ESR - Coverage

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Posted by xou @ 09:54 CST, 3 December 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The European Championship goes on tonight with an early match from Playday 3 between k1llsen and madix at 12:00 CST, and a rescheduled game from Playday 1 featuring draven and pulseh at 14:30 CST.

Thursday schedule

Previous games

Rescheduled games

Links: European Championship,

#esl.quakelive
Streaming: holysh1t.net

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IEM4 European Championship Playday #1 (129 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 00:59 CST, 1 December 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 14:00 CST, 2 December 2009
Schedule: Passed

The Intel Extreme Masters IV Quakelive American Championship has just finished this last weekend. Now the American Finals in

Edmonton are the next step and will be played between the 11th and the 13th of December.

Meanwhile the European Championship already started with a few matches from Group D (due to

GaRpY been away for the entire month). And tomorrow, the first Playday is kicking off for real! As Wednesday is the Quakelive's day on ESL TV, the 4 best matches will be on stream and commentated by

2GD and

Joe! Here is what you can expect tomorrow evening:

Wednesday schedule

Links: American Championship, European Championship, ESL TV,

#esl.quakelive
Streaming: ESL-TV (Alternative host) - VOD

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IEM US Regular Season - Final Day (14 comments)

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Posted by Rondrian @ 18:31 CST, 24 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 21:00 CST, 25 November 2009 to 00:40 CST, 26 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

Tomorrow is the final play day of the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship regular season. We are looking for another two players that will be directly qualified for the LAN finals taking place in

Edmonton on the 11th to 13th December. The top player of each group is direclty qualified for the Continental Finals America, the second and third placed players of each group will face up against second and third placed players from other groups in a relegation match on Sunday, 29th November. The winner of those relegation matches will join the offline finals as well.

Already qualified for the offline finals are

dkt and

rapha,

DaHang will probably also reach the offline finals directly, because his last match vs.

swooped will be forfeited due illness.

Wednesday Night Matches

Standings

Broadcasting links for the matches will be announced later on. Demos of already played matches like

Vo0 vs.

rapha can be found here.

Source: ESL IEM US QL Site

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IEM4 European Championship Schedule (1 comment)

( News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 22:46 CST, 21 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

After the different events happening in December and January were considered, the schedule of the European Championship was finalized and is available to everyone. No need to mention that all matches are still subject to reschedule. On that matter, today all the players were sent the rules and informations about the tournament, including the rescheduling process. For now,

GaRpY's matches are known to be moved to the end of November.

Here are the pre-defined dates and times for the matches at the moment (times are CET):

Playday 1

Playday 2

Playday 3

All the games planned on Wednesday after 15:00 CST are planned to be covered on the ESL TV Quakelive show by

2GD and

Joe. For all the other games nothing is planned, but it is expected to have streaming for the majority of games.

Links: QL European Championship, Groups, Schedule, ESL TV

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IEM4 American Championship Group Matches (47 comments)

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Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 19:07 CST, 18 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 21:00 CST, 18 November 2009 to 22:30 CST, 18 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

Tonight more IEM4 American Championship Playday #2 matches will be played and get covered starting at 21:00 CST, 18 November 2009. Coverage will be provided by Quake-Live.tv.

Schedule

Stream: QuakeLive.TV
Links: American Championship, Groups,

#esl.quakelive

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IEM Euro Championship Group Drawing (116 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 14:11 CST, 17 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tomorrow night on ESL TV at 15:00 CST during ESL TVs Quake Live Show the groups for the Intel Extreme Masters European Championship regular season will be drawn. From four seeding pools the players will be drawn into eight groups of four, from each pool only one player can be in one group. Also players from the same Nation or Clan can't be in one group. The top two of each of those groups will advance to the Intel Extreme Masters European Champion Finals, which will be played offline in LAN.

Update: The groups are now public and some more informations are available about the IEM4 Championship. The slot distribution for the Global Finals will be as following: Europe gets 6 slots, America gets 3 slots (+ rapha for Dubai) and Asia gets 2 slots. Also, the European Championship Finals will take take in

Cologne during the 23rd and 24th of January for Quakelive.

Groups

Seeding Pools

Source: ESL News

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IEM4 European Championship Qualifier #4 (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 02:50 CST, 15 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 15 November 2009 to 16:30 CST, 15 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The fourth and last Qualifier cup of the European Championship will see its first matches played tonight at 12:00 CST. The sign-ups for this cup will remain open until 11:30 CST, then the check-in process will begin. About 135 players already signed up to battle for the last 4 slots!

The cup structure will consist of a single elimination brackets with 128-slots. The first 2 rounds would be played as bo1 and all the other rounds as bo3. The top4 players will be the last ones to get qualified and join the following ones:

Invited Players

Qualified Players

Update: Here are the rankings and the last qualified players from this 4th cup:

1st. Ben "Sc00t" Siebert
2nd. Romain "dem0n" Leclercq
4th. Tomas "doj" Jonson
4th. Hamid "pulseh" Alnasser

Stream: own3d.tv, rondrian@LS
Links: Sign-up, Sign-ups list, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive, Qualifier #1, Qualifier #2, Qualifier #3

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IEM4 European Championship Qualifier #3 (113 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 05:45 CST, 12 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 12 November 2009 to 18:30 CST, 12 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The third Qualifier cup of the European Championship will kick off tonight at 13:00 CST, right before the default time for the EMS5 TDM Round 2 matches. Again, the sign-ups will remain open until 12:30 CST, then the check-in process will begin. At the moment, a bit less than 120 players already signed up!

With so many players, the cup should again use a single elimination brackets with 128-slots. The first 2 rounds would be played as bo1 and all the other rounds as bo3. The top4 players from this cup will be qualified and join the following ones:

Invited Players

Qualified Players

Update: Here are the rankings and the qualified players from this 3rd cup:

1st. Ey��r "linKoo" Kristj�nsson
2nd. Ciar�n "kRoNic" Rodgers
3rd. Karl "fooKi" Johansson
4th. Geordy "geow" Molenaar

The 4th and last Qualifier Cup will be played this Sunday and the sign-ups are already open.

Streaming: watchquake.ru, levelupyourgame.net
Links: Sign-up, Sign-ups list, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive, Qualifier #1, Qualifier #2

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IEM America Playday #1 (60 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 17:38 CST, 11 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight the IEM4 American Championship should see the next Playday 1 games played. For the streaming coverage, Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham from djWHEAT.tv and the guys from QL-TV will be around to shoutcast the following matches:

- finished: walter vs Vo0 (bet / results + demos) - with djWHEAT
- finished: SK-rapha vs EG|Chance (bet / results + demos) - with djWHEAT

- rescheduled: EG|Griffin vs Loaded|relic (bet / match details) - with QL-TV
- finished: swooped vs Loaded|carnage (bet / result + demos) - with QL-TV

Some matches are still subject to rescheduling and this post will be updated as often as possible.

Streams: djWHEAT.tv (Audio only), QL-TV

Already played matches of playday 1

Links: American Championship, Groups,

#esl.quakelive

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ESL IEM4 American Champ Coverage TONIGHT (2 comments)

( News: ESR)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 15:30 CST, 11 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

djWHEAT will be shoutcasting matches between walter vs vo0 followed by rapha vs chance starting at 10pm EST TONIGHT at http://www.djWHEAT.tv.

Further IEM4 American Championship coverage by djWHEAT on Nov 15 2009:

griffin vs. LostCause and dkt vs. kgb

Mark your calendars!

While djWHEAT is out of town, QLTV will be helping to cover matches on November 18. Wheat's coverage will resume on Nov 22.

IEM4 American Championship Results so far:

DaHanG vs judge_ -> 2:0
gellehsak vs kgb -> 2:0
dkt vs pl4gue -> 2:0
sparks vs LoSt-CaUzE -> 0:2

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IEM4 European Championship Qualifier #2 (160 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 01:25 CST, 10 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 9 November 2009 to 18:00 CST, 9 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The second Qualifier cup of the European Championship will kick off tonight at 13:00 CST. Again, the sign-ups will remain open until 12:30 CST, then the check-in process will begin. About 130 players already signed up!

Once more, the cup should use a single elimination brackets with 128-slots. The first 2 rounds would be played as bo1 and all the other rounds as bo3. The top4 players from this cup will be qualified and join the following ones:

Invited Players

Qualified Players

The VOD of the first cup is still available on ESL TV. But it's very unlikely that ESL TV will cover this second cup. Feel free to contact an admin on IRC if you wish to stream some matches.

Update: The cup is over and some VODs of the matches can be found from levelupyourgame.net. Congratulations to GaRpY and Z4muZ For breaking our current "number of overtimes in a game" with 7 OTs on dm13, the first map of the final! The Qualifier cup #3 will be played on Thursday 12th (Sign-ups) Here are the finals rankings and the 4 players who qualified:

1st. Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors
2nd. Gareth "GaRpY" Marshall
3rd. Richard "Weird" Krooman
4th. Marius "GUard" Ivanauskas

Streaming: watchquake.ru, levelupyourgame.net
Links: Sign-up, Sign-ups list, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive, Qualifier #1

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IEM4 European Championship Qualifier #1 (124 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 17:25 CST, 4 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 4 November 2009 to 17:30 CST, 4 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The first Qualifier cup for the European Championship will start tonight at 13:00 CST. The sign-ups will be open until 12:30 CST, then it will be time for the check-ins! So far more than ~~120~~ 142 players are already signed up, but only 64 128 players will remain after the check-ins. Then the first 2 rounds will be played as bo1, and all the other rounds as bo3!

The top4 players from the cup will be qualified and will join the following invited players for the European Championship:

Invited Players

Update: ESL TV will cover the matches starting at 15:00 CST with 2GD and Joe (Alt. Host)!
Update 2: The 1st cup is now over and the next one will be played on Monday 9th (Sign-up!). Here are the rankings and the 4 qualified players:

1st. Bogdan "bodzo" Mazur
2nd. daniel "zsx" sanders
3rd. Fri�bj�rn "xrebz" Davidsen
4th. Charles "FooX" Moriceau

Update 3: The VOD of the show is now available!

Links: Sign-up, Sign-ups list, Brackets

#esl.quakelive

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16 Invitees for IEM Euro Championship (91 comments)

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Posted by Rondrian @ 06:05 CST, 3 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Today the last six invited players for the Intel Extreme Masters European Championship were announced. Now all 16 invited players are set and the last 16 players to fill the 32 player regular season line up, can be established in Qualifier cups. Those 32 players will play for $13,200 prize money in the European Championship.

Invited Players

Those 16 players will be grouped together with 16 players from four qualifier cups into eight groups of four. From those eight groups the top two of each group advance to the offline finals.

The first qualifier Cup will start 13:00 CST, 4 November 2009 with probably 64 to 128 members, which will play in a single elimination bracket, with the first rounds being bo1, while in later rounds it will be bo3.

Links: Sign Up for Qualifier #1 - already signed up players - Announcement of Invitees

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ESL Dubai Bloopers Video (94 comments)

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Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:02 CDT, 30 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The AGP presents a blooper video from the ESL Quake Live Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge in Dubai. The tournament was great but also had some funny moments. Hope you all enjoy.

The Best Players in the World...Sometimes - ESL Dubai Bloopers

We posted an additional AGP Classic match this week as well: Fatal1ty vs Zero4 at QuakeCon 2002. You all might remember when the defending champion of QuakeCon got shut out on DM6. Well, this is it.

Fatal1ty vs Zero4: QuakeCon 2002 Part 1

Fatal1ty vs Zero4: QuakeCon 2002 Part 2

Stay tuned next week for a special treat.

Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support!

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IEM European Championship Details (8 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 11:21 CDT, 30 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

As announced yesterday the Intel Extreme Masters European Championship will have four qualifiers Cups with the top four of each cup joining the 16 invited players for a regular season with 32 players. Today the ESL announced the details about the qualification cups and also the first five invited players.

Qualification Cup Schedules

Qualifier Rules

Here are the first five invites for the European Championship, the next five will be announced on Sunday and the last six will be announced on Tuesday.

European Championship Invites

Source: Qualifier Announcement - Invite Announcement

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