Approximately one month ago we kicked off with 16 teams for EMS V AA:O. Now, after 4 weeks, the top 8 teams are known! Those 8 teams will fight each other in a double elimination bracket to get a hold on one of the prize purses.

Announced earlier this week on FO.pl, was the merge of the AA teams from FearFactory.X-fi and SPQR. After both teams saw some of their players go inactive it was either start from scratch or continue together. It was a rather easy decision, both being top Polish teams and placing second and third in the Polish Pro Series.
Apart from this Polish news we found out sIN Gaming is branching into AA again, picking up the roster playing as Sarcastic. It seems like a good pick for sIN, replacing the team that moved to n!faculty with another EMS team.

Following up on The Outpost AA LAN earlier this month another event has been announced by European e-sports organization H2k Gaming. Named 'The Rising', the event will take place in the weekend of the 21st of June at the location where today the Crossfire Challenge #6 takes place: Gaming café The Wzzrd Enschede.

In the past few days another three AA teams succesfully completed their negotiations with three multigaming organizations. The only recently announced AIMsome gaming, the team that has been playing as VenoM.aa lately, and the long searching  Team Diversity have all three added the tags of their organizations; Next Century, Zilla Gaming E-Sports Club and Rodcad Gaming. The last called team being a top team in Europe is great news for our game as that adds another big name to the list of teams that currently support America's Army.
Read inside for statements and lineups.

Following the drawings right as I'm writing this article, the groups are being announced for the upcoming Major Series. Making sure nothing is to be influenced in anyone's favour, the drawings were completed live on webcam. Each team could have 1 player watching and so the teams we chosen.

Look inside for the groups and maps!

More news concerning multigaming organizations as this week Tempus Moriendi remove their AA team and replace it with the former BSTR team and Freaks are switching orgs now playing for Ultimate Gaming.
Most interesting obviously the first, as the old TM.aa team only recently attended the Gamevibes AA LAN in the Outpost, Belgium are now being replaced by a team that also attended that same event. The final standings of the LAN showing the former BSTR team on 2nd place and the old TM.aa team below that undoubtedly has played a role in the decision of the Tempus managent, but also unrest in their removed team was of influence.