It was nice Saturday afternoon, the participants gathered at E2Max Cathay located in Orchard Road, all ready for their playoffs in the Sword selection 2008. During the event, all participants gave their best to try to beat their opponent under the watchful eyes of "Phenic".

CS Source had a total of 10 teams participating in the selection. Titans, formally known as Sword turned up in full force with their new fury red team uniform. Fast and Furious as the color of their uniform, they virtually steamrolled over every opponent with huge score differences. However, feedback from the game marshals noted that although Titans had dominated their games, there were a few shining stars among the other teams namely, team Synergy and team Attitude. It is undeniable that Titans would most probably be selected again, however since now that the GM has changed it's going to be anyone's game. Not only skill counts but other aspects like star quality, sportsmanship and attitude counts towards making the final selection confirmation.

"Tetra" and "Xtr3me3" were also in the same uniform as the Titans. "Tetra" had it easy as for his game as there were no contenders in his game category, probably because all his potential opponents must have knew that they stood no chance against our well known international professional DOA player. Having a lot of time at the event, he spent it by looking after the 2 new DOA gals whom were trained under him. He was seen giving advice and pointers to them before and during their matchups. Things got pretty interesting, when "Perpetiel" was added to the mix so there were a total of 4 girls participants. They were divided into two team with 2 participants in the team each. "Perpetiel" had a close win over her opponent. The girl in the other group call "Shiki" had also scored victory in her game. To test out some of the girls' skill "Phenic" personally selected two of the girls (one of the players name "Shiki" and another was one of the girls trained by "Tetra") and personally tested them playing with them. The girls stood no chance against him.

Fifa selection was completed smoothly and quick seeing "xtr3me3" dominating over his opponents, even though he was not at his best form that day. "First time I missed some open goals" said xtr3me3, however he is confident that he would join as one of the first 10 for Sword.

This year's driving game was changed from PGR 3 to Forza Motorsport 2 so when it was announced that Forza would be the game for 2008, "Jonathan" had no problems in switching the training over to the new game immediately. However, it will not be as smooth sailing for him, as this year there were some worthy opponents playing this game and one of them is call "IzeCube". Thus for Forza, let's wait and see if the old boy will get selected or we will see new face in the Sword team for Forza.

After the event ends, the evaluation will be reported to CGS. Then will the players be selected and together with the new official GM will be revealed and announced.

So stay tuned and check back for updates on the new Sword of 2008.