- The Panel

Graham "messioso" Pitt

Graham has been around the Call of Duty scene since it's very birth. He first began making progress in the scene as a ClanBase supervisor back in 2006 and has since worked for the CGS, ESEA, ESH and mainly the ESL, where he has run the UK ESL Pro Series, as well as working on the ENC and EMS in recent months.

He has since joined the Cadred team to provide even more coverage of CoD4 online and offline and to provide continued support for the community.

"If TCM are not #1 now, I don't know how they ever will get it. Consistant for the whole of 2010, and finally their first LAN win.

Power takes second, another team consistently hitting the podium all year long. fnatic are a surprise third, I had my doubts about the new line-up and a stand-in at DSRack but they hit the highest position realistically available, beating Power or TCM in those circumstances would have been a miracle.

Blight take 4th, after some good work in the ESH Kingston HyperX event and a 4th place at DSRack, beating fnatic 2:0 in the upper bracket, dropping to the lower Bracket vs Power and then finally meeting their end in a rematch vs fnatic.

At 5th come in what could be the next big thing from the UK, deaglebros, who won the ESH HyperX challenge in dominating fashion, minus the 5 overtimes on backlot in the final against Hello Kitty who follow the bros up at 6th.

At 7 we have Rage.NL who made steady progress in the ESH HyperX, as did SPEEDLINK who drop down to 8th because of some lacklustre performances in the German EPS. Dynamic and XAYA take the final two spots after their joint 5/6th placing at DSRack."

Thomas "Deci" Valadou

Deci is an former editor for the popular French website Team-aAa.com and currently writes for Team MondialServers. At 18 years of age, Deci is currently a student energy and environmental engineering in France and has been with the site since September 2008.

He provides the French community with extensive LAN coverage, amongst others at the Antwerp Esports Festival.

"After the DSRack LAN and the victory of TCM Gaming, we once again have a Swedish team topping the leaderboard. Power Gaming drop a spot but finish at a well deserved second place after ending runner-up at DSRack LAN and their 2-0 victory over fnatic makes them the undisputed number two. As to be expected, Fnatic remain third after DSRack LAN, despite their recent roster changes. Ranked 4-6th are German powerhouse SPEEDLINK, MondialServers, who got off to a good start with two solid victories in EMS and newcomers Deagle Bros, a new team who won both the Kingston HyperX Battle and ASUS : The Battle for Britain. Kitty, RAGE Gaming, Blight Gaming (who deserve a special mention, having beaten Fnatic in a BO3 matchup at DSRack LAN) and PGS complete my list for October."

Bob "Bcrbo" van de Voorde

Bob has been writing about the Call of Duty scene for about 4 years now and even enjoyed a brief stint at the top of Call of Duty 2 with his German team.

After Call of Duty 4’s release he started to focus more and more on the journalist side of things and was in charge of running the LowLandLions website until a few months ago, after which he made the move over to Cadred.org.

He currently writes for the TEK9 website and covered the Antwerp Esports Festival 2010 extensively.

"With the tragically slow months behind us, we had the DSRack event this month to concentrate on. However badly organized and run it was, it did feature some of Europe’s top teams and a reinvigorated Fnatic line-up showing up for the first time and the Swedes of TCM-Gaming hoping to do their last-minute organisation proud. They surely have, they have finally confirmed something I had already been predicting since their SteelSeries Esports Championship performance and was taken away from them at the Antwerp Esports Festival: their first major LAN win.

Not to take anything away from Power Gaming, though, who have proved to be one of the most stable teams out there, reaching the top three for the entirety of 2010, something only Fnatic have been able to do before them. A Fnatic team who will have made their first steps into the hard fight for their once hard-earned coveted first place in Europe. Besides the somewhat traditional teams’ performances, I am glad that a changing of the guard is almost about to happen, with the UK scene falling apart without dignity in light of the new Call of Duty game, featuring not even enough players in this TOP 10 to fill one team, whereas they even had three to four UK teams in the TOP 10 on a regular basis, not even six months ago."

Joshua "twrs" Towers

As a former Call of Duty 4 player, Joshua knows the scene from top to bottom. After playing at high level for a long period of time, Joshua stepped down to focus more on the media side of eSports, where he began writing for TEK9. Joshua later went on to change his focuses within gaming, however soon returned to writing and is now working as a professional journalist as part of FnaticMSI.

"My rankings for this month mirror the results of the recently passed DSRack LAN #3 event in Copenhagen, Denmark; with TCM-Gaming leading the pack infront of teams such as Power Gaming, FnaticMSI and Blight in 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively. Below these 4, Dynamic Gaming and XAYA make an appearance as well as 30P and auRic. The final 2 positions are assumed by 2 strong performers in the current EMS season's group stage."

Camiel "jetset"

Jetset, a 23 year old Dutch student currently in his final year of his bachelor studies, has been part of one of the biggest CoD portals since early 2005.

He is the current director of content for TEK9.

"For the first time in ages, Team Dignitas will not be a part of the Call of Duty 4 European Top 10. Overall, a lot of changes in this month's rankings, with Deagle Bros and Blight entering the rankings at number 5th and 6th respectively, and a new number one: TCM Gaming.

Despite the lower number of signups, DSRack LAN proved to be an interesting event and coupled with the Kingston HyperX Battle and ESL Major Series results, resulted in a interesting ranking and a lot of newcomers.

With their victory at DSRack LAN, TCM are the undisputed number one with the maximum amount of points, ahead of former number ones Power Gaming and the renewed fnatic roster.

The Hungarians of Kitty move from 7th to 4th place, just ahead of Deagle Bros, Blight and SPEEDLINK, who drop three spots.