Millenium have been without a Counter-Strike squad since June. They were showing strong interest in picking up Mojawi, however they signed with wCrea.

Today, Millenium have secured the lineup they were looking for as they have almost put together the 2007 emuLate lineup, who took gold at WCG 2007. The only member missing is Mathieu “Mat” Leber. Filling his spot will be Benjamin “drizzer” Charnet, formely of wCrea.

New Millenium Roster

Mickael “mSx” Cassisi
Mathieu “RiGo-” Bridet
Michael “HaRtS” Zanatta
Jeremy “ioRek” Vuillermet
Benjamin “drizzer” Charnet

In a surprising move, the CS division of PinG have announced that they will be leaving the Ukrainian organization due to lack of payment regarding player salaries.

PinG were originally unable to attend ESWC last month due to lack of funds, however thanks to Bogdan “penguin” Marchenko (and his parents), the team managed to attend. It has been reported that the team has gone without the proper payments for months now, making this decision an easy one for the CS team.

This leaves the following players without a home:

Kiril “ANGE1” Karasiow
Juriy “strike” Tereshenko
Alexey “xaoc” Kucherov
Taras “craft1k” Voitenko
Emil “Kucher” Akhundov

The team appears to be sticking together as they will be participating in the WCG Ukrainian qualifier as well as the qualifier for ASUS Summer.

 

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With MLG Raleigh now just a month away it appears that Realz and company have left SK-Gaming to join up with Nerdstompers. At MLG Columbus Realz and his team ended up in a three way tie breaker with coL.Black and ArenaPwnage, which they overcame and advanced to the top 4. In Upper Bracket round one coL.red slipped by SK with a score of 3-2 and then SK fell to fnatic in the lower bracket 3-1. SK then failed to quailfy for the North American Regionals, which is taking place in two weeks.

At 7:47PM on July 31st Nerdstomper tweeted this message below.

 

 

We have reached out to SK-Gaming but have not yet receieved a comment. Keep checking back to complexitygaming.com as we will be following this story closely.

Bungie has released the achievements for Halo:Reach in their weekly update. There is a total of 49 achievements.

Below is the list for what you need to do to earn each achievement. By looking at this poster you can see the achievement name and the badges for each one. Simply compare the number below to the poster to see what you have to do!

Halo: Reach is set to hit the shelves September 14th of this year.

   1. Completed the Campaign on Normal difficulty.
   2. Completed the Campaign on Heroic difficulty.
   3. Completed the Campaign on Legendary difficulty.
   4. Completed every mission in Halo: Reach alone, on Legendary.
   5. Completed the 2nd mission on Normal or harder.
   6. Completed the 3rd mission on Normal or harder.
   7. Completed the 4th mission on Normal or harder.
   8. Completed the 5th mission on Normal or harder.
   9. Completed the 6th mission on Normal or harder.
  10. Completed the 7th mission on Normal or harder.
  11. Completed the 8th mission on Normal or harder.
  12. Completed the 9th mission on Normal or harder.
  13. Completed the 10th mission on Normal or harder.
  14. Cleared the 2nd mission without setting foot in a drivable vehicle.
  15. Killed 2 vehicles at once with the Target Locator in the 3rd mission.
  16. Hijacked a Banshee during the Reach Campaign.
  17. Killed the Elite Zealot before he escaped during the 5th mission.
  18. Performed an Assassination against an Elite to survive a fall that would’ve been fatal.
  19. Destroyed the Corvette’s engines & escort in under 3 minutes in the 6th mission on Heroic or harder.
  20. Finished the 9th mission on Legendary with the Scorpion intact.
  21. Earned a Triple Kill while Jetpacking in Campaign, Firefight or Matchmaking.
  22. Killed 7 Moa during the 2nd mission of the Campaign.
  23. Killed 3 of the anti-aircraft batteries during the 8th mission.
  24. Used a Health Pack to replenish life after taking body damage.
  25. Performed an Assassination on an enemy.
  26. Killed 10 enemies in a Firefight or Campaign session with the M6G pistol.
  27. Killed 10 enemies in a Firefight or Campaign session with the DMR.
  28. Traded weapons with an AI ally in Campaign.
  29. Killed 10 enemies in Firefight or Campaign with a supercombine explosion.
  30. Let a teammate spawn on you 5 times in an Invasion Matchmaking game.
  31. Earned a First Strike Medal in a Matchmaking game.
  32. Won a game of Invasion in the 1st phase.
  33. Earned a Killing Spree in multiplayer Matchmaking.
  34. Earned a Killionaire medal in Firefight.
  35. As an Elite, killed 5 Spartan players in Matchmaking.
  36. Scored 15,000 points in Score Attack Firefight Matchmaking.
  37. Scored 50,000 points in a Firefight game.
  38. Scored 200,000 points in a Firefight game.
  39. Scored 1,000,000 points in a Firefight game.
  40. Completed a Firefight set on Legendary without dying.
  41. Purchased an item from the Armory that required the rank of Lt. Colonel.
  42. Reached the rank of Corporal in the UNSC.
  43. Reached the rank of Captain in the UNSC.
  44. Used the File Browser to upload a file to your File Share.
  45. Completed all of the Daily Challenges in a given day.
  46. Purchased an item from the Armory.
  47. Recommended a file to someone.
  48. Advanced a Commendation to a Silver state.
  49. Completed a Weekly Challenge.

Source: Bungie.net

An Internet cafe was robbed last week in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Two masked men entered the cafe and starting demanding cash from the customers and showed they were going to be violent. Devin Wolery, who is working the front desk, takes two good shots to the face. When his customers see the second punch they jump into action.

One suspect then approaches Dylan Hays and they try to take his Nintendo DS. Hays was not going to allow this and he instantly starts to swing. The suspects were arrested and released pending further investigation.

You can watch the whole incident below.

The ESEA, via their website, announced eleven of the twelve teams that will be competing for the title of ESEA Champions in season 7 of the league. The 12th team will be selected by the community in a poll that will run for 48 hours.

Evil Geniuses
The Dons
Loaded
compLexity
ULTIMAX GAMING
Finesse
Hausen eSports
High Rollers Gaming
Team To Beat
Underestimated
Area51

The teams that will be selected via a voting process are below:

Team Exultance
TAU
Backfire

For more information on the league and the teams that were selected, click here.

Having won GameGune last week, Fnatic came into IEM5 Shanghai with the motivation they needed to take grab another victory and take home the check for $14,000.

In the first half of their match vs Tyloo.raw on de_nuke, Fnatic jumped out to a 11-4 lead on the CT side of the map. In the second half, Fnatic managed to grab the pistol round and essentially secure map one. After several clutch situations from Rasmus “Gux” Ståhl, Fnatic officially took the first map by the score of 16-7.

Going into the second map of de_train, Fnatic jumped out to a huge lead yet again, putting the Chinese team in the deepest hole that they’ve faced all tournament, down 13-2. Luckily for them, Tyloo.raw managed to string a few rounds together and take control back by winning the first 8 rounds of the second half to make the score 13-10. Unfortunately for them, Fnatic regained their composure and secured the remaining rounds to not only take the map, but the first event of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5.

With this win, Fnatic has secured a spot in the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 Grand Finals for 2011.

 

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