Female Counter-Strike 1.6 teams are to be given their chance to shine as part of the fnatic PLAY series. The female Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament will take place on March 21st with twelve teams taking part. Already confirmed are three top female teams; Pink Zinic, Mousesports and Burning. These twelve teams will be competing for a top prize of $500 with hardware prizes for second and third. The MVP of the tournament will also receive a MSI Wind U160 laptop.
The ESL has announced the third edition of the Counter-Strike Source Spring Cup. Sixteen teams will battle it out on March 17th. Signups are currently open and will remain so until March 17th at 18:20 GMT.Schedule:Sign-up open: OpenCheck-in
The Bring it Back Safely Capture The Flag league for Quake Live teams enters it's third season for European teams and second season for North American teams. 85 teams have signed up for the upcoming seasons while other teams may be welcome if they contact the administrators on IRC in in #BiBS @ QuakeNet or GameSurge. The first draft of preliminary seedings has been made for both regions. Many teams are unplaced as ye
On March 16th, ESports Heaven will host another Counter-Strike Source One Night Wonder Cup with old-school maps being utilised. Sixteen teams will partake in this cup, although that figure is adjustable based on the number of signups. Map pool: de_aztec de_prodigy de_cbble Timetable: 19:00 GM
Trackmania players from the UK and Ireland are being given the opportunity to qualify for the ESL Pro Series (EPS). Thirteen players are already qualified after the Amateur Series and the last season of the EPS. The qualifier cup will take place on March 13th at 15:00 GMT with sixteen players taking part.
On the 11th of March, the FIFALeagues.com Ladder Season 4 will kick off at Stryxa.com. Registration is required with Stryxa if you wish to take part. Ladder Season 4 is free to enter and is open to anyone. Players have the option to upgrade to premium, which will give you the chance to play in cups and leagues and to compete for prizes. Premium accounts cost £2.50 (?2.75) per month.Links:Source:
The fighting game scene is beginning to grow in Ireland after a successful start based in Dublin. Limerick members of the community have taken it upon themselves to host a series of casual sessions, designed to have players meet new people, practice their game, get tips from more experienced players and have a good time. The first of these casual sessions took place on March 6th with eight players in attendance.
The 3.5 session of the Dragonslayers Season has been announced. Street Fighter 4 willl be the competitive fixture with the tournament kicking off at 13:00 GMT (March 13th 2010). Casual matches will run from 12:00 GMT. Entry for the Street Fighter 4 competition is £1 with the proceeds going to Childs Play Charity. The tournament will feature a group stage followed by an eight player double
After a strong showing at the 2009 World Cyber Games finals in which Seán 'HotSwat' Walsh participated in the Trackmania Nations tournament, it has been announced that Ireland will not participate in the 2010 World Cyber Games. Ireland may feature in the 2011 games but nothing has been confirmed as yet. Ireland is not in a position to finance the cost of a qualification event along with the trip and player license for
The World Game Cup has concluded with tournament action in a number of competitive fighting games including Street Fighter 4, Soul Calibur 4, BlazBlue CT and Tekken 6 among others. The event featured solo tournaments, team tournaments and special tournaments such as the 'Master Serie
OneByOne.tv has unveiled a clever usage of the YouTube Annotation Tool to showcase all 72 released Super Street Fighter 4 Ultras in an interactive menu. The video features the character select screen and allows you to choose which character's Ultras you wish to view. There is also a shortcut to the 'view all' which features 44 new Ultras from the last compilation that was put together. The 44 Ultras compilation is marked '?' on the character select screen and requires the viewer to set as
The final Irish entrants into the Modern Warfare 2 1v1 Tournaments from the Consoles Sports League have been eliminated. Just rzelky (Playstation 3), Twilightning (XBox 360) and Jet Black (Playstation 3) featured in the second round of the relevant tournaments but that is where
After initially postponing the ClanBase NationsCup Counter-Strike Source match against Netherlands last week, Ireland were awarded a difficult double header this week. The Irish team (menengroth, Tenshi, jordy, Tumbot and Whindanski) faced Netherlands and
i39 (2-5 April 2010) has announced that a Halo 3 tournament will not take place at the upcoming event. Attendees that have paid for the tournament and event entrance are welcome to receive a full refund by contacting the Multiplay Support Site. In the runup to i39, more tour
Ireland's Counter-Strike 1.6 European Nations Championship challenge is over before it even began. The opening qualification match against Croatia was scheduled for Sunday, 7th March. The Irish team did not appear on the server and three penalty points have been applied against the team. Two of the Irish team were unable to pl
XLFrag has announced a new tournament entitled FRAGTIME #1 with a ?7,000 prize pot. This will be divided between Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike Source and a Counter-Strike 1.6 'Aim For Fame' tournament. Registration has opened and will remain so until March 17th. The tournaments are free to enter but entrants are required to be a registered user on XLFrag and have the Pay-Per-Frag client installed. All three tournaments will get underway on March 22nd and run for approximately four
The first announcement has been made regarding the game choices for the 2010 World Cyber Games finals. The initial list will cause some eyebrows to rise and jaws to drop as there are a number of traditional World Cyber Game titles missing. Seven tournament games along with one promotional game have been announced. Warcraft 3, Counter-Strike 1.6, Trackmania Nations Forever and Carom 3D make up th
The first round of the Modern Warfare 2 1v1 Tournament from the Consoles Sports League has concluded. After the first round results are in we are down to 24 left in the XBox 360 tournament and 31 in the PS3 tournament, with some games still awaiting final results and confirmation.The Irish came through this week with 3 out of 6 members qualifying for the second round of the tournament and coming one step closer to the top spot. eSports.ie?s
The ClanBase Spring Cup season was originally announced with sixty-five OpenCups across twenty-five game titles. Three more games been picked up for the OpenCup season in which anyone may participate. The latest additions are a Trackmania 1v1 Rounds Cup, a Call of Duty 4 Domination Cup and a Modern Warfare 2 Capture The Flag Cup.S
The Electronic Sports League (ESL) has launched the March Series of the Heroes of Newerth International Cup. Once again, there will be four weekly qualifier cups in which the top two finishers will progress to the final Playoffs. The eight finalists, split into high and low seeds based on their finishing position in the qualification cups, will then compete in a double elimination bracket for
The fixtures have been posted for the upcoming ESL Pro Series which will feature Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike Source, Quake Live and Trackmania Nations. This online tournament from the Electronic Sports League gives UK and Irish teams and players the
The world elite in Counter-Strike 1.6, Quake Live and World of Warcraft met at CeBIT 2010 (2-6 March 2010) to compete for the World Championship in their respective field. The event got off to a shakey start after a DDOS attack which rendered some games unplayable. After some delay, the tournament produced some exciting matchups and drama to the end. There were favourites in each tournament. Som
Sixteen players have qualified for the FIFA 10 Nations Cup 2010 finals. Players have been divided into four groups with the top two players in each group progressing to the knockout phase. In the playoffs, matches will be played on a best-of-three basis.The reigning champion, gg11, has been drawn in Group A. Another player of interest is
After the games list for the 2010 Pro Circuit of the Major League Gaming season was announced, there was a flurry of discussion and opinions being aired. The majority of these opinions related to the omission of Street Fighter 4 from the selected competitive games. Sundance from Major League Gaming has been trying to get S
QuakeCon 2010 has been given the go-ahead with some preliminary information released today. The Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas plays host to the event which is scheduled for 12-15 August 2010. As always the event is free to attend thanks to the support of "id Software and Bethesda Softworks as well as the QuakeCon volunteer staff and the 2010 event sponsors and exhibitors". Attendees will have the opportunity to
The third edition of the Sapphire Challenge for Team Fortress 2 teams has been announced. Up to 128 teams will partake in a single elimination bracket over three matchdays. The winning team will receive ?500 cash. Teams are advised to read and understand the ruleset, especially regarding unlocks. Signups are currently open on
Ireland took on Estonia in the first Qualifying Round of the Counter-Strike Source European Nations Cup. The first map was de_dust2 and it proved impossible to seperate the teams. Ireland started off on the Counter-Terrorist side and took an 11:4 lead at the half time break. Estonia rallied and were able to reply in kind by pi
Three Irish march on to the last eight in the Upper Bracket of the Street Fighter IV Winter Cup on XBox 360. A-Trak and Sairus were awarded default wins while mrmasters took a 3-0 win over
European XBox 3m0 Street Fighter IV players are being invited to sign up for the fourth European Online Ranbat (March 8th). All participants must join the event chatroom at 19:30 GMT on the day. The brackets will be posted and individual games will be arranged. If there are a low number of signups, the tournament will run as a double elimination bracket. If 24 or more players sign up, the tournament will
The eleventh season of the European QuakeWorld League has been given the green light. This season will feature three large divisions with thirteen in each. There is no leeway for teams to go idle midseason or miss game weeks as the season will run for just seven weeks. After the regular season, a playoff bracket for each division featuring the top eight teams will take place. Links:Source:
The Irish Counter-Strike Source and Counter-Strike 1.6 squads get their European Nations Championship underway tomorrow. To celebrate this, ESL are raffling off a one week, high quality ESL TV key. All you need to do to be in with a chance to win is predict the winner of each of the Irish matches. Both matches are scheduled for March 4th at 21:00 CET.
Quake Live players from Ireland and UK are being given three more opportunities to qualify for the ESL Pro Series. The Quake Live Pro Series has a prize pot of £760 in addition to win bonuses. There are currently thirteen players including
