After the Opencup Premier League group announcements were made, the discussion about the player changes is going on and the groups are interesting.

So Highbot presents a new ET squad, its the successfull singularity squad, which is playing together for a long time.

The clan management is at one and hopes for a good teamwork, it supports the squad with an overall fullsponsoring.

Lineup:
neo
marvje
butch
Ripman
VD
Loo

Backup:
CPU
milo

Only time will tell what the future holds!
Good luck to all involved :O>

One of the most consistent players in RTCW history has started his Quake 4 career with a bang!

civ a two time RTCW Quakecon finalist with iNfensus now heads up the team9 Quake 4 roster which features some more of the old iNfensus flavour with wuFF and FeTTe.

But it is Anders "civ" Larsson sending ripples through the Quake 4 duelling community. Trading sniper for rail, this week saw him destroy Quake 3 legend iC-Gopher in his Eurocup qualifier and just moments ago claimed another victim. TeveT who himself has had a resounding start to his Quake 4 career but has just felt the full power of an mp_beach defence.

civ must now pull out all the stops to take on one UT2k4's legends, in the shape of Falcon (aAa, play.it) . However civ is in the favourable position of still being in the winners bracket, and will desperately want to avoid Fox who is favourite for this tournament on his current form!
However, civ is not alone at dreamhack! wuff aka team9|zeb has just been knocked into the losers bracket by civ's next opponent...Falcon!

Dreamhack is the first major Quake 4 lan event that has seen Europe's greatest duellers make their way to sweden, but as always, they underestimated RTCW power! With his railgun in one hand and his medic packs in the other, civ is building his reputation within Quake 4 with every performance!

Coverage:
iTG`ReDeYe from Dreamhack
Battlefrag Video Stream

(you can sync them as you would ettv)

Brackets:
Winners Bracket
Losers Bracket

Updates
Losers Bracket round 6
wuFF 2-0 neji
Quarter Finals
civ 2-0 Falcon
Semi Finals
civ 0-2 Toxic
civ outclassed by a Quake 3 legend. But hes still in the losers bracket!
civ 0-2 hazter

A good showing for team9 and inparticular civ, who knows whether this years Quakecon could bring us another civ spectacular?

Yesterday, after some testing, and waiting to get it certified, the Euro Global Configs are out. May we urge you all to start updating your servers by the specified dates in this post : http://www.xfire.be/?x=news&mode=item&id=1398

Read more for changes

Bani released the new official ET Pro 3.2.4 Version today.
Qoute from Banis Site:

This is a bugfix release.
Note: The client pk3 is updated.

bugfixes:
class limits should not be applied to spectators
riflegrenade stealing bug fixed
better parameter checking on some lua functions

Download it here

CrozZ - Expansion Pack

100mbit link - Thanks to Pitri

Presented by shAdowmAn Productions

Length: 10:59
Size: 291 Mb
Ratio: 26.5 Mb/min
Video Codec: XviD
Audio Codec: MPEG Layer-3
Resolution: 768x540
Framerate: 30fps

Music used:

Linkin Park - One Step Closer (remix)
Spineshank - Smothered
Breaking Benjamin - Follow Me

Many question are being asked. Alot of answers are being answered from everyone, those being official and others saying the first thing which comes to their mind.

So let's all make this as Official as it can be with the circumstances.

Both, Clanbase.com and Warleagues.com have discussed this issue and this is how things are going to be for both leagues.

Till the Official release of 3.2.4 which should be out by this week both leagues will run the 3.2.3 + bugfix and the latest Euro Config.

Since the new ETPRO 3.2.4 is out we expect that all clans update their clan servers[/b]

As soon as this config is certified we will update on both sites the new verified config and will edit this post with the links.


Now regarding what versions to be used and when the two sites have different ideas. We will start with the first one :

Clanbase.com
Till 28th November both clans can agree to use the old setup of ETPRO and Config, but as from this date onwards, the new setup which is explained above need to be used. This week is being used as a week where server testings are done so CB is allowing the share of both configs together. But if any clan proposes a "good server" with new ETPro 3.2.3 and new config, it will have preference.


and secondly :

Warleagues.com
Till 5th December both clans are encouraged to use the new ETPRO and Config but if both clans agree they can use 3.2.0 and the old config. This is to give a grace-period for all the clans to inform their server providors to update the servers and to allow clans to migrate to the changes without a culture-shock. This mean that all matches played after 5th December with the old config will result in the team who got the server to be disqualified. May I point out that the ET Servers provided by #sFx.Gaming will be using the new ETPRO and also the new config. PS: We are not going to give only 1 week since next week will be the last week of the Group Stage, so it does not make sense to force the clans to play the last round with the old config.

Hope this update from both sides will answer loads of your questions. If you still have any problems contact us on our relative channels.

[CB]doneX + wl|Yancho

On this, the eve of revelations over at ClanBase we see two teams from “The Group of Death” kick off their respective Eurocup campaigns. From former finalists to upcoming hopefuls, tonight has it all.

uQ Gaming 4 - 2 Team Helix
Comp: ClanBase Eurocup XII - Group B
Date: Wednesday 23rd November
Time: 20:00 CET
Maps: Supplydepot2 & et_ice
ETTv: #Gamestv.org & Gamestv.org (260 slots confirmed)

uQ kicked off their season negatively. Slumping out in the ET-Cup final disastrously, then failing to qualify through to the knockout stages of the toFOUR Cup, as rumours of roster problems mounted. But, it appears, all a great team needs is a bit of luck - and luck is what they received. Awarded a place in the toFOUR Quarter Finals thanks to a drop out they’ve not looked back, unbeaten since. A record of 6 wins in as many games leaves them top of the Warleagues Season V Premier Group and going into this seasons EC on a high.

Team Helix, formerly known as Rewind.et are suffering a slouch at the moment, desperately seeking to get their dwindling season back on track. Early encounters saw them overcome a few household names, impressing those that saw over the pre-meditated vitriol. Recently bolstering their roster with the acquisition of former one4one star razZ.

This being the first match of the group a good start is vital, with one4one and remedium set to lock horns this coming Monday.

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Then, just two hours after their opening Eurocup encounter Team Helix will face ladder leaders stronger than hate in an attempt to take the top spot. stronger than hate recently retained their position at the top of the table in a well publicized match versus aurea. As we know they're a strong mix made up of Europe's best, though claiming to play for fun - since when was war fun?

Team Helix 4 - 0 stronger than hate
Comp: ClanBase European Ladder
Date: Wednesday 23rd November
Time: 22:00 CET
Maps: sw_oasis_b3 & Supplydepot2
ETTv: #Gamestv.org & Gamestv.org (150 slots confirmed)

sth's line-up is still to be confirmed, but with a roster of over fourty top players a no show simply isn't on the cards.

Update:

sth line-up FroZzeN mize fost CS4f1 licid nonix

Backup: auron

After some problems with the global-config testversion released yesterday DoneX released another temporary version on Clanbase a few minutes ago.

Changes:

* md5 check has been removed until etpro version changes are settled.
* Soldier charge time has been increased from 20 to 30 seconds

Downloads:

Clanwar 3.2.3 with bugfix
etpro 3.2.3 with bugfix
ettv_b4 for matchservers

etpro 3.2.4 will come today or tommorow ... stay tuned

Adding TosspoT's love for attention and his past weekend WCG activities it becomes easy math of 1+1 = 1 to profile this interesting character.

Yesterday, the GGL interviewed the talented shoutcaster stripping him down to get a up-close and personal view on his extravert personality:

I eat more food than any fat person could dream of doing and yet some how I remain the width of a bamboo cane!

Furthermore, TosspoT gives his opinion on WCG and struggles to answer his dilemmas.

Bunny or Mousie?
I'd quite like to see whoever thought of this question fired! The two chicks of u5, bunny the caster, Mousie the ET player. ET has gotta win over, as much as I had a lot of fun casting with bunny...ET ET ET!

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etpro 3.2.3

This evening bani released a new version of his etpro mod

Apart from a lot of bugfixes there have been additional configuration options to make the life of proners harder ...

b_extendedprone (default 0, disabled) - enables accurate hitbox for proning animations, and makes the prone animation transition through crouching.
b_killshot_delay (default 0, disabled) - time in milliseconds to take automatic screenshot after a kill
zero-bandwidth hitsounds
spectators can now hear hitsounds when spectating other players who have it turned off.
b_pronedelay behavior is changed:
0 = etmain normal behavior: no spread change, and players may not un-prone for 750ms.
1 = max spread for 1 second after proning, players may not un-prone for 1750ms
shoutcasters are now immune from g_spectatorInactivity

Its now also possible to limit the number of soldiers per team without "blocking" the use of soldiers for a whole spawn-round.

However this new function contained a bug which was fixed in a bugfix release.

As there was a lot of confusion about what files to use i put etpro 3.2.3 as well as the bugfix into a single archive:

etpro 3.2.3 including bugfix

All other changes can be found in bani's newspost


global config

A few minutes later, a new non final and non certified version of the global configs was released on the clanbase site.

Its now featuring pronedelay and uses the new soldier ristriction system.

More information about changes was not given.
Ingame config colours are black and grey

Serveradmins can download the configpack at Clanbase or directly here


ettv

For gamestv.org broadcasts we still ask matchserver admins to install ettv_b4 as this version uses a different netcode - versions later than ettv b4 (5-8) cause lags on the broadcast

Files you need:

* Complete etpro as from the archive above
* ettv.x86 (or ettv.exe) from ettv_b4 release

Do NOT copy the qagame files from ettv_b4 for your matchservers.

Even if you are currently not thinking about broadcasting games with ettv from your matchserver, you might still want to install this ettv release while you're busy anyways with it.
ettv.x86 (or ettv.exe) has some advantages over etded.x86 (or etded.exe) - it uses up to 20% less server cpu and has practically no downsides or sideeffects except beeing able to ettv broadcast, should it become necessary.
People new to ettv might want to read theETTV documentation

hf, arni