Finding the best CSGO gambling sites in 2019 is not that easy. CSGO gambling has had a chequered past to say the least, with many sites being shut down and penalised because of illegal activity.
There is clearly a demand among some Counter-Strike lovers to bet on their favourite game but for the sector to be sustainable long-term, CSGO gambling sites must comply with the laws - primarily for the safety and security of esports fans but also for the sake of themselves.
In the latest dev stream they had some comments about plans for CA and CTF. We've been loud and clear about CTF, so I figured why not have a poll about how we feel about CA :)
The e-Stars Seoul Heritage League is a new invite-only tournament featuring some of the best oldschool players in Starcraft history. This tournament is a celebration of 10 years of e-sports, and boasts a $40,000 prize pool.
This match will take place at 06:30 CDT, 26 July 2009:
NaDa -vs- sAviOr
Game 1: Python
Game 2: Destination
Game 3: Neo Medusa
Games will be broadcast on OGN, so use the main stream or the mirror stream to watch. Mogulus streams will be posted in this thread closer to the cast.
The 2008-2009 Shinhan Bank Proleague playoffs have begun, with the top 6 teams from the 5 rounds of proleague advancing.
The following matches will be played at 23:00 CDT, 25 July 2009:
CJ Entus -vs- Samsung KHAN (Match 2) on OGN sKyHigh <Shades Of Twilight> Stork Kwanro <Neo Medusa> Miracle EffOrt <Heartbreak Ridge> great Much <Destination> JangBi Iris <Neo Harmony> firebathero Movie <Andromeda> Juni TBD <Outisder> TBD
Posted by Slasher @ 20:23 CDT, 25 July 2009 - iMsg
The EVO 2009 Championships are now over, and Daigo has claimed victory over Justin Wong in one of the greatest matches in fighting game history. Justin Wong switched to Balrog which wasn't part of his three character practice-regime at all, came from the loser's bracket, too out Daigo in the first set, and forced a final game in the second set. We had wondered among all the big names at EVO if we would see any surprises, and we actually had quite a few to come through the bracket, including the top 8. Eduardo Perez stormed through the bracket with his Balrog play, while Long "ShadyK" Tran and Sanford "Santhrax" Kelly made a bigger splash than most people expected. Southern California's EdMa stayed the most consistent, earning a third place finish after his third place at Devastation. The East Coast dominated the competition in the 5v5 event, going 15-1 and only losing one match the entire tournament.
In Spain, Mousesports has won the GameGune title over Wicked in the final, going undefeated throughout the event, while ledpc had a strong National showing for Spain and took third. The eStars event is still going on with Europe taking on Asia, Europe losing the the Continental Cup, but dominating the King of the Game tournament with SK Gaming, fnatic and mTw all in the brackets. In Dallas, Texas, the best teams in America are battling it out at the ESEA Season 3 finals, where Evil Geniuses and compLexity are currently ahead of the pack.
- Sanford Kelly - Took fourth at EVO for Street Fighter 4 and wasn't even going to go originally, and finally earned a championship in Marvel vs Capcom 2, defeating Justin in the final.
- EdMa, Placed third at EVO and took his SoCal team on his shoulders in the 5v5.
- Issei - The dominant Japanese Third Strike player who won the 2v2 3S tournament at EVO with Justin Wong, now lives in New York City, and will now train Street Fighter 4. Will give lots of insight into Japan.
- Mousesports, star player cash or manager django - Winners of the GameGune tournament, a representative from Mousesports will be on the show to talk about their recent win.
- A report from someone at the KODE5 US finals
- We will give our reactions of the EVO livestream, from both a production and talent/commentator point of view, and how we felt about the experience overall from being from home. Videos start to go up on IGN for the EVO 2009 VOD's, how good is the quality, footage used, production, and speed. Some YouTube accounts have been taken down or outright deleted for having EVO 2009 videos, even if they're just rips from the uStream VOD's, which are still available on uStream's site.
- MLG announces a huge deal with EA Sports and Sony, will include a $180,000 tournament series featuring several of EA's games, including the large existing Madden community. MLG has also officially announced it's Anaheim date, which was unconfirmed to this point. How do sports games fit into the competitive gaming equation?
- The eStars Seoul Heritage Starcraft League is currently going on, celebrating 10 years of eSports within the Korean Starcraft community, featuring $40,000 and some of the most legendary players, including BoxeR, NaDa, sAviOr, YellOw, and more.
- Reports from China say that Starcraft 2 has been banned from the ChinaJoy event, we give our reactions. Moon and NaDa play a Starcraft 2 showmatch.
- id Software releases a new Quake Live patch, includes more features for commentators and spec options, which we will use for QuakeCon. The ESL QL invite is still going on, and includes Stermy spanking av3k in the showmatch. Fatal1ty updates his facebook status looking for QL players to sponsor for QuakeCon.
- pureSports sent their American CoD4 team to the Oupost On Fire 3 LAN, the first American showing since Doctors/EG and Pandemic went to Europe. They have been knocked out in the second round of the lower bracket.
The CTF/TDM team broken joins YoYo Tech, a new clan based on a computer store and online retail company from the uk. The new lineup is: BlaD3, sol4r, calipt, exp, xtro
Most noticeable achievements:
1st Place ClanBase CTF EuroCup X in 2004
1st Place ClanBase CTF Summercup in 2005
2nd Place ClanBase CTF Opencup in 2004
3rd Place ClanBase CTF Summercup in 2004
2nd Place DROME LAN XI CTF in 2004
3rd Place DROME LAN XI TDM in 2004
Current Competitions:
ClanBase Summercup CTF 4on4 2009
ESL Quake Live CTF 4on4 Summer League 2009
ESL Quake Live pro TDM 4on4 Summer League 2009
Kuh3liga.eu Summercup pro TDM 4on4 2009
Nicky “BlaD3” Deleij (team manager), 21.
AKA bld is mostly known for his supportive role in defense. His main strengths are improvisation and diversity. His main focus is to keep the stream of enemies to the home base under control and support the flag carrier where it’s needed to safely capture the flag.
Niels “sol4r” Zanen (squad leader), 22.
The supportive attacker of the team. With sharp aim and being able to read situations that occur on the map at a fast pace, he can easily bring peace and control in a hectic situation. He’s not afraid to take the bullet for a teammate so that the job gets done.
calipt - Benjamin “calipt” Jakob (CTF/TDM player and dueler), 20.
Considered to be one of the more noticeable players in our team by the community for his fast flag runs and unusual, but calm way of handling himself in stressful situations during matches. He’s a solid player in offense and is usually the most favorable player to pull off tricky power up runs in impossible situations when it’s really needed.
Alberto “exp” Castelli (CTF/TDM player), 22.
One of the new players to involve himself in CTF for our team. He’s been proving us why he deserves a spot on the team for several weeks already and is already starting to be a nightmare for incoming enemy attackers that try to take his flag. His solid aim and well thought out positioning will turn out to be a key factor in our matches.
Michael “xtro” Vox (CTF/TDM player), 22.
Our most recent addition. After making a good impression in the Quake 3 days we decided to let him show his skills in a more dynamic coordinated CTF team. He has shown us that he knows how to be a real pain for opposing teams by timing and coordinating well stacked attacks to bring the flags home in a periodically fashion.
The focus of YYT is not only on team modes, the german player Benjamin “calipt” Jakob, who has been invited to compete in the Razer & ESL Invitational, will be representing the clan in the 1v1 scene. Therefore he will also participate at the QL Dreamhack duel tournament in August.
Sorry for the delay of 1 day everyone, there were internet issues that got in the way, everything is fixed on day 2 and we have the first set of videos for you here~
Grubby interview day 1
Lucifron interview day 1
e-Stars Seoul 2009 intro video
Day 1 video list, higher quality videos will be available from the videos I do later today: SCForAll.com
The e-Stars Seoul Heritage League is a new invite-only tournament featuring some of the best oldschool players in Starcraft history. This tournament is a celebration of 10 years of e-sports, and boasts a $40,000 prize pool.
These matches will take place at 04:00 CDT, 25 July 2009:
BoxeR -vs- NaDa
Game 1: Outsider
Game 2: Destination
Game 3: Neo Medusa
sAviOr -vs- YellOw
Game 1: Outsider
Game 2: Neo Medusa
Game 3: Destination
Games will be broadcast on OGN, so use the main stream or the mirror stream to watch. Mogulus streams will be posted in this thread closer to the cast.
Sad day for all Unreal Tournament fans out there. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games founder, Technical Director, and CEO says that Epic will not release a full retail version of Unreal Tournament in the next several years.
Tim Sweeney
"Unreal Tournament is certainly a major long-term priority but we're planning not to release a major retail game in the series for several years. So we have that effort somewhat on hold while we work on a few other initiatives."
Sweeney did add that Epic will continue to support Unreal Tournament 3 modding efforts, and is planning to "open up the engine to more people to use freely" sometime in the future. He even jokes that Unreal Tournament IV and V could be primarily made by the Unreal Tournament Community.
Posted by Bullveyr @ 04:51 CDT, 24 July 2009 - iMsg
SteelSeries have revealed the latest two additions to their mouse lineup, the Xai and the Kinzu. The mice which share the same shape should be released this August alongisde the SteelSeries 9HD hard plastic surface.
We spent three years methodically perfecting the SteelSeries Xai by researching mouse grips used by professional gaming teams such as Fnatic, SK Gaming and Evil Geniuses in order to create a level of performance that gamers have never experienced before
- Optical sensor
- Ambidextrous Shape
- Counts Per Inch (CPI): 400 - 3200
- Megapixels per second: 3.75
- Frames per second: 9.375
- Inches per second: 50
- Acceleration: 20 G
- Lift distance: ~2.0mm
- Buttons: 3
- Cord: 2 m / 7,9 ft (braided to improve durability)
- Polling: up to 1000 Hz
- Gold-plated USB connector
- Measurements: 117 x 64 x 36 mm / 4,6 x 2,5 x 1,43 in
- Picture
- Ten-of-thousands of light reflecting microscopic points
Both mice feature material cables and the following configuration options, SteelSeries ExactAim, SteelSeries ExactRate, SteelSeries ExactSens, SteelSeries FreeMove and automatic lift distance calibration.
The e-Stars Seoul Heritage League is a new invite-only tournament featuring some of the best oldschool players in Starcraft history. This tournament is a celebration of 10 years of e-sports, and boasts a $40,000 prize pool.
These matches will take place at 01:00 CDT, 24 July 2009:
Games will be broadcast on OGN, so use the main stream or the mirror stream to watch. Mogulus streams will be posted in this thread closer to the cast.
Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 26 July 2009 to 06:00 CDT, 26 July 2009 Schedule: Passed
Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will run for 20 weeks from March 29, 2009. Unlike most of the other StarCraft leagues, there will be no preliminary matches, all matches are considered as a part of the knockout tournament. Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will be broadcasted live in English by Daniel "SuperDanielMan" Lee, "SuperRageMan" & Nick "Tasteless" Plott.
In the Semi Finals GOMtv will only show a single match in a best-of-5 format on each Sunday.
* "Best-of-Five" for each game
* Map order : Neo Medusa - A Garden of GOD - Destination - A ridge of heartbreak - Neo Medusa
The four maps out of six maps for each game will be decided as followed:
- Each player will dismiss a map of their choice from the original 6 maps.
- The order of the remaining 4 maps will be determined by lottery.
If there is a game 5, we will use the map used in game 1.
- In the case that the players dismiss the same map, 4 of the 5 remaining maps will be
chosen by lottery.
Semi Finals 2:
04:00 CDT, 26 July 2009 Iris (#29) CJ Entus -vs- Effort (#12) CJ Entus 12345 (Check out my big post about betting in the Semi Finals with some more Info, Statistics, VODs etc here before you BET)
Second screenshot for the Xbox Live Arcade version of Quake III: Arena and Addon Team Arena has been released, the port is developed by Pi Studios. The game is called Quake Arena Arcade, formally known as Arena Gate.
Screen 1 shows ingame menu with various new maps, new Screen 2 shows a ingame scene on a known Team Arena FFA map.
Up to 16 players will be supported across 40 multiplayer maps. Modes include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Tournament, and the Team Arena modes Harvester & Overload. Leaderboards and matchmaking included.
First announced nearly two years ago at QuakeCon 2007, John Carmack said in February 2009 that the title was "very close" to being finished.
No launch date for the title has been announced, but i guess a release will be soon.
On worthplaying is a little review to find, its says about the Xbox navigation:
"The controls are not particularly hard to pick up, since the game is so simple. The left and right analog sticks control movement and aiming, and the B button performs an instant 180-degree turn. The right trigger fires, and the left trigger jumps."
Tonight the third show of the ESL-TV QL Invitational sponsored by Razer will feature the Playday #2 matches. spart1e, xlo-fazz, PURRI (who now replaces link1n) and [M]strenx will be the contenders for a slot in the Finals and 100€.
The show will once again begin at 12:00 CDT and be hosted by 2GD and Joe. The Razer competitions will not be different this time, excepted for the mouse that you can win which is now a DeathAdder.
- Competition 1: Guess the First frag of the show
Yes, test your psychic quake ability and see if you can guess the first frag and how it happens! the closest person to the truth will be the winner.
Example answers:
contestant 1: strenx kills fazz with a machine gun!
contestant 2: strenx kills fazz with a machine gun at Red armor
contestant 3: strenx kills fazz with a machine gun at Red armor around the 2 minutes 10 second mark
contestant 4: strenx kills fazz with a fish! A dangerous new weapon thats never before seen in quake! but will surely be hotfixed in before the match proceeds...
Now, Had strenx killed fazz with a machine gun over at Red armour around the 2 minutes 10 second mark contestants 1,2 and 3 would all be correct, but the one who went into the most detail, making his guess more unlikely but more precised. will be the winner. So contestant number 3 wins! So if you want to break away from the crowd, give us as much info as you can! But of course your more than welcome to play it safe. Contestant number 4. wins nothing
- Competition 2: Razer Trivia!
During the show there will be one Razer trivia Question. The first person who can answer this question correctly will be the winner! oooOOoo speed round!
- Competition 3: Predict all Matches correctly!
Yes, If you are winning the cbooky ladder or think you know your Progamers. Try and guess all the winners of each of the 3 matches correctly. If your lucky or smart enough to get all right, your be in with a chance to win one of Razers new gaming mice.
All entries must be entered in the comments section before the show starts at 12:00 CDT, 23 July 2009. The Playday #1 Winners were X brainer (small Goliathus pad), juM8o (medium Goliathus pad) and Po0dle (Razer Salmosa).
Maps will be chosen using the elimination system. The winner of a coin toss starts removing a map, loser removes, loser picks and winner picks. Last remaining map will be used as decider if needed. Match will start on loser's map pick.
Quake Live Instant Cup #2 will start at on Sunday 26th of July at 07:00 CDT and it will use a Single Elimination Bracket. Matches will be played in a BO5 mode and the QuakeCon Mappool will be used.
You are free to Sign Up to Instant Cup on IRC Channel #QL.cz. Your admin will be Hawr1x and you can sign up/check-in from 06:00 CDT - 07:00 CDT on play-day. Pre-registration: Type !ADD and YOUR NATIONALITY in this news post.
Instant Cups works such as Instants in Magic The Gathering. This tourneys will appear just a few hours before another Cups or as a days go by with no big Tournaments.
Campgrounds (qzdm6), Lost World (qzdm13), Vertical Vengeance (qztourney4), Furious Heights (qztourney7), House of Decay (qztourney9), Bloodrun (ztntourney1), Trinity (qzca2)
Higher Seeded player choose 1st map, then Lower Seeded player choose 2nd and 3rd map. Higher Seeded player choose 4th map. If needed 5th map is played. Player with Lower frag count remove one of maps and his opponent decides last map to play.