During this festive period be sure to drink a lot, get wrecked and enjoy yourself! oh and before I forget, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I understand the website hasn't been very active for the last few months which has been mainly down to motivation and lack of time on my behalf but hopefully that will change in the new year. I will be looking to get out weekly news on the Day of Defeat Source scene from all over Europe.

FirstFrag is happy to announce it's first Day of Defeat: Source 'Bite The Bullet' League season 1, and to celebrate its launch we're providing a multitude of prizes, including cash prizes for the top three teams of the league! All is not lost for those who do not finish within the top three, as we're promising prizes such as game servers, voice coms and even web hosting....

In order to participate within the FirstFrag ‘Bite the Bullet’ League, All competing players must be fully registered members at FirstFrag.org and present within their teams profile Roster in order to compete. All Steam ID's must also be present within their player profile.

Full prize details and rules will be released soon! In the meantime, get your team and players registered and present within their respective rosters!!

What is FirstFrag.org you may ask, well it is a new competitive gaming community! recoded from the ground up to accommodate teams looking for an alternative competition website with a friendly, community orientated and professional team of administrators who simply want to host great competitive events for the games we love...

On launch, FirstFrag.org supports the very popular and challenging; Day of Defeat: Source with experienced, professional and mature staff and administrators.

FirstFrag.org has been built by gamers for gamers and over the coming weeks and months with feed back from players and teams will improve and add features to take this community competitive gaming site to the forefront of eSport amateur and semi-professional competitions

We are now open for players and team to register before our first competitions start, this will give you a chance to check out some of our great features we already have including:

Support for (multiple, simultaneous) competition types :-
- Leagues with divisions and promotion / relegation between seasons
- Ladders using ELO ranking or points based scoring
- Cups including knockout and Double Elimination formats
- Auto-generated fixtures or allow teams to schedule themselves using a challenge system
- Comprehensive match data including reports, comments, shoutcast, screenshot and demo upload
- Player of the Match voting and Betting system
- Team profiles including team data, rosters, team calendar, results, statistics, awards, guestbook
- Player profiles including facility to record ID's with automatic change log
- Config repository and demo seach / download facility
- Ban system with supporting media to ensure cheaters are not tolerated
- Global and per event configuration options, admin control panel including permission and comprehensive logging system

Should you have any questions on how to get started, read the follow FirstFrag FAQ on setting up your team and roster (also found in the 'FirstFrag' menu).

The staff at FirstFrag.org is looking forward to a competitive gaming future with this new project and hope to see you around!