We are pleased to announce our new staff member, stvv

Stvv will be taking over from Kiwi as the esports guy, dealing with our Dota 2 team who have their first lan next month and we have high hopes. Stvv was taken on thanks to his previous experience with dota 2 and playing competively. He'll mainly be responsible for making sure the team performs and has everything they need to continue performing.

Final competition to win the last copy of rising storm.

Easiest one so far, all you have to do is reply to this to get your name put in the 'hat', a winner will be picked at random at 6pm UK local tomorrow (Thurs 6th)

1 reply per person, no restrictions on who can enter. If you reply more than once, you will not be entered at all.

TADA:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9evO4yWEELA" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9evO4yWEELA</a>

Winner at the end, PM me your Steam email and a copy will wing its way to you

New maps have been added to several servers.

These maps are in a testing phase, if we hear of no issues, they will move over to the base rotations

Bunnyhop

• bhop_lego
• bhop_null

Gungame

• gg_desertstorm_v3
• gg_simpsons_catas
• gg_ZigCraft

Jailbreak

• jb_parabellum_xg_v1-1
• ba_jail_tile_paradice_v_2_sg
• ba_jail_canyondam_v5_fix
• ba_jail_minecraft_beach_beta3

Skillsurf

• surf_calibration
• surt_lt_omnific
• surf_airflow
• surf_artifex

Stay tuned as well for the final competition to win the last copy of Rising Storm Digital Deluxe.

Skins are now back and should be working across all servers.

If you see them as an error, or can't see them:

restart your css
delete your steamapps/common/counter strike source/download/materials and models folders and rejoin
use cl_minmodels 1, but wheres the fun in that?

The skin plugin is back to the old one we had ages ago, the one we used had trouble, this one has better support for more skins - we may change back if it can't meet our full needs

Swapteam is also back on, untested as of yet.

Bandwidth and rates have also been changed to hopefully create a smoother environment, if you have a lower end connection and suffer troubles, please let me know

Planned downtime tomorrow, around 10am UK Local (9AM GMT)

Rack rails are being installed on to the new dedi after I forgot to order them, downtime should take no longer than 10 minutes or so and will only effect Jane (the new box).

Site, match servers and minecraft will be unaffected