» Update:

The first stage is a group stage, with teams split into 4 separate groups. Matches will be best-of-3, and the top 2 teams from each group will be qualifying to the next stage. Here are the groups:

Group 1 [OMG / In the name of / al3ewar / All Eyes On]
Group 2 [T.F.O. / vK / Team Red / pride]
Group 3 [mm2 / Q8 / AA / NGU]
Group 4 [She Says / ND / ForFun / AT]

The next stage will be knockout with 4 teams and best-of-3 matches.
Thanks to Ra3ySam7a and M8 for the info.


Elite Cafe is holding an online tournament on their Elite Scrim Server, scheduled to be on 16th June 2010. The date might be moved forward to 18th June, but for now it is on the 16th.

The winning team will get 5 Steam accounts with Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on them.
These are currently open and free tournaments for everyone to join. If these go well they will start giving out cash prizes.

This is the IP of their match server: 86.96.195.80:27015
XRay will be used on the server, along with continuous monitoring to catch and prevent hackers.

» To register, the following info is needed:
Team Name
Player Nicknames
Team Leader
Steam Account Names
Contact Info (eg. leader's mobile number)
Since the Elite Cafe website is not ready yet, you can either post the registration info here, or directly contact the admins on Steam (M8 / Fringe), or join and use their Steam Group (Elite Grp). For any further inquiries, contact Mansoor (M8) on his mobile: 050-8321321.
Thanks to M8 for the info.

Warrior.AA Network hosted one of their weekly Counter-Strike 1.6 tournaments in Al Ain on Friday, June 11th.

Update: The tournament is now over. A total of 10 teams showed up for this tourney. The tournament was played by the single elimination system (Bo3). Wrr.aa, Giga.mix, etc. got knocked out earlier in the tournament. The final was played between JPB & Team 99, where JPB had no troubles eliminating them in 2 maps [de_inferno 16-4, de_nuke 16-5].

Here are the standings:
JPB < st1cker, havok, Krona, sak, smasher > - AED 2000
Team 99 < Oji, Moly, Jamal, Xpac, Danger> - 40 Hours of Cafe Time
NGU/DMX

Update:
The cup was a success with 12 participants as compared to last Sunday's 9!
Please gear up for another cup next sunday, details would be posted on the site soon.
Results:

L3nnOn (1000 CyEN)
pr0d1gy (500 CyEN)
salaxzar (250 CyEN)

Earlier post:
CyAC has opened the sign-ups for the 2nd India/ Singapore/ UAE Quake Live Duel Sunday Cup to be held on 6th May! The cup would be played on unofficial Indian QL Servers on 13th of June, 1600hrs IST. Please go ahead & sign up!

» Cup info:

Map pool: qzdm6 | qzdm13 | qztourney7 | qztourney9 | ztntourney1

Match Format:
Rounds 1, 2 play single map matches.
Rounds 3, 4 play best of 3 matches.

Prizes :
1st 1000 CyEN
2nd 500 CyEN
3rd 250 CyEN
» Server Info:

Currently Hosted:
in.servegame.org:27083 [Duel Server (4 slots)]
in.servegame.org:27080 [TDM/CA/CTF Server (12 slots)]


Please see the following links for all the details:

Summary | Brackets | Participants | Rules | Sign Up

It requires you to be on #sundaycup@irc.friend-chat.jp or #cyac@irc.friend-chat.jp to be able to know about your matches & the server number your match is scheduled on. In case you have no experience with IRC, then please post your CyAC ID here along with your other contact information [mobile number, gtalk/msn/yahoo/ICQ/xfire/steam] on which you can be contacted regarding your match. A simple guide to IRC has been linked in this thread.

The WCG 2010 UAE qualifiers has ended. Winners listed below:

JPB < st1cker, whMsy, Krona, sak, 4lwa7sh >
NGU < breaker, domenic, s0mething J, brucelee , warlock >
w4rr1or.aa < Pirlo, Blanka, sa3ood, Ky0, Rock >

Congratulations to JPB for winning the cash prize of AED 10,000 & also winning a fully-paid trip to Los Angeles where the Global Finals of WCG 2010 will be held later this year.

Season 2 of AsiaFortress has just finished the group stage and now proceeds to Single Elimination Play-Offs (June 4th)! The top 8 teams that qualified are:

Dizziness
96#
Cataclysmic
Face o_0
CHAINEESE
SLP
Are You Paranoid?
Anarchy

More information about the play-offs can be found here!

The UAE qualifiers for the World Cyber Games will take place on 3-4 June 2010, 2pm onwards. They will be held in the Main Atrium area in Al Wahda Mall, Abu Dhabi. First place will get to travel to Los Angeles, California, USA to represent the UAE at the WCG Grand Finals.

As per the WCG rules, only Emiratis can participate in the qualifiers. There will not be any qualifiers for the DWGC Open Championship held at this event; only national qualifiers for the WCG.

Links: DWGC

CyAC will be hosting a QL Duel Cup on 30th May. To participate you need to register an account at CyAC and go to the cup page and click "sign up". Your name will be shown up on the participant list after approved by an admin.

» Info/details

Checkin period - 18:00 - 18:30 (GMT+8)

Format:

• Single elimination
• Round 1/2 - best of 1
• Round 3/4 - best of 3

• qzdm6
• qzdm13
• qztourney7
• qztourney9
• ztntourney1

Que Club Cafe situated in Dubai hosted a Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament on May 28th, Friday(yesterday). A total of 13 teams showed up. The tournament was played by the bracket format.

The final match was between JPB & Giga.mix, where JPB won.

- JPB [ Krona , Havok , Sak , Smasher , Sticker ] - AED 2300
- Giga.mix [ whmzy , add1ct , HZ , Rani , Mus3 ] - AED 1200
- SP.mix [ We_We , Kartoon , Rover , Muheeb , Pionus ] - AED 500

Recently, 2 new gaming network cafes have opened in the United Arab Emirates.

Elite Gaming Network was recently opened in Al Ain. It is located behind Al Ain Mall, on Hilton street, Nyadat area. It has 30 computers, and currently has a 5v5 dedicated stage (10 computers), with 2 more stages coming soon. If I am not wrong it also has a separate section for online (internet) play, for World Of Warcraft etc. Fr!nGe, a local CS player, is the manager. The rate is AED10/hour, and there are special discounts the more hours you purchase.

They also have 2 online servers called the Elite Gaming Servers. Both are for CS1.6, one being a normal pub while the other is a 5v5 scrim server. One of these is hosted from a special dedicated machine at the cafe, while the other is hosted by Etisalat, a local ISP.
» Here are the IPs:

Elite-Cafe CS Pub - ???
Elite-Cafe CS Match - 86.96.195.80:27015
The Warrior chain of gaming cafes has also opened its latest branch in Dubai. This is inside the City Center (Deira) shopping mall. It's right beside the bowling area inside Magic Planet. The entire network is in an area that resembles a very wide rectangle, and all the computers are set up along the walls in a way that results in 13 batches of 5 computers each. The rate is AED10/hour, and there are special discounts the more hours you purchase.

Planet Giga Cafe in Garhoud, Dubai will be hosting a Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament on May 21st. Details are unknown. I'll update as I get more info.

Update: Tournament is over. Team JPB wins.

- JPB [ Krona / Smasher / St1cker / Sak / Havok ] - AED 850
- Warrior [ Hazza3 / Ky0 / Add1ct / whmsy / rock ]
- NGU/GIGA