As the Season II finals are this weekend we thought that now would be the perfect time to release this 10 min 56 sec long movie. The movie features footage from the excellent event sponsored by Intel and hosted by ESL. Also included in the movie are interviews and ingame footage from the finals. The movie was filmed and edited by AlesKi and ESL kindly supplied some footage for us also. Thank you to Sui for the ingame footage capture and also to Celldweller for use of their music.
Prepare to fight! Team Dignitas will hold a Quake Live tournament in cooperation with Bigfoot Networks! Up to 32 players can sign up for this 1v1 challenge and the top2 duellers will be awarded with a brand new Killer Xeno™ Gaming Network Card worth about £190 (~225€).
We will hold the tournament on Sunday the 12th July and you can sign up for it from NOW until 10th July. For now we will try a 32 players cup and we will see how it goes. If you play Quake Live and would like a chance to get one of the prizes below, make sure register an account on this page and sign up asap!
With two high profile tournaments coming to a close this month, namely Infused's ShopTo tournament and Championship Season 1 of UKeSA, there has never been a better time to perform well in order to rise up the Decerto rankings. After winning the ShopTo tournament and placing second at the UKeSA Grand Finals, our XBOX360 Call of Duty 4 team tops the list for the third month in a row! We are followed closely by Team CoolerMaster after their UKeSA success.
It has been a tough month for Team Infused after securing their highest ever second place ranking, firstly losing to Dignitas and then suffering a shock defeat to Logistics, they now find themselves lowered to third, almost 30 points adrift of the nearest team. Also notable is GenetiX who mark their first appearance in the rankings by taking the eighth spot.
The full Decerto CoD4 June rankings:
1. Team Dignitas - 112
2. Team CoolerMaster - 110
3. Team Infused - 86
4. YYT.RxG - 67
5. SK-Gaming - 61
6. H2k Rejects - 51
7. Team Ultimatum - 21
8. YYT.GX - 7
Congratulations to all teams! More information including voters thoughts and discussion can be found here.
Tonight our British Quake Live dueller Aaron-Anton 'HELL' Jones will face his next and last major challenge in the ESL Quake Live 1on1 Spring Cup - the Final is up ahead and ESL Premium Months are up for offer. HELL's opponent coming from the Upper Bracket is smoke and the fight begins at 20:00 CET.
You will be able to watch the match LIVE on ESL.TV and here on our site.
Our British Command & Conquer player and World Cyber Games 2007 Champion Shaun 'Apollo' Clark is currently living in South Korea for two months and with StarCraft being a highly mainstream game there, he has had many encounters with eSports as an accepted and embraced part of the culture.
Now Shaun has summarized his first two weeks (with six to come) in a blog on gamereplays.org. Below is a small snippet:
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I actually took myself to a local LAN cafe recently and spent few hours in there playing StarCraft, each player that plays in there are sufficiently better than the average non-Korean gamer, I know I got my ass handed to me!
We have spent a few nights in where we just drink beer, take it in turn to play random iCCup games, watch each other play, laugh and just generally have a good time. E-sports has become apart of the majority's life in Seoul and I hope that it can spread worldwide.
Tonight our Team Fortress 2 team faced their final opponent in the ED TF2 League Season 5. This cup with 256 spots has some of Europe's best teams attending. The winner of Season5 will go home with £400. Tonight's opponent is Crack at 21:15cet. As this is the Grand Final the match will be streamed by QuadV.
One of the biggest online games to this day is poker online.
The game can be played in many forms, like head-to-head or tournaments like the WSOP. If you like adrenaline fueled games, then this is the
game for you. You will need to both lure your opponents by using advanced tactics and at the same time be aggressive in order to defeat
the opponents. Are you up for it? All the start-up tips and tricks can be found on this guide to poker.