Yesterday, the well known british esport team The Last Resort announced the addition of a new Call of Duty 4 team. After losing two squads and a short break from the game, they entered the scene again with some well known names like Steven "Stat" Szabo, Luka "lukzaR" Puš and some others. With 2 guys from Slowenia and 4 from the United Kingdom, they try to compete online and offline. Their first Lan event will be the i35 in Birmingham this year.

Statement of squad manager "TLR|Munchies":

“It’s great to see the TLR name back in cod4, and Im especially pleased to see my old friends back, stat and seeker. I look forward to working with them, as well as the new faces to TLR. Hopefully we shall see some nice results at i35 and move on to CDC from there.”

Statement of Ryan "TLR|duffer" Duffy:

“I am very pleased to be joining TLR with my new teammates ive been in and out of some orgs the last 3months from internal problems,mangement kicking players and people stealing extra mousemats! So im really looking to make TLR a longtime home for myself and my newteam mates. We have alot of hardwork to do on the course coming up to i35 i just hope we can achieve this with being as active as possible, alot of hardwork and a lilttle bit of fairydust cya xx”

Statement of Žiga TLR|ikky" Kovac:

“First, I'm very excited and pleased to join professional organisation that TheLastResort is. This is the moment I've been waiting for the past years in my gaming carrer. On the otherside, I and my new teammates are aware of how much we will have to train for upcoming i35. I love the way of work in the team - nobody is above others and this is the reason it'll work out. I'd like to thank all my past teammates who helped me to reach TLR, Munchies for having faith in the team and any other I forgot. We are definately looking forward to play under TLR's tag.

The new added The Last Resort Lineup looks now like this:

• Joshua "auso" Goodwin
• Ryan "dUffER" Duffy
• David "seeker" Thomas
• Steven "Stat" Szabo
• Luka "lukzaR" Puš
• Žiga "ikky" Kovac


• Ben "Munchies" Jamieson (Manager)

We here at zpgaming.net wish them good luck for their upcoming tournaments.

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Links: The Last Resort Homepage

Today, polish top team Ultra Frag announced their final addition for Marcin "f4l" Białecki, who was released a few weeks ago after a bad performance at the Antwerpen Esports Festival. Maciek "dunayeR" Dunaj, former Betsson Voodoo Gaming player, joins UF Gaming to fill the empty spot.

With this new addition, Ultra Frag started to prepare for upcoming LAN's and tournaments and trys to get back their title as best polish Call of Duty 4 Team.

Statement from Piotrek "eXN" Bartenbach at TEK-9.org:

"After we split ways with f4L, we started to look around for the fifth player. One of the first we came across was dunayeR. After a quick talk we started playing some pcws and it looked very porimising. Maciek is a very motivated player, and he also suits our team like nobody. Now, we just have to make some corrections to our tactics and start training hard for next LAN tournaments. I am very happy that dunayeR agreed to join us and I wish him and us the best luck."

Statement from Maciek "dunayeR" Dunaj at TEK-9.org:

"I am very happy that I will be playing under the UF Gaming tag. It is for sure the best team in Poland. I will do everything I can to reach all the targets we have. I would like to thank UF Gaming for trust they have bestowed on me."

The new Ultra-Frag Call of Duty 4 Lineup looks now like this:

• Piotrek "eXN" Bartenbach
• Mariusz "cOw." Matyjas
• Damiano "WAFFENSS" Brzezowski
• Maciek "dunayeR" Dunaj
• Radosław "crx" Rowiński

We here at zpgaming.net wish Ultra Frag the best luck for their upcoming LAN's and online tournaments.

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Links: uf-gaming.pl | #UFGaming | Interview with dunayeR (polish) | fnatic.com (source)

As there was quite some confusion in the last days about the upcoming Fall Season for Day of Defeat: Source i can finally clear up things now. Every ClanBase Admin will join up with the ESL and we will host our tournaments there from now on. We will have a full season, which means a big tournament which is free for all teams to sign up and play, with a seperate division where we invite the 16 best european clans to play. In addition we will host a tournament finally again for national teams where our countries can play against each other.

This step has many reasons, but we really think it will unite the community once more and everyone benefits from it. Admins and players will get a lot better support now, we can hand out prices for the tournaments again to the clans and have a working anti-cheat. The current ESL admins will still take care about the strong french and german national league and together with the 6on6 ladder we will give DoD:S a real good structure and basis to play and develop. It is not planned that our tournaments are going to cost money, do not worry about that. You neither need a premium account or trusted level!

Together with me DeadEye, Loki, reiben`, Steiner, jitz, esco`, Raynii and Apu are going to take over the european dod section and guarantee you qualitiy tournaments like in the last 7 years. Even new admins applied already!

We are going to create the signups as soon as possible now and wait for the community to follow us. More details will follow, be sure everything is going to be planned really well and you will see the best cup Day of Defeat had so far. Join us, give us feedback what you want and expect that if you have any problems just ask and we do our best to solve it so that more than the majority is happy to make this step forward with us.

I`m 100% sure you will see within time how this turns out to be the best what could happen to us as a community. We`re even closer now with zP!, so we still have our Highlights of the week fragmovies and we will take care about good coverage and such things.

Thanks for your attention and i hope to see you in this season! Be sure we will do the best for us DoD players and we will listen to everyone who wants to help. Don`t be concerned about the Website or how to create a team, penalty points, rules and all such stuff. We will explain every aspect in detail with tutorials to make all things easy and understandable, just give us some time and no one will be disappointed.

Here is a small interview with fAn for mystix.fr:

Hi fAn, can you tell to our readers who you are in a few lines?
Hello! My name is Florian, i`m a 24 years old student from germany and i`m dedicated in the Day of Defeat scene since seven years now. Some might remember me from several projects i could realize and as a player.

What type of cups do you plan to organize for the upcoming season?
We will take over the 6on6 DoD:S business on the ESL, which means we focus on three main cups that we did with ClanBase too. They were known as EuroCup, OpenCup and NationsCup, but the names have to change now. Still the system will be the same, one NC each year and a EC/OC in spring and fall. Together with this the strong german and french national league will be pushed and there are plans to make the 6on6 ladder attractive again. As additional candy we will host events again like a small christmas tournament and work together with zP! on cool stuff for the community.

Why did you choose to host your cups projects on ESL, and not on ED or another website as well?
We worked together with the ESL since the beginning of DoD:S to set a better european standard in DoD, we already had similar rules, configs, map rotations and things like this. The idea to join them exists even longer, but now we really get the support we want an can offer to the clans even some prices and a decent anti-cheat tool and many things the community will benefit from.

ESL is criticized a lot for its non-accessibility for beginners' teams, and mainly for the PP-system that is pretty strict. Will you and another admins keep that in mind and try to find solutions to those problems?
We are planning to write tutorials in every language for the teams that still want to play our events. And for those who dont know our admin philosophy: we will stick to the (soon reworked and updated) rules but we will never ruin a match with a forfeit or penaltypoints without thinking about the decision and find the best solution for the teams. Some teams were right about their critic, but the older ESL admins were just a bit unexperienced in some cases and with our knowledge now we will turn the negative aspects into positive ones.

Thanks for your time. Something to say to our readers?
Contact us if you have any wishes, suggestions or questions about the new league and season, we will always listen to the community as we are all a part of it too. I hope all teams who want to play DoD at a well organized level will join and follow us, we can give an attractive basis to play for every skill level.

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Links: ESL Europe | Interview on dodfrance.com

To prepare for upcoming tournaments in the fall, the danish eSport organisation
Roskilde Ravens decided to make some changes after some dissapointing performances at AEF and TEX LAN.

Beside the fact that former RS-Player Lars-Michael "LM" Milo-Sydow will replace
Mik "Champ" Bødtker, Roskilde Ravens will also welcome a new face. His name is non other than old Day of Defeat Source-player Kristian "Holbek" Holbek who will lead the team in the future, because former teamleader Kenneth “fRiJeC” Jensen is no longer part of the Roskilde Call of Duty 4 team. He will be concentrating on new projects within Roskilde Ravens and the next edition of a LAN called "the-eXperience".

Statement from Jens "Christian" Ringdal, their organisation manager:

Kenneth is more than just a player; he has huge potential when it comes to eSport, knowing organisations, teams and players etc. It has been hard to work fully with these qualifications while Kenneth was playing actively for Ravens. With the reorganisation of our Call of Duty 4 team this is now possible.

Statement from Jamie “Zino” Bach, their teammanager:

We have seen Champ perform amazingly at both CDC4 and i33, but at both AEF and TEX he was not near past performances. I have had talks with Champ about this and it has come clear that he needs a break from the high level of gaming until he has once again found the sparkle that made him one of the best snipers in Europe.

The new Roskilde Ravens line-up looks now like this:

• Kristian "Holbek" Holbek (Teamleader)
• Emil "Hiffer" Ervolder
• Frederik "Huggo" Christensen
• Lars-Michael "LM" Milo-Sydow
• Brian "wmzY" Bie
  
  
• André "R3CoR" Jensen (Backup)
• Mik ”Champ” Bødtker (Backup)
  
  
• Jamie ”Zino” Bach (Manager)

We from zpgaming.net wish the Roskilde Ravens and especially our old veteran Holbek the best of luck in the future. Make our community proud!

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Links: Roskilde Ravens website | #Ravens (on Quakenet)

This August was already pretty successfull for the known finnish DoD:S team twilight. Last time we saw them fighting in the ClanBase OpenCup Spring 2008, now they are back with an active lineup. Within the last weeks the two danish players JJ and Kiwi were added to the roster of the clan. The full lineup of this talented team looks like this:

Lights:
Gimbo
Killi
Womppa
JJ
Heavies:
AzaZeL
miklo
Kiwi
Snipers:
Lxr
vCo

Additional to those players koge and Roiske are hunting fullcaps for the clan. The zP! staff and hopefully the rest of the community is looking forward to see them playing in the next months and we wish them all best of luck.

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Links: twilight Homepage