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As February comes to an end this signals that Winter is over. During the past three months the ESL held its Winter seasonal cups, at least 9 cups in 6 games have been played by hundreds of players from around Europe. Today we highlight the winners in each cup!

As the ESL never sleeps we are proud to present to you a great addition to the community features. The pimp your ESL profile user gallery is now accessable to all ESL users. In the user gallery you can upload all kinds of images you want to share with the community.

In a few short days, the ESL Pro Series - presented by Intel - will kick off into its eigth season. We are happy to be able to announce that our main sponsor from last year, has made a decision to renew their cooperation with the ESL for 2006: ATI, the renowned manufacturer of graphic cards!

As you might have seen on the Valve website, everybody is able to play Day of Defeat:Source for free at this weekend. You wanna try this game out in a competition? The ESL hosts a 2on2 weekend cup especially for this offer by Valve.

You will have certainly noted that we are having massive problems with our website. After a scheduled reboot of the database servers we have had hardware problems with the main database server.

On the 17th of February, the ESL Pro Series - presented by Intel - officially kicks off into its eighth season. Today already, we are happy to present you with a new partner: Logitech, the renowned manufacturer of periphery!

Recently there have been some cases where dubious people contacted ESL users via ICQ, IRC or email and tried to steal their accounts. Under no circumstances should you ever tell anybody your password. Even if this request may sound plausible, please keep in mind that ESL admins will never ask you for your password.