ESR - All News

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 00:53 CDT, 17 July 2011 - iMsg

Diabzau couldn't have really said it better, Extremely unfortunate about the internet access issues we suffered through-out the LAN. There was some technical miss-communication on instances where the LAN network admins had to take preventative measures to save on quota and speed which resulted in tactics such as blocking HTTP and other services we needed.

Congratulations to Dan, Pete, Tim and Fraze for coming through in the top 4. Cash prizes have already been paid out at the event. As this was the first LAN Quakelive event in Australia hiccups were to be expected, however nobody could have anticipated the extent to which problems were going to be encountered. However, lessons have been learnt; if there is next event it will feature a dedicated internet connection and network for the LAN box + competition PCs rather then competing with a more quake-only focused environment.

We apologise for the spectating disappointment caused due to issues that were beyond our control. We took demos, videos and photos for the event linked below. We also now realise how much organisation actually has to go into one of these events and it will be reflected at the next one

Group Results

Play Offs

Standings

Links: Demos, Photos, Videos

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Affentod on E-sports journalism (42 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by xou @ 09:12 CDT, 16 July 2011 - iMsg

David "Affentod" Hiltscher currently works as the VP of Gaming Communities at Turtle Entertainment, the company behind ESL. Before that he was one of the founders of the German website readmore. At the end of May 2011, he wrote an interesting article on Fragster about the decline of the eSports journalism. The piece is spread in two part articulated around a top10 each: the reasons of a decline and new hopeful trends.

It's only today that a translation to the English language from

Philip "Nazroth" Hubner was published on ESFI World.

Of course ESReality is mentioned, as well as maybe other esports websites. Try to guess in which part of the article:

"After the success of Wikipedia, Huffington Post and the reader reporters of the BILD newspaper, a lot of eSport websites were anxious to let the readers do more and more work – not very successfully though. The number of guest articles and interesting blogs on fragster and readmore has constantly declined over the past years. The concept of ESReality also became meaningless, as the website is now mainly used as a platform for advertising by tournament organizations. Gameriot, the American blog-focused website, succeeded temporarily, but is now offline."

Links:

Original article, Translated article

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JeeSports Open QL 1v1 Cup #14 (20 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by nicerdicer @ 07:08 CDT, 16 July 2011 - iMsg

Event: JeeSports

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 16 July 2011 to 09:40 CDT, 16 July 2011
Schedule: Passed

The JeeSports Open QL 1v1 Cup #14 is taking place, as always on Saturday. The tourney will start on 16th July at 14:00 CEST, with check-in 30 minutes before - 13:30 CEST. The previous edition was claimed by

fazz who earned his 50€, with follower

evil, who get his invitation for the Invitational #3

Infos

Stream:

c58,

BW
Links: Open #14, Brackets, All VODs -

#JeeSports.QL

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Reloaded VII (81 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 20:14 CDT, 15 July 2011 - iMsg

The Reloaded VII will take place near

Adelaide at the St. Clair Recreation Centre of Woodville from the 15th to the 17th of July.

The LAN party will feature two Quakelive duel tournaments, Pro and Amateurs, run by

mick05 from 4Seasons Gaming. These will be played during one day and start on 19:30 CDT, 15 July 2011.

Groups

Schedule

Prize

Update: If anyone has results, please share!

Stream: 4SG TV (direct link)
Links: Reloaded, 4SG

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ASUS Summer 2011 Quakelive (51 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 17:29 CDT, 15 July 2011 - iMsg

The ASUS Summer 2011 will feature Quakelive once again, but this time the tournament will only be online. The main tournament will be played the 30th of July, just after 4 qualifiers. 8 players will be invited, while 2 players will get a slot from each qualifier.

Prizes

Maplist

Invitations

Qualifier infos

Links: Announcement -

#asus.ql

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Rumble Pit 7/24 (1 comment)

( News: ESR)

Posted by mastertouch @ 15:19 CDT, 15 July 2011 - iMsg

EVENT IS CANCELLED. RUMBLE PIT IS MOVING! Will be back in August

- Mastertouch

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Interviews w/ thefragpipe.com finalists (1 comment)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by OhYeah @ 10:28 CDT, 15 July 2011 - iMsg

Hello everyone,

In case you have been living under a bridge for the last few days, the date for the epic grand finale of our 10 000$ Left 4 Dead 2 Tournament is already set in stone. The two teams that have reached the grand finale are:

Router Pixies vs

Businessmen.

The match will be played on:

Sunday, 17th of July, 20.00 CEST.

The first campaign will be The Parish 1-4 and if Router Pixies lose the first game, then the deciding game will be played on Dark Carnival 1-4.

Meanwhile, please take a moment and read the interviews with both teams and see what they have to say about Left 4 Dead 2 and the competitive scene.

For the Businessmen interview, please click HERE.

For the Router Pixies interview, please click HERE.

See you on Sunday!

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #92 (9 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 06:34 CDT, 15 July 2011 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 17 July 2011 to 12:00 CDT, 17 July 2011
Schedule: Passed

The 92nd ZOTAC QL Duel Cup is taking place this Sunday 17th of July. Last week

strenx added another victory to his achievements after defeating

av3k 3 maps to 1 during the final.

Quick Facts

Links: Tournament page + Streams + Brackets,

#zotac.qlive // HoF

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JeeSports Open QL CA 2v2 Cup #1 (18 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by nicerdicer @ 12:40 CDT, 14 July 2011 - iMsg

Event: JeeSports

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 15 July 2011 to 16:30 CDT, 15 July 2011
Schedule: Passed

JeeSports is broadening its support for Quakelive by opening a Clan Arena section. To start things off we will be hosting a Clan Arena 2v2 tournament on Friday 15th of July.

JeeSports Open QL CA 2v2 Cup #1 will start at 20:00 CEST. Check-in is required and opens from 19:30 CEST. To sign up you need to have a team with at least two members.

Infos

Create your Clan

Streams: TBA
Links: Open CA 2v2 #1, Brackets, All VOD's -

#JeeSports.QL

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Reloaded VII (32 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 01:30 CDT, 14 July 2011 - iMsg

Reloaded VII Quake Live Pros Competition officially kicks off at 19:30 CDT, 15 July 2011. First official id Software supported Australian LAN tournament and we for it to be enjoyable for spectators and players. Streaming information and groups/brackets can be found below.

Update: The original announced map pool has changed with toxicity to replace campgrounds, this is because of QuakeCon/DreamHack Map pool. Also the format has changed instead of 4x4 groups it will be 2x6. Top 4 proceed to bo5 quarter finals then semi finals and so on.

Groups

Schedule

Stream: 4SG TV
Links: 4sg (

), Reloaded, Tt eSPORTS, Game Traders

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TDM Summer Cup II - New school! (74 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by kwatsch @ 14:00 CDT, 13 July 2011 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 13 July 2011 to 17:00 CDT, 13 July 2011
Schedule: Passed

Last week our first Summer Cup - Oldschool ended successfully with a victory for

Doubidouwap in Division 1 (See VOD Final) and

zap All in Division 2.

This Wednesday our second Summer Cup will take place on the new maps of Quake Live, including Tornado. Sign up now and become new school champion!

During check-ins, a first come first serve policy will be used. If you want to make sure you can participate, signing up NOW and checking in fast is necessary!

Information Summer Cup II

Maplist

Stream:

Level Up,

GoodGame
Links: Sign-up, Bracket Div1 / Div2, Announcement

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FFA Tournament #11 (6 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:28 CDT, 13 July 2011 - iMsg

Event: FFA

Scheduled: 14:15 CDT, 14 July 2011 to 16:00 CDT, 14 July 2011
Schedule: Passed

The 11th FFA tournament is starting the Thursday 14th of July at 14:15 CDT. The games will be played on the British server of

Maidenhead.

Trailer

Links: Current sign-ups, Map list, VODs -

#ffa-clan

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JeeSports Championship Series 2011 (25 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by nicerdicer @ 07:23 CDT, 13 July 2011 - iMsg

Event: JeeSports

With JeeSports Quakelive Championship Series 2011 (JSQL’11 Series) JeeSports continues reinventing itself with the objective to energise Quakelive competitive scene, involve a larger number of players and stream viewers. This Championship will be some kind of previously JeeSports Pro Invitational Cups.

JSQL’11 leverages JeeSports tournament series capabilities whereby players of a tournament automatically earn points which are used to rank them on the series. Every months JeeSports will host a number of qualifiers. Those qualifiers will contribute toward player series ranking. Once a month we will run playoffs with the top 16 players of the series with total prize of 160€. You will find all useful links below with all info, read them please.

Update: Qualifier #1 start's 19th July at 20 cest with 30 minutes checkin before

Links: JSQL'11 August Championship Calendar, JeeSports QL Championship Series 2011 -

#JeeSports.QL

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thefragpipe L4D2 cup loser bracket final (7 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by OhYeah @ 06:37 CDT, 12 July 2011 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 12 July 2011 to 15:30 CDT, 12 July 2011
Schedule: Passed

thefragpipe.com Left 4 Dead 2 Tournament is drawing closer to the end with only two matches left to be played; the loser bracket finale and the grand finale.

The tournament has been the biggest event in competitive Left 4 Dead 2 so far with 72 teams beginning in the qualifiers, 32 teams reaching the playoffs and now we are only down to the best three teams.

Router Pixies - grand finale

Businessmen - loser bracket finale

High Skill - loser bracket finale

High Skill vs Businessmen will be played tonight, on 12th of July, 21.00 CEST and the match will be streamed live with English commentary. The loser of this match will take the third place in the tournament and win $1000 while the winner will go on to the grand finale to fight for the top prize of $6000, the second place winning $3000.

Live stream will be handled by the nice guys at L4D2TV. Demos from first person and video-on-demand will also be available after the match.

See the short preview of the upcoming loser bracket final.

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ESWC and IEM drop Quakelive *update* (688 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 17:10 CDT, 11 July 2011 - iMsg

The announcement of the games selection for the

ESWC 2011 a few weeks ago and for the

IEM 6th season today on ESL-World both had something sad in common: they don't feature Quake.

In both case there is no explanation given, and another game is more or less taking over the Quake slot: Counter-Strike: Source in ESWC, and Leagues of Legends in IEM.

I tried to contact ESWC to get a statement, but I didn't receive any reply so far. On Carmac's twitter, IEM's manager, it's also hard to see any explanation on this choice.

Quakelive is now left with 3 major LAN organizations: DreamHack, QuakeCon and ASUS.

Update: I finally got a reply from the new Head of Competition of Games Solutions,

Camille Versteeg, mostly known for his work as a CS admin during several tournaments.

Statement

Links: ESWC, ESL-World

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