After 8 months of AuxiliA.ET, the clan stated today that it is not possible for them to send a team to the
Crossifre Devotii Challange 3. This was a huge disappointment for the members of AuxiliA.ET at first.
But as we see our chances quite good for reaching Top5 at CDC3 - we decided to travel on our own.
Back under the name of our very own clan HighBot we will try to attack once more.
The sponsor spickmich.de will stay with us along our journey and try to support us as good as possible, also regarding
the Enlarged IV Lan in Germany.

It has been an exciting month since registration opened for the Crossfire Devotii Challenge - and we're happy to report that we've been overwhelmed by both the positive feedback, and the impressive number of signups for all three tournaments. We've players spanning two continents and over 15 nations all eager to compete in what should prove to be an amazing event.

Initially, I can announce that the Qpad Quake 3 CPM 1v1 tournament has been increased from 8 to 12 players. This is thanks to the excellent scheduling skills of Adacore, and the quality of the players signed up. It would be a crime not to accommodate such an excellent field of competitors.

And so it's with great pleasure, and after careful consideration Crossfire can announce the invites for the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 3.

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Direct invites:

1. Team <[o]>
2. Aim on Head
3. Artificial
4. HighBot.ET
5. Team Dignitas
6. eXplosionC4
7. eSuba
8. team-euler
9. FF.org
10. Finest
11. GaB.et
12. Helix
13. k1ck
14. Kreaturen
15. muse
16. n1ce.it
17. OVERLOAd*
18. Redsky Gaming
19. Superretardedplayers
20. The Last Resort


Qualifier matches:

A: blutSTURZ vs cZklan.blood
B: Mazzelaars vs Team inteRaction
Winner A vs Winner B for a ticket

C: Dark & Beyond vs NecroRaisers
D: slayers Team vs dutch terror squad
Winner C vs Winner D for a ticket

E: iHero.LAN vs illusion pictures 4 - 0
F: Hardgaming vs pstarZ 4 - 0 ff
iHero.LAN vs Hardgaming for a ticket

G: brother.lan vs sFx Egoboys
Winner G vs CDAP Identical for a ticket

Remarks:
- First qualifier matches should be played before 21/08/2007. If not, crossfire can and will replace teams.
- Second qualifier matches should be played before 28/08/2007. If not, crossfire can and will replace teams.

Update:
Maps for the qualifiers are as follows:

- braundorf_b4
- bremen_b2
- radar
- supply
- sw_goldrush_te

These 5 maps will also be played in the LAN tournament. The addition of a possible 6th map for the LAN event is currently under discussion.

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Direct invites:

1. aves
2. bud
3. GNZ
4. impulse
5. mAx
6. pijx
7. pod1
8. svr
9. vamp1re
10. Vo0
11. voodoochopstiks
12. zerox

Backups:
-. nll
-. Loekino

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Direct invites:

1. AgamemnonZ
2. beng
3. BoBel
4. Bracko
5. BRUNS
6. DoomY
7. G0A
8. Ganon
9. h1o
10. Jann1s
11. marrk
12. mky
13. nealz
14. Noorgrin
15. nVc
16. pbx
17. pillemann
18. Rikku
19. s4nd
20. Scoobz0r
21. thelawenforcer
22. Vic7iM
23. Vo0
24. Xhep


Payment Details
Payment for all three tournaments is €50 per player, per tournament. If you are playing in two tournaments you will need to pay entry fee into both. Payment for the tournaments is required by Friday 24th August. Please take neccessary proof of payment should their be delays in bank transferring time. Also be sure to include names of teams and players in the transfer notes for identification.

Please make your payment to the following bank (note we only accept bank transfers):
- Payments Made payable to: Crossfire
- IBAN: GB24MIDL 403913 21363751
- Swift/Bic Code MIDLGB2152H
- Sort Code 403913
- Bank: HSBC
- Address (If needed): 65 High Street, Ruislip, Middlesex

Make sure you read the chapter about "Entry Fee & Regulations" on the forum sticky.

Kind regards,
Crossfire

Originally posted by Pavo @ www.hardmethod.org

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"hardMethod Gaming is pleased to announce that we have secured the services of a ET: Quake Wars team. They were known as Team Beyond. This team has alot of potential to compete with the top of Europe."

hardMethod.ETQW lineup:
Jesse 'Lukos' Huijskes
Daan 'Longbow' Stelder
Simon 'ViPer' Nolden
Thomas 'Janus' Bernink
Bart 'Jaede' Van Remortele
Martin 'dohfOs' Lundén
Erik 'Guru' Staffans
Adam 'adP' Parkes
Alexander 'merola' Merola

hMg Co-Chief Executive Officer Pavo gave the following statement:

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"It is with great pleasure that i can welcome the ETQW team to hMg. This team has a great attitude to move forward and becoming better. I'm confident that they will succeed. We look forward to working with this team and hopefully it's a long term agreement."

Player of the new ETQW team ViPer gave the following statement:

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"I'm very happy that hMg invited us to be their Enemy Territory: Quake Wars squad, especially before the game has even hit the shelves. After talking to Pavo for a couple of days we came to an agreement that we think will benefit both parts. I truly believe hMg will give us the right support. Some of us old BF2-players knew Pavo from before so we know we can trust him. With the release of the actual game just ahead of us we have much to look forward to and I'm sure we can accomplish great things both online and offline wearing the hMg-tag!"

The lineup is rather big with its 9 players but that's pretty much due to the fact we're still in the beta-phase. The lineup consist mostly of old BF2, CoD and CSS-players. Best accomplishment so far is the 4th place in the 4on4 cup hosted by The Last Resort where we lost vs. lolicon in the Bronze-final. In the CB Beta Cup we were knocked out in the quarterfinals by the runner-up's cause after having to play with just 5 due to vacation issues. However the team does hope for more achievements in the shortly due cups.

Links:
hardMethod.org
#hmgaming @ qnet.

Signups have come in thick and fast for CDC3 Part 1 and its a great honour to have seen such a broad range of players and teams signing up. We've got former CDC champions, former World Tour champions, an American, some poles, you name it! The demographic of the challenge is growing and this is your last chance to be apart of it! Signups close tonight at 24.00 CET. With invites 'hopefully' announced tommorow!





Signups for Part 1 are open until 12th August, and Entry to Part 1 is 50 Euros per player, per tournament. You can find out more information aswell as a complete list of signups Here

The Electronic Sports League proudly presents the Major Series powered by Asus! The ESL Major Series (EMS) is the collection of Pro leagues situated right below the ESL Pro Series and Masters path. While the ESL Major Series is potentially offering offline finals or TV studio matches for some games, the ESL Major Series is mainly executed online so you can participate from the comfort of your home.

With a rich variety of game genres, ESL Major Series is the object of affection for a large part of the eSports community. In future seasons even more games will be featured.

The first season of the ESL Major Series will have a prize-pool of 15,000 Euro cash and hardware-prizes worth 5,000 Euro provided by ASUS. The ESL Major Series starts off with eight different games, two of them are:

Call of Duty 2 (5on5)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (6on6)

Qualification details will be following in the next days and weeks.

ESL Major Series
ESL News

Crossfire and devotii announce €10,000 CoD2 extravaganza!

devotii and Crossfire.nu have come together to make sure you're warm this winter with a whopping new prizepurse for their combined competitions at the Crossfire devotii Challenge 3 event. On top of cash prizes totalling €10,000 one team could also walk away from the event as the new Fnatic Call of Duty 2 Squad.

It has been announced that Crossfire’s devotii sponsored 32 team Call of Duty2 tournament, will be joined at the Crossfire devotii Challenge 3 LAN event by the finals of the Game Idol: Fnatic Academy 2007 tournament.

Game Idol: Fnatic Academy 2007

The Game Idol tournament will see up to 64 teams qualify online on devotii for the opportunity to fight it out at the LAN based Finals for a share of a €5,000 prize pot and the opportunity to become Fnatic’s Call of Duty 2 Squad. All of the 8 teams who make it through to the finals will be assured a cash prize, with the first placed team securing themselves €2,500 and the opportunity if they wish, to become Fnatic’s Call of Duty 2 Squad.

To signup to the Game Idol tournament teams must complete their application here http://www.devotii.com/tournaments/gameidol by August 19th. The Online qualifiers will begin on the 3rd of September.

Crossfire Devotii Challenge 3 Part 2

On the same weekend the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 3 will put another 5000 Euro up for grabs in a 32 team LAN only tournament to be played alongside Game Idol. The challenge series has fast become one of the games most competitive events, with former champions including Dignitas and Serious gaming.

To signup to the Crossfire Devotii Challenge, teams should follow this link Crossfire.nu/cdc3 and follow the instructions. Signups for the Challenge close on October 12th.


About Devotii

devotii is a unique subscription based online gaming offering devoted to making gaming easy; with advanced yet simple-to-use functionality in a secure environment using next generation propriety anti-cheat software. devotii is building an active gaming community with sophisticated social networking tools integrated with one-click-to-play functionality. For more information about devotii please visit www.devotii.com

Id Software's Executive Producer Marty Stratton sits down with GameRiot.com's Rod "Slasher" Breslau about the new Quake game as well as Quake Zero, and how Quake Zero's development process will effect the next Quake game. Did I mention that the next Quake game will be an Arena game a true follow-up to Quake 3? Well, I did now. Marty discusses many details about the upcoming new Arena title and how id Software will be making leaps and bounds in matchmaking, balancing, testing and the use of professional Quake players in their aid. Also discussed is the current view on professional gaming, professional Quake players, and how the focus on the next Arena game will be in terms of a sport.

Marty Stratton: "On a high level, it'll be very much like Quake 3 Arena in that it's fast paced, primarily a dueling game but will have team aspects to it. High action, high energy, likely built on id Tech 5, and stylistically from just about every aspect including user interfaces, scoreboards and stats, we will be thinking of the game in terms of a sport. That means different things to a lot of different people but that's the core of what we want."

Head on over to read the full interview.

GGL Wire has the video on demand from the QuakeCon 2007 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars grand final available for your viewing pleasure! Watch Dignitas take on Team HOT casted by none other than Stuart "TosspoT" Saw.

A technical problem prevented us from getting these videos up until today. Sorry about that; but we promise all gremlins have been vanquished. Follow through at the following link:

GGL Wire - QuakeCon 2007: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Grand Final.

After careful consideration and reviewing of the signups plus taking a look at the event at large the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 3 Part 3 will drop ET:Quakewars in favour of larger ET and WSW events and will run a larger Quakewars at a future Challenge event, as a result the tournaments and prize monies will be changed to the following;

Wolfenstein ET 24 Teams - 6000 Euros

The tournament will feature 8 groups of 3 teams the top two progressing into a double elimination bracket. The bottom team will be entered into a single elimination tournament. Prize payouts will pay the following denominations; 2300, 1500, 1000, 700, 500 from 1st to 5th. As a result, the qualifiers will be significantly smaller, if at all and teams should already start looking into their travel arrangements. (Prize Purse subject to signups)

Warsow 24 Players - 1500 Euros

The format for the tournament hasn't been confirmed yet and will be announced in the following days.

Quake 3 CPM 8 Players - 1000 Euros

Double Elimination bracket for 8 players, this format remains unchanged

As a reminder for teams wishing to signup for Part 1 for the above three games, signups are drawing to a close on August 12th so teams and players should get their signups in quickly!

One of the oldest names in RTCW has returned to competitive action recently and today has finalised its lineup for CDC3. Kreaturen's name is most famous for its silver medal in RTCW Eurocup XIII and numerous endeavours into ET and its Eurocups.

They return with this lineup;

BuLL
M1lk
teKoa
Lun4t1C
Azz0r
gifty

Latest recruit and Kreaturens first ever swiss player, gifty had this to say;

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As I can speak for the whole team, we are all very excited about the following weeks. Old players like Lun4t1C are back, with motivation to come far the LAN, and thats exactyle what we need. Afterall we hope we can take the advantage with us, that the other 5 players have been playing together for ages, so the teamplay should be already quite far. We'll of course aim for the first place places, means we have to use our remaining time as good as possible to give the standing favourites a good fight, where we want to come out as winners!

You can find out more and follow them in action in #Kreaturen