The Call of Duty Eurocup has so far has captivated everyones imagination and as we get down to the business end of the season, its time for us to say "See you @ LAN" or just...See you later.

Whilst details on the LAN finals themselves are currently in short supply, we do know theres $9000 up for grabs between 4 teams!

Qualified
Last night Check Six booked their place in the finals with a stunning victory over reigining Eurocup champions Speedlink. Check Six are really gunning for top spot at the moment, having last week taken on former EC champions Dignitas, now pulling off an impressive display against the Germans.
Prior to that TeK-9 had already booked their place in the playoffs. The team who were expected to crash out of the EuroCyo quite quickly once their exams had begun have now pulled off stunning victories over DigitalMind and Northern Darnkess in a run of form that has seen them earn a place at the Lan Finals against all the odds.

Last Chance Saloon
Speedlink, the EC X winners under the Ocrana tag in CoD1 and reigning EC CoD2 champions got a rude awakening as Check Six raised their game and knocked them into the losers bracket. They now face an unpredictable DigitalMind side in the final online EuroCup match.

Speedlink & DigitalMind must fight it out knowing the loser goes away empty handed and the winner will have scraped their way into the EC lan finals!

The show has been uploaded: http://itg.filecloud.com/files/file.php?user_file_id=203474

Today we will see Lugerfrag going onair for its sixth episode. This will be the first time without the omniscient German, FlyingDJ.

So what have we got for you tonight? A lot :-)

News of the week
As always we are starting of with News of the week. What happened over the past 1.5 week that affected ET? Of course we saw that the plug was pulled from KOTH, and that the ESL is on its way. But there was more.

Quakecon&Enlarged
After this there will be some info with regards to Quakecon&Enlarged. What's going on over there, and what will happen with the 2 biggest upcoming LAN's for ET. Or, well, will Qcon even have ET!?

Confronting Clanbase
Following the introduction, is the moment you've all been waiting for! The interview with Adacore. The interview is about 40 minutes long and should give some nice views on Clanbase. The only downside of the interview is that you really have to pay attention. The microphone of Adacore was not that splendid, and sometimes he is breaking up :-(

Let's talk ladders!
A small moment to talk about the current ladder system, and try to summarize what has been said. I've spoken to Mrozu about it, and the result of that conversation will be on tonight aswell.

Maptest: renewed railgun; Showmatch!
To end tonight, instead of the normal maptest, there will be a showmatch. sFx SKIT-EVIL came up with the idea. I invited AgonyRealm who, thankfully, accepted, and thus the game tonight will be between those two teams.

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After crossfire started its competition Xfire KOTH, its now time to enter CoD2`s competive gaming with an own quick cup. Teams selected from the european top leagues. With ambitious teams taken from the OpenCup and the CB Ladders heads to let them face clans of the recent EuroCup.

Right before the LAN finals of the ECXIII starts, we are going to check out, who will be able to be a part of next seasons EuroCup.


8 Teams
An amount of 8 teams will fight in this short clash into friday`s night to be shown on giga fighting the final!

All invited teams are: (Bold = agreed, other in progress)

gods.inc
team spirit
eSuba
H2K - Thermaltake.com
Team Helix
uQ Gaming
Raw Gaming
Cadre



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Tonight sees the grand final of the Clanbase Open Cup! Another successful season is almost complete, but the grand prize is still there and up for grabs!
The contestants? None other than WoW and aD. It was aD that had the harder route to this final, overcoming iGods along the way, yet cdap were no small challenge for the poles.

WoW vs aD
Time: 21.30 CET
ETTV: GamesTV.org
Shoutcast: iTG`TosspoT

WoW might be the favourites here, with many a familiar Polish face, but with NationsCup champion mize in the aD roster along with some strong players, this one promises to be close!

Read more for the lineups!

The MiniCup.Hu registration period is over, groups are online.
Till today 119 clans and 424 players registered to HP.
We accepted only 88 clans, 'cause others can't get at least 3 members.

With three divisions, qualification will be as follows:
- Premier division with 4 X 6 clans.
- Second and third divisions with 8 X 4 clans

The First 2 clans of each group will go to the playoff.

The cup needs admins, If you want to an admin come to #minicup.hu at quakenet and ask an op.

More info:
web: http://minicup.hu
irc: #minicup.hu at quakenet

It’s been four months since the start of my torrid love affair with a certain Croat. His team is an enviable allstar pickup, a selection of the greatest players around. They come together to dominate the ClanBase European Ladder – they are stronger than hate.

As my first post regarding this team distinguished the myth that the CB ladder lacks skill, I need not repeat the tiresome rhetoric. Since becoming ladder leaders in March 2005 stronger than hate have only lost once, to former Crossfire KOTH Champions Team Helix [then known as Rewind] – though they soon regained their title and took revenge on hx.

Their most recent challengers and today’s opponent are sFx Evil. Their last clash ended in a draw meaning sth regained their position at the top of the table. The fact sth wouldn’t play a decider infuriated the Fins, the match report read “Sorry for not playing a decider but we don't need it if we kept 1st place. Besides that, you lost your home map.”

There’s bad blood between these two teams – we can expect an intense encounter.

sFx Evil vs. stronger than hate

Time: 21:00 CET
Maps: Radar & Supplydepot2
ETTV: GamesTV.org
Shoutcaster: Elkstreme (pr3ds Radio) & John (FlyingDJs Radio)

Read on the for the lineups...

After a time pondering the option of celebrate our own et cup, finally the day has come.

The multisquad Tresor has organized a small but intense summer et tournament. The cup will begin next Monday, the 3rd and will participate clans like:

Parabellum
Preds
Hymo
wArning!
Trivium

and many more.

The competition will be brief to avoid possible incompatibilities with other competitions and to avoid to enter in epochs of vacations, this way so then, the cup will begin directly in eighth of final and will finish in the space of approximately 2 weeks.

I want to be grateful and to wish a lot of luck to the clans that have taken part.

For more information visit Tresor Cup

Idle and performace #newAge.et & #tresor.e-sports

The ongoing world cup is going to its final stage and something even more important is coming up! Next to the boring football games, the CoD2 EuroCup is getting the most interesting slot this weekend and we are going to find the first of 4 teams getting a ticket for the best lan finals in the world. At this weekend, the first clans will quit lose their chance.
One of those is Logic Team who lost versus the dutch power of DigitalMind with 8 - 16.
To finalize the last important matchweek and to get the next match into GIGA television, we have the following matches comming up to you!


With some nice matches, Check-Six and TEAM-SPEEDLINK overpowered Dignitas and Trademark Gamers LTD into the lower bracket. Now, these two top clans are going to fight each other next Wednesday, 20cet.

Check out the line ups, maps and stuff for the upcoming match!

It's time for our next summer cup! As you may already have noticed, the ESL 6on6 Free4All Summer Cup started this week. It's the second ESL Free for All Summer Cup, after the 3on3 cup started last Sunday. Not less thean 48 teams participate in our most important cup and try to find the King of the Summer.

Please read the news on the ESL Page for all important facts. There you can also find at least one presentation per week about a team of the running 6on6 Cup. Be sure to check the news on the ESL Page in the upcoming days!



Sunday, 25.06. - Sunday, 09.07.
Monday, 10.07. - Sunday, 16.07.
Monday, 17.07 - Sunday, 23.07.
Monday, 24.07 - Sunday, 30.07.
Monday, 31.07. - Sunday, 06.08.

With Signups complete, The #GamersNation team can finally announce the groups for the cup, and remember, the top two teams in each group will qualify for the knockout stages!
Firstly let me announce the maps for the group stages.

[*] Week Of Monday 3rd July:

Frostbite and SupplyDepot2


[*] Week Of Monday 10th July:

sw_Goldrush and Radar For the first match
Adlernest Final and Braundorf_B4 For the second match.


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