UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Over at HLTV.org they've composed interviews with Kristoffer "Tentpole" Nordlund and Max "azl" Höög. In the interviews Tentpole talks about his move to Begrip from fnatic and azl talks about making the step up from local CS to international. Heres a sample from both.

HLTV.org: You are attending shgOpen in a little over two weeks. How do you think the team is going to do?

Tentpole: I think we have a good chance beating a couple of well known teams even though we are a very new team and who knows, with some luck and a good flow to our game we might go further than anyone could expect.

HLTV.org: You're obviously one of the most internationally inexperienced players in the team, do you think you can cope with the pressure of the big matches?

azl: I've played vs good mixes/teams so yes i think I can handle it!

For both interviews click the link below.

Well, with the arrival of the 1st of February, brings the close of the first season of the Open Challenge. It has been very tightly fought battle between some very good clans … but there can be only one winner.

I’d like to be the first to congratulate #Wonderboys on winning the first ED:CS Open Challenge in what was a pretty tight final few days. The final results stand at:

1st. 1282 pts - #Wonderboys
2nd. 1251 pts - cLip
3rd. 1207 pts – frantiC

#Wonderboys will be receiving in the next few days the following prizes, provided by Alpha Networks at http://www.alpha-networks.co.uk/

• A 13 Man server Branded to your clan
• HLTV included
• 5 BNC’s
• Clan Hosting

Again congratulations! This also brings about the start of the new Open Challenge. This will run from the 1st of February to the 31st of March with the same format as before. All current points will be reset later today and any games from now on will count towards this new season. Also all clans who are eligible from the Entry ladder will be moved up into the Open Ladder so that they can take part (inactive clans in the Open Ladder will also be removed).

Another mention has to go to clan headRUSH! Who managed to cram in 36 games in the months the challenge was on. This awesome amount of activity has won them:

• 5 x SteelPad S&S solo mouse mats

Kindly provided to us by http://www.steelseries.com/

Thank you all for taking part and let's make the second Open Challenge as good as the first.

Necr0 and the ED:CS admin team

Tonight from 9pm join Jay as he brings you full coverage from the Dustworld SGLi via another TVsN broadcast. Get closer to the game with expert analysis. Head on over to #TsN on the Quakenet or Gamesurge iRC networks to give pre-game comments and or predictions. TsN - We call the shots!

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ClanONE - 16	9pm	wink - 08

ClanONE it seems have taken out a mortgage on the third place slot in this seasons SGLi and will have no intention of relenquishing it this evening on de_dust2. Due to teams above them setting a blistering place thee is no hope of catching up at this stage as they are some nine points behind second place. wink who were theSGL III champions, languish in mid table but with their self professed lack of practice and the relaxed attitude they now take that is still pretty good going and we look forward to seeing them continue for seasons to come. Hard to see past the ClanONE victory here but wink do have the habit of causing upsets (if memory serves me correctly beating tonights opponents in the latter stages of the Crucial Community Cup). Follow this match live and exclusive on TSN.

Good luck guys!!!

With the mass of changes in Germany over the last month, two more teams have announced changes. First the former Team64AMD changed organization, joining up with the large computer company Ultraforce. They've also lost 3 of their members in Nils "bara" Waldowski, Hannes "Hanso" Dunkel and Thomas "uLTi" Teissl. To fill their shoes they've brought in Jan-Willem "bishop" Koch, Lukas "stone" Zochowski and Ewgenij "thex" Bosch who all played for StarComa.

bishop had this to say:

SK-Gaming: Are there any reactions about your name, this is one of the burning questions?

bishop: Yes there are a lot of funny reactions about it, but still it is only a name and this is not really important for us. Considering we play for that company it's an honour for us..

The second change is that Hanso is joining up with ID-Gaming to replace Kamil " DonKamilo" Sleczek who apparently failed to impress the management during his time at ID.

Team Ultraforce is:

Jan-Willem "bishop" Koch
Oliver "HUNTi" Velevski
Andreas "ph0s" Wicht
Lukas "stone" Zochowski
Ewgenij "thex" Bosch

ID-Gaming is now:

Bodo "Bodo" Sbrzesny
Christopher "Fragmaster" Kolla
Hannes "Hanso" Dunkel
Andre "nooky" Utesch
Christian "todi" Hackmann

Good luck.

The February edition of ZoneRank has now been announced. Its quite similar to Januarys ranking with a few small moves. Once again $10,000 / £5180 is split between the top 8 clans.

Here's the top 10.

February rankings:

1st. fnatic - £1810
2nd. aTTax - £1040
3rd. Pentagram - £725
4th. NiP - £470
5th. 3D - £360
6th. mYm - £260
7th. MiBR - £180
8th. compLexity - £80
9th. 69°N-28°E
10th. wNv.gm

22nd. 4Kings