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Hello Crossfire Community,

Battle For Berlin has finalized the map pool (maps to be used in the tournament) and is working hard on finalizing the scheduele.

The finalized map pool is as follows:

- Ice
- Base
- Frostbite
- Beach
- Village

e-Tournaments and Leagues, a Portuguese online gaming portal, along with Kaos Lan House hosted the first portuguese Lan event ever in the 5on5 layout. And what an huge success it was! With 10 teams fighting for the 375€ prize money, the top three places were taken by:

Menino e Macacos Gold edition
Playboys
Legendary Knights

This evening the moons aligned to see the return of Finnish prowesss to the ET scene! Powered by over half of the Parodia lineup, these Finnish monkeys come with a reputation that packs a punch to be reckoned with.
Their Lineup is:

Torspo (ex demiurge)
Jauhis (ex Parodia)
sAintt (ex Parodia)
Xpaz (ex Parodia)
Tiigeri (ex demiurge)

Tiigeri had this to say about the teams prospects and aspirations:

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It's nice to play with full finnish lineup for a change, the distances are bit shorter so we can go and cuddle with each other without buying a plane ticket. Also what comes by playing with Xpaz and saintt, is excitement, I'm very exited to play with them, they seem to be nice guys like jauhis, so it's fun to play with them. Ofcourse playing with some ex-parodia guys is also very nice. My personal main goal is to keep saintt off from the world of warcraft as much as possible!

Tiigeri went on to state that Eurocup was the teams primary goal, and that lans were not currently on the agenda, but that time would tell.

You can join them in #A-Monkeys

Since the new punkbuster release 1.279 many have had and will have problems connecting to ET servers out there with the error message Failed to resolve etguidauth.evenbalance.com in your console.

The cause of this is an outdated PBNS.DAT in your pb folder which comes from the previous version and is not automatically updated when you update your Punk Buster with pbweb.exe.

If you connect to servers which are running the last PB Update and the client is running an old version, the PBNS.DAT avoids an GUID authentification (awaiting gamestate) because of operating with outdated data for the masterserver. (new: 192.246.40.62 - pbguidauth.idsoftware.com)

To Fix This[/u][/i]:

• 1. Download pbsetup.exe from www.evenbalance.com

• 2. Delete or rename the old pb-directory(pb folder where your ET is installed) and create a new one in which you copy the downloaded file.

• 3. Start pbsetup.exe, follow the instructions and download a completely new pb-software.

• 4. Connect to an updated server (ip 83.142.85.186:29988), like this server, and you will receive a new PBNS.DAT from that server when connected.

• 5. Now your PBNS:DAT file should be up to date and you can connect to servers again as normal.

After winning the Danish eXperience Lan it appears that some major names have taken an interest in the promising Aeon.eSports side and they have now merged with Copenhagen-Esports.

This moves might come as a surprise to many after the team lost juL and Frijec played at the EuroCup Lan for rivals Tek-9 but it appears Aeon have come through this difficult patch and reforged a new, very promising lineup. The addition of Qwerty from Digntias was an inspired pickup and although Maxxur has left for pastures new, xerno easily replaces him.

It’s taken 7 hours and almost 31 matches but we’ve finally awarded a winner for the TLF 5v5 Cup.

Rising through the top of the bracket, cdap pi didn’t drop a round until the semi finals, where they met pre-tournament favourites noll8. It took 3 tense maps, but they made their way to the final to meet finest. (Check out finest vs murso if you missed it)

Things started badly for cdap, getting battered on sw_goldrush_te, just preventing a full hold - but they regrouped & managed to take the following two maps, over Supplydepot2 and Frostbite.

Route to the final:

4 0 BYE
4 0 mix
4 0 Highbot
4 2 noll8
4 2 finest

cdap pi
finest
noll8/murso

Shoutout to team Canada who pulled an all-nighter to compete, only to crash out in the quarter finals.

TLF Grid | #TLF

The first playday is on the way, tonight we will join two more matches of the International Premiership Series first week. Make sure you get your ET up and running to join ETTV with hot and stunning action tonight.

As first match idle.ee will face uQ.Gaming, the new home of pingswins. With idle as clear favorite uQ needs the best of luck on their map Braundorf to be able to compete against them. As first map we will see the rebuild of Supply Depot 2 called Supply created by arni including spawn fixes and bug fixes by mortis and himself. Make sure you have the new version up and running. As well as every time both teams gave up their statement on the upcoming match:

In what can only be described as a david vs goliath final, caermonia have pulled off a string of phenominal results to get to the grand final and require just one more feat of brilliance to secure the biggest prize in the benelux scene. In their path lie second seeded digitalMind, who until a 14-12 scare with suXus looked destined for the title. Burgundy kicked off the final, and dM were straight under attack from a caermonia side who had beaten both n!faculty and suXus to into the final, after initially being seeded fifh they had nothing to lose. However, it was the experience that paid off that saw caer take second and dM first! Hit read more for the full report of the final.


1st - digitalMind
2nd - caermonia
3rd - suXus

Caermonia have come to netgamez and care not about their oppositions reputation and have quickly powered past two Eurocup opponents on their way to the Netgamez losers bracket final.

After initially defeating first seeds H2k gaming, they've moved on to take down n!faculty both by 11-7. Its been all one way traffic as this dutch team continue to cause upsets.

They go on to face the loser of the winners bracket final, between digitalMind and underdogs, suXus who also defeated an H2k side that look devoid of confidence in their selfbelief and teamplay. After being 7-3 up on the half way point, h2k couldnt pick up the needed rounds to finish the job.

The final three places are now up for grabs with digitalMind being the clear favourites, but with suXus having taken down H2k and the many matches and results under their belt, caermonia may be dug in for the long haul.

Other news from Netgamez, see's battle between digitalMind and H2k reignited this time in CounterStrike as the two of them do battle in the 4000 euro grand final. The H2k squad, hailing from estonia have their claim to fame from their time in idle.ee. And to name as many ET squads as possible, Dignitas have won the FIFA tournament.

Update

Caermonia have continued to cause upsets after taking down suXus in the Losers Bracket final, and in some style. A strong 11-6 victory over their compatriots see's them now with a shot at unbeaten digitalMind. dM on the other hand were taken to overtime in the winners bracket final against suXus. They had to use a 14-12 scoreline to get them into the grand final, and now any certanties have been thrown out the window and unpredictability reigns over the Netgamez CoD tournament.

Earlier this morning, suXus have pulled off the biggest upset of Netgamez 2006 with a shocking 11-7 victory over tournament favourites H2K.

In what can only be described as a shocking result, it was trainstation that was to be H2K's undoing. H2K were under the cosh from the word go, as plucky suXus showed they're not to be messed with.

H2K had already dispatched with possible favourites for third place, n!faculty (11-8), and with what seemed a formality on route to a dM vs H2k final, the all dutch lineup were shot down.

Solz of H2k said:

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They played better together than we did, we had too many 5 on 3 situations that we managed to lose and they turned around. Kasparov and pr3z played well. I'm not happy if i'm not in the grand final, so I'll do everything to get there, but now its a long hard road. We now face caerimonia, if we win we play possibly n!faculty, after that possibly suxus again, so the day just got alot longer!

Update -

The number 1 seeds have bowed out completely with a carentan defeat to caer in again surprising circumstances. Once more it was 11-7, and once more the side cannot believe what has happened to them.