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Counter-Strike Source: CAL Europe Week Three

By: Elliot Falvert-Martin - Published June 23, 2006 at 12:15 PM EDT - Writer Archive
Elliot "Chimera" Falvert-Martin checks in on week three of CAL Europe CS:Source.

(Europe) - Week 3 in CAL-Euro hits GotFrag and not in the best way. Roughly 50% of the games scheduled to be played In CAL-E this week were defaulted. Most players that GotFrag spoke with were saying that teams were too hasty with signing up for CAL that they did not have at least 5 members in the first place . Hopefully in the weeks to come the percentage of defaults will fall dramatically. The games that were played were interesting to watch. One game in particular was Inspire-Gaming Vs Team-FatCap. Both halves were 9-6 to each team then it had to be duked out in OT where Inspire clenched the win. I caught up with Inspire's very own Bios for his own view on the game.

"This was probably the closest game Ive played in a long long time, our games vs fatcap AKA xpre are always close ones, you could of cut the tension with a knife in the final rounds, One player from FatCap Lars "h0lm" Jespersen was quite a troublesome one to take down. When we finally took the final round in OT we were relieved and surprised we had won." When asked about playing against the tough side AuxiliA next week on CPL_FIRE, Bios had this to say, "Well I never underestimate an opponent, i think its going to be a very tough game on a map that isn't that well known in Europe, i think this game will depend on how much practice both teams can put into the map prior to the game".

Inspire|Bios POV (in eyes) Demo Click Here

Team To Watch -CSA - Very well known side, even without practice this side can take on the best and hold its ground, competing in all Top leagues, this side brings game sense, aim and with two Irish players I'm sure a punch or two. Definitely a side to keep track of.

Team To Fear - Team Crossed - Again a side known in the Euro Source community for its hot shooters and good tactics but winning over 60 rounds in there last 3 games is an achievement that really shows that they can walk the walk. My own personnel experience recalls Awpers, my advice; Don't Peak At All!!

A few results from this week:

Int-Gaming [H] Vs OxyGen [A] Result - 16-9 First Half - 13-2 , Second Half 3-7.
Counter-Strike Armageddon [H] Planet6 [A] Result - 17-13, First Half - 8-7 Second Half - 9-6.
Northern Darkness [H] Vs InCursus [A] Result 17- 13, First Half - NA, Second Half - NA.
Team Crossed [H] Vs Uq.Gaming [A] Result 20-10, First Half - 10-5 , Second Half - 10-5.
Troll [H] Vs Team Dignitas [A] Result 5-25, First Half - 2-13 , Second Half - 3-12.
Inspire-Gaming [H] Vs Team-Fatcap [A] Result 19-17, First Half - 6-9, Second Half 9-6, OT First Half 2-1, OT Second Half - 2-0.
Insignia Cadre [H] Vs NoName [A] Result 26-4, First Half - 12-3, Second Half 14-1.
nEophyte.Intel [H] Vs Five Elements [A] Result 16-5, First Half 13-2, Second Half 3-3.

Quotes

o2^stalker - "Played the first half in an Israeli server with pings jumping up to 250 at times (160-200 usually), that ended 2:13 in favour of the opponents and we just weren't able to make a comeback from that. Hadn't practised contra either to be honest."

CSA|Hartigan - "We hadn't played as a team for nearly 2 weeks before going into this CAL-E game, due to members going on vacation, I must admit I was surprised when we did win as usually we play terribly when out of practice"

Nd`Vivid - "Although we didn't play with our original line-up things worked out fine. We started on T side and got 13 rounds so it was just good fun and Incursus are a bunch of good lads."

Again well done to all clans that played and good luck for Week 4 on CPL FIRE. Also Check out GotFrag's Brandon Mcleod's CPL FIRE Map Overview.

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wasent a fair match for o2
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gg CSA
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vivid yayayayaLD
Si Teh Bu0mb OLOLOL
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ND ftw!
Fucked up, got ambushed, zipped in.
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That sucks to see that half the games were forfieted, hopefully teams can get back on track to bring an exciting first season.
"your f****** cut"- Hyper! Sphere
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cant believe i lost that 1v4 :(
Who was it again of your players who in that 1v1 flashes once and goes for the defuse, bios :D? God, i was pis$ed
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#1 Although I highly regret the whole ping issues , It was quite even as on the other side we played on there serv with massive pings aswell.

Hopefully next time we can get better server arrangments.

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#8, haha 450ms vs 5ms - now thats fair :D
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good job on the coverage gotfrag :)
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GG's btw for everyone

This comment was edited at 06/23/2006 2:34 PM
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just realised i said tension, should of been atmosphere :D

that was fraz h0lm + my bad covering :P
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well, i would say GG CSA, but i geuss you're giving excuses again.
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Haha h0lm that was me :D
I was running thru sewer and i said "wait wait hold back im coming just dont die" and then u owned em. I thought id go for the cheeky flash n' defuse hehehe :D
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#8
maybe you'r right
but i dont think it was a fair match for them as well.
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Excuses for what exactly? Sorry if your ego is bruised or whatever, Hartigan could maybe have been a bit more tactful, but what he says is the basic truth. Was a GG, 17-13, wp.

p.s. Guvnor, top guy!

This comment was edited at 06/23/2006 11:36 PM
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I know in the North American league, if a team is playing in a conference they are not actually in (such as a West Coast team playing in Central), the opposite team does not have to play halves on their server. I'm sure the same would apply here with a European team (in the CAL-Europe league) playing on a server outside of Europe. None-the-less, it's good to see some Israeli teams playing.
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he guys, the forfaits are due to the fact that this is the first season, and that they just put random teams in the conferences, not base on activity or skill... just watch out for the next season which will be of a whole other level imo :P

I mean syc got 3 defaults in a row atm :s
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#18 all teams need to play their matches, for the admins to be able to sort out who should be in the same group. If a team havn't played a single of the three matches, they can either suck - or be too good to be willing to play some of the average teams.
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I'm not making any excuses #13 if anyone knows us they'll know 3 members were on holiday - Gideon, Haggis and reddy and I had my A level exams.
I just want to get one thing straight which I know your still confused over, we won 16-9, then we had to carry on as it states in the rules even though we wernt really fussed. Haggis then has some steam error 2 rounds later and decided not to come back as we had already won. Thats what Iden was refering to when he said we had 4 players.
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I didnt decide not to come back! It wouldnt let me, and by time i had restarted source and got in, wouldnt have been worth it anyway.
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Haha progamers P6 flaming at CSA thinking they've made excuses, comical! Ignore them CSA, I think remix has inflated their ego's a bit and made them think they're a bigger team than they are.
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<3 CSA
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I dont understand why everyone plays all rounds, or is that important ? we're playing to 16 now and then we stop ?
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Pffft rainer, and after you've been asking what RPI means?! :P

Playing all rounds mean's you will fight for every round you could want to help your RPI scoring which goes towards deciding playoff placements. You could miss out on a playoff place by say 2 rounds & you might have already forfeit those rounds if u leave a game early.
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EAST? :)
To maintain is my main aim...
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EAST? :)
To maintain is my main aim...

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