UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

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

So, the final groups and playoffs.

Group A:

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

Group B:

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

I've just been pointed in the direction of a new 1.6 tournament called Fragtime being run by a company called FragFighters.

Boasting a £2,700 prizepot, it's apparently free to enter and signups are open now and will close on the 17th of March at 16:00.

The tournament takes place over four weeks, starting on the 22nd of March so if you're interested click here. Only a few teams are currently registered so you've got a good chance of getting in.

Also, they're running a 128 person 1on1 aim tournament with a prizepot of £900. Details about that are on the same link as above.

Looks interesting thats for sure!

In stark contrast to their IEM European performance where they finished third, Roskilde Ravens failed to even win a group match at the world finals.

Today we see a consquence of that poor performance with Christian "turkizh" Bindslev now being removed from the squad. Ravens have not announced a permanent replacement, but have said that former SoA man Rasmus "FaagaN" Møller will temporarily fill in whilst they try and qualify for EPS Nordic.

Roskilde Ravens is now:

Danny "BERRY" Krüger
Michael "Friis" Friis
Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer
Baljit "zE-" Lal
Rasmus "FaagaN" Møller (stand-in)

Good luck to them.