UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Some info on the upcoming US events:

CAL: As always just into the new year it's time to kick of a new season. The (CyberAthlete Amateur League) or CAL for short is now into it's tenth season. New this season is the introduction of the Premier division which slots in between the Main and Invite divisions. Preseason week one map is de_comrade_thirdroute the onto de_aztec in week two.

CXG: Over at Cyber X Gaming the full event timetable was announced a couple of days ago. Allready some US teams are making their way to LA to get in a couple of days bootcamping before the event, including Team 3D who had a dissapointing finish in Winter 2003 CPL. Whats especially exciting with this event is the heavy UK presence. With major sponsorship now, 4Kings, Team AMD and Infinity-eSports are participating in the event. This will surely brighten things up for the UK Counter-Strike scene, best of luck to the UK teams. CXG will be covered fully on UKCT.

UK team line-up's

4Kings: Migotti, Mangiacapra, Harriman, Hartman, Andersen

TAG: Teppum, Shaq, bom, zag, duck

I-eS: aku, Dart, Dark, Luck1ng, Zaffe

Cyber X Gaming released the seedings for the upcoming event earlier today. As you can see below 4Kings are seeded 8th overall.

Seedings:

1. SK.swe
2. NoA
3. Mousesports
4. Adrenaline[GX]
5. Team64 AMD
6. 3D
7. mibr
8. 4Kings
9. United 5
10. Matrix

After a great performance at Winter CPL 2003 NoA seed at an impressive 2nd position, while a bad CPL for 3D see them drop a few places down the table, and ofcourse the mighty SK.swe sitting pretty at number one.

The CSGN league is about to get underway again. The league which consists of 5 divisions, each seating 10 clans is now into Season #3. The premier, invite only division which undoubtedly will gain most peoples attention consists of:

GDO, Monkey Magic, zebras, Choke, xtra, BLACKLiGHT, Game2Xs, Fightclubclan, uC and Lastchance.

Maps that will be used throughout the nine week league will be:

[table]- Week 1: de_dust2
- Week 2: de_inferno
- Week 3: de_cpl_fire
- Week 4: de_Nuke
- Week 5: de_prodigy
- Week 6: de_train
- Week 7: de_cbble
- Week 8: de_clan1_mill
- Week 9: de_aztec[/table]

I caught up with AdY from Lastchance, who were last seasons premier division champions to see how he thinks this season will go for them:

Whats your current line-up at the moment?

lc-|AdY: AdY, song , arak, geordie, madspunk and stannly but stannly has a job and doesnt play as much as the others.

Is there any team in the division that you think might give you a rough ride?

lc-|AdY: Monkey Magic because they are good counter-strikers

Do you put in any preperation for a league like this?

lc-|AdY: not that much just maybe tactics on the night and pcws as normal

Finally with 2 clans recently receiving huge sponsorship, is there anything on the cards for Lastchance?

lc-|AdY: Well our manager Antmoo has been working very hard and i think we are now closer than ever to getting some serious sponsorship but only time will tell

Thanks to AdY and best of luck to lastchance and everyone else in season #3.

Schroet Kommando have done a very nice interview with one of their own female players. Trinity puts across some intersting views about the state of female gaming today. Go check it out here, but you'll need to register first which you can do here for free.

Looking for new headphones? Well g0tfrag has done an excellent review on some very nice headsets that are currently available, including Sennheiser, Sony, Plantronics, and Bose. Go check it out here.

United5 have released a trailer for their upcoming Counter-Strike movie release. The trailor produced by Kinetik Productions weigh's in at 22m/b, you can grab yourself a copy from here.

Another week, another Steam update. This weeks update is only a small download which only resolves problems with the Steam server browser.

SERVER BROWSER

- Fixed bug where "no LAN servers on network"
message wouldn't appear in server list if no servers responded to LAN ping.
- Fixed bug where servers weren't being sorted by ping by default.
- Added region to filter info string.
- Added installed MODS to game filter dropdown.
-Change game filter to display full game name instead of short name.