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Site summary for week ending 17 Jan (10 comments)

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Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 19 January 2014 - iMsg

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Generic Quake 2 Theory Guide (5 comments)

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Posted by Myrmidon @ 12:02 CST, 19 January 2014 - iMsg

I recently wrote a guide aimed specifically at Quake 2. The guide is different from your typical run of the mill Quake guide, so I thought people may be interested in reading it.

It is generic in many ways, as it does not specifically tell you what to do, but focuses more on adapting your mindset to look at Quake, and duel in particular, from different angles. I feel this can benefit more than just Quake 2 players.

You may find my guide here: http://q2guide.com/

There is also a downloadable PDF version at the top of the web page if you prefer that.

Myrmidon

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FACEIT - Weekly Cups Community Requests (47 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by easytarget @ 12:02 CST, 19 January 2014 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

Well the time has now come, after hearing all the feedback from the FACEIT Feedback 2014 posts to unveil our new weekly cups format. We have heard what you have contributed, and this is what we have come up with. We appreciate all the feedback and please feel free to imsg me personally if you have any other ideas that we might be able to implement.

Please read more

We have scaled down the number of cups for EU on a daily basis due to most players requesting that they would like to see less cups. We have increased the Faceit Points on all the Cups as requested by the players,and have have now exceeded what we have given out in the past on a daily basis. We have tried to make everything as even as possible in NA and EU in regards to the ladder system we have set up. As it stands now we have been running monthly map pools for all the cups and have heard no negative feedback in this regard so we have decided to continue this initiative for now. With only two lower tiered cups per day hopefully we will see an increase in the number of players playing in one cup, which in turn will help to eventually fill these cups and grow our community.

The Weekends are now dedicated to hosting the Fun, Premium, and Team Cups. The Fun Cups will consist of One Map/Oldschool Cups and anything else we can think of to keep giving a fresh perspective to you the community. We have also scaled down the number of times we run Premium Cups, the main reason for this is also because the activity on these cups on a daily basis is very small. This will also give players who are supporters that have One Free Premium Token the option of playing in one of four monthly Premium Cups instead of over six a week, which for the most part have not been to active. This in turn will hopefully give us a much larger turn out to these events from both our Premium and Supporter subscribers. The Team cups are now only once a week which has been requested by the community due to the over saturation of the team cups not giving players enough time to set up a team and sign up to a significant event instead of just a bunch of smaller ones that has only two to five teams sign up. With this strategy we will hopefully be able to have at least eight to sixteen teams signed up for these 2v2 Team events.

As for the larger team cups you have all mentioned that this is something that you would like to see as a special FACEIT TV event, that would have a separate post and build up to it which would also give players a chance to form a team and prepare for the event. This is something that we unfortunately are just not prepared to take on at this point as an official event on a monthly basis, we have dedicated this time to the Seasonal Duel Points Events. We will however when time permits in the schedule continue to do select live team events. We are talking about possible alternatives so please bare with us and we will let you know in the near future.

Remember only you can help grow the fun competitive community of Faceit so let anyone you play with know about us and add them to your friends list so you can link them cup url's. If you want Faceit to grow we must all do our part in promoting, and filling the cups, the more players who play the more cups we can have the more points you will be able to win.

The new cups format and map pools listed below will take effect starting on Monday. All the cups for the whole week are now posted on the site so feel free to head on over and take a look. Remember all these points you win can be exchanged for prizes, such as Razer gear in the FACEIT Shop.

Quake Live Europe Schedule

Quake Live North America Schedule

TDM 2v2 Map pool

CA 2v2 Map pool

Duel Map pool

Stream:

FACEIT TV
Links: FACEIT.com,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEIT,

FACEITcom

Edited by Badb0y at 13:03 CST, 19 January 2014 - 15633 Hits

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plaZma joins team one.soldier (52 comments)

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Posted by takesix @ 15:09 CST, 18 January 2014 - iMsg

From Team one.soldier's Facebook page:

"We are proud to announce our increased support of Quake Live with the acquisition of Duel player plaZma. Hailing from Norway, plaZma attended Dreamhack Winter in 2013 and managed to make it into RO16 as well as picking up the community award for having the 'best unexpected performance'. Please give him a warm welcome!"

About Team one.soldier

Links:

Facebook,

Twitter,

Youtube,

Steam

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SPARTA BOMB CUP #3 (12 comments)

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Posted by Kapiter @ 12:02 CST, 18 January 2014 - iMsg

The third edition of the Warsow bomb cup organized by

Puffdar will be held 08:00 CST, 26 January 2014 (Sunday). Signups are open on the Cup page.

Since the bomb madness never stop and since people are so cool... here comes the first cup of 2014... and its bomb ! If u feel amazed make sure to form & sign your team asap ! u can train your bomb skillz & make friends @

#warsow.pickup channel & !add.

General Information & Rules

Streaming: Tastycast team @ twitch.tv
WSW TV: SpartaTV/EsportTV
Links: Signup // Cup page // Thread //

#spartacup

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Hej Or Die (15 comments)

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Posted by Hej @ 08:09 CST, 18 January 2014 - iMsg




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Rating: 1.8 (16 votes)

Experience Planetside 2 in true Hej Definition with Hej or Die, a critically acclaimed and highly anticipated frag film showcasing some of the best frags of Planetside.

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Edited by Teen Queen at 08:59 CST, 18 January 2014 - 4103 Hits

Xonotic 4v4 TDM Draft - XQC #55 (15 comments)

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Posted by adem @ 11:15 CST, 17 January 2014 - iMsg

Time to try something new... a very popular pickup gamemode! *Sarcasm* It will be a Xonotic draft cup, which means there gonna be a captain for each team and they pick players one by one. This way balanced teams should be created and bring some fun for any skilled player.

Quick facts

Stream:

102
Links: xonotic.org //

#xonotic.cup
Notable sign-ups:

ZeRoQL |

Mossepo |

Mirio |

machine |

_zrg |

SpiKe |

GATTS |

Pendulla |

Hot Dog |

Draelor |

zykure |

Finko |

mazzarini |

SilenceKiller

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FACEIT Winter Season Sunday Cup #3 (198 comments)

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Posted by roychez @ 08:14 CST, 17 January 2014 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

Scheduled: 08:00 CST, 19 January 2014 to 13:00 CST, 19 January 2014
Schedule: Passed

We are at the third cup of the FACEIT Winter Season and have had two different winners so far in

evil and

Cypher. Will this week see a different winner, or will it be a fight between these two guys?

As each Sunday, we are starting at 08:00 CST. You can already sign-up now!

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia will be bringing all the action to you on

FACEIT TV, starting live at 08:30 CST. He is accompanied by

Bruno "ins" Pereira!

The FACEIT Winter Season will be played each Sunday for the coming months, where 128 players can join and play for $125, as well as points to qualify them for the Finale.

Map Pool

Rules

Stream:

FACEIT TV
Links: Bracket, Winter Season overview,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEIT,

FACEITcom
Notable sign-ups:

Cypher,

Evil,

Agent,

Spart1e,

LeSzNy,

Ash,

guard,

Madix,

Plazma,

Pavel,

Twister,

Sev3n,

FunnyB,

Nons,

Gbmaster

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r7-blockworld2[mdf.cpm] (44 comments)

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Posted by Kapiter @ 18:13 CST, 14 January 2014 - iMsg




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CPM run of

Enter in the beautiful Primeskull Valley (05:54:616 WR).

Important Note

Music

Be sure to check MrHollyDriv3r's youtube channel for a lot more awesome defrag/freestyle videos.

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Edited by Badb0y at 09:46 CST, 16 January 2014 - 20171 Hits

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Quake Live Config Analyzer (20 comments)

( News: QL)

Posted by melba @ 16:10 CST, 13 January 2014 - iMsg

Hi,

I felt like I can contribute to the community, so I decided to make a tool to annotate and compare player configs.
It can be found on
http://melbalabs.com/quakeconfig/

I'm a newcomer to the game and this is a solution to a problem I had. Hopefully it will be useful to others too.

All feedback is welcome.

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QuakeSM: Results and Round 2 schedule (116 comments)

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Posted by Minimia @ 17:35 CST, 12 January 2014 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 15 January 2014 to 12:30 CST, 15 January 2014
Schedule: Passed

The first week of The Swedish Championship of Quake Live is over, and the results from all but two matches are in.

Most of the matches have been played without any problems, but unfortunately some players have also dropped out of the tournament, such as

Fox (due to not having time),

A1r-R41d (injury),

p1s (no time),

108 (didnt show up) and

Prockz. Some other players have also dropped out, but these are the more well known names. On the bright side, this gave us the opportunity to add in some of the players from the list of reserves, such as

Pugatti/Ulises31,

Kroy_ and

Poomer.

As a result of the drop outs some changes have also been made to try to even out the brackets out a bit. For example

zanZan has been moved from group C to group D, and

Spazb0rg has been moved from group E to D. The complete list of results may be viewed by clicking on the "Brackets and results"-link below.

As some of you might have heard already, all of the round 2 matches will be streamed this week by

Zoot and

Ins. There will be 3 matches played on each day between 11:00 CST and 15:00 CST on the ZootLive Twitch channel.

The complete schedule for the week

Stream:

Zoot
Links: Official Website, Results and brackets/Seeding

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Site summary for week ending 10 Jan (1 comment)

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Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 12 January 2014 - iMsg

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10 Quake finals that could have been (84 comments)

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Posted by Thorin @ 18:44 CST, 11 January 2014 - iMsg

This is a historical article speculating on the potential for 10 great Quake duel finals that might have been, but ultimately weren't. Despite all the great match-ups we've seen in the series' history, here's a few where a quick rewind and a different finish to a semi-final could have made things interesting in an entirely different way.

The 10 Great Finals that Could have Been

The article can be read at OnGamers.

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ASD 5 (25 comments)

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Posted by Kapiter @ 18:33 CST, 11 January 2014 - iMsg




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Rating: 7.6 (67 votes)

Fifth volume of

vysqn fragmovies starring himself.

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Edited by Kapiter at 17:36 CST, 12 January 2014 - 10650 Hits

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DeathMatch Radio's 2nd CPM 1v1 Cup (15 comments)

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Posted by Vi0Lat0Rs @ 14:09 CST, 11 January 2014 - iMsg

DeathMatch Radio is hosting another

North American CPM 1v1 Cup! DMR will be broadcasting and recording highlight matches through out the tournament through Twitch.tv. The tournament will be held on January 25th at 19:00 CST (26th January 20:00 CST for EU residents)

Format

Map pool

Please come to #DMRadio on irc.Quakenet.org for Tournament Functions. Registrations can be made at dmr1v1cpm.challonge.com/1v1cup2 Stream will be live at 19:00 CST.

Stream: DMradio.net
Links:

Facebook,

#DMradio, Sign up

Edited by Badb0y at 01:17 CST, 13 January 2014 - 10015 Hits