CS: ESEA-I Week 1

April 20th, 2010

Week 1 of ESEA-I 6 gets underway tonight. The map for week 1 is de_dust2. The opening match will be Immortal7 vs Graffiti at 9:30PM EST and the scorebot can be found in #immortal-7. Underestimated and Team Ruins will get under way right after the opening match starts. Defending champs Team EG will take on Packet Loss Pros at 10:30PM EST on Wednesday.


Week 1:1

Score 1 2 OT F
Immortal7 6 5 11
Graffiti 9 7 16
Scorebot: #immortal-7
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
Underestimated 11 5 16
Team Ruins 4 3 7
Scorebot: #team-ue
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
Packet Loss Pros 2 0 2
EG 13 3 16
Scorebot: #plp
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
Devious 12 4 16
Loaded 3 11 14
Scorebot: #teameco
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
ULTIMAX GAMING 5 0 5
compLexity 10 6 16
Scorebot: #compLexity
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
The Heartbreak Kids 11 5 16
Adjacent to Perfection 4 6 10
Scorebot: #YummY
Demo: Download

Week 1:2

Score 1 2 OT F
The Heartbreak Kids 0 0 0
Underestimated 0 0 0
Date: TBD
Scorebot: #YummY
Score 1 2 OT F
Graffiti 0 0 8
Devious 0 0 16
Scorebot: #Graffiti
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
Loaded 4 1 5
EG 11 5 16
Scorebot: #Loaded
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
Ruins 12 4 16
Packet Loss Pros 3 8 11
Scorebot: #Ruins
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
Immortal7 12 4 16
compLexity 3 9 12
Scorebot: #complexity
Demo: Download
Score 1 2 OT F
Adjacent to Perfection 4 2 6
ULTIMAX GAMING 11 5 16
Scorebot: #atp
Demo: Download

ESEA S6 CS Invite Preview

April 20th, 2010

It is time for a new season of ESEA 1.6! Twelve teams will be battling it out for the $13,750 prize pool. Team EG, who went 15-1 last season and swept through the playoffs are back to defend their title. Don’t let that fool you though, there are many strong and newly formed teams looking to decrown Team EG.

Just the other day we saw the new coL.cs beat EG in the CEVO-P Finals. Anything can happen this season. Who will finish on top; will it be EG again, will the new coL.cs return to ESEA glory or will we see another team step it up and win the title. Let us know who you think is going to win and make sure to stay tuned to complexitygaming.com for all your ESEA-I 1.6 needs!






 

ESWC Invites Five Teams

April 20th, 2010

ESWC.com today revealed five participants for this years ESWC 2010. It has now been confirmed that both fnatic and SK Gaming are invited to participated in this years ESWC. In addition, ESWC has also invited the 2008 champions Meet Your Makers, who is now Frag eXecutors and the top four finishers at ESWC Master of Cheonan.

HLTV.org is reporting that some teams are not boycotting the brand and the new owners of ESWC, possibly meaning that we will see all the big names in action this summer.

Teams invited to this years ESEC:

Frag eXecutors – ESWC 2008 champions
fnatic – ESWC Master of Cheonan champions
SK Gaming – ESWC Master of Cheonan 2nd
mousesports – ESWC Master of Cheonan 3rd
Lions – ESWC Master of Cheonan 4th

Source: HLTV.org and ESWC.com

7-11 To Sell Used Games

April 20th, 2010

While 7-11, one of the world’s most known convenience stores, has been selling new releases of games for quite some time now, they has recently announced that they will be teaming up with Game Trading Technologies, Inc. to sell used games as well. Currently, they only plan to sell used titles for under $20.00 at around half of their 6,000 U.S based stores. Unfortunately, the game list has not yet been released.

This would make the convenience chain one of the first retail businesses to sell video games 24/7, where stores like Best Buy and Gamestop close nightly.

 

Source: 1Up

Mindbomb becomes Nexus Gaming

April 19th, 2010

Formerly known as Mindbomb, the TF2 team has decided to tag up with a new organization, Nexus Gaming. The team was rumored to become Blight Gaming’s third TF2 team although it is unknown as to why the team decided not to join Blight in the first place.

Now that the team has decided which organization they want to represent, there has also been a minor roster change. With the departure of Tim “dummy” Olson, who was nXs’ former Demoman and has now joined ESEA-Open Die Hard, replacing him will be Davis “davis” Ford, formerly from teams dynamic and Strickland Propane fame.

Nexus Gaming is: 

John “punisher” Ecks
Tim “BOODAH519” Yates
Davis “davis” Ford
Luc “Luciious” Pearson
Ryan “paladin” Foley
Hong “hong” Cheung
Ryan “sycknesS” Mitchell

Source: ESEA News

Jumpy Retires, New MYM member announced

April 18th, 2010

Jimmy “Jumpy” Berndtsson hopped on board with Meet Your Makers in September of 2009 to become their new strat caller. His impact on the team was very apparent after a first place finish at Dreamhack 2009. Jumpy also fell just shy of leading the team to another first place finish after finishing second at EM Dubai. 

Jimmy “Jumpy” Berndtsson is calling it quits because he needs to find a balance between his life and Counter-Strike at this time. Jumpy said on the MYM Site:

 

My performance during the last couple of months has been up and down due to lack of motivation and energy so I felt that my teammates should play with someone who has the motivation and the energy that I don’t have.

 

With the loss of a player always comes a new fresh face. The person who will be replacing Jumpy is Frej “kHRYSTAL” Sjöström. kHRYSTAL will not be coming in as the new strat caller. Instead, Emil “FYRR73” Karlsson, will move up as the teams new in game leader.

The new MYM roster is as follows:

Frej ‘kHRYSTAL’ Sjöström
Marcus ‘zet’ Sundstrom
Faruk ‘pita’ Pita
Emil ‘FYRR73’ Karlsson
Marcus ‘Delpan’ Larsson

ESWC: Sweden Counter-Strike Qualifier Winners

April 18th, 2010

Today, ESWC announced the winners of the Swedish Counter-Strike 1.6 Qualifier. Below is the official press release from ESWC.com

This weekend Swedish qualifier for ESWC were decided together with Swedish Masters at Matrix gaming center in Stockholm.

Winners from Swedish Masters wins tickets to Paris and the ESWC finally.
After 2 days of gaming Team H2K won first prize. H2k won after 3 maps played and with hard work and effort from both teams.

H2k vs. Playzone – 2-1
Train: 16-14
Nuke: 2-16
Dust2: 16-9

Final Results:

1. H2k – 18 000 sek + ESWC-Tickets
2. Playzone – 8 000 sek
3. MYM – 4 000 sek
4. Limbokungen

H2K line up are as follow:
BARBARR
pronax
Xizt
pop
hyvlarn

Source: ESWC

EG, Mindbomb out of CEVO-P

April 17th, 2010

Week 2 of CEVO-P has now come to an end. With a total of eight matches in the two weeks, only three have been played. EG and Mindbomb are now out of CEVO-P for failure to “Ready up”.

Recently it has been rumored that Mindbomb was joining the blight organization and would become blight.iq. Nothing has been announced from either team on what is going on or what will be happening in the near future.

We will keep you updated as soon as either team or CEVO makes an announcment on the situation.

Carnage from compLexity TF2 had this to say:

I say CEVO should move two teams up. Five teams is great and all, but we need more variety. It will also give two more teams the experience playing against the top teir teams and will help our community grow.

Below are the remaining teams in CEVO-P

 

Source: ESEA News

ESWC Announces Sweden Qualifiers

April 16th, 2010

Late yesterday, ESWC announced that Game Solutions and Swedish E-Sports Associations have come to an agreement to host the Swedish qualifications for ESWC. The games that will be represented in the finals in Paris are Counterstrike 1.6, Street Fighter IV, Quakelive and Guitar Hero .

Below is the official press release from ESWC.com

Jönköping, 13 April 2009 Today we proudly announce that GAMES SOLUTION closed the deal with Swedish E-Sport Association, to host the Swedish qualifications for ESWC.

Games that will be represented for Sweden’s participation to the finals in Paris are as follows:

Counterstrike 1.6
Street Fighter IV
Quakelive
Guitar Hero 5

We will appoint Sweden’s representatives for Counter – Strike 1.6 in the tournament ”Swedish championship” together with Fragbite the 17-18 of April at the Gamingcenter Matrix in Stockholm.

”We are of course very proud that we get to arrange the Swedish qualifications 2010. We realized that Sweden of course must take part in the well renowned tournament in Paris. As we have been responsible and have held other qualifications we thought in the best interest of E-Sport and took it upon us to host a task no one else seemed willing to take, thanks to the initiative from the E-sport team Druidz. And now we aim to do our best for ESWC and the players themselves, even though time is short we will go all out for the games we have chosen to hold within the E-Sport witch I think the E-Sporters will be satisfied with.” – Daniel Abdiu, Swedish E-Sport Association

Other representatives for Sweden will be appointed under one weekend preliminary the 5th-6th of June. Street Fighter Iv and QuakeLive will be played at GameCity Gamingcenter in Jönköping and in the evening Guitar Hero 5 takes the stage at one of Jönköpings most renowned night clubs or Gamecity. It all ends with a unforgettable E-Sports party with all the qualified players and the four games are in focus.

”ESWC have under many years been very popular and at the same time one of the bigger international E-Sport event every year. It feels fantastic that the qualifications will be held and we can show the other countries what Sweden can do. Unfortunately due to short notice and planning we can only hold the qualifications for four games this time around, but better that then miss out on this great opportunity for Sweden”.– Andreas Westman, Event Coordinator

MediaPartner will be CtrlAltElite who will be in charge for all the media production and at the event make documentation including, photography, interviews and so on. We of course welcome other E-Sport medias to follow the qualifications.

More information will come soon. The national homepage for ESWC Swedish qualifications will be up soon with all the information.

About Swedish E-Sport Association AB:

Swedish E-Sport Association AB strives to establish E-Sport in Sweden and to provide, satisfy the participants, players interests and needs. Swedish E-Sport Association have for example organized the well known league SNL – Swedish National league that was linked with the best and most serious players with licenses and player cards for players in Sweden. Swedish E-Sport Association also arranged the qualifications for KODE5, the cooperation with organizations such as CPL and WSVG and have been part of creating tournaments on many occasions and numerous game releases. Swedish E-Sport Association has as goal to give to all E-Sport players better possibilities to participate, create new marketing possibilities for companies and create a bigger interest for E-Sport to the public by using the media as an information channel.

About CtrlAltElite:

CtrlAltElite has in a very short time become a very popular game site mixed with blogging and event coverage, interviews with people in the gaming industry and gamers, reviews. One of our most popular features is out Podcast we have once a week called Momentum where we invite different guests to discuss recent events in the gaming industry, E-sports and so on. To see more of us please visit out website, www.ctrlaltelite.se or our Youtube channel where we have all the material from events, interviews we have made. Today out channel has been in top ten most viewed Swedish Youtube channels many times.

Source: ESWC

Atari Game Sells for $31,600

April 15th, 2010

According to Retrothing.com, some Atari lover paid $31,600 for Air Raid, a very rare Atari 2600 game. Said to be the only original box known to exist, and only one of 20 cartridges, it has proven to be a hot commodity amongst eBay buyers. After ending on April 10th, 2010, the game sold for $31,600 and has been deemed the most expensive video game cartridge ever. This may prove to be a troublesome transaction, however, as the final prices has exceeded PayPal limits, forcing the buyer and seller to find another means of payment.

 

 

Source: RetroThing