HLTV.org live from Cologne

29-6-2013 12:34

We are ready to bring you the action live from Cologne, Germany where RaidCall EMS One Summer 2013 finals will host eight of Europe's best teams battling for $35,000.

The action will kick off with fnatic against LDLC.com at 13:00 , which will be followed by the other three quarter-final matches throughout the day.

While the first match is taking place, Copenhagen Wolves and VeryGames will be setting up and warming up at the backup PCs in another area, so after fnatic and LDLC.com are done the admins will move the hard drives from the backup PCs to the main area and the next quarter-final match can begin with minimal delay, saving plenty of time and ensuring a continuous broadcast.

LDLC.com warming up before the opening match

The tournament will be broadcasted by official streams in numerous languages and you will be able to find links to all of them on the right hand side of our site, or on the match pages. There will be no public GOTV.

The main ESL TV stream will be in English and will feature Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner, Lauren "PansY" Scott and Björn "threat" Pers.

Stay tuned throughout the day, as well as tomorrow as we will bring you all the action from the German event.

looks great, cant wait to watch some good matches :)

2013-06-29 12:35

waiting for the match now, should be good

2013-06-29 12:36

The girl with big boobs *MELLY* Is she going to be there? :D

2013-06-29 12:40

8 replies

Yes.

2013-06-29 12:42

lol tharki :D

4 replies

aj bhi fnatic ko support ?:p

2013-06-29 12:50

2 replies

yea :D till death lol

2013-06-29 12:51

1 reply

2013-06-29 13:08

Hahah :P

2013-06-29 21:56

YES :P

The most interesting part of the day :D

2013-06-29 12:52

Why move Harddisks from the other PCS O.O? Because of their settings?

2013-06-29 12:41

yes, all PCs have the same configuration so players will be all set when they plug their equipment into the new ones

2013-06-29 12:44

nice gogo!

2013-06-29 12:46

High quality tournament like always :) Love to watch this event. "the admins will move the hard drives from the backup PCs to the main area and the next quarter-final match can begin with minimal delay, saving plenty of time and ensuring a continuous broadcast." - wow wise move.

2013-06-29 12:48

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Yeah great idd.. this is an example for other tourneys.

Yeah, but I will do it in other way because I think there are 8 teams and only 20 pc, so... 1. Full backups of pcs (about 5 minutes). 2. Installing backups on pcs (about 5 minutes). 3. They will have all players backups, and they will install it when they need. Simple :)

2013-06-29 13:16

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backups?? hot swapping dude!

2013-06-29 14:14

Backups are ok, I have done this on several lans :)

2013-06-29 14:17

but if u swap the disks its also 5 mins... so i dont think it really is that much faster.

2013-06-29 14:24

But still you will lose other teams configuration cuz they have only 20pc and 48 players.

2013-06-29 14:27

yeah youre right, didnt think about that... ;P even though u mentioned it before x)

2013-06-29 16:05

5 min? youtu.be/6CiOA-47iMw?t=40s

2013-06-29 14:38

i can easily transfer a HDD to another pc in under 5 mins.. lol

2013-06-29 16:06

Yeah, that's really smart.

2013-06-29 13:21

nice gogo :)

"the admins will move the hard drives from the backup PCs to the main area and the next quarter-final match can begin with minimal delay, saving plenty of time and ensuring a continuous broadcast" Insane production. Great job ESL!

2013-06-29 12:58

Gosh everything was perfet before the first match started. Not like: 1. Terrible Crosshair. 2. Not enough X-Ray. 3. Binding text (cl_spec_show_bindings 0). 4. Casters too loud and awful mic quality on threat.

2013-06-29 13:56

melly needs to stop fucking talking its so painful. i'm finding myself muting the stream until she is off screen. i know you want a bit of eye candy.. but FUCK, put her in slutty SAS outfit with a rifle dancing in a cage.. just dont make me listen to her stumbling through the english language.

2013-06-29 14:21