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DreamHack Winter 2012 - Day 2 (525 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 15:58 CST, 22 November 2012 - iMsg

Scheduled: 05:00 CST, 23 November 2012 to 14:00 CST, 23 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

The second day of DreamHack Winter 2012 is starting tomorrow, 07:00 CDT 23 November 2012, with the playoffs. All the Quarter- and Semi finals will be played one by one.

More information can be found in the ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post. There's also a tournament website with the groups and brackets.

Playoffs schedule

Live Scores

Update: The VODs from day 1 are up! Gallery by

nicerdicer from day 1.

IRC:

#DreamHack.Quake,

#leveluptv
Official Links: ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post, Tournament website
Streams: DreamhackQL, DreamHackQL (Russian), DreamHackQL (No cast)
Fixtures: Grand Final

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Dreamhack Winter 2012 - Day 1 (271 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 03:08 CST, 22 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: DHW'12

DreamHack Winter 2012 is starting today at 05:00 CST, 22 November 2012 with the group stage of the duel tournament.

More information can be found in the ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post. There's also a tournament website with the groups and brackets.

Updates: Unfortunately

matr0x dropped out last minute and was replaced by

DRz.bat4dead.

DRz.L33gend also dropped out, he was replaced by

ninzie

Group Stage Schedule

Live Scores

IRC:

#DreamHack.Quake,

#leveluptv
Official Links: ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post, Tournament website
Streams: DreamhackQL, DreamHackQL (Russian), DreamHackQL (No cast)

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HoQ TDM Divisions Released (23 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Williebobc @ 10:37 CST, 21 November 2012 - iMsg

Dear guys and gals! The current 4v4 Team Deathmatch league divisions have been published here and the games are scheduled to start at 14:00 CST, 29 November 2012 with a massive 46 teams participating.

Please take your time to read the rules and prepare yourselves for a fun and exciting season! Admins for this season will be williebobc (me), Drayan and frs. Should anyone require assistance or additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us in

#HoQLeagues

We will try to cover as many games as possible on our stream @ HoQtv and also will gladly assist any other streamer(s) to cover as many games as we can, if you would like to cover some games please can you contact me/drayan as soon as possible!

Additional notice for streamers

Streams: HoQ on own3d.tv, HoQ on twitch.tv, LvL^

Links: HoQ, Live.QL,

HouseofQuake,

@HouseofQuake,

HoQLeagues,

#HoQLeagues

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Nexuiz : Duel goes free, UGLY mode & ESL (56 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by therogue @ 09:44 CST, 21 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: Nexuiz €4000 + FFA

Nexuiz, the other fast-paced deathmatch game of 2012, released a big update yesterday which among other things included two big improvements for competitive play: the Duel mode DLC has been made free, and a new UGLY mode to give you picmip style performance over shiny graphics.

Also in yesterday's update: added support for up to 32 players, three new levels and STUPID mode for benchmarking with DX 11 and uncompressed textures.

The ESL have partnered with Illfonic, the small studio behind the game, to host a series of prize winning cups and help them gather more feedback on how to make the game better. They have been working hard on improving the game since it's release in May. More details will be announced soon.

Their aim is to bring deathmatch back into the spotlight, with a fast, fun and visually attractive game built on the latest CryENGINE 3.

Improvements since release

A demo is now available on Steam, giving you the full game for 30 minutes a day.

Links: Nexuiz, Steam, ESL

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MAME Player won Donkey Kong Tournament (16 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by Badb0y @ 08:19 CST, 21 November 2012 - iMsg

On the weekend a Classic Arcade Tournament with Donkey Kong was held in Denver. DK is a simple looking game but hard to master. An average beginner overlives one minute on the first screen. The game has four different screens (barrel, pie, elevator, rivet) and that was a sensation at the release in 1982. What the game makes so hard is to control barrels (barrel controling with randomness) and avoid the unpredictable flame patterns.

Since the movie documentary 'King of Kong' (wiki, imdb, movie on youtube) from 2007 was released the game got a new attraction. Since then the gamestyle has changed because it was discovered that the game has a kill screen aka end screen (youtube) and new players started playing because of the popular movie. The goal is to hit a new worldrecord. For a new highscore a good strategy is needed, and luck. DK Experts believe a score between 1,2 - 1,4 million points is possible. To do a perfect DK game the kill screen must be seen. This happens at the start of Level 22. Normaly the points of this kind of game are between 900.000 and 1 million and the game length is around 2,5 hours.

These new DK players that started about three years ago, are PC MAME players using mostly keyboard. The winner of the Kong Off 2 Tournament is Jeff Willms, coming directly from MAME. According to donkeykongblog, Willms never played before on a arcade machine and could adapt to the arcade controls. The worldrecord highscore wasnt touched this time, but the tournament got many kill screens so that alone is history.

Sidenote: If you wanna found out about the "first progamers" check out another documentary called 'Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade' on youtube. It didnt end well.

Links: Kong Off 2 Coverage, VOD's (kongoff, kongoff1, kongoff2)

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Excello.net looking for Active Admins (3 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by ShadyVoltaire @ 18:13 CST, 20 November 2012 - iMsg

If anyone is not familiar with Excello, they are a fairly oldschool gaming organisation. Think of a a successful 2000s team or player in Quake3/4/Live, SC:BW, FIFA or any other popular eSports title, and rest assured you could be thinking of players winning tournaments under an xlo^ tag.

What many people are unaware of at the moment, is that Excello is also giving back to the roots of the community in the form of a ladder/matchmaking system. Anybody from any game can register on the Execello webiste, and create a tournament with the versatile admin tools.

Not only that, but at the moment, Excello is in a partnership with ZOWIE GEAR to give exciting prizes and increase competition in popular e-sports titles. You might recall this Saturday's ZOWIE Quake Live tournament (which will become a regular series after DreamHack), well this is where you come in: Excello is looking for pro-active and talented individuals for administration purposes.

Official Excello.net statement

Useful Links:

Official Excello Press Release

Official Excello Facebook Page

@Excello

#excello.net

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Level Up TV: EuroCup Weekly Episode 4 (26 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Wintastic @ 09:05 CST, 20 November 2012 - iMsg

Tonight we will demo-stream the last EuroCup group match between

deliberate murder and

aCtion Ligan, which will be followed up by another episode of the EuroCup Weekly show, where we talk about the recent matches and the upcoming playoffs.

Going live with

Disrepute and

vor at 13:00 CST, 20 November 2012.

Stream:

LevelUpTV
Links:

LevelUpTV,

@LevelUpTV,

LevelUpTV, levelupyourgame.net

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Pilot Talk E00 with ShadyAK & ESDF (55 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by esdf @ 06:50 CST, 20 November 2012 - iMsg

Pilot podcast orientated for Deathmatch/Arena-based FPS players touching on in-depth competitive FPS issues. A quick glance into Quake as a competitive title by two Veterans (?), with emphasis on telling it how it really is!

Summary

The show

Special thanks to GeeRecordsOfficial for the intro song! Very talented and creative music producer! Don't be afraid to message her despite the million+ video views, she's always fast and friendly with responses! You can find her channel by following this link.

Links: Download (mp3), NoProblemTV,

NoProblemTV,

Gee Records,

esdf,

ShadyAK

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CyAC QL Sunday Cup Pro Duel #9 (3 comments)

( News: QL)

Posted by sonny21290 @ 12:47 CST, 19 November 2012 - iMsg

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CyAC is pleased to announce the 9th installment of Quake Live Sunday Duel Cup for players from

India,

Singapore,

UAE,

Japan ,

Korea and

Australia!

This cup would be held on Sunday 25th November, 2012 @ 06:00 CDT. Use Mibbit Webchat CyAC Channel to get in touch with your opponent! Go ahead & sign up!

Finals @ 10:00 CST, 25 November 2012 -- LIVE BROADCAST @ cyac.jp/tv

Map Pool

Details

Links: Summary and Participants, Sign Up, Rules

P.S.: There's also an Amateur Cup with same date & time. Find it here

Attached Misc File: 91667-91642-Quake%20Live%20Sunday%20Cup%20ban.png (22 Nov 2012, 89KB, 52 downloads)

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Daily Cups Update (21 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Memento_Mori @ 07:11 CST, 19 November 2012 - iMsg

In order to better understand the demand and being able to provide the best settings for the cups, we are going to test a new format for the Quake Live Daily Cups. In a nutshell, we increased the rank-caps to levels 4, 6, 8 and 10, and removed the free-account map pool from the lowest level. More details below.

Details

During this week, we will monitor the participation and gather further feedback. If you have suggestions for the format, or any other related idea, feel free to post.

Links: FACEIT,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEITcom,

Strenx

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Site summary for week ending 16 Nov (4 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 18 November 2012 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

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Upcoming week competitive QL(19-25 Nov) (27 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Teen Queen @ 11:34 CST, 18 November 2012 - iMsg

Quake Live players can boast at previous weeks achievements with a whooping 40+ matches going on, several duel cups with prize pools, a total of ~$1500 in cash prizes and some hardware from zowie and lots of team based gametype action. This week won't lag far behind - tune in the streams, sign up for duel cups and play more quake.

Monday (2 DUEL, 1 CTF, 1 iCTF)

Tuesday (2 DUEL, 1 iCTF)

Wednesday (2 DUEL, 1 iCTF)

Thursday (4 TDM, 2 DUEL, 1 LAN )

Friday (1 DUEL, 1 LAN)

Saturday (1 LAN)

Sunday (2 DUEL, 1 TDM)

Previous weeks

Star Symbol explanation

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ASUS NQL #4 Finals (4 comments)

( News: ESR)

Posted by inz^ @ 12:12 CST, 17 November 2012 - iMsg

The fourth installment of NQL is taking place in

Brno, Czech Republic on the 10th of December, where 4 of the best Czech players will battle it out for €1500 in prizes provided by ASUS ROG.

Semi-Finals will be held at the Hitpoint studio in

Svitavy.

Schedule

Qualified players

Format

Online Qualifiers

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Links:

ASUS ROG CZ,

Group Draw, Groups, Hitpoint.cz
Stream:

Hitpoint

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FACEIT QL Sunday Cup #8 (105 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by roychez @ 05:00 CST, 16 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

Scheduled: 08:00 CST, 18 November 2012 to 12:00 CST, 18 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

The final big test before DreamHack Winter will be the FACEIT Sunday Cup #8. In last week's edition, Av3k dethroned evil, who had been beating Spart1e in the grand final for several weeks.

Kicking off this Sunday at 09:00 CDT, and check-ins opening at 08:00 CDT, this should prove a real test for all contestants. Sign-ups are currently already open. The map pool will this week again be the same to that of DreamHack Winter.

The stream will be hosted by

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia and

Xavier "Zoot" Dhorne. It will kick off at 09:30 CDT.

Map Pool

Rules

Final Standings

Note: If you are having problems logging in, go to FACEIT.com, log in (right top) and then click the link in the post.

Stream:

FACEIT TV
Links: FACEIT, Bracket //

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEITcom

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DHW: Quake Live Groups! (141 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 16:34 CST, 15 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: DHW'12

After the show tonight with The GD Studio hosted by

2GD and

Trance we now have the groups for the DreamHack Kingston HyperX Quake Live Tournament.

Unfortunately

STING dropped out last minute and we haven't been able to replace him yet. If you want to play contact either blazeh or slayzah in

#DreamHack.Quake or send a mail to esport@dreamhack.se.

Also since STING dropped out we remade the seeds slightly.

empish was moved to mid seed and the player missing is down in low seed.

Player list

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

So, as usual, please leave your thoughts on the groups below! Is there a group of death? Is any group more interesting then another?

Update: Last spot has been filled by

Snapphanen.
Update 2:

matr0x unfortunately dropped out of the tournament. He will be replaced by

DRz.bat4dead.

Links: DreamHack.se
Betting: Overall Winner, Groupmatches

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