Scheduled: 07:15 CDT, 11 July 2010 to 13:00 CDT, 11 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The StarCraft II Beta is back and once against GameSports.de & ZOTAC bring you the ZOTAC StarCraft II Beta Cup, starting on Sunday 07:15 CDT, 11 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.
Cup #1: RoX.KIS.DIMAGA 3-0 LLL.orly
Cup #2: LLL.orly 3-2 morrow
Cup #3: RoX.KIS.DIMAGA 3-1 MYM]DeMusliM
Cup #4: MYM]DeMusliM 3-1 RoX.KIS.DIMAGA Replays
Cup #5: HayprO 3-2 RogaloS Replays
Cup #6: GoOdy 3-0 Insolent No Replays since it was really onesided
Cup #7: mouz.MaNa 3-2 Liquid'Nazgul Replays
Cup #8: ZpuX 3-0 Bischu Replays
Cup #9: mTw|Nani 3-2 MoMaN Replays
Cup #10: mTw|NaNi 3-1 RoX.KIS.DIMAGA Replays
Cup #11: mTw|NaNi 3-0 Jinro (aka Frozen Arbiter) Replays
Cup #12: Liquid'TheLittleOne 3-0 RoX.KIS.Brat_OK Replays
Cup #13: Satiini 3-1 RoX.KIS.DIMAGA (replays see additional info)
Cup #14: RoX.KIS.Brat_OK 3-0 Drafter Replays
Cup #15: mouz.Morrow 3-2 attax|Socke Replays
Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 11 July 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 11 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 40th 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!
Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 10 July 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 10 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.
Qualifier #2 is already opened, where players will be accepted for matches scheduled for next Wednesday, 14 July 2010. 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 coverage can be found on the SC Duel Coverage page.
After 4 qualifiers we had last few weeks, the big finals are here where best 4 players from each qualifier will fight for the title of the Best QL Amateur Player and some prizes on top of it.
Cup is called Quake Live: Amateur Cup and will be played Thursday 13:00 CDT, 8 July 2010. Format of the cup will be Single elimination Bo3 with finals being Bo5.
Since there has been some problems with fake-nicking in the Amateur Night #3, dazator will not be allowed to play and his spot will be given to MatoD, player who managed to be in the quarter-finals in both 3rd and 4th qualifier cups. Complete players list can be found on this link.
Update: Cup is over with the final standings:
1. FooX
2. deji
3. amOKchen
4. Chupavi
VODs from tonight's games can be found on Holysh1t.
Gametype: Duel
Maximum teams: 16
Start: Thursday 8 July 2010 at 20:00 cest
Schedule: see below.
Format: Single elimination Bo3 with finals being Bo5
Admins: PerpetualWar, Mactox Rules
IRC: #esh.ql
Scheduled: 20:00 CDT, 8 July 2010 to 23:00 CDT, 8 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The first online cup of the IEM American Championship Regular Season will take place tonight starting at 20:00 CDT. It's still not very clear what prizes the Open Cup #1 will feature, or what influence it will have for the qualification process to the Playoffs. However, Quake-Live.tv will be around to stream some games!
After very intense and successful tournaments in Call of Duty 4 and Counter Strike 1.6, it is time to move on to the Quake Live qualifiers. We will host four Quake Live qualification tournaments where the top 4 from each qualifier will advance to our online finals to meet with 16 invited players, making it a total of 32 European players.
The top two finishers in each qualifier will also win cash prizes along with qualification to the online finals that will be held from the 23rd to 25th of July. The winner of the online finals will win cash prizes, a trip and accommodation to Beijing where MSI will host a big LAN event, which will be announced soon. Prize distribution will be announced in the following days, but a total prize purse of $45,000 will be shared among CS 1.6 and QuakeLive top finishers.
- Four Qualification Tournaments
- Top 4 from each qualifier qualify for online finals
- Top 2 from each qualifier win cash prize
- LAN tournament in Beijing will feature $45,000 prize pool
- Winner of the ONLINE finals will win the trip and accommodation in Beijing
This years CB QL SC Duel Cup will consist of 4 qualifier quick-cups where 4 players will go through and form the final bracket of 16 players. All important details as well as winners of each qualifier can (will) be found below.
The time-table for the quick-cups in CEST will be:
-17:30 Start of check in
-18:20 End of check in
-18:35 First matches
-19:25 Round of 16
-20:35 Quarterfinals
-21:25 Semi-Finals
-22:15 Finals
Each players selects a map from the map-pool. If the game is tied after 2 maps, the player with the most frags starts eliminating from the 4 remaining maps. Then the other player eliminates and the one with the most frags picks a map from the remaining 2 maps.
There will be another season of QUAKE LIVE in the Intel Extreme Masters. I thought I should point that out before going on to other things, since no one really bothered to post about it on ESReality for almost a week.
What does that mean? It means that the game you guys love to follow so much is back in one of the world's coolest PC gaming leagues. And that your favourite porn star or your girlfriend, for that matter, won't be the only reason you'll be spraying in the following months. Hopefully at more content than just the live matches themselves.
QUAKE LIVE has stayed in the Intel Extreme Masters because it delivers fun that's very universal in the hardcore esports world and beyond. The World Championship final between rapha and Cooller has really managed to captivate a capacity crowd at CeBIT (see this VOD to get an idea, of here on YouTube). It produced one of those feelings where you could say that you've experienced something special.
All along my plan in the Intel Extreme Masters was to make the show more enjoyable for you, for the fans of other games and for the people that just happened to stumble upon QUAKE LIVE in the depths of the Internet or at a trade show hall somewhere. The game is very easy to follow and it's not difficult to convince people that the depths of skill needed to master it make winning at it very manly.
In order to help explain the manliness of QL, I revisited the idea which today I call the ESL Classics (around 2006 actually). We sit down with a top gamer in the ESL TV studio, we show one of the great matches that he has played in the ESL and we find out from him what went on through his head during that match.
Seeing as rapha happened to be practicing in Cologne for the ESWC, we've managed to make him our first target - he was kind enough to oblige. We grabbed him and the demo of the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship grand final and boom! We've got a pilot:
Pardon the config and all the other imperfections, but this was really only a sput-of-the moment thing. Please test it on your friends, ask them what they didn't really understand and what they liked particularly. Drop a few hints on how to properly configure the game to display good information (scoreplums in player demos?) as well, and none of the ugly stuff (like "connection interrupted").
Off the top of my head, we need a short introduction of the rules, of the map layout and the basic map strategy on how to control it. This needs to be enjoyable for you, but for players of all other games as well.
What's good, what's great, where can we improve? In short: WE NEED YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM!
If you guys enjoyed this show, then make sure to support it by "liking it" on Facebook (Facebook.com/IEMtv). Oh, and one more thing. The "second pilot" of this show will feature Cooller explaining the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship DM13 game from the final against rapha.
Sweet?
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A few days after the ESL announced the National ESL league for North America, more informations were released about the main Quakelive event brought by ESL to the new world: the IEM5 American Championships.
The Regular Season will be played through 4 online qualifiers cups and The Big Bang 2010 LAN event. Also, 7 Online ESL Open Cups will be run for additional points and prizes. After that, DaHanG, the current American champion, and 15 qualified players will participate to the Playoffs during 4-5th September. And Finally, the Finals will be played with the best 8 players from the Playoffs in October in New York City.
Hopefully, something clearer will be published about the qualifiers and how exactly the slots will be given. Until then, here is a detailed schedule of the coming cups, qualifiers and events.
Regular Season: July 8 to August 26, 2010
- 4 Online IEM Cup Qualifiers
- 1 LAN Qualifier at The Big Bang 2010
- 7 Online ESL Open Cups for additional points and prizes
20:00 CDT, 8 July 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 1 (Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
20:00 CDT, 12 July 2010: IEM QL Regular Season Cup I (Top 3 to IEM Playoff Cup - Prize: Premium Membership + Cup Points)
20:00 CDT, 15 July 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 2(Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
20:00 CDT, 19 July 2010: IEM QL Regular Season Cup II (Top 3 to IEM Playoff Cup - Prize: Premium Membership + Cup Points)
20:00 CDT, 22 July 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 3 (Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
20:00 CDT, 26 July 2010: IEM QL Regular Season Cup III (Top 3 to IEM Playoff Cup - Prize: Premium Membership + Cup Points)
20:00 CDT, 29 July 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 4 (Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
20:00 CDT, 5 August 2010: ESL QuakeLive Open Cup 5 (Cup Points + Divisional Placement - Prize: Premium Membership)
5-9th August: The Big Bang 2010 (???)
The first Quake Live EPS Season has come to an end! Are you from the Benelux and did you follow EPS Season 4 and do you want to make a chance to play on stage like the top4 did? Do not hesitate to sign up in our EAS Ladder. We need enough activity on the EAS Ladder to be picked as a game for EPS season 5.
Join our EAS Ladder and end first to qualify directly or between the top4 to make a chance on the 1st Division
Once in the 1st Division, you have to end first to qualify directly for EPS or between the top5 to participate in qualification playoffs against the EPS4 5th / 6th / 7th / 8th
Once you reached EPS, make sure you end between the top4 to qualify directly or be sure you win your playoff match!
Following his latest victory, adding the ESWC Grand Finals title to his list of accomplishments, Shane "rapha" Hendrixson talked in a video interview to SK Gaming about his tournament play in Paris.
The American who is on an unbelievable streak of international victories talked about what that feeling is like, to be on that streak and to add another title to it. Looking to the future he also discussed his desire to win Quakecon and follow in the footsteps of ZeRo4 by winning multiple titles there.
rapha explained his thought processes in the finals against av3k and how he came to lose his series against Stermy in the second group stage.
Clanbase EC QL Duel Spring 2010 is coming to an end with LB Finals being played at 14:00 CDT, 4 July 2010 (tonight) between smoke and madix. Winner of this match will play in Grand Finals with Sc00T in the next week (the exact date yet to be announced).
Complete playoff tree can be seen on the CB rankings page.
Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 4 July 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 4 July 2010 Schedule: Passed
The 39th 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!
To try to cover as many games as possible, Jay "2GD" Harding and the Swedish pimp Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani will be on one stream, while Rod "Slasher" Breslau and Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham will be on the other stream. (djWHEAT may wake up late and I will have to do things solo for a little while).
Group Stage 2 - Group A (casting by 2GD and proZaC)
03:30 CDT: R1 - av3k vs strenx (TV1 HQ+LQ) // rapha vs stermy
04:15 CDT: R2 - rapha vs strenx (TV1 HQ +LQ) // stermy vs av3k (livestream)
05:00 CDT: R3 - rapha vs av3k (TV1 HQ+LQ) // strenx vs stermy (livestream)
Group Stage 2 - Group B (casting by Slasher and djWHEAT)
03:30 CDT: R1 - Cooller vs DaHanG (TV2 HQ+LQ) // Cypher vs noctis (livestream)
04:15 CDT: R2 - Cypher vs DaHanG (TV2 HQ+LQ) // cooller vs noctis
05:00 CDT: R3 - Cypher vs Cooller (TV2 HQ+LQ) // noctis vs DaHanG
08:00 CDT: Semi-final 1 - DaHanG vs rapha
08:40 CDT: Semi-final 2 - av3k vs Cooller
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GameSports.de & 
ZOTAC bring you the 
ZOTAC StarCraft II Beta Cup, starting on Sunday 07:15 CDT, 11 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.
Liquid'TheLittleOne 3-0 
attax|Socke 2:1 
mouz.Strelok
DeviL.balu 0:2 
Millenium, 
sc2tv.ru, 
glhf.tv
#zotac.sc2
guard, 
kRoNic
Gabo
MatoD, player who managed to be in the quarter-finals in both 3rd and 4th qualifier cups. Complete players list can be found on 
deji
Chupavi
UwU
boojja
Quake Live qualifiers. We will host four Quake Live qualification tournaments where the top 4 from each qualifier will advance to our online finals to meet with 16 invited players, making it a total of 32 European players.
ESWC Finals 2010 will take place from Thursday to Sunday at the New Port Bay hotel in 