This weekend the German elite meets in Cologne to find the champions of the ESL Pro Series in CS, CS:Source, Warcraft 3 and FIFA 5on5. As an addition the ESL Major Series Final in Guild Wars between Straight Outta Kamadan and Whats Going On will be played. On Saturday, December 6th, you can see the match from 15:15 to 16:00 CET live on ESL TV!

The league stage ended a few days go and at the end of the day we got the four finalists. The next step is to choose which teams are going to qualify theirselves for the Offline Finals this December in Cologne, Germany. You can also find the distribution of the prizes worth up to 8.600 Euro in this news!

Yesterday evening the final of our Guild Wars Autumn Cup 2008 took place. We are glad to congratulate the 3 best teams for their excellent performance and to present them their deserved prizes. The winner of the cup is "Whats Going On [sup]", congratulation on this great 1st place!

The first season of Guild Wars's ESL Major Series started two months ago and now finally reached it's 11th and therefor last round. The four best guilds of the groupstage will face each other in the Online Playoffs next week to decide which teams are going to travel to the Offline Finals in Cologne. Good luck and have fun with tonight's matches!

The offline finals are getting closer and only two playdays are left. The four best guilds will fight in the playoffs in order to win a ticket to our Guild Wars ESL Major Series III Offline Final in Cologne. We wish our participants good luck and a lot of fun.

The end of the first Guild Wars ESL Major Series Season III is getting closer and the number of participants is still decreasing. With eRaise.Gaming we got another Guild leaving the season and so there are only two matches this evening. Nevertheless we hope to see some exciting fights and wish our guilds good luck and a lot of fun.

Our guilds have to fight their second match this week and we are looking forward to many exciting fights. Unfortunately the guild Revive Teammates left the EMS Season III and won't participate anymore. Nevertheless we wish our teams good luck and a lot of fun.

The offline finals are getting closer and the time is running. Therefore another so-called "english week" is upcoming and all our participants have to prove their strength this evening. We wish all the teams good luck and a lot of fun.

Half of to way to the Offline Finals lies behind us and there are still 10 teams fighting to get into it. After a reorganization of the guild Don't Mess With The Don they will from now on participate as Goldcape Or Ragequit in the EMS Season III. We hope that this playday is again full of exciting fights and we wish all teams good luck and a lot of fun.

The time has finally come: the 4on4 Offensive is about to begin and starts with the 4on4 Autumn Cup! 18 brave teams are going to fight against each other in our 4on4 section and need to prove their skills in order to win cool prizes. We wish you a lot of fun and a big portion of luck!

Again we have some bad news to announce this week. The guild Esoteric Warriors has left the Guild Wars EMS Season III and won't participate anymore. We wish them good luck on their way. But nevertheless we wish our remaining teams good luck for the fifth playday and we hope it's again full of exciting fights.

We started a vote about Heroes in 4on4 at the same time as we presented you the 4on4 Offensive. You made a clear decision: no Heroes are allowed in 4on4. The rule has already been changed. Take you chance and win cool prizes, the signup for the 4on4 Autumn Cup is still open until Saturday!

The 4on4 Offensive provides you with the start of the 4on4 Ladder and a big tourney, called the 4on4 Autumn Cup. We offer you some nice prizes and want to give smaller teams the chance to enjoy Guild Wars in the ESL. Check this news to find out everything about the future of 4on4!

Besides the start of our 4on4 Offensive the Guild Wars ESL Major Series is still present and the fourth playday is upcoming. Because of a so-called "english week", the guilds have to proof their strength again today. We wish all participants good luck and a lot of fun!

Second playday is finished and we are looking forward to the next matches. Unfortunataly we have some bad news about one of our participants. The guild "Seppo Hovi Action Team" surprisingly left the EMS Season III. All other guilds are still in and we hope playday 3 is again full of exciting fights. We wish you all a lot of fun and good luck.

The start of the first Guild Wars ESL Major Series was a great success! The first playday ended without major complications and even 2 of the top matches were shown in observe mode. We hope that the second playday will proceed as smoothly and exciting as the first one and wish all participants a lot of fun and good luck. Unfortunately it's not possible to show a match this evening.

After we presented you the 12 participating guilds in our last news, we want to give you all details about the first Guild Wars ESL Major Series now. There will be 11 matches for each guild to prove their strength. In the end the season's top 2 teams are invited to the Offline Finals at Cologne, Germany.

We are proud to present you the 12 guilds that finally managed to qualify for the first Guild Wars ESL Major Series. We leave behind some long three weeks with opening cup, qualification cups and the GC Invitational. The 12 participating guilds will fight each other in a league system in order to get one of the hot spots for the Offline Finals this December!

The first cup of the reopened Guild Wars section has already been finished some time ago. Today we want to present you the final prizes for the three top teams. The overall winner was "Team Eierbär", congratulation to this great performance!

The last chance to qualify for the ESL Major Series starts tonight. Ten teams will fight each other to get one of the spots for the highest Guild Wars competition within the ESL. The decider maps are choosen and can be found together with all final details in this news.

A few hours are left until the second qualification cup starts. [KMD] and [Baby] are already qualified through the first Cup Series Cup, all others get their chance tonight. It is possible to signup until 19:00 CEST. The decider maps are choosen and can be found together with all final details in this news.

The final match of the first qualification cup will be held between [Baby] and [KMD]. Both teams are already directly qualified for the ESL Major Series and therefor only play for premium prizes and glory! We needed to change the schedule of the second and third cup slightly, all details can be found in the news.

We are proud to present you the new ESL Guild Wars section in cooperation with NCsoft Europe. You had the chance to win a big Guild Wars bundle and high quality t-shirts with motifs from the Guild Wars character classes as a starter. All prizes and the their happy winners can be found in this news.

A few hours are left until the first Guild Wars teams get their chance to qualify for the ESL Major Series. Today 20:00 will be the start of the Cup Series Cup #1, which provides two direct spots for the Mainstage of the ESL Major Series. The maximum number of contestants is still not reached, so take your chance and sign up with your team!

A few days after the restart of the Guild Wars section the first Cup is ending. Overall 12 teams competed in the 4on4 mode in this cup. Four teams are left for the final rounds. All information about the last matches and about the rule book are available in this news.

The start of the 4on4 Opening Cup yesterday kicked off the new ESL Guild Wars section. We also activated the challenging in the 4on4 Ladder now. There are a lot of 8on8 competitions coming up for teams with higher ambitions. The 8on8 Cup Series marks the build-up for the ESL Major Series starting in September. All information can be found in this news.

One of the most famous MMORPGs with more than five millionen active players is back in the Electronic Sports League (ESL): Guild Wars! An incredible in-depth gaming atmosphere and a splendid PvP mode is what makes the game from Publisher NCsoft so famous. Win a big Guild Wars bundle and other neat prizes in this news.

Lately there has not been much about Guild Wars in the ESL. Now it's time to change this! With the potential Guild Wars has, we are proud to say: Guild Wars is back! Look out for various leagues and cups as well as an ESL Amateur Series and ESL Major Series. Prepare yourself for playing hot matches and winning cool prizes!

The new year has begun but we are looking back at 2006 and the Guild Wars 8on8 X-Mas Cup quarter finals. German teams were in three out of the four matches and the results show that they obviously dominated the quarter finals. Who qualified for the semifinals and who had to say goodbye in 2006? Here is an overview:

Nightfall, the third Guild Wars chapter was finally released on last Friday. Elona is certainly very crowded now because everybody is wandering through the new world to see what it is like.