As explained above, two teams have withdrawn from the tournament and as such there may changes to the format of the tournament. We may shorten the regular season to five weeks, if teams express an interest.

I understand this is late will be willing to accommodate both teams, but as Promode.RU and opk have withdrawn from the tournament, Tiffany Aching is to play KOOLNASTY for their week three match.

Game Pack
Map one:avrdm1b 246-84 The Russian Eights
Map two:cpm18r 259-50 The Russian Eights
Map three:cpm21 231-50 The Russian Eights

Game Pack and map results to follow shortly;
Dead-Serious Cows > SuperSonic Sexmachines 9-3

Promode.RU FF. 9-0 Team ZEN; Promode.RU withdraw from tournament.

opk FF. 9-0 red; opk withdraw from the tournament.

Control Denied FF. 9-0 Heffalumps.

KOOLNASTY FF. 9-0 Dumbledore's Army.

Week three has arrived, and we are now at the halfway point, this will be the biggest week of Blackout as the two seeded teams from each continent (The Russian Eights vs. Dumbledore's Army in Europe, and Heffalumps and red in North America) face each other in contests that will have a large effect on the overall rankings. All four teams come in without dropping any maps, however, Heffalumps have by unfortunate in dealing with difficult to contact opponents and have yet to actually play a game! All-in-all there should be some classic CPM TDM games this week(end)! Anyhow, here are my predictions;

Team ZEN > Teamless 7-5
SUN. FEB. 17, @12:00 P.M. EST / 6:00 P.M. CET

The Russian Eights > Dumbledore's Army 7-5
Dead-Serious Cows > Curious Apes 7-5
red > Heffalumps 9-3
Tiffany Aching > KOOLNASTY 7-5
Control Denied > Curious Apes 7-5

GTV: GTV.PLAYMOREPROMODE.ORG

Streaming services are not guaranteed, and will rely on the availability of the those casting;

erhiy: http://www.twitch.tv/serge_r_buurgers
nineX / wonko: http://stream.readyupradio.com
xanhast: http://www.twitch.tv/gosubian

Thanks to newborn @#promode (irc.quakenet.org) we have a dedicated GTV server that will air all scheduled games.

GTV: GTV.PLAYMOREPROMODE.ORG

Many people have graciously offered to stream games and players that do not have Q3 (and cannot use GTV) will be able to follow all scheduled games via one of these streams. The details of which stream will, unfortunately, be released within the final hour of the game via IRC, for players who do not frequent IRC, they are recommended to check all streams:

erhiy: http://www.twitch.tv/serge_r_buurgers
nineX / wonko: http://stream.readyupradio.com
xanhast: http://www.twitch.tv/gosubian

Game Pack

Map one:cpm21 191-51 red
Map two:osp5 179-86 red
Map three:cpm18r 198-46 red

Game Pack

Map one:cpm21 63-174 Dumbledore's Army
Map two:cpm4 68-209 Dumbledore's Army
Map three:cpm18r 58-174 Dumbledore's Army

Game Pack

Map one:cpm21 148-120 Promode.RU
Map two:cpm4 68-166 Teamless
Map three:cpm18r 146-60 Promode.RU

Game Pack

Map one:cpm4 185-132 Tiffany Aching
Map two:osp5 160-111 Tiffany Aching
Map three:cpm18r 138-34 Tiffany Aching

Game Pack

Map one:cpm18r 51-182 The Russian Eights
Map two:cpm4 37-253 The Russian Eights
Map three:osp5 43-250 The Russian Eights

Game Pack

Map one:cpm18r 82-118 opk
Map two:cpm21 93-132 opk
Map three:osp5 92-161 opk

This match has been scheduled for: SAT. FEB. 9 @4:00 P.M. EST / 10:00 P.M. CET

Short predictions for this coming week, I think, much like week one, we will generally see teams wining 3-0 (9-3 in scores). The most interesting match up of the week will be Team ZEN versus Promode.RU, as we see some of Russia's best CPM players and their QL counterparts go head-to-head. Unfortunately, the other good match of the week Tiffany Aching vs. Teamless, has been postponed until week three, at the request of Teamless.

My predictions are;


Dead-Serious Cows > SuperSonicSexmachines 9-3
FRI. FEB. 8, @2:00 P.M. EST / 8:00 P.M. CET

The Russian Eights > Curious Apes 9-3
SUN. FEB. 10, @10:00 A.M. EST/ 4:00 P.M. CET

Dumbledore's Army > KOOLNASTY 9-3
SUN. FEB. 10, @3:00 P.M. EST / 9:00 P.M. CET

Team ZEN > Promode.RU 7-5
SUN. FEB. 10, @12:00 P.M. EST/ 6:00 P.M. CET

red > opk 9-3
SUN. FEB. 10, @9:00 P.M. EST/ 3:00 A.M. CET

Heffalumps > Control Denied 9-3
Tiffany Aching > Teamless 9-3 *POSTPONED TO WEEK THREE*