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The Extreme Masters tournament with 160,000 Euro prize money and Europe's best teams and players is one of the most exciting tournaments in the world. To preserve the skill of our participants, we will have absolutely high-end equipment on board for our events, starting Friday with the season opening Intel Friday Night Game in Hamburg.

The final team presentation for the Counter-Strike participants in Extreme Masters by ESL tournament.

Finally, we can present you with the play days of Extreme Masters. Who plays who, and when?

On 27th October in Congress Center Hamburg the first Extreme Masters Intel Friday Night Game will take place. Now the matches in WarCraft 3 and Counter-Strike are confirmed. In Counter-Strike we will have the exciting matchup between German powerhouse mousesports and legendary Swedish CS-team Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Yesterday we announced all participants for Extreme Masters season one. Today we can proudly present the drawing pools. On wednesday evening at about 21:00 o'clock at GIGA, the drawing is broadcast live. So turn your television on and enjoy the drawing!

The most exciting eSports tour in the world makes its first stop! In Hamburg on the 27th of October, you will see the first Extreme Masters Intel Friday Night Game in history. Location of choice is the luxurious Congress Center Hamburg with space for more than 1,000 spectators.

Continuing with our presentation of the players qualified for the Extreme Masters main round, we offer you some of the world's best players in profile: Grubby and ToD. You can also read everything about Hum4niC, Spell, NapS and SaSe, get some of their best replays and take a look at their recent achievements

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine, along with some improvements to SourceTV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes can be found in the full news.

Medieval 2 is the latest and greatest game to be released in the best selling and award-winning Total War series. Set in the years 1080-1530 the most turbulent period in European history, the game combines a vast, deep-thinking turn-based strategy campaign with the most cinematic, epic and brutal real-time battles ever seen in the genre. Check the full news for the download link.

The start of the 160,000 Euro (about 205,000 USD) Extreme Masters is approaching. Qualification Round 2 is under way and more and more participants are revealed. To get the first real feel for this prestigious tournament and its spectacular offline events, check out our new trailer video.

Two weeks ago a new ESL Aequitas Update was released, which had been in the works for several months. With this update Aequitas is able to detect all the currently known hacks, especially those which call themself "Aequitas proofed". To get the most out of this update we collected the names of cheaters until today. But in the coming hours we will hand out all the necesarry penaltypoints, over 160 cheaters will be removed from the leagues.

One of the "trophies" cheaters like to collect is that of the statistics in their ESL playersheet. The number of won / lost matches and the number of points won aren't easy to reset. Until now! From now on all the stats from a conficted cheater will be deleted.

Tonight, the matches of Qualification Round 2 were drawn live on GIGA TV. The winners of these matches will advance to the Extreme Masters main round.

Sports interactive followed up to its promise and released the Football Mangager 2007 Demo version last weekend.The release was made in two different versions,the "vanilla" and "strawberry" files. Both are available to PC and Mac.

Since few days the new FIFA version, FIFA 2007, is released. Today we announce the start of the Electronic Sports League FIFA 2007 1on1 Ladder registration for the German and International sector.

The eagerly anticipated demo for Battlefield 2142 is now available for download.

Ladies and Gentleman we present you the the cream of the crop - the best Warcraft III players in Europe. The following players are already qualified for the first season of the Extreme Masters and will compete for more than 40,000 € in prize money - let's take a closer look, shall we?

Last week we presented six WarCraft 3 participants for first Extreme Masters season. Today you can have a look at the first six Counter-Strike teams that are already qualified for the groupstage and have the chance to compete for 110,000 Euro in prize money.