UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

With the first week of the 6th season of the top UK online CS league [csgn] just around the corner (Monday 7th), Realf1re of CAution has typed up his predictions for the opening Premiership fixtures and some good background information regarding each game. I have moved it into the articles section as it is worth mroe than just to get washed away as "old news" - here's a snippet:

Choke vs syNergy

Choke: I underated Choke at one point. Plus they use to give caution loads of stick so i didnt have much respect for them as a team. Until we played them in a cup and lost 20-22 i think, was a cracking game and was good fun. I now think they are a solid team and if they put out their best lineup they deserve to be respected as a top 5 UK team. If Choke play to their full potential i can see a pretty high scoreline in favour of Choke.

syNergy: These guyz are the most erratic team in CSGN this season imo. They can either play AWESOME or play really badly. They dont have much consistency about them. They have great individual skill in the team especially from the likes of milka. It depends if these guyz are on top form on the night they have a very good chance of beating Choke. But i suspect Choke will be well up for this one and i can see syNergy not doing to well.

Choke 19 - 11 syNergy

To read up on the article and of course add your own 2 'pence' to the matter, check it out here.

Arctic Esport Challenge is a league that not that many people know about in the UK. Thats because its a new league and im here to tell you about it. Its got alot of top teams so i figured people would be interested to know about it. The league got underway last week and already the league has seen over 10 matches played.

Groups :


Group 1

mTw.ATI
dummies-inGame
n!faculty
selected5

Group 2

SK.de
e-motion
Team-Valverde
Childrens of Rossa

Group 3

Play-it
Team-Pentagram
rEsistance.cs
D-Skyline

Group 4

CAution!
OCRANA.ATI
ogm ^ Team Impact
AMD Cyber Team

Group 5

dotspot
Nitro Team
Port22
reset

Group 6

x4team
M19
TeG
Stofftiere Online

Group 7

wings
Against All Authority
Mousesports
Ex Inferis

Group 8

Team64.AMD
Begrip
SKY
aggresive Play
The Spartens

As you can see from above this looks to be an interesting league. It goes on the same basis as the CEVO league in America. Each team had to pay 5-10 euros per player to enter the league. There is also a Standard Division and an Amateur one.

The prizes for 1st 2nd and 3rd place in the Professional division are of very high standard. To check the prizes check here.

A few games have already been played in the groups here are the results so far:

[match] time=20:40 flag1=fn team1=resistance.cs score1=01 flag2=fn team2=D-Skyline score2=16 hltv=N/A irc=N/A [/match]

[match] time=22:00 flag1=de team1=Mousesports score1=16 flag2=dk team2=Ex Inferis score2=14 hltv=N/A irc=N/A [/match]

[match] time=18:00 flag1=swe team1=Port22 score1=16 flag2=ee team2=reset score2=14 hltv=N/A irc=N/A [/match]

[match] time=20:40 flag1=it team1=ogm^team score1=05 flag2=cz team2=AMD Cyber Team score2=25 hltv=N/A irc=N/A [/match]

[match] time=22:00 flag1=pl team1=SKY score1=27 flag2=fn team2=aggressive Play score2=03 hltv=N/A irc=N/A [/match]

[match] time=20:30 flag1=swe team1=Stofftiere score1=11 flag2=ru team2=ro score2=19 hltv=N/A irc=N/A [/match]

[match] time=20:40 flag1=pl team1=Team-Pentgram score1=21 flag2=fn team2=D-Skyline score2=09 hltv=N/A irc=N/A [/match]

For all the fixtures and results goto www.game-hosting.com/gh-t-groupmatches.php?tournamentid=3

I will be posting regular updates on Arctic League so for anyone who is interested watch this space

A few clans have decided to pick up players, or players have decided to depart from their clans!

Smittins has decided to go inactive from Landed and quit playing competetive CS for the meantime, this will leave Landed's active roster as: b0sH - KhAoS - Toomy - Mx and Jack, Best of luck to them, and will we seeing a replacement?

CAution! as early already stated have recruited former Factory player VesKiT and also most recently the australian ferg who does currently live in france, maybe this is for the LAN in france they do plan on attending to their ranks leaving there lineup as: Realf1re - Suffz - ferg - VesKiT - rob - v1x and vpr. Best of luck to them!

SCEE have picked up puNt, former endEffect and Proficient, leaving there team as: DK - puNt - Gideon - Arak - Stannly - Sarge - KingKiller - Bom - Docker - fran, I may have missed people out, but I think thats them all, good luck to SCEE who strengthen their team even larger.

m|Ke has decided to rejoin teamX after leaving them for definition which leaves both rosters somewhat stable, with teamX's lineup stands as: ^MeT - champion - davies - hayes - boomer - pie - m|Ke and definition are left with: grav - AdaM - rob - Nx and cleverdon, best of luck to both teams!

oTT have gone under some changes recently and finally brought their squad to a stance leaving their lineup as: bodin - Nyx - kdn - Edelenbos - 101, best of luck to oTT who have been around quite a while now.

TurtleSports who recently have reformed have brought in RuLe from Proficient fame, a solid player who should do well for them leaves their team as: mebR - Glover - adren - FAxjE - Elusive and RuLe, best of luck guys!

Clanbase Opencup Division 1 has some good english respresentatives this season so i decided i would make a news post about how they are getting on. Also i will post some up and coming fixtures for the teams.

Group C

Adios
edit
apostrafe
afterfx
814
SCEE

SCEE Currently placed last in their group after loosing vs edit 28-2 on de_dust2. Their next fixture is vs 814.

Group E

4gl
SBC
C7
ForsakeN
qnb
Restyled

ForsakeN are currently placed 4th in their group with 1 match played. Unfortunatly they lost to a strong spanish side C7 16-5 on Dust2. Their next up and coming fixture is against a team from Holland called qnb on de_cbble. Also they have 4gl on Sunday 6th March at 21:00 GMT.

Group F

Wink
Choke
forZe
warra
CTF
HVHc

Choke on a record of 1win 1loss are holding their own in Group F. Im happy to see them sitting comfortably in 2nd. Big matchup for Choke on 4th March vs group leaders Wink, this im sure will be a game to watch. The game is to be played on de_inferno.

Group G

diG
SK
dp
o2
CAution!
PlayinG

CAution playing diG tonight @ 8pm on inferno looks to be a good game on paper. But with CAution coming off 2 losses and diG coming off 2 wins the odds are stacked in the favour of the strong icelandic side diG. CAution need this win to stand any chance of progressing to the playoffs, on the other hand diG need this win to secure themselves a spot in the playoffs.

Group H

Club Safari
frantiC
ONE
FX2
LT
vokaL

ONE are like Choke sitting comfortably in their division. With 1 win and 1 loss ONE need their next game to have a good chance of making playoffs. ONE's only loss coming to a norweigen side Club Safari. ONE's next game will be against the Spanish side LT Tonight at 10pm GMT on de_inferno.

If you want to read more on whats happening in Clanbase Opencup Div 1 then goto www.clanbase.com

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