Tonight we saw the 5th round of the Loser Bracket in the Battle For Berlin. The winner of tonight's game will advance to the Loser Bracket Final tomorrow night where they will play against the loser of the Winner Bracket Final: G2P vs. Anexis. The loser of tonight's game will be out of the competition and place 4th. Below are the full results from tonight's action, including match reports and statements from each of the competing teams.

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New prized tournament for Enemy Territory? Hell yeah! Excello, as they call themselves one of the most promising organizations in the world of eSports have spread their arm wide open to welcome our beloved game and provide prizes for upcoming tournaments. Sounds good? Will only get better, but only with your help. In order for this to become a regular event it needs teams, so please try and make little effort.

First cup will be limited to 16 teams, but if enough interested is shown from the community it can expand to 32 teams from next events. Every team is welcome to participate, unless of course they violate the rules. In order to sign-up you'll have to follow these steps:

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Tonight we have the 5th round of the Loser Bracket in the Battle For Berlin. The action will be coming at you thick and fast in the next 2 days as tomorrow we will have the Winner Bracket Final followed by the Loser Bracket Final - both games being covered here on Crossfire.nu and being shoutcast live by TosspoT.

On to tonight: Queens vs. k1ck starts at the slightly later time of 22.00 CET. The winner of tonight's game will advance to the Loser Bracket Final and be guaranteed a top 3 finish.

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MLG Providence is less than a week away and the full StarCraft II lineup has recently been announced. The Pro Circuit returns to Rhode Island for the sixth and final event of the season. The previous instalments of the MLG Pro-Circuit in 2011 have each delivered 3 days of memorable StarCraft action. The year began in Dallas at the beginning of April with NaNiwa taking home the Gold. The first Koreans to enter MLG via the MLG/GSL exchange program were highly successful, with MMA winning in Columbus in June. Further Korean victories followed with MVP winning in Anaheim in July and Bomber winning at Raleigh in August. Fan-favourite Protoss HuK ended the run of Korean Terran victories as he swept the field at MLG Orlando just last month. There really are no notable absentees from the pool of invited players to MLG Providence - how do you pick a winner? Winners of all of the previous MLG's are present and so are the two (recognised) best players in the world right now: MVP & Nestea.

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The online distribution and game service Steam has announced that it's forums, servers and database had all been hacked. The news broke yesterday afternoon after Valve confirmed spreading rumours that their users information was in jeopardy. This is the second high profile security breach in recent memory, following the continued hacking of Playstation network. Many a PC gamer turned their noses up at the difficulties suffered by their console-gamer brethren but unfortunately it is now our turn to up our security levels. It was originally thought that only their forums were breached but a public statement from CEO Gabe Newell stated:

 Quote: Gabe Newell 

We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information.

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Tonight we saw the 4th round of the Loser Bracket in the Battle For Berlin. The winners of tonight's games will meet on Sunday to give themselves the chance to advance to the Loser Bracket Final on Monday. Where there are winners there also must be losers and unfortunately we have to say goodbye to two more teams. Below are the full results from tonight's action, including match reports and statements from each of the competing teams.

Game #1 Seed 8 vs. Seed 3

disQonnect humM3L jOKE predi Kevji fanatic fireball

Queens razz Clown kot miNd perfo NuggaN

Goldrush

Queens started on the Axis side and begun the round well as kot picked himself up 5 quick frags which really set the tone for the early going. It took the Allied side almost 5 minutes before they were able to get near the tank, and thanks to some good medic work from predi, Kevji was able to repair. The Axis continued to play aggressively and with all of their medics pushed up to disQonnect's spawn, they were able to construct the barrier and defend it for another 4 minutes. The aggression was relentless, with NuggaN and razz spending more time in their opponents spawn than their own. disQonnect never looked likely to set a time and the end result was indeed a fullhold.

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Tonight we have the 4th round of the Loser Bracket in the Battle For Berlin. disQonnect vs. Queens will be cast live by TosspoT @ QuadV. A link to the stream can be found here. The winners of tonight's games will meet in the 5th round of the Loser Bracket on Sunday 13th. The winner of that game will head to the Loser Bracket Final. The very next day on Monday 14th we will be bringing you a monster double-header as we will have the Winner Bracket Final directly followed by the Loser Bracket Final, all shown on ETTV and casted live by TosspoT & QuadV. All sounds complicated? Fear not, there is an updated tournament bracket at the bottom of this newspost. Below we have a full preview of the upcoming games so get ready to tune into another night in the final stages of this Enemy Territory tournament.

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MLG conducted an interview with with Brett Robins, the creative director at Sledge Hammer games, to find out about the developers slant on the game and its future possibly in MLG itself. Interpreting the answers in a cynical eSports fashion as one might, the name might have changed but its business as usual for Activision and their neglect of eSports.

The interview starts positively with Robins stating that eSports and competitive gaming will one day go mainstream "I think it’s going to happen here. With the multiplayer in Modern Warfare 3, it’s going to blow up because the multiplayer is so good this time around." However as you can see in the quote below, that doesn't mean they've actually done anything nor are they likely to in terms of eSports;


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The second semi final in the Battle For Berlin was played tonight. The winner will go on to face G2P in the Winners Bracket final and the loser will drop down to the 4th round of the loser bracket to face k1ck.

Game #1 Seed 1 vs. Seed 4

Anexis R0SS Night Squall sqzz mAus XyLoS

Mouse-Control saKen SQuid Joshua an7ho filuS zMk

Supply

Anexis started on the Allied side and begun with a heavy medic push high, as almost every team does these days, however they are more successful than most given that their medics are Sqzz, Squall and mAus. They capped the flag and planted lower within the opening 2 minutes. The Allies took a suit but their initial rush was shut down, as were the following few because of the standard artillery spam. SQuid was having bad connection troubles which were really hampering his sides efforts. Anexis planted main and East but were held up for a few minutes by some effective spam from the Axis side. Squall jumped up the back and watched his teammates die to the upstairs defence of MouseControl. Assuming there were no more Allies remaining, the Axis let their guard down which allowed the Fin to built the controls and begin the end of the map.

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Tonight is the second semi final in the winner bracket of the Battle For Berlin. G2P won the first semi-final against Queens last Thursday and due to some scheduling problems, the second semi-final was delayed until today. The top four seeds all made it to the final four with relative ease but the semi-finals provide them with their first real challenges. Anexis vs. MouseControl begins at 21.00 CET.

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