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Today we are presenting the participating countries of the European Nations Championship 2009. So far 39 nations will take part in this competition, most of them in all six disciplines. Next week we will present the teams of all disciplines. But it is not too late to sign up!

The brand new international eSport news page readmore.eu visited the company Turtle Entertainment GmbH in Cologne, which is the operator of the Electronic Sports League. In conversations with the staff of different departments the deputy editor-in-chief Nils 'hellphyte' Johannsen collected impressions from behind the scenes of Europe's biggest league for eSports.

Cadred the official league coverage partner for the ESL Pro Series have released their march addition of the Cadred's Top Ten European CoD Rankings.

Have you ever wondered why James Harding and Matt Rider get on so well? Well that will be a great historical secret between the two ESL TV Casters. What we can give you is a great video made by an dedicated fan of ESL TV.

Over the last few days, there has been some major changes with in the UK WC3 national team, some good, and some that we had to make which will certinaly dampen our chances to succeed as a team.

Create a killer Far Cry® map with the Far Cry 2 map editor and be in to win some awesome prizes including a limited edition Far Cry® 2 PC based on Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme configuration, Far Cry® 2 Extreme Collector Edition Boxes (including Core™ i7 CPUs, copies of the game & other goodies) and heaps of Ubisoft games to give away.

The ESL has a complete new look and feeling. After over one month beta and different announcements, now's the day at which we proudly present the new menu, skin and ESL logo official. For the most active users this isn't really new, because they already acclimatise with the new site. But for all others this news gives an overview about all new features.

From now on the evaluations no longer shown in the Gather details. You can only see how many good or bad evaluations you got, but not by whom. The comments are also no longer displayed. We think that these changes help to eliminate mutual insults and disputes. Also it should prevent situations like this:

While players and teams from all over Europe are still battling each other in the third season of the ESL Major Series we proud to be able to announce the next season! Over 150 teams and 1,000 players took part in eleven tournaments of the last ESL Major Series. We want to expand this popular event even more! See inside to find out about ESL Major Series Season IV.