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Today, Sypher is proud to announce its new Counter-Strike:Source line-up for the 2010/2011 season.
After several weeks of uncertainty over which players would be wearing our tag in the upcoming events such as the French EPS Season, we are pleased to have found five players of an exceptional level.

In the renewed line-up we still see two of the core members who have been around for over a year now with the org:  ”Sebastian” janssen Janssen” and “Matthias dahood Vercruysse”, who will team-up with 3 players who have totally exploded onto the scene this year.

Dan “apx” Madesclaire, previously of “Redface”, joins Clement “MAS” Drouaire and Nicolas “Lumpy” Brenat from “TEAM ROCCAT” to complete our exciting new line-up.

As everyone knew, the situation for both MAS and lumpy was confusing, and we were in the same predicament as Team LDLC.com when it came to the contract the players signed with the ROCCAT organisation.  Nevertheless we’ve just received word from our sources that everything has been arranged between both parties so they could be released and continue their journey with their new team-mates. We at Sypher are therefore pleased to confirm that the line-up will remain as it is now throughout the season.

You will be able to see us compete in the French EPS Season, the ESL Major Series and of course our presence is to be expected at the main European LAN’s. We place all our confidence in this highly motivated team, and we thank our sponsor SteelSeries for allowing us to support them throughout the year.

Sebastian “janssen” Janssen
Matthias “dahood” Vercruysse
Clement MAS Drouaire
Nicolas “Lumpy” Brenat
Dan “apx” Madesclaire

Simon “deadpool” Sonnery (manager)

Welcome!

If a victorious CS 1.6 team ain’t enough today, we’re happy to mention that current and former Team Sypher.CSS players travelled down to Southern France this weekend, where they participated in the popular French (CSS) lan: PxL Edition 27 in Arles.

As expected to finish within the top3 of the tournament. They really surprised many by winning the powerful ROCCAT in the upper bracket causing the Frenchies to fight their way up in the Lower tournament.

A small presentation has been done by vakarm.net representing some of our players as the Belgian representation. Translated to English..

Biluis Fabiano compte bien faire son taff !

Once again, few “real” teams are present, as a good amount of great mixes took over their place. So we have one of that kind attending the LAN with only one goal: climb up the podium. Some of these players will be using their individual skill, while others will try making the difference with their preparation, and keeping errors as low as possible.

	apx Ex6TenZ bil fuz DaHooD	Prédiction : Top 2
We love beer : They won’t be crossing France from north to south to just say hello! Ex6TenZ and his troops know each other really well and they’ll try to claim a win on ROCCAT.. Unlucky though to apx for being the only outsider with the 4 Belgians.

Groupstages

#	Equipes	Pts	J	G	N	P	Avg
1	we love beer	12	4	4	0	0	51
2	MYTRASH	7	4	2	1	1	8
3	Remember It	5	4	1	2	1	4
4	kawabunga	4	4	1	1	2	-4
5	PoweR	0	4	0	0	4	-59

The Playoffs

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Time for some online action highlights. With the past LAN’s already dating back to two months, our two 5v5 teams keep fragging on their weekly trainings and so preparing themselves for a next event. To entertain themselves and the community we know ESL as being the platform for online professional competition with the EPS as the highest league in each country.

In this coverage we feature the highlights of both our squads in the EPS. The CS 1.6 team participates in the Benelux but the CS:Source team made some changes and will from these days continue to play with at least 2 French players in order to be accepted in the French ESL Section. With dahood having a double nationality they are still able to hold on with 3 former line-up members (janssen, dahood, bil).

The Benelux EPS Season just started this weekend and sypher will only be playing their first two games Monday the 24th.

The French EPS Season is already coming to it’s end and yes we managed to have our name in the current Season as our guys joined up with one of their friends in need of substitutes to finish the season, and most certainly sypher present with their new line-up after the summer. With a current mid-placed rank we’re sure of our presence in the EPS Season 9 of CSS.

Stay tuned for more highlights on upcoming matches. SYPHER.CSS mix facing hf.Mother soon and our CS boys playing netGen and PWP next monday!

Some links:

EPS France (CSS) Results & Ranking

EPS Benelux (CS) Results & Ranking

Page 1: Introduction

It’s this weekend that GamersAssembly 2010 takes place in Poitiers, France.

Being at it’s 11th edition, it’s one of France and Europe’s most prestigious LAN’s when it comes to professional competitions with side-animation and events. Also it’s one of the LAN’s awarding ranking points for the French VideoGaming Masters which has it’s LAN finals at the end of the Spring.

Being a must for Sypher to have our presence at such prestigious event, this weekend 3 players of our CSS team will be travelling down to Poitiers together with Sypher CEO Damien “Kami” Rapoye. With a departure set for this Friday noon the guys will be making a 7h hours ride down to France. During the weekend we’ll be providing you guys with Twitter updates, Galleries, player & management blogs…

The main reason for our players to be present at the LAN is that the first ASUS European Nations Championship Offline event takes place on Saturday featuring our players, and those facing the French National CSS team. This will be in the enormous arena of the Futuroscope which provides over 1000 spectator seats.

Of course it’s to stupid to just go there for 1 game and so our players will participate in the CSS tournament along some of Europe’s best teams while this is surely one of the year’s biggest weekends when it comes to LAN parties (i39, The Party 8). Unfortunately something happened with janssen & boon recently reducing the line-up to 3 players for this event and bringing in 2 substitutes.