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Due to a large expansion in the International Section of the Electronic Sports League, we are now looking to strengthen our IRC suport. To do this, we need some new admins for this task and we are currently looking for people within the ESL community, who have the time and desire to help, to provide improved support to other users via IRC. Any person who is interested, should read on.

The regular season has come to an end but we still have to decide which two more teams may join the ranks of the four first ranked countries during the LAN finals in Cologne. Tonight at 20:00 CET we have the pleasure to announce the first match in the Playoffs: Serbia & Montenegro against Netherlands.

Tonight on ESL TV, the ESL European Nations Championship playoffs have been drawn. One top match of the Counter-Strike playoffs will be Germany vs. Netherlands.

With the large changes to the penalties regulations, this is a good time to introduce rules to enforce certain regulations that are already in place. Namely, the "English Only" policy that has been in place in ESL International since its formation

The group stage of the ESL European Nations Championship has finally been completed and now it is time to begin preparations for the Offline LAN finals.

The penalty system, as we know it today, was introduced along with many other upgraded in the "ESL 2.0" update of December 2001. Since then, we have gained valuable experience and we have used this to modify the whole penalty point system over the past few months. The changes listed hereafter are to take affect from this point forwards until further notice is given. Now, we would like to present The ESL Penalties Reform 2004.

Tonight ESL TV broadcasts the first UT2004 Match.
It'll be a showmatch with the ESL UTCL system by two non-utcl teams: a-Losers and Mortal Teamwork.
Both teams are favourites for a participation in Season II.

The Match will start at 20:00 CET (#esl.utcl1 for Infos), the ESL TV broadcast starts at 19:25 CET.

The very last matches outstanding in group B, Germany vs. Denmark has no influence over who will qualify for the playoffs and the ENC Offline LAN Finals in Cologne, Germany. However, it will be determined who will leave the group stage on rank #2 and #3 in group B. In addition, this match will finish the group stage of the first European Nations Championship Season. The next stage will be the playoffs.

The national team of Austria, unreachable leader of..

Signups for the CSCL Qualifier have now been closed for a few hours. We would like to thank each and every clan that applied and we are very sorry that we had to reject many teams, especially many German ones. Attempts will be made to organise regional prequalifiers for Season II to allow many more teams the chance to participate. Finally, here is t..

What has Counter-Strike to do with football? One little thing. Tonight, Czech is fighting Greece. There it is the chance to get the final ticket and play against Portugal, here it is the chance to get the first place in group D. Also tonight, Bulgaria is facing Serbia and Montenegro and with that match, group D is done, too. The very last outstanding match is Germany vs. Denmark.

The match Bulgaria vs. ..