Tonight sees another epic encounter in this seasons EuroCup Group stages with One Soldier who are formerly known as ZeroBarrier, taking on reigning champions Dignitas. With One Soldier wanting to build on their impressive performances at CPC2 beating sides such as zeroPoint and finishing first in their group, and Dignitas wanting to forget their weekend in Enschede where their unbeaten record of over a year was broken.

One Soldier bring two new players into the fold with familiar names Overboost and BuLL joining the ranks to face the formidable Dignitas side. Dignitas see welcome the return of Night, who was unable to attend the LAN - meaning Dignitas will be at full strength tonight to begin this seasons EuroCup Campaign.

[bLineups[/b]]

One.Soldier:

mesq
lio
zeto
ziff
Overboost
BuLL


Dignitas:

JaKaZc
Night
r3vers
RELOAd
senji
urtier

[bPredictions[/b]]
Leonneke

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now that the eesti powerhouse Night can compete @ dignitas's side, it will be an interesting match. Especially if one soldier do the same as they did in the groupstages @ CPC2. In the end I guess that dignitas will triump over one-soldier 4-0

twidi

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onesoldier did really well at CPC2, but now specially after their recent roster changes, I don't think that they're able to challenge dignitas in any way. Should be easy 4-0 for dignitas if nothing really special happens

humM3L

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0-4 for dignitas

Tiigeri

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easy bash for dignitas :)

After another disappointing performance and losing their crown at the Crossfire Prizefight Challenge 2, Dignitas made the bold move to once again remove the only recently added 5th mint and return to a all UK lineup by once again stealing talent from major rival Reason-Gaming.

Dignitas : Dignitas homepage

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Blackmane, the former Reason star joins us to once again bring our line-up to UK only. We hope the addition of Blackmane will infuse the team with pure skill and a smart head that he has shown us all during various LAN events we've met him at. Blackmane's experience of playing at the top level made him an easy choice to take on board, and once again we can unite as a UK side.

Dignitas/Mick : Dignitas homepage

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After CPC II we felt that the chemistry in the team didnt feel right. So we have unfortunately decided to remove mint from the lineup but we thank him for his effort over the past month or so. Our new 5th who is none other then Blackmane , this brings our lineup back to an all UK lineup which we hope will bring us back to the glory days, when dales was around. Blackmane is a high calibre player joining us from Reason Gaming.

This now leaves the Dignitas side looking like:

Jonathan raz Baker
Michael Mick Bradshaw
Michael trainee Harper
Ben beNN Bell
Chris blackmane Kinnair




You can catch Dignitas playing tonight, setting out on their defense for the Eurocup in a clash with the all Swedish side VAE on mp_toujane War Info. With this news, mints departure makes it the 2nd high profile kick in as many months from Dignitas, and despite the fact that they are "90% sure" they will attend the recently announced WSVG Dallas is everything okay over at Dignitas ? Mints statement to Gotfrag further clouds the situation but Ill leave it up to you to decide.

Mint :

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"I had a good time in Dignitas, was looking forward to WSVG unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll be able to go, too bad it had to end. Don't know where I'll go from here but it doesn't look like there is a lot to do, probably quit gaming. Shouts to zEm, crow, frijec & dark. You, me, we!"

The GIGA 2 CPC 2 documentary Under Fire is now available for download. It reviews a whole weekend of Enemy Territory and Call Of Duty 2 in Enschede, The Netherlands.

Length: 09:43 min

Editing: Peer "Mogli" Häuser
Camera: Ulrich "FlyingDJ" Schulze / Michal "Carmac" Blicharz
Voiceover: Ulrich "FlyingDJ" Schulze

Interviews with:

Steve "toxic" Micallef
ET Player polar esports

Florian "gifty" Gunzenhauser
ET Player zeropoint

Michael "potter" Kantringer
ET Player zeropoint

David "dAv1d" Philippaerts
ET Player The Last Resort

Paul "eVo" Sexton
Manager Impact Gaming

Sebastian "butchji" Kupke
ET Player zeropoint

Stuart "TosspoT" Saw
Owner of crossfire.nu

All copyrights courtesy of GIGA Digital Television GmbH. You may not redistribute or sell this video without permission.

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Multi-national Call of Duty 2 giants TeK-9 make further ammendments too their roster after the announcement of Dutch player SKO forced to go in-active in the near future due to school and studies. The replacement for the fifth spot is not the usual back-up player that supports the team vazy but a brand new addition to the line-up. The player is non other than former suXus player Burak 'haya' Aydin who showed promising performances during his trialing period for the TeK-9 team. haya gave the following statement on the TeK-9 web site about the recent news.

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After suxus died, I was busy trying to find a new home for me to fit in. I couldn’t find a good team at start, but tek9 gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse :D. My trialling time went good in the time and at CPC2 I had a few words with the guys from tek9 and that made my decision pretty easy. So it was clearl for me to continue with tek9. We are now preparing for the upcoming tournaments and events. I hope to have a bright future with these guys and a lot of fun.

With SKO going in-active the TeK-9 team have decided to release vazy from their roster leaving a five man active roster with SKO still labelled on the squad sheet.

Davy
OZWALD
L-KiNG
knaller
haya
SKO (in-active)

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A memorable weekend has gone by. We've seen upsets, we've seen accused players clear their name. 6000 Euros in prize money have been distributed and countless hours have been spent playing ET and CoD2, drinking and hanging out.

What better way could there be to recap this weekend than to look at the photos and matches again? Moving pictures are a perfect tool. And while you might want to see the video on demand with commentary, you are surely interested in what has happened throughout the entire tournament, what players and managers had to say.

Tonight at 23 CET, GIGA 2 is going to air a one hour show reviewing the Crossfire Prizefight Challenge 2. A part of that show will be the CPC 2 documentary Under Fire. Featuring interviews with Steve "toxic" Micallef, Paul "eVo" Sexton, David "dAv1d" Philippaerts, Michael "potter" Kantringer, Sebastian "butchji" Kupke and Florian "gifty" Gunzenhauser, it offers you a view behind the scenes of CPC 2 that you might not have seen so far.

The ClanBase EuroCup Matchweek 1 - Day 2 features another EuroCup match, today polar eSports will face the Dutchies from Morrigu in there first match. polar, directly invited into this seasons EuroCup is the favourite in this match. They'll play with aeq instead of snoop in this match which might matter as snoop is a great player. That gives Morrigu the oppertunity to surprise tonight and show where they're made of. Morrigu have some experience in the EuroCup and played on the last LAN altrough they had a different lineup in both competitions. Polar on the other hand showed us a nice performance in the CPC2 by ending 1st in their group leaving Impact, the later finalist, behind them. Unfortunate for them, they lost against the mix team of vae in the elimination rounds. Morrigu lost all their matches on the CPC2, but gained alot of experience by playing there. If you try to compare both team, the outcome is mostly the same - polar has better aimers and their lineup is together for quite some time (incl. aeq), that leaves Morrigu as underdog, but after seeing their lineup they are capable of a surprise.

polar eSports vs Morrigu
Date: Thursday 19 April
Time: 22:00 CET
Maps: sw_goldrush_te / frostbite
Admin: -
Shoutcast: QuadV Splodge
ETTV: GamesTV.org

The next major LAN event for Call of Duty in Europe will be this years Dataparty in Gothenburg, Sweden. The organisation behind Callofduty.se has brought the official landingpage up for details about the upcoming event including travel stuff and some updates regarding the ticket prizes and tournament information. About 20 teams can join the venture to get theirselfs up and running to face each other to earn some cash.

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Now there are some updates regarding Dataparty! The ticket prize has been lowered to 32€ for COD2-participants and this tournament site for the LAN has been released. Here you will be able to catch more updates regarding Dataparty and you can now also find a travelguide where you can read how to get to the event, some hotels and so on.

Prizes
2671,65 € + Hardware (TBA)
1602,99 € + Hardware (TBA)
534,33 € + Hardware (TBA)

This years Dataparty as a Non-BYOC event will take up flags from 16 to 19 June.

Dataparty Landingpage

After the drop from suXus the Clanbase Team was running another Qualifier, which TAKECARE won. But they got disqualified, like the other french Team HOLLYWOOT. So nEcro got the free spot and now it is time to start the first Matchweek of the Groupstage.

Group A

Dignitas (xx:xx) Vicious and Evil
eSuba (xx:xx) uMu
evoplay (xx:xx) emuLate

Group B

Logitech.fi (13:11) hardMethodgaming
SPEED-LINK (xx:xx) Team EDiT.benQ
adocom (xx:xx) Insignia Cadre

Group C

Stheno eSports (xx:xx) Reason Gaming
team oxid (xx:xx) nEcro
TEK9 (xx:xx) defusekids

Group D

Bouncer4You (xx:xx) nEophyte
Serious Gaming (08:13) Team Impact
H2K.Qpad (xx:xx) Copenhagen Esport


More about the Groupstage can be found here.
Taken from www.viciousandevil.com

There are huge archives of demos from years back on the current ETTV-servers. Wayne, rumba and skooli, the German trio, decided to make these demos useful. Skooli has created a script and BANG! here we are.

Now all the site members of http://www.polar-esports.info/ can access the Polar ETTV-server's database holding some 40gb of demos (597 full games). Register to the site as a normal member (don't forget your password since the email function is disabled at the moment) and add your personal infos. Then just log in and you'll see "ETTV"-button right under your name on the left-hand side. Click it and you'll see another log in feature. Proceed with another log in, same username and password as just a moment ago, and you are ready to watch the legendary games you might have missed.

No need to wait until the ETTV-servers will play the replay you have been waiting for, now you can watch any demo on the site any time you like. Just connect the ip adress you receive after clicking the "Play"-button with your ET client. Up to four people can watch the same demo simultaneously. 12 servers can run at the same time so if no server will be set up you just have to wait for one to come vacant.

If you are facing problems or want to ask something visit #polar-esports and send polar`wAyne a pm.

The qualifiers have just passed and this week, the Call of Duty 2 EuroCup gets on the road with the first matchweek. Yesterday the ClanBase have published the groups and sent their go to the teams participating in their very own 15th edition including lan finals for CoD2:
Group A 1 dignitas
2 emuLate
3 eSuba
4 evoplay
5 uMu
6 Vicious and Evil

Group B 1 cadre
2 EDiT
3 hMg
4 Logitech.fi
5 SPEEDLINK
6 adocom

Group C 1 defusekids
2 nEcro
3 Teamoxid
4 stheno
5 Tek-9
6 Reason Gaming

Group D 1 B4Y
2 CPH
3 H2k
4 team impact
5 nEophyte
6 srs


Prizemoney
With overall 6000€ in cash the lanfinals in August will show who's the richest CoD2 Team:
2700 €
1500 €
1000 €
4th 800 €

More details can be found on the ClanBase Website.