UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Over at MYM they've released an interview with Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed, former NiP and currently of SK-Gaming.

Heres a sample:

MYM: How does it feel to earn your own money with gaming? And when was the first time you did?

SpawN: It feels really nice to be making money of something you enjoy doing and I'm
hoping for a bright future within professional gaming. The very first time I earned my own money from gaming was at Birdie LAN. It was my first LAN with Matrix and it was really fun! A big shoutout goes to cyphoneR, Legenden, Dracula, ScreaM and bulletproof!

It's quite a long interview weighing in at six pages but definatly worth a read if you have the time.

Link below.

As goldbrick have dropped out of CB's Eurocup XV, those funsters over at Transition have taken their place and will take on the Swedish powerhouse SK-Gaming.

[match] time=19:00 GMT flag1=uk team1=Transition score1=03 flag2=swe team2=SK-Gaming score2=27 hltv=HLTV.org irc=eurocup.cs [/match]
The map is de_dust2 and HLTV can be found here.

Best of luck!

Over at UKESN they've updated a few things concerning their LAN which is planned to take place in three months. The 1.6 tournament has been scaled down to a 16 team event and a CS 16 team competition has been added.

Heres a sample from the statement:

Preliminary registrations for the event have been reset and will open again later this evening, along with payment options, including PayPal, postal order, and bank transfer. The current LAN website (www.ukesn.org/lan) will be integrated into the main UKESN site this evening, along with the announcement of additional LAN partners/sponsors.

We have roughly £1,500 to divide between the top places in the Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source tournaments. As I've said, distribution of this money is undecided and you can vote on the outcome on the right hand side of the UKESN website. We're aiming for the LAN to be community driven, and we'll be accepting as much input from you, the public, as we can manage.

Full statement and the LAN site are in the links below.

After the mess that was last Thursday, we're now actually ready and prepared to run tonights UKCT DM tournament.

For all the updated information and the new fixtures use THIS link. We have also included a reserve player list so if you aren't in one of the main matches your name may be down as a reserve.

There is a SGLAC update. Download and install and check it works before your match!

Player list and matches here.

Schedule:

19:30 - Round 1 matches 1 and 2 - de_inferno
20:15 - Round 1 matches 3 and 4 - de_inferno
21:00 - Semi finals matches 5 and 6 - de_nuke
21:40 - Final match 7 - de_train

Quick reminder of the prizes:

1st. - £125
2nd. - £75
3rd. £35
4th. - £15

A few gudelines:

Timelimit is now 20mins, do not leave the server until the admin says you can. Chat time is at 1 minute to allow the admin to take screenshots.

SGLAC is on.

No auto-snipers or shields, sorry.

Be in #UKCT 15 minutes before your game for server details and so we don't have to hunt you down. Myself, Protex and spinbad will be about to give you details.

Top 8 fraggers go through.

Use the names you signed up with when you're in-game. Makes things easier for us!

No Norwegian saves. i.e no typing kill or cratering to stop someone getting a frag.

After recently achieving at second place finish at WCG Norway, Synergy have announced the loss of their Norwegian 1.6 team. A lack of financing was cited by the team as the main reason for their departure.

The team will stay together, but are looking for a new organization. Only Adrian "mybri" Iversen who was inactive has stayed with Synergy.

Their lineup is still :

Alexander "alex" L. Ohr
Tor Aksel "drei" Haugsnes
Øyvind "KF3" Magnestad
Thomas "r00fz" Solli Sandvik
Tommy "syrtekz" Skoglund

Good luck.