We want you to observe following news:

We are currently reorganizing the old SWBF1 Xfire Guild. The aim is to build up an efficient communication network for the community and ESL matches. Any ESL SWBF1 player that owns an Xfire account may sign up!

Parallel to the organization of the purely German States Cup we would like to prepare a cup that involves all nations to promote the international status of our section within the ESL. Every Country will be treated equally in this competition as I will explain in detail.

But there have not only been removals of maps, we also added one map and patched another. The main aim was to reduce the amount of huge and buggy maps, answering on the complaints by the community. We expect more activity now.

We are happy to announce the winners of the last rounds of SWBF1 Fastcups this summer!

We will assign one volunteer per team responsible of gathering all available players. Later, once the teams are filled, the players will vote on a team captain that will later organize the structure of the team including the team permissions. Until these leaders are elected, I will be capable of the teams myself. Once everything is prepared I will of course hand over the permissions and leave the teams.

Same procedure as everytime with one little difference: If a player doesn't turn up for the first round, this will not only result in a defwin for his opponent but there will also be a punishment of 2 penalty points for the noshow. This counts for the first round only! Secondly signed up players that know in advance that they can't turn up can't decide about who will get their spot in the cup.

We are happy to announce the winners of the next rounds of SWBF1 Fastcups!

We want to invite your clanleader or a official representative, who is allowed to make decisions and speak in the name of his/her clan, to a common teamspeak meeting. This will take place on Friday, the 25th of July 2008 at 07.30 pmon the TS server of [EST] (IP 85.14.218.32:3232 – no password – ).

The 1on1 Fast Cups will be held during the week mostly to not interfere with Ladder matches and greater cups. They will be from 8-16 participants and in single elimination mode (no loser brackets). The seeding will be chosen among members of the 3on3+ and/or 2on2 Ladder to increase the activity.

We are happy to announce the winners of the first SWBF1 Fastcup!

The 1on1 Fast Cups will be held during the week mostly to not interfere with Ladder matches and greater cups. They will be from 8-16 participants and in single elimination mode (no loser brackets). The seeding will be chosen among members of the 3on3+ and 2on2 Ladder to increase the activity.

Although the Cup was planned for 2 days, Friday the 4. and Saturday the 5. of July it took 4 days of fighting until the Final was played. It seems as if most players enjoyed this new form of competition so there will certainly be more 1on1 cups in the future.

This is the first of a couple of different cups in Star Wars Battlefront in this summer.

The internal rules in the ESL declare that the language has to be english. Everyone has to keep this in mind.

A precise definition of wallhacking has been assigned in order to prevent future discussions about bugs in the game such as the Hoth Discussion in the Forums.

Today the rules of the 2on2, 3on3+ and 5on5+ ladders have been updated. There are no actual changes but more technical information has been added aswell as couple of very important download links.

In fact of some changes (english as main language) combined with the adjustment of the SWBF I + II Ladder from DE into EU we decided to expanse our Adminteam with a moderator.

As we informed you in former news the whole leagues for "Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2" was changed over from "DE" (German) into "EU" (European). ------------- ***Wie im Vorfeld in einer News angekündigt wurden am heutigen Tage unsere kompletten Ligen für "Star Wars Battlefront 1 und 2" aus dem Bereich "DE" auf "EU" umgestellt.*** -------------