UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Once again team's from all over Europe are brought together in the Clanbase Nations Cup to battle it out to see who has the supreme skills necessary to be crowned the Nation's champions. For full info on the Cup and match details click here.

Altogether 28 nation's are competing in this seasons Clanbase Nation's VI Cup, the team's are set out into 4 groups with Team UK situated in group B. Maps to be played in the first three weeks are de_cbble, de_dust2 and de_inferno. The opening match kick's off tonight with Sweden facing off again'st SCG.

17:00

Sweden

23

Serbia/Mont.

7

HLTV

IRC

SC

UK LAN centre Landed have announced plans for the UKs largest LAN based Counter-Strike Cup. Sixty-four of the countries best team's will battle it out in LAN centre's across the country for a place in the grand final's which will be held at Landed for a prize purse of upto £1500.

The qualifying events will take place on a Saturday and/or Sunday with 16 team's taking part in each centre around the country, of which only the top 4 team's from each centre will graduate to the finals at Landed LAN 8 which will be host to 1100 BYOC gamers in their largest event to date. Details of the chosen centre's will be released soon along with more info. Qualifiers will take place around late June to early July 2004. For more information head on over to the Landed site here.

Swedish Counter-Strike site [fragbite] has interviewed one of the central figureheads of Swedish CS - Vesslan of Adrenaline. The interview centers on the team's preperations for the upcoming [cpl] Summer finals and the [wcg], also revealing more regarding a possible future US bootcamp, as they did last year with Gamers-X. Here's a snip:

Fragbite.com:

''Your lineup hasn't been very stable, how's that going right now? Should we expect more changes in the future? ''

Adr|vesslan:

''...Goodfella chose to go to USA again since he met a girl there. We talked about continuing with either five or six players and agreed that five was the best alternative to be able to practice as intesively as possible. So brunk had to leave. It felt bad having to let foppa leave since there wasn't anything with him we we're displeased about. But we did what we thought was best for the team.

The WCG qualifier is around the corner and since XeqtR is Norwegian (and refuses to become a Swedish citizen ), we'll use a standin for the WCG qualifier. The standin is Snajdan of 4 Kings. ''

A good interview, but after the recent disappointments of 4 Kings performance - such as Winter CPL last year, and more recently their draw with c4u, one must hope this doesn't unsettle Snajdan. Playing for a lengthened time with one of the best CS teams of the world, all speaking your native language, and after such 4K disappointments, it is a very reasonable prospect for the player to become disillusioned with his current place in the UK's #1 team.



You can see the entire interview by clicking here.

We bring you coverage on the hugely anticipated Clanbase UK / IE Cup II. Over 130 teams started the cup which has now been ground down to 40. For full info on the Cup and match details click here.

Another batch of matches taking place tonight in this the final groupstage week of the Clanbase UK/IE Cup. The game of the night will be the battle for the top spot in Group A between Monkey Magic.EVD and fightclubclan who are currently joint top both on 3 wins and no loses. Matches kick off at 8pm, details below.

20:00	MonkeyMagic	37	fightclubclan	11	HLTV	IRC
20:00	4Kings	29	2seXeh	19	HLTV	IRC
20:00	vLr!	40	fcek!	8	HLTV	IRC
20:00	UniCon	R	void.gaming	R	HLTV	IRC
21:00	Clan ONE	41	IEO	7	HLTV	IRC

Steam has been updated once again, this time only fixes for the actual client, nothing Counter-Strike related, but it's all good.

Improved Monitor window to be more responsive and show individual cache downloads.

Email validation dialog changes.

Improved retrieve password wizard behavior.

Don't require email validation when re-installing a game you already own.

Fixed config file corruption causing structured exception error.

As usual restart you Steam client in order to update.