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HOQ CA FALL SEASON FINAL STANDINGS (2 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by DePaS @ 12:18 CST, 20 November 2014 - iMsg

The final standings of the CA Fall season:

Ranking (Div 1)

Ranking (Div 2)

Ranking (Div 3)

Streams: quad_, knetic, T1hol
Links: Schedule, Rules, Results
Rounds: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5

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N.A. Quake Live Duel Cup #4 Dec. 2014 (49 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by flair @ 10:38 CST, 20 November 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 17:30 CST, 4 December 2014 to 20:30 CST, 4 December 2014
Schedule: Passed

It is my pleasure to present the December 2014 NA.DuelCup. The double elimination format is here to stay, but there is a slight change this month. The "drop-drop" map selection process is considered a standard these days, but during the month of December players will select maps using "Pick-Pick" instead. I hope this will encourage players with severe map-phobia to sign-up. Don't try and hide I see you spectating!

Donations towards current or future prize pools are always welcome. My paypal email is duel.cup@gmail.com.

Format

Map List

Prize Pool

Stream NA Duel Cup on Twitch
Results and VOD available

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NEW WR Doom2 and Plutonia Speedrun (52 comments)

( Major Movie: Gaming)

Posted by mdv @ 06:47 CST, 19 November 2014 - iMsg




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A new Doom 2 world record has been set, the second improvement in the last 10 years. Author Zero-Master claims that the time can still be improved and that the speed runners are actively pursuing that goal - breaking the 23 minute mark. Current record improved the time by whooping 22 seconds.

Author's comment

Description

Links: Source, Demos

Movie File - Stream 720p 60FPS (Doom 2: Hell On Earth UV-Speed in 23:03) 0MB
- YouTube (1166 clicks)
Movie File - Stream 720p 60FPS (Final Doom: The Plutonia Experiment Spee) 0MB
- YouTube (217 clicks)

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Wickland Added To ESL Cup Series (83 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Teen Queen @ 11:15 CST, 18 November 2014 - iMsg

There's a noticeably increasing tension between modern upcoming first person shooters, developers are doing their best to properly market their product to both casual player base and competition thirsty veterans. As it turns out, most developers are trying to push their products on the market and attempt to kickstart their very first organized competitions in order to establish the primal competitive structure, which hopefully brings in more people interested in the genre.

Starting in December, Wickland is opening their first cup series with the help of ESL new games department. The game is currently on sale through steam. A key raffle will also be held, more info about the cup can be found in this news.

General Information

Schedule

Prizes

Wickland Steam Early Access Trailer

Links: ESL New Games,

Get Wickland, Official website

Edited by Badb0y at 10:49 CST, 19 November 2014 - 26039 Hits

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CS:GO - "REDEMPTION" NiP at ESL One 2014 (25 comments)

( Movie: CS)

Posted by zeroql @ 14:21 CST, 17 November 2014 - iMsg




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CS:GO - "REDEMPTION" NiP at ESL One Cologne 2014 (Fragmovie/Documentary)

This movie showcases the journey of the Ninjas in Pyjamas in Cologne, Germany – ESL One Cologne the 3rd major tournament in CS:GO History.
Powered by Xtrfy, Komplett, EIZO, Crucial, GUNNAR and AKRacing

Directed by

Kevin 'tweeday' Tweedale

http://www.twitch.tv/mrtweeday
http://www.facebook.com/Officialtweeday
http://twitter.com/Officialtweeday

About movie:

The movie you all have been waiting for is finally here after 3 months of preparing to finishing off the movie. We present you one of the most epic CS:GO movies of all time.

Starring the five players of Ninjas in Pyjamas Christopher ”GeT_RiGhT” Alesund, Adam ”friberg” Friberg, Richard ”Xizt” Landström, Robin ”Fifflaren” Johansson, Patrik ”f0rest” Lindberg and the one coach Faruk ”pita” Pita journey from the start of ESL One Gamescom 2014 to the finish were they was crowned as champions of the tournament. It was time for redemption and the redemption is finally here!

REDEMPTION BLOG
by Kevin Tweedale
Nickname: tweeday (alias Mrtweeday) – NiP Film/Video Producer – Cut/Camera/Director

And here we go again, the feels coming out while starting of writing a 5th blog for a full-length Counter-Strike:Global offensive film of mine are overwhelming! It is just an amazing feeling looking back at hundreds of work hours, of days of preparation prior to the event, thinking about the event that was one of the greatest experiences – ESL One Cologne 2014. The start of the blog already feels super nice, doesn’t it? Well now that i already got you let me write about my experience in Cologne, a bit about my travel, how it all went down and last but not least a short breakdown of how i actually feel about things.

The travel itself started a day prior to the event, get in the car – driving to the local train station that i am scarily familiar with nowadays – hopping onto the train. Something was totally different though, no plane! (Laughs) But after all a 6 hour travel to Cologne went quick, quicker than the usual travel. At the train station i got picked up by Melly, drove with her to the ESL Studios – entered a Shuttle to Gamescom and spent some hours there talking to the Valve Devs, nice ESL Lads and just generally checked out Gamescom as i couldn’t check-in at that time. After some minor misunderstandings with the hotel that was booked i smoothly went to the hotel. It was weird as supposedly nobody was there so i took a nap just to learn when the guys arrived that Pita was hiding from me all the time in his room also taking a nap. I struggled completely tired downstairs, welcomed new faces and familiar faces all with a happy smile – a dinner to seal the „reunion“ and then bedtime already after preparing the first day of the groupstages which would turn out to be a short one.

The first day felt like another day at the office so to say, camera set-up and everything went smooth. As expected we could beat the Indians which could’ve turned out to be a surprise package but luckily it went as expected in our favour. One match played and the day was already over so we transferred back to the hotel after a couple of chats, photos with the fans and a general greetings with all of the other teams, players, managers and people from ESL. Back at the hotel i set-up my interview equipment in GeT_RiGhT’s room as he has had the biggest one, so we had enough room to film properly even though the light turned out to be a bit tricky. I am really glad to be working with such a group of talented people as the interviews went quick – clean and easy as i was already used to it by DreamHack Winter 2013 and EMS Katowice 2014. They turned up, we went through it as fast as possible and it was done. The only one that had some minor struggles was Pita, but hey he isn’t used to a German asking him weird questions so you can’t blame him! I am already looking forward right now to get my hands on Maikelele and see how he will do (laughs).

As always i can really be thankful that the team is investing their free time to do things with me and hopefully, i really can only hope that the movie will in the end be worth it for them.

The following days wrapped up: I have never in my life seen so many close games, it was on the one hand amazing and on the other hand really exhausting from my point of view; i had to sit down a lot during the actual quarter-final vs Cloud9 after already 2 filmed games and waiting time beyond what i am used to. The filming however went smooth and luckily i had another guy assisting me in it which was „namely“ ‘anyNoob’ – which i more than appreciated; he did an amazing job and he should definately be proud of the work he did there. The food in Cologne was really great after that aswell, some Vapiano, some food in the hotel’s own restaurant – at the very least it was usually always fresh and nice, not to mention the salad of Vapiano was just amazing and will always have a place in my heart when i am in Cologne for events!

The last day knocked on our doors, everyone was excited and you could really feel the players getting pumped up and they were ready as never before. By watching the movie you should re-live the moments we went through hopefully, 2 tough map-losses, 4 really close map wins to ultimately win the tournament and honestly i could feel the joy from all the NiP players, our CEO, HeatoN and all the staff that went alongside us at that very moment. It was truly great. NO. It was truly, truly amazing. The ESL TV crew alongside ReDeYe and carni really helped me by putting me in the right directions, they were open to discuss about some things further and we always ended up so it would benefit both and i wouldn’t interfere with their plans. ESL’s communication and ultimate handling with PR and most importantly to me – working with me – is just unique and a lot of events should take not only a bait but actually just recruit most of ESL’s staff i guess ;-)!

The venue itself was crazy, so many fans, so many viewers that wanted to get in – despite the stage and the actual arena not being massive as we all had Katowice in mind, the feeling and the atmosphere still was breathtaking.

After grouping up together, sorting the last bits of footage and giggles together – waving goodbye to my fellows over at HLTV.org, fragbite and all the nice chaps in the Press Area the whole NiP Crew gathered up to have some extremely good mexican food (which i by the way visited twice again when i went to EPS Finals – it is just so damn good!). Unfortunately i wasn’t able to drink anything at that very night due to what you now may now – my Physique contest preparation so i called it an early night.

Ultimately i just want to say a big thank you to Petter for all his assisting, help and the great time we had together aswell as Emil, Per and the players even if they scratch the corner of their eye they always tag along and do things for me and in a fashion that you couldn’t really ask for more. I admire them big time! Thanks a lot you all! Obviously thanks to the guys at home that helped with coverage and planning!!

I appreciate every single one of you that read this until the end, that watched movie.

TL;DR:

Thanks for watching, thanks to everyone of you that supports my efforts, my work and my dedication. I couldn’t be more happy to be able to pursue my passion and my dream…

Thanks to our partners and sponsors that make this all happen; also providing me with sick stuff! Thanks Xtrfy, Komplett, EIZO, Crucial, GUNNAR and AKRacing!

Hope you enjoy the movie and see you next in Sweden for DreamHack Winter 2014!

With all that being said… over and out!

Music:

Showcased ESL One Talent Lineup:

Tools used:

Movie File - Low Quality, High Quality (YouTube) 0MB
- YouTube (144 clicks)

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125 FPS Nov-Dec'14 League, Group Stage 1 (165 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 08:04 CST, 17 November 2014 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 27 November 2014 to 14:00 CST, 27 November 2014
Schedule: Passed

125 FPS Nov-Dec 2014 Group Stage 1 will start tomorrow 18 November
- 3-4 weeks: 18, 20, 25 and 27 November - First Group Stage (GS1), all matches start at 19:00 cet (21:00 msk), BO1, 3 pass to Group Stage 2

18 Nov, Group A1:

sting_pl p0ni baksteen

karwik

zanzan

kenny
20 Nov, Group B1::

k1llsen

twister

xron

etty

kidz

talex
25 Nov, Group C1::

cooller

garpy

madball

base

gekko

ins
27 Nov, Group D1::

strenx

plazma

nitrino

guard

sparks

prox_pl

Please read more info on 125fps.com.

League admins: Nico, []34[], Xron, Green (search on WebIRC or write to nikolay.grishin@gmail.com)
Links: 125 FPS website,

#125fps

Edited by Nico_QD at 08:12 CST, 26 November 2014 - 82425 Hits

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Site summary for week ending 14 Nov (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 16 November 2014 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

Edited by Teen Queen at 05:03 CST, 17 November 2014 - 2159 Hits

Operation Clan Arena 2x2 tournament (27 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by BASE @ 11:52 CST, 16 November 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 23 November 2014 to 13:00 CST, 23 November 2014
Schedule: Passed

Dear Friends, next Sunday, November 23 (20:00 MSK, 18:00 CET ) we would like you to take a part in the tournament, "Operation Clan Arena 2x2". Tournament organizers are "BASE" and "sMeat" from Russia. Pay your attention for maplist. In this case maps are several unusual for CA and hinting for duels.

Map pool: Canned Heat, Dismemberment, Evolution, House of Decay, Vertical Vengeance,
Prizes: 1st place 4000 rub (~85$) 2nd place 2000 (~42$) (probably will be increased)
Rules: full double elimination, bo3 till the grand final, bo5 grand final. <<Round limit is 10>>

Donates: Nitrino 1000 rub (~21$); kingsizeslv 500 rub (~10.5$) cz (~10.5$) THX!!

For sign up your team pls come on the irc channel #operation and write to administrators ( sMeat, BASE, nixon)

Streams:

elder,

BASE
Links: irc channel #Operation at quakenet

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fearZZz / behind the scenes (20 comments)

( Movie: Gaming)

Posted by h8m3 @ 06:35 CST, 14 November 2014 - iMsg




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Short quakelive tdm random/funny moments movie created by

wntt starring

fearzzz.

Movie File - Youtube () 0MB
- youtube (634 clicks)

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'SAY NO TO ZTN' Duel Tourney *UPDATED* (50 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 19:30 CST, 13 November 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 23 November 2014 to 09:20 CST, 23 November 2014
Schedule: Passed

As the recent QLReddit 2v2 tournament we had was a great success, we are organising another duel tourney. The tourney is open to anyone. 1st Place Prize: A copy of Reflex.

Anyone is welcome to stream the games (especially participants!), so long as the players don't mind and you let an admin know.

If anyone would like to help, in any way, then contact CrazyAl in #qlreddit.

Schedule

Rules

Maps & Picking

Results

Stream:

QLReddit
Admins: CrazyAl, 7ep3s
Links:

#qlreddit, Sign up, VOD

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Reflex Duel Cup #1 - NA *UPDATE* (41 comments)

( Major News: Reflex)

Posted by WTFProoF?! @ 16:56 CST, 13 November 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 15:00 CST, 22 November 2014 to 21:00 CST, 22 November 2014
Schedule: Passed

Since yesterdays KotH event was scheduled at a bad time for

NA players, I decided to host a duel cup as a compensation for it. So here we have the very first duel tournament for Reflex!

Quick Facts

Have fun and good luck to everybody playing!

UPDATE

As I already stated in one of the comments below this post, unfortunately I will have to slightly change the mappool as some of the maps are not suited for use in a competition. The maps that will be removed from the mappool are:

- FjoRXtourney1: It causes server and client crashes.
- neon: It is not suited for 1on1 gameplay, as it is very open and not very balanced as a whole.

These two maps will be replaced by:

- highrise-a3
- thcdm1-velocity

xero fixed the clipping issues on xdm1 so that one will stay in the pool. I am sorry for having to change the mappool this late into the sign-up phase but I believe that it is better to change the mappool than playing on unbalanced or even not working maps.

Links:

Buy Reflex,

#reflex.cup, Sign Up

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Rookie Classic Cup 16th Nov (4 comments)

( News: Q1)

Posted by leopold @ 12:10 CST, 10 November 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 16 November 2014 to 14:30 CST, 16 November 2014
Schedule: Passed

Merciless Ake_Vader is back with another Rookie Cup!

On Sunday 16th November there will be a rookie classic cup for interested beginner players. It's basically a one night duel cup on this upcoming Sunday, starting at 12:00 CST with check-in half an hour prior to start.

Links: Original Announcement, Get QuakeWorld, Spec it, Find cohorts

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Showmatch k1llsen vs ash (293 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 06:39 CST, 10 November 2014 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 20:00 CST, 16 November 2014 to 20:30 CST, 16 November 2014
Schedule: Passed

German master of rail (and all other weapons)

Marcel "k1llsen" Paul returns to competitive quake (for some time). He signed up to the current Nov-Dec 2014 duel league season, and plus he will play show-match this Sunday versus Russian player from Ekaterinburg

Vitaly "ash" Fedorov of 102 team.

Infos

Results

VODs & demos

Streams:

ZCasts ,

102,

fazz ,

elder,

sTPHn
Links: 125 FPS, Fixture

Edited by Nico_QD at 09:01 CST, 19 November 2014 - 146849 Hits

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Site summary for week ending 07 Nov (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 9 November 2014 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

Edited by Teen Queen at 03:35 CST, 10 November 2014 - 2545 Hits

CPMA - Starless (54 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by santile @ 11:12 CST, 9 November 2014 - iMsg




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It is my official submission for the The Creative Minds Editing Competition hosted by Style-Productions.

It's a 3 minute long CPMA movie featuring

santile. Hope you enjoy it!

Song: King Crimson - Starless

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- Maverick Servers (37 clicks)
Movie File - 720p (100FPS) 193MB
- Maverick Servers (172 clicks)

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