Yesterday saw both Epsilon eSports and Team Rush battle it out in a very climactic final of the 4pl's 8on8 conquest cup. On paper the game looked like it would be a very interesting match and this was proven by it ending in just a narrow margin of 5 tickets. However, Team Rush managed to clinch the game away using old school BF2 tactics of holding spawns and taking first place of the first and largest Battlefield 3 tournament to date so far.

Twenty four teams entered 4pl's Launch day conquest cup which was sponsored by Razer.
The tournament first got underway with Teheran Highway being the first map. Rush drew a bye and quickly waited the two hours for the second round to start. In the second round they drew up against Division Wüstenfuchs (Desert Fox) and the match promptly got underway with Rush managing to defeat their opponents and move through to the third round. Coming from Seine Crossing their next match was to be played on Grand Bazaar against a team called GIVE IT ALL e.V. Unfortunately, giving it their all was not good enough to topple Team Rush who once again promptly managed to secure the victory. Rush managed to prove themselves once again in the semi-finals on Kharg Island and proceeded to the finals where they met up with Epsilon.

The time has come once again for this years winter Insomnia Gaming festival !

 Multiplay I44

This year has seen the release of many FPS titles with one falling after the other out of sight, but with the rise of Battlefield 3 is sure to breathe life into the genre for the better. Give thanks to the kind people at Multiplay who have put up £1000 for this years BF3 tournament at i44 which is to be the first offline prize tournament for the game. The format for this festival is set to be 6v6 Conquest Infantry Only, which allows more flexibility in smaller groups attending to allow them to play in the tournament without needing 8 players.

Luckily for Rush Zone we have so many of our Battlefield 3 players attending the festival that it allows us to field two teams of 6 players. Could this mean an all Rush final?

Good luck to all who are entering a team, we'll see you on the Battlefield soldiers :)

The rush crysis team kept its nerve was able to come out on top in a close than expected crysis 2 final at i42. In a close fought battle against NewGen where rush only needed to win one map to go away with the prizes,NewGen fought hard on the first half coming from behind to win the half, this made the 2nd half of the map even more important for team rush as they needed to win the 2nd half by at least 30 points or another map would have to be played.

Team rush came out hard and fast taking a hugh intial lead before a minor resurgence of the NewGen came about, this late push was soon dealt with and the final pod landed in the grasps of the team rush players,with that final pod captured team rush ended any hope of a newgen revival and went home with all the crysis 2 goodies.

 

Donning the Team Rush nanosuits were

Born, Duky, gfn, Inv, Shooks, and rjayw

Excellent job representing Team Rush

Well done guys.

Team-Rush will be in attendance at this weeks insomnia42 event. The CSS and Crysis team will be competing in their respective tournaments over the course of the next couple of days in the hope that this will be a successful LAN, following the Crysis team's triumph in the i42 online qualifying tournament.

RUSH.CSS will be going without two of the online lineup, Spii and n3uro. Replacing them for this event will be RACER and POLZEH, both currently teammates in HMN.

The guys in attendance this weekend are:

RU5HM!X - seaton, c0dec, kirby, RACER, POLZEH.

RUSH.CRYSIS - Ducky, paradox, sh00ks, Mr Pig, RJayW, inv.

Good luck to the Crysis guys, I'm sure they will do well. We would love as much support as you guys can give us over the course of the weekend and we will do our best to make this a successful LAN for RUSH!

Kirby Team-Rush CSS team manager

The recently signed counter strike source team have been keeping themselves occupied over the last few weeks by taking part in the Twisted play Bigfoot,Big Prizes 5on5 competition where 5 Bigfoot 2100's are up for grabsfor the winners of the tournament.

First up for the rush team were a fairly unknown team from Hungary 'Flight 643' the game took place de_Inferno, Team rush sent the hungarians into the the lower bracket early with a 16-13 win.

Onto the 2nd stage of the Upper bracket where rush were about to meet their first real test of the tournament so far in 'Twistedplay.OVH' the teams would meet on the highly popular map 'de_dust2', the team rush battled hard but werent able to overcome the experienced Twisted play side losing 16-3 putting the team into the loser bracket.

The rush side entered the loser bracket at stage 2 where they would face 'siN' on de_nuke, the rush side was able to come out on top with a 16-13 taking them into the loser bracket stage 3 and the beginning of the resurgence.

Stage 3 of the loser bracket and the rush team was up against 'Fuzzy's Vent' on the map 'de_season' the rush team was able to bring home the win with a 16-9 win booking themselves a place in the loser bracket stage 4.

Into stage 4 of the loser bracket the next opponent for the rush team was the experiened Danish team  'VALUE.Wonder' and the map for this encounter would be  'de_dust2'