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Following from a disappointing ESWC event last week, mibr have announced a change for the WCG qualifiers.

mibr crashed out of the second group stages, way below their expectations of at least 4th place in San Jose. Although they won Gamegune earlier in the Summer, changes have been made to assure that they do not disappoint again.

Lance, btt and cky have been removed from the line-up, and to replace them are cogu, nak and fnx. The three have been mibr members before, but made the transition to CGS team Rio Sinistro back in May.

Manager Leandro Loiola said:

Our goal was ESWC, where we performed below expectations. Being eliminated in the second phase of a competition like ESWC made us rethink our goals for the remainder of 2008 and 2009.

We first looked at the players that had to join. With cogu, nak and fnx we had won our biggest trophies. Bit had been part of our success for the past two years and he is undoubtedly one of the players that has improved the most during this time. And ton is in great form, he has been very important in decisive games.

It is hard to know what will happen from now on. Our intention is to close a team, and with it win tournaments once again. We are already training for WCG Brazil, which will be in two weeks' time.

The team is now:

Bruno "bit" Lima
Wellington "ton" Caruso
Raphael "cogu" Camargo
Lincoln "fnx" Lau
Renato "nak" Nakano

It is not yet known whether the move will be permanent or not. We will see this line-up at WCG Brazil qualifiers in 2 weeks time. Good luck.

A new Counter-Strike/CSS season begins today on 4playGaming along with the debut of Open Challenges. To celebrate we have created a series of Open Challenges against The Official 4playGaming Team, so if you fancy getting some easy points then jump on board and accept one of our matches.

Open Challenges are the new, easy way to arrange matches – you make the rules! Just create a fixture for the date and time that you are available, and anyone can accept it! You can also view and accept the Open Challenges that other teams have created. Of course, you can still arrange fixtures in the original way (Direct Challenges) if you wish.

We hope that this great new feature will make arranging matches much easier, and encourage our teams to be more active.

Make sure you’ve got your Steam ID and XAC GUID assigned to your account, and then you can start creating Open Challenges in both team and 1v1 leagues.

If you haven't registered with us already then hop on over to 4playGaming.com - you'll be up and running in minutes!

Modified by Nic on September 1, 2008, 7:06 pm.

versatile cup #2 is now over.

Final standings:

1st. mousetek - 1 x 11 Slot 1000FPS + 10Slot Vent thanks to venthost.
2nd. fielded5
Joint 3rd. dnegative and esu

Round 1:
(Map: de_dust2)

h5 [??:16] mousetek
NETTO [05:16] State
fielded5 [16:10] Stamina-Gaming
euphoria [16:??] g-force
dnegative [01:00] noStructure (Failed to run AC as stated in rules, default to dnegative)
versamix [16:12] azoic
dream [08:16] magic.eu
esu [01:00] virtue

Round 2 (Quarter Finals):
(Map: de_train)

state [11:16] fielded5
versamix [14:16] esu
magic.eu [04:16] dnegative
mousetek [16:04] euphoria

Round 3 (Semi Finals):
(Map: de_inferno)

fielded5 [28:26] esu
dnegative [06:16] mousetek

Round 4 (Grand Final):
(Map: de_nuke)

mousetek [16:14] fielded5

Congratulations to mousetek!

The grand final of ESL EM III UK took place tonight. 4Kings went into the match needing 4 maps to win, they could not do so and went out to dignitas, but still took a qualification spot.

Final standings:

1st. dignitas - Qualifies for EM III round 2
2nd. 4Kings - Qualifies for EM III round 1
3rd. Team-Coolermaster
4th. TLR
5th-6th. 4fx
5th-6th. mousetek
7th-8th. Alibaba (disqualified)
7th-8th. cZar

Upper bracket first round: (BO3)

4Kings [16:12] 4fx (de_nuke)
4Kings [16:10] 4fx (de_dust2)

Team-Coolermaster [16:03] cZar (de_nuke)
Team-Coolermaster [16:12] cZar (de_dust2)

TLR [01:00] Alibaba

Alibaba received penalties for multiple use of mercs in three different ESL EM tournaments and were removed from the competition.

dignitas [16:07] mousetek (de_nuke)
dignitas [16:09] mousetek (de_inferno)

Lower bracket first round: (BO3)

4fx [16:09] cZar (de_train)
4fx [16:10] cZar (de_dust2)

Alibaba [00:01] mousetek

Upper bracket second round: (BO3)

4Kings [09:16] Team-Coolermaster (de_train)
4Kings [17:19] Team-Coolermaster (de_inferno)

TLR [02:16] dignitas (de_train)
TLR [06:16] dignitas (de_nuke)

Lower bracket second round: (BO3)

4fx [09:16] TLR (de_inferno)
4fx [06:16] TLR (de_train)

mousetek [13:16] 4Kings (de_inferno)
mousetek [11:16] 4Kings (de_dust2)

Upper bracket final: (BO3)

Team-Coolermaster [10:16] dignitas de_inferno)
Team-Coolermaster [13:16] dignitas (de_dust2)

Lower bracket final: (BO3)

TLR [13:16] 4Kings (de_dust2)
TLR [09:16] 4Kings (de_nuke)

Consolation final: (BO3)

Team-Coolermaster [04:16] 4Kings (de_tuscan)
Team-Coolermaster [16:11] 4Kings (de_dust2)
Team-Coolermaster [11:16] 4Kings (de_nuke)

Grand final: (BO3)

dignitas [16:06] 4Kings (de_nuke)
dignitas [16:10] 4Kings (de_dust2)

Congratulations to dignitas and 4Kings who both earn qualification spots.

Voting is now live for SteelSeries' King of the Hill IX. The last edition of KotH saw 4Kings take down Team-Coolermaster to win the £100 and they'll be hoping they can pick up another victory next week.

To vote click below.