A week before the start of the Crossfire Devotii Challenge in Enschede, Warsownews.net did a little warsow precoverage for CDC3. Lokirulez fired 5 questions at some of the CDC warsow players. Because the compo never passed the revue in any previous crossfire LAN edition, we are curious to find out what they expect next weekend.

CDC3 warsow's admin ETR was one of the lucky guys and gave his statement:

Quote by ETR

I'm totally stoked about it now! After finally finishing all the work with the invites, the seeds, and after quite some lastminute stress I can finally look out to the compo itself. Especially seeing all the confirmed players being there (next to the participants a fair good few dedicated Warsowians), the logcabins we'll share, it'll be a very good time no doubt. Also participating will be a ball, I'm not expecting much performance-wise, however I will try my best to practise plenty next week. I am really anxious to see vicek, BoBel and BRUNS play irl (I have already had the pleasure to see scoobz0r playing :p).

More questions and answers on the warsownews.net website.
The article: [url]http://www.warsownews.net/ [/url] (2 pages)
Homepage: http://www.warsownews.net/

With just a week until the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 3 the tension is mounting and now its time to turn up the temperature with the ever contentious seeds and groups, along with the schedule! Its also time to announce the final tournament revisions as we've been met with some challenges.

Tournament Revisions

The ET tournament will be 20 teams played in 4 groups of 5 teams, this means that we'll be able to offer teams more matches than at any of the previous tournaments. Further to that, The top two teams will progress to a double elimination bracket and the 3rd and 4th teams will go into a single elimination bracket for their eventual rankings. Again meaning that teams will play more matches than ever before at CDC. However, with this being some 4 teams short of our original plan, we've lost on revenue for prizes, it means the ET prizepool will drop from 6200, to a flat 6000 Euro.

The Warsow Tournament has had massive player changes however today we've settled and confirmed on a 16 player tournament with groups of 4 and a double elimination 8 man bracket emerging from that. Again we've taken a hit on the signups and the prizepurse will be 1200 Euro.

Seeds

Ever the contentious issue! Whilst we have seeded individually, meaning we have a 1st 2nd 3rd seed etc, the primary function of seeds within a group is to seperate them into a group so Dignitas and TLR for example arent in the same group. Keeping the tiers apart from one another is the important factor, not who is 5th vs who is 6th. Seedings were done on results and achievements.

:: ET Seeds
1. The Last Resort
2. Dignitas
3. SRP
4. GMPO (Highbot)
5. vae (Kreaturen)
6. cZar
7. k1ck
8. overload
9. n1ce
10. <[o]>
11. 118
12. GaB
13. muse
14. team massacre
15. hard gaming
16. d&b
17. iHero
18. MAZZ
19. NR
20. SND
:: ET Groups
GROUP A
The Last Resort
overload
n1ce
d&b
iHero

GROUP B
Dignitas
k1ck
<[o]>
hard gaming
MAZZ

GROUP C
SRP
cZar
118
team massacre
NR

GROUP D
GMPO (Highbot)
vae (Kreaturen)
GaB
muse
SND
:: Warsow Seeds
1. BoBel
2. V!ct!M
3. Bruns
4. Scoobzor
5. Jannis
6. nVc
7. h1o
8. XheP
9. mason
10. ETR
11. Panzerfaust
12. JazZ
13. beng
14. blaze
15. marrk
16. Rikku
:: Warsow Groups
GROUP A
BoBel
XheP
JazZ
Rikku

GROUP B
V!ct!M
h1o
Panzerfaust
marrk

GROUP C
Bruns
nVc
ETR
blaze

GROUP D
Scoobzor
Jannis
mason
beng

Lastly but not leastly, the Tournament Schedule & Groups. We've tried to accomodate a variety of requests for start times and tried to make the warmup and setup time longer this event. You can view the tournament schedule here. In addition you can see just 2 matches on Saturday night, that is because we will be holding a cash prized poker tournament at 8pm on Saturday. Tommorow we will announce our partner and its prize!

Tonight we see the Winner Bracket Final of the GamersNation ET Cup. HardMethodGaming take on the former Sleepers side phantasmagoria, with the winners staking claim to a place in the Grand Final whilst the losers will have to win all their matches in the loser bracket to have a chance to play in the Grand Final.

With both teams looking to be competing in at least OC Premier in this seasons Clanbase Fall Cups, and some tipping these teams to feature in the Eurocup, this match will be an ideal stage for both teams to try and impress pundits and spectators.

Website | GamersNation @ Quakenet

As I wrote about earlier (read more...) Quake Wars League, QWL, are hosting a ET:QW Demo Cup starting next week. But since I wrote that there have been some major updates concearning the rules. Earlier, QWL wanted to allow flyers but after some careful consideration and a heavy debate at their forums they have now decided not to. This decision now rules out flyers and I wouldn't be suprised if this was the last time we've seen the flyers actually thought about in ET:QW competitive play.

There are also some more restrictions made by QWL and this is kinda interesting as the new rules will make way for some more intense infantry combat.

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To prove we're not deaf, dumb and lame public players.. we have been seriously brainstorming about all possibilities and ofcourse considering all kinds of remarks made by you, YES YOU!; thus coming to the following rules for the upcoming cup:

- Teams may only use vehicles from their current spawn and/or capturable forward spawns.
- The defending team may use vehicles from the previous spawn if it does not conflict with the vehicle restriction ruleset.
- Teams may only use 1 heavy vehicle at a time.
- Teams may only use 1 medium vehicle at a time.
- Teams may only use 1 sniper, however there is no limit on the Covert Ops/Infiltrator class.
- There may only be 1 Field Ops/Opressor deployable, however there is no limit on the Field Ops/Opressor class.
- Flying vehicles are not allowed. (Not including the Icarus)

Heavy vehicles include: Cyclops, Desecrator and Titan.
Medium vehicles include: Hog and APC.

Valley Specific Rules
- The shielded rear strogg base is off limits. You may not take vehicles from this base nor place deployables inside this area.
- The serversettings to allow MCP destroying when off-course should be disabled, meaning that if the MCP drives off-course and is disabled it will stay at this position. These are the commands and how they should be set:
seta g_noRouteConstraintKick "1"
seta g_noRouteMaskDestruction "1"
- The MCP may not be driven left after the bridge, before the tunnel along the mountainside to prevent falling in the water with the serversettings provided in the previous rule, however it can be driven left by the end of the tunnel.

There are still some debate whether these rules are final or not, you can take part in the discussion HERE.

QWL is set to start on Wednesday, the 19th after the seeds are done this weekend. So far 49 of 64 slots have been taken, and there is little time left, so head over there and signup.

Find out more at:
Quake Wars League
#QWL

Electronic Sports League, ESL announced their very own ET:QW Demo Cup yesterday. The signups are open until saturday the 15th, 23:59CET so hurry up if you want to participate.

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Today the international section of the ESL for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars opens its doors, co-inciding with the release of the demo tonight. ESL presents a demo cup to prepare for the game's upcoming release and ESL Major Series!

Modus: Single Elimination
Participants: 32 teams
Date of registration: 09/10/07 18:00 until 09/15/07 23:59

Schedule:
Round 1: Monday, 17th - 21:00
Round 2: Tuesday, 18th - 21:00
Round 3: Thursday, 20th - 21:00
Round 4: Monday, 24th - 21:00
Final: Wednesday, 26th - 21:00

Rules and Vehicle Restrictions
Rules:
Stopwatch (Best of 3)
Timelimit: 20 minutes
XP are disabled
seta g_noRouteConstraintKick "0"
seta g_noRouteMaskDestruction "0"

Decider:
If the 2 teams are tied after ABBA has been played, a decider map will be played. If there is a double fullhold on this map, then the team which completed the most objectives will be declared the winner.
If the teams are tied on the number of objectives completed, then the team which completed the last objective in the fastest time will be the winner.

Valley Vehicle Restrictions:
Global
- Teams may only use 1 heavy vehicle at a time.
- Teams may only use 1 medium vehicle at a time.
- Flying vehicles are not allowed. (Not including the Icarus)
- Teams may only use vehicles from their current spawn and/or capturable forward spawns.
Strogg
- The defending team may use vehicles from the previous spawn if it does not conflict with the vehicle restriction ruleset.
Additional
- Heavy vehicles include: Cyclops, Desecrator and Titan.
- Medium vehicles include: Hog and APC.

Class Restrictions:
- Teams may only use 1 sniper, however there is no limit on the Covert Ops/Infiltrator class.
- There may only be 1 Field Ops/Opressor deployable, however there is no limit on the Field Ops/Opressor class.

Valley Specific Rules:
- The shielded rear strogg base is off limits. You may not take vehicles from this base nor place deployables inside this area.
- The serversettings to allow MCP destroying when off-course should be disabled, meaning that if the MCP drives off-course and is disabled it will stay at this position. These are the commands and how they should be set:
seta g_noRouteConstraintKick "1"
seta g_noRouteMaskDestruction "1"

- The MCP may not be driven left after the bridge, before the tunnel along the mountainside to prevent falling in the water with the serversettings provided in the previous rule, however it can be driven left by the end of the tunnel.

Find out more at:
Electronic Sports League / Signup
#ESL.etqw

SplashDamage and Activision have today released the demo of ET:Quakewars the long awaited installment in the ET series. After a private beta and two open betas the game is nearing release and this will be the last free installment!

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It's finally here! The Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars demo has been released and is available via the mirrors listed below. If you haven't been keeping up, you can find out all about the demo in this developer blog. You can also check out our Valley map guide for details on the demo map along with a few tips and tricks

Mirrors
Yahoo
Quake Unity
Nvidia
Official .torrent

More
4Players.de
ActionTrip
AUSGamers
clubic.com
eXp.de
FileFront
FilePlanet
Fileshack
FileSwap
GameDaily
GameDemos.de
Gamers Hell
Gamer.no
GamesFire.at
GamesWelt.de
GameZone
i3d.net
Internode
K-Files.de
Multiplay.co.uk
PureGamingNetwork.de
Strategy Informer
Turkey Files
Worthplaying

Fresh off the back of the Eurocup XV season Clanbase has today announced its new season of tournaments. Signups open today at 22 CET and will run until the 23rd of September. The tournaments will be launched on the 8th of October with the goal of a pre season finish.As usual the Clanbase system sees the Eurocups chosen after the Opencup Signups have begun.

Clanbase will be running Open cups for the following Crossfire games;

Enemy Teritory (6on6 & 3on3)
Call of Duty 1 & 2 (S&D, TDM, CTF)
Warsow (1v1, 2v2, TDM, iTDM)

If you want to find out more and signup on this page

Dervey the Chief Cup Supervisor at Clanbase has told Crossfire that whilst Quakewars has no Opencup as the game is not released, there is the possibility of further featured cups at a later date.

European giants TeK-9 have today won the Clanbase Eurocup finals in Enschede after a thrilling grand final against H2k. In a repeat of the outpost on fire grand final, TeK-9 were taken all the way by the dutch team who will take heart from their recovery after Wonderbase.

H2k 16-14 TeK-9
H2k 10-16 TeK-9

The result came after H2k steamrolled over german side Speedlink earlier in the morning. The team looked most impressive today, erasing the memory of yesterdays defeat on Burgundy.

TeK-9 - 2700 Euro
H2k - 1500 Euro
Speedlink - 1000 Euro
4th tempkids - 800 Euro

Quote by Davy

We played badly at Outpost on Fire and won, here we chose Dawnville against h2k which was a mistake that we got over to win. After wonderbase we're not as afraid of serious as we were, they might still be the top challenger but we havent played them in a while. Anyone can be our rival in CoD2 at the moment, because CoD2 is like CS where any team can win on any day, H2k did really bad at Wondebase and they played so well here. We seem to be the one team that stands out though.

Final Match
[img|left]http://www.eiged.com/cod2cup/dignitas.jpg[/img]

Quote by Team-Dignitas black

Coming into this final against a team where i have played every member at some point i wouldnt underestimate any of them, but i believe we should be able to take the win. Regarding our team over the past weeks we have recruited 2 new players and a very suitable 6th, unfortunately we have been unable to practice with plazma due to him just moving house and having no net, however lopezz has filled in very well.

Quote by Reason-Gaming Karl

It will be a good test for us to play this game against Dignitas. We have only been a team for a few weeks and we havn't played that much together. But we are getting noticably better as we play more. We were happy to bring in Benn and Trainee because they bring a huge amount of experience and it's showing in our game. This will be the first reasonably serious match we have had to play yet.So we are gona give it our all. Toujane been the map, is probably a good thing.. but we don't know what Dignitas are like on it, so we arent sure whether or not to be happy about it. I think we have a good chance of winning, but the new players Dignitas brought are top notch so it will be a tough game for both sides im sure. We just hope we put on a good show for GIGA.
Shoutouts to Steelseries, OCZ Technology, Multiplay, GladiatorComputers and KingDhesiii.

Final Rankings
Team-Dignitas
Reason-Gaming
veXo
esourceUK

Being shown on a TV station is not even a major point regarding sponsors and fans, it's even important for keeping a game alive or to promote the upcoming title of it. With having problems finding fitting teams for a major TV event, I'm proud bringing the one and only important CoD2 One-Day cup back up on our very own crossfire.

Regarding the upcoming CDC3 edition 2 where CoD2 is played, you can prove yourself to a big audience and prove your ability to be one of the best European teams. 8 teams are trying their best to take their road to be in a list next to our last winner eSuba.

The final match of this cup will be broadcasted live by GIGA, a free web stream is available as well as the full quality stream right into your TV with Astra Digital (kinda in Germany only).

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