During my short-dated holidays in Portugal last week the 30th ET-Cup was under way. The Cup went smooth - except for some Groups all first and second Matches were played in time. Hence we got some very exciting fights to be played within the next 4 days.

But before I continue with posting the games I ll write you a short summery from the ET-Cup proceeding.

[img|left]http://www.et-cup.net/images/banner/groupalpha.jpg[/img] Okey lets start with Group Alpha: With 4 matches to go and no clear number one on the grid paper this is definitely one of those groups which can go either way. Surely most of the Community members will see SRP as the unbeatable Nr. 1 in this group - but nobody knows how good the
HardMethod-gaming side can play against those known names since they haven`t played a single match. Besides finest and tacky can both take the first place by beating their opponents.


Group Beta offers us a different situation. Highbot is on top after winning against n1ce and overdose-Gaming it seems that none of their opponents is fit to hold a candle to them. Personally I am a bit disappointed about the Aim on Head performance since I am a big fan of this "old" team.
But they have a last chance to finish this Cup with a happy end - so AOH! show us what you are made of and beat the odds by winning against the strong German Highbot side.


[img|left]http://www.et-cup.net/images/banner/groupcharlie.jpg[/img] Lo and behold! Kreaturen is on bottom of
Group Charlie. Against all presumptions they lost their first game versus a strong team massacre side.
But no worry - I think they will find their right team play and we will see a all new primal instinct in the top battle
Kreaturen vs. OVERLOAd on Monday. If OVERLOAd will win this match they ll likely take the 1st spot and the other 2-3 teams will tremble for the lucky 2nd spot to ensure themselves a place among the last 8 teams in the playoffs.


Last but not least the standings in Group Delta:
Dignitas is obviously the best team in this group. Unfortunately K1ck eSports Club had to forfeit 2 of their 3 matches thus the winner of Team <[o]> and
dark & beyond will take the 2nd place. Only Sunday can tell us who is the better team ;)

Okay thats for now - here are the next ETTV-matches (all other games are in the schedule list on the Cup page):

fine57 vs. HardMethodGaming
Date: Sunday, 2nd September
Time: 20:30 CET
Maps: Bremen_b2, Radar
ETTv: GamesTv.org


[img|left]http://www.gamestv.org/buttons/game3196.png[/img] Aim on Head vs. HighBot
Date: Sunday, 2nd September
Time: 20:45 CET
Maps: Bremen_b2, Radar
ETTv: GamesTv.org


overload vs. Kreaturen
Date: Monday, 3rd September
Time: 20:00 CET
Maps: Supply Depot, Radar
ETTv: GamesTv.org


[img|left]http://www.gamestv.org/buttons/game3201.png[/img] Geh Ab vs team massacre
Date: Monday, 3rd September
Time: 21:00 CET
Maps: Supply Depot, Radar
ETTv: GamesTv.org


Overdose-Gaming vs. n1ce.it
Date: Monday, 3rd September
Time: 21:00 CET
Maps: Bremen_b2, Radar
ETTv: GamesTv.org


Once again I want you and your teams to check the full schedule on our cuppage - and if there are wrong matchdays/times I would appreciate it if you can pm me the right ones.
Thx in advance and good lucky & have fun to all participants and spectators


#ET-Cup
www.ET-Cup.net is sponsored by #h-4life - #own3d.at and supported by #j4fclan.et

On the 28. September it will be offical in stores. The beta test is still running at fullspeed with big events also incoming. Ocrana didn't miss what was going on and is happy to announce the new Ocrana Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Team!. After the success of the game at Quakecon 2007, the enthusiasm of the players and the latest news from the Games Convension, Ocrana took their Enemy Territory Quake Wars Team. Headed by Julian "Fox" Sander and Christian "hackbard" Krischan the team will try to reach their way to the top of the ladders and cups. Most of the team has already played comparable games in the past such as Battlefield 1942 / 2 or Enemy Territory, in clans like pod virtual gaming, dignitas, mousesports or rize gaming. The lineup, formerly known as cause we can is as follows:

Julian "FoX" Sander
Christian "hackbard" Krischan
Mathias "Morix" Zander
Hauke "pumu"
Michael "sledGe" Schnell
Florian "Sgt.Ozzy" Busenbach
Carsten "x-ray" Hesse
Markus "acemachine"

:: Statement by Christian "hackbard" KrischanAfter we founded "cause we can" we always had the goal to join a clan who can give us the support and the environment to play concentrated. During the last weeks the chat got more and more intensive with ocrana and at the end it was a easy choice for us to join them. We are proud to play in such an old well known clan and hope to reach the goals we have in quake wars with ocrana now.

Source: www.ocrana.de (german)

Swedish gaming festival Wonderbase is live this weekend with the action somewhat underway. The last wonderbase was plauged by technical problems however this event things are supposed to be bigger and better! With $10k in prizes the event has attracted some of Europes top guns.

Notable attendants are Serious Gaming, H2k.QPAD, Logitech & Roskilde. For both Logitech and H2k its a vital warmup event ahead of next weekends Eurocup LAN finals in Enschede.

The tournament is divided into Four groups, which are supposedly live in action right now. We will bring you score updates from each group as soon as they become available.

Grand Final

Fukyuu 13
Ultra Frag 8

[bChampionship Bracket[/b]]
Consolation Final
Serious Gaming 16
Ultra-Frag 14

Lower Bracket Final

Logitech.fi 11
Serious Gaming 13

Upper Bracket Final

Fukyuu 2
Ultra-Frag 1
[bLower Bracket - Round 5[/b]]
Logitech.fi 13
mindGyver 4

Serious-Gaming 19
Hyperactive 17
[bLower Bracket - Round 4[/b]]
Logitech.fi 13
De 4 lustikurrarna och Lucas 8

Hyperactive 13
Tenax Gaming 10
[bUpper Bracket - Round 3[/b]]
mindGyver 17
Ultra-Frag 19

Serious-Gaming 10
Fukyuu 13
[bLower Bracket - Round 2[/b]]
H2k.QPad 10
Hyperactive 13

De 4 lustikurrarna och Lucas 16
drop 2 trash 13

Tenax Gamin 13
Violence is Bad 5

Logitech.fi 13
Vicious and Evil 9
[bUpper Bracket - Round 2[/b]]
Serious-Gaming 13
Logitech.fi 10

Fukyuu 13
De 4 lustikurrarna och Lucas 7

Ultra-Frag 13
H2k.QPad 11

mindGyver 13
Tenax Gaming 10
[bLower Bracket - Round 1[/b]]
Violence is Bad 13
team super8 8

Hyperactive13
corax 2

Vicious and Evil 13
flipside 11

drop 2 trash 13
Roskilde eSport 11
[bUpper Bracket Round 1[/b]]
Logitech.fi 13
corax 6

Serious-Gaming 13
Hyperactive 5

Fukyuu 13
team super8 5

De 4 lustikurrarna och Lucas 13
Violence is Bad 11

Tenax Gaming 13
Roskilde eSport 7

mindGyver 16
drop 2 trash 14

H2k.QPad 13
flipside 7

Ultra-Frag 13
Vicious and Evil 8
[bGroup A - Finished[/b]]
team super8 P1 W0 L3
1st Logitech.fi P3 W3 L0
2nd drop to trash P3 W2 L1
ViciousAndEvil P3 W1 L2
[bGroup B - Finished[/b]]
flipside gaming P1 W0 L2 D1
2nd serious gaming P3 W2 L1
1st Roskilde P3 W2 L1
violence is bad P3 W1 L1 D1
[bGroup C - Finished[/b]]
Tenax
1st H2k QPAD P3 W3 L0
Druidz P4 W0 L0
2nd Hyper Active P3 W1 L2
de 4 lustikurrarna och lucas P4 W2 D1 L1
[bGroup D - Finished[/b]]
1st fukyuu P4 W4 L0
clancorax P1 L3
2nd ULTRAFRAG P4 W3 L1
mindGyver P4 W2 L2
Mortifer Gaming P4 W0 L4



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Back in 2003, we started exchanging design ideas with id Software for what started out as a fairly modest attempt to evolve the team-play in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Now, four years later, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars has officially gone GOLD! For those of you not familiar with the development term, going gold means that the retail game is complete, and that master DVDs have gone to manufacturing, and will then head to stores. This makes us especially proud, not just because of the incredible passion and effort that the development teams have invested these past four years, but especially because of the amazing support the community has given us.

As announced a few weeks ago the game will be in stores at Friday, September 28th for Europeans.

Full story: http://community.enemyterritory.com/index.php?q=node/120

Just a day after being in dire straights The Last Resort are at their last resort with a double recruitment today that see's them poach from a rival team.

XyloS leaves k1ck for the CPC2 champions in a move that leaves k1ck stranded without a neither a rifle and now leaves their roster down two players. The former CDAP star rejoins his old aMenti buddies and adds some star quality to the lineup.

Matias joins the side to play as primarily medic, but can backup with the rifle if called upon. Whilst he perhaps dosent have the reputation of the rest of the roster, he is not without his charm. Earmarked as up and coming, Matias returns to ET after a brief stint in Quakewars.

I caught up with CPC2 MVP Winghaven for a brief chat about the new recruits;

Quote by Winghaven

Since acozz and doktor couldn't play with us we really needed to players who fit on our team, after some tryouts and decisions we've decided to pick Matias and XyLoS on the team. We don't really know if that new lineup will be as competitive as CPC2 team, but we've 20 days to give a try. Matias will play as medic, also rifle if needed, and xylos will be our main rifle. About XyLoS, we've been spoken with him like for 1month or so, since acozz had the problem for a long time, after we knew for sure acozz couldn't we've contacted XyLoS once again.

Can they defend their CDC Crown? Find out in a months time!

The ET transfer market has been busy these past days and it shows no signs of changing! With TLR & Dignitas announcing changes in recent days, its now the turn of one of their rivals to do the same. Last night SRP confirmed their roster changes ahead of the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 3, which will take place in little under a month.

In:

Squall - Whilst confirmed for junk52's roster after CDC, the dynamic finn will come in to the lineup and add to their already impressive array of talent. Squall played some part in last seasons Eurocup for Cadre, aswell as winning nations cup with Finland not too long ago.

Adacore - Player/Manager for evolve, Adacore is a jack of all trades combining playing with finding time to be Eurocup supervisor! Whilst primarily a rifle in his past, he'll face stiff competition with the likes of Night and Holz already in the side as rifle.

Out

Toxic - Unable to attend the LAN due to schooling issues, the lovable maltese star who shot to fame with CDAP last CPC has not left the side completely. He played in last nights victory over Finest, and remains in the online team

r3vers - Also unable to attend the LAN, this former Quakecon champion is a massive loss to the team, as he brings experience that very few can offer. As strong with the smg as he is the rifle, r3vers is a former shG champion.

:: Full CDC Roster
Night
Holz
FeruS
Xpaz
Squall
Adacore

Last night the team performed well in Summer Cup without Night. They easily dispatched with belgian side Finest. Though they had a uneasy start on Supply Depot, dropping their defence in little over 9 minutes, however never looked back from that point completing their offence with minutes to spare and a solid performance on Radar gave hope to SRP fans that they will be there or there abouts come Enschede.

German Call of Duty giants Speedlink have told Crossfire that after the upcoming Eurocup Finals the side will call it a day. The team who finished second at CPC1 in a thrilling duel with Dignitas have decided that the time is right to take a break prior to CoD4.

I caught up with leader Trigger for his favourite CoD moments and what he is hoping to see in CoD4.

Quote by Trigger

There are several moments that I dont wanna miss. At the start of CoD2 we had about 8 months of dominating the scene with nearly not losing a single game. Within this time, the victory at Netgamez, OOF1, and the Eurocup, should be our biggest moments as a team. Just like every event we have been to, Crossfire 1 & 2, WSVG Dallas - we enjoyed like hell and we will never forget these weekends.
CoD4 will be the next step for us into the professional gaming. We hope and think that this game will be bigger and also more competitive than COD2 was already. We are really looking forward to staying together as a team and rock another game, just as we tried to do over the past two years

The side has great experience transitioning between games and perhaps has a record unlike any other in the CoD series when one considers that this was the old Ocrana lineup that ruled CoD1's roost at one point.

Ladies and Gentlemen, legends from #stfu? are back under a new name, none other than junk52!

Statement from j52 manager Akion

"We at junk52 are very proud to announce, once again a really good ET team playing under our tag. The team has some big footsteps to fill since our old ET team featuring Willstar, Urtier & co. Even so, the management in j52 trusts the team and we give thumbs up for them. Hopefully they can fulfill the expectations so good luck to them indeed!"

Statement from Lettu

"We thought that this would be a good time to make a comeback because most of our ex-players were clanless. Every player in the lineup was a player in the old #stfu? team. When we received this chance to join junk52, we didn't have to think twice. It's good to be back and I think we can succeed with the help of our fans and junk52 organization."

without further ado,

Lineup
Jani "decem" Linnankoski * - (v&e, eZ, Team Finland)
Harri "Iron" Lehtoaho - (one4one, v&e, Team Finland)
Taneli "Squall" Härkönen - (one4one, v&e, Team Finland)
Aleksi "Nizou" Holappa - (Grave Guardians, Afternite)
Leo "lettu" Haasanen - (Insignia Cadre, sFx.Lan, Team Finland)
Tino "chmpp" Valle - (Insignia Cadre, murso, evocati)

Backups
Tuomas "Lepari" Hakala - (one4one, v&e, Team Finland)
Ville "InFragtes" Pääkkö - (Grave Guardians)

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Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge 2 champions The Last Resort were headed back to Enschede to defend their crown with a strong and stable lineup fresh from a summer break. However in recent days it appears that the side has been sliced down the middle just one month ahead of the event.

aCoZz has called time on his time in the side citing that he no longer had the time to commit every night to the cause of winning back their crown. The Croatian rifle was a revelation at the last event. His replacement will be hardest of all with Rifle's being in short supply with Xylos joining k1ck, gifty in Kreaturen and SRP having a collection.

d0ktor has left the lineup with 'lack of mouse' being one of the reasons he cant practice. On top of that he is moving city because of university and has time commitment issues. Whilst the pole was never a mainstay within the team, he was there when they were last victorious, at CPC2.

Two down and only four to go, earlier in the summer it was rumoured that mAus was planning on departing the roster to play with his compatriots although the move never came into fruition. It appears that all is not well in camp TLR and we caught up with Clown for a brief statement.

Quote by Clown

It's sad to see acozz go, doktor aswell even he was always just a merc. We are hoping that fresh blood in the team could make us the team we were last year - a surprise!

The pre-CDC merry-go-round isnt over just yet, tomorrow there will be the announcement of another high profile roster change, but for now its TLR who are now in a desperate situation.

Insignia Cadre have today confirmed that their ET division has closed its doors and wont be competing in the upcoming winter season. For some the hope was that the side were going to return after a summer break, however today lettu confirmed the inevitable;

Quote by lettu

Some of our players didn’t have the time to play enough anymore because of real life issues. Also the fact that we couldn’t enter the biggest ET LAN there is ahead of cdc3 (twidi is going to write English before his final exams at that time) which was a huge disappointment for us. We didn’t have many more options than to call it a day

The side made a big impression soon after joining the Finnish gaming giants with impressive Eurocup results before bowing out. Finland has always provided ET with some of its finest teams, can one rise from the ashes of Cadre?

Source: Cadred