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Immediately, it is now possible to pay the ESL Premium account directly with a credit card. So far this was only possible over third-party offerers such as Firstgate or Paypal. Activation of the Premium account happens immediately, in addition activation of several accounts by one user is possible at one time, e.g. for the whole team.

Monday 25th July 2005 19:00h, will see Germany face up against Hungary in the fight for a place in the Offline LAN Finals to be held at Games Convention 18th-21th August 2005.

Many people said that Hungary were the outsiders in their groupstages. Hungary certainly showed all their critics were wrong by making their way through the tournament to find themselves at the final hurdle. Monday 25th July 2005 will surely be one of the biggest dates of Hungarian Counter-Strike at National level as they try to show that they have the means to take on one of eSports big guns in the form of Germany.

Russia stormed through the initial Groupstage with 3 wins out of 3 and with the message of "We will show the world we are a leading eSports Nation". The Russian team told us all they would only be happy with a top3 finish at this years European Nations Championships, to get a chance at that position they must first beat Bulgaria.

Bulgaria started Season 2 of the European Nations Championship with a loss to Denmark and they knew they had to perform well to have a chance to even get into the second Groupstage. Having a firm final win of the initial Groupstage vs Italy with a 25-05 win which sent them into the second groupstage in 2nd place. Another bad start to the second Groupstage had Bulgaria losing 24-06 to Germany but came back to win their following 2 matches to end the stage in 3rd place.

A possible problem for our upcoming events could be to find suitable matchtimes for US and EU guilds. For that reason we created a thread in our board were we can discuss which time will be suitable for both.

Each day, thousands and thousands of users are simultaneously online and browsing the Electronic Sports League website. But who is actually online? Is anyone from my ladder online? Or the author of a comment I wish to reply to? This feature is not a new invention, many other websites also have this feature, but now the ESL has it aswell: small icons, which indicate the status of each player.

Official press release, Cologne, Germany, 14th of July 2005 The Electronic Sports league will participate in Germany's biggest gaming fair, the Games Convention in Leipzig (17. to 21. August 2005), with a 1300 square meter big entertainment area (Hall 3, stand A40/B50).

We are very glad to announce you the start of our new international StarCraft Broodwar section. After its great success in the last week in our german section, we decided to make up a international offering too. We will basicly run a 1on1 and 2on2 ladder. The signup and challenge are open right now. Have fun!

Today we have one Match of the first Matchday and one Match of the second Matchday in the European Nations Championship. Russia meets Italy and the Turkey can reach the first or second place in the Ranking with a win against Denmark. Germany uses his second and last wildcard and postpone the war against Poland. A new date is not official at the moment. The matches starts at 19.00CET.

Guild Wars is designed as player versus player game with a lot of role playing elements. The game is played 8vs8 in guild fights, but there are also ways to play with less players. We will start our Guild Wars activities with a cup and a ladder.

Finally, we can proudly announce the launch of our International Counter-Strike: Source ladders for 1on1, 2on2, and 5on5! Also, we can launch several major rule changes to the Counter-Strike rules for Counter-Strike: Source.