We thank you all for your continuing support, and thank you for your belief and confidence in us!

At present, it is expected that the event will take place in 2014. We haven't set an official date up yet, but we are aiming for the mid-to-late summer, starting around August or September of 2014.

We have been scouring high and low for players of both renown and skill for the 1v1 portion of the event, with particular interest in old-school members of the UT2004 community.

So far, the following players have shown their interest in once more gracing UT2004 again: Alcachofo, CombatCarl, devilmc, Falcon, H&nni, Hypno, Lovey, mrz, pmcc, Po1son, primus, ricot, th0r, TuVoK, Varagh and ViRtU. These players will join a division named "Division Zero". More details in the new future.

Also worth mentioning - the showmatch between Falcon and Hypno - that was postponed due to unavoidable personal issues on Hypno's part, will take place some time in the beginning of the new year.
Our warmest and best regards go out to Gaspar at this time, and we'll keep you informed on the exact details for when the rescheduled showmatch will take place.

Due to a large degree of queries and questions, we at cluex.org were urged to further explain in greater detail how the cup will work.

This tournament 10 years of UT2004, is open to the any and all players, so everyone can sign up and participate. The invitation part of tournament only affects division Zero - and nothing else.
We're planning to have around four (4) divisions in total, and an additional one (see below), to balance the skill and competition level. Furthermore, each division will have it's own prize pool taken from the overall amount of, at present, $2100.
In regards to the US players competing in div0, we are currently working towards a special system which would allow them to have a piece of the action and not suffer with high ping and lag; This would include: 1) Creating a special division just for NA players complete with the already planned division-based prize pool. 2) All matches in the US division would be played on US servers with newnet enabled. So stay tuned in regards to this if you're from North America and are thinking of participating!

- ($100 USD) Best Comeback
- ($200 USD) Best Match
- ($100 USD) Best Unexpected Performance
- ($100 USD) Best Frag

The top 2 teams, STX Soul and Woongjin Stars have been disbanded with it's players finding new homes among other KeSPA and ESF teams. The most notable names that won't participate in the next Proleague are ex STX Innovation (now Acer) and Dear (now Mousesports), KHAN's JangBi (retired), T1's Bisu (retired) and EG's Jaedong as EG-TL have decided to not compete. The 3 teams that dropped out have been replaced by Incredible Miracle, Prime and Team MVP. Samsung KHAN has been renamed to Samsung Galaxy KHAN and KeSPA Team 8 finally found a sponsor and is now called Jin Air Greenwings.

Format has also been changed. This season will have four rounds and each round will be played in round robin BO5 Proleague format. Each round will also have it's own playoffs where top four teams will fight for the title of round winner. The round winner gets 40 extra points and USD ~$15,000 while the second best team gets awarder with 10 extra points and USD ~$5,000. The round playoffs will be in BO7 all-kill format. Top 4 teams in regular part of the season will qualify for post-season playoffs which will be played as best BO3 of BO7 matches with the formats alternating between Proleague, all-kill and Proleague again. Playoffs format has changed to single elimination bracket with the #1 team playing vs #4, and #2 vs #3. The grand finals are played as a single BO7 match. The winners are awarded with USD ~$50,000 while runner-up gets USD ~$20,000.

There's a new caster lineup as well, SuperNovaManiac and Whiplash duo got replaced by Wolf and Brendan Valdes. You will be able to watch the streams on Naver, Twitch.TV and YouTUBE.

* Sponsor: SK Telecom
* Teams: SK Telecom T1, KT Rolster, CJ Entus, Jin Air Green Wings, Incredible Miracle, Prime, Team MVP, Samsung Galaxy Khan
* Casters: Wolf Schröder and Brendan Valdes
* Streams: Naver, Twitch.TV, YouTUBE
* Game days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday from 05:00 CDT
* Point distribution: 1st: 81 / 2nd: 71 / 3rd: 61 / 4th: 51 / 5th: 45 / 6th: 40 / 7th: 35 / 8th: 30
* Map pool: Bel'Shir Vestige, Frost, Outboxer, Sejong Science Base, Star Station, Yeonsu
* Round format: round robin, BO5 Proleague
* Round playoff format: BO7 all-kill
* Season playoff format: single elimination, best BO3 of BO5, alternating between Proleague, all-kill and Proleague format (game 1: Proleague, game 2: all-kill, tiebreaker: Proleague)
* Grand finals format: single match, BO7 Proleague
* Prizes per round: USD ~$15,000 for round winner, USD ~$5,000 for round runner-up
* Prize for grand finals: USD ~$50,000 for Proleague winner, USD ~$20,000 for Proleague runner-up
* Individual prizes: USD ~$5,000 to player with most wins, USD ~$3,000 to finals MVP, USD ~$2,000 to rookie of the year, USD ~$1,000 to head coach of the year

* Sunday, December 29th (05:00 CDT): SKT T1 vs MVP followed by IM vs Prime
* Monday, December 30th (05:00 CDT): Samsung Galaxy KHAN vs Jin Air Greenwings followed by KT Rolster vs CJ Entus
* Tuesday, December 31st (05:00 CDT): MVP vs IM followed by SKT T1 vs Prime

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Map 1 - Vertical Vengeance
Map 2 - Dismemberment
Map 3 - Campgrounds

First Prize - 20 Points
Second Prize - 10 Points
Third Prize - 5 Points

Maps are played in order as previous rules state

Phyrigian [ 20 ]
Danny [ 10 ]
Disruption [ 5 ]

Spekyr
Amalik
Diabz
50chickens

Please see any of us with any server spawning issue or tournament disputes.

1. You must ALWAYS use SpawnKill servers ( Own spawned servers or public servers SHALL NOT be used )
2. You must ALWAYS use SpawnKill servers ( Own spawned servers or public servers SHALL NOT be used )
3. Grand Final will be a BEST OF 5, with Upper Bracket Winner awarded that last two choice of map of any selection.

The Final Statement by ClanBase

Dear everyone,

ClanBase is no more, we are sorry.

For those unfamiliar with the name: ClanBase once was a cool site to visit if you were an online gamer. With cups and ladders hosted for games such as the Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike and Call of Duty series, a teenager really had quite some options for multiplayer entertainment. Heck, we even had LAN finals for our renowned EuroCups.

Those days are far behind us and as it stands today, the company that owns the ClanBase site - GGL - is unable to cover the costs required to run the website. Moreover, lately the owners of the site do not wish to cooperate with the voluntary crew, keeping everybody in the dark and thus showing complete disrespect to people who spend many hours a day trying to make our tournaments a success.

The website has now been offline for more than three weeks due to an unpaid bill. No action is being taken by the owner to get the website back online. Having no vision for the future, we - the ClanBase Crew - have lost our last hopes about ClanBase ever coming back online, and unfortunately we announce the end of a great era.
The history and the truth as the ClanBase Crew sees it

A US-based company called Global Gaming League (Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc.) noticed the success of the site and bought it from the original owners in December of 2004. They had financial backing for server hosting and our tournaments. Things were going well until in 2007 CB suffered its first heart attack when GGL couldn’t deliver the prize money they put up for the EuroCup. This can be marked as the start of our downfall.

The CB Crew has always been made up of volunteers with the majority being just teenagers. There was no possibility for us to come up with the money on our own that was promised, yet we were always the ones getting blamed. After all, it was our cup season and our name. It is no surprise that after this blow there was no way for us to host another season with the promise of any kind of prize until the debt was settled with the previous winners.

To this day, GGL owes around €24,000 in prize money which will never be settled. The other sites who were in the same gaming business of course had no problems hosting their tournaments however they wanted. ClanBase, however, lost a great deal of its reputation along with some top teams who never got their winnings.

As time went by the site also started to decay. After the takeover we had paid developers who tried to put the code in shape. There were some noteworthy developments such as the seasonal and invitational ladders, but after the first test run we couldn’t get the necessary changes implemented - because GGL stopped paying the developers.

Money. The source of all evil.

GGL started moving the servers between hosts (RackSpace, Amazon, GreenQloud) to save costs, and to avoid further missed payments. This appeared in the news a few times when providers came out with how they were lied to. We also lost the ability to upload files anything other than demos. Fortunately, a Crew member had the means to help out.

Funding continued to dry up. After the first wave of cuts where we lost the two developers and a head admin, things cooled down for a while. Recently, a general system administrator was cut off which got interesting at one point when CB suffered a denial of service attack to which the host (GreenQloud) responded with moving the servers to a different IP address. However, the domain name had to be updated as well to point to the new address. Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while.

So how do we get money? The site had ads for a while which obviously was not enough. We may have been naive thinking that upping the quality of the site would be a good move, which was promised more times we bother to count. GGL thought otherwise. In fact, many of the cool features our gamers would have loved to see on the website were never implemented - because “CBv2” was supposedly just around the corner.

Their first bold move was trying to get adult banners on CB - a website that was home for thousands of teenagers. The Crew was shocked and appalled by this. Fortunately, we managed to get our voice through (by threatening to go on strike) - but we also lost several valuable crew members who had enough of the poor conditions and bad decision making.

Next to adult material, gambling can also be a good source of income. The Poker and Betting ladders were introduced. It is doubtful that much money was ever made of this, at least nobody said otherwise. The only thing certain is that these projects never got off the ground.

A poor attempt was also made to gather money in the form of offering VIP membership. Nobody took this very seriously and as expected, nobody bothered to opt in after a while. The only benefit to having VIP was the ability to get rid of some of the ads. Perhaps a regular donation system would’ve been more useful.

By the end of August 2013, yet another problem surfaced: the money ran out for the hosting. This is when CB started to go down every month when the time came to pay for the next 30 days.

Of course we tried contacting GGL through our manager who was in charge of handling communications. As you may have guessed by now, he also failed to receive his payment for a while and a company owing money to you, and who knows how many others, is not in a hurry to get back to you.

The ClanBase management tried to directly contact the GGL founder and president Ted Owen (since everyone else left), with very little success. Whenever we got a response it usually consisted of no more than a few words.

The last we heard from him, he stated that “GGL will move on without ClanBase, and besides, why did the Crew never put any money in it?”

Mr. Owen, the Crew put time in it. A lot of time... for free. Every day. And to clarify, nobody has ever reached out to us to ask for any kind of financial aid. Not that we would’ve ever agreed to anything if the money had to go through GGL as that would’ve resulted in the money never reaching its intended destination.

Ultimately, we understand that our users would have expected us to come out with the truth sooner. It has taken us three weeks to make a public statement - but the only reason it took so long is that we were trying to not lose the hope and to reach out to mr. Owen. Unfortunately, our last request (or offer) to him - to release the ClanBase site to the crew for us to be able to continue running it on our own, without the GGL - was not welcomed.

It is thus our sad duty to inform you that ClanBase is gone. We would like to sincerely thank over a thousand admins working on the website over the past 15 years of ClanBase’s existence. And an even bigger thanks goes out to all the players who supported us over the years and who did not lose faith no matter what.

This writing has not come easily because ClanBase has been a big part of our lives, and we definitely did not want to see it end like this.
Thank you,
ClanBase

Gametype: 4v4 CA
Format: Single elimination Bo3
Maximum teams: 16 (additional teams can sub if some teams are missing at check-in)
Start: Saturday 11 January 2014 at 14:00 cet
Check-in: Saturday 11 January 2014 at 13:00 cet - How to check-in
Requirements: 4 Premium or 1 Pro accounts per team
Admin(s): PerpetualWar
Rules: Click here
Signup: Click here
IRC: #esh.ql

Saturday 11 January 2014:
Round 1 - 14:00 cet
Quarterfinals - 15:30 cet
Semifinals - 17:00 cet
Finals - 18:30 cet

There are few things new players should make sure to remember when applying for ESH cups:
1. All players should double check if their PlayerId/GUID is entered for Quake Live (which is your QL nick in-game) under the Edit profile>PlayerIds.
2. Clan leaders, after creating clan, must create squad and add players from clan to that particular squad.

Failure to follow any of these instructions will result in your team not being able to join the tournament.
If help is needed contact admin(s) on #esh.ql @ quakenet.

Schedule: 22/12/2013, 15:00 CDT
Map pool: DM2, DM4, DM6, AEROWALK and ZTNDM3
Format: Bo5
Tournament system: DuelMania uses a Double Elimination system
Casters: andeh & bps, possibly guest caster.

WinnerBracket finals, LocKtar vs Locust
LoserBracket finals, LocKtar vs Maga

Demos demos.quakeworld.nu

Duelmania GRAND FINALS, LocKtar vs Locust.

Spread the word! Make sure your friends tune in on Sunday 21:00 CET. Let's try to make this the biggest duelfinals that we have seen in recent years! Tell your friends on Facebook and Twitter, or write about it on ESR or Reddit!

To get to the finals, both LocKtar and Locust have been through a series of tough opponents. Locust being in the upper part of the bracket means he didn't have to kill off just as many players as LocKtar did, but we still saw him beat Kingpin 2-0 and throw LocKtar into the boser's bracket with a 3-1 score.

On LocKtar's side of things, he cleansweeped BuLaT with a 2-0 score and then had to defeat Maga in the loser bracket finals in a 3-0 game.

Silent Night:
Not breaking with a five year tradition, the terrain-based CTF arena Silent Night is back. Otherwise known as Distant Screams, Silent Night is a fast-paced map taking place in a nameless tundra. Bases are peppered with jetpack style Flight powerup, along with the self-damage reducing Scout rune. Combine the two, and a bit of skill, and you're able to achieve breakneck speed.

Winter's Edge:
Making a return appearance as our annual Holiday Arena in a new and shiny state, Winter's Edge. A port of Quake II's The Edge. Winter's Edge will be to available for a limited time in the standard map pool, and in on our Holiday Servers in both FreezeTag and InstaFreeze variations.

- Restored Attack & Defend flag drops when carriers are fragged.
- Fixed Self Splash Damage applying an incorrect amount of damage.
- Fixed some ruleset issues that were overriding Start a Match settings.
- Fixed missing Sudden Death VO in Round Based games about to end due to timelimit.
- Raised com_maxfps max from 125 to 250, default remains at 125.
- New link to Friends List overlay in the in-game menu, to access friends, chats, invites, and Join Match URL.
- Disallow callvote clientkicking bots from Infected matches, to protect the Mastermind.
- Fixed hit registration on the cg_weaponConfig clear button in in-game Options menu.
- Updated UI to have options for r_lodBias -2, and -1.
- Made r_lodBias CVAR_LIMITED with a range of -2 to 2, keeping the default at 0.
- Remove atmospheric effects option from the Ingame Menu.
- Deprecated screenshotSocial
- Added cvarAdd and cvarMulti to allow modifying cvars by a specific value (eg cvarAdd cg_fov 5 to add 5 to your FOV on every keypress)

Windsong Keep
- Fixed the texturing on three archways.
- Fixed clipping above two archways that were being abused.
- Added an intermission camera.

Will I have to re-download the game?
For players who already have QUAKE LIVE installed, the transition will be quick. You will download and install a small launcher, and it will update your existing installation files.

Will this affect the subscription service?
No changes to the subscription model are being made at this time.

What will happen to player profiles and match stats?
Player profiles, match stats, clan rosters, and other commonly accessed pages have all been integrated into the standalone client and can be accessed directly in-game without the need of a web-browser. Only the official forum and external links will open in your default web-browser.

Will I keep my player stats?
Yes, player stats will transition along with the standalone version of the game.

Will it still be possible to play through the website?
No, while many of the website functions will remain, the standalone client will replace browser-based play.

What will happen to the website? (www.quakelive.com)
Certain functions will remain available on the website even after the update is released. Players will be able to manage certain account settings, view profiles, manage clans, and even launch Pro matches from any web browser. NOTE: Managing and chatting with friends, viewing the match browser, and joining games will require the game to be open.

When playing in windowed mode, how do I see my friends list?
While in-game, whether you are playing fullscreen or in windowed mode, if you press 'Esc' to access the in-game menu you will find a new 'Friends List' option located on the lower nav, located between 'Leave Match' and "Return to Match'. The new Friends List overlay will allow you to access your friends list, QL Chat, view and issue match invites, as well as obtain a Join Match URL to share with friends so that they may join you in the arena.

Where can I find a list of known issues, or report issues I may experience?
We are currently posting known issues for the QUAKE LIVE installer, launcher, and standalone client in the Standalone Known Issues thread.

Will third-party standalone clients remain compatible?
No, unsupported third-party standalone clients, such as prism-based portal web-browsers, are still dependent on the old plug-in format and will no longer be compatible.

Will there be Mac/Linux support?
We will be unable to support Mac and Linux clients with this transition. While we have reports from our testers that the game works through emulation or virtualization software, we are unable to support native Mac and Linux versions. If you’re using Mac and Linux and have a paid subscription, you will only be able to access the game using emulation or virtualization software.

What if I am a current subscriber and I do not meet the operating system requirements?
Please contact Customer Support, via the Support Link or email support@quakelive.com.

Wednesday @ 15:00 CDT - CA Nationscup
Thursday @ 15:00 CDT - iCTF Nationscup
Sunday @ 14:30 CDT - TDM Nationscup
Sunday @ 15:45 CDT - CTF Nationscup

Courtyard
IronWorks
Japanese Castles
Spider Crossings
Siberia
Shining Forces
Infinity

Map 1 - Blood Run
Map 2 - Furious Heights
Map 3 - Lost World

First Prize - 20 Points
Second Prize - 10 Points
Third Prize - 5 Points

Maps are played in order as previous rules state

Phyrigian [ 20 ]
Danny [ 10 ]
Disruption [ 5 ]

Spekyr
Amalik
Diabz
50chickens

Please see any of us with any server spawning issue or tournament disputes.

Date and time: 17:30 CET, 19th December
Signups&checkin: starts at 17:00 CET in #cpmduel channel
Rules:Challenge Promode 1.48, Double elimination, one map per round, maps are decided by coin-toss (callvote random 2 -> winner picks a map).
Maplist: pukka3tourney2, cpm3a, cpm22
Admins: neverGreen and memphis