[img|left]http://www.webstylestudio.de/xfire/icons/esl.jpg[/img]To introduce our very own fall series with upcoming 6on6 and 3on3 cups during the next months, we are on the way to start our first 3on3 1-day cup. Prepare your team and yourself to compete in 4 hot rounds with the finest 3on3 action coming up this sunday afternoon.

Update There will be two divisions!
- 38 Teams are able to save a reservation to check in!
- 32 teams will be able to play the cup!

Every round will be played with one map and an updated version of our config. A cointoss will decide if you have to start as axis or allied. Make sure your team is ready to sign up and to check in on this sunday, 01.10.2006 at 14:30 CET.
Get on the road against 15 opponents to fight for a 1-month-premium account for you and your teammates.

Mode: 3on3 Single Elimination
Teams: 32 (Divisions of 2x 16 Teams)
Rounds:
(1) 15.00 CET Braundorf
(2) 16:00 CET ET Beach
(3) 17:00 CET ET Ice
(4) 18:00 CET SupplyDepot2
(X) Decider Frostbite
Config: Download
Sign Up: 23.09. - 01.10.06 14:30
Check In: 01.10.06 14:30

The grid will be published before the first round is on its way.
Please note: All accepted signups are just reservations to play this cup. The Check-In system is running in first come, first serve mode!

[*]Sign Up and Check-In page
[*]Cupdetails

After some great matches done on sunday and monday, its going to the final and last playday in the ESL IPS First Stage. Afterwards we are going into a final league where we will find our winner!

After the drop out by nAkAshi, a new team recently joined with the name pingwins. With their first match tonight, the way is open for this team to prove themself.
The German team Stofftiere Online already lost in a close match versus n1ce.it and has to win this tonight if they want to get a chance to be in the IPS final stage. I was able to catch noorgrin for a small statement and prediction on tonights match:

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Due to the fact that we lost 2-4 vs n1ce.it last week, we have to win today if we want to keep the chance for the 2nd IPS stage alive. Pingwins managed to reach the last Clanbase Eurocup quarterfinals (as Team-Maybe), so we are aware it will be a hard match. We hope to win Frostbite like we did vs n1ce.it and maybe we are a little luckier in the decider map this time :-) 4-2 to SFTO hopefully :-)

Check out the rankings and the details for the upcoming match.

The russian team of Violence is Bad is going to face oceans6's new squad. With a long and stable history, ViB is the favorite to win this match tonight. But o6 will have the chance to prove that the imposible is possible. No special luck and tactics will come up on the glory maps SW Goldrush TE and Radar.

Not less interesting, this will be the match of FearFactory and cZar Gaming. While cZar is able to make it in the next stage, FF have to try their best to win this and the upcoming match against rY to make it to the final league. Again, the maps SW Goldrush and Radar will decide it for the teams.

[img|left]http://www.webstylestudio.de/xfire/icons/esl.jpg[/img]As official Match of The Night the ESL brings you some hot German action with the final match of the German Summer Cup, formerly known as German IPS Qualifier: The teams of Helix and Highbot. Both are still very new teams and are very ambitious to capture the flag as best German team.
At 23 CET, you will see the replay of this match on GIGA 2 with noone else than your very own FlyingDJ.

Yet another Sunday with some hot action is flying on your monitor with the finest ETTV action!
As topmatch of this sunday night the participants of the CPC will face each other in this online competition again. While one team was able to stay together, idle.ee had some lineup changes since the LAN event was over. sFx.LAN get the chance to prove their quality and ambition tonight without bugs on SW Goldrush TE and Radar.
The second top match in group A will be elite facing HighBot who presented their new homepage yesterday night when they overpowered n1ce.it on GIGA with a mess of strong attacks and a hard defense. Both teams lost in their first match and have to get the win if they want to participate in the final stage.
As third match on ETTV the polish power of diversus is on the way to face the German team of roYality on SW Goldrush and Braundorf B4.
It's quite bad all matches will come up at 21 CET and therfore, the forth match joining our seats 30 mins later won't get a spot on ETTV which doesn't makes it less interesting.
With aMenti playing against the Czech qualified team of infrag, we are going to decide if one team get a secure slot in the playoffs or if the Czech team is going to make the impossible happend with a win.

Tonight, yet another time our beloved Enemy Territory is making it's way to the big wide screen on your home TV. But even more is coming, on preparations of the upcoming release of ET:Quake Wars in eray 2007, GIGA will cast Quake 4 with the first of some matches of a new and abmitious event: The Swedish National League. If you are interested in one of those games feel forced to tune in GIGA tonight and watch some hot FPS action!

Before something is going to die, you have to do your best to revive it and to keep it alive and kickin'. After a night is gone when everyone had enough time to think about 5on5, it's now going to get in it's final decision.

Neither WL or CB came up to us before this was announced, therefore, we will stay with the majority of the community, even if it can change everyday.

[img|left]http://www.webstylestudio.de/xfire/icons/cb.jpg[/img]There are currently no valid reasons given for changing our beloved game to a lower player amount just because someone thinks he's the boss out there. We, as the ESL, tested the 5on5 stuff in january with our 5on5 3-days-left cup.
The sTREETFIGHTERS gained the first place by beating riZe. Now, clanbase announced there very own game mode according to the change, warleagues followed.

The community gave the clanbase the power with this vote.
But also, the community made different votes against 5on5 - Overall the result was quite easy: 3 votes on crossfire and everytime over 60% against 5on5 in the last 2 months.

As result of this and the history of 5on5 in the ESL and on crossfire (columns, articles and much more in the end of 2005 / early 2006), we have decided to not follow the clanbase and making this game 5on5 without any background or valid reasons.

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The ESL is not concerned with forcing the leagues or tournaments to the 5on5 size. Therefore all future events like the present International Premiership Series will stay in the 6on6 team size.

You can change our decision, of course. That is why a new poll was created because your opinion counts.



Also, other leagues announced they will stay at 6on6 as long as the community wants it. It's on you to decide for the last time, after sleeping over the decision by ClanBase and Warleagues to take 5on5 for ET. If not, these leagues and cups will support you playing 6on6:

www.et-cup.net | #et-cup
www.get-liga.de | #get-liga (with their latest statement)
www.esl.eu/eu/et | #esl.et

With the upcoming IPS and it's 1.500€ prizemoney the ESl has published a mess of information about the prize money pool:

Money for the rank - 940€
1st Place: 560€
2nd Place: 280€
3rd Place: 100€

Money for winning matches - 560€
Each Match win: 20€
Each Match draw 10€

The ESL IPS is using a premiership system as the final stage like the ESL EPS does in Germany, Italy and some other countrys.

ETPro 3.2.6: We will change over to the latest version of ET (2.60b) and ETPro (3.2.6) when the IPS First Stage is finished.

If you want to get all stuff about the rules, read the examples and the information in the ESL newspost.

Again it's time to bring you some hot chicks playing in hot dress! With the topmatch of FearFactory facing the new lineup of dMiZE the first decision will come up in group C. The loser of this match has to overpower urtier's favorite for this group cZar to get in the next stage. While the European team around mesqi has to beat the Czech qualifier infrag.
As third and last match tonight the German team of roYality has to prove themself by facing one of the stable teams in ET: Violence is Bad.

Later this night GIGA2 and our very own FlyingDJ will bring you an awesome showmatch with the teams of the EuroCup XIII final and their new lineups. idle.ee and dMiZE will meet each others again to present the abilities of the ESL IPS First Stage to GIGA.

In addition to this, the ESL ist still looking for a replacer. If you are interested in participating in the IPS, this is your last chance to join our tournament while one team is maybe on the way to quit. Contact and admin in #esl.et for more information.

Tonight at 21 cet the next wars coming up with four top teams from all over Europe to bring us another ettv night with hot action of the ESL IPS First Stage.

Make yourself ready and tune in with FlyingDJ casting the match with his very own stream, when elite is facing the international power and aim of idle.ee on the maps Supply Depot 2 and Reactor. At the same time oceans6 will try their best to prove their new recruitments and to get on the level and teampower of team-delta to make another hot and close fight with the maps Supply Depot 2 and Braundorf.

There is enough space for all the fanboys to tune in the main event for this week. So get your diet cokes and cookies on the seat and prepare yourself for another nightmare on ETTV.

It's time to run up ET's main event during the fall: The International Premiership Series. The first stage is on it's way and the best teams from all over Europe will have the chance to compete in the final stage.

Today we are proud to present you the teams and the groups on the ESL page! The first matchweek is running right now. Today I want to introduce you the 16 teams of the upcoming 3 matchweeks and it's favorites - together with the former Team Germany captain, Leader of junk52 aka Team Spaces, winner of the Quakecon and MVP of the Crossfire Prizefight Challenge with idle.ee, Urtier.

Read the introducion and find all groups on the ESL page.


The first matches are also on their way:

HighBot .et_0_vs_4_sFx.LAN
Time: Today, 21 CET
Maps: Radar, Braundorf B4
ETTV: GamesTV.org



Team Helix_4_vs_0_n1ce.it (noshow n1ce.it)
Time: Today, 22 CET (when first match is finished)
Maps: Supply Depot 2, Radar
ETTV: GamesTV.org

[*]Read more on the ESL page.