Tonight sees the final first round match of the Quake Wars League tournament. This an event that's embraced the vanilla gameplay, sticking to what SD subscribe.

Though picked to be broadcast across the interwebs by both tgbf and Game-TV many are predicting a white wash for bioXar, including the Venatio members " we are a new team, just started last Saturday" explains Venatio Kotirambo, "so I think they're gona win". But that doesn't dampen his enthusiasm for the game "everybody is fighting for their place, we have members from the old venatio.bf2 clan and brekdown bf.2 clan so there's lots of competition".

With bioXar entering as tentative favourites the sensible moneys on them, having pulled off an impressive win over DEFAULT by two rounds to one in their opening ClanBase ET:QW qualifier last night.

I caught up with bioXar caliban for a more conventional Q&A

Can you beat Venatio?

I hope so. Yesterday we had a match like a final, it was really exciting - lasted 2 hours, a really great game. We're ready.

Do you think you're favourites to win the tournament?

I think everyone can beat anyone. The game is in its infancy so every clan with teamplay and brain-using players has the chance. I think even dignitas are beatable....it's just a matter of graphic cards and tactics.

Is this rule set better than the ClanBase?

I think the cb rule set is good for testing, and it's quite exciting to see how teams play without vehicles. I think both settings are good but I would prefer the infantry only thing just a bit. The [ClanBase] mix brings a lot of fun and makes the match even more exciting.

Two clans, only one can progress - will it be bioXar or Venatio? Tune in to find out...

Time: 21:00 CET
Map: Sewer
Video Stream: tgbf.tv (English) & Game-TV (German)

Lineups

bioXar

caliban
unix
malloc
paul
Copy Kill
n1ceguy

Venatio

tba

This is a straight knockout single elimination tournament.

Results
4Rng 4:0 Ntech
one2 4:0 CGA
dignitas 4:0 te4m
cZar 1:0 tyrn
NINJA 4:0 PiC
exilium 1:0 hg
cause* 3:1 eQ

The World Series of Video Games has moved to explain the lack of live coverage for the Dallas event, highlighting their efforts and love for the game whilst openly stating that they are looking for a solution.

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We love Call of Duty 2. I repeat. We LOVE Call of Duty 2. The tournament this weekend showcased the great teamplay that we expected from one of the best communities out there. Tons of great matches took place and the players were all first class! Unfortunately, no one outside of the event was able to witness any of it.

There were many complaints about the lack of CoD2 coverage, and we at the WSVG agree with you 100%. Because of the immense support shown by the CoD2 community, we sought out to properly cover the event and give back to those who make our events possible.

Our first attempt was to work with EGLN, who offered to fly two broadcasters down to Dallas on the condition that we provide bandwidth (2 megabits) and space to setup. Done! Fast forward to less than a week before the event and we now hear that EGLN’s main casters have left the company and would like for us to provide them with flights and hotel rooms. Done! Unfortunately, the late notice meant that the two casters could not take work off and we were left without a solution.

Enter eSportsTV. We were approached by the company and they offered to stream ALL of CoD2 as well as the Quake 4 matches that weren’t covered on our live stream. In exchange, we would provide them with hotel rooms, laptops, bandwidth (2 megabts), and space. Done! After signing a contract, we saw no stream from the eSportsTV staff who were on site with video cameras. Instead, they posted two VoD’s. Color us disappointed.

Thus is the saga of our attempts at Call of Duty 2 coverage. We humbly apologize to everyone in the community that wanted to see their favorite players duke it out on LAN. It is not normally our policy to air our dirty laundry, but we can honestly say that we made every effort possible to broadcast this event.

If anyone has ideas for live video coverage of Call of Duty 2 at future events, please post in our Call of Duty 2 forums!

Source: theWSVG.com

Following the fallout of WSVG in Dallas, 20ID who went toe-to-toe with the Worlds best for 1st place, have made a sensational roster change.
20ID have decided to release Chris "-47-" Maglio from their line-up. No one can, and ever has, doubted -47-'s skill level or knowledge of the game but he has come in for criticism from large sections of the CoD2 community for his bad attitude, mainly "trash talking" about his skill level and it seems from the outside as though 20ID have had enough - or was it 20ID's decision? Some say 20ID's sponsors did not want to be associated with such a character and thus leant on 20ID to make the cut.
Questions still remain following this stunning news but one thing is for certain - 20ID have shown that they are not prepared to settle for anything less than 1st.
And thus, the search begins for 20ID to find a 5th place starter to fill -47-'s shoes.
Be sure to stay tuned for more news.

20ID's Line Up:

Alec "s1refrosty" Zurek
Mike "Havax" Davis
Brett "brett" Aguirre-Crick
Ray "RayZer" Sheehan

London – July 10, 2007 – devotii and Crossfire are proud to host the third Challenge series at the WZZRD Enschede Gaming centre in the Netherlands.

Over 12,000 Euros in cash prizes have been provided by Crossfire and its partners for the first two hugely successful Challenges. The third event will see an increase on that figure.

Due to huge interest and the over subscribed nature of the event it will be spilt into two tournaments. The first taking place September 21st 22nd and 23rd and the second taking place November 16th 17th and 18th.

The September event will house prized tournaments for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 6vs6, Enemy Territory Quakewars, Warsow QCup 1vs1, Quake 3 CPM 1vs1 as well as the conclusion of the Fnatic Academy Call of Duty 2 tournament whilst November will be a dedicated devotii Call of Duty 2 event with an RTCW QCUP. More information on the format and prizes of these two tournaments will be announced in the coming week.

“I’m honored to announce our third event and delighted that it is proving to be such a popular event in the gaming calendar” offered Stuart “TosspoT” Saw, owner of Crossfire.nu. “We’ve learnt a lot from the previous events and are pleased to be partnering with devotii, WZZRD and QPAD for the third installment. Our ambition is to champion less well know games and raise their profile in the gaming community”

Michael Benson, Marketing Director of devotii, added, “We are proud to be working with Crossfire again. These great live tournaments and our new online games arena provide even more for opportunities for teams to compete against each other in great environments. Crossfire and devotii are both aligned in trying to bring the best to gamers and gaming.”


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 Devotii.com

About Crossfire.nu

Launched in 2003 Crossfire has been the home of competitive Wolfenstein and Call of Duty. In 2006 Crossfire launched its first live off-line event to great applaud and driven by its 12,000 members continues its pledge to champion the smaller games through exposure, events and original media. Crossfire continues to work towards the goal of offering a prestigious home for its community and the challenge events are the spearhead of its plan.
Crossfire.nu

About WZZRD Gaming Cafés

Starting in 2005, WZZRD Game cafés has rapidly grown in the Dutch gaming scene.
Over two years, WZZRD has been providing gamers with the best possible gaming experience offering the latest hardware, competitions and services in the their cafés.
Recently grown to three establishments, featuring the largest Game Café in the Netherlands, it accommodates the needs of gamers for casual playing time or competitive LAN tournaments. In addition, WZZRD Game cafes organizes any type of gaming related events varying from product releases to company days, at one of its locations or externally.
WZZRD.nl

About QPAD & the QCUP

QPAD is the market leader in gaming mousepads, crowned for their quality products over the years. QPAD endeavour to champion the community atmosphere of gaming supporting players and competitions across the globe. The QCUP is a project that demonstrates QPAD's dedication to its community, by supporting gamers across many platforms. QPAD first presented Warsow to the competitive community at ESWC.nl 2007 in Enschede. After a successful project, QPAD were compelled to run a QCUP and felt Crossfire was the best organisation to run it.
QPAD.se

True to form ClanBase have made a complete cock up of this competition to date, with yet another complete u-turn in a matter of days. Contradicting their rule change on Sunday, ClanBase will now be using the original format of one stopwatch round with, and one without vehicles. Then Supervisor DuRus explains "We here at ClanBase feel they please both sides, the BF and the ET scene, and they will allow us to see which of the two types plays best."

This leaves clans with three days to resuscitate their no vehicle strategy, for the tournament start date of Wednesday.

Finalised Format Rules
For the first SW round we are going to have the following rules.

1.
* All vehicles are allowed except the Tormentor.
* However: only 1 cyclops allowed per team, and 1 Titan tank per team at any one point.

For the second SW round we are going to have the following rules.

2.
* No Cyclops/Desecrator/Titan/APC/Tormentor. Limit of 1 rocket launcher per team.

If needed, 3rd SW round will be played using 1st SW round rules.

The use of any of the prohibited items, on either of the SW rounds will result in an immediate forfeit of that SW round, giving 2 points to the other team.

Thankfully, this tournament is now in more capable hands - as DuRuS steps down making way Crossfire's very own Adacore to become Supervisor, and Nuke his coverage supervisor.

And finally, the tournament layout has been released. There will be initial Qualifier Matches which will determine whether teams are placed in the Premier or Second League. Both leagues will consist of 3 groups of 4, and 5 groups of 3.

The groups will be published this Thursday, after completiion of the qualifiers.

Related: http://clanbase.ggl.com/news_league.php?lid=4637

Three new additions to the vicious and evil team, sees 2 familiar faces return, coming in the form of the Belgian and Finnish superstars, Kevin and Squall, making the current team resemble that of the previous one4one team. The final spot in the squad has been filled by none other than the LAN-proofed Dutchie, Mats "Viax" de Ronde.

The current vicious and evil lineup is now as follows:

• Harri "Iron" Lehtoaho
• Kevin "Kevin" Verhulst
• Mike "Sheep" Gibbs
• Taneli "Squall" Härkönen
• Antonio "vegi" delle Fiamme
• Mats "Viax" de Ronde
• Patryk "gotti" Bujak

More information and a full detailed news can be found on the vicious and evil website.

Enemy Territory doesn't do boring, and this World Cup has been no exception. We've had massive upsets, bans and scandal galore. And now, we've wittled the competition down to the final four.

Today at 15:00 CET tournament rank oustsiders Australia take on the superstars of Finland. With riCo back in the fold they're confident of a win - even though Finland are the only team to have beaten them this tournament.

The winner will proceed to play Germany in the Losers Bracket Final.

Finland 4:0 Australia

Time: 15:00 CET
Maps: Radar / Bremen
ETTV: http://www.gamestv.org/war.php?wid=2906
Shoutcast: Gamestah Flash

Finland

jauhis
mystic
Squall
twidi
Xpaz
Raveneye

Australia

forty
haste
iceman34
noname-
riCo
shaggy

http://nc.nickeh.org/

ClanBase today did a u-turn on their somewhat controversial format for the pending ClanBase ET:QW Beta Cup. In a post on ClanBase tournament supervisor DuRuS states that they will be dropping the non-vehicle format of the competition as at this time they do not wish to make core changes to the gameplay.

This decision leaves some suggesting SplashDamage imposed their influence.

Quote by DuRuS

After careful consideration and a lot of thought we have decided to not come up with a set of "house" rules. We would much rather keep the game as close to the original version as possible. The exact details of what will be changed will become available shortly, but for now I just wanted to let you know that we are not planning on removing much from the game.

If we find out from this that it doesn't work, and changes need to be made for the real thing, then we will do so when the game comes out. But until then we are going to keep it plain and simple.

Please feel free to keep the feedback coming. And I want to apologise for making these changes, we just feel that the best way of working out what works best is to base it on the original settings.

A full updated ruleset will be posted shortly. Clans are reminded signups close this Sunday, 8th July 24:00 CET.

http://clanbase.ggl.com/news_league.php?nid=260906&lid=4637

i3d.net in association with QuakeWars.net are pleased to announce that the i3d Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Beta Cup is ready to begin!

130 clans signed up for the first European Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Cup; with over 1000euro's worth of prizes up for grabs.
i3d has decided to split the cup into two sections: Division 1, 40 pro-teams, and Division 2, 40 semi-pro teams.
Both division follow the same schedule: 8 poules of 5 clans play 4 wars per clan. After the poules, the cup will move to a knock out schedule: the top 2 clans of each poule will qualify for the knockout stage.

The cup will take place using the Public (Open) Beta during the months of July & August. The first matches will start at the 9th of July 2007. One poule match per clan per week will be scheduled.

i3D.net offers each and every clan bookable private unranked warservers for training and matches. These servers are free of charge and available for 24 hours in each session. Read about the free ordering here: http://www.i3d.nl/cup/news-article.php?news=207

More information regarding the cups, the poules and match schedule is available on the official cup website:
Division 1
Division 2

QuadV and TGBF will provide audio and visual coverage of the cup, and Crossfire will bring you regular coverage.

Match week 1 runs from Monday 9th July - Sunday 15th July


The poules are as follows:

[bDivision 1[/b]]
Group 1
Team One2
4th.Rangers
gods.inc
Desire
The .x7 Project

Group 2
lolicon
bioXar
egamespoint.Thermaltake
Team Delta
Team imm0rtal. eSports

Group 3
Dignitas
Quakenstein
Beyond-Gaming
spierdalaj!
n1ce.it

Group 4
Kompaniet
Xtreme Gaming Xperience
AEQUiTAS
Kampfschwimmer
A.S. R!oT Gamers

Group 5
Cause
BioXar
Fear Factory.X-Fi
DEFAULT.Team
CoRe

Group 6
Exilium
Power of Greyskull
Retroactive
plan9
masterblasters e.V.

Group 7
Ninja
Project Ego
Logitech UVM
Stofftier
Pain is Coming

Group 8
cZar Gaming
VGA Gaming
69ers
infused Gaming.ET:QW
Team.Intermission
[bDivision 2[/b]]

Group 1
VaKarM.H2G
Squad 3V
Silent italian Shadows
Head Killer Shoot
Deathless

Group 2
Venatio
shuuk
Fallen Soulz
xVera
United Dutch Forces

Group 3
progressive eSports
Alpha9
prediction Gaming
|BEWARE|
Vendetta

Group 4
eatSlugs
*NOB* Mrcine
Highrised
Who Are You??
Creatures of The Night

Group 5
Clan Des Damnés
GamersNation.co.uk
Empire of Soldiers
et-fr
illuminators

Group 6
FreesTyle
Fleetwood
Killers in Arms
Clan-Groland
Dutch Hawks

Group 7
ntech
Breakdown
Team Vendetta
#murso
Afrika Korps

Group 8
Team enCore
Wilda D-Link
QuoVadis
ReaLComputerFreaks
BIER

ClanBase have announced their first Enemy Territory: Quake Wars cup. This will be used to test how ET:QW plays competitively (and drive traffic to their site!). Due to the indeterminate length of the beta teams must be prepared to play quickly and intensivly. With the potential for three matches per week from this Monday.

Tournament Info

Team Size: 6on6
Servers: Provided courtesy of Rackage (Passworded)
Spots: Unlimited
Signups: Are open! They close THIS MONDAY (9th July)
Format: ABBA
Supervisors: DuRuS & Revengeful

The rule set for the cup is still to be confirmed.

You will need at least 6 members with beta keys and the time over the next 2 weeks to play up to 3 matches a week.

Head over to ClanBase to signup.

[hide='Big Name' Signups]
Kompaniet - Bergstrom / Biermann / Doverud / Franzen / Johansson / Henke / Lif / Linuz / Ljungstedt / Makire / Maxxan / Medde / Miettinen / Mson / rvn / sauna / Xedd
exilium - Bono / Cardhu / FrEeMaN / sntx / SoLR4k / Soveliss / SyLar / Y2Kaos
Dignitas - BruceLee / Huggo / JaKaZc / no0bSter /RELOAd / SonDac / Xeon
wArning! - Dude / morbit / dr3am / MaRTe / Winghaven / JULIUS / blOp / NdY
lolicon - Adacore / Azatej / buzka / crmbs / hentai / Matti / razz / toxic / ViakZ
cZar - 2Easy / athex / 4tw / RuFiO / sin / Tankz0r / Wastestuff / ILoveYou / Baldrick[/hide]