UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

King of the Hill Season 1 started with a big bang with over 10405 players particpating and over 907 teams registered. With the huge amount of success this event has gathered, It is now time to announce King of the Hill Season 2 which we hope will be much bigger and better than before.

Last Season Winners

1st dKP - Total Amount: £70
2nd Kird - Total Amount: £20
3rd Boomer - Total Amount: £10

Congratulations to dKP for winning the weekly prizes 4 times in a row. At the top is the winners that where crowned King of the Hill. This season can you beat them?

The Prize Structure

The season will start on Monday 5th September, 00:01h and last until 3rd October, 23:59h. The #1 UK National on the final day of the season will recieve a 1 months gaming server for their efforts.

Now you have the prize structure, The question now is! Can you perform and win? Feel free to connect to any of the following King of the Hill servers.

85.133.16.54:27195 game2xs.com - ESL UK KotH #1 - dust2 Only!
85.133.16.54:27215 game2xs.com - ESL UK KotH Server #2 - CSDM
85.133.16.52:27035 game2xs.com - ESL UK KotH Server #3 - dust2, nuke, inferno only


REMINDER: You MUST have an ESL Account which is active with a valid SteamID to be ranked from playing on any of the servers.

If you seek help then there is a number of possibilities of contacting us. Firstly is our mIRC channel - #ESL.UK @ Quakenet or you can submit a support ticket and an admin will be assigned to your problem.

A few weeks after re-forming with the last few standing members of euphoria, giveWay this week joins up with the well known gaming organisation rewind to become their UK Counter-Strike team.

adep7 – ex-giveWay
devine – ex-giveWay/euphoria
sh1 – ex-euphoria
OttO – ex-euphoria
ethiKaL – ex-rewind

With them comes a Counter-Strikeource team by the name of 'reaLism!', who joined giveWay a while ago when it was first announced they were reforming. They will now become the rewind organisation's sole Source team.

neOn – ex-reaLism
eyeK – ex-reaLism
dMz – ex-reaLism
MoSSy – ex-reaLism
Synthetic – ex-reaLism

Both teams will be joining the organisation immediately.

the rewind organisation

#rewind on quakenet.org

Top UK league [csgn] is due to announce the teams for its seventh season tonight, at 10pm. We'll have the full list as soon as it becomes public - here's the statement from their site:

We like to keep you up to date with what's going on so we'd like to let you know that the teams for CSGN Season 7 are going to be announced tonight! We're currently assigning clans to divisions and Obsidian will soon be able to release the final teamlist.

For the teams who do get in, the season will start next Monday (12th September) and the map will be Dust2. The rest of the season is currently down to follow the same format as the previous few seasons (Inferno, Fire, Nuke, Prodigy, Train, Cbble, Mill) with the week 9 map being Inferno. We're interested in implementing new maps but we don't want to do so in the final week of the season, so for now this is the final maplist. Any feedback in this is welcomed in the comments. The other change to this season is instead of matches being played at 8pm and 9pm, they'll now be spread across 9pm and 10pm. This is due to a large number of people being unable to make the 8pm matches.

After the cancellation of their German World Tour Stop, the [cpl] have finally announced the replacement: to be held in Milan, Italy - to be held from October 20th-23rd. How many UK teams make the journey - if any - remains to be seen. Here's their announcement:

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) is proud to announce that it has selected the city of Milan, Italy to replace the previously canceled German stop of the CPL World Tour.

The Italy World Tour stop will take place Thursday, October 20 through Sunday, October 23 during the Smau 2005 convention at the Milan Fair Portello halls. For more information on Smau 2005 visit this site.

More information on the new CPL World Tour stop in Milan, Italy will be announced soon.

The stop is due to be hosted by Smau, an Italian organisation - who had this to say:

By all means, the exhibition devoted to convergence. The converge of technologies, networks and services. In an area full of exciting events and initiatives, companies can demonstrate the amazing performance that modern technology can now offer thanks to the interaction between different platforms: PCs, telephones, TVs and cameras .

In a special area which will occupy halls 15/1, 16/1 and 16/2 , Smau e-Life will present all the latest products and services which are revolutionizing the way we experience our homes, our cars and our free time.

So the event looks promising - although Italy is not reputed for producing eSport talents, perhaps this is the time that some may be unearthed?

This leaves the final stops on the list as below:

Milan (20th-23rd Oct)

Santiago (28th-30th Oct)

The stop in Beijing (13-16th Oct) looks likely to be confirmed as cancelled in the coming days.

The UK's top league, [csgn], have just announced their team list and divisions for the upcoming season 7. Due to start on Monday 12th September, the season looks to be an exciting one - but without further ado, here's the teams and how they're placed:

Premier ge4orce syNergy Choke fluid element Firesomething highfive Made in England SeveN KGB team ImaGine Division 1 CarbiNe AcuMen Flame Instinct PLAYED! wink Selected5 goldbrick gOtgame GamingORB trigger happy killerz Division 2 withdrawN! endEffect The Incarnate team.nuked #foxy! riZe Gaming on our own Calypso! teamX #overrated

Division 3 never MISS twice over The Top #unique! Super Breasts #satisfied! ethernet Harmless origin unknown Luck Asylum.uk Division 4 Counter Strike Elite adrenaline Junkies UKCM TEAMAMERICA noFear #void.gaming Disposable Heroes iCandy Le Soleil Noir 2 Excess

Some interesting divisions there, and I'm sure a lot of you will have something to say about how those teams have been sorted - Obsidian has announced that many teams may drop out and be replaced, so these divisions are by no means final just yet.

We will be providing intense coverage of the top 2 divisions (minimum) on [ukct] over the course of the new season, so look forward to some upcoming preview and report features!