deffan och CODQCUP behöver dig!

Världens bästa (?) online-turnering för CoD4, CODQCUP är på gång igen. Men för att komma igång på riktigt ber

"1: "awp-sniperfix" eller den som liknar cod2 snipern?
2: a) Ska det tillåtas att knivrundan är 4vs5 och efter det ge laget 5 minuter att få in sin femte, annars börjar matchen med 4vs5
b) Eller ska det ALLTID vara 5vs5. Har man inte fullt lag forfeit när utsatt tid passerat
3: Timouts. Vad ska vara tillåtet? Timeouts för allt och 1 gång per lag per map. Eller enbart timeouts när det är connection problem osv.
4: Stor turnering eller en mindre (ej mer än 250 lag) där kvalité blir viktigare än kvantitet?"
Hjälp deffan:
På CoD.se
zEm ger övriga svenskar på käften


"Q:Onto the Swedish scene now, and lately, not many teams have come out of Sweden for Call of Duty 4. Do you think the Swedish Call of Duty 4 community is strong for teams?
A: Well, what can I say about the Swedish community. We have more teams now in Call of Duty 4 then we ever had in Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2, so thats a big plus. But many teams are like, "We won't pay anything to get LAN experience". And if you think like that, you shouldn't aim to be a top team. Now people will say, "But you have everything paid, so you should say anything". Oh man, all I can say to those are, did you know that I paid around 400? to get to my first LAN event at SmauILP in Italy with team Epitaph? Did you know that during my time in WHO Crew, we paid for every single LAN event ourselves, sure it was in Finland, Sweden and Holland, but we paid it. Did you know that I paid around 200? to get to the EuroCup XIII LAN Finals in Aarhus, Denmark? Did you know that I paid almost 300? for my teams flight tickets when we played as Teamoxid and went to Enschede? And that's not all... now, when people say, "You get everything paid for?" I hope that you think about what you are saying before you do it, because me and the team are where we are because we have sacrificed so much! And all I wanted to say with this is, if you don't sacrifice something, you won't get anything!"
Låt oss säga såhär, snubben är inte helt fel ute och han har en rätt bra poäng om svenska lags ambitioner..
Läs vidare:
Tek-9.org
Källa:
CoD.se
EuroCup XVII - grupperna
Nu har grupperna till EuroCup XVII blivit publicerade. Som jag tidigare kunde avslöja har
Fnatic bestämt sig för att bojkotta denna "pajas-turnering" (läs mer här) och detta, samtidigt som
VAE valt att inte visa något intresse och
OMGN krasch (läs mer) innebar att det inte fanns någon plats för Sverige.

Relaterat:
ClanBase EuroCup XVII




Relaterat:
ClanBase EuroCup XVII
immortal blir ESCN
Holländska
immortal som jag tidigare berättat om (läs mer) har nu gått med i multigaming-organisationen
ESC-Novamania. Man kunde senast ses på CDC4 där man dock inte lyckades ta sig vidare från gruppspelet. Att det finns potential i laget bevittnar dock en 21-7 seger över tyska
KomaCrew om.
ESCN lineup:
tEMPlar
pnk
xtophe
Longbow
Froster
Seftaah
Närmast på schemat står det holländska LAN:et "The Party 6" som spelas i April.
Relaterat:
ESC-Novamania.org



ESCN lineup:






Närmast på schemat står det holländska LAN:et "The Party 6" som spelas i April.
Relaterat:
ESC-Novamania.org
Cadred inför i33

Community-sidan Cadred.org har skrivet en "inför i33"-artikel på sin sida. Och även om den inte känns speciellt aktuell så är det ändå kul läsning.
"It is perhaps surprising to see Call of Duty being at the forefront of an iSeries for the first time but it is certainly a welcome change that it has secured such a large number of teams and even better to see so many big names competing together.
There are so many recognisable names signed up to the event. The newly completed 4Kings Team, CoD2 legends Tek9, Team Coolermaster, Team Dignitas (who won Call of Duty 4's first LAN event at i32), and CDC4 heroes TLR who are looking to continue on the fiery path they started down in the Netherlands. As well as these, it is rumoured that fnatic - the eventual winners at CDC4 and SK Gaming may also be attending the event.
With all these big name teams and plenty of other underdog teams in the tournament who are eager for a shot at i-series glory, i33 is set to be one of the largest and most action packed Call of Duty 4 tournaments in Europe yet."
Klart är att



Läs vidare:
Cadred.org
Ny svensk satsning, GALENSKAP presenterade!

En väldigt glad nyhet kommer här när ytterligare ett hårdsatsande svenskt lag har kört igång. För inte så längesedan presenterade jag






Här närmast siktar man på CB OpenCup och man nämner även att en LAN-satsning ska vara på gång och Chefen hoppas att det stämmer då det genom CoD:s historia varit relativt dåligt med svenska lag som åkt på offline-turneringar.
dohfOs kommenterar:
"Starting up GALENSKAP with these guys have been nothing but an enjoyable project. The mixture of people is just awsome and we're having a blast each day on voice comms. GALEN is consisting of such a huge variety of people with players coming from scenes such as CS1.6, BF1942, W:ET, CoD:UO and ET:QW and we believe that in the long run it's something we can take advantage of.
We're ofcourse aiming to become one of the better teams around but even though we're eager to get there we know we got some heavy work infront of us if we wanna succeed. With that in our mind, a strong will and a high potential in the team it's more a question of time rather then anything else. Once we're prepared enough you will see us attending LAN:s, and hopefully that won't take forever. So see you on the battlefield anytime soon."
En galen lineup:





Kvar finns nu bara att visa att man verkligen kommer vara ett lag som kan utmana de stora, klart står i alla fall att man har den bästa sponsorn som jag sett ett e-Sport lag ha i Ringströms Begravningsbyrå. Chefen önskar GALENSKAP(ARNA?) lycka till!
Relaterat:
GALENSKAP.eu
#galenskap @ QNet.
EuroCup XVII - utan svenskt deltagande


Såhär ser hela listan ut:
*UPPDATERING*

"Med andra Ligor som erbjuder bättre priser och som ställer upp för att seriöst stödja oss som lägger ner timmar bakom datorerna anser vi att Clanbase mer och mer börjar likna en fars där årets priser är kuponger på en affär. Det enda jag kan säga om detta är att det är den fattigaste Europacupen nånsin i ett av deras mest populära spel nånsin, skärpning Clanbase."
Chefen ställer nu det skandinaviska hoppet till Roskilde och fastswitch.
Epsilon med 3 ändringar








Statement

"After two disappointing performances at the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 4 and Level7 Open Cup 2008, we finally figured out what was wrong, and hence decided to start the alteration of our team. What our old line-up missed was the motivation and the required experience from big matches. We did play extremely well in both events groupstages, yet we were unable to deliver whenever it really started to matter. Also the fact that Ville "fix" Jarvinen decided to quit competitive gaming and take gaming less seriously after Level7 had its effect that lead us to this decision.
Throughout the whole process of creating this line-up we have been able to see enormous dedication for success in these players and we are sure that will follow us in our journeys upcoming months aswell."
Epsilons nya lineup:





Relaterat:
Epsilon-eSports.org
#epsilon @ QNet.
Tek-9.org (källa)
Logitech.fi lägger ner!

Finlands CoD2-gigant och vinnaren av Level7,


EPLO med lång förklaring:
"The successful era of Team Logitech.fi CoD squad has faced an ending point. Every road comes to an end, as they say. It surely was a bumpy road with loads of curves, but it somehow kept going on and on. Today, however, I regret to announce the closure of the legendary squad, which dates back from the times of Call of Duty 2.
One might find this decision really weird as we just won Level7 LAN, thus making us the best Finnish team. Personally I think it is the best way to quit - as winners.
I would say I had the biggest impact on this decision. For me the biggest motivator has always been the upcoming LAN. Every codQcup, EuroCup or you-name-it online cup has always been just practice for the next event. And now there really isn't a LAN to look forward to. Also, unfortunately for me and my team I don't find this game as fun as CoD2, so playing it just "for fun" is not an option here. And the fact that I just turned 18 and my "living possibilities" increased drastically doesn't really help in this matter. Luckily enough for me I was not the only one who lost motivation so this decision was rather easy for us all to agree upon.
My opinion for my gaming plans is simple: I want to play with the absolute best Finnish players or I don't play at all. Therefore playing seriously with other Finnish top teams is not a possibility for me. For zeda I know that he will keep on playing, he is a tremendous guy with a great potential. Hopefully he finds a team with members that have the same passion to the game as he has. Raiskale will probably go inactive, but won't be disappearing from the scene. He is the one I have known the longest - amazing guy but he really needs to get to the gym to get some muscles around his hands. pottu will be having a small break from gaming and his future is unknown as for now. I really hope he continues gaming because in my opinion he is the best Finnish CoD4 gamer at the moment. And plaekki, as you all surely know, has decided to continue gaming under Epsilon's flag. I wish you and your team the best of luck, you are like the coolest person ever. I won?t be playing on serious level again, but I will keep on playing for fun. And who knows, maybe someday we will come back to rock the scene once again!"
Logitech.fi var:





Tråkigt tråkigt tycker Chefen.
Källa:
Tek-9.org
Roskilde fRiJeC intervjuad

Norges CoD-kung heter Kenneth (läs mer) och så är fallet även i Danmark och förstår ni att jag såklart pratar om


Saxat från Tek-9.org:
"Q: Starting off with eSports in Denmark. Last year gaming in Denmark took a big step towards mainstream acceptance. Could you tell us what exactly happened and the current status of eSports in Denmark?
A: Well yes, the major thing that happened was that the eSport clubs got accepted into real sports unions. And that meant we could start searching for support from the government like any other sport club out there and not only private sponsoring.
Roskilde-eSport was one of the first to get accepted and one of the pioneers behind all this work is our own manager Jens. He is passing all the help on to other clubs, so they can benefit of all his hard work.
The next thing that happened was that eSport Danmark was founded with 10 eSport clubs in Denmark represented, and they all elected Jens to be the chairman of this union. What happends next is just something you will have to keep an eye out for.
Q: Roskilde is also no ordinary organisation, as it represents the town of Roskilde. How does this feel and what kind of advantages does it have?
A: We have the advantage that Roskilde Township is supporting us with the clubhouse and funding to keep our club running and also giving our team the opportunity to compete on a international level. It gives several advantages to our teams, but also to the planning of an event like tex 08.
They gladly give all the help they can and try to support us in any way they can. I must say that it feels pretty awesome to be a part of something different that a private corporation that most MGCs are. Where it will take us to, I have no idea, but we are not planning to go anywhere else.
Q: Looking back at the team's CDC4 results, defeating Serious Gaming and LowLandLions and placing 9-16th. Is the team happy with the overall performance or did you expect to go further after winning one of the toughest groups?
A: I am pleased we did so well vs L3 and srs, but the exit vs SK was something we could have survived, if we had kept our A-game. But this is something we have in mind for the next events. As they say, what doesn't kill you, can only make you stronger.
Q: With i33 coming up, the expections of the Roskilde team itself and the community have obviously changed. What does the team personally expect and how have the preparations been going?
A: This time we're actually a bit worse prepared because Champ have just been in Prague for 1 week. So R3CoR my brother had to step in for a week and snipe. So the next 4 days before i33 we're gonna take longer prac days to get up to speed again. We would have loved to bootcamp, but it wasn't possible for all our players to do so. We don't come to i33 with the expectation of winning it, but we want to attend in the thought of gaining more international experience for the team and the younger players.
Q: Can we expect Roskilde to play to their full potential at i33?
A: I would love to say yes, but I really can't. In one to two months I believe you can expect a team worthy of being at any LAN in the world, but for now we're loading up."
Läs vidare:
Tek-9.org
Svenska EMS-kvalet ikväll *

Ikväll (16/3) drar det svenska kvalet till ESL Major Series (läs mer) igång. Dessvärre var det endast 5 lag som var intresserade av att deltaga, varav 1 har lagt ner (One2).
Det ger oss följande lista:




Runda 1, 16:00 - mp_backlot
Mortifer [00:01] Vicious and Evil
fnatic [13:06] Live2Win.Gaming
Runda 2, 17:00 - mp_crash
Mortifer [00:01] Live2Win.Gaming
Runda 3, 18:00 - mp_strike
fnatic [13:06] Vicious and Evil
Runda 4, 20:00 - mp_vacant
Live2Win.Gaming [13:11] Vicious and Evil
Runda 5, 21:00 - mp_crossfire
Mortifer [03:11] fnatic.cod4
Chefen önskar de 4 lycka till under dagen!
Relaterat:
ESL Major Series
Fnatic coverage
VAE coverage
Tips-tack till Fron och Erik..
inFlux med CoD4-lag



Ägaren av inFlux kommenterar CoD4-scenen:
"With the recent developments in the Call of Duty 4 scene, and our recent revival, we felt it was time for us to spread out this new game. With this dutch lineup we are aiming for new and higher goals ever been reached in inFlux. We hope this cooperation will be succesfull for all of us"
Lagkapten

"We are very glad to join this multigaming organisation, an organisation with very nice teams & archievements in the past. The first events we are aiming on are the party 6 & regroup, where we will do our best to take some awards back to inFlux!"
inFlux lineup:






Relaterat:
inFlux-gaming.com
#influx @ QNet
CrossFire.nu (källa)
Notiser från den svenska scenen




Discodance med kommentar till Koddblogg:
"saxs fick kvällsjobb och Grind behövde då en ny spelare, dom frågade mig då vi haft kontakt förut genom mix och merc. Jag har länge tänkt på om jag skulle söka klan eller inte, men när erbjudandet kom så sa jag JA direkt: Jag kunde inte motså de goa små flickorna."
Grindhouse nya startlineup:





Det har inte gått Chefen förbi att att




ZeebbZ kommenterar själv:
"Jag lirade med Grindhouse sedan kom numse in i laget och då fanns det ej någon plats/jag var för dålig. Så jag frågade Capone om de hade plats för en try, vilket de hade. Efter en veckas try så fick jag beskedet att jag kommit med. Riktigt schyssta grabbar detta, tror nog detta kan bli riktigt bra. Bara vi får spela ihop oss lite."
Detta har gjort att Corax nu fått en mastodånt lineup som ser ut som följer:







Sista notisen för idag blir den att


h0a berättar kort:
"Vad ska man säga.. Vi hade en intern röstning om vem som skulle bli sjätte spelare och det sluta på att det skulle bli jag. Så jag ville inte spela kvar där helt enkelt."
Detta gör att man i L2W.Gaming har det magiska numret 5 spelare:





Källa:
Den svenska scenen som tipsat Koddblogg - tack till er alla, ni vet vilka ni är. Har DU fler tips till Koddblogg, skicka iväg ett mail till [email protected] alternativt besök #koddblogg @ QNet.
dignitas\plaZma intervjuad

Kungen av Norge,


Saxat och inklistrat från Cadred.org:
"Q: Hi Ken, could you briefly introduce the members of your team to the readers?
A: Hello there, well it's me plaZma the Norwegian Viking, Mick the Englishman who has moved to Ireland to be Irish, raz the weird English guy who's just plain weird, then there's blackmane the Welsh-weird-speaking-language-guy and there's SKO who is our newest addition and ingame leader!
Q: You have recently replaced lukzaR with SKO, what does SKO bring to the team?
A: Well, first of all SKO brings a lot of experience and talent, he's also our new ingame leader like I mentioned, and he sorts us out on Vent and calms us down (we basically used to have arguements on Ventrilo when we did bad, and that didn't really help the team). With SKO that doesn't happen!
Q: How do you feel your dominance of recent iSeries events will help you at i33?
A: In the CoD tournament, not so much, because there usually isn't a lot of top teams attending iSeries. Now you have fnatic, tek9, EG, 4kings, TCM etc. There is a lot of good teams attending, so I don't think it will help us at all, one thing that will help us is that noone is expecting us to win, so we can play without pressure, I suppose.
Q: Dignitas are obviously one of the stronger teams attending, so where do you hope to finish?
A: I'll be happy with a top3 placement, I'd be delighted if we won of course, but competition is tough in CoD4 at the moment, so anything can happen.
Q: Who do you see as your biggest threat in the tournament?
A: Tek9 and fnatic, and I'm looking forward to see EG (Evil Geniuses) who are flying out from Canada!
Q: What's your predictions for the top 3 this time round?
A: If I leave us out of the top 3 I'd say TEK9, fnatic and 4K/EG."
Men seriöst plaZma, kallas du verkligen för "Ken" eller är det något crokey hos Cadred.org fått för sig? I Chefens hjärta kommer du alltid vara Kenneth med 2 n och eth på slutet!
Till intervjun i orginalskick:
Cadred.org
lukZar hittar nytt

Tack vare er (!) och era tips så har jag möjlighet att skriva om de små, små saker som pågår i scenen. Nu kan jag tack vare Overkill rapportera att f.d



Minimalt med info hittar ni här!
fnatic`odyx bloggar



Saxat från Fnatic.com:
"To be honest i had a little hangover when i woke up but it was nothing that was gonna prevent me from performing. Actually the other way around :P. Me, klanne and tidde were topfragging the first game against h2k and we were all performing really great this last day on all matches.
After a win of 2-1 in maps against h2k and 2-1 against eSuba i just knew we were gonna win the whole thing. There was just no way we would let TLR take the first place from us. So we started out the game with a really good defence on backlot finishing 10-2. But something happened during our attacking. They were just rushing like crazy people from everywere and we just didnt know what to do. We knew it was alot easier with defending but usually we play alot better on our attacking than we did. We got to 11-12 in their favour and it was not looking good after beeing under in a 2v3 situation but klanne and tidde did great and finished them off and taking us to overtime. 12-12. Now we got to defend and we knew we had to take all rounds.
Our team atmosphear was just great, we were all screaming and cheering for every frag and round we got. And after some really good performances from all of us we managed to take all 3 rounds as defence. Now over to the attacking side were we just had to take one round. We lost the first round but managed to end the match by taking a 4th round and final score was 16-13. Then over to the 2nd map (i thought...) but apparently 2 of their guys had to catch a plane so only one map was going to be played. And that was it. #1 @cdc4.. it felt really weird but ofc really nice at the same time."
Även

Läs vidare:
fnatic`odyx bloggar om CDC4
fnatic`tidde bloggar om CDC4
Ändringar i Insidiae





Uttalande från hOlic:
"I have high expectations about our team. I am thinking tactics in school, sauna and almost everywhere, something has to come out of that. We're looking forward to the TEK9 Power Cup Finals now, where we are representing Finland as the only team."
Insidiaes nya lineup:






Relaterat:
Insidiae.com
#insidiae @ QNet.
Tek-9.org (källa)
OMG_Ninjas lägger ner!


Svenskarna lämnar flera imponerande resultat bakom sig, mest ihågkomna blir överkörningen av


"KEBBE ska tydligen ha väldigt mycket jobb nu de närmaste 2 månaderna och kommer inte ha tid att spela och valde då att gå inaktiv. Då passade rivieRa på att dra vidare och leta nytt istället för att försöka styra upp det med oss andra. Så vi tre som var kvar (FUFFEN, Isaak, viSSeH) kände noll motivation för tillfället men förhoppnigsvis så ska vi börja om från början igen och överraska europa med ett nytt lag."
Vart rivieRa hamnar är således oklart men FUFFEN hoppas som sagt på en comeback i en annan form och det är precis vad Chefen också tror på. En reunion med klanne kanske kan vara på sin plats för vad som återstår av FUFFEN&co?
OMG_Ninjas var:





Chefen lyfter på hatten och önskar samtliga spelare i gamla OMGN lycka till med vad än nu framtiden må hålla för dem.
Relaterat:
#OMG_Ninjas @ QNet.
SL tappar humM3L efter hjärtfel



humM3L har nu tillfrisknat och är hemma igen från sjukhuset. Nu har han dock bestämt sig för att lägga CoD4-satsningen på hyllan för att istället återgå till ET där han inte behöver spela i samma utsträckning.
Den gamle SL-spelaren säger själv:
"I think it was the right decision to take a step back from esports. I'm very sorry that I'm losing these four funny people in eSports as they mean very much to me, nevertheless I think we will stay in contact. I'm wishing the team all the best in the EuroCup and I'm sure they will go far in it."
SPEED-LINK nere på 4:




Spola kröken!
Relaterat:
Team-SL.com
Team-Dignitas.org (källa)
FGL med onlineturnering värde 9277:-

FuturTech Gaming League har precis utannonserat sina priser för deras kommande onlineturnering FGL CoD4 Opening Championchip. Det hela drar igång 19/3 så finns intresse är det dags att skriva upp sig. Exakt vilka regler som gäller och om prispotten är i cash (vilket det dock verkar vara) eller hårdvara har jag inte lyckats lista ut ännu så räkna men räkna med ytterligare info på Koddblogg inom kort.
Prispotten (samtliga summor översatta av FOREX):



Helt OK priser för att vara en onlineturnering i ett så pass nytt spel. Chefen hoppas på att få se många svenska lag deltaga!
Registrera ditt lag:
FGLeague.com