The second category in this year's Crossfire Community Awards is "eSports". Our cosy community has reached a point where most of the userbase have ventured into other games next to Enemy Territory and with the new Crossfire 4.0 just around the corner, it's only logical to set our sights on the bigger scope of the world of eSports. The following awards are meant to define exactly what is hot in eSports right now accoring to the Crossfire community. The first of our eSports awards is probably the easiest one, the game that made the best impression on our community - bar ET of course. The event of the year gives credit to the best organized, most hyped or most important LAN of the year, spanning all games played competitively. Moment of the year is especially about those highlights that stuck with you, be it ragequits, impressive wins or news that shook the eSports world. To conclude we give praise to the best movie the eSports scene has put forward this year. It doesn't matter what game it is, the idea is to award the movie that has managed to thrill even gamers that never seen the game before.

The first category of the Crossfire Community Awards is called "Crossfire" and spans all activity that went on on your favourite website. First of all and most important is the person who has in your eyes contributed the most to our scene in 2011. We also take a look at the content created on Crossfire over the past year. Whilst the game might be lowered in activity, the content flow on Crossfire was nothing but. Furthermore the best journal of 2011 is elected which is going to be an impressive feat. From the more than 10,000 (yes you read that right) journals that were created this year, one will be known in Crossfire history as the best journal of 2011! We also acknowledge the biggest retard of 2011. Just like last year, the winner of this award will be rewarded with a one month ban.

TIME Magazine has begun publishing its 'Top 10 Everything of 2011' and of most interest to you, the readers of Crossfire, will be the 'Top 10 Video Games of 2011.' TIME has a habit of producing content for the mass public so it may surprise you that their games list is surprisingly well formed. It was written by Lev Grossman, who attended PAX this year and guest spoke on the topic of writing in video game media.

Time's Top 10 Video Games of 2011

Today we are happy to announce the kick off of the annual Crossfire Community Awards. This time we decided to split all the various awards into four different prestigious categories in which you will be able to vote for your favourite nominee! These categories are Crossfire, Esports, Enemy Territory and Class-specific awards.

From tomorrow on we will reveal awards and nominees per category until they are all published at December the 18th. All nominees have been selected by respectively a Crossfire, Esports and an Enemy Territory panel. The official voting period will begin on December the 20th and last until midnight of December the 31st!

Tribes: Ascend is an upcoming multiplayer only first-person shooter and the latest release in the long running Tribes franchise. It is due for release early in 2012 and is currently available to play as a closed beta. Crossfire has 7 Beta Keys to give away through a small competition which was held over the past 24 hours.

Tribes: Ascend features a class-based loadout system. Each loudout specifies your armour, weapons, items - and ultimately, your play-style. Expected loadouts are the Pathfinder, similar to the Scout from Team Fortress 2, and the Brute similar to the Heavy from Team Fortress 2. The game currently boats 12 loadouts, including the two above and everything in-between. A picture of all of the loadouts can be seen here. The game currently offers Capture the Flag, Team Deathmatch and 'Rabbit' game modes. Some maps will retain the classic nature of the Tribes franchise with large open areas and base structures, others will have a more urban feel to them, featuring buildings and streets.

The following users have won themselves a Tribes: Ascend Beta Key:

Each week I plan to cover the past week's latest news surrounding the world of gaming, including major tournament results, headline gaming news & headlines and notable games releases and updates.

Gaming News

First up, I'd like to high-jack my own weekly gaming news write-up to inform you that Crossfire has got their hands on a number of Tribes: Ascend Beta Keys. With so many Triple A shooters not fulfilling the needs of the Enemy Territory player, Tribes may offer a worthy compliment to many Crossfire users. You can check the relevant newspost here.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has smashed even more industry records as the title reached the $1bn (£640m) sales mark in just 16 days since launch

Tribes: Ascend is an upcoming multiplayer only first-person shooter and the latest release in the long running Tribes franchise. It is due for release early in 2012 and is currently available to play as a closed beta. Crossfire has 7 Beta Keys to give away through a small competition which is detailed below.

Tribes: Ascend features a class-based loadout system. Each loudout specifies your armour, weapons, items - and ultimately, your play-style. Expected loadouts are the Pathfinder, similar to the Scout from Team Fortress 2, and the Brute similar to the Heavy from Team Fortress 2. The game currently boats 12 loadouts, including the two above and everything in-between. A picture of all of the loadouts can be seen here. The game currently offers Capture the Flag, Team Deathmatch and 'Rabbit' game modes. Some maps will retain the classic nature of the Tribes franchise with large open areas and base structures, others will have a more urban feel to them, featuring buildings and streets.

To win a Tribes: Ascend Beta Key all you have to do is

At ONEMOVE.ESO we're very happy to announce yet another great step forward with the pickup of the well known Gaming2Perfection ET team. Due to the Belgian organization having to shut down, the team found themselves without support. Quickly after the drop, ONEMOVE realized this was a great team and offered them their help and support and a few debates later the pickup was arranged.

After some impressive results, finishing second in CB:EC XXIV and third in Battle for Berlin, kReSti, sTOWNAGE and griim decided to leave the team. Searching for replacements, we contacted rAzZ and phyZiC from the former Queens.et side. Both players responded interested and decided to join up and create a strong new lineup with chry, Jere and Bl4d3. However, still left without a sixth player, the team spoke to several players and decided kARnAJ was the one to fill the spot.
Now, ONEMOVE.ESO is proud to announce its new ET team:

• chry
  
• Jere
  
• Bl4d3
  
• rAzZ
  
• phyZiC
  
• kARnAJ
  

The NationsCup intends on bringing all of the best players across the world together to represent their nations at one Cup.

With an amazing EuroCup and OpenCup season behind us we are happy to announce the new season, which will undoubtedly be the most thrilling and action packed NationsCup to date.

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* General

For this season, your supervisors will be GoldoraK and szczurek. They will give their best efforts in order to make this NationsCup a great success!

* Sign Up

As always, we are in need of captains who will take up the responsability of leading their nation into battle. If you feel that you are the man for the job, then please check if you meet our requirements:

• Decent organization. Every team should have one person who is responsible for ClanBase, he will function as a contact person, and CB will call him teamleader. It's up to the teams to decide who is doing what.
• The point of this NationsCup is to determine which nation is the best, so it pretty much goes without saying that a team captain should have decent skill level.
• A bit of team presentation is preferred. A logo is easy to make and looks much better on your teampage. So does a website where news, memberlists and other information can be found.

We will be using our semi-automatic captain election system. It consists of three stages:

Stage 1 - Captains apply

In this stage, players will be able to apply for the position of team captain for their respective nations. They can do this, by using the designated menublock on the right side of the cup page.

Please keep in mind that your application should be well motivated. All players will be able to see who applied for their own nation by using the menublock, mentioned above. This stage will run until Sunday, the 25th of December. No applications will be taken into consideration after this day.

Stage 2 - Players vote

Once all the applicants are known, players will be able to vote for their favourite candidate. There are few details to which we would like you to pay special attention. First of all, once you have voted, you cannot vote again or change your previous vote. Second, an applicant cannot vote for himself and third, when voting, you will be asked to motivate your vote. We would like to ask you to take this seriously.

All votes are kept anonymous. This stage will run from the 25th of December until the 3th of January. In the end, the cup supervisors will determine the captains.

Stage 3 - Annoucement of the captains

After the votes have been taken into consideration, the cup supervisors will announce all team captains on Thursday, the 5th of January.

If you have any questions concerning this system, please feel free to contact both supervisors in any way you see fit.

* Schedule

• 11.12.2011 - 25.12.2011 : Step 1 Candidate Captains Apply
• 25.12.2011 - 03.01.2011 : Step 2 Players Vote
• 05.01.2012 : Step 3 Captains annoucement
• 12.01.2012 : Qualifier week
• 23.01.2012 : Start of the first match week

* Referees

Of course, any help we can get is more than welcome. Admins play a vital role in making a cup succeed, so if you can spare some of your own free time to help out, please don't hesitate and go to the admin signup page.

We do expect admins to be qualified in these areas:

• Good knowledge of written English
• Knowledge of the commands available
• 
  Able to stay neutral and to make fair decisions/judgments
• Good knowledge of the rules
• Ability to write match reports/upload screenshots

ClanBase main news NationCup Season XV
Clanbase ET main news NationsCup XV - Enemy Territory
Apply as Team Captain : click here

Crossfire.nu is the gaming community for Enemy Territory.

ONEMOVE.ESO have won the second JeeSports.ET Qualification tournament after a flawless push into the final not dropping a single round. Their opponents, Highbot, had also done the same and although it was a tight victory on supply the ONEMOVE side really came into their own on goldrush not allowing the enemy to steal the tank after they set around a 10minute time.

They now qualify for the Main tournament along with Qualification #1 winners Anexis eSports. Two more teams will qualify for the main tournament and for more information on that please Click Here.