Only Eight Teams

Quakecon have today announced the registration dates for the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 5v5 tournament. Teams can sign up onsite as of 8 AM, Thursday 3rd August, with registration closing that night at 8pm. Teams will be selected on a first come first served basis.

The tournament will be between only 8 teams. Halving last year’s number of slots. This move could be problematic for both American and European teams alike, with the Quakecon staff also encouraging BYOC players to sign up on the day.

As with last year the map list contains 7 maps played competitively on either side of the pond. The full map list is:

[*] Battery
[*] Braundorf_b4
[*] Radar
[*] Reactor_final
[*] Supplydepot2
[*] sp_delivery2
[*] sw_goldrush_te

With Quakecon being an event to showcase id’s games, they will be enforcing certain settings so that it is visually appealing. This includes forcing such cvars as r_drawfoliage, r_picmip, r_gama, r_mapoverbrighbits and r_overbrightbits. Quakecon have yet to release the full LAN config.

The tournament structure will be double elimination ensuring each team at least two matches. Matches will be played using the ABBA format.

A side note, Quakecon allows players to compete in multiple competitions, assuming match times don’t clash. This means that players competing in the Enemy Territory 5v5 tournament could chose to sign up for either the Quake 4 1v1 or Quake 4 2v2 tournaments.

Play begins Friday August 4th.

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Signups are still live and the deadline has been extended until Monday due to a delay in getting the Press Release up and a few finer points confirmed.

After numerous sugggestions we have decided to run online qualifiers for CoD2 ONLY. Many players/leaders suggested that the activity in the scene due to the time of the year made this a bad idea for ET, based on this we will only run the qualifers for CoD2 where this is less of an issue.

Signups are going well and the final invites and qualifiers will be taken via vote between the xfire site admins and lan admins.

To sign up email to: TosspoT @ Gmail.com

[*] Team Name
[*] Captain & Chief Contact Person (Email will be the primary contact method)
[*] IRC Channel
[*] Competing Roster

Just 3 weeks after cZar.et saw 2 of their players leave in favour of another clan and almost 2 weeks since the notorious and much loved Belgian player mesq “resigned”, a “new” cZar.et line-up sees the light of day. After achieving surprisingly good results in the EuroCup the former line-up was knocked out on the verge of entering the quarter finals. Since no really appealing alternatives to the EuroCup were known of at that time the squad became inactive, which resulted in the said departure of 2 of the players.


With the recent announcement of the Crossfire LAN the remains of the squad decided it was the right time to become active again. Being 2 players short the squad settled out to search for players and the result of this search I will reveal for you here. Without further ado, here is the new line-up of cZar.et:

dNzl
mesq
snot
ziff
oBs
gifty

The squad’s main ambition is to compete at the Crossfire LAN in Rotterdam.

[img|left]http://www.e-adn.org/etl/thumb_ultimateet.jpg[/img]Patton and e-adn released the trailer of the portuguese competition, Ultimate. Currently gathering demos you will see the movie in no time. Download Ultimate Enemy Territory trailer.

Ultimate 6on6

Team SixthSense
PLAYBOYS
Legendary Knights

Ultimate 3on3

Team Phaeton
wArmup gAming
Operações Especiais


Finally I have to thank the GamesTV crew who helped us making this an unforgetable season! They made possible every ETTv broadcast, helped us with game servers that supported ETTv and there was not a single important match without ETTv! A special thanks to andyF1, Angrykid, arni, bebar, Blachta, derhannes, Enn0L, flames, otter, Queeen, skooli and Trubel we had what was unthinkable given the scene we have in Portugal, top notch broadcasting.

Yes you have read it correctly, after the last few weeks of group stages of the #GamersNation ET Cup. we have finally reached the knockout stages, where from now on, if you loose a match, your eliminated from the competition.

The first knockout rounds will be played in the week of Monday 24th July - Sunday 30th July.

For the teams taking part in the competition, you must schedule your match this week and pm the Date and Time to Splodge before Friday 21st July, if you do not then your match will be forced to a date and time to suit the competition organisers.

For these matches, each clan picks one map each, if a decider is needed it is done by elimination from the map pool.

The fixtures for the first knockout rounds can be seen below:

sYnod5-Gaming vs. inFlux
#AgonyRealm vs. iStar Black

x3 vs. aGu
Morrigu vs. Team infrag

sFx-Evil vs. myLegend
dmt vs. overload euthanasia

#Crime vs. One.Soldier
Highbot vs. cdap-oddjob


Dont forget to checkout GamesTV.org for any of these matches that are showcased on ETTv

Edit: Also a reminder for all competing clans that ETPro GUID's must be added for each member playing in the knockout stages.


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It's the time of the year where you lie on the beach, watch the water run down the tanned skin of hot girls and prepare for the upcoming ET summer season. Since you can't lie on the beach all the time and giving pleasure to the girls on a daily basis can be a tough thing to keep up, vicious and evil decided that with so many thrilling ET events coming up, being inactive was not an option anymore. Their names should be well known to anyone who has followed the ET community in recent months and years and all of them have been on GIGA already:

After the successful completion of the of the Crossfire appeal and our mystery sponsor coming up to pay a huge amount of the money, we have set about picking a team. We were under huge time constraints and were unable to run a poll as both we and the sponsor needed the team ready for both practice and payment details.

We at Crossfire have selected the following roster:

Potter
r3vers
Sanctity
Butchji
Darky

The team has a mixture of Newschool and Oldschool, With 4 different Eurocup winners and proven talent!

Potter had this to say:

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We are really confident of success at Quakecon this year, I know Toss and the admin team have been searching for the best players and I honestly believe we have them here, Crossfire and its sponsor have made a dream come true.
The team will do the community proud, there were players like ferus, jauhis, mystic etc that the community mentioned but they werent available, people might be surprised by the inclusion of Darky, but he offers us an ingame leader and both Sanc and I have played with him and we know he will be perfect!

The teams for the Quarter Finals have been announced!

Important news about the 13th ET-Cup included!
Matches in the Quartel Final:

Gosu vs pstarZ
Morrigu vs Defix / infrag
AgonyRealm vs RazeR
t34 vs national 0wners

All matches will be played on sw_goldrush-te & et_beach, you're not allowed to change the map - they're set by the cup.
All matches are forced on Saturday 22 July 21:00 CET, reschedule is possible, but only to another day in the same matchweek.

ETTV can only broadcast a match if an ET-Cup admin allows it, otherwise your match will be removed. There will be 2 matches each Saturday as long as both clans can play.
You're not allowed to use a merc in any ET-Cup match.

Clans can ask an admin to add a player to the roster wheneven they want, only admins will only add the requested player on Sunday at 24:00 CET.
If there are any questions you are free to message an admin at #ET-Cup. Good luck.

Site: ET-Cup.net
IRC: #ET-Cup

Summer only comes round once a year, unless of course you migrate to Australia for half the year in which case you get 2. Or 3 if you're being clever, because you get another when you come back. In which case this analogy doesn't work. Let's start again.

The SummerCup only comes around once a year, and this year we nearly didn't have one at all. We now know that toxic has taken up the reigns, and introduced his 5v5 style of gameplay upon the masses, much to the horror and vehement protests of a certain "high flying" German. But all that is irrelevant now as the signups are officially open, as has been the maplist announced. And boy, you're in for a shock. Let's get the easy ones out of the way. There is no supplydepot, there is no radar. But what there is, is sure to turn a few heads. The maplist is:

Frosbite
Adlernest
Braundorf_b4
sw_goldrush_te
sp_delivery2
HoG_b10 (Heart Of Gold)

If that doesn't raise a few eyebrows, I'm not to sure what will. Toxic moved to justify the decision:

No Radar as it has been a constant feature in every mappool of every competition, so this map takes a break from the 5v5 mappool. And also no supplydepot2, even though the map is great, we felt that it had to be sacrificed to try out the 2 new maps and grush had to be kept to keep the balance of different styles in the mappool.

Think you can step up to meet the demands? Sign up at the league page

Through a mystery sponsor Crossfire has raised the money to send its team to Quakecon. We would like to thank EVERYONE who donated and made this appeal a success, we're now going to make sure your money brings home the gold!

On a personal note, even though I had to wake up at 9AM, I am feeling absolute eurphoria. As a community we pulled together in our thousands and sent a message to all the other gamers out there, and I have grin from ear to ear!

This latest development may come at the expense of a community vote, whilst we apoligise we HAVE taken in all points of view expressed in the previous column, however we're obliged to submit our team as soon as humanly possible