The mystery around the next Battlefield game is close to be solved! The “Zombie Room” Easter egg was finally cracked and in the solution there was again some Morse-code that spelled out to an URL http://ea.com/neverbethesame The message on that page is quite clear

Like with BF1 there will be a reveal event on 23rd May, where they will show the first trailer of the next battlefield. There are some references to May 28th too in the javascript code on the page, but nevertheless the next Battlefield will be revealed in May!

Dice just loves being mysterious. In the “zombie room” that opens by pressing buttons in Fort De Vaux there is a white horse painting on the floor. For a web page one can set a “featured image” that shows when you paste a link to a some social media. For the EA link above the featured image is this white horse (you can test it by pasting the link to i.e. Discord).

The painting must be somehow related to BF2018, but who knows how?!? But still – the wait is over in just in couple of weeks we will know what the next Battlefield is all about!

Leagues

We have had good progress on the leagues. T8 FL league is finished and we have our very first T8 Champ. Also new T5 leagues are starting. We have already started T5 for PS4 and XB1. The PC league is more complicated, since it looks like PC clans stopped playing the previous season. There are lot’s of pending fixtures and the league doesn’t seem to be advancing. Admins are trying to sort this out and figure out if the league could be continued or if it needs a restart.

Incursions has landed and that has been mostly positive thing. The negative is that teams are dropping from other leagues due to concentrating into Incursions. The following teams have dropped from ongoing leagues:

• DZ46 DOM T5 EU S4 D3 B (replaced with LGLS)
• Ya DOM T5 EU S4 D1 B (replaced with eXn)
• TRB DOM T5 EU S4 D1 B
• GW DOM T5 EU S4 D1 A
• GWv DOM T5 EU S4 D2 A

Big thanks to both Dz46 and Ya for letting us know they are dropping way before the league started. We managed to replaces those two teams, but with all the rest of the dropouts are just free 4-0 wins to their opponents.

T5 DOMINATION

We started already a week ago the EU PS4 league and this weekend the XB1 league is finally starting. In the PS4 EU league there was a round of fixtures and Battle Epic casted the opening match between HS and MaD

Other first round matches included

• iACE vs. HzD 2-2, tight match between two top teams. Both teams ended up taking one map, but the mid rounds 2 and 3 were extremely tight ending up in only 2 and 3 ticket difference
• Apex vs. FPH 4-0, Apex gave a fair warning to D1 by beating FPH with clean sweep
• RoR* vs. DtcH 3-1, The newcomer in D2 DtcH got a worm welcome to the next division by RoR*
• FWS vs. Grox 4-0, FWS took it home this time
• SyB5 vs. LsRs 0-4 Two newcomers in the T5 league fought it off and LiRs was the better team this time
• ParE vs. LGLS 0-4 a newcomer and a replacement LGLS took it home this time
• MaD vs. HS 4-0 another newcomer MaD took the big W from the returning HS

T8 FRONT LINES

The very first Front Lines league has came to it’s end and we have a brand new champion: Gloria Victis.

Upcoming leagues

Incursions seems to be quite popular in the comp scene. BCL is preparing it’s first Incursions tournament. We will open the registration soon.

T8 Front Lines was relatively popular and I would assume there is still enoug interested teams to have a new season of T8.

T12 Conquest is a big question mark. Many teams have dropped, but is there still enough teams for a new season?

We will probably open registration for both T8 & T12 and see how many teams are interested. If enough teams register we will kick off a new season.