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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!

After we saw Sypher’s old line-up splitting at the end of EPS.UK Season II, we had to find some players to continue participating by our name in this great online event with prestigious LAN Finals.

After some propositions we found the right line-up to represent us. This team will onlybe participating in the ESL Pro Series by the name of Sypher and will have total freedom in other competitions being online or offline.

The team consists of a mix full of talented players who just can’t wait for COD4’s sequel Modern Warfare II.
The ESL Pro Series is for many players the only thing left in the coming months after the big summer LAN’s and that’s what these guys realised as well. A perfect match for both parties it seems!

Sypher.EPS consists of

Adam Vanner, vanner

Chris Hart, stylez

Will Nye, will

Adam Karow, adamz

Jamie Harrison, hysobe

Rob Heaton, robzje

Stacey Keir, skeir

Statement Vanner Adam“Vanner” :

About a week ago whilst me and will were sat at home watching the summer lans non stop we decided we wanted to make a team and compete in the EPS.  We had talked about it before and started asking a few guys if they wanted to play and we’re happy to announce we’ve formed a team to compete in EPS for sypher. Having knowing FWIET for just over a year now it was a smooth transition and we’ve come to an agreement we’re both very happy about. See you in EPS

In the last post we announced the attendance of the team to i36. Expecations were set high for our team since they had to proof themselves towards the whole COD Community. Many were doubting on our performances and some even were offending with calling some of our players cheaters! (the worst thing that can happen in your game-carreer). Well what can we say now… They were WRONG! And we proved so that we had the needed expierence to perform offline. The boys did a very good job at i36 ending up a shared 5th/6th place with  FNATIC.MSI.

But then unfortunately the problems started to take place and line-up activity (or should I see stability) resulted in being one of the first problems the team had to face. Despite the good results in our eyes at their very first lan as this team the results could have been better according to some and changes had to be made. When we look back now, that idea better never occured because since then things haven’t been the same. In several attempts to bring back the old line-up together this just couldn’t work.

From then until now, the only moments where we could see the team playing together were their ESL.UK EPS matches and so they will also finish the current season with two more games to be played which should secure a safe spot for a next season. Where it’s still unknown if a team will be representing Team Sypher by then! But we have our ideas already and soon more about that!

Here a little statement from ex-sypher member NEOX:

Since i36, after reaching 5/6th place, the team hasn’t felt the same. We have spent much time trying to get the best out of the team, and it’s a shame that this has become of no use. After Some departures including myself, and new people joining, the stability the team needed wasn’t able to be reached.

Two unstable months and many different players later, the team has finally decided to depart and go their separate ways. I myself have always believed in the team, thinking that we can achieve great things as long as we get a stable lineup; others just didn’t have the motivation that I had for Team Sypher.

We achieved good results in many competitions, and it’s a great shame that it has come down to this. The organization hasn’t done anything except help us all throughout the course of our ups and downs.
They’ve been great, and I’d personally like to thank Fwiet and Deathman for being extremely patient with us.
They have taken a huge risk in getting us in as their cod4 team, and I hope the very best for them. Additionally, their great guys and I’d love to meet them sometime, as we didn’t have the opportunity to meet up after all. All the best from the ex CoD4 Team Sypher.

Neox
Jake Sibley

Sypher.COD was:

• Daniel Ball, VAE
• David McConnell, Ono
• Jake Sibley, NEOX
• Alex Rainbird, oZ
• Scott Macken, Aaroth
• Ronny Parry, Ronzor