Together with our partner Bigfoot Networks, Team Excello invites you to join the Bigfoot Network Writing Contest March 2010.Do you have a strong passion for e-sports and its community? Do you want to get your reflections and thoughts published? Team Excello is giving you the opportunity to publish an article on TeamExcello.com in our
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Together with our partner Bigfoot Networks, Team Excello invites you to join the Bigfoot Network Writing Contest April 2010. Do you have a strong passion for ESports and its community? Do you want to get your reflections and thoughts published? Team Excello is giving you the opportunity to publish an article on TeamExcello.com in our Bigfoot Network Writing Cont
Three months ago the prestigious force then known as Finnish Royalty teamed up with Excello to represent the organisation in Counter-Strike: Source. The team has sticked together with the five original members for a while now, but has now encountered a need for change. Marko 'owa' Mattila will be replaced by another truly experienced Finn, Olli-Matti 'delonge' Vehkalahti, as owa did not share similar views concerning the team's future with the rest of the team. A statement by the new Excello player, Olli-Matti 'delonge' Vehkalahti:Attending winter assembly with a mixteam brought back my interest and hunger for the game. I knew the only way I would get back was with a topteam, and i feel extremely lucky to be able to join Excello as such. I look forward to competing at the highest level again with these guys. A statement from the team captain, Juha 'aNGeldusT' Kurppa:The teams and Owa's objectives in game differed too much, so we had to start thinking about alternatives. We had a shortlist of players to replace Owa and finally decided that the best person for the job would be mr. Olli-Matti "delonge" Vehkalahti. The team wishes Marko all the best in his future endeavours and gladly welcomes Olli-Matti on board.
It was announced yesterday by the compLexity administration some surprising news. Jeff "Hero" Mettetal was dropped from the Counter-Strike 1.6 roster being replaced by former x3o, Gravitas and Turmoil member Derrick "Impulsive" Truong.
After last nights blow out victory over Blight cs, excello.ZOWIE will look to continue their success taking on Loaded CS tonight. Last night was Excello's first match of the season on de_dust2, and boy did they look convincing. After winning the first half in convincing fashion (12-3), Excello did not look back and went on to win 16-3. Tonight Excello will take on a second to last Loaded squad. Loaded is a big surprise this season. Unfortunately for all of the wrong reasons. Loaded was expected to be a front runner this season, especially with their pickup of ex-compLexity awper, Scott "evolution" Cavallero. Unfortunately however, Loaded is currently sporting a 2-6 record, good enough to only earn them 11th place. Although the standings might make you think otherwise, Loaded is still a team Excello should be wary of. The majority of the Loaded roster has played for powerhouse organizations such as compLexity, EG, and x3o back when x3o was a top Counter-Strike team in the United States. These players still know how to make it happen, and they are not by any means washed-up. This should be a much closer match than last night folks! excello.ZOWIE vs. Loaded CS Date/Time: Wednesday, January 19th at 8:00 PM EST Map: de_dust2 HLTV: TBA Result: TBD
Tonight excello.ZOWIE's #1 spot is put on the line as they will go up against Blight cs in an ESEA Invite Regular Season match on de_dust2. excello.ZOWIE has been leading the North American Counter-Strike scene for the majority of the season, and they will look to continue their 5 match win streak tonight. Blight cs currently stands in the middle of the pack with a 4-4 record. Although they were just barely able to beat teams such as undertow, they did pull wins over really solid teams such as YummY and 9StorM. This is certainly a worthy opponent that excello.ZOWIE can not underestimate. With Evil Geniuses right on their heels, excello.ZOWIE will not be able to afford to drop this match if they want to take the #1 spot into the ESEA Playoffs. You can look forward to a great match tonight! excello.ZOWIE vs. Blight csDate/Time: Tuesday, January 19th at 11:30 PM ESTMap: de_dust2HLTV: TBAResult: TBD
WOW! The past few weeks here at Excello have been full of new and exciting things. A few months ago we announced ZOWIE Gear had become a sponsor and ever since we have been growing and expanding rapidly. We feel like this is a great time to update you on what we have been working on here at Excello for the past few months. First off, you can expect a new website this year. The website will be much more functional than our current one, and will give our organization a new refreshed look. And with our new partners for 2010 we will be running more tournaments in many various games for our community to participate in. Each tournament will feature great prizes for you guys to win!However, all this cannot be done without community help. And this is why we are calling on you guys to make this happen. Excello is looking to hire News Writers as well as Tournament Admins for 2010. If you think this is for you, and you would like to gain experience working with Excello, we urge you to take this chance today.If you are interested send us an e-mail today for more information!Contact Information: Max Kieturakis max.kieturakis@teamexcello.com Editor in Chief Team Excello www.teamexcello.com
Excello's fresh all-Finnish Counter-Strike: Source lineup is currently attending Lantrek, which is held at Ylöjärvi, Finland. The venue of the LAN serves as a home for over three hundred gamers and PC-enthusiasts over the weekend, providing it's visitors with content ranging from various gaming competitions to fast graph showdowns. Each and every Counter-Strike: Source team in attendance is undoubtly pursuing the grand prize of 1000 euros, as it is the only money prize handed out to Lantrek CS:Source competitors. The Lantrek prize distribution clearly favors the winners, as the prize for a second place is a bunch of product prizes worth approximately 400 euros, while the third-place finishers are promised a consolidation prize.Our Counter-Strike: Source team has already played their first match of the tournament at the group stages. Pitted against RCTIC eSports, Excello managed to secure an easy victory of 16-3 over their opponents. For their second game on group A, Excello were to face northwave GA, who in turn were able to pull off an impressive tied game against Excello on de_inferno. The Counter-Strike: Source grand finals will be played on Saturday, 21:00 local time.Read more for additional information.
It was a tough Thursday night for the boys at excello.ZOWIE. Excello was the team to beat after three weeks of ESEA Invite and coming into the fourth week many trained their eyes on Excello to see if they could continue their winning ways. After scheduling a double header for Thursday night, the boys had to go out and prove their worth. It was a night full of problems however. First excello.ZOWIE went up against Exigent. Sure Exigent are currently the last place team in ESEA Invite, however you can never underestimate a team, especially in a division that houses only the best teams in North America. Unfortunately there were many issues that caused the match to be delayed, including having to get the server situation sorted out, and CJ "cj_b" Banarsee lagging out every other second.Finally we were able to get the match underway and although playing 4 v 5 for most of the match, Excello was able to pull out a massive victory over an underperforming Exigent team.Excello's next match was against the west coast all-star team of YummY. excello.ZOWIE could only expect a tougher match, and this it proved to be. The match was very close with Excello pulling out a 16-14 victory. This match showed how t-sided the map of de_lite is. Results: excello.ZOWIE > Exigent 16:1 excello.ZOWIE > YummY 16:14
Spanish side Ledpc have become just the second team to qualify for the KODE5 2010 Grand Finals. Ledpc was able to edge out lastshow in the final of the Regional Qualifier. lastshow surprised many teams by edging out Unibet to guarantee themselves a spot in the final. All the best teams in Spain were present at the event, with the exception of x6tence who was not present. Ledpc was able to go through the upperbracket without a loss, while lastshow came from the lower-bracket. The KODE5 Organization has not announced yet the date nor the location of the 2010 Grand Final. Results from Kode5 Spain: 1. Ledpc2. lastshow3. Unibet Teams Qualified for KODE5 Grand Final:LatterLigLettLedpc
After a very successful Week 3 on de_train where excello.ZOWIE was able to "upset" North American powerhouse teams Evil Geniuses and compLexity, you will be able to follow the team in yet another, double-header. Excello is currently the team to beat leading the North American Counter-Strike 1.6 scene with a 5-1 record in the nations premier league ESEA Invite. This week Excello will go up against YummY and Exigent on ESEA's own custom map, de_lite. If Excello will be able to grab these 2 wins, they will truly establish themselves as one of North America's top 3 teams. A 7-1 record in the premier league of North American Counter-Strike will go miles to propel them to new levels.excello.ZOWIE vs. YummY Date/Time: Thursday, January 13th / 20:30 Eastern Standard Time Map: de_lite HLTV: TBA Result: TBD excello.ZOWIE vs. Exigent Date/Time: Thursday, January 13th / 23:00 Eastern Standard Time Map: de_lite HLTV: TBA Result: TBD Read more for pregame write-ups!!!
Today the United Kingdom based organization, Reason Gaming, has announced the addition of an European Counter-Strike 1.6 squad. The team compromises of mostly well known British players, with some European talent mixed in. Reason Gaming has the following roster: Kal "101" Meek Mikey "mikke" Paddock Jens "Murdy" Clarberg Phil "quark" Belhomme Will "RedH" Manson
The ESL has announced they will be holding a small, 4 team tournament to determine which team will take the last slot to compete in the European Championship Finals. After SoA announced that the organization has disbanded the spot opened up. It was originally believed that p00nhandlers will take over the spot, however ESL has stated that this will not be the case. Instead, there will be a tournament with the prize being the final spot to the European Championship. The tournament looks to be an exciting one even though it lacks a cash prize. The Polish squad AGAiN missed out on a spot in the Finals after losing to oXmoze in a relegation match. Here are the 4 teams attending the tournament: AGAiN Frag eXecutors Meet Your Makers confis
With the coming of the new year, the Ukrainian organization KerchNET have announced their Counter-Strike 1.6 team for 2010. KerchNET 2010 Roman "z1" Poltavchenko Ivan "Johnta" Shevcov Dima "barracuda" Prohner Stepan "cucumber" Pershko Stepan "cArsky" Petrenko
Thursday night proved to be a busy, long, exciting, and successful night for Excello's Counter-Strike 1.6 team. Heading into Week 3 of the ESEA Invite Regular Season, Excello had only one loss and was looking to itself as a serious North American contender. Excello got drawn to play traditional North American powerhouse teams Evil Geniuses and compLexity in the same week however. Although a tough draw, the boys made the best out of this situation and practiced hard especially for this week. The results showed and Excello pulled out 2 major wins to secure a first place standing after the third week of ESEA-Invite.
Yesterday the Lemondogs organization announced the addition of a new Counter-Strike 1.6 team. After losing their Swedish team to H2K-Gaming, now much has been heard from Lemondogs. Today this changes with very surprising news.
The ClanBase Counter-Strike: Source EuroCup season XX has come to an end, bringing together an exceptional amount of talented players from all around Europe. Excello's all-Finnish Counter-Strike: Source lineup has placed second in this prestigious online tournament, right behind the German champion Team ALTERNATE. As Excello and Team ALTERNATE had both been faring exceptionally well during the entire tournament, the grand final between the two was definitely worth spectating. ClanBase EuroCup XX results: 1st: Team ALTERNATE2nd: Excello3rd: troublemakerz4th: H2k-Gaming5-8th: alphaMatrix5-8th: eXelonGaming 5-8th: Confronto5-8th: Wild Lions8-16th: pstarZ8-16th: 30P-Gaming8-16th: Team Celsus8-16th: Devoted-Gaming8-16th: BiGGER8-16th: diamondZ e.V8-16th: e-Srael Gaming8-16th: Cant Be Arsed
