UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Well after the closure of headshotbombers a new team has formed with two of the remaining HSB members. Kill For A Living - #KFAL qnet

Roster

Daniel 'arcane' Conlan
Kayah 'angeh' Bassett
Bly 'zeBly' Winkle
Jákup 'jaKup' Jensen
Ryan 'raz' Briggs

The team will be applying for the next CSGN/SGL seasons and are planning to attend IG6.

Good luck to the team!

Modified by blubs on May 4, 2008, 9:45 am.

ESWC have today announced an ESWC Masters tournament held in Paris, France on 4th - 8th July 2008.

The ESWC Masters of Paris will put together the French champions as well as selected international champions for a total prize purse $65,000/£33,000, of which $25,000/£13,000 will go towards the CS 1.6 Male tournament. Three teams from the tournament also get a chance for an autoberth for the ESWC Grand Final 2008 in San Jose this Summer.

The tournament is an invitational tournament involving 20 invited teams, of which the 20 teams from the list of candidates will be chosen by the ESWC Board once they have submitted their applications.

The CS 1.6 Male tournament has a prize pool of:

1st. $12,500/£7,000
2nd. $7,500/£3,500
3rd. $5,000/£2,500

The top four French teams (from ESWC France) will meet 16 other teams and so far the list of candidacies are:

ARTLEZ.org
mousesports
Team Alternate
roccat
SK Gaming
x3o
wNv.cn
Made in Brazil
Gravitas Gaming
Nextlevel e-Sports Club
Dignitas
team-coolermaster
SKILL-TECH
nEophyte
UnitedSports
eSuba
LowLandLions
ngL
MORBIDITY

Our very own Dignitas and TcM are put forward as potential candidates. In order to submit the application, teams must go to this link and fill in the required details, including Achievements and Motivation. The deadline for the application is 13th May.

The final list of candidacies will be announced on 20th May and the final list of international teams competing in the ESWC Masters will be announced 28th May. For more information, see the related link below.

Good luck.

Modified by akll on May 5, 2008, 3:17 pm.

Over at HLTV.org, they have been lucky enough to get some interviews with some of the popular names in CS before KODE5 to find out what has been happening with them and their team prior to the event. Every day until the event starts a new interview will be published with a different person from some of the top teams in CS.

Below is a small section of the interview:

8Ball^ - HLTV.org

This LAN is massive for the United Kingdom CS scene and dignitas, how have you been preparing for it and what do you expect from the event? Are dignitas looking for a podium finish? Or are they looking to have fun and cause some big upsets?

AlesKi

I think, since we are without our best player, realistically if we take down a top 10 european team we can go home and say job well done. It's the first international event for 3 of our line-up so I guess we're going to make sure whatever happens we learn from it and use that knowledge during our ESWC and WCG efforts.

You can find the rest of it here. Remember, there will be a new interview every day! Yesterday's was with "Whimp" from mTw.

Modified by raz`` on May 5, 2008, 8:39 pm.

Now for the time that you have all been waiting for! The groups and fixtures have now been announced for the pre-qualifications for the ESWC UK qualifer.
The winners of the online qualifier will then proceed to the ESWC UK Finals at theSGL: Summer Slam Event on June 7th & 8th to battle it out to win a place in the ESWC Grand Final.

The teams & groups are:

Group A:
Dignitas (AlesKi, 101, Kurt1s, Spike, Suffz)
Coda (Blacky, dajo, Murdy, dolphin, Kalleh)
Satyr (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
unnamed (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)

Group B:
Four-Kings (jenuwin, mh, nixoh, nicholasion, monkE)
immolate (Kyle, mstains, cpr, crono, suntouch)
MindGames.fp (onscreen, shad, jake, scudd, stu)
Romposturosstomplewompers! (SLAYER, The Wicker Man, thuNder, nGen, Zebber)

Group C:
Team-Coolermaster (zaK, jb, taLz, faken, sLy)
acuity (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
SKILLPADDE BANDEN (fraghack, waubbs, k3rshaw, shenK, Jovan)
Your in my System (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)

Group D:
whizpah (RuLe, punt, Xenomorph, firat, deffe)
sexytime (Psy, Kenjinn, Sharpe, Chris, robbs)
orDeaL (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
Never Ending Pain (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)

The first week of the online qualifiers start on Thursday 8th May presented on de_inferno.

Group A:

Coda vs Satyr
Dignitas vs unnamed

Group B:

immolate vs TooBaD
4Kings vs MindGames

Group C:

YIMS vs SKILDPADDE BANDEN
TCM vs acuity

Group D:

sexytime vs NeP
whizpah vs orDeaL

Good luck to all teams participating

Modified by RoyBacon on May 6, 2008, 6:40 pm.

Week Five of TheSGL Pro Series: P2P League is upon us and this week we see the teams going head to head on de_inferno.




Tonight I have a feeling that the match between Engine on mute and high flying Team Coolermaster will be the highlight in tonights scheduled games. Everyones favourites for the win will be TCM, who are really gelling together now... just like zaK's hair. With TCM sitting top of the division with 4 wins, they will be looking for the 5th tonight which may secure them the division as early as next week. EoM have had more comebacks than Suffz has had curries but none the less they will want to keep up their fight for which will be second place at best. Coolermaster to win 16:07.

TCM [Defaulted] EoM 8pm

Other Fixtures: de_inferno

cZar [08:16] CatalystGaming
Coda [xx:xx] iym Tomorrow
acuity match is a BYE


Good luck guys!
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Well out of the games tonight I think that the FtD game will be the most evenly matched. They take on vitalsigns who have been disappointing so far, losing 3 out of 4. Many of us thought that FtD would have walked this division as they seemed the only solid team there but with the reform of satisfied! they're going to need a win tonight to keep what little pressure there is still on. vitalsigns, it seems, would have been better organising another wiredinn lan instead of embarrassing themselves... <3. FtD to win 16:06.

FtD [xx:xx] vitalsigns

Other Fixtures: de_inferno

MEYEX [xx:xx] Satisfied!
-x3- [xx:xx] locked!
IntoTheGame match is a BYE


Good luck to all the teams tonight!

Modified by raz`` on May 6, 2008, 10:38 pm.