Eximius Sports and Depraved duke it out tonight in the CEVO L4D tournament finals.  The match will be casted by Pwnage.tv:

Presented live tonight at 8:00 PM EST, watch as two titans square off: the undefeated Eximius Sports (12-0 overall), widely regarded as the greatest team in competitive L4D, versus Depraved (13-1 overall), who fell victim to Eximius in a round four knockout but have wreaked havoc through the lower bracket as they claw their way to a shot at redemption.

Yesterday Alienware announced their Survival of the Fittest tournament that starts in mid-August and runs all the way through October.  Check out the official news release:

Alienware Arena is excited to present the Survival of the Fittest tournament for Left 4 Dead. Tell your friends and register today – it’s free to compete and you’ll have a chance at a $1,500 cash prize pool.

In the opening phase of the tournament, August 10th – September 3rd, up to 256 teams will compete in group play matches with up to 8 teams per group. The top team from each group, 32 groups in all, will advance to the double-elimination finals bracket running from September 10th to October 8th.

The Survival of the Fittest Championship on Saturday, October 3rd will feature the top 8 teams and will broadcast on the Alienware Arena site by the casters from PwnageTV. We promise there will be plenty of flesh destroying action!

All matches will be played 4-on-4 versus mode, using official maps and custom server plug-ins for match management. The Match Network Client will ensure fair game play and enable teams to reach each other at game time.

For more information about the Survival of the Fittest tournament and to register now, navigate the pages of the micro-site at http://www.alienwarearena.com/event/l4d-sotf.

Have you got what it takes to survive? Join us. 

You can see the schedule HERE, the team list HERE, the prizes HERE, and the rules HERE.

This Sunday the CommL4D All-Star Team will be taking on Russia's Team Prior in the USA vs Europe L4D Tourney.  The tournament, organized by European player mystrdat, pits the 4 best L4D teams of the USA against their EU counterparts.  Representing the United States are Depraved, Eximius Sports, vVv Gaming, and the CommL4D All-Star Team.  On the EU side there are roYality eSports, Team Prior, Quarantine, and oneway.L4D.

You can view the bracket HERE, the Steam thread HERE, and the CommForums thread HERE. Be sure to stay tuned to e-rev.tv for casts of the event.

PwnageTV, partner of Community Fortress and Community L4D, released a new version of their site earlier today after long hours of work by Dustin and Joel.  The site has many cool new features and is much more accessible to the user.  Devoted viewers will soon be able to sign up for Premium Pwn accounts to increase the quality of the casts while others can now join the mailing list of a monthly newsletter.  In addition, the site has advanced user account features, a news archive system, and soon-to-be-released PTV-run tournaments.

PTV will be announcing their L4D tournament in the coming days (you can go ahead and register your team HERE) and will be casting L4D matches once they get through CSS playoffs.  Expect Xanath and possibly a new caster to make an appearance shortly.

A L4D update was released today that fixed a few common issues.  Check out the release notes:

Client

• Removed an infinite ammo exploit for molotovs
• The team swapping issue in Versus has been fixed

• Players download third party campaigns as single .VPK file
• Players can manage and select add-on maps and campaigns via game UI
• Added matchmaking support and download/update prompt for add-on campaigns
• Custom campaign support in Leader boards
• If not already registered, left4dead.exe registers .VPK extension to allow automatic install of add-ons
• Servers and the steam API have been extended to allow servers to send up a list of keys for matchmaking up to 1200 bytes in size

• Fixed missing fgd error
• Added vpk.exe command line tool for extracting, creating, and appending .VPK files
• Removed info_versus (not used)
• Added info_gamemode which fires outputs for Coop, Versus or Survival depending on what game mode the map is loaded in
• Updated tutorial_standards example map, repackaged as 'Dead Line' campaign example add-on
• Sample content now includes source files for official maps