Following a very successful EuroCup XV season in the Call of Duty 2 scene, ClanBase have revealed the teams that will take part in the EuroCup XIV. A total of 20 teams have recieved direct invites to the cup with a further 16 teams taking part in the qualifiers stage to determine the final four teams of the cup, using the same system as last seasons EuroCup.

Round one has been completed as we embark upon the second and final round of the qualifier games. From the surprising 13:04 win from G8.-ogz.eu versus infusedGaming to the no show default win to Team Aquila against emotive, only eight of the 16 teams have made it this far with another four to go out of the winder in round two.

Round 2 Qualifier Matches
Map: Carentan

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Following a very successful EuroCup XV season in the Call of Duty 2 scene, ClanBase have revealed the teams that will take part in the EuroCup XIV. A total of 20 teams have recieved direct invites to the cup with a further 16 teams taking part in the qualifiers stage to determine the final four teams of the cup, using the same system as last seasons EuroCup.

Amongst the 16 teams that will be playing for the final four spots in the cup are OVERLOAd Gaming, viciousandevil and the new Portugese squad of Stheno eSports. The first round of the qualifying games began on the 2nd of October to the 3rd of October on Toujane. You can check out the full round one results below.

Round 1 Qualifier Matches
Map: Toujane

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Following a very successful EuroCup XV season in the Call of Duty 2 scene, ClanBase have revealed the teams that will take part in the EuroCup XIV. A total of 20 teams have recieved direct invites to the cup with a further 16 teams taking part in the qualifiers stage to determine the final four teams of the cup, using the same system as last seasons EuroCup.

Amongst the teams there are big names such as LowLandLions and H2k.Qpad, who were both participants in the EuroCup XV LAN Finals that took place in Enschede, Holland last month. Also making an appearence is Team-Impact.TCI, eSuba and Reason-Gaming with viciousandevil and the newly formed OVERLOAd Gaming in the qualifiers.

With the long list of sign-ups ClanBase recieved for the Search & Destroy cups, it was a let down and a shame to the community that teams such as TeK-9, Serious-Gaming and SPEED-LINK were absent from signing up for the final Call of Duty 2 EuroCup before the anticipated release of Call of Duty 4. All in all, my predictions lie on the cup not reaching it's usual standards with the absence of some teams but nevertheless it should still be interesting. The directly invited teams and qualifier schedule can be found below.

Call of Duty 2 EuroCup XVI team list
Direct invites
GUMMI
LowLandLions
dfiance.Qpad
H2k.Qpad
eSuba
nEophyte
Octane eSports
frag-insane
Team-Velvet
Team-Impact.TCI
choZen Gaming
KomaCrew
THE6DEVILS
eXtreme-Gaming
Team-Ephix
fourvisions
ultraFRAG
drop2trash
Team-eSourceUK
Reason-Gaming

Qualifier teams and schedule
A: ancients versus XterNET.Sennheiser
B: OVERLOAd Gaming versus dtekt.eSports
C: Stheno eSports versus viciousandevil
D: phantasmagoria versus FLS Gaming
E: G8.-ogz.eu versus infusedGaming
F: AFTERMATH versus rubberduckies
G: Banned-Brigade versus MYTEAM
H: emotive versus Team-Aquila

Round 1: 2nd & 3rd October (Toujane)
Round 2: 5th October (Carentan)

Good luck to all teams participating, matches begin on the 2nd October with the first round of the qualifiers kicking off.[/hide]

Multi-national Call of Duty 2 giants TeK-9 make further ammendments too their roster after the announcement of Dutch player SKO forced to go in-active in the near future due to school and studies. The replacement for the fifth spot is not the usual back-up player that supports the team vazy but a brand new addition to the line-up. The player is non other than former suXus player Burak 'haya' Aydin who showed promising performances during his trialing period for the TeK-9 team. haya gave the following statement on the TeK-9 web site about the recent news.

Quote by haya

After suxus died, I was busy trying to find a new home for me to fit in. I couldn’t find a good team at start, but tek9 gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse :D. My trialling time went good in the time and at CPC2 I had a few words with the guys from tek9 and that made my decision pretty easy. So it was clearl for me to continue with tek9. We are now preparing for the upcoming tournaments and events. I hope to have a bright future with these guys and a lot of fun.

With SKO going in-active the TeK-9 team have decided to release vazy from their roster leaving a five man active roster with SKO still labelled on the squad sheet.

Davy
OZWALD
L-KiNG
knaller
haya
SKO (in-active)

Links
TeK-9
#tek9

Crossfire is back at Netgamez and will be covering the Call of Duty 2 tournament once again. With a handful of big teams in attendance its very possible that we could see not only some upsets but some fantastic matches.

Through to the play-offs ...
So the groups are finished and to many the results aren't surprising as we go forward into the play-offs. Both H2k-Gaming squads including Qpad and Thermaltake are through with an all win streak, but the winnings will stop for one of the squads as they both meet in the first round of the winner bracket. Very tense for both squads as they continue to rage through the Netgamez tournament. Also former digitalMind squad ixus have proceeded to the play-offs and also former dSLASH squad Team-Adacom have made it through. timere, Arousing and #Ephix 1 have all passed the group stages successfully and Team-EDiT also.

This will make for an interesting play-off table and we will have to wait and see what happens with strong squads still remaining!

Final Standings
1. ixus (€800)
2. H2k.Qpad (€400)
3. Team-Adocom

Playoffs

Final

mp_matmata
ixus (13:09) H2k.Qpad
mp_carentan
ixus (13:06) H2k.Qpad [/hide]

Consolation Finalmp_toujane
ixus (13:04) Team-Adocom [/hide]

Winner Bracket Round 3mp_dawnville
H2k.Qpad (13:10) ixus [/hide]

Winner Bracket Round 2mp_burgundy
ixus (13:06) Team-Adocom
H2k.Qpad (13:11) Team-EDiT [/hide]

Winner Bracket Round 1mp_matmata
ixus (13:05) timere
Team-Adocom (13:02) Arousing
H2k.Qpad (13:07) H2k Thermaltake
Team-EDiT (13:04) #Ephix 1 [/hide]

Loser Bracket Round 1mp_burgundy
timere (13:00) Arousing
H2k.Thermaltake (13:10) #Ephix 1 [/hide]

Loser Bracket Round 2mp_dawnville
Team-EDiT (13:08) timere
Team-Adocom (13:09) H2k.Thermaltake [/hide]

Loser Bracket Round 3 mp_carentan
Team-Adocom (24:22) Team-EDiT [/center][/hide]

Crossfire is back at Netgamez and will be covering the Call of Duty 2 tournament once again. With a handful of big teams in attendance its very possible that we could see not only some upsets but some fantastic matches.

Group A
1. ixus - 4/0/0
2. #Ephix 1 - 4/1/0
3. #ephansia - 2/1/0
4. Stilux - 0/2/0
5. precizion - 0/3/0
6. Fruity Loops - 0/3/0

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Group B
1. H2k.Qpad - 3/0/0
2. Arousing - 2/0/0
3. mcstriker - 0/2/0
4. FEAT - 0/2/0
5. KnightS - 0/1/0
6. FDCP - 0/0/0

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Group C
1. H2k.Thermaltake - 4/0/0
2. Team Adocom - 4/0/0
3. Rubber Ducks - 2/2/0
4. #Ephix 2 - 1/2/0
5. WAve - 1/3/0
6. Dutch Serial Killers - 0/5/0

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Group D
1. Team-EDiT - 3/0/0
2. timere - 1/1/1
3. Core89 - 1/2/0
4. Deathless - 0/2/1
5. WZZRD - 0/0/0

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Adocom vs. Duckies Mini Report by TosspoT Rubber Duckies (10-13) Team-Adocom

The germans picked up an unconvincing victory over the former CYBERATEZ side, despite being the better team throughout the match they took their time in sealling the deal. Kholli was inspirational with the rifle on burgundy, racking up 27 frags but the spread was quite large down to Flashrr who was in the low teens with his frags. Murdoc had some notable double frags to secure rounds in the second half, but at times it looked like we were headed to overtime.

After racing away with the early rounds, adacom got to 7 in no time. They were however pinned back by half time by 4 rounds from the dutch side. On allies, despite Kholli playing well with the sniper (notably landing one amazing frag on Heroic) the side lost cohesion getting and defending the bomb down at B and that allowed the duckies to get 10 rounds.[/hide]

Call of Duty 2 is finally going to Finland again with the recent announcement of a 16 team LAN tournament hosted by Level7, one of Finlands biggest gaming cafes located in Helsinki, Finland. Working together with the Insignia Cadre team they are to host the LAN during the 14th-15th of April, the same weekend as the Crossfire Prizefight Challenge 2 LAN event. Prizes have been announced from QPad and Creative themselves and an unconfirmed money amount is also i nthe prize purse.

Entrance fee is 100 euros per team which has to be payed before the 9th of April, so if you are wanting to attend this LAN, get your sign-ups in quick! This LAN is not BYOC and is has been confirmed that the event will be played without smoke grenades in hand for the team shotgunners following a big debate on smoke bugs and the actual use of it in ladders and tournaments across the scene.

Prizes1st Place
Cash Prize (TBA)
5x Creative X-Fi Soundcards
5x QPad|CT

2nd Place
Cash Prize (TBA)
5x Creative Products (TBA)
5x QPad|CT

3rd Place
Cash Prize (TBA)
5x QPad|CT

4th-5th Place:
QPad Glidz, Wristband & Keystrap[/hide]

Cheets, the tournament supervisor from Insignia Cadre web site team gave the following statement about Level7:

"We are expecting total 16 teams to participate to Level 7 CoD2 OpenCup. We know that the date happens to be at the same time as CrossFire but due to other bookings at Level 7, this was the only available weekend. However we still expect this to be high quality lan with great teams. Of course there will be lots of finnish teams coming but we are also expecting teams around the Europe to come to the lan. Level 7 staff is working hard with the sponsors and final prizes will be announced soon.

It has been confirmed that the Insignia Cadre line-up will be attending the event and will start the team list off. More information on signing up can be found on the links given on the bottom of the post. More updates to come! I'm sure the prizes will also draw teams attention towards this lan. The tournament will be played on 2 days and I'm very positive that everyone will get an experience that they won't forget easily. Even thought the schedule might be tight on some spots, we sure will have lots of fun while playing and spectating matches! So everyone out there who hesitates, just click yourself to the site and signup for the tournament!"

Links
Level7 Web site
#codfi.lan

The time has come for another big name to return to Call of Duty from the depths of the classic original CoD and early CoD2 days. This time multi-gaming organisation OCRANA will return to their first fps based game since their former CoD2 squad were disbanded in the early days of the game. People may remember OCRANA as one of the top teams in the original CoD and probably the best German team of its time in CoD2 including members from the current SPEED-LINK squad such as Trigger and Fuchsstute.

The team bringing OCRANA back into the action of WW2 is Shildkroeten, a tight nipped German based team that was formed some time ago with members such as former OCRANA player spaR. The squad have recently been out of the headlines for a while without really making any major changes to their line-up, but with the announcement of joining OCRANA the team have added two new players including former Adacom player Kn0xX and former n!faculty player K1ckzZ.

This currently makes out a six man active squad with the following line-up setting the first race for this hopeful adventure in their new home:

spaR
enJO_oy
dizzy
erv
K1ckzZ
Kn0xX

dEF from the OCRANA management also released the following statement:

"OCRANA is a traditional Shooter Clan. The decision to establish a shooter has got a very simple reason: Shooter belongs to OCRANA like fishbones to a fish. There are no other reasons or targets. It's just a step back to the roots. We hope that OCRANA will still bring more thrill into the COD2 competition."

We would like to wish OCRANA the best of luck in the future with their new Call of Duty 2 team.

Links
OCRANA web site
#ocrana

Today marks yet another big step in the competitive Call of Duty 2 community. Through the combined efforts of the North American, European, and Asian communities comes the first website designed to promote, unify and strengthen the competitive worldwide Call of Duty 2 community; welcome to www.this-is-cod2.com. This-is-CoD2.com will focus on uniting the worldwide competitive Call of Duty 2 community into using the same game format, gathering financial and product support for future tournaments, and improving ways to make Call of Duty 2 even better to watch.

This is currently the first stage of the website and the representatives from the worldwide community still have a plethora of changes and updates that are forthcoming. Upon release of This-is-CoD2.com wallpapers and a promotional video produced by a representative from the European Call of Duty 2 community Ilias "cem" Abassi have been released to the public for those wishing to support and see what Call of Duty 2 has to offer as a major competitive game. Additionally the North American moviemaker Adrian "skippy" Thompson has produced the official Call of Duty 2 Promotional Video. Anyone wishing to contact the representatives behind this-is-cod2.com can either send an email to [email protected] or private message an operator in #thisiscod2 on both irc.gamesurge.net and irc.quakenet.org.

Furthermore the people behind This-is-CoD2 would like to report they have been in contact with developer Infinity Ward and received an email from IW stating they love the project and wonder in what way they would be able to help.

Links
www.this-is-cod2.com
#thisiscod2

In attempt to back the recently fired up campsign of cod24wsvg, infusedGaming have teamed together with palmz from Team-Dignitas to create a cup that tests the North American way of playing Call of Duty 2 in Europe.

The cup will test the pam mode namr12 settings instead of our eumr12 settings and try to get used to the style and play of the yanks. One of the major setting changes in this that most will notice is the sniper limit being two instead of the European way of one.

This cup has been marked invite only with big teams such as Trademark-Gamers and Dignitas all taking part thus far in the ranks of the cup list.

The cup is this Thursday 14th December and starts at 19:00 CET with a live stream being broadcasted straight from FragTV.net.

Remember, idling in IRC channel #cod24wsvg at the quakenet and gamesurge servers will help all the most with this campaign and would be much appreciated.

Any help or suggestions you may have with this situation feel free to contact palmz at [email protected] via e-mail or MSN or look for dignitas\palmz over IRC.

Links
infusedGaming
#infused-gaming
#cod24wsvg