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CEVO-P Preview

As part of my ongoing (and possibly never-ending) quest to earn money for writing, I wrote a CEVO-P Preview for the Carolina Core website. Also, as a side note, I'm in Florida and it's supposed to be thirty-four degrees tonight....

CAL Predictions: Season 9, Week 4.1

It’s slim pickings this week. I don’t know what happened, but when I look down at the seven scheduled matches, there are only two or three that seem vaguely exciting. This must be how Mike Rowe feels about new...

CAL Predictions: Season 9, Week 3-2

I’ve been catching up on some demos recently; I had a pretty big backlog. I try to watch matches live, but things always come up – work, playing Portal, disposing of dead bodies, that kind of thing. I even had...

CAL Predictions: Season 9, Week 3-1

Let’s see how my preseason thoughts are doing. Going into the action, I liked GameFrog, eGe, LucK as possible title contenders. They’re a combined 4-6. I didn’t consider ajnin a top team, and wondered how they’d do without n1x1n. They’re...

vANKSAP Ties Turmoil

Turmoil came in with a lot of expectations. They won CAL-I, placed second at the CPL BYOC, and they placed second to coL at DigitalLife. Losing to coL is no big surprise; everybody does it. Barely surviving a match...

CAL Predictions: Season 9 Week 1-1

I planned to write a separate entry for this introduction, but the season snuck up on me so I might as well combine it with the predictions. I’m going to make a few changes in the coverage for this season....

Daily Spray (9/18)

– I find it hard to believe that World of Warcraft II was even a rumor. Why would Blizzard put out another MMO game when their only competition would be … Blizzard? Their big incentive is money, also known as...

New Source Rankings!

New Source Rankings are up! These reflect the action at CPL, CAL Season 8, and the beginning of the CEVO season. Enjoy!...

Pandemic Wins CPL

Congratulations to Pandemic on their CPL championship! It was a long road back from the lower bracket, but they prevailed over Turmoil 13-9 on Inferno, and 13-11 on Nuke. It was a great tournament, and I'll have a more in-depth...

Grand Finals Map 2 Live

Prematch quote: "it's gay time" -- cheekz (Turmoil) Map: de_nuke, Turmoil starts CT side. Round 1: Pandemic tries a quick upper strat that results in two kills for sauce and KwicK on defense. 1-0 Turmoil. Round 2: Turmoil's defense couldn't...

Grand Finals Map 1 Live

Turmoil vs. Pandemic (de_Inferno) Lineups Turmoil: cheekz, sasquatch, KwicK, Funshine, sauce Pandemic: Juan, n0it, paradox, Mustang, Griff Turmoil starts off their T side with a slow push towards banana, they got it down to a 3v3 after two kills from...

Upper Bracket Finals

We're underway! Pandemic scores the first round on an outside split, with paradox picking up the last two kills from under bomb train. Sasquatch comes back with a big 4-kill round outside, floating between outside and middle; sauce picks up...

Predictions

The time is almost upon us when one team will stand over the smoking corpses of their fallen opponents. Their battle cries will be heard throughout the LAN(d), and their legends will rise to near-mythic proportions among their fellow gamers....

Sneak Peek: CAL-I Finals

CAL-I Finals Preview As you probably know, the CAL-I Finals are being played here, and the match(es) will start in a little bit. I’m not sure where I fall on this one. On one hand, Eximius beat Turmoil (Turflowdev) handily...

WSVG Games

The WSVG shifted focus away from Counter-Strike for a good reason. If a seventh seed wins in a tournament, but the top six teams didn't show up, did they make any noise at all?

Buy.com LAN Recap

He might not look like much, but after looking at the results from the Buy.com LAN, it's clear that I need to eat some crow. (Thankfully it's only a figure of speech.)

Buy.com LAN Preview

What does USA basketball have to do with the Buy.com LAN Preview? Both have people trying to play two versions of the same game, with the same relative lack of success.