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Counter-Strike Source: CAL Europe Week 1

By: Elliot Falvert-Martin - Published June 09, 2006 at 5:12 PM EDT - Writer Archive
GotFrag's European correspondent Elliot "Chimera" Falvert-Martin takes a look at the first week of regular season play in the new CAL Europe Open CS:Source league.

 (Europe) - CAL-Europe kicked off this week ( Yes your heard right Europe not America ) and GotFrag was there covering it as soon as the action kicked off, many people already picked out the known top sides like Insigna Cadre, AuxiliA, Zboard and many others, and of course the top sides that played had no surprises in there results. But of course CAL-E isnt all the about the top known sides, as this is the first season all the team levels are mixed together so you will get a range of Talent. I spoke to PUB Clan about there first game in CAL-E, "It was a really close game, Our T Tactics really Came Through. We were Thrilled to Win" . It's great to see clans that are not in the spotlight are still enjoying the leagues and getting to know the scene. One point to mention was that there were a lot of defaults, hopefully this is just a one week occurrence. All in all it was good start to a promising league and it's great to finally see the Europe scene kick off. Well done to all clans that played.
 
Team to Watch - AuxiliA - A lot of people have lost sight that they were and still are a very tough side to beat and can pull out amazing shots straight out of the bag, i would peg this side as a top contender in there division. Check out Gotfrag's "Five with Death of AuxiliA" here.
 
Team to Fear - Insigna Cadre - I recently spoke to IC member Johannssen, when asked about Cadre first game he said "we played with tactics like 4 first rounds, then runned them over. We were just having fun." Insigna Cadre beat there opponents 26-4. For just having fun i would say beware. Feel sorry for anyone who plays them.  Check out GotFrag's "Five with Eversor of Insignia Cadre"  here.

Below are a few quotes from players on this first week of matches:

AuxiliA Stan -  " Excelent first game tonight, very well played by section9 great sportsmen, if half the teams are anything near these guys in terms of attitude then this is gonna be a very pleasurable and refreshing league to play in. gg guys great knifes :P "

Insigna Cadre Johannssen -  "we played with tactics like 4 first rounds, then runned them over. We were just having fun."

Team Crossed Chobo - " Well, we werent really prepared for the match since we had two EuroCup matches yesterday but we had the tactics from our last de_train match(EuroCup vs AuXilia) and they worked out really great. They actually were pretty good, had a really nice fake in their terror pistolround. It was a well played game, nice people to play against."

H2K Yami - " We had some steam problems, but after we solved that, we pretty much ran over the opponent "

A few more results from this week listed below:

R3 Gaming Prize PlaY [A] Vs < thE i||uMinaTi > [H] - 1st Half - 16-0 [D]
Creative [H] Vs Next Level Gaming [A] - 16-13 1st Half - 7-8 . 2nd Half - 9-5
eSports KingZ.Hama.de [A] Vs antiS [H] - 1st Half - 6-9. 2nd Half - 9-6 [T]
InSolence.GaminG [A] Vs Excello [H] - 0-16 1st Half - 0-16 . [D]
pissed up bastards [A] Vs deXterity [H] - 17-13 1st Half - 9-6 . 2nd Half - 8-7 [Q]
c0r3 GaminG [H] Vs Headshot Syndicate Squad [H] - 21-9 1st Half - 4-11 . 2nd Half - 5-10
Children of the Banana [A] Vs Assault Kingdom [H] - 24-6 1st Half - 14-1 . 2nd Half - 10-5
Inspire-Gaming [H] Vs iEngland [A] - 30-0 1st Half - 15-0 . 2nd Half - 15-0

More results listed at www.caleague.com. Stay tuned to GotFrag as we continue to deliver updates interviews and more on CAL Europe Open CS:Source.

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