UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

In what has been a busy week for CSGN, preparing for the new season, answering queries amongst others, they have made another two significant announcements.

As mentionned before, the CSGN Premiership Invite League will be covered by the Team Sportscast Network this season. Many of us were exepecting the run of the mill shoutcasting in which we will sync up to relevant HLTVs, transforming CS matches into full blown sporting encounters. But CSGN has today announced that TsN will be doing a "In The Crosshair" session for CSGN.

Those who follow America's CAL-Invite will be familiar with iTc. Basically, in true football style, they analyse teams, matches, rosters, rumours and everything else pre-match. They then obviously shoutcast the games for your listening pleasure. After of which they will analyse yet more things for you and basically provide you with the full package. All of this will be done by TsN's UK staff and will be assisted by TeppuM (formely of Team AMD Gamer fame) who will provide listeners with outside and inside information!

On top of all this, CSGN has also announced the CSGN LAN Finals Season 5. It will once again be held at UniCon LAN Centre with prizes yet to be decided. The LAN is invite only. To qualify, read the following:

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Due to take place on Sunday the 19th of December, most schools, colleges, and universities will have broken up that weekend, if not before. Held at Unicon in Manchester (a familiar venue to many of you), many of our gamers will feel right at home. After a very successful CSGN event during the early summer months, many clans suggested that this was the best if not the most smoothly run event they had been to in a long time – so we figured, why move? Unicon provided great support and we were very pleased with the service they provided.

We will be using the same format as last time; two groups of 4 will battle it out to gain the best seeding they can. This will control whom they play in the single elimination rounds afterwards. The beauty of this format is there is minimal movement time, also ensuring all teams have at least four games. Groups will be announced in the lead up to the event, as will more information. Players should book transport taking into consideration they need to be there for 10am. Hotel accomodation details will be released shortly.

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That about sums it up! It looks like this could be the best CSGN season yet and you can count on UKCT to bring all the latest news to you in the quickest manner possible.

On a related note, due to overwhelming pressure, I have now extended the UKCT CSGN Guest Predictions to both the Premiership and Division 1. Expect the first Division 1 issue to be released tonight or tomorrow!

After crumbling down to the calls for the divisions below Premier to be predicted as well by our lovely UKCT readers, I started to work on it immediatly in order to meet the deadline. The results can now be seen as the first issue of the CSGN Division 1 Predictions can be found by following this link.

The format will only be slightly different from the Premiership one as we have only one League Guest and no Outside Guest. Here's a tiny snippet for those of you who find the task of clicking the link a bit too tasking.

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intrigue (0-0-0) vs Hertz (0-0-0)

Newly formed Hertz intends to make their mark on the scene as quickly as possible and this will be their first chance. They will be looking to inflict damage on a stable and experienced Intrigue side whose roster has not altered much from previous seasons. Atom is always one to keep an eye on as when he starts hitting his shots, not much can stop him.

kird's Prediction: Hertz > intrigue 15-9

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Our guest for Week 1 is ColdAsIce from the Division 1 clan, ImaGine.

Moments ago, (yes at 7:30am) SpiXel defeated NoA in a very exciting final, streched across two maps.

SpiXel were sent into the Lower Bracket early on in the tournament after a surprising 16-4 loss vs Incredible TeamAction. SpiXel bounced back and just seemed to get better and better with every game.

NoA pretty much walked their route to the final, with only Begrip posing a possible threat, but not even they were enough to halt NoA's steady progress. SpiXel needed to defeat NoA twice in the final on inferno and dust2.

SpiXel came out with an easy win on Inferno, NoA never posing much of a threat to them, the swedes CT strats were too strong and great Terrorist teamplay won them the game.

When the game came to Dust2, a map which NoA looked strong on throughout the event, the scores were much closer, Element stood out in the final half in this game, showing us the element we once all remembered in the eolithic days, but this was not enough. With the match going to the final rounds, NoA attempted a major fake, but SpiXel were not fooled.

final scores
de_inferno: 8-16
de_dust2: 13-16

lineups
NoA: ahl, elemeNt, knoxville, method, XeqtR
spiXel: Bullen, crypt, iLight, miniw, walle

With all the attention being aimed at how poor OsloLan was ran, with the tournment running about 10 hours over its proposed ending, we can finally say congratulations to spiXel, who walk away with a 1kg Gold bar!? Dont ask!, apparently the prize was a 1kg gold bar or the cash value of a 1kg gold bar. Not too sure.

With CHEERS! recently folding, it was inevitable that the members would find new homes. Yesterday saw wez and Nitrony officially join the awesome clan that is, Euthanasia. Also joining the ranks, is ex thk, bdw and fluid.element star, Lukeh.

So heres the lineup as it stands on this very merry day:

w00kie
toko
Nitrony
wez
Lukeh
monkE (inactive due to university)

I wish euth the best of luck. I will get a interview later, but im off to brighton now for the day.

gl doods, love ya lukeh.

irc:#team-euth

Update

It seems the newly reformed side of Euthanasia, becomes the new and improved team of Unicon. The lineup will stay the same, here is the statement:



So the new irc to click on is: #unicon

Best of luck homies! And in true JR style, ;---0 :thumbsup:

The Counter-Strike Gaming Network is about to kick off tonight with its Premiership matches! Below are the fixtures for tonights battles, as previously mentioned TsN are commentating on one of the premiership matchups. They will be doing the CAution! versus 2s2p game, so tune in here!

[match_table layout_start][match time=20:00 flag1=ie team1=suiGeneris colour1=r score1=4 flag2=uk team2=ForsakeN colour2=g score2=26][match hltv=hltv1.csgn.co.uk:27016 irc=#csgn.server1][match time=20:00 flag1=uk team1=syNergy colour1=g score1=19 flag2=uk team2=lastchance colour2=r score2=11][match hltv=hltv2.csgn.co.uk:27016 irc=#csgn.server2][match time=20:00 flag1=uk team1=ctx colour1=b score1=?? flag2=uk team2=endEffect colour2=b score2=??][match hltv=hltv3.csgn.co.uk:27016 irc=#csgn.server3][match time=20:00 flag1=uk team1=CAution! colour1=g score1=19 flag2=uk team2=2s2p colour2=r score2=11][match hltv=hltv4.csgn.co.uk:27016 irc=#csgn.server4][match time=21:00 flag1=uk team1=LANimals! colour1=g score1=18 flag2=uk team2=SCEE colour2=r score2=12][match hltv=hltv1.csgn.co.uk:27016 irc=#csgn.server1][match_table layout_end]

For the UKCT previews and predicitions of the matches previously done a few days ago go here.

CAution! (0-0-0) vs 2s2p (0-0-0)

With the recent addition of three new members recently, CAution! might still be trying to find their feet. We haven't heard much from 2s2p in recent times but I suspect they have been slowly practicing away from the limelight. CAution! will be keen to show off their new line-up to any doubters and this will be the perfect opportunity. Kristal will be one to watch as CAu sweep to victory here.

kird's Prediction: CAu > 2s2p 17-7