We’re glad to announce additional details regarding our $125 Quake Live FACEIT Sunday Cup.
The Cup will be starting on Sunday 23rd of September at 3PM CEST and you’ll be able to join our platform a day earlier to register to the tournament and secure one of the 128 spots. Check-in will be activated 1 hour before tournament starts. The tournament will be Duel with Single Elimination brackets played on European servers, notwithstanding that non-EU players are welcome to join as well.The final standings of each Sunday Cup will be tracked and the winners invited at the upcoming The GD Studio Quake Live Arena events.
The most exciting actions of every Sunday cup will be exclusively live streamed on FACEIT TV, covered from our studios by Ziggy "nVc" Orzeszek and Xavier "Zoot" Dhorne, while non-English streams will be allowed on a case-by-case basis.
During next week we’ll host on our Facebook page a poll to decide the map pool used during the tournament.
In the meanwhile tell your friends and family of your busy Sunday schedule, keep practicing and enjoy our trailer!
During last weeks, rumors were spread regarding the coming of a new series of Quake Live cups. Today, the secret is uncovered. A new esport entity, called FACEIT, just entered the scene.
At FACEIT we envision the world as a gaming community continuously looking for innovative entertainment. Our role within this world is the entertainer. Our online platform offers players an environment to interact with each other, follow their favorite professionals and remain up to date with the performance of their friends.
The platform also provides value added services such as competitions for monetary rewards and social wagering on online games with automatic tracking of results, statistics and achievements. The most exciting gaming actions are streamed live and casted on FACEIT TV, our gaming channel that offers high quality content to our fans.
With a Press Release, FACEIT announces a brand new series of Quake Live Sunday Cups, featuring 125$ per week, starting in September 2012, and hosted on their platform.
As announced in the forum earlier today, Kevin "strenx" Baeza is launching a streaming project over at twitch.tv/strenx that will include Quake Live lessons, show matches and tournaments. For the latter, a donation campaign has started.
These are the pics I took at Quakecon this year. As usual, I'm uploading a lot of pics, even if many are redundant.
About the poor quality of some pics: I had to take most of the pics in darkness, without using flashes (to not disturb the players), and without the appropriate equipment.