After a weak performance at the last ClanBase NationsCup, this year Estonia is back for the World Cup and will bring in the big guns yet again. With an allstar Estonian lineup consisting of the current best players the country has to offer, the team is surely posing a threat to all the other nations out there.

Without much further ado, Team Estonia would like to present their lineup:

indu (OVERLOAd - Oxygen.ET)
Night (Team Dignitas)
r3vers (Team Dignitas)
pela (OVERLOAd - Oxygen.ET)
deadeye (OVERLOAd - Oxygen.ET)
reload (Team Dignitas)
galahad (clanALIS)
Intact (Elite)

Backups:
T6nis (p!mps)
vikat (kujuneb)
Holz (idle)
gza (u96d)
Nitro (OVERLOAd - Oxygen.ET)
rene (idle)

Presenting the UK ET World Cup squad

Pot (c) [Goon Squad]
eVo (c) [Impact Gaming]

Mztik [Impact Gaming]
Sheep [Vicious and Evil]
sqzz [Polar eSports]
razz [Polar eSports]
sol [dignitas]
Andeh [Adapted]
West [cless]
Fatal [OpenFire]
Slash [Goon Squad]
syK [cless]

Following a further trial night tonight we expect to add at least another rifle and probably 1-2 more players depending on responses from people we have yet to receive a reply to (syK)

EDIT
After tonights trials
miXer [tacky]
Tyyrd [tacky]
Have been added to the team

Thx to stilez for the banner

Support us in:
#et.uk

Another two days of Eurocup Matches are almost here. A total of 6 matches are to be played on Sunday and Monday. We are closing in on the end of the Group Stage and there are still a few spots free in the Play Offs. Who will take them is the big question... This round of matches could decide alot. I'm sure we'll see some great matches. Now for a quick overview of the upcoming matches:

Sunday:
20:30 CET Bremen / Karsiah
Impact Gaming
Vicious and Evil

22:00 CET Bremen / Karsiah
K1ck eSports
Elite

22:00 CET Braundorf / Radar
zeroPoint!
Retroactive

The Qualifiers of the ET 6on6 WorldCup are now online and going to be played next week, but the situation has a little bit changed.

We will have some new teams participating this season which alot of people haven't seen before. Teams who aren't from Europe are participating, next to the USA and Canada we will also have Australia, Japan, Brazil and Chile participating this season. Still, three of these teams will have to show that they're made of in the qualifier week to get one of the last spots in Poule D.

» Qualifiers
Brazil vs Kazakhstan
Chile vs Bosnia Hercegovina
Japan vs Bulgaria
Denmark vs Slovakia
Romania vs Ukraine

The matches will be played next week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Both teams will pick a map from the maplist 1 hour before the match starts. The matches from Brazil, Chile and Japan will be played on USA servers and we'll hopefully also be able to broadcast them. More info will be posted on Monday.

With less than a month to an open beta and hopefully only 2-3 months till Enemy Territory:Quake Wars is released to the gaming mass, SplashDamage along with Activision has decided to publicly open a Community site to try and keep the interest and hype surrounding the game at it's maximum after so many delays and false promises with previous dates.



Not only providing a ET:QW specific forum, where previously you would have to use SplashDamage's multi purpose ET/ET:QW forum to let eager Quake War players to chat amongst each other and share their excitement, but the community site also plays host to;

* Regularly updated Developer Blogs by the good people at SplashDamage
* Articles and Game Guides such as 'An Introduction to the Game', and hopefully a continually updated FAQ
* Events, which will show such spots as competitions and in the future LAN events
* And also links to various ET:QW fan sites where you can keep up with the latest and greatest gossip surrounding the game.

It's highly recommended to sign up to the site and keep a regular check on the content as it's produced, as always information from the game publisher and creator will be more interesting to the rumours previously found to wonder the journals.

Here we go again!

As most of you should know 1day-cup recently joined the seek'N'destroy mutli-gamings organization. So keeping on track we are bringing you yet again another cup, Sunday the 6th of May 2007, seek'N'destroy gaming are launching another Enemy Territory cup. After many of success, we decide it's time to make another 64 team cup!

Prize:
x1. 16 manET Gameserver with all the latest maps and configs, with FTP access and latest patch and ETPro! (supplied by snd itself)

You can sign-up for this brilliant cup by either http://1dc.nickeh.org/cup and click on the Sundaycup*, then goto signup and fill in the fields.
-or-
You can sign-up by pming snd`Raged in #snd-gaming with the following details, Teamname // Contact name(for irc) // contact email // line-up all is required! snd`Raged may appear to be offline with his BNC (bouncer) activated as sndOFF`Raged so just message him with the same details, he will come online and sign you up manually on the website.

For round 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be one map per match and the final will be 2 maps with full coverage! This will be a 1day-cup and gameservers will be using; ET v2.60b with ETPro 3.2.6 using the latest Clanbase European 6on6 Config!

Cup Administrators consisting of:-

snd`Raged
snd`kiss
snd`Frenky

click here for round times and maps

1st Round
Starts: 14:00 CET
Map: Supplydepot

2nd Round
Starts: 14:45 CET
Map: Braundorf_b4

3rd Round
Starts: 15:30 CET
Map: Frostbite

4th Round
Starts: 16:15 CET
Map: Bremen_b1

Grand Final
Starts: 17:00 CET
Map(s): sw_goldrush_te & Radar - (decider: karsiah_te2)


The final will ofcourse recieve ettv coverage from our ettv server: ettv.snd-gaming.com:27960 and will also be appearing on gamestv.org. For more details and information join #snd-gaming - we prefer you to idle in the #snd-gaming channel to make it easier for contact between each team so that they can find the other team easier.I'd also like to take this time to inform you that we are trying our best to expand this cup into the following games both: CounterStrike: Source and Call of Duty 2 ! If you think your a suitable admin for either CS:S or CoD2 then please contact the Chief Marketing Officer of snd-gaming: [email protected]

Related:
Cupsite: #snd-gaming cup
Sign-up form: http://1dc.nickeh.org/cup/index.php?tourney[id]=10&action=signup (not recommended)
Brackets (grid): http://1dc.nickeh.org/cup/index.php?tourney[id]=10&action=brackets
Mainsite: http://www.snd-gaming.com
#snd-gaming
[email protected] (e-mail)

Following on from the write-up of the group stage by Kytey the guys over at ED have released the fixtures for the play-off stage of the Intel Core 2 Extreme Challenge. There are a number of interesting match-ups in the first Round and remember this is Single Elimination so you only get one shot.

To find the complete list of fixtures and the dates of the various rounds of play with maps use this link.

Dignitas manage to avoid uMu in their half of the bracket but both have tough challenges ahead. Will the pre-tournament favourites go head-to-head in the final or will one of them falter and go home early? Only time will tell on that one. Good luck to everyone involved.

Now that the group stage for the Intel Core 2 Extreme Challenge CoD2 tournament has been completed Kytey, one of the Enemydown admins, has put pen to paper and written a review of what actually went on over in the ED camp.

A snippet can be found below:

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One of the tournaments early favourites, uMu appeared in group 7 along with ED ladder leaders, Twsquad. There was no doubt that uMu would qualify through the group round, but they capped off the performance with several emphatic wins

The article gives a complete breakdown of each group, a results overview and some other useful information leading into the bracket phase. You can read the full article Here on the hub.

Post Match Article:

It wasn't ment to be for Incomplete. They fought hard, showed some incredible defensive masterminding on Braundorf and tried to stop Polar with all means they had. But it wasn't enough. In an impressive match the partially new lineup of Polar eSports showed that they improved their teamplay. With the new likes of sqzz and razz Polar defeated Incomplete with 4-0.

This score gives us the following ranking of Group C in the Eurocup XV:

1. Polar eSports - 1 - 0 - 4/0
2. TLR.eSports - 1 - 0 - 4/2
3. Incomplete - 0 - 2 - 2/8

With no more matches to play, Incomplete is out of the Eurocup. Good luck with further tournaments Incomplete!

Polar eSports and TLR.eSports will have to decide who will take the crown of Group C in a direct duel. Good luck to both.

I caught up with Polar Toxic and Polar Adacore to have a little chat about the match.

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Polar Toxic

-First of all... Sigh of relief?

Well, we knew we had the power to win, being the first official for us with the new lineup we didnt know what to expect but i can say that we showed a pretty nice performance and its comfortable to know that we are already through to the playoffs.

-Did you feel any pressure before this match? Because losing it would mean you'd have to win over TLR, which is always hard.

Well obviously, we started off nervous on braundorf as we knew that a loss would be devestating so we didnt want to do any mistakes. So ye I guess you can say we felt the pressure.

-Now sqzz performed a very strange role this match, he played the personal health manager of all engineers. Was this assigned to him or did he volunteerd to play like this?

He has natural instincts about his own players, when they're going to die, when they are in need of backup. Its just the way he plays, besides being the best medic in ET, his aim isn't too shabby either.

-Adacore said before the match, and I quote: "The pressure is another matter though - polar have a track record of performing inconsistently in officials, it remains to be seen if this will phase the new lineup" Do you agree with him?

Well it was pretty clear that we used to play inconsistently with the old lineup but I hope we fixed this now, but its yet to be seen.

-After capturing the flag at Braundorf you rushed into the bunkers with great pace only to be stopped by INC in the bunker controls room. What went wrong?

They had a nice defence basically, they played braundorf really nicely.

-Thank you for your time, congratulations again! Good luck against TLR.

Polar Adacore

-Was this the type of play by Polar you hoped for?

Yeah, although sqzz was playing worse than normal :D But you can't have everyone having good days at once. Oh - and Braundorf wasn't exactly perfect.

-Sqzz played a really significant role with the healing though...

Yeah - he was as good as normal with medwork, but normally his aim is better ;)

-It seemed as though Polar got stuck at Braundorf in the end. What do you think finally broke INC's defence?

But they got it in the end, which is what matters I guess. They worked out that INC were heavy in the boxes room and Xylos took them out there.

-What's the thing you're most worried about looking at the performance of Polar?

Nothing really, so long as they keep doing what they're doing everything should be great.

-What's your prediction? How far will Polar come in the Eurocup?

I think we have the potential to go all the way, but of course anything can happen and there will be a lot of very good teams in the playoffs stage.

-Allright, thanks for your time.

This past Saturday the trailer for the latest instalment of Call of Duty was released. Named Modern Warfare, there is very little news about this title for available for public consumption. The trailer suggests no release date, just that the game is situated in a global combat between warring national factions in a variety of scenery.



The title WILL be on the PC, as published by Activision some time ago. The PC titles are being developed by Infinity Wards who are actually owned by Activision according to word on the street.

You can download the trailer Here