UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Registration for the WCG UK Online Qualifiers close on the 16th June at 6pm, so you only have this weekend to register! To play in the CS tournament you have to be 16+ years of age.

You can sign up here. From the looks of things so far, the following teams have one or more players signed up. These are not whole teams.

2d4
4Kings
Acuity
aevo
aono
Audacity
BERWATTI.br
cfg
coolkids
cZar
deceptive
dignitas
Ended.cs
euphoria
eZe
Faction
Flame-Instinct
IDK
immerse
InControl
IntoTheGame
GAMEVIBE.net
Glocksuckers
MAG5
NeP
powersoul
sexytime
state
straight6
team-alpha
Team-Coolermaster
Team Error
Turbo Snails
UKCM
Your in my System

Online Qualifiers take place over the couse of June and July. The national finals take place from the 8th - 11th August, and the grand finals take place from the 5th - 9th November 2008.

Its also worth noting that "last chance" qualifiers will be taking place at the event as well.

Good luck to applicants.

Modified by Nic on June 19, 2008, 7:44 pm.

A month late, but once again its time for the fourth UKCT UKIE top 10 1.6 clan rankings. With Summer approaching and various LAN events played out, I've grabbed the opinions of five of the main UK sites.

They are:

Enemydown
Infinity Gaming
TheSGL
UKCT
Wiredinn

CSGN have been dropped from voting due to inactivity. Once again, the ranking are worked out by each organization ranking their top 10 clans. Each position has a number of points related to it and these are then added up.

1st. 15 points
2nd. 12 points
3rd. 10 points
4th. 8 points
5th-10th. 6-1 points

June 2008 rankings:

1st. dignitas - 75 points (Aleski, 101, Kurt1s, Sp|ke and Suffz)
2nd. 4Kings - 60 points (mh, madSpunk, monkE, jEnUwiN and shaQ)
3rd. Team-Coolermaster - 50 points (zaK, taLz, JungleboY, sly, faken and pie)
4th. cZar/coda - 31 points (spk, Blacky, Murdy, dolphin, phorest and esm)
4th. sexytime - 31 points (chris, Kenjinn, AdY, mbk, Psy, robbs and Sharpe)
6th. immolate - 30 points (Kyle, cpr, MaTzz, mstains and Crono)
7th. FtD - 11 points (Jack, foz, fluid, VANGUARD, kelevra and Warren)
8th. Acuity - 10 points (easaner, Trep, JZ, Yon, Mou53y and Monkeh)
9th. Faction - 9 points (xeon, ptm, htf, jager, wute and zeox)
10th. jogon - 8 points (Eagle, Roybacon, Elite33, bern, algopeal)

Just outside:

eZe (5 points), Satyr (4 points) and Mirror (1 point)

As we can see, the top 3 was fairly predictable with each of the teams gaining a full sweep of votes. Whats more interesting is the teams below them. After a good showing at ESWC, sexytime are now joint 4th with cZar/coda, pipping immolate by one point. We've decided to include immo, despite them just going inactive for Summer. After the 6th place it all gets a bit muddled with a whole selection of clans vying for a top 10 place.

This is also the first ranking without an Irish team, as well as the second time dignitas have claimed the number one spot.

Congratulations to dignitas who as TmG missed out on first place in the last rankings.

October 2006 rankings
May 2007 rankings (on dignitas site)
October 2007 rankings:

1st. 4Kings - 84 points (ZaG, mh, monkE, nick, jenuwin)
2nd. TmG - 78 points (Aleski, 101, suffz, Kurt1s and RedH)
3rd. strOng~ - 48 points (esm, Blacky, spike, suntouch, murdy and dajo)
4th. highfive - 40 points (Nitrony, toko, cruel, ktl, kemistry, ruLe and Highlander)
5th. Infused-Gaming - 34 points (zaK, DeM0n, KuD0s, SolutionX, entail and PEd)
6th. inyourmind - 30 points (CAI, faken, blubs, Wallace, immuNe and Dancemag)
7th. wink - 28 points (Tazzle, Jimmad, Gman, Sp|ke, gig and samc)
8th. immolate - 21 points (MaTzz, cpr, crono, Burt, spunK and NiNjA)
9th. sexytime - 15 points (Kenjinn, Py, Sharpe, robbs, Arome and sorted)
10. First.uk - 8 points (Buu, Kolobos, fr3t, kelevra, Bobathy)

Just outside: vitalsigns (7 points) and cloud9 - (3 points)

Modified by Nic on July 31, 2008, 12:53 am.

Former SK-Gaming player GeT_RiGhT has been removed from lag blank.

This follows the Dreamhack which occured a few days where the team finished 3rd-4th in the ESWC Qualifiers, short of their qualification expectations. They lost to SK and fnatic, where GeT_RiGhT went 0-14 against SK. His removal was due to poor communication between him and the rest of the team.

This leaves the team as:

Fredrik "JAEGARN" Andersson
Johan "face" Klasson
Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl
Niklas "Nikolaus" Johansson

Good luck.

With the recent departure of faken, Team-CoolerMaster have decided to pick up ex immolate power house Kyle.

The team had their first game against acuity tonight in theSGL Pro Series One Play offs with a comfortable 2-0 win which means this new lineup looks comfortable with the new addition.

The lineup is now

zaK
JungleBoy
taLz
sLy
Kyle

pie
arch1e

Good luck to the new lineup

Modified by blubs on June 19, 2008, 5:38 pm.

The groups and fixtures for this years WCG have been released. Matches start on the 22nd June. You can find the groups below:

Group A:

dignitas
neP^-
InControl
aono
Ended.cs
Acuity

Group B:

AEVO
Your In My System
everGlow
euphoria
#state
Flame-Instinct

Group C:

eZe
IDK
Glocksuckers
TLR.eSports
Game2xs
s6

Group D:

Team-Coolermaster
Four-Kings
GAMEVIBE
2d4
orun
faction

If you signed up, your personal fixtures and timings can be found here. If you want to use the server links, you have to download the URLGameStarter.

Good Luck.

Modified by Nic on June 21, 2008, 1:47 pm.