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EC XXII Playoff - LB Final

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The Dreamhack admins have taken a liking to the idea of having a 4v4 TDM tourney being played along with the Duel tournament, similar to what Quakecon has done the past few years, but with TDM instead.

Most of the top teams are already on board if it really happens and even an US mix-team is not unlikely. We have gotten a go ahead from the head admins ponderosa/greykarn to gauge the interest. We would like any team who would seriously attend this event to contact either me, tyba1t or noctis on Quakenet ( #reason-gaming) and let us know if you would attend this event.

The tournament would be held at Dreamhack Summer in Jonkoping, Sweden mid June - official announcement to be expected soon. The more interest the more chance that this will happen. It would not be a BYOC event, tournament PCs will be provided.

Two weeks before the IEM5 European Championship Finals in Kiev, ESFI World got together with Team Dignitas player Michael 'madix' Hindersson to talk about his past struggle with teams and tournaments as well as his preparation and expectation for the IEM EU Finals. Here is a snippet:

"My practice schedule now up until Kiev will be at least 8 hours a day of watching demos and playing high tier players. There will be no regrets this time."

Check out the full interview on esfiworld.com.

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I had completely forgotten about this draft until i stumbled upon it today. its a quake recap of the year 09, so what better time to releaseit than 1 year late? not exactly usefull now but maybe some people will enjoy reminiscing ;)

January:

The first QL duel cup of the year is run by LLL - newcomer bodzo wins the final against spart1e.

Q3 is still active aswell, the Q3 Nationscup kicks off, but is overshadowed by Zubich cheating in their first game against Austria. Shame on him and props to the qqc team for their strict punishment, a life long ban.

The e-sport journalist Carmac leaves SK-Gaming "heart-broken" for an, at this time, unknown future. In an interview with readmore.de he states the following concerns: "What if I wake up one day and realise that esports has become something that I no longer enjoy? What if all I have left to cover is Halo and a caricature of esports like the CGS?". As we all know by now, he will do his fair share to not let this happen and will help competitive Quake Live bigtime.

The ESWC decides to stick with Quake 3 as one of their 2009 games and nobody suspects that the company will go bankrupt before the Finals.
The final part of the extensive LLL interview with their star player fox is released, showing me that even as a fanboy there can be too much babble about one of my favorite players.


February:

The AGP announces to feature Quake Live as their only game in an interview with fragster.de. what can i say about this... well ... ;)

Clanbase spring signups open and nobody cares.

As a first sign of support for Quake Live, the ESL opens a european Ladder.

id Software announce that they hired cpma author arQon "to bring additional features to the game".
Hopefully arqon will come back from his year long vacation in 2010.

The ESL welcomes Carmac as product manager of the Intel Extreme Masters. "Comment #1 @ 01:24 CET, 26 February 2009 - By Nukm - bring ql in the masters series" :)

Quake Live goes open beta and can now be played by anyone who is willing to wait in the queue starting at position 21783 \o/
rep summarizes: "Hi. My name is Crash. I'm a total cunt and you will hear this message at least 5 more times before you realize there's no way past the training module. During that time your browser will hopefully crash twice sending you to the middle finger we call /queue.php. Have a horrible day and enjoy your aids."


March:

Cypher gets his own Razer mouse and is yet to been seen using it in an official tournament. meanwhile butcher_kgp "wont buy this piece of crap." and will wait "for rapha mouse with "enhanced 5 steps(TM)" technology and "Jesus(TM)" stamp of quality assurance."

The ESL announce Quake 3 as part of their 4th ESL Major Series.

The AGP Tour Site launches, you can still see how it looked back then by visiting [url="http://www.agptour.com/"]

Festival runs his first QL tournament at qlive.co.cc. the 128 Player Tournament is won by Fooki. Festival and his admin team will later change the name of their series of tournaments into #eqlt and in the end organize the most ql tournaments in 2009.


April:

Sad news for the community, Game-Services, the company behind ESWC is bankrupt. This is the end of one of the best and most prestigious tournaments series ever.

Fatal1ty sets the Guinness World Record for most frags in 60 minutes on dm17 in FFA. As if that itself wouldnt be ridiculously enough, Massman reports in the comments: "It wasn't the same players playing all 60mins. They switched seats every 10mins or so but all players were equally crap.
Any half-decent players could have stopped fat's record attempt. In theory the other FFAers could stop FFAing, work together and go strait for Fat. But they didn't do that.
Or just jump in void or delay respawns or other methods to prevent Fat getting any frags. But they didn't do that. They were easyfrags as required. But be aware that fat later the year explains that he is "not a douchebag"

As part of the stagnant of Quake Live development I will point out to the following reply by Syncerror to some criticism in the forum: "The coders and webcoders are working on restoring the leaderboards and adding private servers and all that comes along with said premium package. Separate coders are finishing up the Linux and Mac versions. Mappers are making new maps, both for playing and training. Most all of which will release soon." What sounded so good back then seems like mockery by now.

SK-Gaming release their ELO Ql ranking based of all matches played on quakelive.com. Later id software will ban them for causing the site to collapse. At #quakelive we get:
<@ TTimo> anyone know the little fucks at SK Gaming here
<@ TTimo> they CAUSED this
<@ TTimo> banning their IPs from our network again"


May:

Quake-Live.tv launches. The site continues to bring great Ql coverage through the whole year.

The Quake 3 TDM Nations Cup finishes. Russia gets beaten in the first Playoff round by Poland but fight their way through the Lower Bracket right to the Grand Final where they get beaten by France, who didnt lose a single match in the whole tournament. Scweden gets third. noctis releases a frag movies featuring the Austrian Team.

Bodzo joins SK-Gaming and (spoiler alert) doesnt go to a single LAN until he gets dropped from the SK roster later anyway, fail.

The Russians still dont have QL servers and continue to play Q3. In the Asus Spring Open 09
and beats Cooller in the Final to win ~229€. :(


June:

Finally id gives us some new maps - "6 Maps in 6 Weeks". Meanwhile rawgue visits the id offices and
Still, CA and CTF players can be pleased, Duel Players argue if they should be happy about their new old ztn and TDM gets left out.

stermy lessons


July:

Cypher wins the ESL EMS IV, the last European Q3 Tournament of 09. Meanwhile the ESL-TV Invitational starts and although it is online and with "only" 1000€ prizemoney the invited lineup makes this the first major QL Event of 09. For the first time i buy ESL-TV Premium.

mrks from Shaolin Production releases "Kaleidoscope", my favorite freestyle movie of this year. Soon after KOS releases f33l, my favorite Defrag movie of the year, featuring cpm and vq3 runs by w3sp.

QuakeCon announces $25,000 Duel Tournament and $22,000 CTF Tournament - great prizes, crappy distribution. Pros start practicing seriously while fans pray for decent coverage this year. My idea to "take 1000$ away from the prize pool and pay someone to code gtv" remains unheard ;)
t9 gets introduced to the competitive mappool and together with ca2 gets a lot of gets a lot scepticism.


August:

noctis beats fox in the wins the ESL-TV Invitational. and while fjorgyn wins 600€, people wonder how much his brother got for timing.

ESL announces Quake Live as part of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 4.

emoctis doesnt want to go to QuakeCon for free so fatal1ty sends k1llsen. Props to fat for this.

I missed QuakeCon because i was on vacation, so there is not much i can say about it. rapha shows that he also is the current #1 in QL, Dahang surprises and us fanboys are happy.

gamescon http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1739028

Ser posts some cool QL Player cartoons, i want more Quake fanart like this.


September:

IEM duel, ems tdm
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1752076
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1750395

"THE AGP HAS LAUNCHED: 24 TOURNEYS IN 09"

strenx wins the first $100 from Zotac. The weekly QL cup is probably the most important/successful tournament series by now.

October:

Oldschool comeback, Z4muZ is back, playing for xlo. \o/

gc dubai http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1770776
fox + cooller @ mouz

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=178790


disappointing attitude :(

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EC XXII Pplayoff - LB Round 2

xt -vs- METSU

Update: Will be played after Christmas, refunded the bet

Update: After only 1 hour of downtime, Quake Live is back! But as Syncerror notes, "servers in United Kingdom, Poland, Argentina, and Korea were unresponsive during our update process and were unable to receive the new update assets. We will bring these servers back online once they have been properly updated".

While Quake Live is updating we already get to see the Quake Live Premium Pak 5 Changelog.

Included is the brand new TDM/CA/FT Map "Tornado" by swelt, Team Arena Terra CTF classic "Overlord" and "Double Impact" from ShadoW. As part of the Holiday Special you will be able to play as Santa on the "The Edge" remake "Winter's Edge" in FFA/FT aswell as "Silent Night" in CTF.
The long awaited Premium Duel Scoreboard, inspired by Gillz's mockup, is part of the Update. Also the QL Website now include Clan Profiles.


Source: quakelive.com, quakelive.com/forum

Blizzard GM leaves company after game roadmap and user data leak

or tl;dr



:o

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EC XXII Pplayoff - WB Final

4K -vs- alpha

Update: our hero ambro wrote a greasemonkey script that displays the stats in the match details, [+] him:



Old Post:

so you might wonder why ql is not using meaningful stats like dmg dealt/taken.. well its even more stupid, they have the numbers in every match report, they are just not showing it on the site :o wtf id

have a look at: http://www.quakelive.com/stats/matchdetails/<matchcode>
example http://www.quakelive.com/stats/matchdetails/f...1a6433f796

DAMAGE_DEALT":"7926","DAMAGE_TAKEN":"4901"

could someone please write a greasemonkey script that will add those stats to the match details? would be awesome

thanks to ambro and Lam for pointing it out on irc

Gametype: Duel
Map: Various Maps
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: Spec
How to play back QL demos


Zotac Cup #61 Final:

strenx -vs- agent

Spec demos from bw|moppz, thanks

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EC XXII Pplayoff - WB Round 1

METSU -vs- alpha

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EC XXII Pplayoff - LB Round 1

xentorium -vs- iMmune

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EMS7 QL TDM Playoff - WB Round2



fnaticMSI -vs- Reason Gaming QL

c&p from http://www.esl-world.net/masters/news/142868

To watch the Premium Streams of ESL TV you no longer need to install additional plugins. The time of Octoshape is at least over for ESL TV Premium users. In partnership with own3D.tv we now offer high class eSports at the click of the play button. Look forward to enjoying the upcoming shows of the Intel Extreme Masters, ESL Major Series and many more in comfort!
From today we retire the use of Octoshape for the Premium Streams of ESL TV, which are now powered by the technology of own3D.tv. By taking this step all ESL TV Premium users no longer need to install any additional plugins (except for Flash of course). At the moment this change applies only to ESL TV Premium Streams, not the Free Streams which will for the time being continue to use Octoshape technology.

I wrote a script that creates statistics out of the demo filenames (demos formatted according to the current cg_autoaction format, not the older ones or manually renamed demos).
Its pretty straightforward so i will just show you what you get after running it... http://pastebin.com/LHZZUTVd

Here is the same output formatted for the post:

So currently it gives out how often you have played each map in each mode and and your duel opponents (that you have played more than 2 times)

Thought these infos might be interesting, but i have no real "use" for it. in the future i want to implement some more features like plotting the data in a graph or filter for certain players etc...

To run it you just put the qlstats.exe in your ql demo folder and check stats.txt. if you dont wanna run a rnd.exe (i can assure you its safe) you can also use the attached .lua script (you need to be able to run lua scripts obviously) and here is the source code. (horrible coding, i know :D)

Please share your stats.txt and report any bugs you encounter (currently there are some issues with "-" in clantags and names cause it messes up my string identification)

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/e7...ve_a_hard/

I work with at-risk children (2-6) and have a hard time getting men to volunteer. Many say they are afraid to work unsupervised with children because they worry others will think it's inappropriate. Men, does this cross your mind?

check out the comments. what the fuck is wrong with the us? seriously


rottinguy

yes constantly
The other day i saw a little girl fall off form her bike, she had pretty badly skinned her knee and was crying pretty bad.
I wanted to help her, but didnt because of exatly this.

dayus9

I have friends who say they would NEVER approach what they thought was a lost child, because of this.
If I saw a small child walking in the street alone, I have no idea what I would do.

simno

I saw a video with John Stossel or somebody that had a child actor crying alone on a street corner.
Out of hundreds of people who passed by her, only one elderly lady stopped to ask her where her parents were. The males who were interviewed stated that they didn't want to help the child for fear of being labeled a paedophile.

soxy

I saw a lost child in a museum once but simply told a guard and then later when I saw the family I told the family I told a guard.
There was no way I would have taken the child by the hand to find a guard like would have been rather common several years ago.

its beautiful :)

Today's Quake Live Premium Pak 4 reintroduces two Small CA maps from ra3, new awards and advanced customizability for private servers. Read the Full changelog with further remarks belows.


A second update is scheduled for next Monday, Nov. 22nd and will bring "additional premium content". For more infos check out the full news.

Source: quakelive.com, quakelive.com/forum

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EMS7 QL TDM Playoff - WB Round1

team alpha -vs- Reason Gaming

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EC XXII Pplayoff - WB Round 1

iMmune -vs- team.alpha

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EMS7 QL TDM Playoff - WB Round1

bloodface -vs- xentorium

Creating Custom HUDs for Quake Live requirers a text editor and a lot of time. But Pavel "namad" Kiselyov is about to change that with the online HUD Generator Visual HUD.

Check out the the tutorial videos below or just go to isualhud.pk69.com and try it out yourself.


If you have any questions, visit the help page. Keep in mind that the project is still in the beta phase so if you encounter a bug, make sure to report it.

Links: Visual HUD, QL Forum Thread, HUD Install Guide

found this on reddit, awesome!

Closing my TDM interview series, i got to talk with the fnatic players deus & link1n.

As usual, you will hear about their lineup, thoughts about the maps etc, but you will also find out why they play for iM/4k in the EuroCup XXIII, what happened to link1n's Duel plans and who deus's favorite TDM players are. So check the full interview on the next page

If you have not read them already, make sure to also check out:
Interview #1 with foppa
Interview #2 with ZeRoQL & Juven1le
Interview #3 with Disrepute
Interview #4 with PURRI & Damiah

Links: link1n's CFG+HUD, fnatic@ESL, iM@CB, 4K@CB

a) should disemberment stay? -- 4 yes / 19 no
b) should vertical engeance (t4) stay? -- 8 yes / 14 no
c) should hektik stay? -- 15 yes / 7 no
d) should (the updated) battleforged get a chance? -- 14 yes / 7 no
e) should gothic rage get a chance?

f) pick or drop / 5 or 7 maps?

i think we have had enough discussions, just wanna get some numbers here, please dont ever start...

the question is not if you like the a map, its "does it belong in the map pool?"

youtube might not work for some people due to copyright bullshit, but you can also watch it on fragster or download the .avi on megaupload

credit goes to crucci

Double Interview time again! For part 4 of my TDM interview series I talked to PURRI and Damiah from xentorium.

If you want to know how our two favorite Q2 Legends do in QL TDM, check out the full interview interview on the next page already.

If you have not read them already, make sure to also check out
Interview #1 with foppa
Interview #2 with ZeRoQL & Juven1le
Interview #3 with Disrepute

Links: PURRI's CFG+HUD, xt@ESL, xt@CB

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IEM5 Groupstage - Playday 1 - Group F

guard -vs- UwU

Stream: ESL-TV

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IEM5 Groupstage - Playday 1 - Group C

fazz -vs- Nitrino

Stream: ESL-TV

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IEM5 Groupstage - Playday 1 - Group C

noctis -vs- DAXIO

Stream: Level Up TV

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IEM5 Groupstage - Playday 1 - Group A

k1llsen -vs- GaRpY

Stream: Level Up TV

obv i didnt play it enough to judge on it, just wanna give you my first impression and want to hear what you guys think about it

- no ra, but 2x ya and 1x ga (not sure if it works, so far i found it interesting)
- no rail (possible replacement for dm13?)
- seems kinda shaft heavy :(
- lot of cracks in the floor that will annoy the fuck out of my with the current rocket code

general flow of the map is nice imho, some vertical areas, cool jumps, nice teleporter...

Todays Quake Live Premium Pak 3 features more than just 4 new/old maps, it also includes balance and physics changes, some chat tokens, fixes, FreezeTag and map adjustments.

Most notable, Chain Jumping was added, the Quad Damage multiplier was reduced from 4x to 3x and the step height adjusted from 18 to 22. Read the full changelog below.


Source: quakelive.com, quakelive.com/forum

... i felt like a ninja ;)

As coverage for Quake Live TDM is next to none existent at the moment, but the ESL Major Series 7 and CB EuroCup XXII are right around the corner, I decided to take matters into my own hands and do some pre-season interviews with several well known TDM players.

This time I talked to Disrepute from Team iMMune. If you want to know why iM dropped from the EMS7, find out more about his work for lvl^ and his evaluation on the UK QL scene, make sure to read the whole interview on the next page.

If you have not read them already, make sure to also check out
Interview #1 with foppa
Interview #2 with ZeRoQL & Juven1le

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 17 October 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 17 October 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 54th ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. As usual it will consist of a SE bracket using the bo1 format until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. ZOTAC QL Cup participants need at least a Quake Live Premium membership to participate. The prize is 100€ for the best player again!

Noteable Signups: k1llsen, Cooller, av3k, madix, Dem0n, agent, GaRpY, Cooller, Cypher, Amai, Cooller, Guard and more...


Streams: lvl^, GG.ru
Links: Tournament page, Signup, Brackets, #zotac.qlive

Someone on TL pointed out an interesting thing, the MLG uses a modified double elimination bracket, heres the rule extract:

http://pro-circuit.mlgpro.com/pro-circuit/201...ion-format

6. If Players are scheduled to play each other for a 2nd time in the Open Bracket, their Match will expand to a Best of 7, include the previous Match, and pick up where that Match left off. For example, if Player A beat Player B 2 Games to 0 in the Winners Bracket, the Best of 7 will resume with Game 3 and Player A leading 2 Games to 0. When the Match is resumed, the loser of the Winners Bracket Match must select the Map for the upcoming Game and only they may change their Race from the Races that were used in the last Game of the Winners Bracket Match.

7. If the Players scheduled to play each other in the Finals have not yet played against each other in the Open Bracket, an initial Match must be played. If the Player who came from the Winners Bracket wins the initial Match, they will win the Event. If the Player who came from the Losers Bracket wins the Match, a tiebreaking Match must be played. The winner of a tiebreaking Match will win the Event. Game 1 of the initial Match will be played on the Map that has been selected for Game 1 of the Finals. Game 1 of the tiebreaking Match will be played on the Map that has been selected for Game 1 of the Winners Bracket Finals. If the Players have already competed against each other on the Map that has been selected for Game 1 of the Winners Bracket Finals, the Player who came from the Winners Bracket will select the Map for Game 1 of the tiebreaking Match.

After four regular Qualifiers and a last chance cup, the EMS7 QL TDM Groupstage is finally ready to kick off! Two teams per group will advance into the Playoffs and fight for the 750€ Prizemoney


Matchweek 1

xentorium 2-0 Le Jambon Beurre (Details)
4Kings 2-0 Night Killers (Details)
Frontline TeamDM 2-0 deathreign (Details)
fnaticMSI 2-0 faces of meth (Details)
METSU 2-0 District 9 (Details)
team alpha 2-1 Incredible Panic (Details)
[Delayed] Reason Gaming QL -vs- The Digital Intelligence (Details)
[Delayed] bloodface -vs- Druidz (Details)

Links: EMS QL, #esl.quakelive

#1: strafe jumping
#2: modern plumbing
#3: jesus

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 10 October 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 10 October 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 53th ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. As usual it will consist of SE brackets using the bo1 format until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. ZOTAC QL Cup participants need at least Quake Live Premium memberships to participate.

This time the prizes will be the following:

100 Euro + ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460
BitFenix Colossus
Razer Abyssus

Streams: lvl^, GG.ru
Links: Tournament page, Signup, Brackets, #zotac.qlive

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ClanBase Eurocup XXII - Week 1 - Group B

FLiNE -vs- aCtion

Gametype: TDM 4v4
Map: N/A
Mod: Team Death Match
Viewpoint: Multiple
How to play back QL demos

"1st week game with 4Kings vs xt on Deep Inside and Dreadful Place. Two very close maps, check vods from Holysh1t and lvl^(VOD)."

edit: purri's pov was also uploaded: http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1970664


Source: clanbase.ggl.com (Spoilers)

As coverage for Quake Live TDM is next to none existent at the moment, but the ESL Major Series 7 and CB EuroCup XXII are right around the corner, I decided to take matters into my own hands and do some pre-season interviews with several well known TDM players.

This time it's a double interview with the METSU leader ZeRoQL and upcoming TDM star Juven1le. If you want to find out more about those two fascinating individuals ©, their goals for METSU and what fragmovies ZeRoQL is working on, make sure to read the extensive interview on the next page.

Configs: ZeRoQL, juven1le
Team Profiles: ESL - kuh3liga - CB - ESH
Links: #METSU, readme.txt (by ZeRoQL)

As coverage for Quake Live TDM is next to none existent at the moment, but the ESL Major Series 7 and CB EuroCup XXII are right around the corner, I decided to take matters into my own hands and do some pre-season interviews with several well known TDM players.

The Interview series will kick off with ESR homeboy foppa from Frontline TeamDM. If you want to find more about FLiNE, the state of TDM in russia and who the most annoying ESR user is, read the full interview on the next page.

Links: #FRONT.ql, CFG + HUD

last Site summary for week ending X was "Posted by ESReality @ 01:00 CEST, 14 June 2010"
http://www.esreality.com/?a=users&user_id=3

maybe i missed something but why isnt the site auto generating these summaries anymore? :(

yesterday i played my first two quake live pickups after i discovered that #qlpickup.eu had gained some activity in terms of tdm \o/

so spread the word, join #qlpickup.eu and lets play some tdm, bitches

mid-September huh?

Next week we plan on having another small update with additional fixes and features, followed soon after by our first major Premium content update in mid-September.

cant say that i am surprised, still sucks, maybe id should try selling lemonade on the street instead, not sure if they could cope with the crazy competition though

Sauce: quakelive.com/forum


at least i have chicken

The ESL is looking for new Admins for their EU section, stating:

We need more admins if we want to offer more Cups and ladders in the future.

They are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals to join the admin team and make a difference for the community.


If you are interested, make sure to apply today!

Source: esl.eu

is it only me or this happening to everyone?

Starting today software offers all standard users free access to Quake Live Premium For one week. Additionally they are introducing a free one-month token for everyone that subscribes for Premium or Pro during the event, that can be given to a friend or used to extend the subscription.


The event will be running until September 24th. Enjoy!

Links: Official News Thread,

sick

Most peoples suggestions and wishes for QL (judging from the official forums, ESR and talks on irc) seem to focus on ingame additions/changes.
Now if you compare QL to the near perfect CPMA , there still is some room for improvements and although i would appreciate a better netcode, scoreboard, chat tokens and whatever small bits people keep wishing for, i really dont think these things are deal breakers and will have a major effect on the future of Quake live.

On the other hand there is just sooo much room for improvement in terms of site features, afterall the centralized platform is the one thing that makes Quake Live stand out from its predecessors. So lets have a look on what could be done to make QL a better experience and help the community grow.

Leaderboard / Ladder
I dont wanna waste much time on the current leaderboard (because it is a joke), it doesnt need to go away, but it is kinda useless and we need an actual ladder system. Right now people dont even get to see their current tier, but for most of the player base that means that there is no indicator for how well they are doing, nothing that makes people want to get better, nothing to compete for... Just look at how essential the ladder is to SC2...
Additionally there could be on site tournaments with different divisions and/or seeds based on the ladder postions.

Player Profile
The profile is a cool thing, but it should be extended feature wise. It could include the players config for example, so obvious and yet so cool.
An equipment/rig field where pros can feature their sponsors, fanboys check the current mouse of player x, and average joe boast about his overpirced gaming keyboard.
Statistics would be a lot more useful if you could filter for gametypes and time periods (graphs would be $$$) ann they could be extended with mapplays.
Additional to "Recent Competitors" it would be really cool to see the most played Competitors
Awards have a lot more potential aswell, same goes for the matches page. Would be cool it you could filter the view by gametype, comment on the matches and in the far future maybe even get serverside demos automatically attached to the match etc...

Clans
Okay so the big update brought us a clan system, oh wait, it didnt. It is now necessary/possible to register for a clantag, that is it. Your clan(s) isnt even displayed on your profile, possibilities for an clan system, the most basic being a public clanpage as part of your player profile that shows the roster and a written description where you could link your clansite and whatnot... But there so many more possibilities that would also make for great prem features like a private forum for each clan and chatrooms etc...

Stats/Leavers
Now if u like it or not, stats motivate and influence people a lot and have a huge effect on ingame behavior (people playing 4v2 TDM for 7-8mins just to get a win is not uncommon). Public play would benefit a lot from a system that would punish leavers somehow and benefit people who balance teams, im not sure what the best way is to achieve this, but right now if you help the losing team with less players out, you will just get a loss and awards like "Win a Clan Arena match (of at least 5 rounds) without losing a round." dont help either

Demos
A convenient way to watch demos right from the site would be great, something like the QUAKE LIVE Demo Player addon for firefox would be just fine for the beginning

Server Browser
The current one is really clunky and a pain in the ass to use, make it possible to switch to something like the Quake Live New Alt Browser, afterall this guy actually listened to what people wanted and implemented it.


This are just some ideas i had in my head, i am sure there is much more...

Now the guys at id software arent stupid so they should have come up with similar things, but i wonder if they prioritize those additions correctly....

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 12 September 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 12 September 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 49th ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. As usual it will consist of SE brackets using the bo1 format until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. The prize still is 100€ for 1st place!

ZOTAC QL Cup participants need at least Quake Live Premium memberships to participate as the mappool has been changed to the following: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights, Lost World.

Notable Signups include: Cypher, killsen, burnedd, guard, agent, madix, draven, GaRpY and more..


Streams: Level Up TV (HQ, LQ)
Links: Tournament page, Signup, Brackets, #zotac.qlive

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 11 September 2010 to 16:00 CDT, 11 September 2010
Schedule: Passed

A new russian tournament (series?) starts today. The brackets will be double elimination and similar to the ZOTAC cups, regular matches will be bo1, upper bracket final while the WB final is bo3 and the LB + grand final bo5. 1st and 2nd place will receive some minor prize money. Check-In starts 10:00 CST and the tournament will begin 1 hour later at 11:00 CST.

Signed up players include Cypher, agent, Amai, Nitrino and more...


Rankings:

1st: Cypher
2nd: agent
3rd: 421

Streams: GG.ru, cyberfight.ru
Links: quakelive.ru, goodgame.ru, Bracket, #level.ql

not



im bored :(
now pay fucking 2,99$ to get it on your iphone

When sc2 got released i was laddering a lot, but i am no rts player and moving out of platinum would require so much practice that i decided to stop playing for a while... that was until i realized that there are already a lot of fun custom maps.
I will introduce the two maps i enjoyed the most so far and would like to get some recommendations from you

THE Card Game

THE Card Game is 2-6 player team vs team map. You randomly draw cards (that can be discarded for a price), they can be cheap, expensive, rare, ... By clicking on them you spawn the unit it represents and the unit will then attack the enemy nexus and whatever units the enemy throws at it. The key to winning in countering the enemy forces with the correct cards/units while playing as a coordinated team. (i simplified the map, but this is to get the concept) It is really addictive and played a lot atm because its a featured map. if you have previously played the map, you might wanna check it again cause it got quite a few updates.

Gameplay Video: http://www.xfire.com/video/33ffa4/

Defend the Moon

Classic TD, inspired by Element TD from wc3. You can play it for your own, or as a team (but still every player is on his own) or you can play in versus mode where you spawn creeps to attack your opponents. its already quite balanced and the upgrade and building variety still make it really interesting. nothing special, but still fun and the best TD i have found so far.

Gameplay Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YishgIVWSqo

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So post about custom maps you enjoy, would like to try out some different maps. Couldnt find Partycraft (sc2 version of Uther Party) on the European servers, is it any good? I am especially interested in good TDs and Maps that we havent seen already in wc3.

also waiting for this third person shooter map to be released - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqiulSLFncc

The Global Starcraft II League (GSL) was announced last month. The GSL will take place each month, with a prize pool of $170,000 per tournament. At the same time, the league will server as a qualifier for the GSL2011 main season.

During the last days the Ro64 was determined, including the foreigners TheLittleOne, IdrA, Artosis and TorcH. Brackets are available on TL.net.

GomTV now announced some details concerning the international Stream with Artosis and Tasteless. There will be no free Stream, but several premium offers:

Season LIVE Ticket - $19.95, 1 day LIVE Ticket - $1.95 and special mobile offers that are to be announce.
The VODs will also be released behinda paywall, requiring their very own Season VOD ticket - $29.95.

Source: GomTV.net vis teamliquid.net

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=146249

When we started Teamliquid eight years ago, we had a vision of being the best StarCraft site in the world. Back then, this wasn't a very difficult accomplishment. What we didn't realize is what being the best SC site in the world could lead to. Teamliquid is an amazing place and it's a joy to be a part of TL's community. We have 150 staff members and nearly two million unique visitors per month -- it's all pretty surreal. For eight long years we ran this site as volunteers simply because we had a shared passion. I guess you could say we shared two passions, one being SC and one being TL. The first passion was at the base of our foundation, but the second one became more and more important over time.

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IEM V Global Challenge Gamescom Consolation Final between av3k and Cooller

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IEM V Global Challenge Gamescom Final between k1llsen and rapha

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IEM V Global Challenge Gamescom Semi Final between rapha and Cooller

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IEM V Global Challenge Gamescom Semi Final between k1llsen and av3k

couldnt find a title that was worth of this

This is a mix of pictures from different sites, focusing on QL. For more and SC2 related pics, make sure to check out the full galleries at:

- esl-world.net
- fnatic.com
- fragster.de
- cyberfight.ru

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dont remember her name /o\