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Since yesterday the French COD community has the opportunity to qualify itself for the seventh edition of the ESL Major Series.
After a sixth season showing off a high competitive level, ESL made a good decision in once more showing their support towards the Call of Duty scene by providing a 3000€ final prize pot.

For this, our French COD squad couldn’t miss out this tournament, despite lacking a fifth player and now Durand Hadrien, bOMbER having personal issues and so he’s not able to play…. it will be done by a +2 players mix and let’s make the best of it!.

EMS 7 Qualifier France

General cup information:

• Nombre de participants: 32 équipes
• Début des inscriptions: 16/08/2010
• Fin des inscriptions: 20/08/2010
• Début de l’event: 01/09/2010
• Fin de l’event: 05/09/2010
• Module de l’arbre: Single Elimination
• Déroulement des matchs: Chaque équipe choisit sa map: BO3

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As we haven’t brought a lot of news on AEF during and since the event due to technical issues, we’ll try to catch up now. First in a series of AEF content is a Interview by Cod-Gamer.net < french community COD site >. thx to blitz for taking this interview.

The interviewed is Samir “vonkAh” Merchi, team captain of our Call of Duty 4 team. The content features some questions on how they look back on the event and what they’re planning for the coming months.

The original interview (French version) can be found here or on page 2 of this article..

The translated interview (English version) can be found below.

To finish with our post-AEF interview series, today we sat down with SYPHER to analyse their vision of the event, this with Samir “vonkAh” Merchi. Let’s remember that SYPHER didn’t manage to score results as they’d hoped after coming back from a dissapointing lan with one win and draw on the record.

AEF SYPHER.COD Line-up:

Samir “vonkAh” Merchi.
Karim “MUSTANG” Merchi.
Nicolas “kyle” Dupas.
Hadrien “bOMbER” Durand.
Sébastien “morback” Lonchambon.

1. CG : Hi vonkAh, could you (re)-present yourself to the readers, for those who don’t really know you.

SYPHER.vonkAh : Hello, my name is Samir, I’m twenty years old and I’m currently playing for SYPHER

2. CG : Fist of all, how was AEF in general for you, how was the atmosphere over there?

Well for me it was short said a pretty awesome event, though I’d enjoyed chilling in the apartment before and after the event. For the few I’ve seen when it comes to organisation it was all perfect!! Then of course  we had the greatest fun with the SYPHER staff, as it was the first time we met it was like we’ve known each other for years, we matched!!

3. CG : Some observers speak of a certain “fail” at AEF for you guys… Nevertheless it’s not to forget that you were placed in a very strong group. So when I ask your opinion, fail or not?

Fail ?! Yes and no, to question our Group is just lying, you have to be able to assume to gain knowledge in competitive gaming. Our goal hasn’t been reached, that’s clear. And so yes we were disappointed with our performance … But now we continue to work so this kind of situation never happens again if it’s in FRANCE or EUROPE! We have learned from our mistakes during this event.

4. CG : Regarding the team now:  what is your main feeling?

My team is great, we’re all on the same wavelength, we work together, we laugh.. summed up “TEAM SPIRIT“. Aside from Nicolas Kyle D., who really has a problem of integration in our team and I can only regret it, unfortunately.

5. CG: The question of interest to the community: Will there be a change in your roster? Who, why? Names coming up?

Saying that the community is interested, I don’t think so. But yes there will be a change, we can not continue with Nicolas “Kyle” D. .. Why? I think it’s an internal problem that doesn’t concern the community but our organisation. If we want to grow  we must know how to put friendship aside without neglecting that everything goes well-IN GAME. We are therefore currently looking 4 a last lanable!

6. CG : Your feelings about the results of French teams present on site? And the big EU powerhouses?

So I would say that MS has shown us the beautiful spectacle, for TCM everything has been said in their own interview. Regarding oO I will not comment, one thing is sure, they will be attending upcoming events as well, and much stronger. Regarding the EU teams, we can applaud Power Gaming for their performance and PGS that nobody expected at this level … Then not to forget is H2K who pulled of the best lan imho.

7. CG: What are your new goals, both online in LAN? The means to achieve this?

I want to say that our ambitions are the same as all the French STABLE teams; reach the TOP, be the best! However it is not so simple, but we have all the aces in hands to achieve this, SYPHER does a really great job with us and they are the ones pushing us up. Now of course we’ll try to be present both online and offline, living up to what the community does and let’s hope that more FR teams join our point of view.

8. CG: Thank you for taking the time to answer questions from cod-gamer, and I will therefore leave the traditional closing remarks to you.

Thanks to you for the interview. Thanks to Geoffrey / fwiet and Damien / KAMI for managing the event and for their continuous work in SYPHER. Thank you to all my mates who also spend a great holiday in the sun. And as said above we are currently looking for a last player, feel free to contact us.

Actual Line-up

Samir “vonkAh” Merchi.
Karim “MUSTANG” Merchi.
Hadrien “bOMbER” Durand.
Sébastien “morback” Lonchambon.

As of today the groups are released for the event, based on the European Top16 and random adds. Each of the 8 Groups consists out of 7 or 8 teams with 2 top seeded teams and 5-6 randomly added teams.

The Sypher COD4 Line up is being placed in Group G with the following teams to beat.

Group G

• Team Imperial
• Zeropoint!
• Gamersrject
• waL*
• Origine-online
• Team Omega
• Team Sypher

The Team travelled towards Antwerp on Thursday to stay at the Condo Gardens – City Appartements which is only a 5-10 min walk from the AEF venue.
Just before they stopped by at the sypherHQ for an interview alongside a pickup of their new gaming gear + the fresh printed team jersey’s. After getting to know eachother well and some good conversations; together with the sypher managers KaMi and fwiEt they hit off the road.

Event Information:

• Name: Antwerp Esports Festival
• Date: 30/07 until 01/08
• Competitions: Call of Duty 4 & Enemy Territory
• Prize purse: +/- 20.000 EURO’s
• Venue: Hangar 26 – Antwerp

Oh yes we’re back! Time again to venture into COD4 and we’ll be doing that with a “WICKED-SICK” team. With great happiness we present the new sypher.COD4

Call of Duty 4

• Lonchambon Sébastien, morback (realised the nickname IH8DEM really sucks)
• Durand Hadrien, bOMbER
• Dupas Nicolas, kyle
• Merchi Samir, vonkAh
• Merchi Karim, MUSTANG

Missing a COD4 Squad in a period where the game knows it’s fame & name is something we can’t let happen.
After the Fins of Fekuj called it a day a while ago, and now prestigious events announced such as the return of the Antwerp Esports Festival, we realised it would be a shame in not having someone present in our own country this summer, amongst +40 other EU teams!

Hereby we present the French team playing by the name of ‘WICKED‘. A team fitting perfectly in our new strategy to put ourselves more and more in the Franco-Belgian scene. With our full walloon CS 1.6 line-up and the French-Belgian mixed CSS line-up (to be presented this summer for the new French Masters season), we now have a complete French team!

A word from Managing Director Geoffrey ‘FWIET‘ De Bie

I’m glad to say “welcome” to these boys  and having the privilege to add their names in my player profile database (including nasty details as their mother’s maid name). The roster of sypher players reaches it’s peak moment again, and with more or less 20 members, the small family is getting to it’s second generation now and we’re happy we can make it happen! I’m sure Bomber, kyle, mustang, volkah and IH8DEM (there’s always one with a annoying nickname) already feel as a part of the SR family just as many others who have been around in sypher for almost 2 years now!

Even if this team lacks international fame, we hope that by playing for Sypher they’ll get their way in achieving that and be respected by the community as a potential challenger with the time going by.

I’ve been following these boys for a while now and by seeing a stability and most important a very friendly line-up with a great sense of humor and maturity, I believe they’ll fit here perfectly and they can already live up to our expectations! Such as out of the agreement we can to theirs. Welcome boys and let’s meet up soon at the HQ.

Of course everyone asks themselves, who are they? Let’s get to that part quickly by a brief team presentation by Kyle .

First of all I’d like to thank sypher for their trust, followed by a small presentation of our line-up.

The team consisting of 5 members within the age range of 19 to 23, can be short described as stable and solid, with 3 members knowing eachother for more then 9 years and those adding 2 new players who directly took over the team-power. This giving us the possibility to form a team getting competitiver day by day.

After a satisfied result at lan79 we’ve focussed on finding an organisation to support us mainly in upcoming French events but also for upcoming European LAN’s. That’s why before LAN79 we contacted sypher and after the needed follow-up’s, 1 month later we’re happy to be part of Sypher.

Nicolas « kyle » D. – 19ans – AK47
Hadrien « bomber » D. – 19ans – Scope
Samir « vonkAh » M. – 20ans – AKu74/AK47
Karim « MUSTANG » M. – 23ans – AK47/AKu74
Sébastien « IH8DEM » L. – 22ans – AKu74

Back in January we announced the start of a new concept called 4SYPHER. This new feature would give upcoming teams the opportunity to have an organisation helping them out with any problems they’d have,  and supporting them with basic support so they can move on to the next step in competitive gaming in their local scene and Europe.

The team being the “beta-tester” in this were the Finnish COD guys of “FAP”. Unfortunately a while ago their team-captain Valtteri Immonen, Fekuj told us that he would be lowering his online activity and putting more time in studies and social activities.

By this we remove the COD team as Fekuj was our only close connection with the line-up and it’s only with him that we could keep doing this.

Valtteri Immonen, Fekuj

After CIC7 we felt like finding a new fifth, which we eventually did. However during the last few weeks i’ve lost my motivation towards the game almost completely and i decided not to continue. The team decided not to look for a new fifth again so the only conclusion for this was to split up. I’d really like to thank kez for being the worst beatboxer ever, ruohiz just because of his BEARD, sarine (don’t let this guy in train after not sleeping at all) and kusti for just being part of the most awesome team i’ve been in so far. As far as i know sarjne, kusti and ruohiz will have at least some kind of break from gaming, kez will continue with other team. I personally will still continue as finland’s rep at Vita Nova + i’m attending Solid Mojo with a mixteam.

Some words from our side.

We’ve always had a strong bond with Fekuj and so we worked out this 4SYPHER to give him what he always wanted, being a part of sypher but this time as a player. Of course it’s something we wanted as well as we’ve always knew Valtteri being a great guy and helping us out with so many things.

Unfortunately, a part of the project will now stop and we believe it’s the best for both. Besides them splitting up I’m sure there were also some flaws from our side and we won’t deny that. The problem where we see it, is that in the last year we’ve made this change in our strategy by positioning ourselves more and more on the Franco-Belgian market (when it comes to players and partners). Due to this we couldn’t offer them the correct support and the team-management wasn’t the same for them as others experience it.

Nevertheless that, we had a great time and some amusing moments on our private IRC channel!! . We’d like to say thanks for representing us at CiC and the online-matches they played by the tag of 4SYPHER. We’ll see this split as the best for both and we wish all players good luck in what they do next. Cheers guys!

To end this story here an overview of those who created 4SYPHER and deserve all fame!

Call of Duty 4

• Antti Ruohomäki, ruohiz
• Valtteri Immonen, Fekuj
• Teemu Kettunen, kez
• Olli Oikari, kusti
• Joni Laakso, sarinerAr

From April 30th to May 2nd the Steelseries eSport Challenge 2010 is a reality for the first time with a cash prize purse of 10.000 Euro.

SteelSeries Esport Challenge

Steelseries eSport Challenge (SEC) is an exclusive eSports tournament entering the European eSport market with a massive cash prize purse of 10.000 Euro – and as a new initiative the prize money is guaranteed to be paid out in cash at the event!

The first edition of the Steelseries eSport Challenge will feature a 32 team Call of Duty 4 (PC) tournament in coorporation with Vita Nova. The entire tournament is hosted on 40 high end gaming PCs.

SEC prize money distribution:

1st place	5.000 Euro
2nd place	2.500 Euro
3rd place	1.250 Euro
4th place	500 Euro
5-8th place	250 Euro

The Steelseries eSport Challenge takes place at Cop3nhag3nRobot in the heart of Copenhagen from April 30th to May 2nd 2010 and replaces last years succes “Copenhagen eSport Challenge” which was held in Tivoli.

TV coverage and streaming

The Steelseries eSport Challenge will introduce a TV setup and broadcast selected matches LIVE on our website as well as supplement with player interviews and other features.

The Steelseries eSport Challenge will introduce a TV setup which is seen at other major tournaments such as Intel Extreme Masters and World Cyber Games.

Selected matches at the “Steelseries eSport Challenge” will be broadcasted LIVE on our website as well as supplement with player interviews and other features.

After having 48 teams subscrided for the CIC7 next month in Enschede (Netherlands), they will be holding a pre-event tournament to determine a proper seeding for the event.
with our 4SYPHER team attending this event they will be playing in the upcoming days for a good spot at the event.

Statement by Fekuj:
Our group is going to be tough. All the teams have a chance to finish top2 on the groupstage which makes the group kinda interesting. We’re looking forward to play the matches, especially vs. our Finnish rival iG.

Groupstage (group F)

	M	W	D	L	Points
4 SYPHER	1	0	1	4	1 pts.
Real Gaming	3	3	0	0	9 pts.
Infernal Gamers	2	1	0	1	3 pts.
MCA.Tweak	3	0	1	2	1 pts.
H2k gaming	1	1	0	0	3 pts.
1stCav	2	0	1	1	1 pts.

Group matches

TBD vs.  MCA 09-13 (mp_tba)
21/02 – 18h CET vs. infernal Gamers 6-6 (mp_tba)
20/02 vs.  H2k gaming 05-13 (mp_strike)
21/02 – 23h CET vs.  OX Gaming 09-13 (mp_tba)
21/02 – 20h CET vs.  1stCav 05-13 (mp_tba)

With the new year just turned in, we at Sypher get the ball rolling with our new project starting today, called: 4SYPHER!  Our main goal with this project is to give teams and individual players a chance to reach the next level in eSports that can seem so difficult to achieve.



While for every new team having high ambitions all starts with finding a good name, training a lot and in some cases they work out a small “organisation” themself by finding a sponsor for servers and other necessities.

The ultimate goal for these teams and players is to get picked up by a prestigious organisation, so that they can be taken serious by the professional eSports world and achieve things they set out to do from the start.

As an example of, our WC3 Player kopitz was rather unknown before he approached us. Soon after joining us we made him aware of this qualifier belgium held for WC3 where the winners (and he qualified) would get the chance to represent their nation on the iESF Challenge in Korea. Besides the great eSports experience he got there, he also gained the respect from the community which gave him a boost that noone could of imagined!  He even featured in an hour long  national radio interview in Belgium and other local Media channels during his stay in Korea!

That’s what sypher wants to offer to everyone which we feel deserves it.  Players who have a professional attitude can get far, they just need a little push!  Within 4SYPHER (4SR) we want to be that force behind them….

FAP -> 4SR: Introduction

Kicking off as our  first 4SYPHER team is the finnish COD4 team: FAP (known as f*kin angry policemen).
A team that exists of  good friends that have been playing together now for quite some time.  One of the key members making this possible is FEKUJ.  He has been one of Sypher’s true fans for the past year, which has resulted in him becoming close friends with many people in the organisation.  There’s no other team around that better fits the purpose of the new 4SYPHER project .

Antti “ruohiz” Ruohomäki
Valtteri “Fekuj” Immonen
Teemu “kez” Kettunen
Olli “kusti” Oikari
Joni “sarinerAr” Laakso

A word from the whole FAP team:

After months of on/off gaming and hiding behind fake names we, FAP, have finally decided to reveal ourselves to the public supported by team Sypher.

Like any Finnish team, there’s a time when the Finnish military service takes away some of your teammates, and so happened to us, taking away two key players and leaving the line-up not complete.
So after nearly 3 months of searching for that special one to fill in the missing link in our line-up, we found an old friend of ours known for his dominating aim in DoD:Source, Antti “ruohiz” Ruohomäki, who fits in perfectly with our funky posse that will be showing up at the CIC7 as prepared as possible and hoping to do well.

We’re all glad to bring this bunch of five together not only as teammates but friends as well, and as the Spice Girls used to say friendship never ends (we just wanna zigazig ah).

We’re also happy to announce Sypher taking us under their wing and becoming our official supporter, thank you and we hope to do well on the battlefield.

Some words of the sypher management

For 2010 we have a lot planned and this is just a warm-up of several other projects. People will get to see a whole new sypher. With a new website release scheduled for this spring, a full rebrand is prepared welcoming new partners, game divisions and side-projects. We want to celebrate our 10th anniversary with style and everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy from this.

By welcoming the finnish COD team of FAP we feel like having some new family here and that’s something we luckily always had with our players. 4SYPHER.COD ’s first public appearance will be the Crossfire LAN held in March. We wish FAP the best of luck and we’ll be helping them out as much as we can!