ClanBase supervisor and general ET guru Adacore has tonight released the latest installment in his epic tale of this seasons' EuroCup. The coverage he confidently claims will never be topped, has so far lived up to the preamble.

In this chapter he takes a look at the prospects of last seasons finalists idle.ee and aMenti - including interviews with idle talisman senji and aMenti clown.

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Trying to list idle.ee's strengths is akin to trying to count the hairs on your head. There is no area of the game where they do not excel. Yes, some teams may have a few better aimers, but everyone in idle.ee's squad has great aim. Perhaps other teams have better tactics on some maps, but idle.ee tactics have always been both innovative and solid on all maps. You may be correct in saying that there are teams with better teamplay than idle.ee, but this doesn't take away from the fact that idle.ee's teamwork in game is almost flawless.

And somehow this has endured despite the numerous roster changes over the past fifteen months. As Senji says, "idle.ee have 6 of the best players in ET and our [biggest strength is] our teamplay, which we somehow have even though we had a lot of roster changes. Another important point is that we have a lot of fun together which keeps up the motivation to play together." Perhaps it is this last point that really makes idle.ee so special. Not only do they have all the factors required of a high level team finely tuned, but they have managed to maintain the motivation for almost a year of consecutive 6v6 victories, something that no other team has ever achieved.

Hop over to the articles section and read the next installment of "The Playoffs Are Here" named idle.ee & aMenti.

In the next installment of the exhibition series the Europe vs Australia Ashes match is upon us this weekend! After the great European Allstars, winning captain Urtier has assembled a firey force ready to taken on the Australians who are still mourning Shane Warnes departure from international cricket!

This match signals the end of the Christmas break as both Nations Cup and Eurocup return to action the following week and the sad fact that Christmas really is over! The stakes will be high and the teams will have to fight against the ping as continents do battle in a neutrally lagtastic venue!

Europe 4-0 Australia
Sunday 7th January
Time: 14:00 / 24:00
ETTV: GamesTV.org
Shoutcast: Inside the Game

:: European Lineup
Urtier
Night
teKoa
marv
butchji
kot
:: Aussie Lineup
Shaggy
iceman34
riCo
HM
forty
ike
haste

:: iTG Shoutcast Download
:: Esse's Shoutcast Download

The Speedlink side who won Eurocup X and XII have bowed out of Eurocup IV after the loss of former Check6 player L-King. Rather than replacing L-King the side have decided that they will break from CoD2 and the Eurocup with the goal of rebuilding the side in the not too distant future. Trigger had stated here on Crossfire back in November that the side were unsure as to their future, and its good to hear that do still intend on having a future.

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Today we have to announce that L-KiNG and Team-Speedlink will part ways. After more then 6 month now with a stable line-up and L-KiNG playing for Team-Speedlink, he decided to continue playing CoD2 with another team. Its sad to loose a player like him, but since he didnt really have faith in the team anymore and thought he would work out better in another new team, we just couldnt hold him. With this step our line-up will currently include only 4 active players. We had several discussions within our team and decided to leave the Eurocup, any other league (Clanbase, ESL, ...) and will going inactive as a team. We WILL be back, thats the only thing we can tell right now. During the next 2 months we will try our best to complete our lineup again, starting it all over and try to attend the upcoming 4 LAN-Events with a new lineup. Of course we will look out for new members, but we will keep it germanonly and also invite only. We wish L-KiNG all the best with his new team and furthermore in his life."

The finalists of the Crossfire lan will be back, and they seem to be making the most in the current lul in lan events. However if they intend to return for the 5,000 Euro sHgopen they'll need to be efficient as only Germans can in their preperation.

Though mid-way through a Christmas break, the ClanBase crew have unceremoniously released the Playoff Tree for the knockout stages of the NationsCup X.

The top two teams from each group progressed into a single elimination bracket.

Sweden vs. Finland
Belgium vs. Czech Republic
Poland vs. Latvia
Germany vs. Netherlands

Final group rankings
Group A

Sweden
Czech Republic
Austria
Italy
Estonia
USA

Group B

Germany
Latvia
Switzerland
United Kingdom
France
Russia

Group C

Poland
Netherlands
Spain
Portugal
Croatia
Canada

Group D

Belgium
Finland
Hungary
Norway
Israel
Ireland


Matches will resume Monday, 8th of January 2007 !

+ ClanBase

Happy New year all the users here at Crossfire! 2007 is upon us in just a matter of hours and the Crossfire staff would like to wish you a happy and safe new years partying!

2007 is poised to be an exciting year for the Crossfire community, with upcoming lans, the long anticipated release of ET:Quakewars and hopefully news on the next installment of the Wolfenstein series. Add to that our current flavour of RTCW, ET & CoD goodness and theres alot to look forward to in Crossfires 4th year!

Party hard!

In a phenominal turn around the West side captained by urtier have claimed victory in the Allstars for the first time! After it became apparent that North were not going to pick up a third successive title, it was anyones guess who would take home the gold but until the final match it was South's to lose.

South went into their last game needing just one map against East who had lost against west and dropped a map to North. Surely this was an easy task? Well, true to history there was a revolution in the east, this time Night was dropped as Kot assumed control of the team. It was talismanic performances from individuals who saved the tournament for the West, with Reload handing the title to his idle teammates from the West.

Adlernest was fast and furios as ever with a 2 minute time set by South and the title seeming heading to Malta, but it was not to be as Reload rose to the occasion through the pressure piled on him by the south players and the time was beaten against all odds!
Still fighting against the odds the South were resolute in their defence holding out on Radar for 9 and a half minutes after some shoddy attacking from East. But true to their convictions east picked up the win with phenominal defending and held the South to just one touch of the West parts.

The final table looks like this: (Rounds For/Against)

- West 8 4
- South 8 6
- East 6 8
4th - North 6 10

:: [bFull Results[/b]:]
West 4-0 East
South 4-2 North
South 4-0 West
North 4-2 East
West 4-0 North
East 4-0 South
:: [bThis years allstars were:[/b]]
urtier (c)
teKoa
gifty
marv
potter
david
drago
senji
riddla
freek
Butchji
emorej
Sol
m1lk
Night (c)
kot
rico
r3vers
fobje
Holz
buzka
CLown
Reload
wing (c)
Gengis
radifz
dr3am
crozz
LION
xylos
danone
sexyhot
jakazc
toxic[
squall (c)
Lakaii
twidi
gyzr
kiitos
unix
wizzel
lettu
iron
kris

Thanks to all players, admins and GamesTV staff. The next Exhibitional event is the battle between Europe and Australia which is on January 7th, Winning captain Urtier will be aiming to lead Europe to victory!

The region that had just 5% backing at the start of the tournament are now homing on a famous victory in the Crossfire EUallstar tournament, one that will bring never before seen gaming glory to their nations.

The nights early running was set by the West who in a stunningly close match defeated the East. It was to be the battle of idle as former Junk52 and u96d stars were seperated once again, however it was to be junk52 who could claim victory here unlike their Arctic eSports challenge adventures some 24 months ago. The west side always looked capable of rising to the challenge of east, however they were made to sweat as East were just 10 seconds off the pace on Goldrush and 40 on Radar.

North put in a spirited performance against South in the second match. The North side was always to be in the shadow of the two previous Northern rosters that had taken gold and they were exposed on Goldrush. However a thrilling radar that went from end to end was taken by the North and it needed adlernest for South to push on to victory.

The two unbeaten sides went head to head as West made a stunning 6 roster changes and South made just one. An inspirational captains performance by Winghaven saw the West well and truly beaten in particular on Supply depot. Supply's shortcomings for spectators was exposed again, and the map has now been removed from day 2's map pool for "Public safety" under section 22 of the Crossfire Boredom Code (CBC).

Saturdays action see's East in a must win game against the North which could set us up for a thrilling final against the South. Follow the whole nights entertainment once again on iTG & GamesTV

Update

North 4-2 East
West 4-0 North
East 4-0 South

This leaves the league table looking like this. Rounds For/Against

1st - West 8 4
2nd - East 8 6
3rd - East 6 8
4th - North 6 10


Rosters:
[bWest[/b]]
urtier (c)
teKoa
gifty
marv
potter
david
senji
riddla
freek
emorej
Sol
m1lk
[bEast[/b]]
Night (c)
kot
rico
r3vers
fobje
Holz
buzka
CLown
Reload
[bSouth[/b]]
wing (c)
Gengis
radifz
dr3am
crozz
LION
xylos
danone
sexyhot
jakazc
toxic
[bNorth[/b]]
squall (c)
Lakaii
twidi
gyzr
kiitos
unix
wizzel
lettu
iron
kris

Tonight the next installment of the European allstars kicks off! From 18:30 CET watch your favourite players in action!

1830 CET - West 4-0 East

2000 CET - North 2-4 South

2130 CET - South 4-0 West

The lineups for the teams is as follows!

[bWest[/b]]
urtier (c)
teKoa
gifty
marv
potter
david
senji
riddla
freek
emorej
m1lk

[bEast[/b]]
Night (c)
kot
rico
r3vers
fobje
Holz
buzka
CLown
Reload

[bSouth[/b]]
wing (c)
Gengis
radifz
dr3am
crozz
LION
xylos
danone
jakazc
toxic

[bNorth[/b]]
squall (c)
Lakaii
twidi
gyzr
kiitos
unix
wizzel
lettu
iron
kris

Tune in to the whole nights action live on Inside the game Here

Some days have already passed since we saw the last match of the ESL International Premiership Series. Some days in which we got several request to publish the final money ranking. We don't want to keep you in suspense any more and are happy to present the money distribution of the ESL IPS Season 1!

The first season of the ESL IPS set many new records for Enemy Territory. No other online tournament in Europe has ever seen a bigger prizemoney than our 1500 € and no other tournament has ever had bigger Qualifiers. Every team should become the chance to qualify for one of the main events for ET in 2006 and to our full satisfaction nearly whole Europe tried to get one of the slots for the IPS. More than 100 teams played from July to September in 6 different national and international Qualifiers a total of 225 matches and made our Qualifiers to one of the biggest and most compact ones in ET history ( Image ). Althought it was our first tournament with such a dimension the response by all teams, players and fans were quite unbelievable. Without a doubt, the IPS was a great success. But who knows Europe's biggest league and the whole Admin Staff behind it, should not forget: We have several new features in mind and are working day by day for season 2.

A new release of Sottevast, means a new Showcup! A few weeks ago we saw 3 teams battle it off on Sottevast_b2 and now that Sottevast_b3 is released we will see 3 more teams take on their guns. The teams that were so kind enough to participate in tonights showcup are:

elite
artificial
overdose

First up tonight are elite vs the back in action kings artificial. Then we will see artificial take on overdose, and in the end overdose will take on elite. The teams are expected to play the map once within the half hour. However, just like last time, if there is still time, I wouldn't mind the teams playing the map again.

Inside the Game will bring you live coverage of this showcup. You can tune in from 2015CET on this link: http://listen.radioitg.com/listen1.pls[/b]

If you still havent seen Sottevast_b3 yet, you can go to the following public server, provided by english, to test it:
213.228.232.155:27960

You can download the map here



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