Crossfire is today proud to announce its new partnership with Game-Hosting as official host of our community. After several successful liaisons with Game Hosting before, its with great honour that we're now extending our agreement to host the site and partner with us in other projects. Game-Hosting has proved to be a firm believer in community orientated support, something that makes it very like minded to Crossfire and a very suitable partner.

Stuart Saw owner of Crossfire said "I've had the pleasure of working with Game-Hosting on the Arctic eSports challenge back in 05, and their Arctic hunts. It became obvious to me that we shared a lot of the same goals, and were going about achieving them in similar ways. We both want to offer the best atmosphere for gamers out there, and now together are progressing in a very focused way."

Eirik Pedersen of Game-Hosting.com added "We have been cooperating with Stuart Saw for a few years now and this cooperation has been very good. When Stuart took over Crossfire we started to talk about how we could cooperate on a even deeper level than we had been up to then, that has now been realized and we are proud to present Crossfire as our official partner. "

The relationship between the two companies see's Game-Hosting become the exclusive hosting partner of Crossfire and is a strategic partner in all of its community projects. As such Crossfire will be running a Game-Hosting Call of Duty 4 server, you can come and play on 80.239.200.177:32960

As announced, the group stage of the ESL 4on4 and 6on6 Winter Cups will start at the beginning of this very week. Yesterday, just one day after the sign ups had been closed and one day before both cups will start with the first match week, the groups have been published. A total of 64 teams have signed up for the two cups in Europe's biggest league and will show us several hot and enthralling matches in the upcoming weeks.



The first matchweek starts this Tuesday and will end on Monday February 18. All further matchweeks will also be scheduled from Tuesday till Monday. We will not switch to ETQWPro today, but it is highly probable that the situation will change in the next days. But anyway, if both teams agree to it, they can already play the match on an ETQWPro server. The first and second team of each group will join the playoffs, which will be held directly after the last matchweek of the groupstage has been played. For further details please read the official ESL Newspost.

ESL Newspost
6on6 Groups
4on4 Groups

German underdogs The 6 Devils have been crowed the champions of the CoDQCUP after a marathon tournament that saw them overcome CoD2 hotshots TeK-9 in the grand finals last night.

It started poorly for the Germans though as TeK-9 stole a march on them with a massive 13-4 win on mp_Crossfire to start the match. However into the second map (crash) and The Devils managed to reach the magic number of 13 to secure the win for them on the map, and because the Germans were coming from the Winner Bracket tieing the game, meant winning the tournament!

Europe's newly crowed top dogs are anxiously working towards attending CDC4 at the end of the month, this latest victory will only boost their chances of being in Enschede alongside all the teams they recently dismantled.

After the release of the ET:QW Promod 0.02 the modding team planned to wait for the SD competition mod to built their mod on the SD source code. Bad things delayed the SD mod and since CDC #4 is pretty near the Promod team started to finish the next release, 0.03.

And here it comes, the newest Promod version including new fireteam functions, a working spawnsystem and many more. After a week full of beta tests the version is ready to release and you can grab it here

You can test the mod on the following servers:
79.133.32.245:27733 Team SPEED-LINK ETQWPro 0.03 by FSHost.de
91.194.84.128:27744 Team TIER ETQWPro 0.03

We consider this to be the mod played on the CDC4 Lan in Enschede.

A Full Changelog is here

0.03

- Fixed Screenshots being black at the end of the round
- Fixed a message Overflow (caused client crashes)
- Fixed spawn Select
- Fixed class selection (see later)
- Fixed ready Team (there may still be some issues)

- Removed player class (weapon) restriction (broken)

- Demos are now named like "date_time_map"
- Demos will start when countdown starts
- Demos will end as soon as the map ends or @ a match reset
- FireTeams now show Members HP
- latched Classes
- Hitsounds are really hearable now
- weapons spread adjusted


- Introduced Pause function.
Every team has 3 Pauses which can last 2 minutes.
Only Team Members and admins can unpause
Unpause will have a delay of 5 seconds

- Introduced setSpawnPoint / setspawnpt
setspawnpoint will print all available spawns!
setspawnpoint <id> will let u spawn at the chose spawnpoint
setspawnpoint -1 will let u spawn at the Frontline!

- Introduced class Command
class <classid> <weaponid>

- ClientClass reverted back to normal
clientClass <classname> <weaponid>

- Introduced aliases.
pause -> pauseGame
unpause -> unpauseGame
readyteam -> teamReady
setspawnpt -> setspawnPoint

Download Links
Mirror #1
Mirror #2

That's right ladies and gentlemen, after BiO going up and down as much as a grandpa with a viagra addiction. The people's favourite ET Public server, BiO Clanserver is back!

BiO have teamed up with GamersNation.co.uk and Multiplay.co.uk to bring back BiO! But do not fear - all the settings, map rotation and your favourite ref Kevlar remain in charge.

Coming up next for the competive world of the latest Call of Duty release is the ESL Major Series Season 2 with a 1500 € prizepool to statisfy the participants and allow every possible clan a chance to participate. The doors are widly open to sign up and participate in the national qualifier for 16 nations.

Prizemoney
750 €
450 €
300 €

Qualifiers
To decide the 24 teams for Season 2 the ESL has expanded the qualifying system equal to the resemble of the ESL Extreme Masters system to have two knockout rounds in addition to direct qualifiers for each nation and the international qualifier spot.

Phase 1 – National Qualifiers
Phase 2 – QR1 – 24 Teams
Phase 3 – QR2 – 24 Teams
Phase 4 – Main Round – 24 Teams
Phase 5 – Playoffs – 8 Teams

Sunday 10th February 19:30 CET - DCC vs Hexagon

[img|left]http://www.deman.co.uk/images/cod4/strike.JPG[/img]First up on Sunday evening is the Live2Win League 2nd Group Stage between DCC and Hexagon e-Sports.

DCC Gaming recently finished 12th-16th in the CODQCUP bowing out to oXmoze 12-16. During this tournament they topped their group and had an epic 22-20 win over benelux rivals Team ONTiC.

Hexagon e-Sports went out in the Losers Bracket Round 2 in the recent CODQCUP to GAMED 13-8 on Crash after finishing 2nd in their group stage.

Live video coverage will begin at 19:30 CET on QuadV TV1 with Deman and Kee_Ring.

Sunday 10th February 21:00 CET - ShokLeague - oXmoze vs FurY

Following the Live2Win game we look towards the French ShokLeague Division 1 as oXmoze face FurY on Backlot.

oXmoze have recently reached the Loser Bracket Finals in the CODQCUP but lost out to TeK-9 in a fantastic 3 Match come back. However previous match results on Backlot include map wins over Serious Gaming (13-10) and TeK-9 (13-8).

Team FurY did not have such a good run in the CODQCUP losing their 3 group matches xcite(13-10), 4Kings(13-10), OMG_ninjas(13-9). They do however have a history throughoutthe Call of Duty series being 3 times French National Champions.

Live video coverage will begin at 21:00 CET on Quadv TV1 with Deman and Kee_Ring.

The climax of the first ever CupWars.com Night Cup took place this evening. The final was between VAE:ETQW and #Onis and was the second meeting of the 2 teams in the competition. #onis making there way through from the losers bracket having been beaten over 2 maps by VAE earlier in this double elimination cup.

Multiplay have today confirmed with Activision that they will be doubling their Call of Duty 4 prizepurse for their i33 tournament, the pot now stands at 12,000 Euro - the biggest for a European LAN event in Call of Duty.

Signups[ANG]
Anim8 Gaming
Arcadia
{AWOL}
BlitzKrieg Gaming
Contego
[-DER-]
eNergized
EXABYTE
Fraglabs
fullmj
illuminati-gaming
internal
invicta
Irish Online Army
-loaf-
-loaf2-
{SAS}
Sick Gaming
Team CoolerMaster UK
Team Fury
Team Nemesis
5th.
[THN]

The signup list unfortunately doesn't represent such a prestigious prize tournament, with at the moment at least Europes top teams chosing not to signup. Time will tell whether this new carrot will bait the top guns into attendance.

Tomorrow, the Intel Friday Night Game of the Intel Extreme Masters II will take place in the Tanzbrunnen, Cologne. ESL TV will support that gaming event with an english version of their freestream, inclduing the who is who of the eSport scene as co mods.
Warcraft III and Counterstrike 1.6 are the games, which will be played tomorrow, live on stage. The former 4Kings player Grubby (MYM) will face the former SK player fire_de. Grubby's girlfriend and MYM reporter Cassandra will cast that match together with Malystryx from SK Gaming.

CS will be full of action when mousesports, which placed 2nd at the last German EPS Season, will meet mTw.int, formerly known as NoA, on the server, featuring the cast of fnatic star ins and the one and only FlyingDJ.

Moderator Overview
Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips (SK Gaming editor)
Cassandra "PpG" Ng (Grubby's girlfriend and MYM editor)

"FlyingDJ" Schulze (ESL TV Host and editor)
Oskar "ins" Holm (CS player fnatic)
Location Details
Address:
Tanzbrunnen Köln
Rheinparkweg 1
50679 Cologne

Entry Fee: 3€ (Premium-User: 1€)

Date:
Friday, February 8th
Entry: 18:45 o'clock
Start: 20:00 o'clock
You have to be at least 16 years (Don't forget your passport!)

Be sure to tune in ESL TV tomorrow and don't miss those thrilling matches.