WSVG: Huge news for the Call of Duty community. The WSVG has announced that CoD2 will be played at two of their 2007 American stops, Dallas and Orlando. While most of the community was expecting a BYOC with short cash, WSVG stepped up to the plate and hit a homerun, offering 20k purse for each stop as well as a non-byoc tournament. With the stage set for an international title, many teams are finalizing rosters and actually putting time into practice. Pandemic has already started to use their time efficiently, following a strict map schedule that will go on until WSVG. Pandemic will be attending with nabore, crzg, stevE, Miller, and rob-wiz.

TGL: There is talk of a new league that is forming, one that is invite only and offers a prize purse of $5,000. The registration for this league is free and what makes this so great is that it will open the door to better competition, especially if teams want to earn an invite spot. It is in the preliminary stages at the moment, and they are in process of gathering opinions on format and finalizing the rule set. When more information comes available I’ll be sure to let you know.

SOTF9: 16 Teams fully paid ($206/each) in less than two hours says a lot about this event. With a title held by Pandemic’s core members from SOTF7, look for our guys to defend what they never had a second chance at in SOTF8. This event features all of the premier teams except Flow Gaming, who could not register AZK on their roster due to a permanent ban from SOTF7. Aside from that situation, the event is very competitive and should be a very interesting one due to the format - single map, double elimination. The only major criticism comes from the fact that matmata is repeated in the upper bracket, appearing in round 1 as well as the semi-finals; and instead, dawnville only appears in the lower bracket. Needless to say, matmata will be the map to practice for SOTF9.

Conclusion: These are good times for the game. There are a lot of opportunities present for the current teams to make their stand and in the upcoming months you will see what separates the men from the boys. Nades will be thrown and cross-map Thompson headshots will still occur, however you will start to see people taking things like strategy a lot more serious. I highly encourage everyone to get his or her travel plans for the WSVG set up soon so that we can have the most successful events possible.

External Links:
- The WSVG Official Site
- The TGL Official Site
- The Sotf Gaming Official Site