As announced in an earlier newspost Crossfire and the ESL team up for Crossfire Intel ESL Challenge -- the official seeding tournament for Crossfire Intel Challenge 7.

The seedings that result from this competition will be used to create the poules and groups for the upcoming offline event. Every attending team that wishes to be seeded must play in this tournament.

In order to get the best possible seedings, and to give every team the chance to play as many matches as possible, a special tournament system will be used.

We will start with a Groupstage with 8 groups of 4-6 teams (depends upon signups).
ALL teams will then play a single elimination playoff stage as a 1 day cup. The date for the playoff cup will be announced once the signup numbers are known. Teams that finish 1st in their group will form one 8-slot playoff bracket, with 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. placed teams similarly forming their own 8-slot playoff brackets. In the end there will be 4-6 of these 1 day cups at a time (again, depending on signups) with 3 rounds played per cup.

While this is the seeding tournament for Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 we still allow EVERY team to sign up. Teams already signed up for CIC7, though, have their spot guaranteed.

We already saw Dickheads and ESL Winners succeed over TAG and european elite in the first two playoff matches. On Sunday it is time for the other four teams to determine upper and lower bracket teams!

nOu way! face Team Guarana in a match that promises to be exciting. How will the new lineup of Team Guarana perform versus last seasons 3rd?

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I rly dont know what we should expect from this match. Lineup of guarana changed a lot and now they seem to be a mix of skilled players and with almighty lagging frenchie they will be surely tough challenge. But we are aiming for the victory and rolls gonna get nerded!

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We haven't played for quite a while now + we got some new faces in the lineup so I have no idea how this will turn out !

The Groupstage finished recently. We are now ready to start the playoffs and already have the first matches scheduled for today. We will see some of the best teams battle for glory and the 500 € prizepurse in week one of our double elimination playoffs!

In the first match ESL Winners will face e2 - european elite who finished on top of a 3-mapper relegation match. Will ESL Winners live up their name and go through to round two of the winner bracket?

Dear Crossfire and Enemy Territory community,

After our recent tournament announcement we are quite glad to see the discussion the announcement triggered. Apart from the original discussion it is nice to see that the community is not dead and even able to deal with such a topic in a quite objective and neutral way.

... (expand the full statement)As it stands right now, the time for a new and innovative start of a tournament for nations has not come yet. Negotiations with Clanbase were not possible or just failed from the beginning.
The result of this is: Two announced Tournaments.

This was not the aim of the collaboration between the Electronic Sports League and the Crossfire team. The reason for this tournament announcement was based on several requests done by the community and not a fast and illplanned idea from scratch. After the complaints about the recent seasons the ESL and Crossfire decided to give it a try and to start that new project during the winter. A project which was meant to be a project by the community for the community and not limited by rules given by somebody which might even not be involved into that tournament.

We do not want to split up the community into two parties. We care about your issues: That is the reason why we - the ESL and Crossfire crew - are ready to postpone the announced Championship until further notice. However this is a stark warning to Clanbase ET, that there will be another player in the house in future and that is the ESL. So it is time Clanbase gets their house in order!


Nevertheless we will not be inactive. Crossfire and the Electronic Sports League hereby partner up for the official seeding tournament for the upcoming Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 in March. Stay tuned for more information and the soon to be opened signups!

ESL Newspost

The Relegation Stage is completed and we found the eight best Enemy Territory teams of Europe. Ladies and Gentlemen it is time for the last stage in the ESL 500€ competition: The EMS Play Offs are ready to start!

Due to the advent period the Relegation Stage was a bit extended but finally we can turn to the decisive part of the tournament. The play offs were drawn. Like announced the Play Offs are a double elimination stage where the lower bracket winner must beat the upper bracket winner twice to be the champion.Round 1



Schedule

WB Round 1
WB Round 2
WB Final



Grand Final

Rule excerpts:
Global EMS Rules
Map choice
General ET Rules
There are no Wildcards
Lineup Changes
Penalties
All Rules



LB Round 1
LB Round 2
LB Round 3
LB Final







Contact & Help
Support Ticket
#esl.et (Quakenet)
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We are proud to announce that Crossfire and the Electronic Sports League partner up for an ESL hosted Country Championship. One of the most prestigious competitions within the Enemy Territory scene which will this time take place just after new year.

Last year's captains of nations such as Germany, Croatia Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria,
Estonia, Poland, Finland, Netherlands and many more have already confirmed their interest in this ESL CF event and we hope for many more countries to apply later on!

We will publish more information on this season and how to apply as captain on the 27th of December. This is the date when national captain applications will be opened for all countries.

The aim of the partnership between Crossfire and the ESL is to create a fair, new and proper ruleset together with the teams and players. This will be done once the captains are appointed. Stay tuned for more information within the next days!

In the meantime feel free to post ideas and comments or even prepare your captain application. We look forward to a great event with you all!

- ESL Newspost

Today a completely new competition map sees the light of day. I am proud to release Coast beta1 into the communitys custody. The map was designed for the 5on5 format and proved to be great gameplaywise. I'll be glad for any critique and feedback to improve it within its way to the final status.

Without further ado I present you the Coast beta1 presentation video by phaloid:

With the end of the group stage it is time to set the course for the EMS Playoffs. But before the final stage of the EMS V is ready to start, we will see the last teams fighting in the Relegation for the last slots in the Playoffs.

The ESL Major Series Relegation starts today and all matches have to be finished next Sunday. Default date is Sunday, 21 CET. All teams which have added 0 / 1 player, are now allowed to add 2 / 1 new players. To add a player to your team send in a support ticket to EU EMS ET section stating your wish.

Prior to the actual relegation matches we have to announce that Team YoYoTech FiF decided to drop from the competition in order to prepare for the Crossfire Intel Challenge in early march. Due to this one 4th placed team gets the chance to win a relegation match!

Relegation matches

Qualified teams
Guarana
ESL Winners
mASCULINE_MANS
Dickheads

Note: nOu is playing the Grand Final even if they lost to MixMix. MixMix offered their Grand Final spot cause two of them have to leave. Thanks to MixMix !

The third and last match week ended officially on Sunday. Nevertheless we have got some wildcarded matches which will be played these days. If you think that all is clear already, then you failed! There are still various decisions to be made.

Update: match will be played tonight 22 CET. Read on for more details!

One hour later we have an equally skilled match with two european topteams facing each other. ESL Winners!! face nOu way. If nOu take this win home they win their group and thus directly qualify for the playoffs!Statements:
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we were praccing a bit but i am almost sure it just wont be enough to take them down, already played couple games against them and they were by far the strongest opponent. But with a bit of luck we can surprise :)

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It's not how many dogs you bring to the fight, but how much fight is in the dogs. I can assure you in preparation for this ESL Masters Series tournament game in Enemy Territory we have stuck to a strict training regiment. Oh and Booboo is definitely not happy.