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QuakeCon 2011 After Action Blog (48 comments)

( Major Article: Gaming)

Posted by GreasedScotsman @ 16:03 CDT, 19 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Hey folks.

GreasedScotsman here. After the successful planning, management and production of QuakeCon 2011 coverage, I've decided to take a break from broadcasting for the next month or so, perhaps longer, though I may reappear for special events like 2GD's World Tour (described during OneMoreGame/LiveOnThree 08-03-11).

QuakeCon 2011 was an amazing adventure. Thirteen people were responsible for the production and coverage. After last year's clusterfuck where we stepped up to the plate after expecting to play a secondary role to LiveOnThree, lacking equipment and time to plan anything, we knew we had much to prove.

We made a conscious decision to not hype up what we had planned and we chose to not go as "QLTV" but as the "QuakeCon Coverage crew." In hindsight, I know a lot of people literally missed the live stream because of this lack of press. Thankfully, though, we have 720p VODs available on YouTube of all of our content.

Recapping the Cluster

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CSN QuakeCon Interview Roundup (88 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by FishStix @ 16:22 CDT, 15 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Cyber-Sports.net had the opportunity and pleasure of running the QuakeLive Open Duel Tournament at QuakeCon 2011, as well as various other tournaments in the BYOC. However, that's not all CSN was up to - we also had the chance to gather Quake pros at our booth for interviews. Without further ado, here they are:

Johan "tox" Quick

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson

Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager

Tim "EG.DaHanG" Fogarty

Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel

Chance "EG.Chance" Lacina

Josh "Ziel" Remington

Quinn "Mongo" Taylor

Jeff "FienD" Abbott

Also, if you want to check out CSN's presentation of the QuakeCon QL Open Duel Tournament, you're in luck. Check out the GRAND FINALS w/ Vo0 vs. Mongo - the winner takes home a brand new gaming PC and $300 in cash!

For more coverage from CSN, make sure to

subscribe to CSN on YouTube.

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WinFakt interviews spart1e (9 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by gribouts @ 15:53 CDT, 15 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Given his recent great performance at QuakeCon 2011, WinFakt wanted to take some time with

Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira for an interview. He gives some insight about how the tournament was from a player's point of view, discusses about his performance in duel and TDM, as well as a bit about his future in online gaming.

Here is an excerpt:

Before we talk some more about your performance in TDM, I'd like us to go back to this match versus CZM. Did you expect him to be such in a good shape for this event ?
No, I really did not. It was a tough tournament. I think some players really underperformed, and few played better than expected. I didn´t see rest of czms games. But against me he made some nice moves, which worked several times because I made really bad mistakes over and over again.

Link: Interview @ team-winfakt.net

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Lo3 #83 QuakeCon Recap with rapha (124 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 17:02 CDT, 10 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Scheduled: 18:00 CDT, 10 August 2011 to 19:30 CDT, 10 August 2011
Schedule: Passed

LiveOnThree is hosted by

Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham,

Rod "Slasher" Breslau &

Scott "SirScoots" Smith.

Live On Three #83 will recap this past weekend's biggest events - QuakeCon 2011, Assembly 2011, and the European Battle.net Invitational. QuakeCon 2011 may be the last major tournament until DreamHack later this year. QuakeCon 2011 champion

Shane "SK.rapha" Hendrixson, arguably the best Quake Live player of all time and in the running for best Quake player of all time with

tox, will join us on the show to discuss his second QuakeCon championship. EU Battle.net champion

Jos "Ret" De Kroon will also join the show and discuss his first major victory since Assembly Winter, and the brewing rivalry between him and NaNiwa.

Other news today to include

Tune in tonight at 7:00 PM ET/01:00 CET!

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QuakeCon 2011 Demos and VODs (67 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 04:52 CDT, 9 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Only a few days after the end of the action,

GreasedScotsman has made available all the demos collected from the QuakeCon 2011 Quakelive Duel and TDM tournaments. For now, they're not on the official website, but on

Trance's webspace along with plenty of other events' demos.

Also, the man from Quake-Live.tv started to upload the official VODs on the YouTube channel of the 2011 convention. All of them should be available tonight.

I prepared a coverage post with all the duel and TDM results with links to the demos and known VODs (no result spoilers). And also some more links to galleries and interviews.

Thanks to the QuakeCon 2011 staff and the streaming staff for the good coverage!

Links: Demos, Official VODs - Duel demos/VODs/results, TDM demos/VODs/results

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Post-QuakeCon links bazard (44 comments)

( Coverage: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:05 CDT, 7 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Here is a little post about things we can see, read, watch after that 2011 QuakeCon finished.

VODs / demos:

- All duel VODs, demos and results
- All TDM VODs, demos and results

- quakelivedemos YT channel - VODs made from demos
- SeriousQuakeLive YT channel - VODs made from demos
- popsQ2 YT channel - VODs made from demos
- FiDestiny YT channel - VODs made from demos

- asfalot111 YT channel - Videos of players in game
- MindfreakEsportsTV YT channel - Videos of players in game
- LLLdraven YT channel - Videos of players in game

- Official VODs
- Team Empire - Russian comments over recorded VODs
- c58 - Russian comments over recorded VODs

- Demos

Galleries:

- QuakeCon Flickr
- c58
- CSN

Interviews:

- strenx by 2GD
- Stermy by QL.tv
- Rick (WinFakt) by derQuaker
- cl0ck by QL.tv
- strenx by QL.tv
- rapha by QL.tv
- fox by QL.tv
- spart1e by QL.tv
- tox by CSN
- Chance by CSN
- DaHanG by CSN
- rapha by CSN
- fat by CSN
- Vo0 by CSN
- Ziel by CSN
- rapha by QL.tv before TDM Bronze
- strenx by QL.tv before TDM Bronze
- spart1e and Stermy by QL.tv before TDM Final
- Moscow Five interviews - English or Russian

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QuakeCon 2011 - Finals (957 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 19:16 CDT, 5 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Scheduled: 11:00 CDT, 6 August 2011 to 23:55 CDT, 6 August 2011
Schedule: Passed

The Finals of the QuakeCon� 2011 are played the 6th August 2011 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in

Dallas. The streaming coverage should feature the following commentators: Jehar, GreasedScotsman and 2GD.

Results

Rankings & Prizes

TDM line-ups

Links: QuakeCon tournaments page -

- Quake stream

#quakecon - Demos!
Coverages: Day1, Day2,

c58,

fff, TRG / ic,

rakaka,

ESFR,

DQ, TEK9, SK, Fnatic

See coverage post for more links!

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CSN: Official QuakeCon 2011 BYOC Events (31 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by nude-fox @ 12:50 CDT, 5 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

The Cyber Sports Network is excited to announce their partnership with this year's QuakeCon Event as the official BYOC Competitions organizer. Cyber Sports Network will offer participants of the QuakeCon event an organized and competitive structure of tournaments. This year's QuakeLive Open Duel Tournament will be organized and ran by the Cyber Sports Network and will include over one thousand ($1,000) dollars in cash and prizes to the top three finishers. Additionally, Origin has offered a gaming laptop valued at $2,895 for first place.

Along with the Quake Live Open Duel Tournament, the CSN will offer participants several other competitive options, including a Heroes of Newerth event with over $1,000 in prizes, full BYOC and QuakeCon coverage and media content, and an Event-ending raffle for a prize package worth over $300. Game titles included in this year's BYOC competitions are; Quake Live Freeze Tag, Quake Live CTF, Quake Live FFA, Quake 4, Warsow, Team Fortress 2, StarCraft II, Call of Duty 4 and HaxBall. QuakeCon participants will be encouraged to submit additional tournament ideas for the CSN staff to structure and organize, making use of the CSN website and tournament system.

All Cyber Sports Network tournaments will be free to join for QuakeCon participants and specific prizes for all events will be determined during the event. The CSN looks forward to providing the participants of this year's QuakeCon an opportunity to compete in organized tournaments and events.

Schedule of Events (All Times are Local Central Time)

Open Duel Prizes

Update: Quake Live Open duel tournament streams are coming online asap: CSN Stream

Links: CSN, Stream -

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QuakeCon 2011 - Day2 (357 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 03:54 CDT, 5 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 5 August 2011 to 19:20 CDT, 5 August 2011
Schedule: Passed

The QuakeCon� 2011 is taking place from the 4th to the 7th August 2011 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in

Dallas. It will feature two Quakelive tournaments: Duel and TDM. So far, the streaming coverage will feature the following commentators:

Jehar,

GreasedScotsman and

2GD.

TDM Groups

TDM Groups Results

TDM Playoff Results

TDM line-ups

Schedule

Panels and Keynotes

Links: QuakeCon tournaments page -

- Quake stream

#quakecon - Demos!
Coverages: Day1,

c58,

fff, TRG / ic,

rakaka,

ESFR,

DQ, TEK9, SK, Fnatic
Galleries: c58

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QuakeCon 2011 - Day1 (1146 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:00 CDT, 4 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 4 August 2011
Schedule: Passed

The QuakeCon� 2011 is taking place from the 4th to the 7th August 2011 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in

Dallas. It will feature two Quakelive tournaments: Duel and TDM. So far, the streaming coverage will feature the following commentators:

Jehar,

GreasedScotsman and

2GD.

Duel Groups

Duel Group results

Duel Playoff results

Schedule

Panels and Keynotes

Links: QuakeCon tournaments page -

- Quake stream

#quakecon - Demos!
Coverages:

c58,

fff, TRG / ic,

rakaka,

ESFR,

DQ, TEK9, SK, Fnatic
Galleries: c58

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Lo3 #82 QuakeCon Preview with 2GD (83 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 17:15 CDT, 3 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Scheduled: 18:00 CDT, 3 August 2011 to 21:00 CDT, 3 August 2011
Schedule: Passed

LiveOnThree is hosted by

Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham,

Rod "Slasher" Breslau &

Scott "SirScoots" Smith.

Live On Three #82 will recap what was the most momentous, passionate, and pure largest weekend in eSports/Competitive Gaming history with the EVO 2011 World Finals, MLG Anaheim, and the GSL July finals. As was expected by many, Korea dominated MLG, Japan won Arcade Edition at EVO (though America stepped up), and the GSL finals was another 4-0 sweep. We examine why all of this happened and if the American/Foreign players for Starcraft 2 and Fighting Games will be on notice from these events and work harder, or continue to fluster when it comes to playing fierce competition. EVO official streamer

Victor "Spooky" Fontanez will join the show to discuss all of the weekend's events in Marvel vs Capcom 3, SSF4AE, Mortal Kombat 9, and how it felt to stream EVO for the very first time.

We will preview QuakeCon 2011, in what might be the last major Quake tournament for some time, with fascinating individual

2GD. Predictions of the groups including if

tox can win it all in his first tournament back, will

Cypher easily take it instead, or can

rapha retain his throne as the greatest Quake Live player ever? Also thoughts on the Facebook vote, the stream and his new casting partner, and his time on the MLG cast.

Tune in tonight at 7:00 PM ET/01:00 CET!

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tox interview pre QCon`11 (100 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 14:16 CDT, 2 August 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

mick05 from 4SeasonsGaming sat down with

tox before his travels to QuakeCon 2011. tox arrives in Dallas on the 3rd of August staying in the Hilton Anatole with his team mates

fox,

Stermy and

link1n. tox had a lot to say about Quake Live compared to Quake's 3 and 4, and also wanted to share with us his thoughts of playing QL on LAN, and what changes they could make to the game in general.

Excerpt

Link: Full interview

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Quakecon Interview - Ventz and zlr (14 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 00:57 CDT, 30 July 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

Before

Peter "Ventz" Kidson and Timothy "zlr" Shey set off to QuakeCon 2011 in Dallas, TX, they kindly dedicated some time out from practicing to answer a few questions for us. This interview was conducted before the most recent Quakecon announcement about the voting system for play offs, so unfortunately this question was excluded in the Interview.

total fanboys

Read the full interview on the next page

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QuakeCon 2011 - Tournament Hardware (16 comments)

( News: QL)

Posted by SyncError @ 18:01 CDT, 29 July 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

This year's QuakeCon 2011 Tournaments are sponsored by Alienware. A huge thanks goes out to Dell for providing 120hz monitors for the Quake Live Invitational Masters:

Alienware Aurora

Alienware AW2310 120hz Monitors (QL)

Alienware AW2210 60hz Monitors (Brink)

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QuakeCon 2011 - Duel Group Advancement (288 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by SyncError @ 15:54 CDT, 29 July 2011 - iMsg

Event: QC'11

24 players will be entering the Group Stage of the QC11 Duel Masters, 16 of which will advance to the Playoffs. Of our 6 groups of 4, the top 2 competitors from each group secure their place in the Playoff Bracket.

From the twelve competitors that did not advance, 4 players will be chosen. Not by stats, not by the admins, nor by random choice -- 4 players will be chosen by the community via Facebook. Our "Community Choice Award Poll" will become available shortly after Group Stages conclude at 17:30 CDT, 4 August 2011.

Cast your vote for your favorite player, someone who impressed you despite losing groups, a fan favorite top seed that fell in an upset, your friend. If you are one of these twelve players, feel free to use the polling time to drum up support and encourage others to vote your way to the Playoffs.

Unconventional for tournaments? Yes. Gimmicky, sure. But we hope that allowing the community to have some say in who gets to compete all while generating more gameplay in the Playoffs can only be a positive thing.

We hope everyone has an opportunity to follow the streams, and come time cast their vote.

Update: Monitors for the QL tournaments will be provided by Alienware with the Alienware OptX AW2310 120hz (See this post).

Source: Announcement

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