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A disappointed man of the W:ET-community Crossfire.nu writes a short but yet insightful view on Brink.
Time for Bethesda to wake up and Splash Damage to take action and stand up to their game publisher? The game could still be saved, but the competitive community need help by its developers.
Today (well, yesterday..) is a very good day as the G7-team mousesports (mouz), officially ventures into Brink as they pick up the talented and much heard of gentlemen in 2stroNg.
Today is a very good day. We’ve officially signed onto mouz and we couldn’t be happier. We’ve had some wake up calls in the past few days and now signing onto mouz - our motivation couldn’t be higher. We are so excited to have this opportunity and we’re all over the moon right now. Our first matches under the mouz name will be in the ESL Championship Group Stages, where we will be looking to make the mousesports name proud. At this time, we’d like to thank all of mouz management, especially Cengiz and René. A big shoutout to Benjamin Diener. Also shoutouts to all of mouz’s sponsors. Catch you on the playing field!
Great news as this might become an eyeopener for some other big organizations. Earlier on we did mention the fact mouz were looking to recruit a Brink squad and we did believe 2stroNg were among the better teams in a good position of making it to mouz. But the road have been somewhat bumpy with default losses here and there but they made it to the ESL championship via the Last Chance Qualifier and here they are..
- The oh so happy new mouz-lineup:
Josh “josh” Lee
Evgeny “GENY” Kurabtsev
Timo “Taimou” Kettunen
Basti “kNALLER” Winklmeyer
Michael “micHiiii” Rosen
Best of luck guys!
You just heard right! Yesterday, the german powerhouse Mousesports announced that probably one of the last 4 teams of the German Qualifier is going to play under the banner of Mousesports.
With only 12 teams remaining, soon we will know which team will make the big jump (just like a parkour one).
Time for speculations now! Will the former Power Gaming-team transform into a brinkish mice?! Discuss.
29.05.11 15:23h Power Gaming change_name 2stroNg
German qualifier @ ESL
The last 12 teams are:
Team Hardware4u
Insert Coins
The Unit
MTF.Gaming e.V.
causeWEcan
Brinkts?
iPLAY
notag
teamwod.de
Heaven-Thunder-Storm
2stroNg (formerly known as Power Gaming)
Team-siLence
*UPDATE
One of the contenders we believed might’ve been the one, 2stroNg - the 2nd highest ranked German team on our Top 10-list, were today ruled out of the qualifier. This after Brinkts? submitted a protest against 2stroNg after their game was played, which they won due to one of the 2stroNg-players forgot to reconnect to ESL Wire. This means they are out and will have to get their revenge in the upcoming ESL second chance tourney.
With Brink released in Europe just two weeks ago one might think it would be impossible to come up with a European Top 10 Rankings. Nuts you say and you might be right. But as we started planning on a monthly Brink Top 10 feature we just couldn’t resist doing one for May.
With players all descending from the W:ET-scene the Dutch guys in BRINKTEAM.ET have made some good progress in the ESL Brink Championship so far beating the likes of H2k Gaming and reaching the UB-final where they will face Team Dignitas tonight.
Their progress have been picked up by the UK-based organization Next Evolution (nevo) whom the former BRINKTEAM.ET as of today joined forces with.
Here comes a small semi-official update from Splash Damage that the competitive scene might want to take interest in. First off, it’s the lead game designer Neil Alphonso who speaks when replying on a thread that raised some issues with competitive play.
Neil: We’ve never said that the retail version of the game is specifically balanced for competitive play. We’re working to address the issues you’ve mentioned, and a host of others we think are entirely valid.
BRINKish.eu comment: The issues Neil talks about here are balancing issues and no first person spec view, which the original author wanted.
Neil again: It might be hard to believe given a lot of the vitriol out there, but our toughest critics are still ourselves. We didn’t work as long and as hard on Brink as we have to just let the problems lie.
On a question where the author asked what was going to be fixed the reply was rather expected but good.
Neil: Again, can’t give specifics until things are 100% tested and confirmed. Stuff is coming.
That bottom line is an oversimplification in a game this complex… an example of just one of the things that need to factor in is the difference between level/ability progress and weapon unlocks (pub) vs having everything to pick from (comp).
Not to mention how players adapt; the ways in which stats have changed without direct balancing tweaks are quite fascinating. We could release maps as ‘balanced’, and it would change three weeks later. The key is long term support and attention.
Also, word has it Splash Damage are working hard to resolve launch issues which may explain why we have yet to see any competitive specific updates or such. Hopefully there will be some in time, but for the time being we will most likely have to do with patches that stabilizes the game making it better for everyone and not just the competitive scene.
They say patience is a virtue and that saying is very true when it comes to Brink. Let’s be patient now shall we! Stuff is coming.
With a good kick start in the Brink ESL Championship former Dryads have joined up with riZe Gaming.
We’ve all known riZe since back in the SoF2 days and everyone knows that they’ve always been one of the top UK organisations on the scene, having had some of the best teams in Europe playing for them. This being said, we’re over the moon to see them return and are very honored to be the first team that they pick up in their move back into gaming.
Thanks to riZe and Rize Nexus we have all the support we need and we’ll be working extremely hard for upcomming LANS and Online events. The team is also planning to attend i43 if it hosts Brink.. so fingers crossed!
riZe Gaming lineup:
Kieran Jary as Jeebs
Jack Allsopp as Mosphe
Riyad Lucy as Envr
Lee Robinson as HippY
Brian Stewart as Vexx
Will Vaudrey as Stary
BRINKish.eu wants to wish these lads the best of luck and also welcome riZe Gaming back to e-Sports.
A new day brings a new Brink team to life. With a common background coming from several different top placings in other games UK-bases Silent Chaos is (re)born. Players from mYm UT2k4, United Kingdom UT, YoYoTech Crysis 2, and Epsilon/RAGE eSports CoD4 make up the lineup for SC. Some years ago Silent Chaos was a well known UT-team that ended up signing onto MeetYourMakers and their head man Maximus has decided to bring it back with Brink.
The lineup is as follows:
Genesis
Maximus
ozephyr
Hypoharry
Recoil
We that, BRINKish.eu would like to wish these guys the best of luck preparing for their UK Qualifier for the ESL Championship starting tomorrow.
Another team with their roots mainly in the W:ET (and the CoD4 ditto to some extent) -scene have made the jump to Brink. With some rather known faces g5 presents their brand new Brink-lineup consisting of a mix of two Brits, one German and two Belgian players.
Wakizashiuk
JMZ
asmogan
SneeK
Shizzle
They’ve also decided to bring some friendly backups with them in Snuble, Skydeh, Goso and h3lix
Best of luck from the BRINKish crew to the g5’s.
BRINKish.eu and the ever growing e-Sports broadcaster Kaos TV have teamed up to be able to bring you the best Brink action available.
Kaos TV announcement:
A few weeks ago Kaos TV was approached by Brink community BRINKish.eu who wanted to know if we would be interested in partnering up for future Brink events. Without much hesitation we obviously agreed seeing as it’s Kaos TV’s mission and goal to adopt and adapt to all the games e-sports has to offer.
Kaos TV will be recording a pilot episode to announce the partnership later next week so stay tuned and be ready for some high octane Brink action in the near future.
Brink has been widely regarded as the next big e-sports title and has had a significant amount of hype behind it, including several large tournaments that will start within the following weeks.
However, the Brink Multiplayer Event will be the first LAN tournament for the game with two locations, Utrecht & Zwolle taking eachother. Whoever is left standing in the end will crown themselves the first LAN champions of Brink.
So tune into KAOStv on Sunday the 29th of May, 2011. We’ll make sure that you won’t be disappointed.
Head over to KaosTV.nl to find out more. You’re also able to follow them on both Facebook and Twitter.
BRINKish.eu will of course be bringing you the last info available from our friends over at Kaos TV.
The launch cup for overseas teams incoming…and Dignitas is on board (are there any prizes you now think)
With the qualifiers starting at monday, the ESL just released the rules and settings for the 15000€ Brink Championship.
Maybe those are the most important changes the community was waiting for.
Some of course, already played by these rules. You can’t really complain and next months will show if these rules need to be adjusted or not.
§ 3.2.5. Forbidden actions
- Using the Adrenaline and the Self Resurrection perk is forbidden. Furthermore all level 5 abilities are forbidden.
- Removing the hackbox or using the antihack perk
- Hacking the target and leaving the area. You have to stay in the same area as the target.
Yesterday, the Bumblebee, winner of the 5vs5 Release Cup got signed by the german organisation Team Hardware 4u.
statement in german
Statement Martin “outc1der” Janowiak:
“Wir sind froh mit Hardware4u einen professionellen und fähigen Partner gefunden zu haben, der uns den nötigen Support bietet, um uns voll und ganz auf die anstehenden Cups und insbesondere auf die Brink Championship zu konzentrieren. Wir werden unser Bestes geben, mit Hilfe der neugewonnen Unterstützung, Hardware4u in allen jetzigen und noch anstehenden Cups und Tunieren bestmöglich zu repräsentieren.”
line up:
Mike “mikeX” Krack (Team-Captain)
Martin “outc1der” Janowiak (Team-Captain)
Andre “HEADi” Neumann
Sebastian “Shortje” Kulle
Artur “aFa” Lazarus
Sebastian “Wuki” Hofer
Andreas “cRks” Günther
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