The rollercoaster that is Call of Duty 2 has been taken on another ride, the scene has not seen any team take two back to back major titles and after shgOpen, digitalMind looked like they would be in a strong position to do just that, but with the rollercoaster in motion their form took a massive nosedive!
In the Eurocup final played on Wednesday, Dignitas challenged digitalMind after losing TWICE to them at shgOpen and walking away from shg without playing the EC final which was due to take part in Copenhagen. However one swede more and Dignitas are back with a bang defeating digitalMind and winning Eurocup.
That shocking result, which overturned digitalMind's PERFECT record at shgOpen sent Dignitas into the OGC exhibition game against TeK-9 as favourites. That match was played tonight on the exact same maps as dignitas vs digitalMind, surely someone could at least win two nights in a row?
Nope, TeK-9 in a match organised by them to show off Online Game Challenger went to town on the newly crowned Eurocup champions, winning €250 in another surprising result:
We've had a number of inquiries with regards to new players joining a variety of rosters, with Dignitas picking up mint and soon to replace Night, with Impact gaming recently adding m1lk, I felt it important to clarify the rules on such scenarios.
You are allowed to make 1 roster change without us being concerned, this rule applies to all teams no matter when it is made. However upon making replacing your 2nd player, you must get approval from Crossfire for that player to be added to your CPC roster (unless you are replacing your first addition). Each case will be treated subjectively.
Additionally, the qualifiers finished tonight with the following results:
And finally payments are due for all teams attending the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge. Each ET and CoD entry is 35 euros per player (if you are playing with 7, 7 payments are due), RTCW payment is 25 euros per player. We urge teams to pay well in advance of March 9th to avoid any problems and the risk of losing your spot to another team.
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: 65 High Street, Ruislip, Middlesex
Around 2 months ago Creative Movies - in partnership with Sennheiser Communications, Razer, Fragbet, Qpad, ICY BOX and Spawnpoint - started an international movie contest called Director’s CUT in two categories (Counter-Strike and Open Games) and with great prizes, like $ 2000 in hardware and cash. Every movie need consist a 30 second long sponsor adverstisement, only movies with a minimum lenght of 5 and maximum of 15 minutes can take part, and the movie size cannot be more than 500 MB. Also the main rule is that movie submission must be an original, not previously published.
3rd Prize Open Games:
QPAD product line $94:
• 1x QPAD® CT™ Large 4mm
• 1x QPAD® Lanyard
• 1x QPAD® Wristband
• 1x QPAD® GLids
Today the competition reached the next step, the deadline for accepting movies was on Monday. In the last days the CM judge team selected the best movies and then they put them online for public voting. The final winner will be decided by 30% of the audience (community) votes and 70% of the CM judges' opinion. Voting just started and it ends on 10th March 2007.
[b:: The judge team[/b]] Creative Movies:
Melle
David
Mole2k
Xsystus
Xorn
Nikolay
Vocal
Several movies are taking part in the contest, and some of them already dropped out. Only twelve great creations can compete, and there are movies from the biggest games: Counter Strike (6), Quake 3 (1), QuakeWorld (1), Half Life 2 (1), UT2004 (1) and finally in our lovely game, Enemy Territory (2) too.
Enemy Territory is represented by two movies, one of them is the new movie of the Nonix Moviemaker Studio, here is the next episode of the successful Winghaven : Out of the Way movie with a sonorous title: Out of the Way 2: Expect the Unexpected !
Nonix and Winghaven presenting Out of the Way 2 : Expect the Unexpected
Codec: x264 (3700 KB/s) Resolution: 848x480 Sound: FAAC (192 KB/s) Length: 11:23 mins Size: 313 MB Project size: hundreds of GB Project time: more than 1.5 years Images captured by: 180 FPS Number of frames: ~ 130.000
The second Enemy Territory movie is created by another skilled editor Thoro, and it shows this game from a different angle, this movie is worth for downloading too!
Have fun while watching the movies, and if you like them, please vote for them (and for Enemy Territory) on the contest page to help reaching a good result in the Open Games Category!
After a period of suspended activity German Call of Duty giants Speedlink are back with a bang, and their first target is across the border in Enschede. After placing second in a thrilling Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge 1, their first event after returning from inactivity will be CPC2.
The german side have after trialing 15-20 players finally come to their decision some months after losing their last man. However they are now set with former rewind call of duty player z1N. Trigger cited his motivation and excitement z1n will bring to this aging CoD team. Coming from one of the top Call of Duty: United Offensive teams, z1N is one of the first UO players to earn recognition in Call of Duty 2 and the young German has finally been given an opportunity to show his talent.
Fuchstute, the team's inspirational captain, talked of the team's effort to regain the number one spot in European Call of Duty 2.
That leaves the new 'junnnggggs' screaming Speedlink lineup as:
We have released a tentative schedule for the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge 2, this schedule is designed to give you an idea when you can plan your travel, however we do stress if you are a team that expects to be in the finals, please keep good time free on Sunday evening just incase of delays.
You can download the schedule Here
The CPC Qualifiers started Monday night, with oxid getting out of the blocks early against german side adacom (dSlash), beating them 13-6. And becoming the first team to qualify for the event in enschede. Hot on their heals were the next two qualifiers in ET: vib and cZar respectivly.
Tonight sees the remaining five ET qualifiers take place:
Update: Due to rewind being unable to play their qualifier and dropping from the competition team helix have been given an invite, they where the next in line. This means suXus will play clanALIS in a qualifier.
And finally payments are due for all teams attending the Crossfire PrizeFight Challenge. Each ET and CoD entry is 35 euros per player (if you are playing with 7, 7 payments are due), RTCW payment is 25 euros per player. We urge teams to pay well in advance of March 9th to avoid any problems and the risk of losing your spot to another team.
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
12/1 odd outsider Martin "mint" Röjder has joined the Dignitas CoD2 team today. After leaving serious gaming during the past few days he has moved across to pond to one the UK's biggest gaming organisations. Mint placed third at the first CPC with WHOCrew and since moved on to bigger and better things with Check6 and serious Gaming, winning Eurocup XIII in glorious fashion.
We're sorry that we had to delay the CoD2 announcements, but with such an active lan scene and such a large signup list we needed to make sure we were right with our decisions. After talking with a panel of leading players and admins, we're proud to announce the following invites and qualifiers for CoD2 at CPC2 (in no ranking order).
eSuba vs takecare Scubadivers vs Team Impact dSLASH (adocom) vs Teamoxid (Fepox) eliteplayers vs influx
Qualifiers are to be played on Carentan, using MR12 and No Smoke (shgOpen cfg). Teams should arrange the qualifiers themselves by contacting their opponents. Matches must be completed by 24:00 CET on Thursday March 1st, teams should contact TosspoT with regards to when they've scheduled their games for and then what the result was.
Here is the long awaited list of Invites and Qualifiers for ET & RTCW. However, due to the large volume of CoD2 registrations, we've had to delay our decision until later this afternoon, when we can make sure we got the right teams for the competition. As a result the CoD2 qualifiers have an extra day (Thursday, March 1st) to be completed.
Here are the ET Invites and Qualifiers: (not in any order)
Q1 - 21:30 28th - helix vs ALIS
Q2 - 22:00 27th - defs vs cZar
Q3 - 21:30 27th - vae.KiH vs vib
Q4 - 20:30 27th - rewind vs suxus
Q5 - 22:30 28th - pingwins vs retro4u
Q6 - 21:30 28th - dtekt vs agony realm
Q7 - 20:30 28th - morrigu vs FF
Here are the RTCW Invites:
amnesia wh00ps rTg Verdiend one.soldier
Qualifier information is available HERE, we will release the full signup list for all games when we've released the CoD2 invites and qualifiers. The ET map pool will be Radar, sw_Goldrush_te, Frost_Comp_b2 (teams select one each) with the non chosen map being the decider map.
Teams need to be aware that their matches HAVE to be played on one of the two qualifying days, February 27th and 28th. You can download Frost Final Here
As the sign up period is about to close, the preparations for the qualifiers have been set in motion by the Crossfire crew.
Even though it will take us some time after the signups close at midnight to announce the qualifier matches, we have decided to release the maps that will feature in the first, and only, qualifying round in order to give teams the opportunity to use this Sunday as a good practice night.
The ET map pool will be Radar, sw_Goldrush_te, Frost_Comp_b2 (teams select one each) with the non chosen map being the decider map.
Teams need to be aware that their matches HAVE to be played on one of the two qualifying days, February 27th and 28th. You can download Frost Final Here
The CoD2 map will be carentan.
Based on the current sign ups, the matches will be pre-scheduled spread out over both nights with mandatory starting times at 20:30, 21:30 and 22:30 CET.
If teams want to reschedule, it can only be done if the opponent agrees to reschedule. However the starting time HAS to be within the two qualification days.
After shgOpen moved with no smoke, the community has been long divided over the issue as to whether to allow smoke grenades in any competition due to potential bug exploits.
After watching shgOpen and taking a poll of several clan leaders, we have decided to follow shgOpen and remove smoke from the CoD2 competition. With only one vote infavour of keeping smoke from the people we polled, the decision became pretty obvious and smoking has been removed.
digitalMind]
Tek-9]
Dignitas 8-16 
oxid 13-6 
dSLASH (adocom)
eSuba 13-6 
takecare
scubadivers 13-9 
impact
eliteplayers
Nonix and 
Winghaven presenting
Thoro Pictures presenting
suXus 4 - 0 
CPH.eSports
Logitech
one.soldier
cZar
As the sign up period is about to close, the preparations for the qualifiers have been set in motion by the Crossfire crew.
After shgOpen moved with no smoke, the community has been long divided over the issue as to whether to allow smoke grenades in any competition due to potential bug exploits.
