After both the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 4 and Level7 LAN's respectively failed at the Finnish forces of Epsilon, the team felt required to make a major lineup change in order to keep on participating on the upper level in the Call of Duty 4 scene, and stop disappointing themselves with bad results.

The team has dropped three of their Finnish players dae, ana and jani, following the recent inactivity announcement of Fix who has decided to step back from competitive gaming. These drops left the team behind with two players, id3 and sec.

In return, the team has picked up three players who surprisingly come from teams which are considered their rivals. The team has picked previous CS:S player DEEMI who has previously performed for Team Konna on the Level7 LAN. His skills are with no doubt expected to have an impact on the team.

The second player who will try to help the CoD4 team take over control in the scene is konna. This too is a rather surprising move, since he previously played WC3 for MYM, and has fairly recently been introduced to the Call of Duty series.

The third player is plaekki, who also performed on Level7 and this time rather succesfully considering he won the LAN together with his previous team Logitech.fi. His experience on the top level is expected to take the team even further.

Out of the ashes from One2 and bhstyle arises GALENSKAP, a newly formed Swedish CoD4-team with lots of talent. From the old One2 we have dohfOs and Keno, these two form GALENSKAP together with the bhstyle familiar faces Bele, LakOni and ado. With all of the players living rather close to each other they have great possibilities to meet and bootcamp and with their goals set on Europe and upcoming lans this is something they hope to take advantage of and in time be able to challenge the top contenders.

Statement by dohfOs, ingame leader:

Quote by www.galenskap.eu

Starting up GALENSKAP with these guys have been nothing but an enjoyable project. The mixture of people is just awsome and we're having a blast each day on voice comms. GALEN is consisting of such a huge variety of people with players coming from scenes such as CS1.6, BF1942, W:ET, CoD:UO and ET:QW and we believe that in the long run it's something we can take advantage of.

We're ofcourse aiming to become one of the better teams around but even though we're eager to get there we know we got some heavy work infront of us if we wanna succeed. With that in our mind, a strong will and a high potential in the team it's more a question of time rather then anything else. Once we're prepared enough you will see us attending LAN:s, and hopefully that won't take forever. So see you on the battlefield anytime soon.

Today the Gamestar Liga has announced the prizes for their upcoming season, the games featured as "main games" are Unreal Tournament 3, Guild Wars, Live for Speed and Starcraft: Broodwar - next to that the league will host Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars and Tactical Ops: Crossfire with supported competitions.

The tournament will feature 16 teams from all over Europe in a one group competition - the four top teams will then play each other in the finals to win a part of the prize money.

The prize money for the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars league is 1175 € in total;

500 EUR prize money
350 EUR prize money
200 EUR prize money
4th 125 EUR prize money

For a full list of competitions and prizes visit the Gamestar Liga website (in german).

Tomorrow, the swedish ESL Major Series II Qualifier for Call of Duty 4 will kick off. It's the first qualifier, where the top two teams will get a spot for the Major Series Season. Five swedish Call of Duty teams will face each other for those spots.

Mortifer.cod4
fnatic.cod4
Team One2
Live2Win.Gaming
Vicious and Evil .CoD 4


Round I - 16:00 CET

[center]fnatic vs. live2win
VAE vs. Mortfier[/center]
Round II - 17:00 CET

one2 vs. VAE
live2win vs. Mortfier

Round III - 18:00 CET

[center]fnatic vs. VAE
one2 vs. Mortfier[/center]
Round IV - 20:00 CET

[center]
fnatic vs. one2
live2win vs. VAE[/center]
Round V - 21:00 CET

[center]live2win vs. one2
Mortfier 3 vs. 11 fnatic[/center]
Cuppage

insidiae, a well known team in the cod4 scene, has also picked up an ETQW team.
The team mainly exists of Snakepit (aka phonetic ) players, but they also announced to add Doomsteri from Team Pelit , since they have folded.

The line-up consists of the following players:

Pasi IronFist Kauppinen (Captain)
Jon Ubernt Koivula (Co-Captain)
Mikko Doomsteri Turunen
Ilja Dimmo Balabin
Lassi d0nkey Kemppainen
Juho bwa Kivistö
Tomi JibbE Kartaslammi
Niko Libi Malmi (Backup)

The team behind the most popular etqw mod to date have now recruited the creator of the etqw competition mod pigmod, no other than Blaze. The ETQWPro team expect Blaze to bring manners into the team and we see it as a happy bonus if he decides to include some features. Rumors say that Blaze was once an army sergeant in Vietnam and that he killed 10 boars with his fists.

Aside from that Blaze is a major asset on all fronts and has already made his mark on the mod, bringing in lots of experience from both modding and creating games. Blaze has previously worked on mods such as reaction quake for quake 3.

This means the coding team now consist of Hannes, SpaceCommander, th00ry and Blaze.

With the two most successful competition mods for etqw now working together you can hardly imagine any limits! Stay tuned for big updates to come!

You can visit ETQWPro at www.etqwpro.net and #etqwpro on quakenet.

This Sunday ClanBase will announce the EuroCup direct invites, and the teams that have to play a qualifier. To stay up-to-date you can join the official IRC channel #EuroCup.

19:30 Enemy Territory SW
19:40 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars SW
19:50 FIFA '08
20:00 PES 2008
20:10 Counter-Strike: Source
20:30 Medal of Honor Obj Real
20:40 Unreal Tournament iCTF
20:50 Unreal Tournament 3 1v1
21:10 Call of Duty 2 S&D
21:20 Call of Duty 4 S&D
All the times listed above are CET times, which are GMT+1

Source

The EMS qualifiers will start within the next two weeks for a few national and international sections. The ESL have released the new 6on6 config for the ESL Major Series powered by Asus now. With currently 79 teams signed up the interest of teams is quite big for a qualifier on a high class prize money event eventhough it's nothing compared to over 200 signups for the ClanBase OpenCup. Two major events for ET are making their way, stay tuned for entertaining weeks on Crossfire, ETTV and ingame.

Major Settings
- maxpackets in 60 - 100
- maxfps in 43 - 125
- helmetprotection eq 0
- maxMg42s eq 0

Mappool
The ESL match system will be loser's choice: With the first map forced in each match the loser of a map will decide the upcoming map until the winner of the match is decided. In the case of a fullhold a cointoss will come up to decide the next map.
And the maps are:
- Adlernest
- Braundorf
- Bremen
- Radar
- Supply
- SW Goldrush TE
The most recent version of each map will be played.The sign ups for the ESL Major Series qualifier stage are possible till Monday, 17.59 CET.

Sign Up
Participants
Download the EMS config

2 Cups. 16 matches. 32 teams.
The last groupmatches of the ESL ET: Quakewars Wintercup finished two days ago and now the ESL announced the playoff games for the 6on6 and 4on4 cup. All those games have to be played with the latest Promod release. The following matches will take place during the next week:


6on6 Winter Cup Playoffs:
Team SPEED-LINK vs. team dropzone
KaoS Contingency vs. Vicious and Evil
Creativ vs. prediction Gaming
w4sp.etqw vs. Disturbed Force
Team Infinity vs. Geh aB Clan
team-ephix vs. Authentic
Team Thermaltake vs. onis
faculty.Tagan vs. Inferno eSports


4on4 Infantry Winter Cup Playoffs:
Team Infinity vs. prediction Gaming
team-ephix vs. Inferno eSports
faculty.Tagan vs. Scara-B
Fear Factory vs. Provectus
KaoS Contingency vs. r3volta
Authentic vs. FightGenossen
LP5 and KmH Clan vs. onis
Vaconline vs. Creativ


Related links:
- ESL News
- 6on6 Playofftree
- 4on4 Playofftree

The qtour is widely known around the world as the most prestigious 1on1 tournament for counter strike 1.6 and have attracted some of the biggest 1.6 stars in the world, such as Spawn and XeqtR. Now World Cyber Games, known for tournaments such as SEC and WCG, have embraced the qtour and is co-hosting it. And WCG have brought their main sponsors Samsung along, so Samsung is now spearheading an impressive field of sponsors. And with the new blood there comes two new games. Call of Duty 4 and Counter Strike: Source have now been added to the qtour roster.
For now the cooperation is only a part of WCG Nordic and the first tournament will be at The Gathering 2008 in Hamar, Norway and signups are now open. The qtour will be streamed by tgbf.tv and as always our favorite drunk Swede living in Denmark will be running the show.

WCG QTOUR Championship:
• 16 player single elimination
• 14 players are invited
• 2 spots are open for public qualifier
• 1on1 tournament in games normally played 5on5
• Game titles: • Counter-Strike 1.6 • Call of Duty 4 • Counter-Strike Source
• Live stream by TGBF.tv
• Great prices
• Great prestige

Visit www.q-tour.com to sign up!