A short announcement for the missing results in the conquest and infantery premiership! For all teams who still got some open matches: Try to organize and play the matches by the <b>25th january at 23:59 CET!</b> All matches that aren't played till then, will count as "no shows" out of the given information of activity or inactivity of the teams. Or as a draw if both teams aren't able to get in contact and play.

For the last two weeks or so i had been speaking to almost 80 BF2 players past and present to try get their opinion on who is the best and worst of BF2 2009, here is the results.

Over the last two days i have been asking players for their opinions on who is the best and worst of 2009 and have had a great response so far with almost 50 players giving their votes.

It has been a long journey but finally the Clash of the Nations is over. The Infantry 5on5 and the oldschool Conquest 8on8 Mode have found their masters. Sweden and Russia are the winners, take a look at the top 3 rankings in the news:

Tonight sees FutureG and =ATF= go head to head in a highly anticipated match up. can futureG extend their lead at the top of the premier league?

Today it is possible for teams to add and remove players to their roster, this option will be available for 1 week only and will close next Sunday 6th 23:59cet.

The ESL Europe Battlefield 2 Premierships will feature an exclusive prize for the winning teams: an ESL League Award. This award will be awarded to the winning team of the premier league, for both infantry and conquest.

All teams please be advised that the rosters for both Infantry and Conquest will be closing soon so make sure you have the players needed for the coming season which kicks off on Sunday.

Some of the Premier League team captains took the time to offer some insight into who they thought would be reaching the top 3.

Lately the lot of us keep getting contacted trough xfire/msn or other ways of communication for help regarding ladders/premiership. Often we helped but people are just taking advantage of this. Support will only be given trough the support form from now on.

With 10 days to go before the start of the first Premiership season i caught up with a few of the players taking part to get their opinions on who to look out for.

All ESL staff for BF2 are proud to announce that the ESL Premier League`s are now live.

To complete our rules because of disallowed configuration modifications we made this newspost. The hole change is simple: all changes that include graphic or display changes are disallowed. Breaking the rule will be punished with a 6 months barrage.

Nightcups, FBF and 1v1 Ladders, a Nations Cup 2009...probably only just enough to keep you titillated this year in the Battlefield 2 scene, right? Well if you're not impressed so far, let us present to you the ESL Battlefield 2 Premier League!

While the conquest run is up and running it's time to give some competition to the infantry players again. We will continue our series of nightcups. Behold for the 6th edition of the BF2 Infantry Nightcup. The next nightcup will be an infantry 5on5 cup on Wednesday 07/10/2009 starting at 19:30.

Battlefield`s premier streaming network RushTV will be covering tonight's ESL night cup. 4 matches to be Streamed back to back until finals so should be very interesting indeed.

It's time for one of the big battles in this cup. Favorite <b>Team Russia</b> vs. favorite <b> Team France </b> in Round 2 of the Winner Bracket. Both maps Daqing Oilfields and Fushe Pass will offer nice chopperfights and tankaction. Which of those big conquest countries will win and make a big step into the Final? Begin of the match at <b>20:30 CET on the totalbf|TV!</b>

While the conquest run is up and running it's time to give some competition to the infantry players again. We will continue our series of nightcups. Behold for the 5th edition of the BF2 Infantry Nightcup. The next nightcup will be an infantry 5on5 cup on Wednesday 30/09/2009 starting at 19:30.

In this Country Championships 2009 play-off Group A winners France took on the Group D #2, Norway in a match dominated by a great display of counter-attacks. At the end of the group stages the score difference looked something like this: France: 2880:269 Norway: 845:108

In one of four play-off matches in this stage of the tournament, the UK take on team Netherlands @ Karkand and Road to Jalalabad to secure a place in the winner bracket.

Last night saw two matches being played in Round 1 of the playoffs with the current champions Sweden taking on the Finnish elite and the German war machine going up again the polish.

Eight teams from an original pool of twenty-two will now compete in the 2009 Country Championship playoffs for a coveted place in the final. The eight teams to go through might have had it easy in their groups but now the real competition begins as some of the best players in the Battlefield 2 scene go head-to-head in what will no doubt be some of the best gameplay we've seen yet.

RushTV smashed their viewers record tonight well into the 200s and who can blame Ustream viewers? Probably THE most hotly anticipated match of the tournament so far and it didn't let us down. The truth is, these teams have some of the best talent this scene has at the moment so we knew we were in for something special, whatever the outcome.

Last night saw the Dutch take on a very powerful Finland squad in what was expected to be an easy run for Finland but the Dutch proved they still have some gas in the tank to put up a good fight, is it enough to get the into knockouts?

Last night saw the European Champions go up against the United States in an eagerly anticipated match up. The match headlined on RushTV which is fast becoming the premier channel for live BF2 action. If you missed the action last night then check RushTV on demand. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.teamrusheu.com/test/rushtv/on-demand">RushTV On Demand</a>

From around the internet BF2 fans flocked to the RushTV broadcast (and those who had absolutely no clue what game it was) to watch Denmark vs Norway in this, the 2009 Country Championships. The backdrop? Probably one of the most exciting and surprising encounters we've seen yet this year - and one of the most anticipated. Would Denmark suffer without the full compliment of Boomtown this year or would Norway take victory under new captaincy?

Over the last 2 match weeks a lot of teams are going over the match weeks and not posting scoreboards so here is a reminder of these rules. from now on not uploading the scoreboards will result in penalty points.

The score of this match reflects a pretty one sided battle. An upset? Possibly. However, up until the last round the scores stood at USA 286 - 281 HUN and it was anyone's for the taking.

The Battlefield 2 Country Championships 2009 are already off to a great start and some of the teams have been getting a good idea of the competition they're up against. With some key changes from last year's line-ups for many teams, I caught up with some of the captains to ask them three simple questions: your top three prediction this year, why, and how they thought their own team would get on.

The Netherlands and Spain both take impressive wins on Day 7 of the Country Championships.