UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Although the seeds were not officially due for release until this evening, GameFrontier have linked to the tournament brackets and seeding lists already on the tournament information page.

UPDATE

#1: GameFrontier have since removed the links to the seeds and brackets on their website. Whether this means they will be revised or this has been done due to the leaked nature of the seeds long before the official announcement time remains to be seen. So, will these seeds be final?

#2: It has been confirmed that some seedings are due for change come the official announcement at 8pm tonight. This is primarily due to a change in those attending, with some teams removed and new ones signing up in their place - but we could well see changes upon the feedback and opinions given here too. We will bring you the official, final seedings as soon as they are announced.

#3: Despite announcing in various places on their site that the official seeds would be released this evening at 8pm, this announcement is yet to materialise. We will keep checking and endeavour to bring you such an official list as soon as it is released.

/UPDATE

Hi everyone, today GameFrontier, the organisation behind the CPL UK stop have announched the fixtures for the upcoming CS tournament. In bold we can see the UK teams attending, some are more fortunate with the drawings while others have to secure a round.

The big game of the 1st round will be the clash between c4u vs atr - the new team atr vs the old stars c4u who had good results in the past. I will try to get a short iview with both teams.

I was able to contact h5|monkE who plays for highfive, I asked him about his thoughts and more: click here and you will be redirected to the interview!

Round #1: - (Perhaps provisional, see update above)

SK (SK) vs psyc (psyc)

ICE Gaming (ICE Gaming) vs Team.Gamehotel (tgh)

NoA (NoA) vs iEngland([iE])

Casual5 vs g3x.Intel (g3x.Intel)

MiBR (MiBR) vs veLocity (veL.)

Just a Shoot (Just a Shoot) vs Team Wings (Team Wings)

Bz (Bz) vs highfive (highfive)

ImaGine (ImaGine) vs Catch Gamer (Catch Gamer)

NiP (NIP) vs Selected5.UK(Selected5.UK)

c4u (c4u) vs AllTheRage (AllTheRage)

Team9 (Team9) vs minim(minim)

Lick (Lick) vs 4kings (4kings)

Clan-IT (Clan-IT) vs ethernet (ethernet)

Endzone (endzone) vs a.Losers-MSI (a.Losers-MSI)

aAa.cs (aAa.cs) vs pod.graz (pod.graz)

Engine On Mute(eom) vs Mouz (Mouz)

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The bracket can be found here: Tournament Lay-out

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Seedings: - (Perhaps provisional, see update above)

1. SK
2. Mouz
3. NiP
4. Catch Gamer
5. MiBR
6. 4kings
7. Clan-IT
8. g3x.Intel
9. NoA
10. a.Losers-MSI
11. Team9
12. Team Wings
13. Bz
14. AllTheRage
15. aAa.cs
16. Team.Gamehotel
17. ICE Gaming
18. pod.graz
19. c4u
20. highfive
21. Just a Shoot
22. minim
23. Endzone
24. iEngland
25. casual5
26. ethernet
27. Lick
28. veLocity
29. ImaGine
30. Selected5.UK
31. Engine On Mute
32. psyc

As you can see, some interesting first round fixtures and seedings - should iEngland really be above all those other UK teams? Should ImaGine be that low after their OpenCup Div 2 win? Can Ethernet carry their online form onto LAN? We'll see...

A new league has formed to be of service to the community!

I'm pleased to announce the addition of a new CounterStrike League to the UK/IE scene. Having been under development for the past few weeks the CGCSL is now in a position to start accepting applications for it's debut season which at this time does not have an estimated start date. But if I was to hazard a guess I'd say shortly before Christmas.

Our goal is to provide a fun, yet competitive league for clans in the UK and Ireland. We have not set out to be a rival of other leagues such as the excellently run CSGN or TheSGL and we will try to avoid clashing matches as best we can.

As yet, it isn't known how many divisions there will be as it is all reliant on demand but if you are interested in competing in a new league then you can apply on the site after registering!

See the relevant links below for more information and to sign up!

UPDATE!

Since there have been some problems with the attending teams the tournament starts at @ 18:00 GMT which is 19:00 CET. At that point you can also find the hltv's.
Any info about fixtures isnt present yet, i will post it as soon as possible.
Find more information at #cpl.uk , this irc channel covers the entire tournament.


After the initial seeds were leaked yesterday afternoon, the official seeding list was due to follow up yesterday evening at 8pm - despite this originally proposed time, the official seedings have only just been released. These would inevitably be different given a change the teams attending that took place late yesterday afternoon, with 5 teams officially dropping out.

However, the seedings have not just been changed to compensate for the removed sides: the lower seedings that involved many of the UK participants - which has been subject to a lot of feedback and criticism here on [ukct] - have been revised and altered. After many people seemed critical of ImaGine's seeding, the [clanbase] Open Cup Div2 winners find themselves 9 placings better off, rising from #29th to #20th. In addition, veLocity find themselves stepping ahead of LicK in the new revised seeds.

So, here is the list in full, and below it the 5 teams who have confirmed that they will not be in attendance:

Final Seeding List

1. SK
2. Mouz
3. NiP
4. Catch Gamer
5. MiBR
6. 4kings
7. Clan-IT
8. g3x.Intel
9. NoA
10. a.Losers-MSI
11. Team9
12. AllTheRage
13. Team.Gamehotel
14. ICE Gaming
15. pod.graz
16. c4u
17. highfive
18. Just a Shoot
19. casual5
20. ImaGine
21. minim
22. ethernet
23. veLocity
24. LicK
25. Selected5.UK
26. Engine On Mute
27. psyc

Removed Teams

Team Wings

Bz

aAa.cs

iEngland

Endzone

Although people will still find room to disagree, these newer seedings will be greeted much more enthusiastically I do believe. Whether or not all of those 27 teams do indeed turn up at the event or not however remains to be seen, and I'm sure come the first match day we could see a few other teams joining the current list of removed clans.

As for brackets, it can only be assumed that the first 5 seeds get a bye through the first round and the others face-off in a lowest-vs-highest seed fashion accordingly. Although psyc may feel relieved that they no longer have to face SK.swe in the first round, I doubt the probable challenge of 4 Kings is a particularly enviable one.

I know most attention will be on cpl uk ¬_¬ but i thought i would just give some info about moongames this weekend for those who might have mates going etc. (if u dont care dont read or flame pls)

teams include
annex (lyyp, aries, mysy, swanny, sphynx)
g-force (Foxy, exodus, You, chris, rob)
unique (aRLo, ForsburG, Sharpe, spaRR, Xaar, XsnrG)
systrams (Justice,Varx, Ice, BlueyeS, ahX)
pFTB (Adz, Ab, Dunny, Neh0e, Godly)
Xcession (Shrub, ShMo, nJin, infinity, deviant)
vorax (rob, pete, jamez, efx, timi)

a lot more teams will pay on the door, registered people suggests scene.cs, slyna mix, dstat and other mixes

tourny starts sat morning and hltv will be avaliable from ngames and altho id rather be playing like likes of nip and sk it should be gd fun.
ill let u know wins

Well, after multiple delays, the [cpl] UK World Tour Stop CS competition is underway. Slowly albeit, as a large proportion of those due to attend did not turn up. In addition to Team Wings, Bz, aAa.cs, iEngland and Endzone, new unannounced drop-outs include mouz, a-Losers, Clan-IT, c4u, pod.graz, minim and Selected 5.

This has left the competition with 20 teams as opposed to the originally proposed 32. As such, many teams have got a bye through to the 2nd round, leaving the only first round fixtures to be played as:

Upper Bracket Round #1: (~17:00 GMT, de_inferno)

velocity < ethernet (05:16)
Just A Shoot > psyc (16:06)
Engineonmute > casual5 (16:00)
Imagine > LicK (16:06)

All other teams received byes into the second round.

Lower Bracket Round #1: (N/A)

All teams that lost in the first upper bracket round receive a bye through to the 2nd lower bracket round (where they will then face teams who lost in the upper bracket 2nd round).

Upper Bracket Round #2: (~19:00 GMT, de_dust2)

SK > ethernet (16:07)
4 Kings > HighFive (16:05)
mibr > Just a Shoot (16:03)
Catch-Gamer > Engine on Mute (16:01)
NiP > ImaGine (16:04)
AllTheRage < Team9 (08:16)
NoA > Team Gamehotel (16:07)
ICE Gaming < g3x (03:16)

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Tomorrow's Fixtures:

Lower Bracket Round #2: (tomorrow, 10:00 GMT, de_cpl_mill)

Many teams that lose in the Upper Bracket 2nd round and so consequently drop into the Lower Bracket will receive a bye straight into the 3rd round of the Lower Bracket, due to the lack of teams already in the lower bracket. However, some Upper Bracket round #2 losers will be unfortunate enough to face a Lower Bracket round #2 game as well, against the teams that lost in the UB 1st round...

veLocity vs ImaGine
psyc vs Engine on Mute
casual 5 vs Just a Shoot
LicK vs ethernet

All other UB 2nd round losing teams receive byes into the LB 3rd round.

Upper Bracket Round #3: (tomorrow, 11:00 GMT, de_cpl_mill)

SK.swe vs Team 9
4 Kings vs mibr
Catch-Gamer vs g3x or ICE Gaming
NoA or GameHotel vs NiP

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HLTV info can be found at HLTV.org and other information at #cpl.uk. We will update the scores and fixtures as they come through. However, issues with internet at the event have heavily delayed proceedings and disrupted HLTV and coverage.

Brackets can be found here.