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QL IEM5 - NA Regular Season Cup #3 (29 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 15:30 CDT, 26 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 26 July 2010 to 00:30 CDT, 27 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The National ESL Regular Season Cup III is taking place Monday evening at 19:00 CDT and will grant three more slots for the North American Championships Playoffs. The guys from Quake-Live TV will most definitely be streaming the cup once again!

List of the qualified player

Update: The cup is now over and here are the rankings:

1st. Griffin
2nd. rey
3rd. sparks
4th. ZeRo4

Stream: Quake-Live TV
Links: Sign-up, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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2GD Interviews Rapha (45 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Magician @ 11:19 CDT, 26 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson joined Level Up TV yesterday to co-shoutcast the finals of the ZOTAC Cup with

James "2GD" Harding. At the end 2GD did a little impromptu interview with rapha.

Trance of Level Up TV has generously provided VODs of both the interview and several of the matches in the later stages of the tournament.

Some of the topics discussed in the interview are:
Who has been your hardest opponent so far? And, who of the all time greats would you have liked to play in their prime?

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #42 (406 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 22:40 CDT, 24 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 25 July 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 25 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 42nd ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. As usual it will consist of SE brackets using the bo1 format until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. The prize still is 100� for 1st place!

Quick Facts

Update: ZOTAC #42 has started with

av3k,

cooller,

toxjq (yes, ic-TOXIC),

k1llsen,

madix and many more!

Final standings:

1. cooller - 100�
2. agent
3./4. k1llsen / toxjq

Streams:

PinG TV,

Holysh1t TV,

Level Up
Links: Tournament page, Brackets,

#zotac.qlive // Demos, Hall of Fame

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G Data QL Duel Cup #35 (130 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 06:53 CDT, 24 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 24 July 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 24 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The cup format will once again consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize is 100� for the first place.

Quick Facts

Final standings:

1. strenx - 100�
2. Cooller
3./4. k1llsen / p0ni

Streams:

Holysh1t,

PinG TV
Links: Tournament page, Brackets, Hall of Fame,

#gdata.qlive

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ASUS Summer 2010 announced (49 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Dolvich @ 08:05 CDT, 23 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: ASum'10

It is the time to announce The Summer 2010 of the ASUS Open Cup series. This edition will be the 30th! And that ASUS Summer Cup 2010 will take place in a completely new location, in the Cybersport Arena of

Kiev to be exact! Another news is that the prize money amounts are increased. The tournament will again be held under the "Republic of Gamers" motto.

The location

The schedule of further announcements

ASUS Summer Cup 2010 game disciplines

Moscow - 21st August - Click-Net (Map)
- Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 no-pro Open (64 teams) - 100 000 RUR ($3,300)
- ASUS Moscow Summer 2010 Qualifier (32 teams) - Paid tickets to Kiev

Kiev - 28-29th August - Kiev Cybersport Arena
- Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters (32 teams) - 600 000 RUR ($1,9750) + hardware
- Counter-Strike Source 5v5 Open (32 teams) - 100 000 RUR ($3,300) + hardware
- DOTA 5v5 Open (32 teams) - 100 000 RUR ($3,300) + hardware
- QuakeLive 1v1 Open (32 players) - 100 000 RUR ($3,300) + hardware

Total: 1 000 000 RUR ($33,000) + hardware from sponsors (valued approximately at 200 000 RUR)

Sponsors: ASUS and Intel
Organizers: e-sport-portal CyberFight.RU
Source: Cyberfight.ru

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National ESL Open Cup #3 (22 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 18:02 CDT, 22 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 22 July 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 22 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The National ESL Open Cup #3 is taking place tonight at 19:00 CDT and will grant more points for the July rankings. At the end of the month, the player with most points will be rewarded with $400. The second cup was won by

Chance, again!

Here are the rankings of the previous Open Cups:

Open Cup #1

Open Cup #2

And from the IEM5 NA Qualifiers:

Regular Season Cup #1

Regular Season Cup #2

Update: The cup is now over and here are the rankings:

1st. Chance
2nd. dkt
3rd. kmrey
4th. gellehsak

Stream: Quake-Live TV
Links: Sign-up, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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Global Challenge Gamescom with Quakelive (59 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 13:04 CDT, 21 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The ESL just announced the first tournament of the 2nd Global Challenge of the Intel Extreme Masters Season V:

"Gamescom, the largest trade fair and event highlight for interactive games, has officially been announced as the host for the second Global Challenge of the fifth Intel Extreme Masters season. 16 of the world's best Quake Live players will battle it out in Cologne, Germany, from August 18th to 22nd, for a total of $10,000!"

Some online qualifier should be organized very soon and will feature 2 slots for the events. The remaining 14 slots will be granted on invitation and you can apply by sending an email to masters.application[at]esl[dot]eu.

Prize money

Links: Announcement, Global Challenge Gamescom'10

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Regular Season Cup #2 (41 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 17:58 CDT, 19 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 19 July 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 19 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

This week, QuakeLive.TV returns to bring you coverage of the National ESL Regular Season Cup II (19:00 CDT, 19 July 2010) and Open Cup 3 (19:00 CDT, 22 July 2010). We are proud to present such consistent and high-quality tournaments to the North American scene!

There are only 3 more Regular Season cups in which North American players can qualify for the playoffs in September, leading up to the New York LAN Finals in October, so don't miss this week's action!

Update: The cup is finished and the top3 players who qualified are as following:

1st. rapha
2nd. everkill
3rd. gellehsak
4th. FienD

Links: Stream,

@QuakeLive_TV, National ESL Home, Regular Season Cup I Results, Open Cup 2 Results.

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ASUS ENC QL TDM : Playoffs! (321 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 13:26 CDT, 18 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: ENC'10

The group matches of the ASUS ENC 2010 Quakelive TDM are now all over. The 2nd and 3rd from both groups are now going to the Quarter Finals, while the 1st from each group are directly qualified for Semi finals. Note that the Final of the QL ENC will be played at Gamescom 2010 in

Cologne. Here are the groups rankings and the coming matches:

Bronze Final
[TBC]: Russian Federation vs France (Details)

Groups Rankings

Last results

Prize money / Rankings

Links: Announcement, Brackets
Coverage:

Fragster

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #41 (175 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 08:30 CDT, 18 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 18 July 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 18 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 41st ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. As usual it will consist of SE brackets using the bo1 format until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. The prize still is 100� for 1st place!

Quick Facts

Update: again -dm6 +t4 \\ ZOTAC #41 running with

strenx,

Cooller,

madix,

fazz and many more!

Final standings:

1. strenx - 100�
2. cooller
3./4. calipt / agent

Streams: Holysh1t TV
Links: Tournament page, Brackets, Hall of Fame,

#zotac.qlive

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BEAT IT Last Chance Qualifier! (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by fnaticStreeT @ 08:18 CDT, 18 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: Beat it

Three qualifiers are behind us and there is only one tournament left to qualify for BEAT IT online finals that will be held from 23rd until 25th July.

Tournament starts tonight at 18:00 CET, while check-in will happen 1 hour prior to tournament, at 17:00 CET. Prize for 1st place is $175, second $75 while top 4 finishers will qualify for the online finals.

As you already know, winner of the online finals will win cash, book a ticket to Beijing along with paid hotel to participate in LAN event MSI is hosting from 4th until 6th September.

Besides that prize for the first place, 2nd and 3rd placed at the end of a tournament will also earn money, but also accommodation for tournament in Beijing. We are proud to announce that prize purse for QuakeLive tournament in China will be 10,500$.

Not all of the invited players are yet confirmed. We urge those to email street@fnatic.com re their invitation or msg fnatic\StreeT at IRC.

LVL UP Tv will broadcast games so make sure you tune in!

SIGN UP!

Qualified Players

Invited Players

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CB SummerCup Qualifier #3 (1 comment)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 07:42 CDT, 18 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: CB SC 2010

Qualifier #2 for Clanbase Quake Live Duel Summer 2010 has finished with the final standings:

1. grave
2. assign
3. Fircrow
4. Cicc1o

Qualifier #3 is already opened, where players will be accepted for matches scheduled for next Wednesday 11:35 CDT, 21 July 2010. Signups accepted here.

There will be 4 qualifiers in total with 4 top players going through, so the Finals will be played with the 16 players bracket. All players are encouraged to signup for any of the Qualifiers. Those who fail to qualify after the first try, can try next Qualifier and see if they have better luck.
Complete schedule, info and winners can be found on the SC Duel Coverage page.

Links: CB QL Duel Summer 2010, ESR SC Duel coverage page,

#clanbase.ql

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G Data QL Duel Cup #34 with changes! (344 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 07:08 CDT, 17 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 17 July 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 17 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The cup format will once again consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize is 100� for the first place.

Quick Facts

Update: I changed the mappool a bit by removing qzdm6 and adding qztourney4 for the upcoming G Data Cup #34. Keep in mind that this change is only experimental and we will see how this turns out for future Cups!

G Data #34 started with

strenx,

madix,

fazz,

burnedd,

guard,

evil,

agentJkezooR,

Cny and many more

Final standings:

1. strenx - 100�
2. burnedd
3./4. fazz / guard

Streams: Holysh1t TV
Links: Tournament page, Brackets, Hall of Fame,

#gdata.qlive

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ZOTAC SC2 Beta Cup #16 is over (7 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by KekS @ 06:47 CDT, 17 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: Zotac SC2

Scheduled: 07:15 CDT, 18 July 2010 to 13:00 CDT, 18 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

Once again

GameSports.de &

ZOTAC bring you the

ZOTAC StarCraft II Beta Cup, starting on Sunday 07:15 CDT, 18 July 2010, checkins will as per usual open at 06:00 CDT. There's 100 � price money up for grabs and we'll be running with 1024 signups and 512. We don't know exactly how long the beta will run but this could possibly be the last beta cup before the game goes live.

ZOTAC SC2 Winners

Quick Facts

Final:

mTw.DeMusliM 3:1

Jimpo Replays of Quarter/Semi & Final

Streams:

GameSports,

Millenium,

sc2tv.ru,

glhf.tv
Links: Info, Playerlist, Replaypacks of all Zotac SC2 cups,

#zotac.sc2

Attached Misc File: 76657-ZOTAC-SC2-16.rar (18 Jul 2010, 1785KB, 255 downloads)

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National ESL Open Cup #2 (25 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:32 CDT, 15 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 15 July 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 15 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The National ESL Open Cup #2 is taking place tonight at 19:00 CDT and will grant more points for the July rankings. At the end of the month, the player with most points will be rewarded with $400. The first cup was won by

Chance.

Chance was also the winner of the first Regular Season Cup on last Monday evening. He is now qualified for the IEM5 American Playoffs along with

dkt (2nd) and

Flysher (3rd).

Stream: Quake-Live TV
Links: Open Cup #2 Sign-up, Open Cup #1 Brackets, Regular Season Cup #1 Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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