Another action packed StarCraft II weekend is about to start. MLG Raleigh will be starting tonight 23:00 CEST.

The StarCraft II groups look as following:

We are back! Atleast one of the old #ET-Cup crew. With current columns and the question for new maps I regained my old ET-Cup admin motivation and who knows...we might do something bigger this time!

Some might remember me from one of our 36 tournaments hosted under the ET-Cup flag and with teams ranging from one4one to idle.ee, Helix, infrag or cdap-pi we surely had the top notch of that time fighting for a place on the prestigious hall of fame. This time the challenge will be a bit different but with introducing two new custom maps the underdogs will get a chance to shine with brilliant tactics and moves over the more known teams. This tournament will be played on Pirates final and Tounine_b2 and just on them!

New Public with both maps: 213.108.29.161:27010 - Thanks to YCN for their support!

Today, the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory scene has seen a 2nd organisation cut ties with their ET squads in as many days. On Sunday evening, Team WinFakt!'s ET team left due to internal issues within the organisation and today we see Nordic-eSport.PENTIA part ways with their team.

For the sake of the game as we know it, hopefully this doesn't spell the end for these organisations and their time in Enemy Territory.

Well the cup finished, after some very exciting matches. We hope everyone enjoyed the cup! Congratulations to Team Dignitas with 1st place, and runner up Queens.et! Also we would like thank all the players, viewers, referee's, serversponsors and ofcourse owzo for his casting! See you at the next Team Blackpoint ODC!

I'm happy to announce the first Team Blackpoint OneDayCup(ODC). The format for our first ODC will be six versus six. After a major community uproar in the Enemy Territory scene, we decided to support the cause with this tournament in 6on6 format. Team Blackpoint is also giving away €60 to the first place!

The sixth season of the Intel Extreme Masters, the global league of the video game champions, will take off with its first Global Challenge at gamescom 2011 in Cologne (August 17 - 21). The event will host the world's best gamers fighting for a share of 53,000 US Dollar and a slot in the World Championship competition, the grand finale of each season of the league.

The CaseKing one day cup Sparked a lot of interest with 32 teams signed up, hoping to win a Zowie mouse pad kindly provided by CaseKing. Finally we have narrowed it down to 4 teams, with the prospect of winning these fantastic prizes.

A few days ago it was announced on the new TZ-AC website that SLAC would now be known as TZAC! As many have heard about this and perhaps wondered what this would mean for the Anti Cheat hopefully this will answer a few of your questions, after contacting chaplja he assured me that nothing would change for ET and we will still be part of the new TZAC plans. A new executable will hopefully be available very soon updating to the new name and branding as well as no doubt some other small updates. The new name itself derives from the developer, better known as chaplja, real name initials.

Counter Strike fans should be keeping an eye in the sky this evening as well replaced rumours have Valve launching the long awaited sequel to the series in the first quarter 2012. The very same rumour mill says that official confirmation is en route from Valve HQ within the next 24 hours.

ESEA who have had a very large and successful history within eSports are said to be involved in the development and have posted news of their owners' visit to valve HQ. The rumours cite the following updates:

Features

• Planned to be released Q1 2012
  
• Focuses on 5v5 competition
  
• Press release within 24 hours from Valve
  
• Plays on an updated source engine
  
• Individual & Team rankings
  
• New Guns added
  
• New Grenades
  
• Dust & Aztec major revamp
  
• Spamming still viable
  
• Ammo is free

ESEA Source

Update Its Official - Hit readmore for the press release:

Sign ups are now closed, we have had a total of 10 sign ups but unfortunately some teams have decided to drop out due to lack of interest as well as some other reasons. After contacting some of the teams in the remaining 6, it was made clear the the event itself would not be possible and has therefore been called off.