Today h2k presented "cash please" as their new Enemy Territory: Quake Wars squad. The squad brings a wealth of talent and experience from the top echelon of Enemy Territory and the Battlefield series. The squad mainly excists of last CDC3 winners TheLastResort.et( also known as aMenti.) and 2 other players from top Battlefield clans such as NextGen.Gaming. They are currently playing in the ClanBase Open Cup, ESL and Enemy Down.

Squadleader Janis 'Clown' Zagrebins had the following statement:

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Since the core of the team switched from ET to ETQW we have been looking for a MGC that shares our vision and want to support us. And we really feel we have found the perfect home in h2k gaming, witch will give us the opportunity to go further than we did in ET. We have also added two players that didn't play ET with experience from BF and other games and they are really fitting into the team. ETQW is a new game with tons of opportunities and we are proud to be joining the race for gold and glory under the h2k.thermaltake tag!

Statement H2k-Gaming Management:

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We are glad to announce a new promising team in a new game for H2k-Gaming. With their experience in the original Enemy Territory we think that this team will compete with the best of the world. The team is very talented, has the potential and we have faith in all the players in the team. H2k-Gaming will fully support this new team in the process and we are all hoping for the best. Welcome aboard guys!

The line-up of H2k.ETQW:
Janis 'Clown' Zagrebins
David 'dAv1d' Philippaerts
David 'mAus' Herreman
Alexander 'taken' Asboell
Tim 'TiMMi' Iversen
Sergi 'Winghaven' Torras

#h2k
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Yet again the Fins are forced to defend their homes, this time against the western european
& conquerors who are thirsty and not any drink will do, it's the Finnish blood they are after!

TosspoT will be shoutcasting both of these matches among with plenty of non-english ( , , ) shoutcasters casting junk52 vs jaet. When you add up everything, it sounds like interesting mixture of expected, unexpected and exciting moments for tonight ladies and gentlemen! so once again it's your turn to head over to GamesTV.org, place your bets and cheer on your favorite!


Things are looking rosy for the vicious Junk52 Theatre and their evil opponent, ex-cZar, JAET,
as no matter what the outcome of the match is, both teams will make it to the playoffs.
Since Bartichello worked hard for the preview of this match, including interviews from both teams, match summary, plenty of predictions et cetera, go and check it out at Clanbase.com - Bartichello's Preview on j52 vs cZar

While on the other match things aren't lookin that rosy, in fact, it's a Do or Die situation for the not so complete team and their hairy German opponent, Gamepoint. Both of the teams have won against eSuba and lost against MegaPro, so a real struggle is to be expected for the second spot in the group, as the winner will advance to the playoffs and the losers will go home!

-thanks to twidi for the lineup and x vs x graphics!

When you talk about W:ET in competition there is one major element which pops in your mind: StopWatch. The greatest gamemode a game has ever seen in my opinion, and possibly the reason why Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory have been such popular games in online competitions. Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, the spiritual successor of W:ET, features this popular game mode as well, however in a soon to come out patch, SplashDamage will twist the game mode around in a way which could either be loved, or hated in competition.

The following quote was taken out of an article announcing the upcoming update to the game:

Quote by Locki, ownder of SplashDamage and lead developer on Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars

StopWatch mode now features a bit of added logic code to better deal with ties. If neither team wins the map outright, the team that progressed further through the objectives gets the win. While this is the only StopWatch improvement in this update, we have a separate push to add lots more features to tournament support overall. More on that in another Blog.

A great move by SplashDamage to improve competition, or a major hit in the face for a team which just got fullholded at the first stage of a map? Only time will tell.

Maybe some of you have heard about the Movie project about Speed-Link.CoD.
Maybe some of you thought it's dead and will never be released, but now the time has
come and Speed-Link released their Movie, called
“Faszination eSports – Unterwegs mit Team SPEED-LINK.CoD”.

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More than 1:37 hours of documented film about a complete LAN-weekend, looks behind the scenes, interviews with all players of the team and further inside information concerning the team, which no one knew about until now, are awaiting you in this unique documentary. The movie has been produced by Matthias Lorenz, who did not only record the necessary footage himself but also took a very huge part in the entire planning, implementing and cutting the scenes for this movie. Next to his work the entire Call of Duty 2 team brought some new ideas and notes to the table that he could implement to make this movie as perfect as possible.

The main language of the movie is German with a German subtitle, but you can also select an English subtitle, that's why the size of the movie is around 1.9 gig. But that's the minimum version, means it doesn't include extras and has a lower quality. According to Michael “Trigger” Sowa that still makes an 8,5 out of 10.

The "Directors Cut" version has a size of 4,3 gig and is an .iso file, which includes a complete and extensive DVD menu with a lot of extras and outtakes, the possibility to select the chapter you wish to view, enabling subtitles in German or English as you personally prefer and finally the trailer of the movie.


Directors Cut Version
German Version (german subtitles)
International Version (english subtitles)

Official News

Where it's now about 2 degrees Celsius outside things are starting to get hot in the ETQW-scene. With both the Finnish and Swedish ESL Major Series (EMS) Qualifier starting tonight. And if that wasn't enough there will also be some action in the ET:QW Nordic Championship.

[bThe Finnish teams (with 1 spot in the EMS):[/b]]
Pelit
retro4u
Afterlife
Never Grow Old

[bThe Swedish teams (with 2 spots in the EMS):[/b]]
Kompaniet
EYEBALLERS
Junk52 Theatre
Druidz
Mortifier
One2
621
cultBurk
tenax.se

But as said, that is not all as the Nordic Championship kicks off tonight with TGBF showcasting Benz1n.Gaming vs. HeXagon e-Sports tonight @ 19:00 CET (click for link to the showcast..). In the end of NC, the remaining teams will be fighting over 1600 euro and a ticket to QuakeCon 2008 for the winning team.

[bET:QW Nordic Championship groups:[/b]]
Group 1:
Code seven
DeviaGames
Team Pelit

Group 2:
Mortifier
Afterlife
Team-BUBU (Dignitas-mix)

Group 3:
EYEBALLERS
Kompaniet
Never Grow Old

Group 4:
WarBorn
Team Logitech.fi
Druidz

Group 5:
Arcane6
Team Infinity
Strogganoff

Group 6:
Junk52 Theatre
Benz1n.Gaming
HeXagon e-Sports

Group 7:
GRYP
retro4u
Master Incorporated

Group 8:
tenax.se
J.Lindeberg Future e-Sport
Ninjatechnique e-Sport
Two teams from each group go through to the playoffs. Maps for round 1 are Sewer/Area22, and for round 2 it's Refinery/Salvage.

Best of luck to all the participants.

Links:
Finnish EMS Qualifier
Swedish EMS Qualifier
The Nordic Championship
TGBF
#esl.quakewars & #snl.etqw

CDC3 Part 2 in its smaller version will be kicking off at 10AM next Saturday, the tournament will run Saturday through Sunday and teams should make themselves available to check-in and start setting up at 9AM!

The Smaller version of the Call of Duty 2 tournament will be run in 2 groups of 4 with the top 2 teams going into the playoffs and the RTCW tournament will be 1 group of 4 with the top 2 fighting it out in the final.

Over this coming weekend the full match schedule along with seedings will be released. We are currently looking for 1 Call of Duty team to complete the 8 team tournament. Anyone wishing to compete should message TosspoT on iRC! QuadV will be providing an unproduced live stream from the tournaments onsite, so you can keep up to date with all the action!

The first matchweek of the current CB ET:QW Opencup has just started and we will see a lot of matches tonight on Area22 and Volcano, especially some interesting games in the premier League.

warning! has to proof their strenght against the french guys from CoRe without Winghaven, who left them to play with cash please. Druidz for example, who are currently first at the CB EU 6on6 Ladder with three wins and not a single loss will face Inferno eSports in their first Opencup Match. Another Group H Match today will be roYality! facing Logitech.fi. rY had some good matches and the latest ESL Cups, but we will see around 21:00 CET if they are good enough to beat the finnish guys.


Premier League Matches today:
19:00 CET retro 0 vs 4 junk52
20:00 CET GYRP X vs 4 schwarz
20:30 CET 666 0 vs 4 egpTt
21:00 CET #roYality 0 vs 4 logitech
21:00 CET wArning! X vs X CoRe (wildcard by core)
21:00 CET NoW 0 vs 4 infused
21:00 CET Wilda 4 vs 0 NF
21:15 CET inF 4 vs 0 DRz (no show by Druidz)


Second League Matches today:
20:00 CET D X vs X MxB
21:00 CET C4 X vs X PiC
21:30 CET TFW X vs X RG
22:30 CET 4Frags 4 vs 0 TiG


Third League Matches today:
21:00 CET Xet X vs X chokehold
21:00 CET real X vs X LamA

London – 12th October 2007 – Enemy Down, the UK’s leading online tournament team-play gaming sites and part of the TNWA Group, is partnering with gamers’ number one TV Channel, XLEAGUE.TV (Behind QuadV offcourse), for a marathon of online tournaments.

The Packard Bell European Open - Play Harder tournaments are to be screened on the show later this year on XLEAGUE.TV, include, Battlefield™ 2 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars® in this clan-fastic series sponsored by Packard Bell and in association with SteelSeries

Prizes have been finalised through Packard Bell;
All winning teams will receive 5 x Packard Bell iPower systems, worth over £1000 each & SteelSeries will supply gaming peripherals to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

"The iPower 8860 houses a water cooling system and an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor for the ultimate gaming experience. Its 8800GTS (320MB) dedicated graphics card will have you cowering behind the sofa as the enemy approaches and your living room explodes with gunfire. Its DirectX 10 capability gives a true to life gaming experience at record speeds."

Signups for ET:QW can be done here:
http://www.enemydown.co.uk/game.php?gameselect=ETQW

As the ephix cup reaches it's last game, we will see grof vs Dignitas facing each other in the finals tonight at 22:00 CET With GROF having beaten pelit in a very close 4:2 game, and grof therefore coming from the lower bracket, having already lost to dignitas on island, dignitas are certainly favourites for the match.

In the consolation final pelit failed to win their map, island, whilst losing to grof despite strong efforts. grof having chosen sewer also failed to win their chosen map, having lost by 15 seconds due to a series of mistakes. Having reached the decider map of salvage, grof managed to pull through a win, concluding a particularly exciting game.

Lineups for tonight are expected to be as follows:
[bdignitas[/b]:]
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[bgrof[/b]:]
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With both teams having played each other on a number of occasions, dignitas have often had the upper hand, and again come into this infantry match having won every match so far, beating teams such as junk52 & grof. grof also reach the final having beating teams such as wArning! & pelit along the way, reaching the final match with both teams having earned their place in what is expected to be an interesting final. Despite the unfortunate dropout of the particularly strong team Eyeballers, we can only hope the cup will finish as well as it started.

Maplist
AB = Dignitas map
BA = Grof map but only if grof wins the first map, this is because they come from loserbracket.
Rules
- Vehicles are not allowed.
- Flying vehicles are not allowed.
- Deployables are not allowed.
- Air strikes are not allowed.
- Heavy weapons are not allowed.
- Only one sniper rifle/railgun is allowed per team at any time, however Covert Ops/Infiltrator aren’t limited.
- Mines, Tripmines, Flyerdrone and 3rd eye camera cannot be used, with exception of the flyerdrone on volcano obj3.
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For those of you who don't understand the meaning of a 2:2 win, because grof has come from lower bracket, it is necessary for them to win both maps. Dignitas only needed to win 1 map to win the match due to coming from upper bracket.

match detailsMap 1: area22
-dignitas attack first and set ~16:30
-grof attack and win setting ~11:30
Map 2: sewer
-grof attack setting 8:10
-dignitas attack and win setting ~7:30

Another clan follows the ET:Quakewars hype by recruiting their own team for the upcoming ET:QW events. If you have browsed the Clanbase Opencup page the last days, you may have noticed that the german team, who was formerly known as DkH.etqw have just changed their clan details. They will continue under the flag of Ping of Death ( pod ). POD had teams in older games like Quake III, EnemyTerritory, RTCW & BF2.

The team recently beat sfto in the EMS Qualifier, but had no chance against top german team Speedlink.etqw.

The pod etqw lineup is as follows:

pico ( Team-Manager )
Caliban
bldr
Currey
Nager
PeeKaaay
juICE
Neox
Losti


Clanbase sheet
Homepage
#pod.etqw