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QUAKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP North American Duel Qualifier #2 (45 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by son1dow @ 13:28 CDT, 7 July 2017 - iMsg

Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 9 July 2017 to 16:30 CDT, 9 July 2017
Schedule: Passed

The Quake World Championship Duel Qualifier #2 for North America will start on 18:00 CDT, 7 July 2017. The duel portion of the Championship will have $340 000 up for grabs. You can register and find more information for the Online Qualifiers at the ESL page.

The Qualifier will be played in Single Elimination format, with the players competing until the top 16 players have been identified. Starting 15:00 CDT, 9 July 2017, each Ro16 match will be played and live streamed. Each of the 8 winners advances to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals.

Tournament Settings

Map-Pool

Other mentions

General tournament structure

Schedule for the rest of the tournament

QWC prizepool breakdown

Official Stream,

Other streams,

VoDs (as they appear)

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Alliance signs a Quake Champions Team (58 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by son1dow @ 11:22 CDT, 6 July 2017 - iMsg

On July 4th,

Alliance has announced signing a Quake Champions team for Duel and Sacrifice with the lineup:

Spart1e

strenx

syndrom

Busdriverx

For those unfamiliar with the team,

Alliance is now a player-owned organization that was originally created as another brand for

Evil Geniuses owners. Statements by

Spart1e and

strenx:

“I am really happy to be a part of Alliance, and its going to be awesome to represent a Swedish organisation. I’m really looking forward to Alliance helping me to get back to the top in Quake Champions.” – Sebastian “Spart1e” Siira

“I am really happy to join Alliance, and I hope that I will perform well and succeed!. Thank you to Alliance for putting their trust in me, so that I can focus 100% on the game! " - Kevin “Strenx” Baéza

Links: Statement by Alliance

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Quake World Championship European Duel Qualifier #2 (92 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by son1dow @ 21:45 CDT, 5 July 2017 - iMsg

Scheduled: 05:00 CDT, 9 July 2017 to 09:00 CDT, 9 July 2017
Schedule: Passed

The Quake World Championship Duel Qualifier #2 for Europe will start on 11:00 CDT, 6 July 2017. The duel portion of the Championship will have $340 000 up for grabs. You can register for the Online Qualifiers at the ESL page.

The Qualifier will be played in Single Elimination format, with the players competing until the top 16 players have been identified. Starting 05:00 CDT, 9 July 2017, each Ro16 match will be played and live streamed. Each of the 8 winners advances to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals.

Tournament Settings

Map-Pool

Other mentions

General tournament structure

Schedule for the rest of the tournament

QWC prizepool breakdown

Resulting top16 matchups

Streams:

Official Stream,

Official RU,

Other streams,

VoDs (as they appear)

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125 FPS QC Duel Sunday Cup#3 (85) (40 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 06:48 CDT, 5 July 2017 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

Scheduled: 10:00 CDT, 9 July 2017 to 15:00 CDT, 9 July 2017
Schedule: Passed

The 125 FPS Quake Champions Duel Sunday Cup#3 (85)

Information

Donate: 125FPS Donate link.
Streams:

102,

Polosatiy,

zLive,

nvc; Stream's HUB
Links:125FPS Balance 2017; 125FPS Discord

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QWC Qualifiers: EU & NA Duel #1, EU Sacrifice #1 concluding (205 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by son1dow @ 20:28 CDT, 1 July 2017 - iMsg

Three Quake World Championship Qualifiers will be concluding, or starting their final stage at least, on the 2nd of July: the

European Duel Qualifier #1, the North American Duel Qualifier #1, and

European Sacrifice Qualifier #1. Once again the information from the source directly is available on the ESL page.

The Duel Qualifier #1 for both

Europe and North America will conclude with the remaining 16 players in each playing out their respective matchups. All matches will be streamed. The winners move on to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals, no further matches will be played. The losers can, of course, participate in the next three Qualifiers.

The EU Duel Qualifier #1 Ro16 matches will be starting on 05:00 CDT, 2 July 2017. The NA Duel Qualifier #1 Ro16 matches will be starting on 15:00 CDT, 2 July 2017.

The

European Sacrifice Qualifier #1 will conclude by finishing the Ro8 matches starting at 11:00 CDT, 2 July 2017. Once again, the winners move on to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals, the losers can participate in the remaining European Sacrifice Qualifier #2 on July 8-9. Ro4 matches will not be played.

Ro16 Duel matchups for EU and NA

Ro8 matchups for EU Sacrifice

Duel Tournament Settings

Duel Map-Pool

Sacrifice Tournament Settings

Sacrifice Map-Pool

Qualifier Match Schedule

General tournament structure

Schedule for the rest of the tournament

QWC prizepool breakdown

EU Duel #1 Results

EU Sacrifice #1 Team Comps and Results

Streams:

Official Stream,

Official RU,

Other streams,

VoDs (as they appear)

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Reflex Custom Ruleset Duel Tournaments (11 comments)

( Major News: Reflex)

Posted by entik @ 12:36 CDT, 1 July 2017 - iMsg

Reflex community member

Ramagan is hosting multi-region Custom Ruleset Tournaments for the NA, EU, AU, and JP communities. Players from all regions and skill levels are welcome in each tournament, but servers will favor players from the original region.

The purpose of these tournaments is to showcase the changes proposed by the "custom ruleset" (a community made ruleset, where some weapon values are tweaked and adjusted), the goal is not to divide the Reflex community but to propose these changes to the developpers once the tournaments are completed. Full detail can be found here.

Prize Pool Distribution:
: 50%
: 25%
: 18.75%
4th: 6.25%

EU Current Total: 400€ + 1 Supporter Short Sword from Jaguar
Donators: Ramagan : 10€, danfel : 10€, lolograde : 80€, hello! : 10€, beat0n : 40€, Anon : 10€, uaedude : 118€, Kyto : 12€, FlabCaptain : 25€, chortas : 10€, FrAgGy : 14€, tripats : 10€, Pakho : 10€, erad : 31€, Alva : 10€

NA Current Total: $160
Donators: uaedude : $125, erad : $35

AU Current Total: $10
Donators: Ramagan : $10

JP Current Total: $10
Donators: Ramagan : $10

You can contribute to the prizepool by donating to the following Paypal address, Please indicate in your message if it's for the NA, EU, AU, or JP tournament: guillaumeaj@yahoo.fr

Map Pool

Rules

Information & Sign-Ups

How to Play
Custom Ruleset Changelog

Links: NA Thread, EU Thread, AU Thread, JP Thread, reflexarena.com

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Quake World Championship European Sacrifice Qualifier #1 (26 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by son1dow @ 07:14 CDT, 1 July 2017 - iMsg

Quake World Championship

European Sacrifice Qualifiers #1 will be starting today. Once again, you can find information about them on the ESL page.

The

EU Sacrifice Qualifier #1 will start on 07:00 CDT, 1 July 2017, and will be played in Single Elimination format. Matches will be played until the top 8 teams have been identified. Then, on Sunday, 2nd of July - Starting 11:00 CDT, each Ro8 match will be played and live streamed. The winners advance to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals.

Sacrifice Tournament Settings

Sacrifice Map-Pool

Qualifier Match Schedule

Other mentions

General tournament structure

Schedule for the rest of the tournament

QWC prizepool breakdown

Streams:

Official Stream,

Other streams,

VoDs, (as they appear)

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QWC Qualifiers: NA Duel #1 and EU Sacrifice #1 (4 comments)

( News: QC)

Posted by son1dow @ 18:09 CDT, 30 June 2017 - iMsg

Two Quake World Championship Qualifiers will be starting in the next 24 hours, North American Duel Qualifiers #1 and

European Sacrifice Qualifiers #2. Once again, you can register for either on the ESL page.

The NA Duel Qualifier #1 will start on 19:00 CDT, 30 June 2017 and be played in Single Elimination format, with the near 400 players competing until the top 16 players have been identified. On Sunday, 2nd of July, starting 15:00 CDT, each Ro16 match will be played and live streamed. Each of the 8 winners advances to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals.

The

EU Sacrifice Qualifier #1 will start on 07:00 CDT, 1 July 2017, and will too be played in Single Elimination format. Matches will be played until the top 8 teams have been identified. Then, on Sunday, 2nd of July - Starting 11:00 CDT, each Ro8 match will be played and live streamed. The winners advance to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals.

Duel Tournament Settings

Duel Map-Pool

Sacrifice Tournament Settings

Sacrifice Map-Pool

Qualifier Match Schedule

Other mentions

General tournament structure

Schedule for the rest of the tournament

QWC prizepool breakdown

Streams:

Official Stream

Other streams

VoDs (as they appear)

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Quake World Championships North America Duel Qualifier #1 (88 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by Asuka_ @ 18:01 CDT, 30 June 2017 - iMsg

The

North America Qualifiers for the Quake World Championships start today, June 30 at 19:00 CDT. The duel portion of the Championships will have $340 000 up for grabs. You can register for the Online Qualifiers at the ESL page.

The Qualifier will be played in Single Elimination format, with the 394 and counting players competing until the top 16 players have been identified. On Sunday, 2nd of July, starting 14:00 CST, each Ro16 match will be played and live streamed. Each of the 8 winners advances to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals.

notable signups

Tournament Settings

Map pool

Schedule for the rest of the tournament

General tournament structure

Stream:

Official Stream
Links: Brackets

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Virtus.pro signs Cypher (67 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by Asuka_ @ 15:23 CDT, 29 June 2017 - iMsg

"One of the best Quake players in the world,

Alexey “Cypher” Yanushevsky, has joined Virtus.pro and will represent our organization at QuakeCon. American and European teams showed an avid interest in the Belarusian player, who eventually chose in favor of Virtus.pro, with which he has signed a year-long contract.

After putting his Quake career on a hiatus in 2015, Cypher tried playing Overwatch, but returned to his original discipline following the announcement of the Quake Champions beta, and went on to win its first online tournament.

Cypher is among the Quake players with the most titles. To date, he is the quadruple winner of QuakeCon (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014). He is also a multiple winner of ESWC, DreamHack, European Extreme Masters, and ASUS Open."

Statement from Cypher

Additional info:
Brief interview from Roman Dvoryankin, Vritus.pro general manager, about Cypher

Source: Virtus.pro,

Virtus.pro

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Virtus.pro Signs Cypher (2 comments)

( News: QC)

Posted by Sabo @ 15:23 CDT, 29 June 2017 - iMsg

Legendary Quake player and former Overwatch pro Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky was signed by Virtus.pro. After being courted by numerous organizations, the 27 year old Belarusian chose the Russian organization citing his desire to stay in Minsk.

On the one year contract, Virtus.pro General Manager Roman Dvoryankin said "The contract’s fairly long duration will allow Alexey to feel confident and immerse himself fully in the game. We have signed one of the best players in the world and are now positive that we can maintain a serious and long-term presence in this discipline."

Cypher first found success in Quake III, signing to Fnatic at age 16. He is a four-time QuakeCon champion and has won numerous titles at ESWC, Dreamhack and more. He remained active in the Quake 4 and QuakeLive scenes until taking a year-long hiatus from esports in 2014.

He is the first player to win a Quake Champions tournament, taking first over Pelle "fazz" Söderman in the 125 FPS Sunday Cup #83.

The former champion dabbled in Counter Strike: Global Offensive and found moderate success in Overwatch with fellow Quaker Shane "Rapha" Hendrixson under team ANOX.

In a recent interview at Cybersport, Cypher revealed that he doesn't practice with other pro players and shared his thought process on champion selection.

Cypher will represent Virtus.pro at QuakeCon.

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Quake World Championships European Duel Qualifier #1 (149 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by son1dow @ 08:07 CDT, 29 June 2017 - iMsg

The

European Qualifiers for the Quake World Championships start today, June 29th at 12:00 CDT. The duel portion of the Championships will have $340 000 up for grabs. You can register for the Online Qualifiers at the ESL page.

The Qualifier will be played in Single Elimination format, with the 550 and counting players competing until the top 16 players have been identified. On Sunday, 2nd of July, starting 05:00 CDT, each Ro16 match will be played and live streamed. Each of the 8 winners advances to the Quake World Championship Regional Finals.

Tournament Settings

Map-Pool

Qualifier Match Schedule

Other mentions

General tournament structure

Schedule for the rest of the tournament

QWC prizepool breakdown

Resulting top 16 matchups

Streams:

Official Stream,

Zoot,

Other streams,

VoDs

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Crazy tricks for Clutch after new patch (26 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by Polosatiy @ 03:03 CDT, 28 June 2017 - iMsg

New patch update gave a new skill to Clutch – dodge-jumping with no speed limit if you dodge forward for example. Also Clutch can get now to some areas which are not available for most of characters.

There is a movie below with tens of new crazy Cluch tricks and jumps...

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CPMA Kenya Cup 2017 (46 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by xero- @ 19:33 CDT, 27 June 2017 - iMsg

Terifire & The CPMA Community will be hosting a duel kenya cup this July 8, 2017 starting at 08:00 CDT. This will be an open event, and players from all regions are welcome to play with the caveat that players will mostly be playing on

European and

North American servers. The event will be streamed by nekon on his channel on

nekonTV.

Register: Players must join the CPMA Discord Server &

sign-up via challonge. You'll find all the rules on the challonge page as well. For players who are unfamiliar with this format a kenya cup is a tournament which uses non-standard maps. However the tournament format will be quite familiar with most players, as we will be employing a double elimination bracket, with a BO3 upper bracket, and a BO1 lower bracket.

Update: dojo-b5 has been updated, you can download it here, and the map pack has been updated to reflect this change. Regarding weapon respawn times, it is five (5) seconds on all maps.

Update II: Thanks to

Fjoggs we now have a monetary prize pool, the breakdown of which is as follows:

Prize Breakdown

Entrants must send their cut demos (you can use UDT to cut demos easily) containing the frag to fjoggis@gmail.com. Once all entrants have been uploaded to the

CPMA YouTube Channel the community will take vote on the best frag.

This event we will be using six new maps and the map pool is: calendar and Fata Morgana by

Terifire, dojo-b5 by

Scorch, fjo3tourney6-b3 by

Fjoggs, Quickfire by

greed, and Trespass by

Pat Howard. You can download the map pack here. All these maps, with the exception of Trespass, are being developed by their respect mapper and constructive feedback would be appreciated. It also provides the potential for newer players a chance to show their skills and maybe surprise veterans that have been grinding cpm22 for decades.

Tournament Poster

Edit: New map by ninemil. Will not be a part of the tournament, but check it out anyway!

Download: Complete Map Pack
Links:

CPMA Discord Server,

CPMA Offical Website

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COOLLERZ Saturday Online Cup (118 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by xou @ 08:05 CDT, 27 June 2017 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 1 July 2017 to 16:00 CDT, 1 July 2017
Schedule: Passed

This Saturday, 1st of July, will see the first COOLLERZ Saturday Online Cup organized by

coolleR for European and Russian players with $400 cash-prize.

The cup will use double brackets starting with best-of-1 matches, then with bo3 from the quarter-finals (Winners and Losers brackets). The first map of the matches will be predetermined as following:

Round 1: Blood Convenant
Round 2: Blood Run
Round 3: Corrupted Keep
Round 4: Ruins of Sarnath
Round 5: Blood Covenant
Round 6: Blood Run
etc etc.

In bo3 games, the loser of the previous map will choose the next one. The games are scheduled to begin at 12:00 CDT, and all players are encouraged to join the discord server of the series! The sign-ups are already opened on the cup page. The check-ins will start on Saturday at 10:00 CDT.

Prize distribution

200 USD
100 USD
3-4th 50 USD

Streams:

102,

polosatiy,

elder,

nvc,

zlive

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