UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Today see`s the finals for the mens and womens Counter-Strike tournament in the Electronic Sports World Cup 2004. The tournament has seen it`s fair share of upsets with most of the top favourites taking an early exit from the event.

United Kingdom Male squad =WOLF= had a fairly early exit from the tournament in the groupstages after coming up again`st tough competition in the form of MIBR. Female team SCEE.Ladies also had an early exit after losing all 3 of their groupstage matches.

Final Standings (Male):

01. Titans ($40.000)

02. spiXel ($24.000)

03. Virtus.pro ($12.000)

04. TSG ($8.000)

5-8. SK.swe ($4.000)

5-8. Adrenaline ($4.000)

5-8. Ownage ($4.000)

5-8. mousesports ($4.000)

9-16. Factory

9-16. Made in Brazil

9-16. astralis

9-16. AMD Cyber Team

9-16. HomeLan

9-16. armaTeam

9-16. Incredible Teamaction

9-16. NoA

MENS FINAL

spiXel

11

The Titans

13

LADIES FINAL

LadieS.AMD

10

All 4 One

13

Painkiller:

1. VoO ($5,000)

2. Stermy ($3,000)

3. Dr.m0erser ($1,000)

4. Fatality ($1,000)

Unreal Tournament 2004:

Grand Final: Sunday 12:00 - Burnie vs. GitzZz

3. Lauke ($1,000)

4. Forrest ($1,000)

Quake 3:

1. Sweden ($10,000)

2. USA ($6,000)

3. Russia ($2,000)

4. Belarus ($2,000)

Popular esports news site [sogamed] has conducted a video interview with the worlds number one team Schroet Kommando. The interview which took place at the Electronic Sports World Cup venue in France after their early exit from the competition.

The interview takes place with HeatoN, Fisker, Potti and SpawN, talking about their elimination from the event and among`st other things what they thought of the food. It`s quite amusing to watch so grab yourself a copy from sogamed here. The movie weigh`s in at 66m/b, right click and save target as to download.

Soon to take place on the 7th and 8th of August 2004 at Cologne, Germany is the ESL European Nations Championship LAN finals. The event is host to both Counter-Strike and Warcraft III with six nations in each category battling it out for a share of the €20,000 thats up for grabs.

So far four nations in each category have made it through to the LAN finals via the online qualifiers, the remaining two will be decided at the upcoming ENC Group Stage Playoffs which will end on the 18th of July.

The ENC LAN Finals will be conduced in two groups of three, teams being drawn at random. After playing one vs. all in this group stage, the remainig four teams will enter the semi-final round, where the two 1st ranked teams of either group will face the two 2nd ranked teams of the other group. The losers of this match will play against each other to decide the 3rd and 4th places and the winners will participate in the grand finals, taking place at approx. 20:00 CET on Sunday.

Counter Strike: Finland United Kingdom Greece Austria Playoffwinner A Playoffwinner B

Warcraft III France Denmark Sweden Bulgaria Playoffwinner A Playoffwinner B

Best of luck to Team UK

Running out of cups/leagues you clanned hippys? Well your in luck, recently iTourne cup has started and is currently open for clans to enter in order to compete in the 32 clan online cup. The cup is due to start on the 19th July which gives you plenty of time to get your clan signed up and to prepare. In order to sign your clan up, you must visit the iTourne website (www.iTournament.tk). So far no one has signed up so get your rears in gear and head over to sign up, like you said in my column the UK cs scene needs more competitive cups and your prayers have been answered! Heres a quote from headman iTourne|LoXi:

Online tournaments have gone down hill after the success of clanbases UK/IE cup and copies have tried to be made recently all the same thing. We feel actually organising one properly will increase fun for people to play in, overall a whole better experience then a couple of pcws. We will hopefully attract skillfull teams to the competition and get the competition running every few months with bigger prizes and more teams competing in each event. With the disappointment of other cups we feel it will be harder to attain teams of a certain skill level that the older cups obtained, we feel if given the chance we can prove that this cup works and is worth entering.

Good luck to you and any other teams who may wish to enter and compete. The tournament is kindly being supported by such eCompanies as TAA-Gaming and KKnD. I'm sure the community will give them as much support as they do.

ps: Site is temporarily bugged and may not appear to work, iTourne staff are currently searching for a solution so please be patient. Any questions go to #iTourne.

ChoseN are a newly formed UK Counter-Strike team, consisting of some familier faces and some lesser know players, ChoseN are out of the black and looking to make a name for themselves, so without further ado, here they are.

Please introduce yourself to the UKCT community.
cN Senan ::

My name is Senan from #ChoseN!, I've been playing cs for 3.5 years approximately.

Could you tell me a little about your clan's history, how did you form?
cN Senan ::

We formed about 2/3 weeks ago with xenz who I always wanted to make a clan with. <3. So after my short period of time in kudos he was unclanned and so was I, so he asked me to form a clan with him, thats when it started. I had known haz for a while back and we played a few PCW's with him and he decided he would like to join. Then we came across ZeKe from blacklight, who played some games with us and decided he would like to join. Thats how we formed our team.

Do your clan have any short-term and long-term aims?
cN Senan ::

In long term hope to attend LAN's and compete in csgn and other good leagues. In short term hope to keep active not fold, keep practicing and play well. Get a good reputation. We hope to keep the same team so our play is even better than it is now.

Do you currently have any sponsorship or are you actively searching for it?
cN Senan ::

We are currently looking for sponsors, however we have a server that we have rcon to so we can use whenever we like, but we would like a server of our own and some BNC's to be sponsored.

Here is the current ChoseN! roster:
Senan ex. Outrage - Periculum
Hazxardous ex. e-pwn - O:i - eXtreamists - uKs
xeNz ex. Betrayal - coerce
ZeKe ex. BLACKLiGHT
moorst ex. Ti-uk - Betrayal - tsuka

You can contact ChoseN! either through their IRC channel or their website at team-chosen.tk. UKCT wishes ChoseN! the best of luck in the future and the achievement of their goals.