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Over the past week, many gamers have publicly spoken out against the recent Counter-Strike 1.6 update and the effects it has had on the competitive gaming world. The patch, which aimed to fix silent crouch hopping (aka Russian Walking Exploit in the release), has resulted in giving a jumping sound to any in-game jump movement. While this may seem like a minor change, in the world of competitive gaming, the effects have forced many players to drastically alter their game play. Even despite that many players had considered silent crouch hopping a bug that needed to be fixed, the unintended results of the patch have led many to demand a rollback patch from Valve to remedy the situation.
GotFrag recently took the opportunity to sit down with several professional players and managers to get their reactions to the update. Here's a snippet below from Alex Garfield, Team EG Owner/Manager, and for more player reactions, checkout the Complete Article Here.
Registration for the second season of ESEA has been both extended and expanded. The league, which features Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike 1.6, and Counter-Strike: Source, will now extend its registration deadline until Saturday, January 31 at 8 pm EST. The Counter-Strike 1.6 league, which had reached capacity, will also be accepting new registrations since the event has been expanded to now include 64 teams.
ESEA Season 2 will feature $20,000 worth of prizes. Regular season schedules will be released Sunday, February 1st and matches begin the week of Sunday, February 8. For more information, map rotations, default match nights, and registration information visit the ESEA Website.
Alienware has announced that registration has officially begun for its Winter Frag Fest Tournament. The tournament, which will run January 17th - 22nd, is a 5v5 Counter-Strike: Source event where teams will compete in three conferences based on their location in the United States and Canada. The Winter Frag Fest is also the largest open event announced so far in 2009, with tournament officials expecting to host well over 150 teams. Prizes include great Alienware swag and hardware worth over $15,000, including Alienware Area-51 X-58 Desktops for the entire first place team.
Registration for the Winter Frag Fest has already begun and will continue through January 11th, 2009. There is no registration fees required to participate, however each team must have between 5 and 7 players at least 13 years old to be eligible to compete. For more information on this tournament, or to sign your team up, head on over to the Alienware Winter Frag Fest Tournament Website. Good luck!
Rekrut.ru, a brand new Russian E-Sports community, has announced it will be holding a Counter-Strike tournament this December. The event, called the Rekrut.ru Championship 2008, is being held to celebrate the launch of Rekruit.ru and will be open to both professional and amateur teams. The professional tournament will feature sixteen teams, eight of which will be invited by the organization, while the remaining eight spots will be decided through a LAN qualifier. In all, the event will feature a total prize purse of $30,000, $24,000 for the professional tournament and $6,000 for the amateur one.
The event will be held December 14th at the 4Game Gaming Center in Moscow. The qualifier for the amateur event will take place on December 13th at the Click-Net Gaming Center, also in Moscow. For more information on this event, or the latest Russian E-Sports news, check out Rekrut.Ru (knowing Russian will be helpful)
The Electronic Sports League (ESL) has confirmed that, due to the lack of online Asia Qualifiers, South Korea will stage a national Counter-Strike qualifier, to be held at the GStar convention in Seoul from November 13th-16th. The event will be open to all South Korean teams, all of which will be competing for one of the three spots for the Continental Finals that are available, not to mention a total prize purse of $10,000 USD.
For more on this story, and all the latest news from ESL, head on over to their Official Website.
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Owner/Manager Team EG
"I think that any potential positives that have come via fixing the exploit (if you're even of the opinion that it needed to be fixed in the first place) have been easily outweighed by the bugginess that came along with the "fix." We now have movement sounds being made and heard in situations that are completely absurd from a competitive standpoint."