Tonight sees the second round of action in Group B of the NxM Cup. As the newly formed uQ Gaming team look to prove that they can live up to their predecesors. Though this competition got off to a bad start for uQ, with a default loss to WoW in the first round leaving them languishing down at the foot of the table. They face a Finish team who are also desperate to pick up points after an opening round defeat to n1ce.

The NxM Cup is unique in its foresight, based around a refreshing map list including the likes of Adlernest_b7, Braundorf_b4 and Raw_te.

With tonight showcasing Raw_te live on ETTV. Will this map prove good enough for competition play?

Objectives
1 Blow up the Main Wall and secure the Forward Spawn
2 Destroy the Castle Main Door
3 Blow up the Vault Door guarding the Documents.
4 Steal the secret Documents
5 Transmit the Documents

Cup admin NxM had this to say about the inclusion of Raw_te

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Before the Cup was announced I tested it with NightRaver and FlyingDJ and we all agreed it had enough potential to be at least tested in the Cup. It's a nice map with multiple attack routes and the possibility for diverse tactics.

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Raw_te is a really small map, and seems relatively easy to defend. Allies can only attack from 2 sides to get the docs. 6 man defense will be close together and strong, a really spammy map.

My opinion? It's small, compact and spammy. It'll no doubt make a great map for 3v3, where issues such as mines aren't a problem - but it needs some major changes to be suitable for 6v6 play.

uQ Gaming vs Euthanasia

Time: 20:00 CET
Maps: Raw_te & Supplydepot2
ETTV: GamesTV.org
Shoutcast: FlyingDJ

It must be emphasized that although the map name is “_te” it is actually the first beta of the map. With the latest release being raw_b3, which you can download here

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NxM.nl | #NxM.nl

It's that all too familiar occurance: the admin decision. This Sunday been the news emerged that Denmark, Iceland and Israel have all been removed with immediate effect from the NationsCup. Angrykid supplied the reason: "inactivity, inability to participate or just laziness". Unfortunately, both AngryKid and NightRaven were unavailable to respond to my queries before this was posted.

The other piece of news surrounding these decisions was the handing to Finland of a yellow card. This was due to "a horde of emails and requests regarding delayed challenges and forced matches". Nobody from the Finnish ET team was around when I poked my head in #et.finland, but hopefully I'll get a statement up here sometime soon. Notice a trend happening here?

Moving on to fresher news pastures, tonight sees the 4th matchweek game between Sweden and Malta in group B. Sweden will surely be the favourites for the win, and having started brightly recording a victory over France only to lose their next game against Holland, the Swedes bounced back to beat a berated Hungarian outfit 4-2. Their current ranking of 4th place in the group looks considerably better than that of minnows Malta, who have stumbled to 2 losses out of 2 against the USA and Czech Republic respectively. Malta will surely have to outplay themselves many times over to spare a lacklustre premature exit from the competition. Here be the details:

Match: Malta 0 4 Sweden
Date: Monday, 20th February 2006
Time: 21:15 CET
Maps:sw_oasis_b3, radar
ETTV: GamesTV.org / id 213
Shoutcast: [flag=0] None

After three intense rounds of action Team Beta overcame a resilient Helix team to take the gold.

It required a close decider on Adlernest_b7 to secure the win, with only 30 seconds remaining Pumu ran the documents home. Their path to the final looks like:

4 0 > Foundation
4 0 > Team Hungary
4 0 > Polewka
4 2 > Team Helix

Over in the second division The Syndicate took the title in emphatic style over GoQ. Who where simply outclassed on the day, losing 4 0. Their path to the final was:

> Prodigy
> Routiniers
> BFU
> GoQ

Thanks once again to our sponsors Ultimatequest Clan Servers and our supporters such Clan OsS and the GamesTV.org crew.

You can check the #ET-Cup Grid for the competitions standing.

It’s that day again, tonight the inaugural 6th #ET-Cup gets underway and we’ve two fantastic matches for your viewing pleasure.

This Cup will showcase the new and exciting custom map adlernest_b7 as the first round sees two stopwatch rounds of the map played. This has been done to remove the “lotto” factor ensuring teams actually practice!

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Due to an unforeseen amount of sign ups we’ve created two leagues. The first a seeded division containing what we perceive as the 16 “best” teams, including such names as uQ.Gaming, Team Beta and stronger than hate.

Teams In The First Division
stronger than hate
intense eSports
Polewka
infrag
Foundation
Team-Beta
Team Hungary
FBI mystic gaming
primitive-gaming
uQ.Gaming
Revoltados
Queens.et
Euthanasia
Fear Factory ATi
Team Helix
mycruz
Teams In The Second Division
The syndicate
Prodigy
Team-Ident
Routiniers
Pr3dS
BFU
nAkAshi
StormX.eSports
sFx Rainbow
zero Resistance
sWat
GameByte
GOQ
Team SurViVoR
ViD
#Teamdtk

The first round will start from 19:30 CET with the second round scheduled to be played at 21:15 CET. For further information visit the site.

A quick rule reminder, at least one member of your clan must idle in the Cup channel and the clan rosters will be closed when the first match is played. So ensure all your details are correct.

Once again thanks to our supporters UltimateQuest who have provided prizes allowing us to support both divisions.

#ET-Cup | ET-Cup

There is one player in your team, that sucks? who isn't avi every day? who smells like what ever? Well, now its time to kick him out and start playing this 5on5 Test Cup:

16 Teams will fight without mortar, mg and flamer and only 3 mines for the title of this first official 5on5 ET Cup.

Sign Ups
12.02.2006 - 19.02.2006
(pm an admin in #esl.et for a late signup)

Mappool
Braundorf b4
SW Gold TE
SW Oasis b3
Supply Depot 2
Würzburg Radar


CONFIG
Not certified yet: http://www.2wss.de/clanwar5v5.config


This cup will start on 26.02.2006, at sunday with the following plan:
Day 1:
1st: 26.02.06 18.00 cet (Maps: SW Goldrush TE, Braundorf b4)
2nd: 26.02.06 20.00 cet (Maps: Braundorf b4, SW Oasis b3)
Day 2: Half finals
3rd: 27.02.06 20.00 cet (Maps: SW Oasis b3, Supply Depot 2)
Day 3: Final
4th: 28.02.06 20.00 cet (Maps: Supply Depot 2, Radar)

Start signing up your team at this page.
To view some details of the cup, visit this one.
To get a how to for the esl visit this leet article

The 5on5 Showmatch will take play today at 20:00 cet. FlyingDJ organised it, to show the community a new map called Adlernest.

Adlernest is a new map for the europeans, but it has been used in the Australian Competion. After we played the Map in some 3on3's and a lot of 6on6's Nellie decided to make a "how to" for Adlernest, you can find his article at this link.

Today idle.ee and one4one will play Adlernest and 2 other maps, covered with ETTV and Shoutcast.

Maps



Probable Lineups
one4one
CrozZ
Lion
gambit
Mztik
anubis

idle.ee
Night
Holz
urtier
senji
teKoa

Match: idle.ee vs one4one
Format: 5v5 Showmatch
Date/Time: Feb 13th / 20:00 CET
ETTV - Server: GamesTV.org / id 181
Shoutcast:
FlyingDJ (tune in)
#gamestv.org

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- ETTV on Demand -
http://ettv.lk2.de/include.php?path=ettv/game.php&id=68

Queens.ET are back with a new lineup. With the last Queens.ET squad dieing fairly quickly, this squad has some work to do, but with some top players from the scene, this squad has potential.

The New lineup consists’s of:

Hein (Team Manager)
Fatal (Ex SoF)
RazZ (Ex Team Helix)
Mztik (Ex 141)
Future (Ex Gods.inc)
Senti (Ex Team Zenith)
Winghaven (Ex Gods.inc)
AzA (Ex DMD)
Fost (Ex Team Helix)

The clan hopes to participate in the next edition of Eurocup and in all small cups/tournaments.

You can check out the new lineup at #Queens.et

After some weeks of sign ups, its done, and we are ready to publish the groups and its first match week, of this first esl.et premiership for the european teams.

We have 8 Full groups with clans of different skills and names from all over europe to present you a nice cup over the next weeks.



You can find all Groups and more of such great names here: http://www.xfire.be/?x=article&mode=item&id=325&nav=1



These, and 56 other teams will fight for some premium accounts and a 16 slot gamesever (and hopefully some hardware too tbas)

xFire Article
- All Groups
- Matches / Challenges
- Coverage / Late Signups


You can find all these informations and 56 other team logos on the esl page too:
ESL Page
The Matches
The Ranking

This following week we will be bringing you the second #Thugster ET 3vs3 Cup.
Signups and more information should be available from the 17th of February 2006.

There will be 32 initial slots available, if more than 32 clans sign up we SURE WILL create a new cup to cater for them.

Maplist

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[*]Beach
[*]tc_Base
[*]Ice
[*]Goldrush
[*]et_Sub

Prizes will be given out but we are yet to finalise what they will be.

Most likely on offer will be BNCs and Private ET Servers.

[*] Thugster Cup #2 Website

Earlier this week xfire announced the return of Aneki and opened the door to speculation about who would be joining this swedish RTCW legend in his return to ET.

Now is the time to end the speculation and proudly announce ET's newest team, a team littered with RTCW history and success!

Aneki (ex o8 & iN)
Capten (ex o8 & SnapS)
Radical (ex iN)
Smutz (ex KiH)
Lockbete (ex e-star)
rat (ex IDKFA)
askungen
Pikken (ex KiH)

This is noll8's second outting into ET, however the last outting failed to bare fruits except for the partial foundation for the second iNfensus ET team that took silver in Eurocup IX.
Sweden had the knack of producing RTCW superstars on a weekly basis, players who could make an impact to any roster out there, the return to action for players like Capten will certainly bring hope to the swedish community, who himself was a mainstay of the successful SnapS team.

Join them in their quest for glory in #noll8