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Setback for UK CS scene: UKCT soon gone
Unless a buyer for the site can be found, the UK's only 1.6 coverage site could be a thing of the past.
By Michael 'Zechs' Radford
May 29, 2009 01:17
Unless a buyer for the site can be found, the UK's only 1.6 coverage site could be a thing of the past.Counter-strike has suffered many setbacks in the United Kingdom since the start of CGS. But one of the last bastions of "the good old days" could soon follow the likes of Akujii and Harriman into retirement.
UK-Counterterrorist's current owner, Philip Wride announced in this column that he will give up the site to finish his degree over the summer:
If a buyer is not found by June 10, the site will effectively close down, leaving the UK CS scene without an independent coverage outlet.
UK-CT.net was originally founded as a rival to UKTerrorist. But despite still being technically online, UKT's last news post is dated August 5, 2006. The loss of UKCT could well be the final nail in the coffin of CS in the UK.
UK-Counterterrorist's current owner, Philip Wride announced in this column that he will give up the site to finish his degree over the summer:
"I am going away for the summer to finish my Masters dissertation and am looking to move away from eSports on completion of that degree and as such close ties with all the things I am involved in; one of those is UKCT."
If a buyer is not found by June 10, the site will effectively close down, leaving the UK CS scene without an independent coverage outlet.
UK-CT.net was originally founded as a rival to UKTerrorist. But despite still being technically online, UKT's last news post is dated August 5, 2006. The loss of UKCT could well be the final nail in the coffin of CS in the UK.
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No really.
ZE GOGGLES THEY DO NAATHING!
Good to see Phil finally throwing in the towel. Best of luck to him in his endeavors.
Think the UK scene died around 2-3 years ago.
It sucks its only UK 1.6 coverage and may be at risk
its like someone took away ur candy!!
:(((((
got to disagree.
fact.
and lets be honest, the design is awful
JAGER ^^ I agree, well u can more likely say that most of english eSports player are fuckin cunts thinking they are hard and shit.
Big thanks need to go to people like Protex, Eagle, madSpunK, Nic etc who have tried their best to provide coverage, news, competitions, LAN's which have helped keep the UK scene alive for as long as it has.
The biggest problem within the UK 1.6 scene is the people that make up the community, the majority of which are immature abusive morons and if it continues i can see theSGL closing its doors to 1.6 which truely would mark the end.