known to most for their dominant time in the early stages of ET:QW (both as One2 and Copenhagen e-Sports) but also because leaving the BF2142-scene unbeaten, have taken yet another step toward new challenges. This time the change came unpredicted and without preparation after the former lineup split in mid-October, but with no less determination to become one of the top teams. The new target for One2 is the CoD4-scene.

After the former lineup fell apart it was rather quiet from the One2-camp. But slowly Team Captain Numse started gathering new talent. Murre and dohfOs, both former Junk52, POKEMANS and the return of former One2-member saxs together with Numse and pliXs made a new QW-lineup which in time could see the top as the team once had. But as the ET:QW-scene just kept falling apart the team made the decision the leave for another game.

As we're progressing through the signup stage of the Crossfire QCUP we would like to draw your attention to the following updates. Please check Crossfire regularly for updates as the tournament progresses!

After weeks full of work VAE is proud to announce the return of their Call of Duty Players. Whilst Wonderbase 2007 was the latest event vae.CoD was attending, the Squad had a lot of discussions about switching to Call of Duty 4. Not everyone was pleased with the new game and couldn't bring up the motivation to play on a serious level.
That's why they had to switch some of their players; xHabit, preparing for army, zar, playing for a different team and cosa, inactive, left the team, resulting in the three new faces which are chippy, toppe and beng.

VAE.CoD4 Lineup:
Niklas Nidler Rosenblad
Patrik loke Nylander
Dennis chippy Andersson
Tobias toppe Thorsén
Johnis beng Alm
Carl elac Svärd ( Backup )

Statement by the VAE Management:

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We are really happy about presenting you our new Call of Duty Team. The choice wasn't that hard, since we knew Nidler, elac and loke already from the former VAE.CoD2 Team, which was part of VAE for a long, long time.
In our oppinion, the team has the motivation it needs to play the game on a top level and we are looking forward into the future.
Welcome to VAE guys.

Statement by loke:

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For me and NIdLER finding the two first pieces was an very easy task. Since I played WoW and CoD2 together with the all knowing-toppe and the almighy-bengaN and knowing their personalities in and out only a fool would turn them down.
The 5th and final member was alot more tricky to find, but when we first heard his voice over ventrilo we had another easy choice ahead of us. Now presenting chippy as the last member of we are also pleased to announce that we are going to play for me and NIdLERs cod 2 organisation VAE. Yet again, a simple choice for us to make.

Official Press Release
#vae

Crossfire.nu announces the inaugural Crossfire QCUP brought to you by QPAD and Game-Hosting!

Tonight Crossfire is proud to announce the first Crossfire QCUP in which teams will compete online for a prize purse of 1600 Euro courtesy of QPAD.se and Game-Hosting.com in Call of Duty 4, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, ET:Quakewars and Warsow.

The seeds for the ClanBase OC playoffs are now released. 24 clans are ready for the playoffs and 16 clans are playing qualifiers for the last 8 slots. 4000 euro is up for grabs in the tournament and by the looks of the seeding we will see exciting matches quite early. The seeds are based on what division the clans played in, how they performed in their group and admin input and are very different from the EMS seeds.

The complete playoff three will be published Saturday or Sunday and is a little delayed due to issues with the CB system not supporting 3 divisions going to playoffs. In the playoffs all matches will be fixed, so teams wont be able to schedule their own matches.

In the playoffs there will be played two matches each week for a while (most likely out the year) and there will be a short Christmas break. First match day is expected to be the 9th of December. Predictions will be in the next "Takens take".

You can find the complete seeding and a seeding explanation at ClanBase here: http://clanbase.ggl.com/news_league.php?nid=274671&lid=5313

EDIT!

Playoff tree: http://clanbase.ggl.com/news_league.php?nid=274738&lid=5313

Since announcing CDC4 we've been inundated with requests for what CoD4 ruleset we will be playing with. At painstaking length we've taken consultation from a number of leading figures and organisation who have history with Crossfire and CDC, such as Dignitas, Speedlink, TeK-9, 4kings and organisations like ESL, esports4all and Gotfrag ontop of taking yesterdays MCE vote into consideration and have compiled the following config for public release;

Download Server Config Here

The primary changes to the config are the removal of Deep Impact, removal of the red dot attachment and chosing a map pool which is backlot, crash, crossfire, strike, district.

Our goal in creating this was always to have the same config that other oragnisations will be using so not to create a split, and I'd like to thank Trigger and Crow who have been liaising with CB and ESL to make sure that we're not doing something different to them.

Crossfire will shortly be announcing an online cash prized tournament in which this config will debut alongside DAM mod, though DAM is quite possibly only temporary as the modding community is actively working on other projects.

MCE, or the MEETCOMMUNITYEFFORT-group started their work after a heavy debate whether C.U.R.E (another CoD4-ruleset) really was the real "cure" for Call of Duty 4. As C.U.R.E. rather quickly got called POISON in everyday language the MCE-group started working on their project with more support from the actual community. Their goal is ofcourse to make some kinda global ruleset and with their big variation of members the MCE might actually suceed.

The British multigaming organization Four Kings announced earlier the creation of their academy section with the addition of Pro Evolution Soccer player Gordon "Wallace" Hislop, and the French Team Fortress 2 team Cursed Gaming. The current CoD4 team has also been moved to the academy. This evening, they were able to reveal another addition, in the form of the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars side formally known as Point-Blank.
Whilst Point-Blank haven't picked up any major acheivements thus far, they're currently undefeated in the Clanbase OpenCup, and have qualified for the ESL Major Series. It's expected that with their new support that they'll be attending both Multiplay i33 and Crossfire Devotii Challenge 4 in early 2008.

Adam "Hazz" Nicholls, ETQW manager gave the following statement
We are all very pleased to be given the opportunity of representing 4K in ETQW. Our team aims to play at the highest level and place well in as many tournaments as the scene has to offer.
It is a great privilege to be representing a team with such a reputation and we look forward to doing well with their support.
New TF2 player, Michael 'Mick' Fernandez had the following to say about joining 4Kings:
We are really proud to be the first Team Fortress 2 clan to wear the colors of one of the biggest multi-gaming team ever, and we hope that it's going to help to promote the game in the European fps scene, that's a big opportunity to us and we will do our best to help our new team by winning the more titles we can. I would like to thanks Ben for the trust he gave to us.
Here's what Gordon 'Wallace' Hislop had to say about joining up with 4Kings:
I'm very happy to be joining 4Kings, I hope to achieve and score many goals and win every tournament I participate in. The reason why I chose 4Kings over other teams is their history and the reputation they have in gaming, In football terms I always thought they were the Manchester United of esports so it was a simple descision to make.

4Kings.ETQW is
Rahul 'hentai' Nahar
Mike 'Dranzer' Busing
Joe 'Fenda' Fender
Mark 'Imentiu' Tyson
Carsten 'rglaf' Ekholt
Peter 'nkm' Newcombe
Matthew 'Antipop' Lowe
Adam 'Hazz' Nicholls
4Kings.TF2 is
Alexandre 'Aior' Helies
Romain 'Darkprayor' Bienne
Jean Baptiste 'EpsyLon' Champlong
Guillaume 'Gegon' Brunel
Romain "Jex' Dralet
Mickael 'Mick' Fernandez
Alexandre 'Teoch' Shalit
Aurélien 'Winny' Thevenet
Thibault 'Zyx' Davan Weber
4Kings.PES is Gordon 'Wallace' Hislop

4 kings manager, Ben Woodward gave the following statement:
Finally, we've opened our academy and i honestly cannot think of four better games to be part of it. On one hand you have PES which is actually very popular but it hasn't seen overwhelming support from eSports teams, we hope it'll continue to grow with our involvement. TF2 on the other hand is only recently released and already has a pro circuit in the USA with CEVO putting up $5000 prize money for it. We're hoping something similar will happen in Europe and if it does, i feel we have the best players possible. I've played with or against every one of members of 4K.TF2 in TFC and i know their ability.

Cod4 will obviously become pretty big very quickly, as was proved with CoD2, ETQW is fairly new and has only really had one major tournament thus far, that being Quakecon.

The ultimate goal of the 4Kings academy is to further promote these titles and others, hopefully over time we'll see each of these games become very popular and we'd like to say we've been part of it's development.

www.four-kings.com
#4kings

Qualifiers finished
Earlier this week the last of the total 16 slots were filled for the ESL Major Series and the group stage is now about to kick off. As its only qualified teams in this tournament the talent packed in every group is immense and we will get top matches already in week 1. 1500 Euro is up for grabs.

[bThe groups:[/b]]
Group A
Team-Dignitas
H2k-Gaming
Team SPEED-LINK
They Kick Ass

Group B
Team Pelit
OCRANA
Inferno eSports
Team Infinity

Group C
EYEBALLERS
point-blank
raGe
Creativ

Group D
Kompaniet
Team Delta
nextlevel e-sports club
Random Gaming


First playweek

H2k-Gaming vs They Kick Ass
Team-Dignitas vs Team SPEED-LINK
Team Pelit vs Inferno eSports
EYEBALLERS vs raGe
Kompaniet vs nextlevel e-sports club
Team Delta vs Random Gaming
point-blank vs Creativ
OCRANA vs Team Infinity

Note: All matches will be scheduled, so no times available at the moment and no maplist available either.
Source: http://www.esl.eu/eu/etqw/ems/season1_gs/news/47624/

The BuLL Got M1lked - a fragmovie made by
M1lk starred by, as from the name you could guess,
M1lk & BuLL. These 2 stars have been around for quite a while and it's no wonder they compete on the high level, thus providing us plenty of exciting matches online and offline. Both of the players attended CPC2, M1lk playing for Impact Gaming while BuLL was playing for Vicious and Evil placing and 4th. at CDC3 we saw the brothers in arms playing for the same team, Kreaturen placing 4th. Surely you can expect the movie to be worth the download and most likely you won't be dissapointed.

Movie InfoInfo
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Game: RTCW:Enemy Territory
Starring: BuLL & M1lk
Producer: M1lk
Released: 26-11-2007
Filesize: 349MB
Length: 13:31min
Resolution: 720x400
Codec: x264

Shout-outs
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Thanks to Satz for helping me with the codec.
Thanks to everyone hosting this file.
Thanks to all of you who've helped me in any way 8).

Tracklist
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Ennio Morricone - Ecstacy Of Gold
Apocalyptica - Path 1
NERD - RockStar (Jason Nevins Remix)
The Prodigy - First Warning
Marz - Out the cage
Shoutcasters:
Mashed & Tosspot
Movie Download Links