One of Germanys better teams r@ts have decided to call it a day. The team played last season in Division 2a in ETF2L but are perhaps most famous for once beating k1ck in a pcw.
After the winter holidays there was motivational issues within the team which lead to two people leaving, RubberJohnny to Die Doppelnollen and Para to a yet unannounced Division One team. What will happen to the other players is not certain, but atleast some of them will be looking for new teams to join.
After some months of inactivity fnatic.cod4 will return to activity. The last time we saw the team in action was at Slap Live #16 in Denmark back in October. The Swedes won the tournament, but shortly after the win Tidde said goodbye to fnatic.cod4 due to lack of motivation and the others chosed to take a break from gaming until now.
Fnatic decides to remove two players from the lineup, Mikael "zsilts" Smedberg and Robin "rivve" Holmén, due to motivational issues. Two new swedish players was picked in the team to almost complete the line-up. Kalle "nikokick" Carlden and Conney "KyoChi" Sjöberg both from Begrip will take place in fnatic new line-up. The final line-up and the sniper spot will be announced Monday the 12th of January.
Line up:
Kalle "nikokick" Carlden Marcus "odyx" Nilsson Conney "KyoChi" Sjöberg Johan "LINQAN" Lindqvist
The competive Call of Duty 4 modification "Promod" have been updated once again, to version 4.20. The new Promod fixes some graphics issues and allow to everyone make their own configs. Promod 4.20 don't make any changes to weapons.
Promod 4.20 changelog
- Improved voice menu enabling new features/functions
- Promod Graphics toggleable
- Fullbright toggle
- FOV toggle
- Saturation toggle
- Texture filtering toggle
- Lag issues resolved from 4.10
- Can't plant during time-outs anymore
- Fixed head bob after plant
- Full integration into source code offering smoother gameplay
- Few surprises for people who use naughty commands that can't be forced :P
So the decider match in ETF2L season three is finally supposed to be played, tonight. The season actually ended about two months ago with Team Coolermaster and Ubersexuals on a shared first place. The decider match was supposed to be played shortly after the season ended, but have been rescheduled uptill tonight.
A While back ago we wrote about Enemy Down coming off with season four in their league, with £600 in prizes. Now, the action will begin as the groups and match schedules have been released. The league is divided into seven divisions where the premier division contain Europes finest teams, competing for the 1st place.
ED explains the prize distribution: "1st place in the premier division will receive £400! The Premiership Winner & Runner Up will play in a £50 final, The Winners of Div 1 & 2 will play in a £50 winners final. The Winners of Div 3 & 4 will play in a £50 winners final. The Winners of Div 5 & 6 will play in a £50 winners final."
Our own Northwave.TF2 will be competing in the second division. The first match week is scheduled to start tomorrow.
Jamie 'carlisle' Clifford and Jasdev 'JUSZN' Virdee have released a new Promod version! Feedback from users were used in new version. Promod 4.10 fixes the SMG hitboxes, Backlot car bug and much more.
Promod changelog
- Grenade damage radius reduced by 10%
- Improved map visibility
- Removed forcing "FPS" dvar "r_smc_enable 0", smart shader cache is now optional
- Backlot car bug & noise now fixed
- Game physics reduced
- Overall 5-10% FPS increase
- Every map is now less saturation
- Promod version title changed
- SMG's have been rebalanced (Revision 3)
- AK47u increased damage at medium range (Revision 3)
- MP5 'sniping' has been removed
- Improved SMG hitboxes
The prize pot for Finnish Assembly Winter LAN have been released. For the Call of Duty 4 Pro tournament there will be a total amount of 1600 €, where 1000 € goes to the winners.
Assembly Winter will be held in Tampere Finland 20th - 22nd of February 2009, and our own nwave.CoD4 will be participating.
The busy bees over at Cadred have released yet another Call of Duty 4 list. This time they listed the teams who earned the most money of 2008. On top we find the british organization Team Dignitas who earned a total amount of € 21900. Quite impressive for Call of Duty 4.
Time for another season of the biggest Team Fortress 2 league in all of Europe. So while the third season of ETF2L.org ended a while back, the seedings for the fourth season have now been released. Our own nwave.TF2 will be participating in the second league.
One of the top organizations in Europe Lowlandlions moves into the Counter-Strike: Source scene with a dutch team. The Belgian organization want's to maximize their Benelux profile during 2009, hence former team Sjakki joined up. The team was earlier, before the CGS a part of fnatic. Team Sjakki have dominated the Benelux scene for a couple of years now and it was a logical step for LLL to pick up this talent team.
Lowlandlions.CSS Line-up
Sandor "proph" de Munck Mark "AirRaid" Koks Luuk "darky" Verink Quint "Blaze" Spierenburg Milan "xertion" Veeger