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Full Coverage of the Vita Nova CoD4 tournament at Hackers LAN 2010 (on collaboration with MCG), featuring €900 in prize money.

A detailed review of the Gameware Primal Headset, available for purchase at Hackers.

Basic rules for the MMD-Trading Fifa10 MCG League

The league will take a form of a traditional league system where each player plays once against all others, with each win awarding 3pts, a draw awarding 1pt while a loss gives no points. Once all the matches have been played, the player with the most points is crowned the winner and is awarded a SpeedLink Strike gamepad generously sponsored by MMD-Trading

Team selection:

Game Play:

Game state:

Connection:

Continuity:

Proof:

Admin decision is final and cannot be contested.

The MCG:OL Beta is well underway, with only the LB Finals, and subsequently the Grand Finals still to play.

This year's summer edition of one of the biggest LAN parties in Europe, Dreamhack, is currently underway, and the Heroes of Newerth tournament happens to be one of the most prominent with a prize pool of over $20,000. KD-Gaming ended up beating favourites Fnatic.MSI in a superb final match, and HONCAST were at Dreamhack shoutcasting all the important matches, which can be viewed on their website, http://hon.esportmedia.com/. 

To new players and veterans alike, keeping up to date with the scene and watching the pros play will certainly help you improve your in-game playing abilities and give you ideas to try out. 

Dreamhack Website: http://www.dreamhack.se/

MMD-Trading Fifa 10 MCG League Layout and progression.

The league will be carried out as follows:

Once a confirmed list of players for the league is published, all competitors are free to challenge and arrange their matches at their comfort. One must play once against all other players. As players are free to play their matches when they wish, we will not be issuing matchweeks but a deadline will be established, by which date all players must have played all their respective matches.

The league admins will make sure everyone is playing a fair amount of games every week as not to have players falling behind on their matches .  A target of 8 games played per week should be respected. This might seem a lot but it only takes 2 hours in a  week  to play your matches. Players who fall behind on their quota of matches per week may be warned by the admins to pick up their pace and subsequently disqualified if no improvement is noticed.

With this setup there will also be players playing more than 8 per week, but one should not play more than 12 games in a week as it would distort the league table. The league is expected to take from 4 to 6 weeks to complete.

Using hamachi as a network to find opponents is recommended and channels have been provided for people to join. 

• Network name:  mcg.fifa 1 // mcg.fifa 2 // mcg.fifa 3
• Password:  fifa

This should facilitate communications and match arranging through the inbuilt chat. This also helps to know if any league participants are online and available to play.

Scores are to be handed in a dedicated thread on the MCG forums. Screenshots with xfire timestamped chat and the final score taken ingame are optional but  they will help in resolving conflicts in your favour. In case of conflicts with no evidence of the match may be requested to be replayed by the admins.  Every week the league table is updated and published on the site with all the competitors' standings.

League refs/admins and xfire contact details:

The above is subject to change until league start.

Rules and Regulations for Hackers LAN 2010

Hackers LAN 2010 is just around the corner, but the announcements and the innovations keep on coming. After considerable effort, we managed to secure a place for those who did not manage to buy their tickets in time and we have expanded the size of the lan by almost a third!