A look back at Nvidia 2012 from Josh "Millah" Miller. 26th of April was the date the five new Vox Eminor CoD boys set off on their respective flights towards Melbourne. We were all very excited to get away for the five days as we hadn’t seen each other in a long time, and this would be the first time that we had caught up as a team, previously we had all been part of separate teams. The chance to catch up, have a couple of beers and enjoy the time was going to be great, but ultimately we were heading to Melbourne for the NVIDIA LAN. The opportunity to play against every single top team in Australia for Call of Duty 4 is almost unheard of, only previously happening with the Alienware LAN quite some time ago. We went into the event quietly confident that we could take a top 2 placing but were a little bit weary considering our lack of LAN playtime as a team. As any competitive gamer knows, LAN is a whole different realm and on the day anybody can be upset. Some of the other teams such as Mindfreak and Exile5 had played multiple LAN’s already this year with the full rosters so would have an easier road adapting on the day to the LAN environment. We knew it was going to be a very tough task to place highly, but we were eager to show everyone why we are considered one of the top teams in Australia. The first day of the trip was a relatively relaxing day, a chance for the boys to enjoy ourselves a bit and catch up with many people. With Nick, Motion and I all arriving at similar times on the Thursday, we decided to cab it back to the house which Vox Eminor had provided for us. The place was great, everything we required for the five days. After settling in we decided to go and check out IBISQ, which would be the host for the NVIDIA LAN, and a place that we would spend a significant amount of time in during the course of the next 4 days. First impressions were that it was a little small but looked decent, we were initially also worried about the layout of the rows of PC's aswell but ViroL being the quick witted fragger he is sorted things out with the owner in preparation for the reshuffle that would occur. We knew teams were praccing hard to win $5000, but we didn't know they were LAN praccing on Thursday hard – we spotted Fiend & Ant getting some much necessary LAN practice in. Apparently they'd arrived on Tuesday, that's a bit keen. After checking out IBISQ we decided to contact Qlimax and eventually ended up at the Qlimax house in Richmond, we didn't know they'd all be half tanked by the time we got there. Upon arrival we were also surprised to see the NZ side of Frenetic Array – Dutch, Skippy, Kenji. As you would expect in a house filled with ~15 gamers, shenanigans occurred. Shoutouts to Nick for his Smirnoff drinking antics, apparently only the first 60mL's of the bottle are good enough to be drunk before he swiftly moved on to the next. Friday was the day we wanted to start to get a little more serious, we went down to IBISQ relatively early and started setting our gear up. We spent a good 5-6 hours there getting use to the computers and scrimming a few other teams. With the completely different setup and 75 Hz screens, it took the boys quite a while to get use to it. When we felt comfortable enough we went to grab some dinner and had a few beers back at the house. Saturday had arrived; this was when things started to get serious. Saturday was the day of the Gigabyte Open comp. We've been lucky enough to pick up the nickname of Vox Adminor due to the amount of admins in our team – motion, tal, millah – so on the Saturday morning we were up bright and early(atleast myself and motion were, not tal) to help get all the teams set up and referee during the event. The event ran for most of the day without a hitch, props to Virol and Arsey. The boys got a little bored near the end and decided to go to the movies. Myself being the upstanding and awesome admin, I stayed to help finish off refereeing the final games. Same cannot be said for Motion and Tal...... Team Noxious came out on top, which took some people by surprise, they were definitely the underdogs on the day and played superbly. Beating two CGp teams, Avant.Tt and Sequential. After the event was finished we got some dinner and headed back to have a quiet and early night at the Voxe house, ready for a big day on the Sunday. The plan was to get an early nights sleep so we'd be fresh for the competition on Sunday, apparently our neighbours thought otherwise. I don't know what was more frustrating, the fact that I was being kept awake by the likes of David Guetta or that tomorrow i'd be playing for $5000 with barely any sleep. I'm going with Guetta(motion) Sunday had arrived, it was nice and early and very very cold(props to the smarts of the Vox Eminor CoD team, despite the weather, none of us were smart enough to wear anything warm)! The nerves were starting to arise for the lads, but the excitement was greater. We just couldn’t wait to actually start playing, it had been a long three days waiting for this day. We got some good food into us and headed off to IBISQ. Everyone was lining up outside of the venue and getting registered one team at a time. We picked out our bank of PC’s(thanks Exile5 for swindling our row, I will never forget) and started to set up. Everything was going great, until the power decided to go out. What was at first thought just a little blackout, turned out to be a much bigger problem and everyone was directed to leave the venue until the power company arrived to fix it. One and a half hours later after sitting in the freezing cold waiting, everyone was eager to get back in and start fragging! After some great work yet again by Virol and Arsey, everything was back to normal and we were all allowed to get back inside again and finish setting up. We were already at least an hour behind schedule so the time to the first game wasn’t far away at all. This was it, what we had been preparing for in the last couple of months. Was time to start clicking heads, as Motion would say. This was the biggest LAN AusCoD has ever had in regards to the quality of teams at the event. The prize money was also not too shabby, with 5k going to first palce, 2.5k to second, 1.5k to third, 1k to fourth and $500 to the following teams from 5-8. The teams who were participating were: - Vox Eminor - Frenetic Array - Mindfreak - Exile 5 - qlimaX - Fighting for Freedom - SYF - MEKA.Tt The four big teams of AusCoD Mindfreak, Vox Eminor, Frenetic Array and Exile 5 were all great chances to win the event. As to be expected with LAN, any of these 4 teams were likely to take out the event and the potential for the other 4 teams to upset the top 4 seeds was definitely possible aswell. The first game for the Vox Eminor boys was against SYF gaming on Citystreets. It was important for us to get off to a good start and assert our dominance early. It went round for round early with a score of 4-4, but the boys showed why we are revered by the other teams and ended up taking the next 12 rounds while only dropping one, ending the game with a final score of 16-5. No hate to SYF, but the fact that we had such an easy win didn't do us many favours leading into the game against Exile5. Exile5 had just had an extremely tight overtime win against Qlimax which I believe really put them in the zone for their next game, us. The second game was our toughest in the group and one we felt we needed to win. We were up against Exile 5, one of the strongest teams with great form going into the competition. We started off extremely strong taking a very commanding 8-1 lead on the defensive half. It looked like it was going to be over very quickly, but to Exile 5’s credit they started to counter our defensive hold and brought it back extremely well and made it into a very tight and epic game. The boys lost their way a little bit, and im sure still regret this today, but ended up losing 16-13. Props to x5, they played very tight and we made way to many mistakes. Having just lost our previous game and now having to beat Qlimax to make it into the Semi Finals, we were on edge a little bit. We knew on our day we should beat qmX comfortably, but with so much on the line, the added pressure was starting to build up. 15 Minutes later we were wondering what all the fuss was about. We ended up completely dominating them and winning 16-7. The only downside to this game was Ian from Qlimax chucking out Game of Thrones spoilers every time he would die! Ultimately though we had made what we set out to achieve this LAN with a new team, and that was to at least make the Semi finals. Whilst the group stages were challenging, the event really started when we moved into the semi's. Win two Bo3's and you take home $5000, lose one and you get $1250. Ofcourse prize money is a massive motivator, but we were more focussed on winning regardless.We were put up against Mindfreak in the Semi finals in a best of three maps. This was going to be a very tough match for us as they finished top of their group, beating everyone convincingly. Mindfreak had great preperation coming into the event, they had the most LAN practice coming into the event also beat us in a tight BO3 in the SYF Cup a month beforehand. This game was going to be tight. The boys won the knife and we let them pick the first map, they picked Citystreets and we thought this was great for us. Generally City is one of our favourite maps. We started off okay, but by the end of the half we were just trading rounds with Mindfreak, on a map like citystreets simply trading rounds on defence isn't good enough. There's not really much to say about our attack half, our poor performance on defence really ruined our chances of getting a streak going and winning some rounds back. Mindfreak's defensive setup has to be congratulated as they forced us into a 16-10 loss. It was now our turn to select the map and we picked Backlot. The pressure was well and truly on, needing to win this map to take it to a 3rd to stay alive. Similar to citystreets, the game was extremely tight and went round the round all the way to 15-15. Overtime. The first two rounds of OT we took out convincingly giving us a 2-0 lead, we were confident we had this OT in the bag. The 3rd round of overtime we went to a 4v2 in our favour, we were confident we had this round. Mindfreak had other ideas and went on to win a 4v2. If there ever was a round that sent us out of the competition, it was that round. They broke our momentum and we couldn't recover from there. The game shifted in their favour and it gave them the confidence to then take the following 3 rounds and win the OT 4-2. Praise has to go to Mindfreak for their solid play in this final, despite the fact that we felt we lost backlot ourselves they really worked their way back into a game that was ours and punished us for it. Too many crucial mistakes when it counted the most. It was extremely disappointing for us, we had expectations of placing top 2, but we were still quite happy with 3-4 aswell. A little bit more LAN practice in the future and we'll be fine. As good sports we are we all went over and shook the winning teams hands, hey Tal? The rest of the event saw Exile5 knock out Frenetic Array in in a massive comeback and upset to take themselves into the grand final to play off against Mindfreak. The LAN was already very late as all the Semi finals were extremely long and close. We decided to go off and get a feed and drown our sorrows with a couple of beers with qlimaX and Fray. We head back to the Vox Eminor house for a couple more beers and to relax a little bit. After multiple beers, we decided to head back to IBISQ and rally our support behing Exile5. I've been playing with and against some of Exile5 for some years, and there has never been a nicer bunch of guys in Australian Call of Duty. It was time to pay them back for their gratitude over the years by supporting them in the Grand Final when they needed it most. In some of the closest games you will ever see, with some of the best atmosphere that will ever appear at a LAN, Exile 5 came out on top with some amazing plays and team work to take home $5000 in prize money and the respect of the Australian Call of Duty Scene. Congratulations to them, they truly deserved it as they were the best team on the day. The LAN was now over and everyone was tired and ready to head back home, the trip was great, meeting everyone and getting a chance to see old mates again was amazing. All of the Vox Eminor boys had a great trip regardless of the outcome. All this shows us is where we went wrong and what to improve on more in the future to get our #1 title back! Massive massive shoutouts to CM Storm, Cooler Master, Western Digital, Kingston, Kontrol Freak, Aver Media. Without you guys it wouldn’t have been possible to get our team over there with such good accommodation and support! Most importantly thanks to Richard “Talnoy” Lawes for setting this up for us and giving us the opportunity to represent the Vox Eminor name. Also huge shoutouts to Arseynimz and Virol for running an amazing event, we hope to see one again very soon!

As you may have seen on our facebook page our new fighter ShangTsung went down to the Shadowloo Showdown 2012 event down in Melbourne. He competed against the worlds best in SSF4AE and made an impressive showing knocking out a few upsets and going home with a wealth of new knowledge. Haz did the team proud and we have some of the replays up on the shadowloo youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShadowloo You can also check out his match vs Gamerbee (epic) and his big win against Leslie, but also his last match vs Gachi-Kun in our videos section: http://www.voxeminor.com/movies/ Big ups to Haz who had a great weekend and did the team proud exceeding expectations at such a prestigeous event!

Well that time comes for all players when life commitments get the better of our gaming time and we have to call it quits. That day came this week when PaDz told the team he couldn’t commit to the game anymore and was moving on. It was a genuinely sad moment for me as PaDz had been with us from the start and for the rest of the team as there aren’t many people out there with as much character as PaDz. He was literally our first recruit alongside his long time friend AZR and has for what seemed like forever was the quiet presence in mumble who always managed to come out with some of the weirdest shit you have ever heard. But it was his in game ability which always impressed the most, just a pure and natural understanding of the game that made him exciting to watch. Whether he went huge in a game or had a quiet game no matter which of the two you watched there wasn’t that many people who could simply out play him. He spent most of his time as a rifler, but even had a shot at calling and Awping in the team, that latter of the two he really stood out where he often decimated teams holding a line that was easier to go around than try to break through. Paddy attended many lans with the team, and while he didn't claim a title with the team in the 1.5 years he played for us he was always part of our foundation. No matter where we put him or what we asked him to do he did it with natural skill and ability that most people only wish they had. But outside of that he always had a sense of fun that left us often shaking our head, running around in ODC's in the earlier round chasing people with a knife in ninja mode or with his night vision goggles on he always managed to entertain. The only way to describe him is bizarre, no matter what it was he always had the most unusual outlook on things, and I for the most part will miss the epic steam chats where we discussed things that no normal human would discuss. Even his hardware, we would all submit our picks for what gear we wanted and if it looked ridiculous and impractical that was the thing PaDz picked. Even in mumble some of the epic conversations we had when Paddy had more than his fair share of booze and let it all hang out and told us what he really thought of us (most of it while we were recording him). When I was typing this out I thought the best way would be to ask his good mate AZR what he thought when PaDz first told us he was moving on: (warning azr is man of few words and fewer brain cells) "First off when josh told me I thought he joking around but for sometime now josh hasn't been to keen to play due to more real life commitments. I first started playing with josh in 1.6, then he got me to switch to source a couple months after and since then we've been together for three years. He has become a great friend of mine and it's sad to see him leave the game but I'm happy for him as he is maturing in life." Either way the team will never be the same, we will continue and move on but we wish Paddy the best and I know how much he loves this so ill close it out with his favourite video:

That time of the year has come again where the team has battled it way through the season to make it into the CyberGamer WD CSS Pro League finals. It didnt come without controversy with Azad "topguN" Orami joining the roster during the final unlock and the community up in arms about his eligibility thankfully the admins have permitted him to continue playing since the departure of STV. Needless to say our super sub DimoJR could have filled the shoes if need be and from some aim map prac last night i dare say he would still be filling the shoes well but we have the green light to roll out with Azad for the finals. Its been a difficult season none the less with 11 groups of 8 teams competing over 4 divisions in the league. Many matches were played and as usual many AM teams died making seedings for finals a nightmare especially in the AM div as per usual. But regardless the community has steamed on and are competing in the finals at the moment. The Vox team will first face Qlimax Crew, our greatest rivals in the league and one of the best out there. I think this will be the showdown for us regardless of whether we were to win and face either Immunity or Mindfreak in the final. Qlimax are a strong stable team with a great bunch of players and people filling their roster. Marto or MRT as he is more commonly known made a departure to Immunity to play as their 6th mid season which was a bit disappointing as MRT for me was the soul of Qlimax but of course we wish him well with his new team. The match is currently set for this Sunday and while its not confirmed if there will be a reschedule either way its going to be an epic game between old rivals and who knows what will happen with toddw0w in the server. Stay tuned for the match as its probably the bigger rivalry in the league.

Well the news broke that WCG or World CyberGames was going mobile. It was met with dismay from the bulk of the gaming community but not all that much supprise as Samsung has always been the key to WCG. In the end it left me without even a sour taste in my mouth. Why you may say? Well its pretty simple WCG has been a bit of a joke down here in Australia for a number of years now, with a succession of poorly orchestrated events. There was a bit of a resurgence in 2011 with a renewed bidder who assured the community that it was going to be a spectacle nobody would forget. But they did forget, for most of us well before the final even arrived under a hail of broken promises and unpaid prize pools. It would seem that the tempo that was WCG since around 2009 remained the same, promises made and broken, events that by a long way failed to meet any expectation and so on and so forth. So back to the point, does anyone really care that WCG has gone mobile? No is the simple answer where for years WCG had gone from a truly unique attempt to "olympify" esports to a simple sales exercise where no name games made the games list more on the merit of the cheque the vendor wrote more than what the global esports community actually wanted. With good spectator numbers at the last WCG Global Final it was a relatively decent event regardless of the failings of the regional qualifiers which was always written off as stock standard WCG. But of course with this change the event is basically just a trade show for Samsung where people will have galaxy generation mobiles and play games nobody cares about for their illusive 15 minutes of fame. You may at this point be thinking, so how is it that you define the statement that nobody cares? Well it all comes back to the buzz that WCG started with, and lost relatively early in its existence. Events for WCG whether it be the global final or the regional qualifiers were largely seen by the community as substandard and often run by unqualified event organisers who happily spent half of the buget making it look pretty, the other half in their back pocket as an operating profit and the 0 left was made up by exhorbitant registration fees. Basically WCG became a player funded event that nobody really wanted to play in anyway. But it was that want to play in a live event that kept WCG alive and in my eyes it was where the spirit of WCG really existed. It was all about players shelling out to compete in an event they were paying for because in the end they just wanted to play. It will always be that way while profit orientated corporates initiate and operate events in esports. So WCG has gone mobile, the community has gone..yeah whatever and we all roll on and watch the slow decline of esports from a back seat while profiteering borders on exploitation of youth...ooh that a sensitive statement..but one left for a future article maybe?

Vox Eminor welcomes a new member today with the addition of Azad "topguN" Orami to our counterstrike source lineup. The team had been struggling ingame of late and after our 12 month stint with a static lineup we were finding it hard to get that balance back again. That being said changes needed to be made and they were done to ensure we could complete our WD CS:S Pro League season with the lineup we felt would lead us into future tournaments. Topgun is a very experienced player in a number of games but his most notable performances always came in CounterStrike Source where he has always excelled with his work ethic and some of the sharpest aim the game has seen. While the team is never fond of making changes sometimes it has to be done and we are just looking to move forward and get things back on track. Here is what the teams captain Boomser had to say: "Having a chance to play with Azad again is an opportunity I thought I would not be able to have again. The bond I have with Azad is shown in and out of the game every time we play together and something I have not really been able to replicate with many other players. The team had some issues during the last month trying to sort out what can be worked on. In the end with constant attitudes getting in the way we believe having a strong figure like azad would put us back on track." Here is what topguN had to say about joining the team: "Joining Voxe, was not a choice, it was destiny. I was given a golden opportunity to play alongside some greats, at a level that I feel I belong in. I have the chance now to show my worth, to see if I am still the topguN, or just the gun." We welcome Azad into the team and look forward to pushing on into the future. New Vox Eminor CSS Lineup: Scott "Boomser" Bednarski Aaron "Azr" Ward Joshua "PaDz" Leplastrier Mike "ap0c" Aliferis Azad "topguN" Orami

Well it was a long weekend, not in the usual sense of the word but this weekend past some of Australia's top CounterStrike Source teams took to the battlefields in Vox's first PRODC tournament. It was a very long sunday where we played a somewhat new format where in one day 8 teams played each other and then the top2 went onto the final in a winners take all tournament. Each team chipped in $50 towards a prize pool which had everyone keen to rack up some results and get in some good practice. The teams we had for the weekend were: Team Immunity Vox Eminor Mindfreak Esports Meka.Tt Sequential Gaming Team XP Avant Garde Fighting 4 Freedom It was a relative who's who of the pro league minus Qlimax Crew who unfortunately couldnt make it. The first thing that became apparent from the tournament was how far the skill gap in the pro league had closed. We had 4 teams in very close contention up the top of the table and only barely trailing the leaders for the day were Meka.Tt in 5th place. It was definately refreshing to see so many double digit matches with 16-10-11-13-14's coming in left right and centre. It was a really long day for the teams and nothing but kudos can be given to all the players, many who were out all night before hand and some who had just crawled in from work. Everyone fronted for the days festivities except for F4F who always seem to be late but with a 45 minute delayed start they made their appearance and opened their campaign. Notable in itself that although F4F appeared at the bottom side of the table nobody could deny just how far they were pushing their opponents in every single match. The fact that they also racked up 72 round wins when they only played 6 games was definately worth a mention. The solid performer for the day was definately Team Immunity as they strolled through the group stage with their own share of close shaves with a couple of hard earned 16-14 wins. Vox Eminor were relatively shaky all day with a couple of comfortable wins but far too many close calls than they would like to remember. Sequential were much in the same boat and at the end of the day were tied with Vox for the 2nd place but with a longer loss margin to Team Immunity than Vox had they didnt quite make it through. TeamXP lived up to their name with a wealth of experienced players no team had an easy way past them and ended up grinding through the match to snatch a narrow margin or a crushing loss. Down the lower half of the table Meka.Tt again proved they are pro level with their consistent play all day long, they werent in the top4 but the top4 had to work to get past them as they continued to improve and show just what level of performance they can put in each match. Mindfreak had a relatively solid day too, handing out some stick to the lower teams but also sticking it to the higher tier teams. They have a long way to go but are definately a stayer in the pro league as they are consistently hard to deal with for most teams. F4F we discussed earlier but like noted they were solid all day after drawing the ire of everyone else who seemed to be waiting for them. Avant were the under performers of the day but that was to be expected as Qlimax's spot were some hefty shoes to fill, although they got rolled by the top half of the table they kept close to the bottom half which just paid tribute to the amount of time and work the team puts into their gameplay. So all in all the sportmanship was flowing and the teams had a good days gaming. The final was between Vox Eminor and Team Immunity, the teams squared off on Dust2 and Train and after a bit of a rally from a tired but determined Vox Eminor team they clinched the final 2-0 16-4,16-11. All the teams put in a great effort on the day and did set something of an example to the lower divisions, they were given servers rcon and a schedule and meandered through the days tournament on their own without much guidance regaining lost time throughout the day by quickly getting into the servers and playing out their games. It is sign of just how unified the community is when they can walk through an ODC alone almost virtually unattended and put on a great day of CSS action for the community. The big shoutout of course goes to Streamline Servers who were kind and put forward 4 servers for the day which performed flawlessly. I better do some awards here and i might try and break out some good ones. MVP - Havoc, Team Immunity Not many could argue this, but after watching a number of games lukes sheer volume of frags seemed to lift them to victory. They didnt come first in the tournament but for the most consistently good player of the day i dont think many could argue he was a catalyst in Immunity's success of the day. Pitchfork award - destiny, Sequential Gaming As has become the bandwagon of the season the weekend was no supprise with Mark leading the accusation stakes on his own. The pitchforks were out and the villagepeople were assembled and on the hunt for him again. Stats > Winning award - Artee, Sequential Gaming After his stellar stats performance in the recent nationals Art seemed more interested in the stats than the tournament. Great rising star in the pro league he deserved an award as he played well too. I have a team i just cant find them award - Haz, Fighting 4 Freedom Being the only F4F member to appear in the morning Haz took the hounding from the rest of the teams with good grace and humour as only Huk had all of their numbers to round them up. Deserved a special mention for his tireless efforts to keep them online and playing for the day. Well there you have it, a great day a great weekend hosting a source tournament with great guys.

PRODC Schedule!!! Below is the full schedule of matches and maps for this Sunday's PRODC! Teams will be given the server details on sunday and sourcetv details for spectators is listed for each match in the schedule below. I will be providing a live feed of match results as the captains feed them over to me and the bracket is also at the bottom of the thread, just reload the page and the bracket will update. Its going to be a full on day but a good one thanks to Streamline Servers for providing match servers for the tournament! Check out streamline here: http://www.streamline-servers.com/ Streamline Servers Australia! 10AM AEDT - DE_DUST2 MEKA.Tt vs Team Immunity - Server1 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27041 TeamXP vs Mindfreak Esports - Server2 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27042 Avant Garde vs Vox Eminor - Server3 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27043 Sequential Gaming vs Fighting 4 Freedom - Server4 - Server 4 - connect 103.1.186.212:27044 11AM AEDT - DE_INFERNO Mindfreak Esports vs Team Immunity - Server1 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27041 Vox Eminor vs Meka.Tt - Server2 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27042 Fighting 4 Freedom vs TeamXP - Server3 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27043 Sequential Gaming vs Avant Garde - Server4 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27044 12AM AEDT - DE_NUKE Team Immunity vs Vox Eminor - Server1 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27041 Mindfreak Esports vs Fighting 4 Freedom - Server2 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27042 Meka.Tt vs Sequential Gaming - Server3 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27043 TeamXP vs Avant Garde - Server4 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27044 1PM AEDT - DE_SEASON Fighting 4 Freedom vs Team Immunity - Server1 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27041 Sequential Gaming vs Vox Eminor - Server2 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27042 Avant Garde vs Mindfreak Esports - Server3 - SourceTV -connect 103.1.186.212:27043 TeamXP vs Meka.Tt - Server4 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27044 2PM AEDT - DE_TUSCAN Team Immunity vs Sequential Gaming - Server1 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27041 Fighting 4 Freedom vs Avant Garde - Server2 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27042 Vox Eminor vs TeamXP - Server3 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27043 Mindfreak Esports vs Meka.Tt - Server4 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27044 3PM AEDT - DE_TRAIN Avant Garde vs Team Immunity - Server1 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27041 TeamXP vs Sequential Gaming - Server2 - SourceTV- connect 103.1.186.212:27042 Meka.Tt vs Fighting 4 Freedom - Server3 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27043 Mindfreak Esports vs Vox Eminor - Server4 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27044 4PM AEDT - KNIFE Team Immunity vs TeamXP - Server1 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27041 Avant Garde vs Meka.Tt - Server2 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27042 Sequential Gaming vs Mindfreak Esports - Server3 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27043 Fighting 4 Freedom vs Vox Eminor - Server4 - SourceTV - connect 103.1.186.212:27044 Grand Final - 6PM AEDT - Sourcetv - connect 103.1.186.212:27041

Like the title says with 3 days to go the qualifiers are about to kick of for the upcoming Nvidia event! Gear up for battle is a program launched by Nvidia a fortnight ago where the Call of Duty community here in Australia will battle it out over a 5 week qualifier period. What happens next of course is the top teams advance through to the Nvidia Autum championships which will be the showcase tournament of the Nvidia gear up for battle LAN. The Vox Eminor call of duty squad has been working hard to prepare for the qualifiers where under our new lineup we will be fighting hard to secure one of the 8 placings in the championship. Millah from the Vox Eminor team reported in that the team is finding some balance and focus now they have had some time to adjust. The team had been split as Beast Teek and Vas headed back to work/life commitments but with Archaic folding Nick joined up with Millah Tal Motion and TheOne and they have been steadily building up their ingame chemistry. Exciting times are ahead as the boys go into the championship quietly confident they can secure a spot. There is also other avenues for the community, there is a freeplay tournament on the saturday so if you havent already, head over to gearupforbattle.com and check out the details. Thats right on Saturday any teams can enter the open tournament for the minor prize pool and a great weekend of Call of Duty action. Hey to be honest even if you wont be competing why dont you come down anyway, there will be a TONNE of community members down there including all the big teams so it will be a great weekend of thrills and spills both inside the venue and also out where no doubt the community will leave their mark on Melbourne!

Hey guys, this weekend we are running an invite 8 team invite ODC competition. Its a fairly casual competition, just thrown together out of boredom to be honest! It's an 8 team round robin so every1 will get a bunch of games and hoping to get gamestah or someone involved for at least the grand final so everyone should have a lot of prac/fun! It's $10pp($50perteam if u have 6) 1st takes all+bragging rights; if the teams could make payments to Talnoy's paypal - admin@voxeminor.com Afaik all pro teams bar QMX have confirmed and I just invited Avant to play who have accepted. The bracket to date is below. If teams can't play please let myself or Talnoy know ASAP! We will get this updated later with some sourcetv and more details as we get closer to the date Round 1: de_dust2 Round 2: de_inferno Round 3: de_nuke Round 4: de_season Round 5: de_train Round 6: de_tuscan Round 7: Knife

This week the girls had a match vs Conspiracy in the WD CSS Pro League. The girls had a rough CT half but couldnt bring it back fast enough on the T side and went down in the end. The girls had Neeber from Gamestah in there doing a shoutcast and of course here is the replay below:

It was the season of de_season in the CyberGamer league and we had a hot date with MindFreak on Sunday evening. With a quick backup from a Thursday match against SQL we were not overly confident. Alas we headed in with our heads high, hoping to get in there and get the job done . The knife round was one of the more peculiar ones I have seen, with teams decided to settle the dispute in vents. After the loss last week in knife round, we sent our swords to be sharpened and came into this one with a vengeance and in turn, victory was ours. We selected the Counter-Terrorist side, hoping to get out to a large lead and ruin their confidence early. MindFreak soon threw a monkey-wrench into those plans, exploiting our hold by going mid to B on the pistol, with little resistance they soon took the site, planted, and held on until it went boom. Our two eco holds were failures, despite PaDz getting 3 early deagle kills in the latter, sadly Az and Boomser got their wires crossed and couldn’t defuse the bomb in time. First gun round MindFreak faked A, we bought it like Boomser buying some JACK3D from the supplement store. We left B compromised and they planted and won the round rather easily. We also lost the following eco round. Staring down a 5-0 deficit it was time to lift. The flashes were bought, the calls were made, and this is where we bring it back. Sadly it was to no avail. Both the next 2 gun rounds we got slammed, both times at the A bombsite, managing only 1 kill on both rounds. Down 7-0 it there was a feeling of now or never coming from our camp. We did an agro strat with me pushing all the way through mid vents to B, it worked nicely, me and AZ getting a pick each. The round played out well, us keeping the numbers and subsequently got on the board. 7-1 MindFreak went back to basics and opted for one of their previously easy A takes, it looked like deja vu as some frags were traded, but Az was there on the quick retake, along with STV bravely defending, they won the 2v3, saving us from some money issues. MindFreak went on an eco mission B, they got the bomb down but we easily retook and forced the combination for the bomb out of them. We now had a bit of momentum. The next gun round we went for an agro mid strat, it was secure, but I heard a lot of commotion coming from the under tunnels. I requested backup at the A site, and we now had 4 awaiting the reds. They fell into our palms as we completely shut down the attempted take. Next round was another agro and we managed 2 quick frags early. Again we played the numbers and won the round flawlessly. We had now brought it back to 7-5 down. Nothing was going to stop this comeback now! .. They proved size isn't everything, with their deagles completely destroying us. Myself and STV getting slammed early by rushing deagles allowed them to plant A and win their first round for a while, in turn forcing us to lose some momentum. MindFreak went back to the old script, and took A easily after initial traded frags, they took the round and had a 9-5 lead going into the final round. On the final round MindFreak tried to be cheeky and went for a B rush hoping to catch us off guard. It initially worked with some traded frags but our 3v3 retake was a success. After a somewhat miserable first half, we were mildly pleased to only be down 9-6, knowing the pistol round could square it up. We sent our finest glockers out Door into A, and we took it with ease, with only one CT to retake against 3 of us, he didn't have much hope. We took the pistol and the next 2 ecos. First gun round we rushed A and took the 3 defenders down! The last 2 decided to seek safety and hold onto their guns. The following round we rushed B quite fast. We traded frags but could not hold off the retake, making the score 4-1 to us, and 10-10 overall. I might fast forward a bit because this is taking longer than expected and I am sure that I’ve lost at least some of my 6000 readers. The game was at 13-13 each round immensely important. We ran a slow B strat and we managed to walk straight into B through upper area due to fo0ster playing it about as useful as sandals on an amputee. We got the first 2 picks, but sadly this round bait prevailed as fooster got a couple of kills in the back and it turned sour for voxe. Boomser was last alive but even the great man had no rabbits left in his hat. Now down 14-13 we ran a similar play with STV awping mid. He got a pick middle, we then charged B and I got two entry frags, forcing the CT's to save for the final 2 rounds. With the game tied at 14 all, we ran a fake play, STV again awped mid, I ran B, this time as a fake. STV got the entry in mid then we got trade frags at B. It was left in a 3v3, slightly in our favor, as we had planted in A unscathed. The guys had every area covered and held the bombsite giving us the 15-14 lead. The final round, this one separated the men from the boys. We ran an A play, sending a couple under and a couple mid. Once against me and STV quickly got 2 opening frags, suddenly making it a daunting 3v5 situation for MindFreak. What once was a presumptuous 7-0 lead, they were now reaching for a miracle. Their prayers were not answered as it quickly became a 2v4 planted at the A bombsite and Boomser finishing it off with the last 2 frags. This was a gutsy win for the guys. The first time this season we've been tested and we showed some fight. We improved to a 3-0 opening to the season. Man of the Match goes to ap0c. Finished with 23 in the 2nd half. Along with STV, a lot of the opening frags in the important rounds. Round of the Match was a tough one. I didn't really notice anyone do anything crazy but I’ll give it to PaDz 3 deagle headshots as they rushed him on our eco! Next week we face our toughest assignment yet. The reigning CyberGamer Nationals champions, Team Immunity. A lot of rivalry between the 2 teams makes me certain this one is one not to be missed! I believe it will be on de_dust2 on Sunday evening. So cancel all plans and tune in!