Area51.cs is scheduled to square off against the Aqua Team on Dust2 Wednesday night, match time TBD. Aqua Team is coming off of a 16-10 win versus cNs on Nuke. Area51.cs is coming into this match with a 16-5 win over MindScape. The winning of the match versus Area51 and Aqua Team will go on to play Hiatus on Dust2.

Area51.cs and the Aqua Team are set to play Inferno in round 1 of the finals. Aqua Team has yet to post a score on Inferno during the WCG 2009 online qualifiers, while Area51.cs has posted a formidable win over the SwashBucklers 16-7. Area51.cs has shown their ability to play Inferno and win rounds beating EXCELLO-GRID05 with a fantastic team effort. No single player standing out from the pack during that match. Area51.cs went on to play play coL June 18th losing by a mere two rounds almost causing an near upset.

For more information on match totals and other WCG 2009 online qualifiers see below.


WCG USA National Finals Location: View Here
Brackets: View Here
Other Games/Tournaments Qualifiers: View Here

Tonight Area51.cs looks to start their climb through the Counter-Strike 1.6 East Online Qualifiers.With little to no coverage, the World Cyber Games Online Qualifiers have been virtually unknown to the community. Teams that win the WCG Online Qualifiers to advance to the U.S. National Final, which is scheduled to take place September 25-27, 2009 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, NY during the 2009 New York Anime Festival. Currently compLexity, Evil Geniuses, Ruins, 00, and Gravitas Gaming have all secured their spots in the WCG U.S. National Finals.

Tonight will be the first official match for the Area51.cs squad as they had previously received a bye in Round 1. They are set to square off against SwashBucklers on de_inferno who crushed their previous opponents 16-1 on de_dust2. In my opinion based on recent de_inferno results Area51 should still come out on top do to their strong team play and fragging ability.

Match Information
Area51.cs vs. SwashBucklers
Result: 16-7 Win

Other Information
WCG USA National Finals Location: View Here
Brackets: View Here
Other Games/Tournaments Qualifiers: View Here

Well its been a solid 4 years since our last site launch party.....time to switch things up!!! Area 51 is proud to announce that our newest site will be released in 45 days!!! Our latest site release will be packed with Excellent features and constant content. Not only will this new site be our hottest release to date, it will also come with a completely new staff to provide our friends with the latest in gaming news. With this latest version we plan to focus on content and sponsor give-aways thanks to our current sponsors QPad USA and Midnight Gaming. Stay tuned for more launch details including what prizes will be handed out upon release!!!

Many of you may remember the Gotfrag article released earlier regarding the new CoD4 team’s roster. However, with inactivity comes change and that’s exactly what happened here. Frzg was engaged and needed to leave gaming for good, Darkk told the team he would not be able to put in the time needed to compete at a high level and stepped down into a backup role along with Nuz, who was not active enough as well. The team, then, consisted of Jtf2, Kpwnage, Theimpaler, Frizz, and Luke. After the players took a vote, they moved Jtf2 into a backup role because of his inactivity issues and he decided it would be best if he left the team all together. The team then picked up Je$tl0lk as a replacement.

So, here we are. The starting lineup for the new CoD4 team is filled with talent, dedication and drive. They have all competed in at least one CEVO-P season prior to this coming one with teams such as MoB, x3o, backSlash, Check-Six and Guardians. They are also a favorite to win CEVO-P all together, along with Pandemic, MoB and Pure.

The new and improved Area51.CoD4 team:

Travis “kpwnage” Gallo
Andrew “theimpaler” Coons
PierreLuc “Luke`” Soucy
Douglas “frizz-“ Glendenning
Chad “je$tl0lk” Hansen


Marc “sLuT” Dib
Shane “nuz” Carter
Theo “darkk” Tijssen


They will be competing in the fourth season of CEVO-Professional. Thanks goes out to Area 51 Gaming, Midnight Gaming and QPAD USA!

Tonight marks the start of the CEVO CS 1.6 Season 11 Professional Placement Tournament. 16 teams will duke it out for the 6 remaining spots in the Professional division while the 10 teams that do not qualify for the Professional Division will play in the Main division. The tournament will consist of 4 rounds beginning on Thursday, June 18th and end on Tuesday, June 23rd with a double elimination, best of three maps format.

The Area51.cs team is in the second bracket with such notable teams as Ruins, Vortex, 34, and Dynasty Gaming. Area51.cs will first square off against Ruins in the tournament. While I am not sure what maps will be played (as it is a bo3 format) you can be sure that it is going to be one hell of a match. Oh and did I mention we get to see some amazing knife round action to determine sides :)

Match Information
Area51.cs vs. Ruins
Match Date: June 18th
Result: 16-5 Win (de_inferno) 14-16 Loss (de_nuke) 5-16 Loss (de_dust2)

Area51.cs vs. MindScape
Match Date: June 21st
Result: 16-4 Win (de_dust2) 16-5 Win (de_inferno)

Area51.cs vs. All Your Base
Match Date: June 22nd
Result: 16-4 Win (de_inferno) 16-13 Win (de_dust2)

Helpful Information
CEVO News Article: View Here
Brackets: View Here

Tonight the Area51.tf2 team will shoot for a perfect 12-0 regular season record in ESEA-TF2 Open. If you have been following the TF2 team at all this season you should know by now that they sit in first place with a 11-0 record with only 1 round lost this entire season. The only other undefeated team this season is Team Exultance who has given up a total of 8 rounds this season.

Tonight the Area51.tf2 team will be facing off against iconic eSports on cp_yukon_rc2a. Iconic eSports currently sits in 5th place with a record of 7-3.

Match Information
Area51.tf2 vs. iconic eSports
Result: 5-0

Vote for us so that we can have another one of our matches casted! We need everyones help and every vote counts. Currently we are losing in the polls, but hopefully if everyone spreads the link around we can make it happen. You can vote here. Thanks to all that help!

Time for some more of that exciting TF2 action for the fifth week of ESEA-Open. Area51.tf2 battlefield this week will be cp_gravelpit as they look to take on vVv Gaming and 404 Not Found TF2.

Heading into this week vVv Gaming sits in 8th place overall in the standings with a 5-3 record. Area51.tf2 other opponent for this week 404 Not Found TF2 sits in 4th place with a 6-2 record.

This week will surely be exciting as we will get to see if Area51.tf2 stays undefeated or will one of these two teams hand Area51.tf2 their first loss of the season. Make sure you tune in to find out. Oh and James actually posted news about the Counter-Strike 1.6 team :)

Match Information
Area51.tf2 vs. vVv Gaming
Result: 2-0 Win

Area51.tf2 vs. 404 Not Found TF2
Match Date: June 14th
Result: 2-0 Win

Well week 5 is upon us as we get to see the Area51.css team in some great match ups on de_seasons. After looking at the matches for this week this surely seems like a clash of the titans.

Their first match of the week will be against sexy64 who currently sits at a 7-1 record.sexy64 only loss so far this season came from Packin Heat in week 3 which resulted in a 17-21 final score.

Area51.css second match of the week will have them squaring off against the undefeated Back slash. Back slash has has 3 extremely close matches this season and pretty 5 what I like to call blowouts.

This week surely have these 3 teams leaving it all out on the table (or should I say map) as they all look to improve their records.

Match Information
Area51.css vs. sexy64
Result: 14-16 Loss

Area51.css vs. Back slash
Result: 16-5 Win

The CS 1.6 team is at a low point but we’ve been here before and we’re pushing through it. Our ESEA record stands at a dismal 1-7 due to some bad luck and bad plays. I can say that missing out on a year and a half of Pro level play has made me realize that its going to take some time to get back into form but it is going to happen.

The plan is to:

1. Finnish out ESEA-Invite strong so that we can attend the LAN playoffs in Dallas, Texas. Even if we don’t win another game online it is a completely different story on LAN. Though if that scenario did play out and we went to Texas with such a low seed we’d have to play the best team first but I’m confident that we’d plow the lower brackets and make our way up the rankings.

2. Make Cevo Pro.

Cevo season 11 is back in action and with that comes the chance to qualify for the pro division. Teams are selected for this division based on our first season’s performance (top six) and victories in the Professional Placement Tournament (top 10). The Professional Placement Tournament consists of 16 teams in a double elimination, best of three maps format, with the top six (6) advancing to the Professional Division. The ten (10) teams that do not qualify for the Professional Division will play in the Main Division. The Professional Placement Tournament is utilized so as to remove subjective opinions and any influence of people from the selection process. Teams for CEVO-P qualify exclusively based on their proven performance against other top caliber teams.

Round 1 - Thursday, June 18th
Round 2 - Sunday, June 21st
Round 3 - Monday, June 22nd
Round 4 - Tuesday, June 23rd


3. Attend a local NJ LAN (Espot).

It would be nice to attend a local east LAN after being out of the dog fight for a while. Myself, Mehler, Ted and PineKone have been to countless local east LANS together so this would be an easy LAN to attend and one more step to knocking the rust off. The Event Date is July 11th and the 12th at the Espot LAN center in Jersey City, NJ.