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The second episode of Eurosport's Intel Extreme Masters series features the Global Challenge Cologne event and shows the Quake Live players Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson and Anton 'Cooller' Singov trying to come out on top, which didn't work out for both of them as you may know. The complete episode is now available on YouTube in HD.

On its last playday we had to disqualify the first StarCraft II participant of our European Championship. Johan 'Naniwa' Lucchesi accumulated too many penalty points before he was able to play his second match. He rescheduled two of his matches much too late for three times.

The Intel Extreme Masters European Championship relegation will bring us the hottest matches of winter. Only the winners will go to the European Championship Finals in Kiev and a lot of high class teams have to take these extra matches. Get these important relegation matches of teams such as mousesports, Teamnor or Rage Gaming first here!

To watch the Premium Streams of ESL TV you no longer need to install additional plugins. The time of Octoshape is at least over for ESL TV Premium users. In partnership with own3D.tv we now offer high class eSports at the click of the play button. Look forward to enjoying the upcoming shows of the Intel Extreme Masters, ESL Major Series and many more in comfort!

Unfortunately two participants of Quake Live's European Championship have to leave the running season. Alessandro 'stermy' Avallone and Alexey 'Nitrino' Kartashev gathered too many penalty points for several reasons, which were mainly caused by not showing up to their match dates.