As you'll have seen in the below newspost by walle, this year's Electronic Sports World Cup is being held in Paris, France and is currently into the second day of play. As the Counter-Strike has already been documented, below is the information surrounding the other major competitions:

Electronic Sports World Cup in Paris, France 21-25 of October 2011. While this post is dedicated for Counter-Strike 1.6 also the following games will be played at ESWC: Starcraft 2, Counter-Strike: Source, DOTA 2, Fifa 2011 & Trackmania Forever. CS Groups have been announced and teams included will make this one of the top events of the year. CounterStrike is played from Saturday to Monday. 20 teams battle it out in 4 groups and from each one TOP 2 will proceed into single-elimination BO3 bracket. STREAMS for all games

Final standings:

SK Gaming 12 000 $
Natus Vincere 6 000 $
mousesports 4 000 $

The first round of the Battle For Berlin is now over. Below you can find full match results, short match summary's and comments from each of the winning sides.

For the losers of this first round of matches, the first round of the loser bracket will take place this Sunday 23rd October. The winner of Game #1 will play the winner of Game #2 and likewise for the losers - 3v4, 5v6 & 7v8. The next round of the winner bracket will be the following Thursday. A full schedule can be found at the bottom of this newspost.

Battle For Berlin gets underway tonight with the action starting at 20.00 CET. Further games will be played at 21.00 CET, 21.30 CET and 22.15 CET - so don't leave your computer, don't make other plans, don't get demolished by Kevlar on Bio - just stay here on Crossfire and tune into QuadV & GTV for an entertaining night of Enemy Territory action. The QuadV stream for tonight's games can be found here.

Our very own ET casting legend TosspoT will be making his shoutcasting return to cover both Game #7: TAG vs. tA and Game #2: dQ vs. oxid matches. A full preview of all of tonight's 8 matches, written by both myself and twidi, is live on the site and can be found in the column section above this newspost. It is our aim to have full match results online as soon as the action finishes so if you're too late to see the action live, Crossfire is your place to make sure you don't miss any full-time scores.

Tonight we have three more group games from Clanbase EuroCup XXIV. The action begins at 21.15 CET as the Polish line-up of tMoe takes on the seasoned Croatian line-up of Cortana.

Following that at 22.00 CET we have LAN winners MouseControl taking on the French Frogz.

Shortly afterwards you will be able to see the failfest that will be TAG.et against Cortana, which begins at 22.15 CET. Young English shoutcaster and Crossfire regular, hsTE will be casting this game so make sure you tune in here once the action gets underway!

Battle For Berlin will be running a double elimination tournament structure with all 8 first round matches being played this Thursday 20th October. Games 1-4 will begin at 21cet and games 5-8 will begin at 20cet. Match times are detailed below, however if you are unable to play at your designated match time then it is up to you to contact your opponent to try and rearrange your match at another time in the same evening[/u]. It is important that all matches are completed on the date arranged due to the coverage schedule. If you do rearrange your match time then it is essential that you message me to let me know.

Each match-week the first map will be forced and the second map will be chosen by the loser of the first map. Full map information can be found in the schedule at the bottom of this newspost. The config is yet to be finalised but it will be published before the first round of matches commence.

For the losers of this first round of matches, the first round of the loser bracket will take place this Sunday 23rd October. The next round of the winner bracket will be the following Thursday. A full schedule can be found at the bottom of this newspost.

Battle For Berlin intends on delivering the readers of Crossfire.nu a mountain of coverage for this competition, including full match previews for each and every game, insider interviews, live casting, post-match reflections, match reports and more! Our very own TosspoT will be casting the opening round of games on Thursday so be sure to tune in to the Battle For Berlin!

The first round matches can be seen below. If there are any errors involving lineups then please leave me a pm and I'll amend the post.

Each Monday I plan to cover the past week's latest news surrounding the world of gaming, including major tournament results, headline gaming news and notable gaming releases and updates. So without further ado ...

Starcraft II:[/u]
The Global Challenge at Comic Con in New York City finished earlier this evening as Korean Zerg DongRaeGu took home the Gold, with fellow Korean Zerg FruitDealer in Silver. Touted by some as a "coin-flip' between DRG and TOP" before the event started, TOP was swept 3-0 by Gatored (who eventually went on to take 4th place) leaving FruitDealer to contest first place.

As mentioned in yesterdays news, the Crossfire Council has chosen the seeds for the upcoming Battle for Berlin tournament. We will soon release the full bracket for Thursdays matches but as we are following standard tournament bracket placement you can pretty much guess who will play vs who! Here are the seeds and the rationale behind it.

Seeds

1. Anexis - Ross, Night, Squall, Sqzz, mAus, Xylos, Flopjehz
2. Gaming2Perfection - chry, Jere, Griim, Bl4d3, Kresti, sTOWNAGE, Tele
3. Queens - clown, razz, mind, lepari, nuggan, winghaven, kot, perfo
4. Mousecontrol - joshua saken squid an7ho karnaj zMk spho rizzk
5. k1ck - mant, raul, subb, bff, monkey, jyrkz, straf, zak
6. onemove - dialer, fanatic, hunter, ska, krein, hassaN
7. TAG - Lightning, Aphesia, Filus, Urtier, Scarzy, Hope, Meez
8. disQonnect - humm3l, jago, freezer, joke, dunz, kevji, boNg, predi
9. oxid - stRay, kiwi, snoop, gr0ss, silent, brandon, statti
10. Turboapinat - crittie, juuti, kapaa, swanidius, vokki, walle, oldensan, metsuri
11. inteRaction - denton, green_clon, l4mpje, milhAus, malfoy, ridji, jalo, loocko
12. b2k - l4z, abject, w1lko, WuT, syriusZ, mag
13. Epic - beck, Keeji, talG, violy, dAy, beasty, menth, espion
14. glitz - x3nja, doppler, artifexx, caej, violy, promen, gnome, metsuri
15. bSTURZ - fuchs, fizz, speula, testi, turki, bitzz, wezep, ercan
16. Lost Soldiers - laNgo, catcher, eujen, valar, qwik, mKs, VJTO rs

One thing Crossfire has been knocked for in the past is making decisions without due consultation of the community. Whilst we always try to make sure our admin team represents a variety of skillsets (or in my case, no skill) it's gotten to the point where it would be logical to have others make key game based decisions.

So for the Crossfire Battle for Berlin the key game based decisions, such as picking the top 16 teams from our signups, seeding them and picking the config etc has been delegated to a select group of people who should have their finger on the pulse of the gamers demands. Heading up that group is urtier and he had the following to say:

Quote by urtier

Yet another council for ET decisions? Yes and no. The current council is smaller, more experienced and well aware of the current ET scene and move going on. With Battle for Berlin there is the next major tournament just about to start and there are great debates about possible config changes, map pools and general ET life.
Our goals are not to change the game yet again but rather provide a base for everyone out there playing this great game and helping to improve it even further.
The teams that are going to be fighting in the great Battle of Berlin will be announced tomorrow evening together with the map pool. Seeds, brackets and the config will be posted tuesday latest.
Do not panic, there is nothing to worry about. We will not re-invent ET and most will stay the same as it currently runs. However we will make small adjustments to certain things that hopefully balance the game out even more.

The council currently consists of Ross, Night, twidi, Clown and myself. If you have any questions, feedback or general ideas for further improvements or implementations, feel free to contact me. We will make sure that it will be considered.

So as you can see the Crossfire Council for BFB (and beyond) will be Urtier, R0SS, Clown, Night and twidi - Thanks Guys!