Today the European organisation Team Dignitas is proud to announce a tournament in cooperation with QPAD: the Team Dignitas Enemy Territory: Quake Wars QCUP! In the next two weeks the Qualifying Phase will be held to determine the participants of the Finals which will be held on the 27th of October.

Due to the corporation with QPAD the following prizes will be offered:

1000€ + 6x QPAD CT ET:QW Collector's Edition
6x QPAD CT
6x QPAD UC Large

Tournament format:
We have invited 8 teams directly to the Finals. In the next two weeks we will have four qualifier tournaments for 8 more teams to qualify for the Finals. The direct invites are below:

Team Dignitas
CPH eSport
EYEBallers
OCRANA
Team-Delta
[GR-OF]
SPEED-LINK
Pelit

The signups for the first qualifier are now open! Click here to find all the information like the schedule, the whole ruleset and info on signing up.

The ESL Major Series is incoming! With a total prizefund of 2,000 Euro, the ET: Quake Wars ESL Major Series will be one of the main events for all ET:QW teams and players this year. 24 of Europe's best teams will fight for the prizemoney in the coming weeks. Today we like to inform you about they way you can qualify for the upcoming tournament.

How to qualify for the EMS:

The winner of a running season is already qualified for the next EMS. Since this is the start of the EMS, there is no former champion. All 24 slots will be distributed to qualifier tournaments all over Europe. In order to participate for a certain country, the clan has to have at least 60% members with nationality of the country in which they want to qualify. 60% of their line-ups have to consist of members of this nationality during the qualifier just as in the EMS if the team qualifies.

Every national qualifier needs at least 4 teams, for countries with two slots the limit is set to 8. If a national qualifier does not have enough signups, the slot goes automatically to the international qualifier. For all teams which do not have enough clans in their country for an own qualifier or if a clan is too mixed up by different nationalities, there will be international qualifiers where all those teams can participate in.

Just a week after its release Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is already shining as competitive game. Today ClanBase has announced to be partnering up with Activision to present the first Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars OpenCup. With the cooperation with Activision, a prizepot of € 4000,- has become available for the winners of the cup.

The prizepool will be spread among the winning team as following:
€ 2000,-
€ 1250.-
€ 500,-
4th € 250,-

110 teams have already signed up for the competition, among them are top teams such as Team SPEEDLINK, EYEBALLERS, Team Dignitas, OCRANA and Copenhagen eSport.

The qualifiers are over and the groups have been made, now it's time for the first action in the EuroCup. But first let's have a look at the qualified teams and at the groups.

After the first set of rules sparked a lot of controversy, the ESL has discussed the rules for Enemy Territory Quake Wars with players, admins and teams. More than 100 players contributed and what they have achieved is a simpler and slimmer rule set which should help those who are new to the game. In a nutshell, here are the new rules:

Vehicles
NO Aircrafts Allowed (does not include Icarus).
Maximum 1 Heavy Vehicle per team.
Maximum 1 Medium Vehicle per team.
Heavy Vehicles include: Cyclops, Desecrator and Titan.
Medium Vehicles include: Hog and Trojan APC.

New Heavy Vehicles cannot be used by either team once the final objective is active.

Weapons
Maximum 1 Sniper Rifle/RailGun per team.

Deployables
Maximum 1 of each turret per team (Anti Vehicle Turret / Anti Personel Turret / Artillery Interceptor Turret).
Maximum 1 artillery deployable per team.
NO Radar Allowed (includes the usage of 3rd Eye Camera).

A more detailed explanation as to why these rules were chosen can be found on the ESL page, where you can also discuss those rules.

Opening Cup

You can also sign up for the Opening Cups in 6on6 and 4on4 which have an unlimited number of slots. Details can be found in this news post.

ESL News regarding the rules

Tonight sees the final of the QWL tournament with the biggest names in QW fighting it out once again. Dignitas and Copenhagen eSports have battled it out several times since the beta and demo but this will be the first time we see them in action in the full release of Quakewars.


Time 21:00 CET
Maps Area 22/Volcano - Decider: Island
Video Stream QuadV with TosspoT & Deman
Restrictions: Player imposed restrictions1 Field Ops deploy, 1 Sniper, 1 Radar, 1 Heavy vehicle. No Heavy on last stage. You can take heavy from what ever spawn u like (e.g. cyclops sewer and titan area). Vehicles inside are ok.

Copenhagen were the first side to beat Dignitas prior to their Quakecon glory in Dallas this summer. In total the teams have met 4 times with the scores now tied at 2 victories each so tonight is the decider between these two heavyweights!

Personally I cannot wait to see this game played on the full released version on open and fast maps. With the restrictions inplace I think we should really get a great idea of where Quakewars is and where its going.

Today, ClanBase has released the groups for the upcoming ET EuroCup Season. In total, 16 teams have been spread over four groups with the top two advancing into the double elimination play offs, which are set to start in 6 weeks.

[bThe groups[/b]]
Group A
Cortana
Kojak
TLR
Overload

Group B
Impact
mmf
muse
mod

Group C
cZar
ESVKA
Junk52
overdose

Group D
Incomplete
esuba
GMPO
progaming

As all ClanBase EuroCups work with a automatically pre-made roster, this weeks match ups are currently scheduled as followed:

Tuesday 20:30 CET Cortana - OVERLOAD GBooky!
Tuesday 21:30 CET kojak - TLR GBooky!
Wednesday 22:00 CET mod - mmf GBooky!
Thursday 20:30 CET ESVKA - cZar GBooky!
Thursday 22:00 CET junk52 - overdose GBooky!
Sunday 20:30 CET pro - GMPO GBooky!
Sunday 21:30 CET Impact - muse GBooky!
Sunday 22:00 CET Inc - eSuba GBooky!

Let the predictions begin!

After some thrilling matches Thursday we are good to go for the second qualfiers, first the result of the matches that got played Thursday:

Negative Image 0-4 Overdose-Gaming (report)
Incomplete 1-0 Elite (forfeit, sexyhot had personal problems)
obscaenus 0-4 muse-gaming (report)
hardMethodgaming 2-4 megaProGaming e-Sports e.V.
playNET.GS 0-4 ESVKA

Now let's take a look at the matches for Sunday, the last chance to qualifie for the EuroCup XVI.

Following a very successful EuroCup XV season in the Call of Duty 2 scene, ClanBase have revealed the teams that will take part in the EuroCup XIV. A total of 20 teams have recieved direct invites to the cup with a further 16 teams taking part in the qualifiers stage to determine the final four teams of the cup, using the same system as last seasons EuroCup.

Round one has been completed as we embark upon the second and final round of the qualifier games. From the surprising 13:04 win from G8.-ogz.eu versus infusedGaming to the no show default win to Team Aquila against emotive, only eight of the 16 teams have made it this far with another four to go out of the winder in round two.

Round 2 Qualifier Matches
Map: Carentan

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After the first round with no real suprises we`re now in the first round of the LB and the 2nd round of the WB.

Results Winnerbracket Round 1:
1. Ninjatechnique eSports vs Druidz [ 2 - 4 ]
2. Pelit vs Speedlink [ 4 - 0 ]
3. GROF vs Team Desire [ 4 - 0 ]
4. Cph vs Uhuh [ 1 - 0 ]
5. Dignitas vs Simplify [4 - 0 ]
6. Eyeballers vs tX [ 4 - 0 ]
7. Junk52 vs Never Grow Old [ 4 - 0 ]
8. wArning vs Team Fusion Wolfenstein [ 4 - 0 ]

Winnerbrack Round 2:
1. Dignitas vs Junk52, Dignitas wins
2. GROF vs Warning!, Tuesdaynight
3. Cph vs Druidz, Cph wins
4. Pelit vs EYE, Pelit wins

Loserbracket Round 1:
1. Ntech vs TFW, Ntech wins
2. NGO vs Simplify, Today 22.00
3. Desire vs Uhuh, Desire wins
4. tX vs Speedlink, Speedlink wins

Maps:
Salvage (Decidermap if needed: Island)

Deadline:
Sundaynight 24.00 CEST

Link:
http://clanbase.ggl.com/news_league.php?lid=5435

GL Teams !!!