eSports in a stadium. Players from all over the world. With a prize money of currently $ 175.925 (it's rising)!
"On the 28th and 29th of June, thousands of fans from around the world will gather in a football stadium filled to watch the very best compete in one game - Dota 2. The Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany, will be transformed into a haven for Dota 2 fans from all over the world. The eight best teams in the world will fight it out for a prize pool of US $150,000, set to be increased by community funding through an in-game compendium.
The eight teams will be made up of two invited teams Alliance and Natus Vincere, The International 3 finalists, along with six more teams from all around the world. Three of these will be attending from Europe, two more from Asia and the last slot belonging to America. These six teams will have to make their way through very difficult qualifiers and defeat the best in the world to earn their position at ESL One Frankfurt."
With tickets starting from 19,90 € up to 179,90 € you can get access to this event. Despite such high prices for this event, the first wave of tickets is already sold-out!
On the Facebook event already 5000 participants are noticed.
They have also some kind of betting system called the compendium.
Will add more info later.
Edited by ZeriouS at 09:06 CDT, 3 May 2014 - 3225 Hits
Posted by ZeriouS @ 14:09 CST, 29 December 2013 - iMsg
This is crazy:
Description from the kickstarter page:
KUNG FURY is an over-the-top action comedy written and directed by David Sandberg. The movie features: arcade-robots, dinosaurs, nazis, vikings, norse gods, mutants and a super kung fu-cop called Kung Fury, all wrapped up in an 80s style action packed adventure.
During an unfortunate series of events a friend of Kung Fury is assasinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time; Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time, to Nazi Germany, in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all.
We started off quite lately. At 20 o'clock the gaming stations were still occupied by some SC2 and DOTA2 players... Then the Quake Live players sat down, but before it started each participant drank a shot. Also with the start of the cup twister started to drink some beers. After a few king of the hill rounds, with Arcticon being too strong, we decided to go for small groups of 3 players. Each winner of the small group played against each other and in the and Arcticon was able to win the beginners cup. Afterwards we did a rematch between muTz and ZeriouS, to relive the EPS glory back in the days. On Lostworld and Furious Heights ZeriouS was able to win, despite Furious Heights being close. Afterwards Twister offered to play some showmatches and after consuming a lot of beers Arcticon made it quite exciting going into the lead on Toxicity. In The end twister managed it anyways to beat him. Following up the players jesusismyarmor and JesusSmokesAlot played against each other. To conclude this event ZeriouS played vs jesusismyarmor. In between all the action we made a small group photo, drank beer, played Guitar Hero, watched fragmovies and drank beer.
Quakers unite! Let's meet up for a small Quake Live cup! After a successful first spontaneous cup a couple of weeks ago, you are invited to gather in the eSports bar if you are in the area of Berlin. This is a fun event and since it's taking place in a bar, you can be sure, that we will not play sober! Actually you will probably have to drink something in order to withstand the 60Hz ips-displays and mmo mice!
Twister will play now some showmatches, first vs. the winner of the cup and anyonowzne else afterwards. The only map we will play will be Cure, to create equal chances for everyone. Updated rules and FAQ. 4 gaming stations.
1. Getting drunk and survive ;)
2. The more you advance, the more you drink
3. The higher your skill is (elo, achievements, reputation, ... ) the more you drink before the tournament starts (=handicap)
4. Are you too nub, then give yourself liquid courage!
Apologies beforehand: Since there are only two gaming computers installed, we are currently limiting the tournament to eight player slots. If perhaps we could have two additional laptops over there, we could extend the player slots to 16.
Two additional laptops are available! In total we have now four gaming stations!
Stream: Tests were unsuccessful so far. In other tournaments it's possible to stream mulitple povs not only from the in-game pov's, but also from the bar itself. Am trying to figure that out.
Thanks beforehand: To the crew at Meltdown Berlin who allowed us a nice venue where old and new adult gamers meet up.
1. Stream?
Currently no. See also Special Notes & Limitations.
2. Will there be another event like this?
Definitely! It will probably be on a weekend during September.
3. Why on Wednesday? Why not on an other day?
It was offered to me to do this now, to act swift. It would be possible to make it on another day, but then there are already fixed events for more popular game titles, such as SC2, Dota 2, Street Fighter and so on. If we Quake players create enough interest and consume enough, then perhaps we could receive an even better time slot!
4. Will there be enough players?
Yes I think so. The last time a few players from other genres joined up spontaneously for a laugh.
5. 60 Hz? Are you nuts?
Have a drink.
6. Where could I stay at?
You could stay at another Quakers place or ask on https://www.couchsurfing.org/ for a place for the night. Otherwise there are traditional places like a hotel or a hostel. One of it's kind is just next door to the eSports-Bar. It's called "The Cat's Pajamas Hostel" ( http://www.thecatspajamashostel.com/ ). I was there and asked the owner, but there are no beds available for this particular day. But maybe you are lucky when you ask? There are plenty of other options here in Berlin tho. For a general overview about hostels in Berlin, visit http://www.djh-berlin-brandenburg.de !
7. I am new to Quake. Can I join?
No problem, join up, have a drink, and play! If you like it, welcome to Quake Live. (There are a lot of links I could post here, where to start at...)
8. What are adult gamers?
Gamers who aren't under age. This is a bar. That is why.
"The Meltdown-Berlin is the eSports-bar in Germany! the gaming community gathers here to watch professional eSports, hang out, have a drink and a good time.
We are open everyday and show any eSports content of the day. You can of course make requests too. On top of that we have different community tournaments throughout the week:
DotA 2 on Tuesdays!
SSF4/Beat 'em Ups on Wednesdays!
League of Legends on Thursdays!
Starcraft 2 on Fridays!"
Meltdown Berlin
Urbanstrasse 87
10967 Berlin
Neukölln @ Facebook
You will be able to use your custom config, hud and if you desire also bring your own hardware. The exact rules, maplist will be updated here soon. We are open for suggestions for this event. If you think you can take the test of skill, in Quake and handling alcoholic drinks, come to Berlin! Also we have a piano over there ;) Contrary to expectations gaming ladies will also show up and seduce you to one or another drink.
Posted by ZeriouS @ 20:39 CDT, 27 July 2013 - iMsg
It's over! After a 5 day marathon they received in total US$ 252.930,64 with the live viewer count rising up to around 50000 viewers and being the number one channel on Twitch for a certain period outclassing everyone else.
"Speed Demos Archive, the home to video game speed runs, is proud to present the third annual speed running marathon: Summer Games Done Quick 2013. It is a 5-day online event (from July 25-29th) to raise money for Doctors Without Borders, streamed live for you to watch!"
Among the played games are Doom 64 (The Absolution), Final Fantasy, Metroid, Sonic The Hedgehog, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and many more. In front of a live audience. Have you seen the Doom 64 speedrun on Watch Me Die difficulty? The run time was 1:15, check the VOD. It has been watched by ~30000 viewers live.
"Featuring over 75 games, speed runners will play continuously in order to collect donations for Doctors Without Borders, our partner for this event. During the marathon, donations enter you into various prizes, and can be used to determine the outcome of bidding wars! The various prizes and bidding wars can be found in the SGDQ2013 schedule.
To see the total, donation incentives, and their status, click here for the marathon tracker. All of your donations go to the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Doctors Without Borders."
Okami HD
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Donkey Kong Land
Metal Gear Solid
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X HD
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Hotline Miami
Luigi's Mansion
Catechumen
Quest 64
E.V.O. the Search for Eden
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
Spider-Man
Nier
Batman
Vice: Project Doom
Holy Diver
Ecco: Tides of Time
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (SMS)
George Foreman's KO Boxing
Sonic Adventure DX
Mega Man 8
Mega Man X4
Mega Man X5 or X6 bid war
Rockman 4: Minus Infinity
Tower of Heaven
Street Fighter X Mega Man
Rosenkreuzstilette/ Freudenstachel
Super House of Dead Ninjas
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Diddy Kong Racing
Crash Team Racing
Wario World
Dr. Mario 64
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Castlevania 64
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Bionic Commando
Ninja Gaiden
Crystalis
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Super Dodge Ball
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Metroid
Metroid Fusion
Doom 64
Pilotwings 64
Paper Mario
Final Fantasy V
Secret of Evermore
The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt
Hagane
Plok
Super Setup Kart
Ranger-X
Comix Zone
Bible Adventures
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
Double Dragon: Neon
Pokemon Leaf Green
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Metroid
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario World
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Marisa World
Dark Souls
Dustforce
Nimbus
Braid
Setup Soccer 64
Solstice
Rayman Origins
Kirby's Dream Land
Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Final Fantasy IV
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
FINALE
"Speed Demos Archive (SDA) is the premier community for video game speedruns (completing games as quickly as possible through extensive planning, practice, and knowledge of game mechanics/glitches). Check out our library of over 900 speedruns, forum, and knowledge base at http://speeddemosarchive.com, and our live stream listing at http://www.twitch.tv/team/sda."
"Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) delivers emergency medical care to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disaster, or exclusion from health care in more than 65 countries. An independent international humanitarian organization, MSF unites direct medical care with a commitment to bearing witness to the plight of the people it assists.
On any one day, 27,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals can be found providing medical care in international teams made up of local MSF aid workers and their colleagues from around the world."
This is part 3.
- Part 1: [link] - complete E-Mail conversation, demos, config, hud, e-Sport profile links
- Part 2: [link] - more possible ways of proofing my innocence (e.g. videorecording of me playing, sending original hardware,...), reflexivity about videogaming
- Bug exposed on 07.10.2012
- A few hours later my account was banned, till this day
- Damage output between players unbalanced (compare shots fired with inflicted damage)
- Compare the hits/damage done in the embedded media
- I was submitting demos of a faulty server configuration
- Ban-reason stated by Sasparillo "Use of third party software to obtain an unfair advantage within the game"
- Ban remains, disregard of offered media (up to Sat 07 Aug 2010 19:55:56 CEST)
- 30.10.2012: "There will be no further consideration of this matter. The ban will remain in place."
- Either read more here and/or download the complete demopack of that night
VODs (incl. matchlinks and demos)
YouTube has a 30 fps limit, therefore if you want to judge for yourself better, feel free to download the demos.
In this journal I will reply to Memento_Mori, outline more possible ways how to proof that I have been banned unjustified, and also trying to be reflexivitive about me and videogaming.
Table Of Contents
I. The reply
II. Reaching new levels of proof
....... a - 1st level: Theoretically
....... b - 2nd level: Practically
....... c - 3rd level: Hilarious
III. Résumé
IV. Reflexivity
- Prove that false positives are possible. Take a fresh machine, install only the game, create a new account, and then try to get the false positive to hit again while you document everything. If you manage to come up with a bug report that other people (id software employees for instance) can recreate, then it will show the detection flaw as well as your good will.
ID-software, the quakelive team or whoever is administrating and is responsible for this and could lift my ban, they could tell me, what they expect me to do.
As in ClanBase, ESL or other leagues it is required from the players to fulfill some criteria. E.g. matchmedia upload, keeping of matchmedia for a certain period, and if a player is caught cheating, he has to write some kind of letter of apology, and then has to wait a certain period and then is allowed to play again.
I mean, I could take this even up to three levels in terms of proof.
II. Reaching new levels of proof
II.a - 1st level: Theoretically
I have played enough other games to show what I am able to do. Never be the best, but never be the worst either. Decent div 2, especially as defender in UT2004-iCTF.
Also administration of clans, contributing to leagues and gaming communites mostly ut2004 ictf, WarSow, Cube... (interviews as mp3s with transcripts ^ translations,.. little to more admin work, and so on). Ah perhaps a bit of shoutcasting here and there in QL with moppz. Of course in every game supporting new players, by helping them to improve their game, and be surprised how a few are able to excel really fast, and be happy that they are surpassing my abilities and pushing the limits.
I admit that I haven't had much LAN appearances, since now less than five LANS attended. My SNES and n64 victories at local shops are possibly not noteworthy and there exists no stored coverage about it. That reminds me of winning a red Gameboy at the IFA when it was new, and my parents told me, that they have seen me on TV, but they didn't record it. The red gameboy belongs to the 'Play It Loud!'-Game Boy series, using a coloured shell, but still using the monochromic display and other aspects from the Classic Game Boy. That should have been around 1995 or maybe 1996. I don't know exactly anymore.
Not even my LAN-café experiences with CS could count, since the shops are closed, the computers are gone, the people aswell, and overall I didn't enjoy that game playing there. Maybe because of the annoying enemies and allies, treating you, if you are either too good or too bad. The last time I played somewhere it ended in a brawl.
I could go further back in time... but all the consoles are sold, the proof is not available. Only memories.
II.b - 2nd level: Practically
Raising another idea, which I had during my (rather .... mediocre) EPS time.
I could record myself playing, just as the SC2-players do in a lot of their livestreams:
- Others could witness the ingame action
- Additionally I could also set up various cameras, to record how I actually play:
--a- mouse movement (right hand)
--b- keyboard handling (left hand)
--c- head position
--d- total body shot
--e- eye-tracking (maybe, gotta ask around who at my U could help me with that)
--f- additional things
-note 1: views a-d from top, left and right view
-note 2: view e-f* for other analytical stuff
View a-d could be set up to, not only to analyze my gaming behaviour, but also to gather data for some analysis related to an ergonomical point of view.
Depending on the available technology I could also use other sensors, so that they can record some other data (heart rate, stress factor, body temperature, ...). I could go on with the list of ideas.
Where to apply the then-available data on? There are a lot of ways and possible useful scenarios.
II.c - 3rd level: Hilarious
I could even send them my gaming rig (hf with a refurbished dell gx620) with the mouses that I used, with the monitor I used. Or the trackball, or the whole desk,... I am perhaps exaggerating now, but yeah - I trust that the reader may get my point.
III. Résumé
Now the QL team doesn't bother about this. SyncError plussing another comment to signalise he read my journal, but doesn't bother to reply in an appropiate way. I am just another former customer.
I don't need to proof them anything, I don't feel like I need to do that what I could do, because they don't care about this case. If I would do more now, I would give them publicity for free, but for what in return? Nothing.
IV. Reflexivity
What I did is not for them. It is for me, because I enjoyed what I did in gaming. For the ones that I helped to improve their gaming. If others benefit from the things that I did, then it may be good.
I can't say currently that I will never play QuakeLive again, or other games, because if I'd have the opportunity, I'd love to play vs. my old buddies to revive the past time, and perhaps after a certain time of absence feeling the thrill of winning a match and trying to pushing my own limits yet again.
Actually, I do benefit a lot, from being banned. I realized, I have spent too much time with this hobby, where I could have improved in other areas of my life even more and faster, using my full potential. The past time since the ban, I was so productive, as I haven't been since years.
I will stay a videogamer, despite that I am going to play less and less, the older I get.
But time is running, it is actually really scarce. Time to focus on major things in life.
P.S.: Dear SyncError, dear Sasparillo,
you are allowed to answer on my journal entries, my thoughts - don't be shy!
P.P.S.: If the ESL doesn't bother to lift my PenaltyPoints (#1: since 14.11.2010 + #2: since 24.04.2011) soon (where me and a few others raised a protest ticket against it), I guess I have to write... yet another journal. But not now. It takes time to make something qualitative.
- Bug exposed on 07.10.2012
- A few hours later my account was banned, till this day
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- Shooting each other on a bogus french QL server.
- If enemy was lower in ELO, he was able to inflict multiple times more damage than me
- If both players are almost equal in ELO, no damage output variation happened (as in demo b1 and b5)
- Submission of demos ignored (demopack a + c)
This is part 1.
Part 2: [link] - more possible ways of proofing my innocence (e.g. videorecording of me playing, sending original hardware,...), reflexivity about videogaming
Part 3: [link] - VODs
I don't enjoy writing that much about things, which could have been solved earlier, without any hassle, without annoying anyone, with appropiate methods of communication. This is my last resort.
Please review the demos and state your opininion. Thanks in advance.
Table Of Contents
0. tl;dr
00. Updates
I. Summary
II. Course of Events
....... a - The session or "WTF, the enemy makes 10x more damage!"
....... b - The Ban - Exchange of E-Mails
....... c - Aftermath
III. Media
....... a - Matchlinks and Demos
....... b - Configs
....... c - HUD
IV. e-Sports-Profiles
....... a - League accounts
....... b - ZeriouS
....... c - SanManChan
- Bug exposed on 07.10.2012
- A few hours later my account was banned, till this day
- Either read more here and/or download the complete demopack of that night
# 24.11.2012
### Using wolfcam I am able to work with the demos: review, convert them to avi
### Uploading on YouTube successful with raw avi
# 25.11.2012
### Preconverting avi-files to mp4-files with VLC portable
### Testing various settings for best results after upload onto YouTube
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I. Summary
- Damage output between players unbalanced (compare shots fired with inflicted damage)
- Compare the hits/damage done in the embedded media
- 07.10.2012: Ban + submitting demos of a faulty server configuration
- Reason stated by Sasparillo "Use of third party software to obtain an unfair advantage within the game"
- Disregard of offered media (up to Sat 07 Aug 2010 19:55:56 CEST)
- 30.10.2012: "There will be no further consideration of this matter. The ban will remain in place."
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II. Course of events
....... a - The session or "WTF, the enemy makes 10x more damage!"
....... b - The Ban - Exchange of E-Mails
....... c - Aftermath
## Please excuse me if not everything is perfect in detail. It's been a while since the ban. ##
II.a - The session or "WTF, the enemy makes 10x more damage!"
In that night gaming session, I met a new player, cosinus, who I was trying to help out with a few tips and hints. We changed to (or were already) on a French server and all of a sudden, I wasn't able to inflict the same amount of damage.
During before and in between the matches I changed mouses (Abyssus, G500, WMO 1.0a (the bad ones!)) and tried to change the usb polling rate on a Windows 8 RC version according to this tutorial).
I didn't thought that the server was bogus, because I am performing substandard on Aerowalk. But then, well yeah, it happened. Therefore I invited another buddy who was online to join that French server to test if it's really like that.
/handicap was set to the default value, so my damage output and hp/armor stack should be at max.
Now when both players 'cosinus', 'ziRe' or 'vanBasten' played against each other, then everything seemed normal. But when I jumped in and played against one of both, they were able to do multiple times more damage than I was able to do. After a few bogus rounds, we decided to change the server and the damage output was again back to normal for me.
Because of that, I didn't thought anymore about it, so I carried on. I adjusted the cvars a bit in my config, mostly the mouse accel.
But then all of a sudden I wasn't able to join any servers, I was banned.
07.10.2012 - 06:05:38 CEST - Last online-game
II.b - The Ban - Exchange of E-Mails
Then I initiated a correspondence and attached a few demos.
I wonder why my account was banned during the last few hours?
I kept playing some Aerowalkgames, and in the last few, there was a huge difference in damage output. Whilst my enemies were able to deal kill me with the rail with one shot (off the initial 125 hp), or with the sg , dealing up to 200 damage on close distance. But I was able to only deal 30 dmg with the rail. Therefore I asked cosinus and Zire, to join the French server to test, if this is only happening to me or not. It only happened on one French server, when we changed servers e.g. we went to a German server, the damage output was all equal.
I know, that by setting "/handicap" to a different value than 100, the hp/armor/damage output will be altered. But my setting remained at 100.
Please look into the attached demo, thanks a lot.
Best regards,
Fernando "ZeriouS" Sandoval Rojas
07.10.2012 - 08:25 CET
Acknowledgement of receipt
07.10.2012 - 14:54 CET
Sent to support@quakelive.com
Subject: Re: Unban my account (evidence part 2)
Dear ID,
also on a test game vs Zire, on the same French server, the damage output was unbalanced, despite the /handicap cvar was set at default value.
Please check that,
Thanks in advance,
Fernando "ZeriouS" Sandoval Rojas
07.10.2012 - 14:54 CET
Acknowledgement of receipt
10.10.2012 - 17:04 CET
Received from abuse_support@quakelive.com
Subject: '[Ticket#2012101010000199] Regarding Quake Suspension'
Hello,
Name Tag: ZeriouS
Account Action: Permanent Account Closure
Offense: Use of third party software to obtain an unfair advantage within the game
This account has recently been involved in actions deemed inappropriate for QUAKE LIVE by the In-Game Support staff. This decision was made after a thorough investigation of the situation as a whole.
For further information, please review the QUAKE LIVE policies and Terms of Use Agreement. We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to fully enjoy their time in QUAKE LIVE. Thank you in advance for respecting our position.
The QUAKE LIVE Abuse Support Team
Sasparillo
17.10.2012 - 14:37 CET
Sent to: abuse_support@quakelive.com
Subject: 'Re: [Ticket#2012101010000199] Regarding Quake Suspension'
Dear Quake Live Abuse Support team,
Dear Sasparillo,
can you please explain further, what matches on what date, time, map and against whom are the cause of this ban? I believe, I can provide demos up to the start of the pro circuit I took within Germany ( http://www.esl.eu/de/pro-series/season17/quak...er/435672/ ). Perhaps I need a couple more days, since I am currently on vacations.
I expect more than a vague categorized answer which you wrote to me, and need some more details. I do not accept the ban, because I know, I haven't violated the Quake Live policies, nor the Terms of Use of Agreement.
Best regards from Berlin,
Fernando "ZeriouS" Sandoval Rojas
It's been about 3 weeks since the ban or 2 weeks since the last message. I am able to provide demos, back to 07.08.2010, 19:55 CET.
30.10.2012 - 22:14 CET
Acknowledgement of receipt
30.10.2012 - 22:15 CET
Received from: abuse_support@quakelive.com
Subject: 'Re: [Ticket#2012101010000199] Fwd: Re: Regarding Quake Suspension'
Hello,
There will be no further consideration of this matter. The ban will remain in place.
The QUAKE LIVE Abuse Support Team
Sasparillo
30.10.2012 - 22:18 CET
Sent to: abuse_support@quakelive.com
Subject: 'Re: [Ticket#2012101010000199] Fwd: Re: Regarding Quake Suspension'
Dear Sasparillo,
you are taking actions against me, without showing any proof, of me being guilty of anything.
The only thing that happened in the past, was the uncovered bank account at the time of the bank transactions for the QL-subscriptions.
Is that how you handle things at your enterprise?
Best regards from Germany
30.10.2012 - 22:20 CET
Acknowledgement of receipt
II.c - Aftermath
Unfortunately I have not received any answer since that time.
In the meanwhile my Steam-Account was hijacked and via brute-forceing via China (proxies I guess) attempts were made to gain access to another E-Mail account of me. Both things concerned me, so I had to gather through some protocols of a few websites as well. By now, most things seem safe.
But there is still the problem, that I am accused of using a 'third party software', where I don't know exactly when this has been caused. I would welcome a protocol of events with date and time (and perhaps timezone too), so that I am able to view through my security logs on the win8 system.
Currently I am unable to review the demos, since I am running a linux box, and it seems that my network card or the IP range is blocked. Therefore signing-in and running demos in practice mode is not doable. I am on a 1GBit internet connection which is provided for the dorms by the University of Duisburg-Essen.
¿Would I have a right to view into my private internal logged data related to this gaming-account?
¿Do I seriously have to hope only for the kindness of my contractual partner?
¡Annoyingly in times of multinational winding up of agreements of microtransactions!
The demos can be downloaded here on ESReality, and the text will be published on my private website aswell.
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III. Media
....... a - Matchlinks and Demos
....... b - Configs
....... c - Hud
III.a - Matchlinks and Demos
- Chronologically sorted, available as complete .zip here
- One of the dm6-demos is a rather short one, where we run into the MH-area and just fired some weapons to test if it was unbalanced or not. One of them shows exactly what was bogus.
Another possibility is that my second paid premium account was somehow involved in one of the possible situations that triggered the anticheat-tool.
Now you may ask, "why a 2nd account?". In order to play without the buddylist messages annoying you (buddy on-/offline, messages in/out) since it's not possible to disable that or change to different buddy-list status (e.g. away, busy, in gaming; as in StarCraft 2). Therefore I have only a few persons my buddylist.
The alias is one of my former nicks, used back in 2003. And it annoys me now, that the reputation of my historical alias is tarnished, since that is something personal.
- Shooting each other on a bogus french QL server.
- If enemy was lower in ELO, he was able to inflict multiple times more damage than me
- If both players are almost equal in ELO, no damage output variation happened (as in demo b1 and b5)
- Banned afterwards
- Submission of demos ignored (demopack a + c)
- Ban remains since 07.10.2012
- Read more at my personal journal entry
- If more evidence of this bug is required, download the demo pack of the session of that night.
Yesterday in the night at about 1 AM CET, right after the tournament marathon with the ZOTAC and SK Champions Trophy for the players, streamers and viewers ended, I was able to get a statement in IRC from the French QuakeLive player Kevin "strenx" Baéza. Player names if not mentioned completely will be stated by their nickname. A complete list of references is found at the end of the article.
- Health condition
- Temper
- The ping issues during the final match
- What his point of view towards fans and haters are
- Who is really n-steps ahead (av3k, cooller, cypher, rapha)
- The agitation towards him by Anton "cooller" Singov
- People who enjoy that bait
- TDM team preparation AIRKISS
- Sports
- Time until the next tournament (DreamHack Winter 2011) in now less than one week
So, what to do now after QuakeLive to destroy the available time?... Maybe.. WoW? Anyway, I wonder who´ll give this one a try now?
What is the World of Warcraft Starter Edition?
The World of Warcraft Starter Edition allows players to access World of Warcraft for free -- all you need is a Battle.net account and an Internet connection. Starter Edition players can play up to a maximum character level of 20 and are able to upgrade to a full, paid account at any time, allowing them to continue their adventures where they left off. The Starter Kit gives gamers who are interested in trying out World of Warcraft a chance to experience the game before purchasing a copy..
*update (23.05.11 / 17:55)*: Tested yesterday again with some mates, and it works out of the box, to /put in players into the game. No /abort required during countdown!
I don´t know if that has happened to anyone of you already.
Gametype: Duel - usually only two playing spots allowed.
On my server we played some 1v1, we had some chit-chat, and I decided to put myself out of the spec mode into playing mode. So I just did
>> /put (myplayer-#) f
during the countdown of the warmup and then
>> /abort
then something weird happened, the game flickered a bit, the countdown was aborted but instead of two now all three were in the map. So I don´t know if that is a regular feature to /put in as many players into the game as you want to, or if that just does occur when you do this command whilst the countdown is aborted.
We had some laughs, because that´s basically FFA, but with the duel scoreboard =D
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/abort
/players
>> lists player ID
/put 0 f
/put 1 f
/put ... f
Posted by ZeriouS @ 10:53 CDT, 28 April 2011 - iMsg
As part of ASRock motherboard presentation, Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel plays against some of the best Russian QuakeLive players in 2v2 CA. The stream is live and running now.. Streaming is over.
Using translate.google.com and omitting some words to keep the sense and flow:
In a promotion of new motherboards, known pro-gamer Fatal1ty comes to Moscow to meet and talk with the press, as well as play a few show-matches. This event will be a private event, that is only for invited press.
Pleased to announce that the event will go to our Superagent Russia Starcraft Brood War GG.Lisorius. He will take an interview with the well-known Quaker that will appear on GoodGame.
You can make conversation with the American gamer and send in a comment to this news, the best of which we ask Fatal1ty. Please send us your creative and interesting suggestions! Komentirovat matches will be Russia Quake Live EMPIRE | ZERG!
Roman "Polosat1y" Tarasenko coined the "Russian style" of videogaming with having the keyboard on the lap and mousepad on the desk above, due to space constraints back in the days at internet cafes and who has been one of the first great Quakers of all time, who started together with cooller. Here is a video showing both players around 2002, the first one is cooller, the second one is Polosat1y.
Polosat1y didn´t continue as his mate cooller did. Do we see yet another comeback as with U.S. players Zero4 and czm recently?
Evil and Amai are currently very active competitive Quakers who always claim a top spot in competitions, such as Asus cups, Zotac and more. Unfortunately they often place behind cooller and cypher in important tournaments.
The french player Kevin 'strenx' Baeza has probably the best LG-aim currently in the world and he is eager to win against fatal1ty.
Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the Year 2008 Jo Garcia blogs about the hottest games and gadgets right here at Playboy.com
Just watch the video about "Splatterhouse" and tell me what you think of this babe... I mean, if she likes that game, what if she actually came to one of the QuakeLive events to cast it ?!
Posted by ZeriouS @ 17:14 CDT, 7 August 2010 - iMsg
No Quake related stuff. What´s really arcade like?
Currently QL is like a snail, when it comes to your first game. login, wait, search game, wait, see advertisement, wait more, new server, new advertisement and so on.
No HoN. No SC2. No rl shizzle, neither. Alternatives anyone?
No Fallout titles! (it´s a nice game, but, the quakelive pre-game ad....)
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Posted by ZeriouS @ 16:29 CDT, 11 July 2010 - iMsg
The point of this journal is not to tell you something new, because this idea is not. But the point is, that it totally discourages morally everyone attending such a game.
Nowadays with the technology,
- the cristal clear video transmissions of football matches,
- different video angles
- instant replays
- and an overlay if someone was off side or not,
mis-judgements could be avoided.
There are several situations, where the crowd, community, fans are shouting that something was not fair.
- Not enough or too many cards.
- Not given penalties.
- Not given corner ball.
Or they shut up, because something was decided to their advantage.
Imagine, all the weird situations could be observed by adding some tracking system on the players, the football field, the goal, the ball itself. With that it would easily be possible to detect if a situation actually happened, as it was seen first. And not much could be said against it. At that point of development, I predict also cheating by modificating the by then used technology. And more complaints but on a different level.
All in all, this summarizes into the anger of the people, they start to complain (random fans), start riots (hooligans), develop xenophobia and as last resort ignore the championsship (disappointed fans and attenders), since they and many many other eyes witnessed something was wrong aswell.
By my side, I simply cannot enjoy this mis-judgement, although this is the human factor and this marginal random factor is part of the game.
But since these misjudgements only encourage agony and lies between clubs and countries, there should be a truly fair and unbiased judgement system.
This world cup event is viewed by millions of people all over the world. Like the olympic games, this should be a lead role.
To the final match between NED and ESP: Some many of that "unclear" situations. Gratulations team Spain. The level of awesomeness between the two teams increased the more the game went on. Unlucky Robben and team.
Edited by ZeriouS at 16:36 CDT, 11 July 2010 - 3303 Hits
Posted by ZeriouS @ 15:18 CDT, 11 July 2010 - iMsg
NED - ESP final
- NED: Kick to the chest. (Kickbox style)
- ESP: Hold the enemy shirt, throw him down (Judo style)
- unknown player: Swings leg up, snaps it down, hits by mischance the opponents knee. (Who against who?)
- too much to be listed.
What was the referees job again, what´s fair play?
Edited by ZeriouS at 06:22 CDT, 12 July 2010 - 11896 Hits
Posted by ZeriouS @ 01:23 CDT, 25 June 2010 - iMsg
Just noticed. In the right low corner there is a button, with a ball image. If you press that during a video playback, some vuvuzela sound will accompai(g)n your video experience :x
Since my Xai is broken, I use a IMO 1.0A as replacement mouse. Now I wonder if there is any possibility to remove this negative acceleration and weird behaviour, which my mouse does when I move the mouse a little bit faster than usual. The cursor jumps around, up and down.
** update ** Around 500 demonstrants have attended the demonstration according to the local media and police. Check out some reports and photos, contributed by different sources.
This Friday will be in Karlsruhe, Germany from 17 o´clock until 20:30 o´clock a demonstration.
This demonstration is against the cancellations or rather embargos of the scheduled ESL Intel Friday Night Games in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. It is against the double moral standard of conservative politicians who demonize videogames and who cancel events in Stuttgart due to the school massacre in Winnenden and respect towards the victims, but who allow fair featuring shooting matches only a few weeks after the incident. This demonstration is for the public acceptance of videogaming as own culture.
It can not be, that we will be lumped together with homicidal maniacs, that they choose us, not so small but still marginalized groups of videogamers, as their punching bag even if it was their fault. It should be more about, that one has to deal with the initial problems of those amok runners and potential imperilled persons to identify the causes. Consequently to try to avoid the causes and not to condemn videogaming or to perform ignorance and double moral standards. Thus we will be lumped together. And every computer gaming person is affected by this. Not only the young people, also those who are older than 30 years, those who have family, those who enjoy their life and still play. Ranging from First-Person-Shooter players via World of Warcraft guildmembers, WarSow trickjumpers up to the Sims girls.
Among us gamers are also some idiots, who think they can insult others, or even try to be violent in real life, but in general it is peaceful. And how often are violent incidents at LAN parties?
If you can, then come around. This Friday. At least 200 visitors (see this survey), 3 local radio stations and maybe some TV coverage are expected. Unfortunately I have heard the day before yesterday about it, or else I would have posted this earlier. Be there, demonstrate and show unity!
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Kevin "strenx" Baéza. Player names if not mentioned completely will be stated by their nickname. A complete list of references is found at the end of the article.
av3k, 
cooller, 
cypher, 
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