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The coverage for the Continental Finals Asia CS taking place in Chengdu is now live! Latest news, results, videos, blogs, behind the curtain news and much more are to be published on our very own Chengdu dedicated coverage page, so stick around!

In what comes as a major change to 2009's tournament schedule, we can announce today that the Continental Finals Europe will take place at CeBIT in Hannover (March 3-8), the world's biggest IT trade fair. The European qualification with 80,000$ was previously scheduled to be held in Hamburg. Through the change, the total prize purse at CeBIT reaches 280,000$.

The European Main Round for both Counter-Strike and World of WarCraft is drawing closer to its end. As for Counter-Strike, most teams only have two matches left, and on the WoW side, it looks quite messy at a first glance. Let this news save you from the question marks you are bearing regarding the European Main Round!

After years of the ESL's home being in NGZ's Coburg datacenter, we will move out on December 16th. For the whole day our IT will be on duty, working hard for you in order to limit the downtime to just one day. With a heavy heart we say farewell to NGZ, as ESL will move to its new home in a city on the Rhine.

As the Continental Finals Americas passed, the offline events for this year has come to an end. However, the online played Main Round for Europe is still ongoing, and almost all teams have played three or four matches - which is half of the seven matches all teams are to play. Let's take the pulse!