As a warm up for both players and casters alike after the Christmas and New Year break, we will be doing a one-day cup for RtCW in 3on3 format on January the 5th, hopefully bringing you the same high quality games we have seen in the past ODC's.

Date: 5th January 2014
Start Time: Earliest will be 18:00 CET, depends on sign ups (Games Streamed from 21:00 CET)
Minimum Teams: 4
Tournament Structure: Playoff (Double Elim Entire Tournament)
Maplist: Base, Beach, Escape2, Ice, Keep and Sub.
Servers: EU

Tournament is free for all to signup, you must have at least 3 players on your roster and a maximum of 4. Players can only be signed up for one team and all info on who has signed up to the cup so far can be found here: LINK. One extra bit of info as requested by Warwitch himself games on the live stream will have their maps decided by the viewers to add that extra dash of excitement all-round.

The cups later rounds will also be casted by Warwitch himself over at WarwitchTV and he will be joined by a mix of players and casters over the course of the night. Warwitch also has a Facebook page, show your support and give the man a like! HERE

Team one.soldier Christmas Giveaway!

During December we are also doing a Christmas Giveaway where we will be giving away a PC game every day of December! The draw for the giveaways is in early January so if you have missed out on any of our giveaways you can still enter the draw by visiting this link and following the entry instructions.

#onesoldier
facebook.com/TeamONESOLDIER

Source: crossfire.nu

Many RtCW-Players knows him, the good old Allstars-Clan which exists since 2003.
Her popular RtCW 1.4 Shrub Deathmatchserver is NOT dead! But has moved on a new IP-address and they are sponsering and hosting by RtCW4ever now.

***AllStars*** DEATHMATCH - by RTCW4EVER.de
New IP: 88.198.85.196:27960

Viele RtCW-Spieler kennen ihn, den guten alten RtCW Allstars-Clan, der seit 2003 existiert.
Ihr populärer RtCW 1.4 Shrub Deathmatchserver ist NICHT tot! Sondern ist auf eine neue IP-Adresse umgezogen und wird jetzt von RtCW4ever gesponsert und gehostet.

Auch Neulinge sind Willkommen. Benutzt einfach das neue RtCW 1.4 MP Pack 2012.

Der Allstars-Clan und RtCW4ever wünschen euch viel Spaß und spannende Matche!

Gameserverlinks: Splatterladder | Wolfenstein4ever
Quelle: AllStarsClan | Wolfenstein4ever

Die Sign-Ups für das 3on3 ist eröffnet. Zurzeit können wir nur 16 Teams aufnehmen. Was das Format angeht wissen wir noch nicht bescheit ob es ein One-Day Cup, ein double-elim oder ein group-stage dann Elimination Playoff's Cup wird, der über eine Woche geht.

Mehr Details über die 6vs6 Version folgen bald. Sicher ist aber bereits das es erst eine Gruppenphase geben wird und dann Elimination Playoff's, bis zum großen Finale das am 10. Juni oder früher sein wird.

Wir wünschen jetzt schon allen teilnehmenden Teams viel Erfolg, und möge das beste Team gewinnen.

PS: Natürlich werden wir das Geschehen weiterhin verfolgen und euch diesbezüglich auf dem Laufenden halten. 

Link: rtcw-cup

Clanbase - Game Over
For those unfamiliar with the name: ClanBase once was a cool site to visit if you were an online gamer. With cups and ladders hosted for games such as the RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike and Call of Duty series, a teenager really had quite some options for multiplayer entertainment. Heck, we even had LAN finals for our renowned EuroCups.

Those days are far behind us and as it stands today, the company that owns the ClanBase site - GGL - is unable to cover the costs required to run the website. Moreover, lately the owners of the site do not wish to cooperate with the voluntary crew, keeping everybody in the dark and thus showing complete disrespect to people who spend many hours a day trying to make our tournaments a success.

The website has now been offline for more than three weeks due to an unpaid bill. No action is being taken by the owner to get the website back online. Having no vision for the future, we - the ClanBase Crew - have lost our last hopes about ClanBase ever coming back online, and unfortunately we announce the end of a great era.

The history and the truth as the ClanBase Crew sees it

A US-based company called Global Gaming League (Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc.) noticed the success of the site and bought it from the original owners in December of 2004. They had financial backing for server hosting and our tournaments. Things were going well until in 2007 CB suffered its first heart attack when GGL couldn’t deliver the prize money they put up for the EuroCup. This can be marked as the start of our downfall.

The CB Crew has always been made up of volunteers with the majority being just teenagers. There was no possibility for us to come up with the money on our own that was promised, yet we were always the ones getting blamed. After all, it was our cup season and our name. It is no surprise that after this blow there was no way for us to host another season with the promise of any kind of prize until the debt was settled with the previous winners.

To this day, GGL owes around €24,000 in prize money which will never be settled. The other sites who were in the same gaming business of course had no problems hosting their tournaments however they wanted. ClanBase, however, lost a great deal of its reputation along with some top teams who never got their winnings.

As time went by the site also started to decay. After the takeover we had paid developers who tried to put the code in shape. There were some noteworthy developments such as the seasonal and invitational ladders, but after the first test run we couldn’t get the necessary changes implemented - because GGL stopped paying the developers.

Money. The source of all evil.

GGL started moving the servers between hosts (RackSpace, Amazon, GreenQloud) to save costs, and to avoid further missed payments. This appeared in the news a few times when providers came out with how they were lied to. We also lost the ability to upload files anything other than demos. Fortunately, a Crew member had the means to help out.

Funding continued to dry up. After the first wave of cuts where we lost the two developers and a head admin, things cooled down for a while. Recently, a general system administrator was cut off which got interesting at one point when CB suffered a denial of service attack to which the host (GreenQloud) responded with moving the servers to a different IP address. However, the domain name had to be updated as well to point to the new address. Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while.

So how do we get money? The site had ads for a while which obviously was not enough. We may have been naive thinking that upping the quality of the site would be a good move, which was promised more times we bother to count. GGL thought otherwise. In fact, many of the cool features our gamers would have loved to see on the website were never implemented - because "CBv2” was supposedly just around the corner.

Their first bold move was trying to get adult banners on CB - a website that was home for thousands of teenagers. The Crew was shocked and appalled by this. Fortunately, we managed to get our voice through (by threatening to go on strike) - but we also lost several valuable crew members who had enough of the poor conditions and bad decisionmaking.

Next to adult material, gambling can also be a good source of income. The Poker and Betting ladders were introduced. It is doubtful that much money was ever made of this, at least nobody said otherwise. The only thing certain is that these projects never got off the ground.

A poor attempt was also made to gather money in the form of offering VIP membership. Nobody took this very seriously and as expected, nobody bothered to opt in after a while. The only benefit to having VIP was the ability to get rid of some of the ads. Perhaps a regular donation system would’ve been more useful.

By the end of August 2013, yet another problem surfaced: the money ran out for the hosting. This is when CB started to go down every month when the time came to pay for the next 30 days.

Of course we tried contacting GGL through our manager who was in charge of handling communications. As you may have guessed by now, he also failed to receive his payment for a while and a company owing money to you, and who knows how many others, is not in a hurry to get back to you.

The ClanBase management tried to directly contact the GGL founder and president Ted Owen (since everyone else left), with very little success. Whenever we got a response it usually consisted of no more than a few words.

The last we heard from him, he stated that "GGL will move on without ClanBase, and besides, why did the Crew never put any money in it?”

Mr. Owen, the Crew put time in it. A lot of time... for free. Every day. And to clarify, nobody has ever reached out to us to ask for any kind of financial aid. Not that we would’ve ever agreed to anything if the money had to go through GGL as that would’ve resulted in the money never reaching its intended destination.

Ultimately, we understand that our users would have expected us to come out with the truth sooner. It has taken us three weeks to make a public statement - but the only reason it took so long is that we were trying to not lose the hope and to reach out to mr. Owen. Unfortunately, our last request (or offer) to him - to release the ClanBase site to the crew for us to be able to continue running it on our own, without the GGL - was not welcomed.

It is thus our sad duty to inform you that ClanBase is gone. We would like to sincerely thank over a thousand admins working on the website over the past 15 years of ClanBase’s existence. And an even bigger thanks goes out to all the players who supported us over the years and who did not lose faith no matter what.

This writing has not come easily because ClanBase has been a big part of our lives, and we definitely did not want to see it end like this.

Clanbase - Game Over
Die Clanbase war einmal eine sehr coole Website für Online- Gamer, mit Cups und Ligen für Spiele wie RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike und der Call of Duty-Serie.

Diese glorreichen Tage sind nun hinter uns, und heute steht es um die Clanbase Website sehr schlecht - wir sind nicht mehr in der Lage, die erforderlichen kosten der Website zu decken.

Die Website war offline für mehr als drei Wochen, wegen einer unbezahlten Rechnung. Keine Aktion wird vom Eigentümer übernommen, um die Website wieder online zu bekommen. Da sie keine Vision für die Zukunft mehr hat. Wir - die Clanbase Crew - haben unsere letzten Hoffnungen die Clanbase jemals wieder online kommen jetzt endgültig verloren, und müssen leider das Ende einer großen Clanbase-Ära verkünden.

Source: etpro.de | clanbase.org

Nach zweieinhalb Wochen RtCW Cup 4 sind bereits alle Spiele abgeschlossen worden. Die meisten Austragungen verliefen ohne Probleme. Durch den grossen Erfolg wurden die Organisatoren motiviert,  auch in Zukunft weitere Cups durchzuführen!

Final Group Standings

Group 1 Rockit indomitus Nulli-Secundus BYE

Group 2 cave super kawaii kids fixed Damage Inc

Group 3 KiH Circle of Haste frozenfingers oldskewl

Group 4 nopressure thundercats Super Fighters iAm

Die erste Runde der Gewinner-Spiele wird noch diese Woche starten. So sehen sie aus:

Rockit vs. Circle of Haste
cave vs. thundercats

KiH vs. Indomitus
noPressure vs. super kawaii kids

Viel Spass weiterhin beim Verfolgen der Wettkämpfe!

Quelle: RtCW-Cup | GamingPalace

RTCW eZbash 6v6 CUP #1 - Hi all, after a pretty good onedaycup in february, i'm back to present you yet another cup, but this time in 6v6 format.

RTCW eZbash 6v6 CUP #1 - Hallo an alle, nach einem ziemlich guten OneDayCup im Februar, bin ich zurück und präsentiere euch noch einen anderen Cup aber dieses Mal im 6on6 Format.

Some Info

• NO real CD-Key required! • osp with pb - relaxed cvar settings • cupservers where you can both connect from 1.0 or 1.4 client • 6v6 format • wtv will be provided (aswell for shoutcasting!) • 8 teams max • first 2 groups with each 4 teams • later on 2 first teams on each group play each other in brackets • mappool: adlernest, assault, base, beach, escape2, ice, village, frostbite • team captains will have to schedule their games • starts at early/mid april

Signup & Teams

SIGN UP HERE
NOTE: all teams will have to play a seeding match (to know for groups & to see if they would actually play in the cup)
signup won't be open for long so sign your team up!

Interested Teams So Far

eZbash, Fixed, No Pressure, Cave, Circle Of Haste, Chile ....

Why RTCW?

Because in my opinion, it's still the best game around :) Watch this1 & this2 video if you don't believe me. And also Sipperi's new video is incoming which will be pure awesomeness!

ET Players!

You don't need a real CD-Key to play in the RtCWcup and this might be maybe your last chance to play this epic game in competition. Be quick and download rtcw (pack with everything in it) HERE!

Contact & Feedback

Feedback is always useful to me so i can see what the players actually want. Because i'm doing this for you all rtcwfans!
You can contact me at: crossfire (pm me or write here below), #rtcw.wars @ quakenet, www.ezbash.freeforums.org
let's make this a good cup or this will be my last effort for sure.
ps: visit our sponsor www.rtcwmap.de, because without them this cup wouldn't be possible!

Greetings, homie & the eZbash squad

The RtCW4ever team wish everyone involved HF & GL!

Für alle RtCW-Veteranen gibt es schöne Neuigkeiten. Die Warleagues startet eine neue RTCW-Ligarunde!! Es ist die 17. Runde in der Warleagues.

Gespielt wird auf RtCW 1.41b - 6on6 OSP und 6on6 Shrub.

Mappool: Base, Beach, Frostbite, Ice, Village, WL UFO
Regeln: Die Regeln basieren grundsätzlich auf den (alten) bekannten WL-Regeln, eine detailliertere Regelsetzung wird später auf der WL-Website herausgegeben.
Anmeldung: Start ist Donnerstag der 29. Mai 12:00 CET bis Freitag den 6. Juni 12:00 CET. Weitere Informationen bezüglich des Anfangsdatums der Spiele wird auf der WL-Website herausgegeben.

Link: Warleagues-Homepage

Unser Apell geht an alle noch bestehenden RtCW-Clans! Meldet euch mit eurem 6er-Team an und nutzt diese womöglich allerletzte Chance, um noch einmal in der RtCW-Liga abzurocken!

Finaly it is time to bring RtCW back home to Warleagues! Season 17! will consist of 6v6 for osp and 6v6 shrub.

Rules: Rules are basically based on the old rule sets, a more detailed rule set will be published on our website later.
Maplist: Base, Beach, Frostbite, Ice, Village, WL UFO
Match servers: All official games must be played on servers that stream to pbbans.
Signups: Signups will open on Thursday 29th of May at 12:00 CET. And closed on Friday 6th of June at 12:00 CET. Further information regarding the start date of the RtCW season will be published on our website, so stay tuned.

Quelle: warleagues.com
In diesem Sinne - HF & GL

RtCW Legacy Cup starts now! Are you guys ready for some epic Return to Castle Wolfenstein action once again?
Well here we are once again about to start with the new cup RtCW Legacy Cup. Groups have been drawn and ready for action!

GROUPS: Please take a look at the groups at :binarybeast.com-xRtCW

PRIZES:  1. 500$ USD -  2. 200$ USD - "MVP" of the tournament > Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Headset - "Rookie" of the tournament > Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Headset

You can catch them all at www.twitch.tv/WarwitchTV/old !

RtCW Legacy Cup hat begonnen! Seid ihr bereit für ein weiteres Return to Castle Wolfenstein Erlebnis?
Nun, hier sind wir wieder und starten durch mit dem neuen RtCW Legacy-Cup. Alle Gruppen sind gezogen und bereit zum Spielen.

GRUPPEN: Werfe ein Blick auf die Gruppen:binarybeast.com-xRtCW

PREISE:  1. 500$ USD -  2. 200$ USD - "MVP" des Turniers > Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Headset - "Rookie" des Truniers > Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Headset

Du kannst alles anschauen auf www.twitch.tv/WarwitchTV/old !

Quelle: crossfire

On Sunday the 28th on July there will be another 3on3 cup for the RTCW scene hosted by Team one.soldier and casted by the main man himself, Warwitch over at WarwitchTV. We will keep to the same sort of format as the last RTCW Cup we organised as well which reduced the time time the cup went on for considerably.

Date: 28th July 2013
Start Time: 18:00CET (Earliest)
Minimum Teams: 4 (probably a maximum of 8, first come first serve.)
Tournament Structure: Based on sign ups
Maplist: adlernest, frost, sub, beach, ice and escape

Tournament is free for all to signup, you must have at least 3 players on your roster and a maximum of 4. Players can only be signed up for one team and all info on who has signed up to the cup so far can be found here: LINK

The cups later rounds will also be casted by Warwitch himself over at WarwitchTV as well as the mg42 crew. Please show your love and give a like to his facebook page HERE

#onesoldier
facebook.com/TeamONESOLDIER

Source: etpro.de

After a break from the one.more Cup series with the current situation in RTCW being perfect for 3on3s, Cup #10 wil be coming live over at WarwitchTV on the 31st of August with three more ODCs planned before the end of the year. More information on the rest of the years RTCW plans can be found over on the forums.

Date: 31st August 2014
Start Time: Earliest will be 18:00 CET, depends on sign ups (Games Streamed from 21:00 CET - UB Final, LB Final, Grand Final)
Minimum Teams: 4
Tournament Structure: Playoff (Single / Double elim, depends on sign ups)
Maplist: Base, Beach, Escape2, Ice, Frostbite and Sub. (in future one day cups, new maps will be used)
Servers: EU (antilag = 0)

Tournament is free for all to signup, you must have at least 3 players on your roster and a maximum of 4. Players can only be signed up for one team and all info on who has signed up to the cup so far can be found here: LINK. One extra bit of info as requested by Warwitch himself games on the live stream will have their maps decided by the viewers to add that extra dash of excitement all-round.

The cups later rounds will also be casted by Warwitch himself over at WarwitchTV and he will be joined by a mix of players and casters over the course of the night. Warwitch also has a Facebook page, show your support and give the man a like! HERE

facebook.com/TeamONESOLDIER

Source: crossfire.nu