*Update*

After demolishing Blight cs on de_dust2, excello.ZOWIE continued their amazing winning streak against Loaded CS. Although the match was much closer, excello.ZOWIE was never really threatened and took the match with relative ease, 16-11.

After last nights blow out victory over Blight cs, excello.ZOWIE will look to continue their success taking on Loaded CS tonight. Last night was Excello's first match of the season on de_dust2, and boy did they look convincing. After winning the first half in convincing fashion (12-3), Excello did not look back and went on to win 16-3. 

Tonight Excello will take on a second to last Loaded squad. Loaded is a big surprise this season. Unfortunately for all of the wrong reasons. Loaded was expected to be a front runner this season, especially with their pickup of ex-compLexity awper, Scott "evolution" Cavallero. Unfortunately however, Loaded is currently sporting a 2-6 record, good enough to only earn them 11th place. 

Although the standings might make you think otherwise, Loaded is still a team Excello should be wary of. The majority of the Loaded roster has played for powerhouse organizations such as compLexity, EG, and x3o back when x3o was a top Counter-Strike team in the United States. These players still know how to make it happen, and they are not by any means washed-up. This should be a much closer match than last night folks!

excello.ZOWIE vs. Loaded CS

 *Update*

excello.ZOWIE truly showed why they are North America's #1 team in tonights match against Blight cs. Blight really never troubled excello.ZOWIE as Excello was able to close out the match quite quickly with a 16-3 score. Good game to both teams!

Tonight excello.ZOWIE's #1 spot is put on the line as they will go up against Blight cs in an ESEA Invite Regular Season match on de_dust2. excello.ZOWIE has been leading the North American Counter-Strike scene for the majority of the season, and they will look to continue their 5 match win streak tonight.

Blight cs currently stands in the middle of the pack with a 4-4 record. Although they were just barely able to beat teams such as undertow, they did pull wins over really solid teams such as YummY and 9StorM. This is certainly a worthy opponent that excello.ZOWIE can not underestimate. 

With Evil Geniuses right on their heels, excello.ZOWIE will not be able to afford to drop this match if they want to take the #1 spot into the ESEA Playoffs. You can look forward to a great match tonight!

excello.ZOWIE vs. Blight cs

WOW! The past few weeks here at Excello have been full of new and exciting things. A few months ago we announced ZOWIE GEAR had become a sponsor and ever since we have been growing and expanding rapidly. We feel like this is a great time to update you on what we have been working on here at Excello for the past few months. 

First off, you can expect a new website this year. The website will be much more functional than our current one, and will give our organization a new refreshed look. And with our new partners for 2010 we will be running more tournaments in many various games for our community to participate in. Each tournament will feature great prizes for you guys to win!

However, all this cannot be done without community help. And this is why we are calling on you guys to make this happen. Excello is looking to hire News Writers as well as Tournament Admins for 2010. If you think this is for you, and you would like to gain experience working with Excello, we urge you to take this chance today.

If you are interested send us an e-mail today for more information!

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Excello's fresh all-Finnish Counter-Strike: Source lineup is currently attending Lantrek, which is held at Ylöjärvi, Finland. The venue of the LAN serves as a home for over three hundred gamers and PC-enthusiasts over the weekend, providing it's visitors with content ranging from various gaming competitions to fast graph showdowns.

Each and every Counter-Strike: Source team in attendance is undoubtly pursuing the grand prize of 1000 euros, as it is the only money prize handed out to Lantrek CS:Source competitors. The Lantrek prize distribution clearly favors the winners, as the prize for a second place is a bunch of product prizes worth approximately 400 euros, while the third-place finishers are promised a consolidation prize.

Our Counter-Strike: Source team has already played their first matches of the tournament at the group stages. Pitted against RCTIC eSports, Excello managed to secure an easy victory of 16 to 3 over their opponents. For their second game on group A, Excello were to face northwave GA, who in turn were able to pull off an impressive tied 15-15 game against Excello on de_inferno. To finish off the groups, Excello met ylijuoksu.css on de_nuke as their third opponent. ylijuoksu were not able to fight back, and were ultimately left with zero points on the group as Excello smited them down 16 to 3.

For their first playoff match of the event, Excello were to face the winners of group D, Troublemakerz. The battle went on for three consecutive maps, and the third map even featured an overtime situation. However, the victory ultimately fell in the hands of troublemakerz.

The Lantrek 2010 event CS:Source grand final was played between KOJOTSONLINE and Troublemakerz, with the former team taking home the grand prize of 1000 euros. The second-placing troublemakerz were left with 400 euros, and the third-place finishers at northwave GA acquired a consolidation prize.

It was a tough Thursday night for the boys at excello.ZOWIE. Excello was the team to beat after three weeks of ESEA Invite and coming into the fourth week many trained their eyes on Excello to see if they could continue their winning ways. After scheduling a double header for Thursday night, the boys had to go out and prove their worth. 

It was a night full of problems however. First excello.ZOWIE went up against Exigent. Sure Exigent are currently the last place team in ESEA Invite, however you can never underestimate a team, especially in a division that houses only the best teams in North America. Unfortunately there were many issues that caused the match to be delayed, including having to get the server situation sorted out, and CJ "cj_b" Banarsee lagging out every other second.

Finally we were able to get the match underway and although playing 4 v 5 for most of the match, Excello was able to pull out a massive victory over an underperforming Exigent team.

Excello's next match was against the west coast all-star team of YummY. excello.ZOWIE could only expect a tougher match, and this it proved to be. The match was very close with Excello pulling out a 16-14 victory. This match showed how t-sided the map of de_lite is.

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