UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Some major changes in the last 24 hours have taken place amongst two widely regarded top French teams, GoodGame and against All authority.

Firstly, GoodGame have had to announce the loss of Sébastien Espinosa from their team, aka -=Sn|peR=-. He had originally decided to leave after the upcoming ESWC tournament, but since the clan failed to qualify, he has decided to leave now, stating that he will be quitting Counter-Strike altogether as his reason. This leaves their line-up looking as below.

This leaves their current line-up looking as below:

• Baldours
• dim2k
• latOr
• MaYeRs

Let's hope this long lasting clan can find a suitable replacement ASAP and return to activity.

Second up, aAa also endured a poor performance at the French ESWC qualifier, and as a result of their display PoM left the team.

The clan has now announced a replacement, in the form of an "unknown" player named Mat. I would like to state here and now that [ukct]'s founder Mat is neither French nor joining aAa, and that their new player is totally unrelated, despite all the rumours.

This leaves their line-up looking as below:

This leaves their current line-up looking as below:

• emkill
• Hordeau
• JoN1op
• kyo
• Mat

A risky choice some may believe, but showing some faith in the home nation's players despite a lack of reputation is something I'm sure many of you would hope UK clans might do. Whether it pays off in this instance, we will have to wait and see.

Best of luck to both aAa and GG.

Rush|ubj has let me know that Rush! have gone 'official', and are now competing competitively and joining online leagues, such as [csgn]. The squad certainly looks very promising, and as I understant has gone through a long period of refining until the right members were found. Here's what HaiRY had to say:

"Basically, we started off as a fun clan for the i-series then after the event I decided to keep the team going and recruit extra players, players that are well known and have completed the half life hazard course(joke). There has been alot of changes throughout the team, players who I thought I could trust letting me down. Finally we got there, we got a good team spirit."

This leaves their current line-up looking as below:

• Callisto
• HaiRY
• kA
• MeGaMaN
• turk1sh!
• ubj

Despite an unfortunate start to their [csgn] Premier season in their defeat at the hands of ForsakeN, the team definitely looks competitively able, and on behalf of [ukct] I would like to wish them every success and hope they go from strength to strength.

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 16. For full info on the Cup and match details click here.

Three 1/8th finals matches taking place tonight on de_clan1_mill and de_nuke, the first of all the 1/8th finals. Three more are scheduled for tomorrow, including =WOLF= vs Void.gaming, and a the final 2 (bar any re-scheduled games) are on Sunday.

Tonight however, sees what many people believe to be the UK's #1, Four Kings, go up against the reformed Team-X; as well as the reformed lastchance and twisted Reality go head-to-head. CAution! vs UniCon is the final game, and details of all HLTV IPs and Scorebots are in the Match Agenda at the top of the page.

20:00	Landed.LC	19	twisted R.	25	HLTV	IRC
20:00	4 Kings	25	team-X	9	HLTV	IRC
20:00	UniCon	17	CAution!	25	HLTV	IRC

The Four Kings vs team-X fixture will also feature shoutcast commentating, provided by TsN. Check their site for the address nearer to the time.

Coverage of the popular UK [csgn] league continue`s tonight with the continuation of season 4. For full details of the tables and fixtures for the entire 9 week course head on over to [csgn].

[csgn]'s de_nuke week continues with a set of fixtures for Division 2, and also a re-schedule of =WOLF= vs G2XS.Monkey Magic.

Division 2 has progressed very well so far, with each and every team completing their 3 matches. This won't continue tonight though, with 2 Wildcards on the board as I write this, including table-topper euthanasia's match with meatyballs. This provides an opportune time for 2nd place endEffect to take over at the top, but they face no easy challenge themselves with viva la! in the way.

Premier:

21:15

=WOLF=

13

G2XS.MM

11

HLTV

IRC

Division 2:

20:00	thk	20	deliverance	4	HLTV	IRC
20:00	euthanasia	W	meatyballs	W	HLTV	IRC
20:00	Intrigue	W	SN	W	HLTV	IRC
20:00	definitive	14	Sector7G	10	HLTV	IRC
21:00	endEffect	14	viva la!	10	HLTV	IRC

Around 8 months ago, 7th.rising closed its doors and came to end. However, now they are back and plan to get back playing at good standards with in the UK cs scene. Here is the new and improved lineup:

Kenji ex 3rd.eye, rapid, ndclan
NumlocK ex team-x, xtreme-geeks
y0gi ex e`mazing
erBal ex ting.cs
nokoNE ex ndclan
chad ex wtp!

I sat down with clanleader Kenji and asked him a few questions about the clan:

What are the aims of the clan, online and LAN?

We aim to enter leagues like csgn , maybe some cups like uk/ie . As most of the players in the clan live around the midlands area , we can meet up and practice on lan, and maybe attend some of the well known lans like LANDED and i series. We aim to do well , but mostly to have a laugh and enjoy ourselves .

This week has seen so many new clans forming and folding, forming and folding. Will this clan be any different? In 6 months will we still see this clan competing?

Well i know i dont really have a good track record for clans, but having a 3 month break , with time to think about what to do and how to approach it, i feel that this clan will last, and hopefully competing the best we can, maybe sooner than 6 months who knows

You can find their irc at: #7th.rising. All the best from UKCT.