i33 is live and underway at Newbury racecourse and the focus of the event is on Multiplay and Activisions 12,000 Euro CoD 4 tournament. The playoffs are underway with the small contingent of Europes elite that are in attendance made it safely through their groups with the Roskilde Ravens flying to beat TeK-9 and tie with EG.

The WB and LB Final will be played at 16:30 CET (according to the schedule). After we have seen an amazing comeback from Team EG, being down 2-10 against TeK9 they won their LB semi final 13-10. EG and fnatic will now face eachother in the LB final; it will be exciting to see if fnatic will steam roll EG as they did earlier in the WB Quarter Finals.

After the "Battle of Britian" (TLR vs. dignitas) has been settled for now, we now have the Consolation Final coming up, where TLR will cross blades with EG for the first time in this tournament. Whoever wins that match will meet dignitas in the Grand Final at 20:30 CET... Ladies and Gentlemen, prepare for ownage!

Team Dignitas are the winners of i33!

Grand Final Map 1 - Crash
dignitas (14-16) TheLastResort

Grand Final Map 2 - District
dignitas (16-14) TheLastResort

We want to let you know that the signups for the ESL CoD4 League will be closed at 24/03/08 00:00 CET. So get 5 mates and sign up for the league.
At the moment we have about 230 inscribed teams.
The league is positioned below the ESL Major Series it will give clans of all abilities the chance to compete in an organised league and it will also be an opportunity to qualify for the next season of the EMS.

Be sure to have read:
Link to newspost on ESL.eu
Link to prior newspost on crossfire

Speedlink who as a team have been together since Ocrana in Call of Duty 1 have today called an end to their time in CoD4 after a troubled start to the game. Having lost Crossfire favourite Humm3L at CDC4 the side were once again on the look out for a fifth and decided that the renewed prospect of having to rebuild the team was just too much.

CoD Favourite Trigger had these touching words to say;

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This is the last day of SPEED-LINK CoD4, eventough we didnt want it to end this way. After several attempts to get back on track, we finally realised that we wouldn't have enough energy to do another comeback. We felt that the german player market wouldn't provide us what we needed to get back on top again. We couldnt achieve much in Call of Duty 4, our power was just not enough anymore.

The roster achieved a great deal in CoD1 and the early days of CoD2 however they could never regain their status amongst the elite after CPC1 where they finished second. CDC4 was expected to be the return of Speedlink after two bootcamps and heavy preperations, however instead it was their final farewell.

Best of luck to a team who truly have been a joy to meet and play with.

Sources:

:: Speedlink Site
:: TeK-9

After the signups for Enemy Territory's ESL Major Series closed on Monday evening, we are happy to present you today all qualifiers, seedings and the schedule for Qualification Round #1. It's time to start the €1000 competition!

At the end 90 teams decided to give it a try and joined the ESL Major Series Qualifiers. Based on their countries of origin, all teams can be divided into three national and one international qualifier. Germany was once again the biggest country and will see 20 teams fighting in their own qualifier. The other two countries are neighbouring countries of Germany, namely Poland and the Czech Republic. All of them will get their own qualifier, while teams from all other countries will join the European Qualifier:

• Qualifier - Europe
• Qualifier - Germany
• Qualifier - Poland
• Qualifier - Czech Republic

netCoders have today claimed ownership of the banning of famed players Lio and Alxel on Gamersnation. Their claim states that Raskl was behind it and that there is more to come.

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after all the discussion and 'investigation' at crossfire , i thought by now bulldog / tosspot, you would have worked out who the culprit was, you know i love you fatty > aka bulldog. but because you work with a failing anti cheat company, you had to stand by it. so you (them) banned one of the leading players in et for 12 months without any question, because you have to trust in your beloved anti cheat software. i say let it die with the admins.

and i dont care if you left et for another game and all this crap, you are still as active as ever like we have seen from the playboys denial. your anticheat fails. tommorow will be alot of fun, dont miss the ettv games. and the day after will be the public humiliation of pb.


if i wasnt being clear, yes it was me.

Raskl's comments come amidst other conversations with netCoders that were recently published. Apparently the cheating organisation are going on a 'holy war' against Punkbuster due to their profiting whilst delivering what they (nC) describe as a poor product.

Rumour has it that without actually hacking with PB, nC have the ability to single handedly kick anyone from any server. This rumour has been talked up by nC and we'll soon find out whether they're all mouth and no trousers or indeed in possesion of weapons of mass destruction.

:: Source

The iPOWER tournament run by Crossfire sponsors Packard Bell was last year a bit of a unique twist on gaming tournaments, with all members of team playing multiple games. This year the tournament has been given the eSports twist and will be held at the ESWC Masters in Paris on the Independence day weekend, however instead of multiple games it will now be just Call of Duty 4.

Multiplay were due to host the first iPOWER qualifier this weekend at i33, however they recently broke the news of the changes. Whilst some may view this as a very negative thing for the RTS players perspective, the inherant faith in CoD4's ability to perform at ESWC from Game-Services is a huge vote of confidence in the game and its community.

This also adds a huge prestige to i33's CoD4 tournament (not that it needed it with its 12k prizepurse!), however the top placed UK team from that will be sent to Paris to compete in the Call of Duty tournament at iPOWER at ESWC!

More news to follow, and you can follow i33 all here on Crossfire and on QuadV

Related:

:: Deman's i33 Predictions

The time has come to move on for CDC4 team Immortal. The cod4 team has been in talks with several organisations and decided it will be best to move on with eSports Club Novamania.

Statement pnk:

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We want to thank the former Immortal management, Walkah and Dave, for all their support, before ánd after the organisation split due to the forming of Epsilon. We have had a great time being part of Immortal, and it was good to know the management was always there to help out. This is probably the end of the organisation, R.I.P.

Since this is the first post on crossfire regarding the team, here's a short introduction. Immortal was formerly known as Theatre, made up from mainly cod2 players. tEMPlar played for Ephix and Identity. pnk used to play for TeamQRX in cod and Memento Mori. xtophe played for Memento Mori and Retroactive . Along with some other players they formed the CoD2 team of KnightS. After winning The Reality V LAN, they decided to move on to cod4. There they picked up Longbow, who played ET:QW for hMg, Infused Gaming and Team NL.

The national qualifiers are complete and it is time to enter the next stage of qualification. This week is Qualifying Round 1, twenty four teams from across Europe and the world will play each other, half of them will be eliminated, half of them will make it through to fight next week.
Prizes
Remember, the prize distribution for this season's top 3 teams is a grand total of €1.500 cash! Qualifying Round 1
Teams that qualified for Qualifying Round 1 have been randomly placed against each other, the winners will go through to play the Qualifying Round 2 teams next week.
Matches are played one map, first to 13 rounds, map is chosen by veto, matches should be played by midnight Sunday. Veto system: Teams eliminate maps from the map pool in order based on their position on the match page - Left, right, right, left, right.
Mappool: mp_backlot, mp_citystreets, mp_crash, mp_crossfire, mp_strike, mp_vacant

Teams with any questions or problems should make a support ticket or write a match protest.

The EuroCup announcement for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare just passed by. ClanBase announced who will be playing in this year's EuroCup. As announced earlier, the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare EuroCup will feature 32 clans, whereas all 32 spots will be filled with direct invites.

The EuroCup announcement for Enemy Territory just passed by. ClanBase announced who will be playing in this year's EuroCup, with the direct invites, as well as those teams who are going to have to play a qualifying match to see if they get in.