Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 30 January 2013 to 15:00 CST, 30 January 2013 Schedule: Passed
The Nexuiz 4000 finals will take place this Wednesday night, featuring eight players hungry for a share of an additional 2400 in prize money on top of what they have already won by qualifying.
Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 14 January 2013 to 12:10 CST, 14 January 2013 Schedule: Passed
The fourth and final Nexuiz FFA Night takes place tonight at 19 CET. Up to 32 players will duke it out with the aim of finishing in the top four and qualifying for the final FFA, which features the grand prize of an Alienware PC.
Last week PCLizard, VoKUS and noskillz qualified for the final FFA that will be played next week. If you think you're good at deathmatch, don't pass up a great opportunity to start 2013 with a brand new PC!
Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 7 January 2013 Schedule: Passed
Happy New Year from the ESL and Illfonic! The third Nexuiz FFA Night takes place tonight at 19 CET. Up to 32 players will duke it out with the aim of finishing in the top four and qualifying for the final FFA, which features the grand prize of an Alienware PC.
Last time D4rkBl4dE, Jo0f, evl and L33gend topped the leaderboard, will you join them? Sign up open ESL
4000 Tournament Cup #4
On Tuesday the fourth and final qualifying cup of the Nexuiz 4000 Tournament will take place. Last time was topped by by PCLizard and runner up k00pl, winning 250 and 150 respectively and both qualifying for the 2400 finals.
Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 18 December 2012 to 14:00 CST, 18 December 2012 Schedule: Passed
The second Nexuiz FFA Night takes place tonight at 19 CET. Up to 32 players will duke it out with the aim of finishing in the top four and qualifying for the final FFA, which features the grand prize of an Alienware PC.
Last week andy, apparation, k00pl and fazz topped the leaderboard, will you join them? Sign up open ESL
4000 Tournament Cup #3
On Tuesday the third cup of the Nexuiz 4000 Tournament will take place. Last week was topped by by Jo0f and runner up s0cke, winning 250 and 150 respectively and both qualifying for the 2400 finals.
On top of the 4000 Tournament, to help get you playing Nexuiz, the developers Illfonic are putting up an Alienware Aurora PC as a prize for a series of FFA nights.
Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 11 December 2012 Schedule: Passed
On Tuesday the first cup of the Nexuiz 4000 Tournament took place, with D4rkBl4dE taking first place against apparition in the final, winning 250 and 150 respectively and both qualifying for the 2400 finals.
So far 45 players are already signed up, including fazz and LeKaiM. We have been in contact with more notable players from across the deathmatch genre and expect some more famous names to pop-up.
Q&A with the Devs; Win a copy of Nexuiz
If you don't already have the game then here is your chance to win a copy easily. The developers from Nexuiz want to answer your questions about the game, and in return the three best questions and two random will win a key for the full game on Steam.
Ask your questions in the comments, the winners and answers will be announced next week.
The ESL together with the developers, Illfonic, are happy to announce a 4000 tournament for Nexuiz.
Following on from the update earlier this week which brought high performance UGLY mode and made the previously pay DLC a part of the regular game, the developers are eager to try to jump-start a competitive community for the game.
Nexuiz is currently in the Steam autumn sale for 5 (half price) or 15 for the 4 pack.
4 x 400 Cups
One day cup per week, for four weeks
Day of week to be determined (ASAP!)
Single Elimination
Best of 3 (from at least Round of 32, depending on schedule)
Prizes
1st. 250
2nd. 150
2400 Finals
Date pending coverage being finalized
Single Elimination
Best of 3
Early sign up is open here. When the dates of the cups have been fixed the post will be updated and everyone signed up will be mailed.
Illfonic, the small studio behind the game, have been working hard on improving the game since it's release in May. Their aim is to bring deathmatch back into the spotlight, with a fast, fun and visually attractive game built on the latest CryENGINE 3.
Nexuiz, the other fast-paced deathmatch game of 2012, released a big update yesterday which among other things included two big improvements for competitive play: the Duel mode DLC has been made free, and a new UGLY mode to give you picmip style performance over shiny graphics.
Also in yesterday's update: added support for up to 32 players, three new levels and STUPID mode for benchmarking with DX 11 and uncompressed textures.
The ESL have partnered with Illfonic, the small studio behind the game, to host a series of prize winning cups and help them gather more feedback on how to make the game better. They have been working hard on improving the game since it's release in May. More details will be announced soon.
Their aim is to bring deathmatch back into the spotlight, with a fast, fun and visually attractive game built on the latest CryENGINE 3.
Posted by therogue @ 03:31 CDT, 19 March 2011 - iMsg
The 6th Sennheiser Cup hosted by ESL takes place this Saturday. Up to 512 players will battle it out for 100 and to qualify for the 3.400 finals. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
Posted by therogue @ 02:19 CST, 12 March 2011 - iMsg
The 5th Sennheiser Cup hosted by ESL takes place this Saturday. Up to 512 players will battle it out for 100 and to qualify for the 3.400 finals. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
Posted by therogue @ 06:00 CST, 26 February 2011 - iMsg
The 4th Sennheiser Cup hosted by ESL takes place this Saturday. Up to 512 players will battle it out for 100 and to qualify for the 3.400 finals. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 20 February 2011 to 16:00 CST, 20 February 2011 Schedule: Passed
The 83rd Go4SC2 Cup hosted by ESL takes place this Sunday. Up to 1024 players will battle it out for 200 Euros plus ranking points to qualify for the 500 Euros monthly final. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
The 82nd Go4SC2 Cup hosted by ESL takes place this Wednesday. Up to 512 players will battle it out for ranking points to qualify for the 500 Euros monthly final. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
Scheduled: 10:00 CST, 5 January 2011 to 16:00 CST, 5 January 2011 Schedule: Passed
The 70th SteelSeries Go4SC2 Cup hosted by ESL takes place this Sunday. Up to 512 players will battle it out for ranking points to qualify for the 500 Euros monthly final. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
Posted by therogue @ 05:44 CST, 12 December 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 12 December 2010 to 17:00 CST, 12 December 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 63rd SteelSeries Go4SC2 Cup hosted by ESL takes place this Sunday. Up to 1024 players will battle it out for 200 Euros and ranking points to qualify for the 500 Euros monthly final. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
Bonus: The 10,000th Go4SC2 player is expected this Sunday, and will win a World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector's Edition (more)
Scheduled: 10:00 CST, 8 December 2010 to 17:00 CST, 8 December 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 62nd SteelSeries Go4SC2 Cup hosted by ESL takes place this Wednesday. Up to 512 players will battle it out for ranking points to qualify for the 500 Euros monthly final. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
Posted by therogue @ 07:53 CDT, 14 July 2010 - iMsg
The 22nd Cup of the Go4SC2 Series will take place today starting at 09:00 CST. The top four players will earn points towards the Go4SC2 all time ranking that will help their seeding in future cups. (See the current rankings). The sign up for the cup will be open until 08:40 CST and then check-in will begin.
Posted by therogue @ 12:12 CDT, 12 July 2010 - iMsg
Tonight we have the first in a new series of StarCraft II cups here on the ESL. Some of you may remember the "King of" series of cups held in Warcraft 3 in which every week a map was picked to play on for the whole cup. We are kicking off the first cup in the return of the beta on the all time classic - Lost Temple.
King of Lost Temple
Begin: Mon, 12.07.10 20:00 CEST
Meeting place: #esl.sc2 on Quakenet IRC - web chat is available on the cup page!
Structure: 64 or 128 player, Single Elimination
Replays: Replays must be uploaded to the match page (not zipped) immediately after the match. You'll gain penalty point for missing replays starting at the quarter finals!
Coverage: All coverage is allowed! Please send us your streams to: online-pr@turtle-entertainment.de so we can link them here.
Map pool: Lost Temple
Posted by therogue @ 13:57 CST, 2 March 2010 - iMsg
The first ESL Pro Series to feature Quake is back starting next week with Quake Live. Sixteen of the UK & Ireland's best players will be quaking for the next 15 weeks for pride and prize money.
Featuring big names such as GaRpY (last season's Quake 3 champion), VIZARI, zsx and kRoNic and upcoming players such as pulseh it should be an exciting season.
There are still 3 places left to play for open to anyone that resides in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Qualifiers are being held on Wednesday 3rd, Thursday 4th and Sunday 7th March. See this news for more information and to sign up.
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Tonight is the first night of cups (for all countries/regions except Nordic) in the Intel Game On Quakelive cups that are in cooperation with the Intel Extreme Masters by ESL.
ESL TV coverage tonight! ESL TV are planning to coverage at least one match tonight from the fourth and final Nordic cup. Check out ESL TV tonight from 15:00 CST! There is a good chance you will see one of fox, Spart1e or madix playing!
Sign ups will be open until half an hour before the cups begin, at 8pm (local time for each cup). Remember, everyone has a chance to at least win some ROCCAT hardware so please don't be afraid to sign up and play!
Each region has a prize pool of Intel & Roccat hardware and the winners of each region will go to a cross-region final with the chance to win an Alienware laptop and a trip to CeBIT with 150 spending money. The winners of UK & Ireland and Poland also win PCs!
From mid of October until December you have the chance to play in eight cups. For every tournament that is carried through, points will be given according to the result. Here is a full breakdown of the point distribution to get an idea:
- 1st place: 10 points
- 2nd place: 8 points
- 3rd place: 6 points
- 4th place: 4 points
- 5th-8th place: 2 points
The top16 players advance to the regional/national finals where you have the chance to win awesome prizes. But not only that! The winner of the regional/national final has the chance to compete against the other countries' winners for the grand prize: An Alienware M17x laptop and a trip to CeBIT to watch the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship next March.
Posted by therogue @ 06:41 CDT, 29 September 2009 - iMsg
The ESL UK Leagues are a fast and fun monthly tournament for UK players to battle it out. Every player gets to play plenty of matches and has a good shot at earning ESL Premium and ESL TV prizes.
The fifth season of the ESL Major Series has been announced today featuring 15,000 in prize money for thirteen games including Quakelive.
Quake 3 Duel was included last season and was won by Alexei "Cypher" Yanushevsky. Since Quakelive Duel is part of the Intel Extreme Masters 4, we have brought in TDM 4v4 for this EMS5!
Counter-Strike: Source (5on5): 4,000
Counter-Strike Female (5on5): 1,500
FIFA 09 (5on5): 1,500
Quake Live (4on4): 1,000
DotA (5on5): 1,000
Dawn of War 2 (Clanwar): 1,000
Team Fortress 2 (6on6): 1,000
Day of Defeat: Source (6on6): 750
America's Army (4on4): 500
Enemy's Territory (6on6): 500
1on1 disciplines
StarCraft: Brood War: 750
Trackmania: 500
FIFA 09*: 500
Pro Evo Soccer 2009*: 500
Details about how to qualify will be announced next week! Stay tuned to the ESL Major Series homepage!
Posted by therogue @ 10:46 CDT, 23 July 2009 - iMsg
This Sunday at ESL UK we are hosting another Super Sunday cup for UK & Ireland players. Last Sunday's cup was won by Rexob who beat lukek over two maps in the final.
The cup and the ladder should be good for any up and coming players who want to get an idea of the local competition ready qualification for season 3 of the ESL Pro Series.
The cup and the ladder should be good for any up and coming players who want to get an idea of the local competition ready qualification for season 3 of the ESL Pro Series.
Though the field was already narrowed down to just 8 players due to drop outs, it is still quite competitive at the top. HELL and ddk sit on top of the leader board with perfect 6-0 records each. They are scheduled face each other tomorrow night, the result will determine who is #1 going into the finals.
The finals will take place on July 4th in London, more details will be announced soon. The winner of the finals will earn £1,000 on top of their win bonuses.
iFNG VoDs
The videos from the ddk vs GaRpY match which took place at our first Intel Friday Night game at the end of April are now online. Check them out here on YouTube.
iFNG #2
Next Thursday (June 18th) we are hosting another Intel Friday Night Game in London, but unfortunately without Quake 3. If you are still interested and would like to support eSports in the UK then you can find out more on the event page.
Posted by therogue @ 04:09 CDT, 25 May 2009 - iMsg
ESL UK is kicking off its Quake Live section with a monthly league starting this June.
The aim of the league is to give all UK players a chance at some competition and be a starting ground for new players to test and improve their skills. In the run up to the next season of the ESL Pro Series it will also help determine whether Quake will stay in for next season.
- Best of 3
- 16 players
- 4 groups of 4 players
- 3 matches in the Groupstage
- Top 2 players from each group go to Playoffs
- Bottom 2 players from each group go to Losers Playoffs
- Playoffs are Single Elimination (knock-out)
Round 1. Tuesday 2nd June 8pm UK
Round 2. Sunday 7th June 8pm UK
Round 3. Tuesday 9th June 8pm UK
Quarter Finals. Tuesday 16th June 8pm UK
Semi Finals. Sunday 21st June 8pm UK
Final. Tuesday 23rd June 8pm UK
Posted by therogue @ 09:29 CDT, 13 May 2009 - iMsg
The inaugural ESL Quake Live League began this Spring at the end of March featuring over 300 players. A little over 6 weeks later and the 128 player Playoffs have narrowed down the competition to just 24 and shrinking.
The second season of the UK's Premier League of eSports - the ESL Pro Series - hots up with the UK's first ever Intel Friday Night Game! From 12:30 CST onwards on Thursday* 30th April, a number of the UK's best teams and players will play a match from the ESL Pro Series matches live:
Your hosts for the event will be none other than James "2GD" Harding and Joe Miller. If you can't make it to the event then you can watch it live and free on ESL TV.
Update: Q3 will not be streamed, but GTV will be organised and posted here!
The event will take place at TEN Squared (which has a bar!) in central London. Doors open at 6pm, there is no entry fee and the first 100 visitors get 2 free drinks (yes, real drinks, alcohol!).
* Yes, we know it looks strange calling it an Intel Friday Night Game on a Thursday, but Intel Friday Night Game is an established brand. You can lulz now.
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Due to deotrip dropping out to move back to Germany, we have one to fill in the ESL Pro Series UK.
An 8 player, single elimination cup will be played on Monday night to decide who takes the spot. The requirements are that you live in the UK (nationality is irrelevent) and are at least 15 years of age.
Starting with the left side of the player sheet, each player will eliminate a map, then pick a map. The remaining map will be played first, followed by the losers choice until a player has won two maps.
Rules
Mode: Tournament
Time limit: 15 minutes
Frag limit: none
Power-ups: none
Overtime: 2 minutes
Force respawn: 5 seconds
CVAR Restrictions
r_picmip equal or less than 5
cg_optimiseBW always at 0
ch_thirdperson always at default
handicap default 100
To sign up, register and login to the ESL and sign up!
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The qualification for both games will be the same; two qualification cups and the ESL Amateur Series (ladder). Important: Only UK residents may take part.
For more information and links to sign up, see the ESL news post.
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This Saturday the finals of the £30,000 first season of the ESL Pro Series in the UK takes place in London, featuring the country's best Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4 teams.
Why am I posting this on ESReality? Because next season, in addition to the two games from this season, will also feature a duel game!
The duel game was announced, it's Quake 3! In addition, there will also be Trackamania Nations Forever. Details about qualification will come in the next few days.
If you happen to be in the London area this weekend, why settle for for a stream when you can be there in person for the announcement. Entry is free with a flyer! More details are available at esl.eu.
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Featuring Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4, the ESL Pro Series will have the best 12 teams in the country compete over an 11 week season to qualify for the finals to be held in January. The winning teams will net themselves a grand prize of £5,000 - that's £1,000 per player. There is also a bonus of £100 for each match won during the season!
Three qualifiers for both games will be hosted in September in which the top 4 teams from each will qualify. The ESL Pro Series will begin at the end of September.
How do you look back at what Quake 4 contributed to e-Sports? Why do you think the game did not have the longevity in e-Sports compared to its predecessor, said predecessor being Quake 3?
I think it's because the gap between good and not so good players was too large, in Quake3 even a lower skilled player could think it was fun to play because the game is so slow and you hear around the map and even if you are a lot better than your opponent you don't have the same advantage, because the game is too slow and you can't surprise in Quake 3, it's just about hitting all the rails and taking the armours. In Quake 4, it's more important to have map control and movement, if you look the wrong way once, it might cost you the game, and I like it when there is perfection to a game, if you make 1 bad call it should cost you the game.
Posted by therogue @ 10:18 CDT, 16 March 2007 - iMsg
News broke on UnrealNorth that the highly respected and talented UT2004 TDM player (he had a spell in EYEBALLERS Quake 4 too) took his life earlier this week.
inca wrote:
Henrik Karlsson, a.k.a. "Cata" was found dead at Flottsund in Sunnersta the 14th of March, he had apparently committed suicide. No one seems to be certain how, but a guess is that it was a mixture of antidepressant and liquor.
The reason for this started when his father died about a year ago. Cata became depressed and things snowballed until he simply chose this as a last resort.
Cata was well respected, as a talented gamer by some, and as a good friend by others.
Words fail me... Words cannot fill this void that he left behind. Words cannot bring him back.
As his friend I can only hope that he did not suffer in the end.
His friends and family's thoughts are surely filled with if's and why's, but one thing is for certain - he will be sorely missed.
I send my deepest condolences to his family and all his friends.
R.I.P Cata.
/Inca
[16:45:12] [Cata] this is the last day of my last days
Cata is regarded as one of the best UT2004 TDM players, he played for Team Sweden in both the ClanBase Nations Cups and ESL Nations Championship as well as EuroCups in UT2004 and Quake 4 and the UTCL. Teams included e-star, EYEBALLERS and Viruz.
Using footage I filmed at WSVG London last year I have put together this 9 minute event video featuring many players including toxic, stermy, socrates, fox and more.
Although the quality isn't great this will give you a taste of what it was like at and around the event.
Posted by therogue @ 13:55 CST, 23 January 2007 - iMsg
Scheduled: 18:00 CDT, 29 March 2007 Schedule: Passed
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is due for release on the 30th March 2007 worldwide.
"EA is pleased to announce that the highly anticipated Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars for the PC has officially gone gold and will be on stores shelves across Europe on 30/03/2007."
Edited by ESR|Nicky at 01:26 CDT, 13 March 2007 - 20454 Hits
L33gend and 
Bat4Dead live on Twitch.tv
PCLizard, 
VoKUS and 
noskillz qualified for the final FFA that will be played next week. If you think you're good at deathmatch, don't pass up a great opportunity to start 2013 with a brand new PC!
evl and 
k00pl, winning 250 and 150 respectively and both qualifying for the 2400 finals.
s0cke, winning 250 and 150 respectively and both qualifying for the 2400 finals.
ins and 
White_Insane from ESR were among winners.
ESL takes place this Saturday. Up to 512 players will battle it out for 100 and to qualify for the 3.400 finals. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.
Gosugamers, 
#esl.sc2.sennheiser
Goodgame.ru / VodPortal.ru
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Collector's Edition (more)
Go4SC2 Series will take place today starting at 09:00 CST. The top four players will earn points towards the Go4SC2 all time ranking that will help their seeding in future cups. (See the current rankings). The sign up for the cup will be open until 08:40 CST and then check-in will begin.
kRoNic and upcoming players such as 
Quakelive.
Alexei "Cypher" Yanushevsky. Since Quakelive Duel is part of the Intel Extreme Masters 4, we have brought in TDM 4v4 for this EMS5!
ESL Quake Live League began this Spring at the end of March featuring over 300 players. A little over 6 weeks later and the 128 player Playoffs have narrowed down the competition to just 24 and shrinking.ChOu [1:2]
SoNizz [DW:0]
Smoggi [1:2]
Teecee (match)
Counter-Strike: Source: fm!toxic vs 4Kings (12:30 CST)
Trackmania Nations Forever: Nemesis vs Xephyr (13:30 CST)
Call of Duty 4: tba (14:30 CST)
Quake 3: ddk vs GaRpY (15:30 CST)
Counter-Strike: Source and 
GUNK in the EuroCup XIV Quake 4 TDM Final
EC Match Page
Q4TV: None (as 1.3 will be used Q4TV will NOT be available)
Shoutcast: by TosspoT of Radio iTG
stermy, 
![shaftwhores only by [EXE]dann](/files/avatars/2007/51852-shaftwhore.gif "shaftwhores only by [EXE]dann"){kind=small}
Xron
Austria, 
Finland, 
Norway, 
Iceland, 
Denmark
Algeria, 
Egypt, 
Lebanon, 
Saudi Arabia, 
United Arab Emirates
Armenia , 
Azerbaijan, 
Georgia, 
Kazakhstan, 
Kyrgyzstan, 
Moldova, 
Uzbekistan
Turkey
1st. 500
2nd. 300
3rd. 200
