Head over to the new EuroCup over here!

These are the proud Winners of this EuroCup:

I hope all clans enjoyed playing in this EC. We had lots great and tense games. We had good coverage, match-previews for about 90% of the games, GTV was available for I think 100% of the games and Shoutcast for about 50% of the games.
I think this EuroCup was a success for most of us and we enjoyed putting this up for you, the clans, the players and the spectators.

I have nothing more to say than: Thank you all for this great season, and let's hope the next OpenCup (and hopefully EuroCup) will be even better!

UPDATE:
The EuroCup-Final "real" Matchreport is finally -online-, you can find it here.
Thx to ouze, finally

Derfel tried to contact 32nd Core, but as they did not want to play the match anymore, the Gunzoids are now declared to be placed THIRD in this EuroCup, and 32nd Core ends up being FOURTH!

Sad that 32nd did not feel like playing this single match anymore.

The 2 Clans fighting it out tonight will be Broken and S?, and the match will start tonight at 21.00 CET.

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broken (#broken)	vs.	S? (#S?)
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Match Info
Time: 21:00 CET
Admin: ouze
Coverage
Shoutcast: Probably http://listen2.radioitg.com (FAQ) Host: Lun
GTV: hunter.splatterworlde.de:27960 (FAQ)

After the sad departure of RiGHT from all ClanBase Q3 Channels, it seems I am the one to cover this final for all you EuroCup CTF fans out there.

Looking at the bids on CBooky for this match, we see that S? is favoured by the crowd with a total of about 100.000$ on their side, opposed by only 62.000$ on the Broken side. This is not necessarily a huge difference, as we have seen much bigger differences at CBooky for other playoff matches in this cup.

Talking about the clans, it is quite difficult to tell which of those two clans has the bigger chances on winning the match. I have not seen both clans practicing a lot lately, judging from activity on IRC when looking for enemys. This could aswell be because of my relative inactivity after the FOE loss in this EC, though.
I for myself consider Broken the stronger clan at the moment. This has different reasons which I want to tell you now. The first aspect is, that Broken managed to finish the group-stages as first in their group, while S? has only come 3rd in their group, after it had looked like they would not even make it at all for some of the early weeks in this EC. With addition of thefou, things have slightly changed as this addition made a strong S? even stronger. Still, S? did never win their matches as convincingly as Broken did. Next aspect in favour of Broken might be, that some players of S? have to cope with a distinct loss in the CB NationsCup versus Sweden in 3 maps yesterday. For sure this can't be transferred completely to this EuroCup Final, but I think it could have some impact on the mental side of some S? players. I think most of this match will be decided by the defense of both teams, and to be perfectly honest I expect Broken to edge out S? here by a small margin. The S?-defense is nowhere near being bad, but I think that blad3 could make the difference in favour of Broken. On the offensive side of things, Taz' and ofcourse thefou are for sure not worse than what Broken can show by the means of calipt and his fellows.

I highly respect both teams, and a win of S? would not make me astonished in any way aswell, but for now I go with the win for Broken! I always think it is hard to predict the exact outcome of the maps, so I will stick to the simple thoughts I have. I think this match will either be decided in 4 or 5 Maps. In both cases, I expect at least 2 map-ties, being followed by 1 mapwin and another tie in the "4 Maps scenario". In case of 5 played maps I aswell expect 2 ties, this time mixed with 3 mapwins in between. In this case 2 mapwins going to Broken and only one going to S?.

Players of the match: I expect either thefou or calipt to end up as player of the match, because for me these two players make their respective teams outstanding.
Result prediction: As I already said, I expect Broken to win this match, my first guess would be with 6:4 matchpoints. S? has a good chance aswell if their Nations-Squad players manage to show more than they did yesterday versus Sweden.

All in all, I wish all spectators a LOT of fun watching this game on GTV provided as usual by Splatter-TV and the great Live-Shoutcast provided by iTG|lun and Radio ITG!
Hop in to #eurocup.q3 just in time at about 21.00 CET to get more information about the Shoutcast and GTV IPs!

*** UPDATE: ***
Shoutcast will be provided by itg impersonated by lun at http://listen1.radioitg.com/listen1.pls

EuroCup X Q3CTF Semifinal <--> 32nd vs. S? -- 21 CET

GTV: hunter.splatterworld.de
Shoutcast(provided by lun of Radio ITG): http://listen.radioitg.com/listen1.pls

This will be a tough match, and I am sorry we are not providing any fancy preview but it was beyond my knowledge that we would not have one ...

Anyways, enjoy GTV and Shoutcast or hop in for a Statsbot in #EuroCup.q3 on QuakeNet.

Good Luck both!

Tonight will see the first of the two quarterfinals we have. We only have 2 quarterfinals because the 2 other advancing clans join in the playoffs only at the semifinals. The second quarterfinal will be played tomorrow, 19 CET with FOE batteling S?.

But let's move on with tonight's game!

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Gunzoids (#gunzoids)	vs.	Gamers of Sweden (#gos)
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Match Info
Time: 21:30 CET
Admin: won
Coverage
Shoutcast: http://listen2.radioitg.com (FAQ) Host: Lun
GTV: hunter.splatterworlde.de:27960 (FAQ)

As RiGHT does not seem to be available, you will read a pre-match writeup by myself for the first time in this EC now. (You have to know, I am more working "behind the scenes" with being mean in forcing games, helping with scheduling etc.! RiGHT usually is the "spotlight" guy :-) )

The CBooky odds for the Quarterfinals will be fixed at 50:50 because we all know what can happen at this level of competition.
Talking about the clans, I for myself would not hesitate to call GoS the more active clan than their opponents. As far as I have knowledge, GoS is practicing quite regularly. They had a strong showing in the group stages, and for quite some time it looked like they would end up top of the table. They were only stopped literally meters away from the finishing line by a last-matchweek loss to 32nd who grabbed the sunny side spot instead of GoS by the means of this win. The loss in this match was quite close, but distinctive with GoS losing the second map with 0:4 after a narrow 0:1 loss on the first, with cp9 being played twice in this match.
Nevertheless, I see GoS strong enough to really trouble the Gunzoids, and I am quite sure this match will take 5, or at least 4 maps to be decided in favour of one of these clans.

The Gunzoids had a very good start into this EuroCup season, winning all their matches except the very last one. They did not win most of them with a lot of glamour, but they won them after all. Quite similar to the cup-history of GoS, the Gunzoids missed out on the spot of the group-leader on the very last group-match. For Gunzoids, it all happened under different circumstances, though. Their last-week loss to FOE happened under the distinct absence of Derfel, who was missing on all frontiers for the Gunzoids. Not only had they hardly been playing practices and wars (drop from Jolt) at all before this group-match, but they aswell had to put up a strange lineup versus the very active renewed team of FOE. Recruiting players up to the very last minutes before the match finally was their only chance to get five allowed players at all.

Considering all this, people might tend to call GoS the favourites in tonight's clash. Looking at the season-start performance of the Gunzoids aswell as the return of Derfel, hopes arise that the Gunzoids got back into shape just in time to put up a decent fight against the Gamers of Sweden tonight and show why they were top of the table for almost all of the group stage.
Here we are with two very strong teams, both being unbeaten until their very last group-match! So let's see what both can show to underline their perfomance of the start of this EuroCup season.

My forecast of the result is: 6:4 Matchpoints in favour of GoS, after 5 maps with both clans winning their 2 chosen maps and a final decider.

EDIT:
I just got notice about the fact that the German community page www.quakersnet.com has put up a complete preview on the EuroCup X Q3CTF Playoffs! Even though the preview generally is in German, all the Interviews with 4 of the 6 playoff-clans are in English, so go ahead and read the German preview and the English interviews here!

Hi there, long time no see. So how's it going? That bad huh! Well nevermind your woes, because ClanBase are now bringing you the Quartfinals of the 10th EuroCup Quake 3 Arena Capture the Flag (try saying that with false teeth!), and what's even better is that inside the game are going to be shoutcasting both of them. Yes folks you heard me right, that's both of the games.

Hopefully I will also be able to join lun on the mic, although I am really quite busy at the moment offline so we will have to wait and see, but you don't really care about how chaotic, upside down, and stressfull my home life is, what you care about is when the games are going to be played. Well let me tell you my little kittens, the schedule looks something like this:

• Sunday 21:00 CET GoS v gzd
• Monday 19:00 CET FOE v S?

I guess lun will be broadcasting from about 30 minutes before the start of these games, and you can check this page, and the usual channels in IRC for the Shoutcast and GTV (no doubt those wonderful people at splatterworld will be providing their usual top quality service) ip's.

Edit: (by erazor)
I created the playoff-tree now, so you guys can follow the rest of the way of this EuroCup there nicely.

Edit 2: (by erazor)
SD - jobos finally added now. Screenhots follow when CB lets me add them.

The main change is, that:

Before this was changed, we could only punish people that had cheated in a ClanBase match (some of you might remember 1 or 2 of such cases).

With this major change, we can now punish everyone for cheating anywhere.

Read more about the exact changes here.