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Business of eSports Panel 2014 (18 comments)

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Posted by viaIImaximus @ 12:46 CST, 14 February 2016 - iMsg

When it comes to eSports this site has mainly been covering the games themselves, Quake being at the forefront. But eSports is becoming a lot more than a "game" someone is competing in, be it offline or online, at an event or tournament. Stepping back and looking at eSports you will notice there is a lot more to it and most notably it's becoming a business.

Red Bull eSports did an interesting live panel concerning the business aspect of eSports at the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies in Washington, D.C. The panel was moderated by Sean "Day[9]" Plott with special guest panelists Chris Radtke (Ziff Davis), Ben Goldhaber (

Twitch) and Rod "Slasher" Breslau (former ESReality journalist). Topics range from, where the money comes from, business models, jobs and roles in eSports, presentation of 'numbers' and many more, these just being the basics. The guests give insight with their own experiences and opinions on the subject with some general advice on business itself.

The panel is divided in 5 parts on

YouTube and is about a 100 minutes long altogether. Some interesting points being, speakers mentioning Quake as their eSport game and furthermore "Slasher" mentioning ESReality as the start of his career as a journalist.

Business of eSports Panel w/ Day 9

Part 1 - Topic: Business model
Part 2 - Topic: Where the money is coming from
Part 3 - Topic: Jobs and roles in eSports; Slasher mentions ESR @ 13:13 mark :)
Part 4 - Topic: Presentation of 'numbers' and getting funding/sponsors
Part 5 - Questions from the audience

Even though being a year and a half old now, still some valuable information was presented at the panel and I strongly suggest it to anyone, even remotely interested in this side of eSports to, well, watch it.

Links: Red Bull eSports, Day[9],

Twitch.tv, Ziff Davis

Some notes about future content

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Long Live Rocket CTF - Part 2 (15 comments)

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Posted by x0kka @ 11:22 CST, 12 February 2016 - iMsg




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ArenaFPS Interviews ReDeYe (42 comments)

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Posted by CrazyAl @ 19:09 CST, 11 February 2016 - iMsg




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An ArenaFPS interview featuring

Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner. Hosted by

GMT.

Topics

Follow ArenaFPS:

Twitch,

YouTube, Discord

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Callvote.net Warsow Sunday Duel Cup (25 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 20:01 CST, 10 February 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 14 February 2016 to 13:00 CST, 14 February 2016
Schedule: Passed

The Warsow community organises a weekly Duel tournament!

This weeks event will take place at 12:00 CDT on Sunday 14th February. Check-in opens 30 mins before. You can sign-up on challonge.

Prize

Format

Maps

Map Picking

Rules

Admins:

User490584,

Leshka
Stream:

Leshka,

ArenaFPS
Links: Sign-up, Official Announcement,

#callvote

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Reflex 0.39 - Arbitrary gibberish (118 comments)

( Major News: Reflex)

Posted by entik @ 23:55 CST, 9 February 2016 - iMsg

Reflex 0.39 is here. The highlights of this update are Steam Workshop intergration for maps, improved spawn system, and an overhauled Burstgun.

Updated version of The Catalyst (thct7) & a look of the new Burstgun

Change Log & Notes

Workshop:

- You can now grab maps directly from the workshop when starting a server or callvoting a new map via the in-game menu.
- Added new console commands: "wmap <id>" and "wmatch <id> <mode>" for voting workshop maps
- Maps can now be published to Workshop directly from our map editor via the "Publish" button in the top toolbar.
- You can also rate, favourite and subscribe to maps during the end game screen.

Gameplay:

- Spawn system overhaul
- Fixed broken biasing giving wrong spawns
- You can no-longer spawn at same spawn as last time (10 second timeout)
- Added line-of-sight check
- LOS checks can favor/block potential spawns depending if person viewing it is friend/foe. In team games it's modified by number of people viewing spawn. i.e. 2/4 team mates looking at a spawn, will increase the change you can spawn there by 50% of the existing chance. Existing chance is based off normal distance biasing.
- Added fall-back in team/FFA games where all spawns are not available. It will allow any spawns except ones assigned to other team (ctf) or if a team mate is standing on it.
- Added initialSpawn property to player spawns -- these will be used for the first spawns of the game (provided there are enough available).
- Burstgun now fires 6 shots, at staggered offsets, and do 7 damage per pellet

Editor:

- Removed modes a1v1, atdm, affa from worldspawn -- these are now just attached to 1v1, tdm, ffa, respectively
- Added weaponclip magic material -- blocks shots but not players.
- Game won't end due to few players if there's a player in editor mode. (i.e. you can solo edit race maps while game is in progress now)
- Added EntityWorkshopScreenshot -- saves out high quality screenshots on publish so you can quickly update additional screenshots via the Workshop website

Improvements:

- Screenshot/screenshotWithDepth now save to PNG format
- Added support to auto-convert old netcode revisions to live version AKA "we can load old replays (from now on)"
- Improved connection/mapchange handshake-- maps can now be pre-loaded if client can source the same map. (from either disk or workshop)
- Improved load screen, no-longer triggered just on gamestate download. also displays client/server workshop download percentage.
- Added hands in 1st person (only partially visible on burst gun so far, WIP)
- Scoreboard will now list people queue'd for teams under the correct team. spectators / editors are still always on the left under team ALPHA.
- Added ready up text
- Implemented fog system
- Added end of game camera wobble & sound
- Added game finished flag to replay file. (only flagged if gamestate is gameOver on save)
- Replay recording are now correctly saved & stopped on map / mode change.
- You can now see yourself in the end-game screen.
- Replays created from workshop maps are now prefixed with TITLE instead of mapname (5939432432)
- Removed r_ssao & our SSAO implementation (we still have r_hbao)
- Renamed "SSAO" in options menu "HBAO+"

Bugs:

- Fixed replay editor toggle bind in UI (wasn't hooked up properly)
- Fixed incorrect material assignment - brick_gothic_wall_cnr
- Fixed AmmoCount.lua from stomping lua weapon colour (so it appeared white)
"com_maxfps" limited to [10->inf) or 0. quick fix this prevents issues caused when playing < 4fps
- Fixed subframe bug where mousewheel events would be triggered when console was visible
- Fixed issue where clicking JOIN ZETA button wouldn't work (as it was performing two cvars on same frame, and correct data wasn't being sent to server)
- Fixed issue where cl_playercolor* would stomp some player state flags when it shouldn't. (such as changing team index to 0)
- Replay file names are now purged before saving to disk (previously bogus character names in players were preventing files from being created)
- Fixed script bug where "FRAGGED" would be displayed when you're queue'd to play.
- Binds are no-longer passed to game now when in the menu. (this fixed weapon being changeable in menu + also editor working in menu)
- Disabled crosshair in end of game screen
- Fixed spawn biasing to actually work properly (see more info in the "Gameplay" section)
- Callvote dialog no-longer hides & re-appears when die.
- Start server button (in menu) now performs "disconnect" first, ensuring it's a true server restart, and not just a map change.

Optimisations:

- Removed some redundant/old textures to free up some VRAM
- Updated hostile (has new normals, improved lods)
- Updated ivy textures: simplified albedo look a bit and halved res (1.7mb on disk to 440kb on disk)
- Updated pipes to have smooth normals

Maps:

- Updated PRDM3/Ruin -- bolt platform lowered, new blue tele by the mh/yellow armor
- Maps shipped with Reflex have now been renamed to their proper titles (such as Ruin.map) instead of arbitrary gibberish
- Transitioned a heap of previously included maps to workshop

Servers:

- Renamed sv_public to sv_steam to avoid near-constant confusion
- Implemented sv_allowmodes -- server will prevent changes to anything NOT in that list. If list is empty, all modes are allowed.

Arts:

- New Burstgun mesh (still a work in progress)
- Industrial mesh set optimisation pass
- Optimised effects: environment steam
- Optimised effects: lots weapon trails and impacts
- Optimised effects: pickup smoke
- Ivy leafs now all support albedo overrides
- Ivy performance increase

Lua:

- Added Lua variables: serverConnectedToSteam, player.inventoryMelee, world.mapWorkshopId, timeLimit, timeLimitRound
- Added Lua function: meGetPrefabList()
- Exposed camera position to lua
- Fixed bug where data saved by widget:saveUserData() wasn't saving correctly if called in widget:finalize()
- Fixed issue where widget cvars were not saving correctly to .cfg
- Exposed vote information to lua
- Callvote popup implemented in lua -- we get pretty pictures now :)
- Fixed bug in WeaponRack.lua where it was stomping weapon colour to white
- Fixed issue where right & middle mouse were flipped for lua mouse regions.

Misc:

- Removed laughably out of date readme.htm
- Added match <mapname> <mode> command to save doing two seperate votes
- Implemented screenshotClean - generates high quality constant FOV screenshot. Can specify custom resolution here (and take 8k screenshots etc :))

Links: Official Announcement, Reflex Steam Workshop

Edited by entik at 16:17 CST, 10 February 2016 - 46279 Hits

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House of Quake CA Spring Season 2016 (21 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 11:12 CST, 9 February 2016 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Spring 2016

Time has come for new Clan Arena season at House of Quake ! Signups will be open from 1st of March to the 20th of March. The first league match starts at 15:00 CDT, 24 March 2016.

Cup day for CA league will remain at Thursday as with previous seasons. Rules have been updated and similar as with TDM cup, there will be a squad player limit. Limit is set at 8 players per squad. Mappool is changed from last season: Asylum, Trinity, Overkill, Quarantine, Hidden Fortress, ra3map9, ra3map20.

Also players and team managers should make sure that all players in squad have their steamid entered in profile's designated field, otherwise they will not be eligible to play any matches.

Links: House of Quake Website,

#hoqleagues

Edited by PerpetualWar at 11:12 CST, 9 February 2016 - 17446 Hits

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Site summary for week ending 05 Feb (6 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 7 February 2016 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Articles

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GameTribe Quake Live online cup #2 (24 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by LordSoth79 @ 10:48 CST, 7 February 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 2 March 2016 to 16:00 CST, 2 March 2016
Schedule: Passed

FPS GameTribe is hosting a two day Quake Live duel tournament starting wednesday at 14:00 CDT, 27 April 2016 . If we have time to finnish the whole cup off on the same day then continue playing, If not finnish of Semis and Final the next day. 14:00 CDT. now on challonge. Join [url=http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=#gametribecups]#gametribecups on irc.quakenet.org if you have any questions.

Format

Prize Pool

Map List

Streams:

Zlive
Links: GameTribe, Webchat, Bracket

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q3mov2.avi - minimovie (No comments)

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Posted by oSpa_aka_heyv @ 04:30 CST, 7 February 2016 - iMsg




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The second part of minimovies. Frags and edition by

oSpa, music by Blue Stahli

YouTube
Mail.ru Cloud

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House of Quake TDM Spring Season 2016 (101 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 11:07 CST, 5 February 2016 - iMsg

Event: HoQ Spring 2016

Two months after the end of the HoQ Fall Season 2015, it's now time to announce the new season!

The sign-ups for the TDM HoQ Spring 2016 Season will be opened from the 1st to the 20th of March. The league will start on the 27th of March.

The rules has been freshened up a bit : A TDM squad now has a maximum limit of 6 players. The map pool almost remains the same : Deep Inside, Dreadful Place, Grim Dungeons, Limbus, Purgatory, Ragnarok and a 7th map that hasn't been decided yet (Tornado or Intervention).

Given the success of the donation campaign from the previous season (see the details), we've decided to run a new one for the coming TDM Spring 2016 season. You can donate at Paypal@xou or just use the plain old Paypal link.

Links: House of Quake Website -

#hoqleagues

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#NACTF.QL Draft Tournament (18 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by THUNDERBOSS @ 09:41 CST, 3 February 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:30 CST, 13 February 2016 to 21:00 CST, 13 February 2016
Schedule: Passed

The NA CTF community will be hosting a CTF Draft Tournament on Saturday 16:00 CST, 13 February 2016. The sign-ups are open now, and players will need to confirm their availability on the day of the tournament. Players are encouraged to join #nactf.ql on irc.quakenet.org and play some CTF pick-up-games to practice and get hyped up for the tournament.

Format

Map List

Tentative Schedule

Further Details

Stream:

TastySpleenTV
Links: WebChat, Challonge

Edited by flair at 04:32 CST, 14 February 2016 - 8801 Hits

Reflex Rama Duel Cup #1 (8 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 11:45 CST, 2 February 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 09:00 CST, 20 February 2016 to 12:00 CST, 20 February 2016
Schedule: Passed

Reflex community member

Ramagan is organising a 32 player duel tournament on 09:00 CST, 20 February 2016. Check-in opens one hour before. You may sign-up on Challonge.

Format

Maps & Picking

Rules

Prize Pool Distribution

Donator list

Admins:

Ramagan,

Benz,

Qualx
Stream:

ArenaFPS
Links: Sign-up, Reflex forum post,

#ramacup

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Fuck sorlag (87 comments)

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Posted by funnyb @ 09:37 CST, 2 February 2016 - iMsg




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A short movie made by myself in 2014 when I was still active but was never really majored nor brought up to light at that time.

I made the entire movie in 60fps 720p, but I suck at encoding apparently so after multiple tries and cries, I uploaded the uncompressed file to youtube and let youtube do the work for me, hence the non-perfect quality and no 60fps. Enjoy it.

Thought it was worth a post since I'm about to come back to QL, which is huge for the entire community obviously *self deluded*

Still, to me, a memento to when I actually knew how to play the game.

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#capickup Draft Cup #1 Finished (14 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 02:57 CST, 2 February 2016 - iMsg

Event: #CAPickup Draft

First #capickup draft cup has finished with a success. There were a couple of issues at the very start of signup stage which were resolved swiftly, by our bot developer

wdx2. However, for next draft there will be a better method of deliveries of servers for the players to ensure even faster game starts.

Important to mention is that requirements of games played will be raised for the next draft cup, to ensure players ratings are much more stable, which will result in better games for all potential players in future draft cups.

Below you can check final standings, lineups with brackets and some demos & VODs.