A small group of people the last month have been working hard towards the return of Enemy Territory Competition in some form or fashion to TWL (Teamwarfare League) in North America. This drive has actually hit some traction with myself pushing TWL to actually do something for this wayward community... as generally NA ET's comp community is regarded as dead or finished and has no real home to compete in with the death of STA and ETL as our last 'major' leagues hosting NA-ET. Obviously this 'return' is long overdue for most NA ET players...

TWL is officially looking into the matter and needs to gauge interest for teams and players who would want to play in a future league, ladder or tournament to be hosted by TWL for Enemy Territory. Currently with no forums or website like et-center or wocen.org to call our home, I've offered up my own teams forums as a base of operations until TWL picks up the slack and returns to hosting competition and offers there own forums for use.

Were asking for anyone interested or looking for the skinny on whats going on in NA-ET to hit up the following forums:

http://www.team-crossbreed.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2734
http://www.teamwarfare.com/forums/showthread.asp?forumid=40&threadid=472314

Teams interested should post in the following forum:

http://www.team-crossbreed.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2736

You can also contact me @ Virus047 on Xfire or on IRC @ #crossbreed on Gamesurge or Quakenet.

Thanks!

NOTE: If anyone has issues signing up on Team Cross Breed's forums just ensure you register and login on the front page and then click "forums".

The Heatwave Challenge Sign Ups are now open. To sign up to play in the competition please follow the link below and leave the following information in a reply on the forums:

• Team name:
  
• Lineup: PLAYERNAME (SLAC ID), PLAYERNAME (SLAC ID), etc
  
• IRC Channel:

By signing up you agree to play all your games on the schedule shown below, admin decisions are final all games must be completed on time. On the 24th of July, once the sign ups are closed, Four teams will be invited to play in the competition as the top four seeds with the other 12 places being decided by a multi phased qualification process over four days. The deadline for lineups is before the opening tournament week, on 31st July 2011.

Announcing the Next Evolution Heatwave Challenge, a tournament that will take place over the summer with the aim to have the lower bracket and grand finals to take place at PHX (as long as all teams are attending). Below you can find the format, the (tight) schedule as well as the prizes for the top 4 positions.

Tournament Details
Teams: 16 (4 Invites, 12 teams determined by Qualification)
Format: Groups & Double Elimination Playoff
Prize Pool: €500 (Courtesy of Next Evolution ESC)
Map list: Goldrush, Supply, Radar, Adlernest, Frostbite and Bremen
Sign ups open: 18th July
Sign ups close: 24th July

The sign ups for the tournament open on the 18th of July as outlined above, a news post will come with further details on how to do this. By signing up you agree to play all games in predetermined schedule shown below.

The sign ups for PHX-1 are now open, below you can find the signup pack in which any team wishing to take part will need to download and fill out the correct form and then email it onto the details within the sign up pack. Sign ups are first come first served based on which email is received first

Sign up pack: LINK

PHX Updates[/u]
11/05/2011: Initial Announcement
11/06/2011: Latest Update
11/07/2011: Signups open
18/07/2011: Payments Requested from teams
11/08/2011: Signups Close
10 & 11/09/2011: PHX-1 Starts

As you can see Payments will be requested from teams on Monday the 18th of July, each team that has signed up will have 7 days to make payment or there place will be offered to any teams who did not make it into the top twelve sign ups.

This past weekend held host to the first major European Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Call of Duty 4 event of the year. It took place in the Dutch town of Enschede, the home of our beloved venue; WZZRD Gaming Café. The victorious MGC (note, I did not say team!) was Anexis eSports as they had 2 teams enter into the gaming festivities, both of whom wound up the champions of their respective tournaments.

Adroits' streaming partner for the event was none other than Kaos TV which saw Matthijs "A_Spec" Hoving entertain thousands for Call of Duty 4 and we had Owain "Owzo" Howard verbally tearing his way through the weekend for all of you Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory fans. However, the majority of this weekend must be immortalised, an archive was needed... Kaos TV have stepped up to the board and have launched their official post-SAGE Video on Demand collection.

All videos can be found on the Kaos TV YouTube profile, and the coverage doesn't stop at recorded matches. For those of you who've been hunting for the interviews that were promised, Kaos TV have also answered your prayers. You can watch interviews conducted with ET's Baggiez and CoD4's solu, as well as a quick chat with myself, Seanza.


Go grab yourselves some popcorn, hit that golden subscribe button and get ready to re-live and share our memories from an epic event! Here's to many more...

Kaos TV's YouTube
Adroits' Flickr
Adroits' Facebook
Adroits' Twitter

Today we present to you the first round of the Brink Championship Playoffs. 32 teams have completed their groupstage matches. The top two of all eight groups advanced to the playoffs, where every group winner will meet a drawn runner-up from a different group. From now on all matches will be played in Best of 3. Without further delay, here are all the matches of Round 1, which will take place this Sunday:

As some of you may already know, SAGE is now over! the Eventual winners of the Enemy Territory competition were Anexis eSports who managed to beat Team Dignitas in the Grand Final with Next Evolution topping off the top 3 positions.

Anexis eSports
Team Dignitas
Next Evolution ESC

[bOverall Standings[/b]] Anexis eSports
Team Dignitas
Next Evolution ESC
4th NORDIC eSport
5/6 gaming2perfection
5/6 teamoxid
7/8 Almighty
7/8 Team WinFakt
9th Spot 16
10th epic eSports
11/12 enhanced
11/12 Team reVeal
13-16 High Heels
13-16 Team Refuse
13-16 Titanz
13-16 wnbpro
Teams and Lineups

SAGE took place over three days, Friday the 1st to Sunday the 3rd of July but for some of the admin team it started a little earlier, below are 291 pictures from the event itself as well as pre event and the trip home! enjoy

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Anton "Cooller" Singov has been a part of mousesports for almost six years now and we're very sad to part ways with arguably the best Quake player of all times. With the decision of IEM to not pick up Quake Live again, the Quake community faces a tough time once again.

There are only a few evergreens in mousesports who have competed for so many years like Cooller: Back in late November 2005, the Russian Quaker player joined forces with one of the best teams in the world for Quake 4 and instantly won the CPL Winter 2005, beating his later arch rival toxjq in the Grand Final. Until now, Cooller managed to stay on top of his game for all those years, always competing with the best players in the world for the Championships. In the last months of professional Quake tournaments, Cooller was the only oldschool player who was still able to win events, as he edged out an impressive win in the Intel Extreme Masters European Championship earlier this year.

Anton will leave mousesports and head over to Moscow Five, a team based in his hometown, who agreed to support him as best as possible. Due to the non-nomination of Quake Live as a main title for the upcoming Intel Extreme Masters season, there have been almost no reasons to maintain a Quake Live division in mousesports and we're desperately sorry to say that we have to shut down the entire Quake Live squad. As Anton became a friend, we wanted to grant him the possibilty to continue his career on a professional level and we've decided to release him out of his running contract.

Anton "Cooller" Singov will always be a part of mousesports as he's the latest addition of our Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame decorates the few mousesports players who helped in developing one of the worlds most successful gaming teams by their continuous effort and work.

Anton, we wish you the very best for your future and we would like to say thank you for all the titles you've won, all the things you've done for mousesports and for all the good times online and offline.

Source: http://www.mousesports.com/en/news/10087/

Hereby I am very pleased to announce the official start of Team Blackpoint! We are a brand new gaming team and we hope to become one of the best gaming teams out there. Without further ado, I would to present our teams:

Join us today for a sneak preview of MLG Live as we knock Independence Day out of the park with ten straight hours of live streamed content featuring the best of the world of eSports/competitive gaming.

Many of you in the US will be out with friends and family for the evening, which is great! If you have some time throughout the day, check it out. If not, VOD's will provided shortly after. For everyone who can't get enough eSports, and those outside the US where it'll just be another Monday, this will be a treat.

It’s an extravaganza of gaming with all your favorite players, commentators, and community members - all streamed to you live in HD. Starcraft 2, Quake Live, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: Reach and maybe even some Mortal Kombat 9/SSF4AE.

Below is the tentative schedule of events for the day. Because matches are live, there is no knowing how long games will go, along with all other apects of running a live event such as this.

Slasher will be hosting with various pro's. 2GD's assistance has been requested.

3:00 PM EST/21:00 CET: MLG Live Launch with JP McDaniel w/ special guests, tour of studio
3:30 PM EST/21:30 CET: Starcraft 2 1v1 Showmatch - White-Ra vs TLAF`Ret - Best of 5
4:15 PM EST/22:15 CET: Starcraft 2 2v2 Showmatch - coL.CatZ & coL.Drewbie vs EG.Axslav & EG.StrifeCro - Best of 3
5:00 PM EST/23:00 CET: Quake Live 1v1 Showmatch - Toxic vs srs.av3k, winner vs srs.Cypher - Best of 3/5
6:00 PM EST/24:00 CET: Special Edition of SC Center with JP McDaniel and Chobopeon
6:30 PM EST/00:30 CET: Call of Duty: BlackOps Showmatch - OpTic Gaming vs Force - Best of 3
7:15 PM EST/01:15 CET: Halo: Reach Showmatch - Status Quo vs Dynasty - Best of 5
8:00 PM EST/02:00 CET: Quake Live 1v1 Showmatch - ZeRo4 vs EG.DaHanG, winner vs SK.Rapha - Best of 3/5
9:00 PM EST/03:00 CET: Quake Live CTF Showmatch - Evil Geniuses (DaHanG, id, viju, kgb) vs Cloud 9 (ZeRo4, Rapha, br1ck, FienD)
9:30 PM EST/03:30 CET: Starcraft 2 1v1 Showmatch - FXO.qxc vs FXO.Twilight
10:00 PM EST/04:00 CET: All-new State of The Game with new co-hosts

Watch it all LIVE at http://www.MLG.tv.