This news post will serve as one for announcing / confirming a few things. Firstly the small stuff.

For all those who dont know this from the journals already i'm afraid to say that Xionn will no longer be participating in the CPC2 cup with Impact due to some real life issues.

Replacing him in the team is the Finnish player mystic. Having played with the likes of Xpaz, Raveneye and Tiigeri before in Parodia and A-Monkeys he fits straight into the team.

I'd also like to announce that the Impact Gaming[/u] website is now online and whilst not only providing you with the latest information on the team and the players it will also play host to the ET masters tournament that myself, mthd and the rest of the staff at Impact are organising.

Now on to the ET Masters[/u] tournament. What is it?

Its an invite only tournament consisting of 16 of the highest skilled teams competing for glory and prize money totalling 250 Euros. The design of the cup is to help prepare the teams for the forthcoming CPC2 tournament whilst also providing some top level ETTV matches for the spectators.

Tournament Format

The tournament will consist of 16 teams. Initially starting with a group stage and 4 teams per group. Each team will play each other once and the top 2 teams from each group will then proceed into a double elimination knockout stage.
The tournament although identical to Eurocup in format will be designed to hopefully run at a much faster pace with 2 games per week. Schedules permitting for the teams there will be a Sunday game and a midweek (Wednesday) game.

Map List

Supply Depot
sw_goldrush_te
radar
braundorf
frostbite
frost final (Latest TE Version)

These maps have been chosen because apart from braundorf they are all maps that will be used in the forthcoming CPC2.

Prize Money

#1 - 125 Euros
#2 - 75 Euros
#3 - 50 Euros

Rules

Rules will be identical to Eurocup rules and will use the latest Clanbase 6v6 config.
For game disputes demos must be provided.
You may be asked to move your game for coverage purposes schedules permitting.

Teams and Groups

Group A

ZeroPoint
Pingwins
elite
Kno i Horn

Group B

NetRunners
141
sFx Beaver
Defining Stars

Group C

Amenti
Impact Gaming
cZar
[flag=eu] Auxilia

Group D

[flag=eu] Polar eSports
[flag=se] dTekt
[flag=be] Violence is Bad
[flag=fi] Negative Image

Schedule

Group Game 1 - Date March 4th
Group Game 2 - Date March 7th
Group Game 3 - Date March 11th

Elimination Round 1 - Date March 14th
Elimination Round 2 - Date March 18th
Elimination Round 3 - Date March 21st

BracketFinals - Date March 25th
Grand Final - Date March 28th

We are looking for experienced admins to manage some of the games and to post some coverage for the tournament otherwise i'm never gonna get anything done.

Big thanks to all those who helped to make the cup / website happen.

[flag=se] Unisol for all his hard work coding
[flag=gb] Brzy for the hours of rendering on the million banners we tested.
[flag=gb] Antz for the hours hes spent configuring our linux servers
[flag=nl] Stilez for his artwork he has done on the site

and of course Impact co manager[flag=ie] mthd for helping me with absolutely loads of organising and configuring with the site, forums, servers etc

Good luck to all the teams competing. Hopefully we will be able to provide a fun and spectator friendly cup

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