UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

The ESEA Invite season 5 LAN finals take place over this weekend with six teams attending.

Prize list:

1st. £4,000
2nd. £2,000
3rd. £1,000
4th. £650
5th. £450
6th. £325


Good luck to all the teams.

Less than two weeks after joining the H2k.Gaming organization, we have already seen a change in the former Begrip lineup.

Samuel "Zyppe" Martinsson is leaving due to a lack of moativation and former TcM and Playzone man Jon "hyvlarn" Edelsvärd is joining.

H2k.Gaming is now:

Andre "BARBARR" Möller
Jon "hyvlarn" Edelsvärd
Danny "pop" Oldenburg
Markus "pronax" Wallstenen
Richard "Xizt" Landström

The teams first event will be The Gathering in a few weeks.

The first round of ESL's European Nations Championship is now over and the second round has been drawn.

Sadly Team Ireland defaulted their match due to several of their members being at wiredout 2.


The UK will now play a winner of a round two match and if successful will then take on a team in round four for a spot in the final group stage alongside Team Sweden and others.

Teams in qualifying round three:

Belgium
Bulgaria
Hungary
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom

Teams in qualifying round four:

Austria
Finland
Holland
Russia
Spain
Turkey

Qualified for main round:

Denmark
France
Germany
Norway
Poland
Sweden

Sadly it now appears that Ireland will be missing WCG 2010. Last year they only sent one representative in the form of a TrackMania Nations Forever player but it now seems the organizers will be skipping the event entirely.

WCG Ireland organizer Mark "Kinetic^" Kenny commented:

LanParty.ie and The Digital Hub regret to inform the gaming community here that there will be no WCG event this year in Ireland.

Ireland isn't seen as a key market for the sponsors of WCG (Samsung/Thermaltake etc). With restrictions in place on sponsors as well as requirements for marketing, funding for an event or even an offline qualifier like last year isn't going to work.

We may see a return of the event to Ireland next year.

Although we haven't seen an Irish 1.6 team at the event for a couple of a years, previous attending lineups included suiGeneris and mixteam Eugh.

Hopefully we'll see them back in 2011.

The groups are nearly over for ClanBase's NationsCup XIII. Sadly Team UK failed to make it through the groups and finished fifth in group D.

Team UK's results:

[05:25] Poland (Team UK left at 16:05)
[11:19] Lithuania
[08:22] Denmark
[22:08] Greece
[06:24] Belgium

Team Austria take on Team Bulgaria in the final match and if the Austrians are successful they will grab a place in the next round against Team Denmark.

Group A:

1st. Germany
2nd. Spain
3rd. Russia
4th. Switzerland
5th. Serbia
6th. Bosnia and Herzegovina

Group B:

1st. France
2nd. Sweden
3rd. Austria or Ukraine
4th. Austria or Ukraine
5th. Bulgaria
6th. Latvia

Group C:

1st. Norway
2nd. Estonia
3rd. Czech Republic
4th. Holland
5th. Romania
6th. Finland

Group D:

1st. Poland
2nd. Denmark
3rd. Lithuania
4th. Belgium
5th. United Kingdom
6th. Greece

This leaves the elimination round looking like:


Good luck to all the teams.