The First week of action starts Thursday on Insurgent Camp for the beginning of the new CAL Invite season. GotFrag will be covering this season with up to date news and predictions. This all new prediction series will deliver short and sweet descriptions of each match from the Gotfrag staff. We will be bringing in a guest predicter each week, and each predicter has one sentence to predict an outcome on a match and why. Stay locked on GotFrag this season to keep tabs on some of the best teams in the game as they fight for a playoff seed in CAL-Invites Season 9! This week we have brought on Cover 3 member Strife to guest pred this weeks matches.

-just Cause project.�vs. IceNine.

jCp is coming off another title win in CEVO and now have their eyes set on a CAL title. IceNine has had some roster issues as of late and will be looking to boot off the reigning CEVO champs in the first week of the season. Both teams are very familiar with each other having played at CPL and the vAAlan in the past.

Mr.Clean	Shawn	strifex
jCp will walk all over i9, i9 will grab a few rounds but that's about it.	IceNine needs alittle more time with the new starting lineup before they upset any of the bigger teams.	jCp wins because of one word, experience. The newer lineup of IceNine will have a tough time beating jCp on their favorite map.
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Mug N` Mouse vs. Redemption�

Mug N` Mouse is also coming off a solid run in CEVO last season taking home 2nd place and a cash prize. The time this team spends preparing week by week has landed them a great amount of respect in terms of skill as of late. Redemption has brought back in star player Mechy to the lineup and look to do some damage this season.

Mr.Clean	Shawn	strifex
MNM will take care of business against Redemption, both teams are very good on this map but MNM edges out the win.	Chris' pregame battlecry on the CAL forums against ConMan makes me vote for MNM.	MOTW in my opinion. MNM's experience in leagues will prove to be the winning factor in this close match.

Conviction vs. Rising Storm�

Cover 3 just recently added Jonny to the roster and expect to take the #1 team in the game here soon. Conviction was just recently added to the Invites after CAL called for a discussion between the invite team leaders earlier this week. Conviction was supposedly added by the vote of those in attendance and now are faced off against one of the msot experienced teams in the game.

Mr.Clean	Shawn	strifex
�cov3 and con will both practice hard and have good strats, but cov3 edge in talent will lead them to victory.	Jonny and Warpain will shut down Conviction this week - Cover 3 wins by a decent margin.	No team will be overlooking coN's talent with their move up. c3's prep will win this match for them.��

Even Flow vs. overRated�

overRated the reigning champs from last season will be looking to start off the season strong against the new comers in week 1. This is a matchup of the CAL Champs as eFlow won CAL-Main last season. How will the two collide on the�seemin even sided map Insurgent Camp?

Mr.Clean	Shawn	strifex
eFlow will have a very tough time against overRated on what is probably their best map in recent seasons, I see oR getting double digit rounds.	Will be interesting to see what lineup oR pulls out this season, but nevertheless they win regardless.	overRated's lineup�shouldn't be a factor. oR's pure talent will win them the match vs the newer team, eFlow.

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Nerve Damage�vs. United 5�

Rumors say that the team has disbanded and will not be competing in the upcoming season.

Mr.Clean	Shawn	strifex
�Nerve Damage will beat United 5 as they are somewhat inactive right now and won't be ready	Forfiet win for Nerve Damage.	Forfeit win for nd. Would have been a MOTW if u5 stayed alive.

Dropouts vs. edGe�

edGe formerly known as going Live and Enervate Gaming had a pretty poor season against the top teams in CEVO last season. With the recent merge they look to hop back in to the game and put together a solid season. Dropouts seem to have added a few Ataxia members to the team to help them throughout the season.

Mr.Clean	Shawn	strifex
�edge could upset here, but I just don't see it happening, with a little effort dropouts should win this one	This match comes down to whoever can pull off 8 round wins first. I'll go with edGe to edge out a win on this one.	The new atx merger will help the dropouts win a close match vs a new talented edGe team.

CAL Invite S9 - Week 1

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
-just Cause project.	4	5	-	9
IceNine Gaming	3	2	-	5
Map: Insurgent Camp
Coverage: Demo

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Rising Storm	7	5	-	12
Conviction	-	2	-	2
Map: Insurgent Camp

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Mediocrity	6	2	-	8
Final Destination-i	1	5	-	6
Map: Insurgent Camp
Coverage: Demo

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
overRated	5	4	-	9
Even Flow	2	3	-	5
Map: Insurgent Camp

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Nervedamage	5	6	-	11
United 5	2	1	-	3
Map: Insurgent Camp

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Dropouts	2	5	4	11
Animus	5	2	-	7
Map: Insurgent Camp

User Comments

So is Cover 3 now Rising Storm?

I wasn't sure if United 5 was officially dead so I just went with the flow :)

fc.clean- | #Team-FC

Yeah they switched names. No one could confirm whether or not u5 died but I think they are just trying to recruit some players right now.

I dont think u5 will call it quits this season but I do think they will have a hard time fielding a decent 4.

I know its a scrim and all but LOL @ me dropping a 42 bomb on you last night snapo.

P.S. - Im liking the article, keep it up shawn and clean.

This comment was edited at 05/13/2008 2:50 PM

www.team-mediocrity.net | #Mediocrity @ irc.gamesurge.net

It takes a special kind of scumbag to brag about dominating in a scrim.

plus scrim bombs mean SFA.

- its a scrim
- often one of the teams isnt trying
- ringers
- you could be coolguy and play 20 rounds on defense WC and brag about winning 15-5 in a scrim, plus maybe drop a 30
- some players toggle in scrims

Scar, I don't know where shawn got the logos, but if oR has one let me know I'll add it

We don't need a stinken logo

#overrated | [oR.epic]

just for that I will draw a real ugly one in paint saying "logos are overRated"

i will send you a logo clean

100x56 taken from CAL's team pages.

Yup, cov3 is rS... Seeing we have 3 original rS members and all and I was the only original cover 3 member left.

Still cover3 in my eyes!

Kevin | -jCp.banana_gun..

I dont know about strifex but warpain was definitely not an original member of rising storm.

3 old rS members. w/e

I was glad to see someone pull out the old rS tag. Waiting for returns from [Logic], RS, +NATO+, ST-6 with popcorn in hand. good luck Rising Storm/c3.

If I remember correctly, warpain actually ditched rising storm to join cx based on the premise that cx was offering him a chance to go to a lot of lans lol.

Now thats a pretty write up ^^

wh!z.. | IceNine. | http://icenine.us/ | #i9 @ GameSurge

Yup, oR is rS... Seeing we have 5 rS members and all

Who was the leader of rS? and who were their starters???????

I wasn't an original member. However, I was on the team for a decent amount of time as well as played some quality matches for the team. And yes you are correct, I did leave and join cX.

@ 18, Butta and Stalker and Starters varied.

that's a tasty logo oR

your moms tasty

Let's get real here, rising storm is such a better name :p

#slow-reaction

Llama, tlrbradley, DIPPIN, straitor, northendninja, tekwarrior, alex....were among some of the older players.

phrog that works with the young kids, but i'm old and my mom's old too, might want to take that one back

PS we are not dead. We took a break for just a bit. I was working allot. And now I am playing allot more getting back into the AA life. BTW gl nd cant wait till the match.

This comment was edited at 05/14/2008 12:47 AM

http://u5-gaming.com/

#26 - cool I changed what I said

lets get really real here we changed the name cus of 1. we had 3 dudes that were in rS 1 being a leader (stalker) 2. cover 3 is one of the gayest names created (thx bo dillon) 3. we were originally gonna use the old rS site and change everything to c3 but that required way too much effort so we changed are name to rS isntead. thumbs up

i don't think anyone really cares

Apparently you care enough to post saying you don't care and you even gave your argument that oR is more of rS than c3. Thanks for playing carface.

If you couldnt tell that epic was joking then there is no one that can help you. Your anger is clouding your judgement when posting.

Hold on let me pull out my I was joking card too so I don't look dumb also.

Except that you weren't joking.

This comment was edited at 05/14/2008 7:08 PM

Except that Epic wasnt joking.

sorry fatty you are in the wrong

let's not remove peoples posts. Thanks

No one jokes about AA.

We will be attempting to ravage all remaining storm troopers who still game, with the exception of km, he will be our web slut.

Scar?
swamp?
wheres bradley?

[pimpin]^rS| www.rising-storm.us

bradley plays cod4 with km, me and the red dawn + some rV guys

cod4 is horrible

9-5 i9 < jCp

Logs Here: http://www.upbeat.clanservers.com/matchlo..

gg's @ jCp

6 for 6 on preds for me woot!

Clean with the grand slam.

strifex also hit 6 for 6

Can't wait to see week 2 predictions

unknown | conviction | www.gocon.net

redrum^rS

what a baller

This comment was edited at 05/16/2008 5:48 PM

"jCp wins because of one word, experience. The newer lineup of IceNine will have a tough time beating jCp on their favorite map."

or because i9 blows.

lol how true that is ubeen. I like how people, when predicting these matches, likes to get all technical when you can pretty much just say for every match team A will beat team B because team A has better players.

But then we would miss valuable gems such as "This match comes down to whoever can pull off 8 round wins first."

Oh and I move for oR to change their name to rS because they have more rS members on their team ~_~

Nerve Damage <overRated - Because oR is that much better.
Even Flow<IceNine.� - Both suck but i9 is better
Dropouts<Mug 'N Mouse - mnm is better
Conviction>edGe - because ENE is FVCKING horrible
United 5 ? Final Destination - Who the F word are these two people?
just Cause project >Rising Storm - going to be a good match. jCp because they have travis poe.

That is all you really need to do.

This comment was edited at 05/19/2008 8:23 PM

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