dsn blogs about ESWC Masters of Paris!

Harley "dsn" Örwall, the ace Counter Strike player has blogged about the finals between mTw and fnatic from the ESWC Masters of Paris tournament. The finals weren't so favorable for the fnatics, with mTw showcasing their dominance in recent tournaments with an emphatic victory..

Here's a snippet:
And there they sat again, five fallen warriors. Second place, again. One more final played in front of the magnificent Bercy crowd, resulting in a very anti-climatic ending for a team that throughout the tournament played inspiring and with a lot of heart. “They seem to have a problem with the Danish team”, a man to my right muttered. I quickly nodded. “Next time, they will beat them next time”, I said, trying to imagine what they felt after the very one-sided final.

Head over to dsn's blog to read more!

ElemeNt returns to CS

Counter-Strike veteran Ola "elemeNt" Moum has returned to the professional competitive Counter-Strike 1.6 scene after announcing he will feature in the WCG08 Grand Final.

Moum was last seen playing for Meet Your Makers in October 2007 but was released from the team following weeks of speculation that the end of his career was drawing close.

In an announcement made by Moum, he stated that he would not return to CS1.6 again but he would like to keep involved in the scene, thus MYM offering him a place within the organisation.

However, Moum looks to have changed his mind and will return for one event only, the World Cyber Games 2008 Grand Final in Cologne, Germany between 5-9th November 2008.

Live on three

"Opportunity knocked, lo3," said Moum.

"WCG is one event I never got to go to in the past, this was an awesome chance for doing what I love doing and for all the fans and people who have followed and enjoyed gaming, the way it should be played. Furthermore, its time to put Norway back on the map."

Moum joins his former Norwegian MYM team mates Preben "prb" Gammelsæter, Sondre "REAL" Svanevik and Mats "noLA" Nygren in the team that will be competing in August.

Lasse "stingeR" Midtstue and Martin "OmeN" Moskvil, the latter only playing in Extreme Masters qualifiers, also see their names in the team dubbed "Carried by OmeN."

Carried by OmeN have the following roster:

• Mats "noLA" Nygren
  

• Lasse "stingeR" Midtstue
  

• Preben "prb" Gammelsæter
  

• Sondre "REAL" Svanevik
  

* Ola "elemeNt" Moum

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Complexity to play 1.6 again

The rumours have been around for quite some time now and everyone was waiting for an official position from LA Complexity. Today the CGS franchise has confirmed the rumours and announced they would be playing 1.6 over the remaining months of 2008, what means a comeback of one of the greatest Counter-Strike teams ever.

WCG USA 2008 are already on the team's schedule for this year, the same may happen with upcoming CEVO season, but for both 1.6 and Source tournaments. The board of LA Complexity clearly expresses the team is doing this for fun and the coL community can not be expecting some great performances like in 2004-2006.

The opinions are pretty much divided and no one is expecting the old fashion coL to step in this summer and kick some ass like they used to do a couple of years ago. Complexity team is excited to be back to their beloved game but the words coming from LA are clear on this matter.

First and foremost, we'd like to let the coL Community know that we are doing this for FUN and have no false illusions of domination in 1.6 after not touching the game for 1.5 years. Our players love and respect 1.6, and want to play it as often as possible, but our professional careers dictate that we focus more on CS:Source. Thus, look forward to some good old fashion coL.cs 1.6 action, but please understand we are playing for fun and it'd be foolish to expect to see the coL.cs magic from 2004-2006.

Here's the team that will wear the compLexity tag during this year's 1.6 events they attend.

Danny "fRoD" Montaner
Corey "Hanes" Hanes
Ronald "Rambo" Kim
Tyler "Storm" Wood
Matt "Warden" Dickens

xlo.female pulls out of ESWC Masters

Excello's female Counter-Strike 1.6 team have pulled out of the first ever ESWC Masters of Paris tournament taking place this Friday and have withdrawn from the organisation.

Having signed up for the list of prelimary teams back in June, Excello claims that managerial problems have triggered their release from the tournament.

"The issue arises from Excello’s bad politics and management likely. A contract with the duration of six months has been signed a few days after CeBiT 2008 took place – that was the first time I met the management of xlo," read a statement.

"We were really confident tagging up as Team Excello, however, as time goes by, we realized that the communication between the organization itself and our squad wasn’t very well, primary because of the management being backhanded."

The team also claims that a breach of contract also surfaced when a paragraph stated that Excello would send the team to any event and provide them with high quality gaming gear.

The all Bulgarian team are now free-agents but wish to remain as one unit in search for a new organisation that can live up to their word and benefit from their arrival.