Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 3 October 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 3 October 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 52nd ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. Once again, SE brackets will be used with bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. The prize remains 100 for the best player!
The ZOTAC QL Duel Cup have been running for 1 year now!
Mode: Duel
Date: every Sunday
Time: check in 05:00 CST, start 06:00 CST
Prize: 100 for 1st place
Mappool: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights, Lost World
All the matches for the 2nd qualifier round for the IEM5 European Championship QL are now known! The QR2 default date is set for Wednesday 6th of October at 14:00 CST. The winners will join the qualified players for the Main round, while the losers will still be able to attend the 2 last qualifier cups
Scheduled: 11:00 CDT, 9 October 2010 to 16:00 CDT, 9 October 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 3rd Team Level cup will feature Duel over a DE Brackets. Matches will be played as bo1 expected for the WB, LB and Grand Finals which will be bo3. Once again most of the games will be played on Russian servers. Check-In starts 09:00 CST and the tournament will begin 1 hour later at 10:00 CST.
Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 26 September 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 26 September 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 51th ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. Once again, SE brackets will be used with bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. The prize remains 100 for the best player!
ZOTAC QL Cup participants need at least Quake Live Premium memberships to participate as the map pool consists of Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights, Lost World.
Mode: Duel
Date: every Sunday
Time: check in 05:00 CST, start 06:00 CST
Prize: 100 for 1st place
Mappool: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights, Lost World
Teamsize: 4 players per team
Gametype: Team Deathmatch
Cupsize: 16 teams
Mode: Single Elimination
Matches: Best of One
Maps: Campgrounds, Deep Inside, Dreadful Place, Grim Dungeons, Intervention, Purgatory, Realm of Steel Rats
All team members must have at least premium accounts for Quake Live
Posted by xou @ 06:19 CDT, 25 September 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 11:00 CDT, 25 September 2010 to 17:00 CDT, 25 September 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 2nd leVel cup will feature TDM 2v2 over a DE Brackets. Matches will be played as bo1 expected for the WB, LB and Grand Finals which will be bo3. Matches will be played on Russian servers. Check-In starts 09:00 CST and the tournament will begin 1 hour later at 10:00 CST.
Teamsize: 4 players per team
Gametype: Team Deathmatch
Cupsize: 16 teams
Mode: Single Elimination
Matches: Best of One
Maps: Campgrounds, Deep Inside, Dreadful Place, Grim Dungeons, Intervention, Purgatory, Realm of Steel Rats
All team members must have at least premium accounts for Quake Live
Here is the new quake 3 defrag movie from D-F Production.
This movie features tricks and runs performed by elco and a nice music mix made by RBK from han-sai production All that stuff mounted and edited by breacH. Additionals informations in the readme text file. Demos are included.
Posted by xou @ 05:31 CDT, 22 September 2010 - iMsg
Good TV show, excepted for all the beepings. For 8 eps, I'll definitely watch them again when the DVD, and beepings, are out. Maybe I'll get more of the jokes next time.
Teamsize: 4 players per team
Gametype: Team Deathmatch
Cupsize: 16 teams
Mode: Single Elimination
Matches: Best of One
Maps: Campgrounds, Deep Inside, Dreadful Place, Grim Dungeons, Intervention, Purgatory, Realm of Steel Rats
All team members must have at least premium accounts for Quake Live
Update: Qualifier #2 is over and the rankings are as following:
1st. team alpha
2nd. xentorium
3rd. Druidz
4th. deathreign
Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 19 September 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 19 September 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 50th ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. The cup format still consists of SE brackets using bo1 until the quarter finals. Then the semi-finals will be played as bo3, and the final as bo5.
For this 50th edition, ZOTAC decided to offer a special price to the winner instead of the usual 100. This time, the top dueler will be rewarded with a ZOTAC GeForce GTX 465 graphics card!
Mode: Duel
Date: every Sunday
Time: check in 05:00 CST, start 06:00 CST
Prize: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 465 for 1st place
Mappool: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights, Lost World
Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 16 September 2010 to 17:30 CDT, 16 September 2010 Schedule: Passed
The first qualifier cup for the EMS7 QL TDM is starting Thursday evening at 12:00 CST (Sign up). The top3 teams will be qualified for the Group Stage. The check in starts at 11:40 CST.
Teamsize: 4 players per team
Gametype: Team Deathmatch
Cupsize: 16 teams
Mode: Single Elimination
Matches: Best of One
Maps: Campgrounds, Deep Inside, Dreadful Place, Grim Dungeons, Intervention, Purgatory, Realm of Steel Rats
All team members must have at least premium accounts for Quake Live
The Group Stage of the IEM5 American Championship QL will be played Sunday and Monday evening. 8 players will be able to qualify for the American Championship Finals at New York ComicCon. The top2 players of each group will automatically be granted a slot! Stream infos will be added as soon as released.
The streaming coverage will be provided by Quake-Live.tv!
The DreamHack Winter 2010 will take place during 25-28th of November 2010. This new edition will feature another Kaspersky Quakelive Championship with a 70 000 SEK prize purse, which is 20 000 SEK better than the previous one! A few details were already released about the tournament.
Tournament: The Kaspersky Quake Live Championship
Dates: 25-28 november
Location: DreamHack Winter, Hall C, Elmia, Jφnkφping, Sweden
Format: 1on1, Group Stage, Double Elimination Bracket
Prize Purse: 70 000 SEK
The informations about registration, schedule and the qualifying system will be announced "in just a few days". It's already known that the tournament will start with an open qualifier in the BYOC area.
DreamHack Winter 2010 will be held in Jφnkφping from the 25th to the 28th of November 2010.
Official tournaments
- Kaspersky Quake Live Championship - 70 000 SEK (Details)
- Super Street Fighter IV - 50 000 SEK (Details)
- SM i Guitar Hero 5
- More tournaments will be announced soon
Edited by xou at 03:49 CST, 7 March 2011 - 9729 Hits
DreamHack Winter 2010 will be held in Jφnkφping from the 25th to the 28th of November 2010.
Official tournaments
- StarCraft II - 180 000 SEK (Details)
- Kaspersky Quake Live Championship - 70 000 SEK (Details)
- Super Street Fighter IV - 50 000 SEK (Details)
- SM i Guitar Hero 5
- More tournaments will be announced soon
The DreamHack Winter 2010 will also hosts the LAN Finals of the MSI BEAT IT!
Initially planned to start tonight, the Qualifiers for the seventh season of the ESL Major Series Quakelive TDM 4v4 are postponed to next week. So far, the top4 teams from the previous season are already qualified: fnaticMSI, 4Kings, iMmune and notexec. All the other teams willing to take part have to qualify through one of the 4 qualifying cups by finishing in the top 3.
Qualifiers schedule
Thursday 16th September, 12:00 CST: Qualification Cup #1 (Sign up)
Sunday 19th September, 11:00 CST: Qualification Cup #2 (Sign up)
Thursday 23rd September, 12:00 CST: Qualification Cup #3 (Sign up)
Sunday 26th September, 11:00 CST: Qualification Cup #4 (Sign up)
Teamsize: 4 players per team
Gametype: Team Deathmatch
Cupsize: 16 teams
Mode: Single Elimination
Matches: Best of One
Maps: Campgrounds, Deep Inside, Dreadful Place, Grim Dungeons, Intervention, Purgatory, Realm of Steel Rats
All team members must have at least premium accounts for Quake Live
The IEM V Global Challenge Gamescom took place at the Gamescom 2010 in Cologne from the 18th to the 22nd of August. The two official tournaments were QuakeLive and StarCraft II. The event also featured ASUS ENC 2010 Finals and EPS 17 Germany matches during the Intel Friday Night. VODs of the games can be found on ESL TV and GLHF.tv.
Friday 20th
FIFA Bronze Final - Ukraine 5-7 Romania (details)
FIFA Final - Bulgaria 7-5 Germany (details)
CS:S Bronze Final - Germany 0-2 France (details)
CS:S Final - Denmark 0-2 United Kingdom (details)
Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 17 August 2010 to 17:30 CDT, 17 August 2010 Schedule: Passed
Before going back to a new CTF cup after the previous one got canceled, the ESL is running a new TDM 4v4 Summer Cup with the "new" TDM maps. The cup will take place Tuesday 17th at 12:00 CST and the check-in will start at 11:40 CST.
Because some of these maps requires a QL Premium account, only players with such accounts will be allowed in the cup. The maplist will be as follows: Deep Inside, Dreadful Place, Leviathan, Purgatory, Realm of Steel Rats.
- Max Teams: 16 / 4v4
- Check in time: 19h40 CEST
- Starting time: 20h00 CEST
- Cup format: Simple Elimination
- Match format: best-of-3
- Meeting place: #esl.quakelive on Quakenet
Update: It was decided to remove Intervention from the map list and add Purgatory. Also one non pro/prem player is allowed in each team.
The QuakeCon 2010 is taking place at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas between the 12th and 15th of August 2010. This convention is hosting 3 sponsored tournaments for Quakelive and several tournaments in the BYOC.
Update: All the matches are now over! Watch out for VODs and demos in the near future.
Intel QUAKE LIVE Masters Championship
Structure: 64 slots / Double Brackets / bo3 (bo5 Grand Final)
Map selection bo3: B removes, A removes, B picks 1st, A picks 2nd (A: higher seed, B: lower seed)
Map selection bo5: A picks 1st, B picks 2nd, A picks 3rd, B picks 4th
Cash prize: $25,000 (1st $14,000, 2nd $7,000, 3rd $4,000)
QUAKE LIVE Capture the Flag Championship
Structure: 32 teams (4v4) / Single Brackets / bo3 (SD)
Map selection bo3: A removes, B removes, B picks 1st, A picks 2nd (A: higher seed, B: lower seed)
Map selection bo5: B picks 1st, A picks 2nd, B picks 3rd, A picks 4th
Cash prize: $25,000 (1st $15,000, 2nd $6,000, 3rd $4,000)
QUAKE LIVE Open Tournament
Structure: 128 slots / Double Brackets / bo3
Map selection: B removes, A removes, B picks 1st, A picks 2nd (A: higher seed, B: lower seed)
Cash prize: $2,500 (1st $1,500, 2nd $750, 3rd $250)
The ESL announced yesterday the two last participants for the IEM5 Global Challenge Gamescom after the online qualifier took place: bodzo and Sl1p. The french player winz who made it to the top2 declined his slot.
Also, the Quakelive maplist for the competition is now finally known and will be as same as the on-going QuakeCon 2010: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights and Lost World.
Group A Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira Benjamin "calipt" Jakob Ben "Sc00T" Siebert
Group B Shane "rapha" Hendrixson Richard "noctis" Gansterer Szymon "STING" Ozga Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani
Group C Kιvin "strenx" Baιza Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty Szymon "matr0x" Ozga Ismael "Sl1p" Rivera
Group D Anton "Cooller" Singov Marcel "k1llsen" Paul Jeffrey "draven" Debipersad Bogdan "bodzo" Mazur
Don't forget you can still win 1 out of 5 ESL TV Premium keys to watch the games. On that topic, the main ESL TV stream schedule was already released. There should be an additional stream running during the event which would cover the ENC QL Final.
Wednesday 18th
01:50 CST: QL Group A Round 1
02:40 CST: QL Group B Round 1
03:30 CST: QL Group A Round 2
04:20 CST: QL Group B Round 2
05:10 CST: QL Group A & B Round 3
06:45 CST: SC2 Group A & B Round 1
08:00 CST: SC2 Group A & B Round 2
10:00 CST: SC2 Group A & B Round 3
Thursday 19th
02:15 CST: QL Group C & D Round 1
03:05 CST: QL Group C Round 2
04:00 CST: QL Group D Round 2
04:55 CST: QL Group C & D Round 3
06:25 CST: SC2 Group C Round 1
08:00 CST: SC2 Group D Round 1
10:40 CST: SC2 Group C & D Round 2
11:50 CST: SC2 Group C & D Round 3
07:10 CST: SC2 Semi Final 1
08:40 CST: SC2 Semi Final 2
Sunday 22nd
02:00 CST: QL Bronze Final
03:20 CST: QL Final
04:45 CST: SC2 Bronze Final
07:10 CST: SC2 Final
Update: GaRpY and GUard are failing, matr0x and his brother STING will replace them at Gamescom. Update 2: mAdix won't attend and proZaC will replace him!
The Quakelive and Starcraft 2 groups of the IEM5 Global Challenge Gamescom has just been announced today. Both disciplines will feature 16 players divided in 4 groups of 4.
Group A Oleksii "White-Ra" Krupnyk Dario "TheLittleOne" Wόnsch Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson Carlo "ClouD" Giannacco
Group B Chris "HuK" Laranger Tomasz "Tarson" Boron Pavel "roxkisBratOK" Kuznetsov Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski
Group C Dmytry "dimaga" Filipchuk Pedro "LucifroN7" Moreno Durαn Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider Pierre "Sarens" Guivarch
Group D Benjamin "DeMusliM" Baker Gregory "IdrA" Fields Eugen "Strelok" Oparyshev Johan "Naniwa" Lucchesi
Also the ESL is offering a few ESL TV Premium keys for community websites such as ours and 5 ESR users will be able to win one of these. We won't run any trivia or raffle, but instead we will hand the codes to the 5 people who will get the most [+] with a single comment in this post.
Captioned pictures, captions from our galleries (post the link), wall papers or even pictures of the ESR logo in some interesting places, are all welcome as long as the main theme remains competitive gaming (Quakelive or even SC2 if you dare). The main rule is to be CREATIVE, because reposts are boring.
The deadline is set for Friday midnight (CEST)! The keys will be given as soon as I sober up on Saturday.
Update: Since the thread wasn't really popular, we'll award 1 user from this post (gratz .syL) and 4 from the "a lot more active" QuakeCon 2010 post!
The IEM5 Global Challenge Gamescom held in Cologne from the 18th to 22nd of August will see two Quakelive players qualified through an online tournament.
The first map is randomly chosen by the ESL and it is the following for each round:
Round 1: Furious Height
Round 2: Lost World
Round 3: House of Decay
Round 4: Campgrounds
Round 5: Blood Run
Semi-Final: Lost World
Final: Furious Height
The second map is picked by the loser of the first map, and the third map is picked (if needed), by the loser of the second map.
Only the following maps may be picked: House of Decay, Blood Run, Campgrounds, Furious Heights, Lost World (See this article if you feel lost with map names)
So Quakelive is out of beta, and now the filenames of the maps are made from the actual name of the map instead of an incremental system. This means names such as dm6, t4, ztn or hub won't be of any help when it comes to vote a map on a server.
After 10 years of using the same old names for each map, it's hard to adapt and so I decided to make a listing of the Quakelive maps with their levelshot. That should make things a bit easier. You can find a ZIP file with all the images attached.
Attached Misc File: 85323-levelshots.7z (18 Dec 2011, 16979KB, 828 downloads)
Scheduled: 18:00 CDT, 6 August 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 7 August 2010 Schedule: Passed
Update: Final standings:
1. Shane "rapha" Hendrixson - $800
2. Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty - $500 + Qualified for AC Playoff
3. Chance "chance" Lacina - $300
4. Brian "destrukt" Flander - $200
The Big Bang 2010 will take place in Ottumwa (Iowa) during the 5-8th August 2010. This LAN will feature a Quakelive LAN server in order to warm up before QuakeCon. The event also features the ESL America Regular Cup IV to qualify for IEM5 American Championship Playoffs.
Scheduled: 14:30 CDT, 1 August 2010 to 21:00 CDT, 1 August 2010 Schedule: Passed
Just today, Netcode Illuminati announced that they will be hosting two Duel tournaments for Quakelive with a $500 prize pool! The first one will be for North America and will take place on Sunday, August 1st. The date for the European tournament remains unknown for the moment.
The tournament format will consist of a Double Elimination Brackets with bo3 matches. There are currently 32 slots and the maplist is as follows: ztntourney1, qztourney7, qzdm13. Note that if there is an update to Quakelive and QuakeCon tournament maps are in the update, the rules and/or map list may be changed.
Update: The cup is finished! And the rankings are as following, note that rapha had to leave early after he made to WB finals:
Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 29 July 2010 to 23:00 CDT, 29 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The National ESL Open Cup #4 is taking place tonight at 18:00 CST and will grant the last points for the July rankings. After that, the player with most points will be rewarded with $400. The three cups were won by Chance so far!
Today the staff of the incoming QuakeCon 2010 finally announced the Quakelive tournaments to be featured at the id Software's LAN event. There won't be any surprise as the 3 tournaments to take place will be the same as last year. The registrations are already opened for the CTF, Duel Masters and Open Duel tournaments. They will be closing on the 12th of August!
The "official rules, requirements, prize money distribution, pool of arenas" have not been announced yet. But they should all come soon. Here are the known details for the 3 tournaments planned:
Players with professional gaming experience or extensive QUAKE LIVE experience can pre-register by going to www.quakecon.org/tournament between July 28th and August 8th or register on site at QuakeCon from 9:00am to noon CST on Thursday, August 12. Competitors qualified for the Intel QUAKE LIVE Masters Championship and The QUAKE Live Capture the Flag Championship will be selected and seeded by a committee of experts at the close of registration. Players selected for the Intel QUAKE LIVE Masters Championship are not eligible for the Open Tournament.
Registration for the QUAKE LIVE Open Tournament is first come, first served on site at QuakeCon from 9:00am to noon CST on Thursday, August 12.
Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 27 July 2010 to 16:30 CDT, 27 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The Grand Final of the Quakelive TDM 4v4 EMS Season VI will be played Tuesday evening starting at 13:00 CST. 4Kings will be facing Fnatic, who will need two bo3 sets to claim the victory as they are coming from the Loser Bracket.
Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 26 July 2010 to 00:30 CDT, 27 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The National ESL Regular Season Cup III is taking place Monday evening at 18:00 CST and will grant three more slots for the North American Championships Playoffs. The guys from Quake-Live TV will most definitely be streaming the cup once again!
Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 22 July 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 22 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The National ESL Open Cup #3 is taking place tonight at 18:00 CST and will grant more points for the July rankings. At the end of the month, the player with most points will be rewarded with $400. The second cup was won by Chance, again!
Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 22 July 2010 to 16:40 CDT, 22 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
Thursday evening we will run the 2nd cup of the Summer 2010 on ESL Europe Quakelive. This time the cup will be about TDM 2v2 on the following maps: qzdm6, qzdm20, qztourney6, qztourney7 and ztntourney1. Matches will be played as best-of-3 and the format will be Single Elimination.
The TDM 2v2 Summer Cup #2 will start on Thursday at 12:00 CST and the sign-ups are already open.
- Max teams: 16
- Check in time: 19h40 CEST
- Starting time: 20h00 CEST
- Match mode: Single Elimination - Best of 3
- Maps: qzdm6, qzdm20, qztourney6, qztourney7, ztntourney1
- Meeting place: #esl.quakelive on Quakenet
Update: The cup is over and here are the rankings:
The ESL just announced the first tournament of the 2nd Global Challenge of the Intel Extreme Masters Season V:
"Gamescom, the largest trade fair and event highlight for interactive games, has officially been announced as the host for the second Global Challenge of the fifth Intel Extreme Masters season. 16 of the world's best Quake Live players will battle it out in Cologne, Germany, from August 18th to 22nd, for a total of $10,000!"
Some online qualifier should be organized very soon and will feature 2 slots for the events. The remaining 14 slots will be granted on invitation and you can apply by sending an email to masters.application[at]esl[dot]eu.
- Qualified via Qualifier Cup Bogdan "bodzo" Mazur Ismael "Sl1p" Rivera
- Invited to Global Challenge gamescom Richard "noctis" Gansterer Marcel "k1llsen" Paul Benjamin "calipt" Jakob Kιvin "strenx" Baιza Marius "guard" Ivanauskas Ben "Sc00T" Siebert Jeffrey "draven" Debipersad Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski Anton "Cooller" Singov Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira Micke "madix" Hindersson Gareth "GaRpY" Marshall Shane "rapha" Hendrixson Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty
- Qualified via ESL Go4SC2 Cup #24 Dmytry "dimaga" Filipchuk Pierre "Sarens" Guivarch Pedro "LucifroN7" Moreno Durαn
- Qualified via ESL Go4SC2 Cup #25 Carlo "ClouD" Giannacco Johan "Naniwa" Lucchesi Tomasz "Tarson" Boron
- Invited to Global Challenge gamescom Oleksii "White-Ra" Krupnyk Benjamin "DeMusliM" Baker Gregory "IdrA" Fields Dario "TheLittleOne" Wόnsch Chris "HuK" Laranger Eugen "Strelok" Oparyshev Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski Pavel "roxkisBratOK" Kuznetsov Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson
Scheduled: 09:00 CDT, 22 August 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 22 August 2010 Schedule: Passed
The Quakelive TDM Final of the ASUS European Nations Championship 2010 will be played on LAN during Gamescom 2010 in Cologne. The match will not be streamed.
Sweden - fox, kruse, PURRI, zyv
vs Netherlands - draven, Sc00T, Silencep, forever, tua
This evening will see the first cup of the Summer 2010 on ESL Europe Quakelive. And we will be starting with a duel cup dedicated to Vertical Vengeance, aka qztourney4. The Vertical Vengeance Summer 2010 #1 will be played using a Double Elimination Brackets and bo1 matches.
The cup will start at 13:00 CST and the sign-ups will be open until then!
- Max Players: 16 or 32
- Check in time: 20h40 CEST
- Starting time: 21h00 CEST
- Match mode: Double Elimination - Best of 1
- Map: qztourney4
- Meeting place: #esl.quakelive on Quakenet
Update: Cup is now over and the final rankings are as following:
The group matches of the ASUS ENC 2010 Quakelive TDM are now all over. The 2nd and 3rd from both groups are now going to the Quarter Finals, while the 1st from each group are directly qualified for Semi finals. Note that the Final of the QL ENC will be played at Gamescom 2010 in Cologne. Here are the groups rankings and the coming matches:
Bronze Final
[TBC]: Russian Federation vs France (Details)
Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 15 July 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 15 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The National ESL Open Cup #2 is taking place tonight at 18:00 CST and will grant more points for the July rankings. At the end of the month, the player with most points will be rewarded with $400. The first cup was won by Chance.
Chance was also the winner of the first Regular Season Cup on last Monday evening. He is now qualified for the IEM5 American Playoffs along with dkt (2nd) and Flysher (3rd).
Yesterday the G7 finally updated their Quakelive rankings after the ESWC 2010 Finals. While the top4 remains the same, the 5th rank is now taken by DaHanG. Since QuakeCon 2009, rapha is dominating the Quakelive scene and still remains first.
Here is the current Quakelive top10 after ESWC 2010 Finals:
Scheduled: 20:00 CDT, 8 July 2010 to 23:00 CDT, 8 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The first online cup of the IEM American Championship Regular Season will take place tonight starting at 19:00 CST. It's still not very clear what prizes the Open Cup #1 will feature, or what influence it will have for the qualification process to the Playoffs. However, Quake-Live.tv will be around to stream some games!
A few days after the ESL announced the National ESL league for North America, more informations were released about the main Quakelive event brought by ESL to the new world: the IEM5 American Championships.
The Regular Season will be played through 4 online qualifiers cups and The Big Bang 2010 LAN event. Also, 7 Online ESL Open Cups will be run for additional points and prizes. After that, DaHanG, the current American champion, and 15 qualified players will participate to the Playoffs during 4-5th September. And Finally, the Finals will be played with the best 8 players from the Playoffs in October in New York City.
Hopefully, something clearer will be published about the qualifiers and how exactly the slots will be given. Until then, here is a detailed schedule of the coming cups, qualifiers and events.
Regular Season: July 8 to August 26, 2010
- 4 Online IEM Cup Qualifiers
- 1 LAN Qualifier at The Big Bang 2010
- 7 Online ESL Open Cups for additional points and prizes
20:00 CDT, 8 July 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 1 (Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
20:00 CDT, 12 July 2010: IEM QL Regular Season Cup I (Top 3 to IEM Playoff Cup - Prize: Premium Membership + Cup Points)
20:00 CDT, 15 July 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 2(Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
20:00 CDT, 19 July 2010: IEM QL Regular Season Cup II (Top 3 to IEM Playoff Cup - Prize: Premium Membership + Cup Points)
20:00 CDT, 22 July 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 3 (Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
20:00 CDT, 26 July 2010: IEM QL Regular Season Cup III (Top 3 to IEM Playoff Cup - Prize: Premium Membership + Cup Points)
20:00 CDT, 29 July 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 4 (Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
20:00 CDT, 5 August 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 5 (Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
5-9th August: The Big Bang 2010 (???)
Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 3 October 2010 to 13:00 CDT, 3 October 2010 Schedule: Passed
"1) Since the ESWC is yet to address prize money owed to past winners, including those from 2008, the G7 Teams will allocate 10% of prize money won at ESWC 2010 to the ESWC 2008 winners. All none G7 teams are more than welcome to follow and make it public on their websites.
2) The G7 Teams will allow ESWC a 90-day grace period, beginning from the end of the ESWC 2010 event. During this grace period, the ESWC must both pay 2010's prize money in full and publicly address the issue of prize money owed from 2008. If both of these requirements are not met within 90 days after ESWC 2010, the G7 Teams will immediately place ESWC on boycott status.
3) Within the month following ESWC 2010, the G7 Teams will also make public our action plans for other event brands with outstanding prize money debts."
The ESWC Finals 2010 will take place from Thursday to Sunday at the New Port Bay hotel in Disneyland Paris. All matches will be played as best-of-3. You can find the schedule below.
Some streaming are planned to follow the Quakelive matches: Levelup TV with 2GD, djWHEAT and Slasher, GameSports TV with Soe (on Saturday and Sunday for Quake).
Thursday
Group Stage 1 - Group A
02:30 CST: R1 - noctis vs k1llsen
03:15 CST: R2 - rapha vs k1llsen
04:00 CST: R3 - rapha vs noctis
Group Stage 1 - Group B 04:30 CST: R3 - Cooller vs strenx - On stage (Canceled!)
07:30 CST: R1 - Cooller vs Sl1p // strenx vs bodzo
08:15 CST: R2 - Cooller vs bodzo // strenx vs Sl1p
09:00 CST: R3 - Cooller vs strenx // bodzo vs Sl1p
Friday
Group Stage 1 - Group C
02:30 CST: R1 - Cypher vs l1nkje // stermy vs GaRpY
03:15 CST: R2 - Cypher vs GaRpY // stermy vs l1nkje
04:00 CST: R3 - Cypher vs stermy // GaRpY vs l1nkje
Group Stage 1 - Group D
02:30 CST: R1 - DaHanG vs fazz
03:15 CST: R2 - av3k vs fazz
04:00 CST: R3 - av3k vs DaHanG
Saturday
Group Stage 2 - Group A
02:30 CST: R1
03:15 CST: R2
04:00 CST: R3
Group Stage 2 - Group B
05:45 CST: R1
06:30 CST: R2
07:15 CST: R3
Yesterday the organizing committee of ESWC finally released the Groups after their drawings during the weekend. Here are the seedings and the final groups for the ESWC 2010 Finals Quakelive tournament:
Since there isn't any schedule published anywhere, I thought I'd repost the previsional schedule I was given by the tournament Head Admin. Since we're at it, the tournament will be using Windows XP and LCD monitors (HP L1908w).
Thursday
02:00 CST: GS1 A & B, 3 rounds
04:15 CST: End of A & B
06:15 CST: GS1 C & D, 3 rounds
08:30 CST: End of C & D
Friday
No Quake
Saturday
02:00 CST: GS2 A & B, 3 rounds
06:30 CST: Semi-final 1
07:30 CST: Semi-final 2
09:30 CST: Bronze Final
Sunday
07:00 CST: Final
Update: mAdix just confirmed he won't attend the ESWC 2010 finals. Update2: ESWC forgot about bodzo (doh!), he'll take mAdix' spot in Group B. Update3: dem0n won't be able to attend because of exams.
The 5th round of Group Stage of the ASUS ENC 2010 Quakelive TDM is starting tonight with a few matches. Last round saw the removal of Belgium because of too many penalty points after a new noshow. Here is the list of the remaining games:
[played]: Poland 2-0 Finland (Details) - Stream: levelupTV
[played]: Austria 0-2 Netherlands (Details) - Stream: AD-TV
Late / delayed:
14:00 CDT, 1 July 2010: Finland vs United Kingdom (Details)
The DreamHack Summer 2010 is taking place this weekend in Jφnkφping. This big LAN event will host the first big international Quakelive tournament of the summer with the Kaspersky QUAKE LIVE Championships. The competition will be played through a Group stage of 4 groups (bo3) and a Direct Elimination Bracket (bo5) starting with Quarter-finals.
Update: The DreamHack Summer 2010 is over and Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski is once again the winner after his 1st rank at DreamHack Winter 2009! You can already get the demos & configs and watch some VODs (on LevelupTV & DAE). Check the download option on LevelupTV on fileplay.
Scheduled: 05:00 CDT, 20 June 2010 to 15:30 CDT, 20 June 2010 Schedule: Passed
The DreamHack Summer 2010 is taking place this weekend in Jφnkφping. This big LAN event will host the first big international Quakelive tournament of the summer with the Kaspersky QUAKE LIVE Championships. The competition will be played through a Group stage of 4 groups (bo3) and a Direct Elimination Bracket (bo5) starting with Quarter-finals.
A few streams will be available to follow the Quakelive matches on LevelupTV (HQ + LQ) or even on GameSports.de. Also James "2GD" Harding will team up with LevelupTV to bring live commentaries for some Quake matches and interviews with the players!
Update: See you tomorrow at 04:00 CST for the Semi-finals! Meanwhile, go and grab some demos! Or feel free to spam the new post.
Monday
04:00 CST: 1/2 Final #1: Cypher vs fox
05:00 CST: 1/2 Final #2: strenx vs av3k
06:30 CST: 3rd Final
10:30 CST: Grand Final (extra streams: DAE with 2GD, DreamHack with maybe fox)
Tonight the Winner Bracket Final of the EMS6 QL TDM Playoffs will be played! Also, one or two games from the Loser Bracket are planned. So far, the times aren't really settled for sure, but here is the schedule:
I guess I won't be able to reach all the people who would like to stream the Quakelive ESWC matches. So I'm leaving a message on ESR as well.
If you wish to stream the Quakelive ESWC matches (played on private internet servers), I was told you should contact Stιphane Cosse about it: stephane[a}eswc{.]com
Don't forget to make a proper and clean email, and make sure you clearly present yourself. That should help.
==> join #eswc.ql on Quakenet.
Edited by xou at 19:37 CDT, 28 June 2010 - 4415 Hits
The Group Stage of the ASUS ENC 2010 Quakelive TDM should see its 4th round mostly played tonight with the rest of the Group A matches and the first games from Group B. The ESL TV Quakelive show should be back tonight to cover Hungary vs Russian Federation, but the commentators haven't been announced. Here is the complete schedule for this 4th round:
View Coverage:Beat it Organiser: MSI, fnatic PLAY Website:http://play.fnatic.com Duration: 19 Jun 2010 to 26 Nov 2010
Multigaming-clan fnatic announced that in cooperation with MSI and fnatic PLAY they will be hosting a European series of tournaments for Quake Live Duel, Counter-Strike 1.6, Call of Duty 4 and Heroes of Newerth for prizes worth 65,000$.
The Quakelive finals will be played during DreamHack Winter 2010 will the following prizes:
Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 18 June 2010 to 18:00 CDT, 20 June 2010 Schedule: Passed
For its 6th year the Devastation will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix. This huge event is mostly focused on Fighting games, but will also feature a few FPS games as well, including Quakelive.
Games list:
Fighting
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Killer Instinct
King of Fighters XII
Marvel vs Capcom 2
SoulCalibur IV
Street Fighter III: Third Strike
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Super Street Fighter IV
Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
Tekken 6
Tekken Tag Tournament
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Tonight and tomorrow evening the EMS6 QL TDM Playoffs will see the 2nd batch of games played! We're up to the WB semi-finals and the first LB round. Two teams will be leaving us while two other will make it into the top4.
WB Semi-finals
15:00 CDT, 8 June 2010: iMmune vs 4Kings (Details) - Stream: Holysh1t TV, Level Up TV
[delayed]: fnaticMSI vs Frontline (Details) - Stream: ???
LB Round 1
13:00 CDT, 8 June 2010: notexec vs deluxe (Details) - Stream: none
15:00 CDT, 8 June 2010: xentorium vs METSU (Details) - Stream: Holysh1t TV, Level Up TV
The EPS Germany Season 16 are coming to an end and the Quakelive Semi-finals should be played tonight. On ESL TV, Joe Miller and Michal Blicharz are planning to commentate the games, but only k1llsen vs abso is sure to be played at the moment. As PURRI just moved into a new home, his game against calipt could be delayed (date is now updated).
Playoffs
14:00 CDT, 7 June 2010: k1llsen 3-0 abso (Details)
14:00 CDT, 8 June 2010: PURRI 0-3 calipt (Details)
15:15 CDT, 9 June 2010: PURRI vs abso (Details)
Final
14:40 CDT, 12 June 2010: k1llsen vs calipt (Details)
The final will be played Saturday evening during the LAN event.
Thanks to 4Seasons Gaming and ArchaicMSI, Oceania will be sending it's first sponsored QuakeLive player overseas to Quakecon this year in August. Instead of just choosing a player to send over, we have turned the opportunity into a "draft" or "qualifier" to determine once and for all who is the real 2010 Oceanic QuakeLive Dueling Champion.
Firstly planned to be played at a LAN event, the Polish ESWC Qualifier also suffered from the dramatic floods in Poland and will simply be played online. The tournament is scheduled for Saturday starting at 03:00 CST and will use bo3 matches in a Group Stage and a Double Elimination Brackets for the Playoffs (and bo5 1-0 Grand Final). Coming from the 4 online cups, 16 players will attend this new competition in order to win the only Polish slot for the ESWC 2010 finals.
Tonight the ESWC committee finally announced the ESWC 2010 Finals invitations for the countries without qualifiers. For Quakelive, 6 players were selected instead of initially 3, which is already a good news. And the total numbers of players in the Quakelive tournament is now 20 with a 2nd slot for Russia. Here are the 6 players chosen "regarding their past achievement in previous international competitions":
Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 2 June 2010 to 16:00 CDT, 2 June 2010 Schedule: Passed
The ASUS ENC 2010 Quakelive TDM will see its Group B 3rd Round played a little earlier than planned: The first match between Poland and United Kingdom is scheduled at 14:00 CST tonight. Then Wednesday will see the two other games.
Here is the schedule for the group B round 3:
15:00 CDT, 2 June 2010: Finland vs Russian Federation (Details) - Stream: GG.ru, holysh1t
15:00 CDT, 2 June 2010: Hungary vs Denmark (Details) - Stream: adv
If you feel like the last fatal1ty frag movie contest let you down, there might be another chance for you to win something out of a frag movie. The news is not exactly fresh, but nobody cared enough to post it on ESR already. Here is the thing: ESWC and Allo cinι (French website) are organizing a "Frag movie Festival". In clear terms that's a frag movie making contest, and that one is to be rewarded with $5,000 for the winner.
"You can submit your link by June 10th at contact@eswc.com. Then the ESWC organizing committee and Allo cine will choose the 10 best Frag Movies.
Everybody can vote for the best frag movie from June 11th to June 30th through the eswc.com or allocine.com, the winner will be known on July 4th at the World Game Show and will get back home with the $ 5,000 reward."
Scheduled: 08:20 CDT, 30 May 2010 to 10:00 CDT, 30 May 2010 Schedule: Passed
The ESWC Russia qualifer matches are played today at the NPCL television studio with the best Russian players from the ASUS Spring 2010: Cooller, agent, evil and volgonike
Schedule
03:00 CST: FIFA 10 04:20 CST: Quake Live
06:15 CST: Warcraft 3
08:30 CST: Counter-Strike 1.6
The Group Stage matches of the ESL Major Series 6 Quakelive TDM are now all finished. And the first Playoffs match will even get played tonight! The format used is the same as the one used last season: Double Elimination and bo3 matches. Here are the groups rankings and the matches of the WB round 1:
WB Round 1
13:00 CDT, 1 June 2010: xentorium vs Frontline (Details) - Stream: lvl^
Tonight will see the beginning of the 3rd round in the ASUS ENC 2010 Quakelive TDM with the matches from Group A. Our favorite hair-challenged commentators 2GD and Joe will of course cover one of them for the ESL TV Quakelive show: And that will be France vs Austria. This time, the match isn't an exhibition and both teams needs some wins in order to attain the playoffs! Here is the schedule of the evening:
Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 2 June 2010 to 16:00 CDT, 2 June 2010 Schedule: Passed
Only two matches are left before the end of the quakelive TDM nc 2010! One of these two is the LB Final opposing Poland to Netherlands which is planned for next Thursday. The winner of this match will access to the last round: the Grand Final against France!
LB Final
15:00 CDT, 2 June 2010: Poland vs Netherlands (bet) - Stream: lvl^
The Quakelive tournament of the ASUS Spring 2010 LAN was played yesterday at the Rush3D cybercafe in Moscow. During the group stage, 16 players tried to find their way to the playoff. These were played in a Double Elimination brackets (LB bo1 / WB bo3). Here are final rankings of the event:
The following 4 Russians players are qualified for the ESWC Russia which will take place the 30th of May at the NPCL television studio: Cooller, agent, evil and volgonike.
The French ESWC Qualifiers were played yesterday during the Coupe de France 2010 and saw 8 players attending the Quakelive tournament. The rankings of the event are as following:
Interesting fact: the players received their checks right after the tournament was played, and prize money should be handled the same way for the ESWC Finals.
Yesterday evening saw the last round 2 game in Group A yesterday between France and Netherlands (Details + demos). And tonight is time for the Group B of the ASUS ENC 2010 Quakelive TDM to see its first round 2 match(es) played. Poland vs Hungary should be casted by 2GD and Joe during the ESL TV Quakelive show! Here is the list of the matches planned for that round:
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GUard
2nd: 
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3rd/4th: 
baksteen / 
GEKKO
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sqra vs Krysa 
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xrebzy 2-1 Sl1p 
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UwU 2-0 kRoNic 
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maZZarini 0-2 calipt 
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MJ 0-2 kRoNic 
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Hadrian 0-2 calipt 
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4Kings
xentorium
Artyk-Gaming
Area 51
Firegamers
Punto cL
Ben "MurDeR" Cardwell
Chris "HuK" Loranger
Group A
Group A
Dan "dandaking" De Sousa
uNleashed [0:2] 
TBA
Hungary - 225
ESWC Finals 2010 will take place from Thursday to Sunday at the New Port Bay hotel in 
CAREEM
BYOC Qualifier (
Quake Live Duel, 
Counter-Strike 1.6, Call of Duty 4 and Heroes of Newerth for prizes worth 65,000$.
Shanghai, with its first Global Challenge (
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