Tonight, ESL announced that the much proclaimed Amateur Series has reopened it’s doors to all teams to sign up and try their team against some of the UK’s finest currently out there, for a chance to be promoted through the tiered system. They have also announced who has been promoted here there and everywhere!

It is CRUNCH time for the remaining teams in the competition, as we hit the big prize winning side, and also to sort out the top 4 seedings of the i40 CS:S Tournament. The question is will teams be holding back, or will teams be all over the place as they prepare anti-strats and/or not use any tactics. Can OX Gaming be triumphant or will VeryGames keep sweeping teams aside, we will find out over the next two nights.

Not sure if people had noticed this, I only noticed this as I was talking to Pingu about recent issues in the scene currently (one of them being lack of XAC), and stumbled accross this on the XAC Website about a new update, whether this update is a short term fix or a string of long term fixes we still do not know, but now it is updated for CS:S at present.

Another CS:S update rolls out, and another bug that was introduced in the previous update, is now erradicated. I think at this rate I will be losing the plot on what to say in the next 100 updates. Anyway along with this small update, it has introduced another bug.

Thursday night had plenty of controversy, plenty of matches, plenty of arguments, oh and plenty of entertainment in game and on the IRC Channel. What more could you ask for in a tournament.  It was a day of heartbreak for a few teams, and continued joys for another team. Lets take a look at detail on what happened on Day 3.