Even though our boy, Shase was knocked out in the group stages at DreamHack, as promised we have covered the rest of the QuakeLive competition. With 16 of the worlds best players making it through to the knockout stages which is single elimination, best out of 3 maps – this has proven to give some very exciting games.

16 Players to make it through to knockout stages

Stermy
tox1c
Av3k
draven
Chance
dkt
DaHang
serak
linkoo
l1nkje
strenx
Cooler
Spart1e
fox
Z4zmuZ
Cypher

The competition has already moved into the semi-final stages with a few upsets orccuring along the way. The first round of knockout stages saw Spart1e, who was one of the favourites to win the tournament get knocked out in an epic thriller against DaHang. Cooler dominated fox in an easy 2-0 victory and Cypher showed Chance who was boss.

To see the results for the knockout stages please click here.

We now go into week 3 of the Intel iGame Call of Duty 4 League and things seem to be heating up in the pro bracket. With only one week left of games, teams will be fighting to make the final placings into the next round of the league.

Group 1

¬ Brazen (4points)
¬ UbS.En (2points)
¬ EVO (2points)
¬ dS.eQ (0points)

It seems Brazen have had quite an easy time, taking two easy wins against dS.eQ and EVO. If UbS.EN wants to make it through to the next round they are going to have an uphill battle and will either have to pull off a win against Brazen or hope that EVO doesn’t win against dS.eQ – if there is a three way between EVO, dS.eQ and UbS.EN one team will go through on points difference.

Group 2

¬ UbS.GT (2points)
¬ sG.Evoke (4points)
¬ Element T1 (0points)
¬ Bestiality (2points)

With Bestiality taking on Element T1 who have shown promise but not put up much of a fight, we will most likely see sG.Evoke and Beastiality move through to the next round. UbS.GT have an outside chance of making it though but they will have to play out of their skins against the group leaders or hope that Element T1 can somehow pull off a win against the strong Bestiality team.

Group 3

¬ miNt Gaming (4points)
¬ Pantheon (2points)
¬ UbS.ZK (2points)
¬ ATF.T (0points)

Our boys in Green have almost guaranteed their spot in the next round. If Pantheon manages to beat miNt, and UbS.ZK beat ATF.T by a long enough margin we could just see the miNt Gaming team be knocked out. But judging by their strong performance against both UbS.ZK and ATF.T the teams that are most likely to progress are miNt Gaming and Pantheon Gaming.

Group 4

¬ A*P (2points)
¬ ATF.A (2points)
¬ Prodigy (4points)
¬ Pandemonium (0points)

In a tight match against Prodigy, only marginally losing out to them 11-13 on mp_backlot – A*P are in a good postition to move through to the next round with Prodigy.

In all four groups, we could see some upsets occurring in this last week. It will all come down to who wants it more, some teams still with a fighting spirit wanting to take home a podium place, whilst others still fatigued from the past season. Teams who are most likely to move through to the next round are:

• Brazen
• EVO
• sG.Evoke
• Bestiality
• miNt Gaming
• Pantheon Gaming
• A*P
• Prodigy

*Please note these views reflect the personal opinion of the writer and in no way express the views of the eGamer. All games, Points and match-ups are taken directly from the iGame Forums.

The Battle of the Clans (BOTC) team has decided to lift the ban on the Counter Strike Source team Royalty Games Club Sport (also known as Hybrid). The ban on the player who was adjudged to have cheated remains in place.

Rob ‘iNFy’ Hart, BOTC organiser, says the decision was taken to follow AGASA’s lead as from what he can see, it only bans the player(s) concerned and not necessarily the whole team.

“AGASA’s policy seems to not ban the team, but rather just just ban the player. We spoke to community leaders and most of them said we should ban the player and unban the team. They only used the player concerned in some of their games,” he says.

For the full story please click here.

miNt Gaming, Equilibrium Team Fortress 2 (TF2) and IS Gaming have all teamed up to host an online TF2 competition – the 1v1 Soldier Rebirth Competition.

The point of the competition is to build up the TF2 competitive community in South Africa in a fun way. MiNt Gaming and Equilibrium.TF2 have noticed a large influx of TF2 players in the last few months, but have also noticed that most TF2 players are fairly casual towards the game.

So to give gamers an easy opportunity to see how enjoyable true competitive play is for TF2, the 1v1 Soldier Rebirth Competition gives TF2 gamers the ability to guage their skill with TF2 players all over the country, showcase their skill and become recognised within the TF2 community.

As there are only 50 spots available, TF2 gamers who are keen to go for it should register quickly. The tournament is free to enter and registration closes on 16 August. It will run over a period of six weeks, with the first two stages being two weeks each.

All matches will be played on the all new arena maps released by Valve. The player who reaches a certain number of rounds first will be the winner and will move through to the next round of the Cup. The number of rounds required to win will depend on the stage of the Cup, says miNt Gaming.

To register, gamers must register at the miNt Gaming forums (click here). Once registered, gamers go to this link and fill in the necessary details.

The ruleset can be found here.

Any general info about the competition can be found at the Mint Gaming site here.

There are only 8 spots left, so hurry if you want your shot at being South Africa’s number one Soldier.

Pantheon and MPLD have teamed up once again to bring the Counter-Strike: Source community another competition for gamers in and around the Johannesburg an Pretoria areas. The new team, Soviet, won the last Counter-Strike: Source competition at MPLD, and maybe this time teams will come better prepared. The miNt Gaming team plans on attending the competition, with possibly its full lineup. Although zer0chance stays in Cape Town and widomaka has exams, the team might make a brief appearance at the competition. Please click on the -Read more- tab to view the competition details.

For  the details head on over to the miNt Gaming website.

The young miNt Call of Duty 4 squad has done it yet again, and shown why they deserve to be considered one of South Africa’s premiere teams. The team has grown immensely throughout the league, having won 24 out of their 25 games, only to drop one game against Borg – Cyborgs who won rAge last year. Unfortunately that one loss meant that they could not be promoted into the premiere league and would have to play the second leg in the 1st Division for leg 2. 

During leg 2 of the 1st Division the team seemed to shine with their new lineup. The team managed to crush every opponent standing in their way, in total the team won 190 rounds and only lost 52. Behind the miNt team was DyN|Phoenix, who was the only team to give our boys a run for their money, when they played mp_strike with miNt winnning 13-11. 

For  the rest of the story head on over to the miNt Gaming website.

With the current state of the community, many gamers would say the competitive e-Sports community in South Africa is going through a rough patch. A lot of people are focusing on the negatives at the moment, such as Ben “Equinox” Greenwood leaving the SA Gaming community, the number one TeamFortress 2 team, Brazen, are inactive and there are rumors that they could split, many of the good players are moving overseas, and lastly the problem tournament administrators have with the lack of enthusiasm and gratitude gamers show towards their tournaments. 

While most people are focusing on the negatives lets take the time to reflect back on the positives. 

In 2008 we saw the very first installment of the BOTC Call of Duty 4 and Counter-Strike: Source competitions, arguably the most premiere online tournaments to date, it could even rival some international competitions, in terms of prizes, organisation and of course the competition. Although it was a rough start for Robert “iNFy” Hart he weathered the storm and pulled through, showing that with enough perseverance and determination, dreams can become a reality. 

Most of us also saw, or heard of the most notable sponsorship in South African gaming history go to BFB (Big Fat B*stards). Where Incredible Connection sponsored them R60 000 worth of gaming hardware. Again part of the community were negative, and retaliated out of jealousy asking why they had been sponsored as the team hadn’t won anything of note or placed well in any of the premiere online and offline tournaments, and that there were far more deserving teams. BFB too weathered the storm and now boast one of the strongest lineups the Call of Duty 4 community has ever seen. All they need to do now, is learn how to work as a unit, and soon they should be unstoppable.

For  the rest of the story head on over to the miNt Gaming website.

The Intel Battle Of The Clans competition is about to go live once again. The very successful tournament hosted and run by Robert “iNFy” Hart has proven to be one of, if not, the most premiere online competition South Africa has to offer. With Intel sponsoring some huge prizes, the tournament draws in all the big names. Registrations are about to go live with the competition scheduled to start on the 27 of June. The next BOTC will prove to be even more exciting than the last one.

ounter-Strike: Source

This time round we may see some new champions, with most of the top teams having had lineup changes since the last BOTC. In the Counter-Strike: Source BOTC v4 competition, the community saw Eternal Conflict take the title. But since then, the miNt Gaming team (7th) has strengthened their lineup, and should be able to better their previous placing. Pantheon Gaming (5th) has also gone through some major lineup changes. Some say the team isn’t as strong as it used to be and that the players just aren’t dedicated enough anymore. A team to look out for is Soviet, regarded by some as South Africa’s strongest team at the moment, having crushed all the competition at the MPLD LAN in May. This will be their first big online competition, so it will be interesting to see how they fair. The asceNt (2nd) lineup has had minimal changes. They still seem to have one of the strongest lineups around, but providing that a lot of the other teams are catching up skill-wise, asceNt will have to up their game quite a bit if they want to reach the finals again.

In all four of the previous BOTC Counter-Strike: Source competitions, there has always been a wild-card managing to place in the top 3. In the very first BOTC we saw Team Random taking 3rd position. In the second, TAB took 3rd. In the third installment of the BOTC competition Team Enmity claimed 2nd spot ahead of Pantheon. Last BOTC saw c7e claiming 3rd. With the past results and current teams on form we could see the standings change this year. The probability of seeing an eC/Soviet final is highly likely, and judging by previous results anyone of out of the miNt, asceNt, and Pantheon teams could place in the top3. 

For  the rest of the story on the TeamFortress and Call of Duty 4 competitions, head on over to the miNt Gaming website. 

Titans fall

Over the past few weeks the Counter-Strike: Source community has seen many of the top teams disbanding, only to form newer stronger teams, which in the course of a few weeks seem to die without any explanation. The first team to disband was heAd, only to form one of the most strongest teams around, soviet consists of 3 heAd players and 2 former asceNt players, and about 3 weeks ago the community saw the same happen to the two time BOTC champions, Eternal Conflict, due to conflicting interests within the team.

eC’s,Zeo and Kustom_ teamed up with 3 c7e members, went on to form a new team called N³ (No Name Necessary) replacing c7e in AGASA, and Craan created a concept team called sect, which never really took off. Both teams died within about 2 weeks with no reason. Eternal Conflict has since then sorted out their issues, but is still looking for a solid fifth player. Rumor has it that oj – former c7e player – could be joining their ranks, but nothing has been set in stone as of yet. 

Enmity is another team that showed promise, but then took a turn for the worse when they decided to drop two players and rename to sect, where they were left without a captain/player due to Craan moving back to eC, now instead of someone taking charge and completing the team, 5 players -3 from sect / 2 from Enmity – are now clanless.

CauTion has also fallen due to internal conflicts, which is quite sad as they have been recognized as one of the better Counter-Strike: Source teams around. The team however did not perform as well as they had liked to in the AGASA 1st division league. There was a decent amount of individual talent but they couldnt really pull together as a team, which in the end led to the break up. 

 

For  the rest of the story head on over to the miNt Gaming website.

Two weeks have gone by since the start of the second Leg and one thing is very clear – the competition is extremely close. miNt Gaming started off strong by taking down GodMode 16-13 on Nuke, and then silencing all critics by drawing with the Battle of the Clans double champions –Eternal Conflict on Dust2. Eternal Conflict – had another tough match on their hands when they faced off against Zero Limit on Nuke, winning narrowly 16-12.

Pantheon Gaming has come through with an impressive line-up for the second quarter of the year, boasting names such as Vamooze and Shazzchck. However this new line-up failed to perform as expected against Soviet on Sunday night when they lost 16-10 on Nuke, Pantheon’s best map. Pantheon was awarded the win over Critical Control after CC was unable to field a team. 

The new Soviet team proved that they were no walk-over on Sunday night when they drew with Ascent – Finalists of the Battle of the Clans v4 tournament. The match took place on Dust2, with Ascent taking a dominating lead in the first half with a score of 12-3. Ascent then went on to win the pistol round during the second half, gaining them the three rounds needed to secure a draw. With 12 rounds still to be played, things looked grim for Soviet as the score was already 15-3 to Ascent. Soviet kept their cool and managed to stage a comeback, winning 12 straight rounds and drawing the match.

c7e, the team which placed third in the last Battle of the Clans v4 tournament, faced Zero Limit on Dust2. c7e were expected to win the match, however Zero Limit’s vast experience shone through, handing them the win with a score of 16-10. The match between c7e and CC it seems has not been played, which means both teams will be given a loss.

Stage 3 starts this week, with some very exciting matches to look forward to. Here are some of the must see matches:

• miNt Gaming vs Pantheon on de_inferno_pro

• miNt Gaming vs CC on de_season

• Ascent vs Eternal Conflict on de_Season.

• Ascent vs Pantheon on de_Train.

• Soviet vs c7e on de_Train.

• CC vs Soviet on de_Inferno_Pro.

• Eternal Conflict vs CC on de_Train.

• Pantheon vs c7e on de_Season.

Exciting times for all spectators!

[Source: BOTC]

The first two weeks of Leg 2 have been completed in the league that helps to define the Call of Duty 4 landscape in South Africa. With distinct leaders of the pack in both the first division and premier league already stepping forward after only 3 matches.

A large amount of premier league quality teams poured into the first division after the end of leg one, moving up from the second division. The quality of opposition though was stinted after a large number of teams withdrew forcing AGASA to move sides up to the Premier League from the first division and consequently fill the first division with teams from the second division.

AGASA has finally released their divisions for Counter-Strike: Source, where teams have been split up into premiere and 1st division. The top four teams from each pool of Leg 1, have automatically been drafted into the premiere league, and those teams which stayed active but did not make the top 4 in their pool have been placed in the 1st division, much like the Call of Duty 4 league.

There are no real surprises really in the premiere division, with the exception of GodMode who only won 2 out of their 7 games in Pool A. miNt Gaming will be looking to impress with their newly formed lineup, and so will the likes of Eternal Conflict (eC) who have recently just picked up tiNySkapie from Pantheon. The new team Soviet has proven their worth by winning MPLD April and will be a big favourite going into Stage 2. Not a lot separates these 9 teams as they have all proven to be great teams during practise games. Please click here to see a list of the teams in the premiere division. 

for the full story please click here.

Registrations have been opened for the AGASA League: leg 2, teams have from now until the 20th of April to register themselves for the league. Teams that stayed active throughout the first leg have already been placed into the premier and first division leagues (depending on your game of choice), and new teams wishing to register for the new leg will have to compete in the first or second divisions.

The first leg saw many Call of Duty 4 teams and Counter-Strike: Source teams dropping out of the league, due to inactive players or bad performances. The Counter-Strike: Source league was hotly contested with asceNt and Pantheon topping their respective groups, a big shock was the powerhouse, heAd, choosing to disband after somewhat of a poor showing in BOTCv4. A lot of new teams have formed and will hopefully register for leg 2 of the league. To register your team please click here

To view which teams have registered for leg 2 of the league click on the game and select which division you require.

Counter-Strike: Source

• Premiere League

Call of Duty 4

• Premiere League
• 1st Division
• 2nd Division

BattleField 2

• Premiere League

Call of Duty: WAW

• Premiere League

Having paid a small fee to access information regarding legal proceedings from a goverment website the story was first discovered by Against All Authority Editor-in Chief who obtained a document outlining the result of a tribunal involving the ESWC organisers, Games-Services.

The result was that Games-Services has now entered liquidation, in other words ceased all business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities (its debts). Matthieu Dallonsent out a release in March stating that the ESWC organisers were “facing a serious cash flow crisis.” 

Games-Services made it official after posting an announcement earlier today on their website confirming the cease of all activities.

Official statement on the Games-Services website.

“Games-Services SA ceases all activities. Its liquidation has been pronounced by the Commercial Court of Paris March 30, 2009. In consequence, all the employees and managers have been relieved from their duties and laid off April 2nd, by the adjudication. 

The process of liquidation, which is starting this week, will notably organize the potential trade-in or resale of the company’s assets including the Electronic Sports World Cup and Overgame.”

This means we could see the ESWC brand being sold onto another company but given the current climate, who could possibly wish to take on such a huge burden? It also begs the question of what will happen to prize money of its past installment after teams and players signed an agreement that they would not receive it until a year after the tournament. Another question mark is if the 2009 Grand Final will even take place despite Dallon saying “the event might be organized by a third party.”
[Source via: SK-Gaming]

Both the Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4 teams have been struggling to find suitable players to fill the fifth position available in both teams. The teams have now found more than capable players, that will bring much needed experience. Both teams believe they now have stronger lineups, more than capable of being a competitive team, as they have shown in recent friendlies. 

The Counter-Strike: Source team has recruited long time Counter-Strike 1.6 player zer0ch4nce, who has competed in many tournaments which include ESWC and KODE5 qualifiers with teams such as PixelMassacre and zeroEffect. The team has also welcomed M1gHTy who has been an active member of the Counter-Strike: Source community for quite some time now, with his ability to read the game as well as be able to concentrate on his own. The two new additions have ultimately strengthened the lineup.

The new Counter-Strike: Source lineup is as follows:

• AJ M1gHTy Morkel
• JP vadeR De Villiers
• James zer0ch4nce Wijnberg
• Kline w1domaka Moralee
• Daniel merc Balusik

With the loss of IceMunki and Tom in a relatively short period of time, the Call of Duty 4 team has found replacements that have not only proven their worth in previous teams but have also brought a certain flair to the team that was not there perviously, making the team a far more formidable opponent. Krimzon deciding to make the change from Counter-Strike: Source to the Call of Duty 4 team has helped stabilized the team, and with the addition of MoeFoe who has been playing Call of Duty 4 since it came out, the two new players have helped the team become even more competitive.

The new Call of Duty 4 lineup is as follows:

• Sakkie RandomHero Bason
• Timothy Krimzon Woolley
• Morné Hawk Richard
• Nikolaus MoeFoe Moe
• Marius Stripe van der Merwe

More information can be found at the miNt Gaming website.

The decision to disband  the miNt Team Fortress 2 team, was made late Monday night, after the teams loss to Pantheon. The team managed to place 3rd overall in the BOTC v1 competition, but it became apparent that most of the members were not enjoying playing anymore, as well as became too busy to make some matches and practices. The team had some great potential and rivaled both Pantheon and Brazen, unfortunately their flair as a team had died, which ultimately let to the disbanding. 

After talking with a few of the members before their match versus Pantheon, they seemed really demotivated, and a few members had their doubts about the match, as there was a large amount of inactivity from a few members

To read more head on over to the miNt Gaming website.

After an average performance in the BOTC competition, the miNt Counter-Strike: Source team has decided to make a few changes to their lineup. They seemed to struggle with their 6 man lineup, as they always had to change players according to the map chosen, which really set them back, as they did not know what map they would be playing or what lineup they would have to use. 

After much deliberation, the team has decided to move Shane ‘Ent@nGleD‘ Wooley and Roberto ‘Cha0tiX‘ Rocha into substitution positions, as they have decided to focus more on their studies. To replace them, is well known AJ ‘M1gHTy‘ Morkel, he has been a long time Counter-Strike player, who has proven to be an asset to any team. 

To read more on the topic head on over to their website.

The miNt TF2 team is currently competing in the TF2: BOTC v1 tournament. This is BOTC’s first TF2 tournament and because of this there has been no entrance fee and also unfortunately no prizes. Only 9 clans entered this tournament and when compared to 17 teams entered for both COD4 and CSS the number of TF2 teams seems small. There are many reasons for this low number of teams and some of these reasons have been discussed in this BOTC interview. Out of these 9 teams, 2 of the teams (namely Zero Limit and Implicit) disbanded throughout the course of the tournament. All the remaining teams continued to complete all of their games and the results of these games can be found here.

I have written up a short overview those who do not understand the way that competitive TF2 works; Competitive TF2 is played 6vs6 with no-crits, no-random damage and with class restrictions. ‘Crits’ are 3x regular damage critical hits that occur randomly on regular public servers and are displayed by a glowing projectile. As you do more damage so your ‘crit’ change increases. This randomness has no place in competitive TF2 where a team’s skill and teamwork should determine the winner rather that a random element to the game so these critical hits have been removed from competitive play here in South Africa as with every major international TF2 league. In ‘vanilla’ TF2, each weapon has a damage spread for example the scouts scattergun can do between 85 and 105 damage from point blank range. This damage spread also random and for the same reasons as ‘crits’ was removed from competitive TF2 a while ago. The main 4 classes out of the nine that are most commonly played in a 6vs6 competitive situation are the scout, soldier, medic and demoman. The restrictions on all classes are 2 per team with exceptions being the medic and demoman where only 1 is allowed per team.

The main type of map that is played competitively in TF2 is a ‘push’ map with examples being  cp_badlands, cp_granary and cp_well.  A ‘push’ map consists of 5 control points in a linear layout where each team starts off the round by having 2 of these control points on their side of the map captured by default. The middle control point is open for either of the teams to capture at the beginning of the round. The two teams spawn on opposite sides of the map and rush to the middle capture point at the beginning of the round in order to ‘cap’ it and then proceed to the next capture point that the opposing team controls and hopefully win the round by capturing the oppositions final capture point. All points are ‘locked’ (meaning that they can’t be captured) apart from the one that a team captured last and the one after that in the direction that the team who captured last would be pushing. This may not be the best way of explaining it but in essence it is a very simple gametype to grasp. With this said, by no means is TF2 a easy game to play at a competitive level.

For more information on competitive TF2 check this local article or GotFrag’s article.

miNt’s first game was played vs. Implicit on the 14.02.2009. The map cp_badlands was selected out of the list of maps we could play and in the 30min allocated we managed to beat them 7:1. It was a relatively easy game for us as Implicit were having some team issues and sometime after our game broke up as a clan.

Our second gave was vs. Schizophrenia and was played on the 15.02.2009. Both teams decided to play the map cp_granary. It was a relatively straightforward game with our team having the upper-hand for the majority of the game and thus the end result was 9:0 to mint.

Our third game was played vs. qpac on the 25.02.2009. This was the only game so far where we have had to call in a substitute player because of us not having enough players at the time. P|Numb was more than happy to step in and help us out and we thank him for this. This game turned out to much more of a challenge that what we expected from qpac. It was a very stressful game for both teams and there were some great moments in the game in terms of close captures and strong pushes/defenses. We managed to beat them 4:2 in the 30min allocated but it would be a lie to say it was an easy game for us.

Our fourth and final game of this stage of the league (26.02.2009) was played against probably our biggest rival, that being Pantheon. We had a full strong team playing as did they for this game and all in all it was a tough and intense game. Pantheon managed to beat us 3:2 on the map cp_granary with some excellent play by most of their players combined with some strong organized offences. It was a thoroughly enjoyable game because of the challenge they gave us and we look forward to another game vs. them in the next round.

On a side note, there are 3 new promising TF2 teams that are currently starting up in this country that will not be able to take part in the current BOTC TF2 comp but hopefully will be around in the future to compete. These 3 clans are ‘swift’, ‘Opt6′ and ‘KI’ and we hope to see them competing soon. For more information on our Team Fortress 2 team please visit the following link.

miNt > Bobalas

NakedPenguin leaves the miNt  COD4 team and will be replaced by Stripe.

It saddens us to inform the community of the recent departure of Jonathan “NakedPenguin” Waters, who is leaving the miNt  Gaming team, as well as the CoD4 gaming community due to personal reasons. He joined the the miNt organization, in early January when the Gozu squad joined the team. He has been an active part of the COD4 community for the last 3 years, and played a big role in the miNt Call of Duty 4 team. The relatively well known player Marius “Stripe” van der Merwe has stepped in to replace NakedPenguin, and will now be part of the 5 man team participating in BOTC and AGASA. Although NakedPenguin will be inactive until he has finished with his studies, he will still be very much apart of the team, and will be the unofficial 6th for the team.

miNt Gaming place second at OC/Frontosa LAN

The miNt  Call of Duty 4 team at the recent OC LAN The miNt cod4 team recently participated in the OC/Frontosa Call of Duty 4 LAN competition acquiring second place just behind Brazen’s cod4 team. The following review was done by the miNt  COD4 captain Sakkie “RandomHero” Basson.

On Friday miNt  arrived at OC, NakedP couldn’t make it so GibbOlution, an old QQ player, subbed in his place. Stripe had already told brazen he would sub for them so he was unavailable. Among the other clans at the event were A*P, 2 UBS teams, 1ST and brazen. Saturday morning saw the first games being played. miNt started off by playing HuD, with the well known css player asceNt_gl1tch, making a team with his friends that entered the tournament for fun. The game was a walk over and we immediately found ourselves in the semi finals. 1ST went on to beat A*P, and brazen beat UbS securing themselves a spot in the finals. While I was watching 1ST play A*P to determine which team we would play in the semi finals, IceMunki’s pc started giving problems. The semi’s started and with IceMunki’s pc still giving problems he was forced to play on one of the tournament admin’s pc’s, jimz0r. miNt proceeded to beat 1ST quite convincingly despite icemonkey complaining that the PC was relatively slow and he couldn’t perform how he would’ve liked to. A hour later was the finals which OC turned into quite a spectacle. OC hosted the finals on a projector and jimz0r shoutcasted the match, this really made it just that more enjoyable. IceMunki had installed cod4 on a friends pc and was ready to play the final. The first map to be played was Crash, miNt were defending first. Both teams fought it out round for round and at the half the score was 7-5 to Brazen. IceMunki again had to sacrifice by playing with only 50fps, making him largely ineffective the whole map, Brazen played well taking the map 13-6. After noticing the problems IceMunki was having, A*P nworb offered his pc up, the only problem being TS didn’t work, and IceMunki had to sit quite a distance away from the rest of the team. The next map to be played was Crossfire, and with IceMunki’s vital role on the map the team looked to be at a disadvantage. miNt  started off strongly having a 3-1 lead in the early stages, soon after Stripe and r0adrunner, reading miNt ’s defense, broke through their lines crippling miNt  round after round. The strong attacks by these two players meant that the miNt would go on to lose the map 13-4, and place second in the first installment of the OC/Frontosa COD4 LAN competition.

All in all it was a weekend full of fun, which was enjoyed by all, and miNt would like to congratulate Brazen for their deserved win.