Here are my POV demos from strafeRight’s 7207-527 loss against Area 51 Gaming during L4dder’s Grand Opening Tournament

U.S. Soccer has announced the official fan membership program of the U.S. national teams – the U.S. Soccer Supporters Club.

U.S. Soccer SC members will receive numerous benefits, highlighted by priority status to secure tickets to the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany. U.S. Soccer will distribute its ticket allotment from FIFA to those dedicated members of USSSC before holding a general lottery, providing members the best chance to see the U.S. play in biggest sporting event in the world.

CEVO has just announced their free Left 4 Dead tournament which will start Monday May 18th. The Survival Tourney will be a 128 team, double elimination tournament with matches twice a week on Monday and Thursday.

Every competitive L4D player will be looking forward to this since CAL died. Since CAL stopped after Week 1 there has only been the Infected Cup, TWL, and GameBattles, so CEVO picking up L4D should give the game a boost, along with the upcoming update with Death Toll and Dead Air.

Read more for the full announcement from CEVO.

The latest entry in the Official Left 4 Dead blog is about how they decided on the box art and shows some examples of what they had before they decided on the current art. Read the whole story for more about the design and the some examples of what they had before they decided on the current art. Below is a snippet of the article and one of the previous designs.

The US Men’s National Team climbed two more spots in the FIFA World Rankings and is now back into the top 15 after their recent 2-2 draw against El Salvador and 3-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago. This is the highest the USMNT has been ranked since July 2007.

My new build is almost complete, only thing I am waiting on is a new CPU cooler. I originally bought a Noctua NH-U12P but while installing it one of the screws to hold it down broke off. I just found a Prolimatech Megahalems at CrazyPC though so I am waiting on that to get here so I can swap out the stock Intel cooler I have installed at the moment. The new build is as follows:

Scores from all the 2010 World Cup Qualifying games yesterday. The US remained in first by beating Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 thanks to a Jozy Altidore hat trick. Poland beat San Marino 10-0 and Bolivia beat Argentina 6-1 in what must have been an April Fool’s joke.