As the CPL grows nearer, PKEURO have took the liberty to give our top 5 predictions for the Painkiller tournament.

Blowfish said:

1) fnatic\Vo0
2) Stermy
3) Fatal1ty
4) SK|SteLam
5) cK|Carnage

Hutchy said:

1) fnatic\Vo0
2) SK|SteLam
3) Stermy
4) e|Ztrider
5) Fatal1ty

maniax said:

1) fnatic\Vo0
2) Stermy
3) e|Ztrider
4) alien|m0erser
5) SK|SteLam

We will try and keep our news updated as much as possible with scores and news once the CPL starts. So keep checking back! Good luck guys & make this an event to remember!

The official Intel Extreme Edition Challenge III movie is finally done. The movie, which was made by 4kings Simon Bysshe shows footage from the bloodline event which was a tournament to find 2 new players to join the ranks of the 4kings clan, one of the best clans in the world.

In this movie you will see such things as:

– Profiles of the 8 bloodline competitors
– Map reviews by TsN
– In-game footage of the Grand Final
– Words from clan fnatics zr0 and Vo0
– The 4kings CS clan
– much much more

The movie weighs in at around 160 meg for the DivX version and 130 meg for the WMV version.

If you enjoyed EEC2 you will absolutely love EEC3, its bigger and badder than ever before. Make sure you download it NOW!

DreamCatcher have given the go ahead for us to release a small hotfix for the annoying little timer bug seen on most servers. The hotfix is for 1.35 and is around 1 meg. You can just extract it to your data folder for easy installation. Please also test this on servers if you run these.

If you have any problems with this hotfix, or it doesnt work, please PM either w4rh0g, Blowfish or maniax in #Painkiller.euro @ Qnet. Thanks.

You can download the hotfix here.

**update**We are getting reports of the fix not working. Please ensure that minimod is uninstalled and that you follow these steps also:

Overwrite the original Lscripts.pak with the new file in the zip. Also, make sure that you dont have lscripts in unpacked form (if you have the data\lscripts\ subdirectory you need to delete it or at least make sure it is empty). If lscripts exist in both .pak file and unpacked form in the subdirectory then only those unpacked are used and the new pak will not be used.

The CPLs Angel Munoz has made a little post over at the CPL forums, explaining some updated World Tour information. He mentions dates for several World Tour stops, and also says that the registration for the 2006 Summer Championship will be open sometime in November next year.

The first 5 World Tour stops are as follows:
1) Istanbul, Turkey, and will take place February 10-13, 2005
2) Barcelona, Spain, and will take place March 20-23, 2005
3) São Paulo, Brazil. The final dates will be confirmed soon
4) Düsseldorf, Germany. The final dates will be confirmed soon
5) Grapevine, Texas – USA and will take place Wednesday, July 6 to Sunday, July 10, 2005 at the lavish Gaylord Texan Resort.

He also goes on to mention that the World Tour website will be launched after this weekend, before the Winter Event.

To read everything Angel had to say, just click here.

Starting from an old Q1 map, we present a conversion which suits Painkillers style of play pretty well, and should make for some fun games.