the progression of eSports. Although our previous events have been on a much smaller scale, with the financial support OnGame have provided us we feel we will be able to provide an almost unrivalled event, and one that will go down in the history of gaming.

The website is currently being revamped to the new owners, but will be available soon, along with more tournament information.

Prize Distribution
24000
17000
9000€

To counter this great news however, GotFrag's Liam Crowley has cast doubts over the legitimacy of this tournament, those can be read here

Update

The organisers have responded to questions from fnatic and gotfrag you can read them;
Fnatic & Gotfrag

I don't know about where you guys are, but down here the weather just keeps getting better and better and my regret for promising I'd cover the entire EuroCup on crossfire keeps getting bigger and bigger =). No time for whining though, tonight there is another big game on schedule in the form of OVERLOAd versus Kirwa as well as a second game for group D.

Yesterday MegaProGaming once again proved too strong for their opponents as they made Incomplete! bow out of the season with a 4-0 loss. This means that we now have our first finished group, namely A. MPG have very easily and convincingly made their way through the groupstage winning all of their games without losing a single round. Second through came Team CoolerMaster who were significantly less convincing as they won only played two matches ( 8bits unfortunately had to fold from the EuroCup) and won only one of those two.
They will be back in the playoffs nonetheless though and perhaps they will be able to improve their game before their time comes again.

Concentrating on tonight again, as said there are two games on schedule; OVERLOAd versus Kirwa Kirwanderin Kirwurit definitely being the match of the evening, and ephix hardboys, who have quite some catching up to do, will be playing versus Fear-Factory Xfi.

After last night's shocking display where three out of four EuroCup matches were rescheduled tonight will offer a bit more certainty as there is only one game to be played which is MegaProGaming versus Incomplete!

The one game that was played yesterday was highBot versus n1ce where the latter managed to grab a win so as to finish third in their group. Arguably, highBot had already sort of given up on Enemy Territory EuroCup and were more involved with their Wolfenstein game later on that evening but not to take anything away from n1ce as they came through with a nice and clean 4-0 win.

That was then though and tonight there is something entirely different on schedule as the very last groupmatch for group A is to be played. The Finns of Incomplete! will have no alternative but to win their game tonight if they are still planning to go to the playoffs. If they do, they will have come up on top of Team CoolerMaster by points. Whether they will be able to do so has yet to be seen as their opponent for this evening is not one to take lightly...

Not quite in the same way that Debbie does Dallas but almost as exciting!....No really, as tonight is the CODQCUP Semi-Finals! Yay I hear you cry, as well you should with the decider map as Backlot this best of 3 match up might well go all the way!

CODQCUP Semi-Finals - 21:30 CET 21st April - KomaCrew vs Reason - Best of 3

KomaCrew's newly acquired Call of Duty team from DCC-Gaming are certainly on a hot streak at the moment and are very much the online on form team capable of beating just about everyone. They've topped their Eurocup group with ease and pushed aside Epsilon last night who themselves were on a winning streak. Possibly the favourites for me tonight but only just!

Reason have had some tough games of late picking up a late win against eSuba but ending bottom of their Eurocup group. In the CODQCUP though they have looked strong but with their home map as the decider they will not have an almost guarenteed map win. However I expect them to push it all the way tonight and Juszn and his team will need a strong performance to reach the finals.

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Last nights Video on Demand: CODQCUP - KomaCrew vs Reason

After a rather long break of three days it is time to get things back on track and round up the group stages. There are quite a fair few matches still to be played and in theory they all need to played by the end of the next matchweek. Tonight will be no exception as there are three matches scheduled to be played over the course of this evening.

The groupstages are starting to draw to an end and for group C and D we can even already tell which two teams are to advance to the playoffs, although which one will come out on top is not quite written in stone yet.

No one will be left out tonight as there is a very action packed evening ahead of us, here is an overview of what to expect:

Tonight we look to both the Clanbase EuroCup XVII and the Live2Win finals in 2 matches that could spell the end of the road for tonights teams in each competition.

Clanbase EuroCup XVII - 20:00CET 20th April - Epsilon vs MYM - District, Backlot

MeetYourMakers need to win tonight to reach the knockout stages or those gaming vouchers will be out of reach forever! Morg will no doubt have to pull out a William Wallace style speach to stir them into action tonight as their opponents are playing well.

Epsilon recently beat SK-Gaming and Necroraisers in the CODQCUP and have already defeated Intense in the group stages so a win tonight will place them top and qualify for the knockout stages. They are a dangerous outfit with something to prove and might just have what it takes to topple the plucky brits

Live2Win Consilation Final - 22:00CET 20th April - Fnatic vs Bangin it euorstyle - Crash

Fnatic have looked better as the competition has gone on, starting slow but always finishing strong. In some very close games against MYM, ephix and DEFEATERS they have battled against adversity and came through everytime. In zsilts final tournament for the team expect to see him raging the opposition tonight on crash.

Bangin it eurostyle have called upon J4ni to replace Linqan who joined Fnatic the other week. J4ni played well though despite his team losing in a tough match vs MYM in the week. They lack a sniper though and that may be their undoing tonight as they face Mintr.

Join Deman tonight at 20:00 CET for Live Video Coverage on QuadV TV1.