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"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later." Every ESL user has probably seen this message once. Seeing as the subjective impression usually is stronger than the objective facts we have added a new statistic which will show the online and offline times of the ESL website.

From 30th November - 3rd December the Swedish city Jönkoping will transform into a big computer festival area. About 10,000 people will attend the biggest LAN party worldwide. You can see the Nordic finals of Cyberathlete Professional League, other professional matches in CS, WC3 and Quake 3 and play with your own team in tournaments.

The instant messenger client Xfire is well known in the eSport scene. You can now download the official Xfire ESL Client, completely in ESL design. Furthermore we can announce a cooperation between ESL and Xfire. Together we will push your eSports experience to a new level.

600.000 gamers in 250.000 teams play 110.000 matches a month. In the last 11 months alone the ESL welcomed 100.000 new users and the numbers are still growing.

Just in case you havent looked out your window, and seem all the falling leaves, its officially well into Autumn now! Summer has well done, and the ESL has moved on to giving you even more ways to keep busy as the nights draw long.

You can save as far as 33% when you pay via automatic debit transfer system, telephone or bank transfer. Get the full GIGA2 program in the winter weeks for reduced prices. Watch international top games from Extreme Masters, other thrilling matches from the CPL finals and enjoy the english stream.

The Electronic Sports League is constantly growing. Several European countries have now established an active ESL Pro Series, the highest national eSports league. Germany, France, Italy, Greece and Austria/Switzerland currently have a running ESL Pro Series that dominates the eSports happening in these countries. Now Spain joins these pioneering countries with its own ESL Pro Series.

For the first time in history an Intel Friday Night Game will take place in Scandinavia. On December 8th, Stockholm has the honour to welcome the most exciting eSports tour in the world: Extreme Masters Intel Friday Night Game in Stockholm with plenty of entertainment opportunities, live TV broadcast, a raffle with nice prizes and thrilling WC3 and CS matches for on-site spectators. International star players like fisker, ElakeDuck, DIDI8, vilden, hpx and zonic will be attending.

Due to maintenance no downloads will be possible starting 9pm CET on Wednesday and Thursday. Maintenance will be carried out all night. Thus, no files, be it videos or demos, can be downloaded. No penalty points will be given out for issues connected to this maintenance. Upload will still be possible.

The Intel Friday Night Game in Hamburg set new standards for European events with its innovative one day - one match approach, the unique spectator experience and the flat-out congenial stage show. Almost 1,000 spectators cheered for the all-star CS teams of mousesports and Ninjas in Pyjamas. Now you can watch the entire show as it was broadcast via GIGA.