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G Data QL Cup #14 is over! (410 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 04:23 CST, 27 February 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 27 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 27 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

Once again the cup format will 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 consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.

Quick Facts

Update: Checked-in players so far:

qrebo,

DaHanG,

griffin,

chance,

rekkth (Cooller),

cypher,

GUard,

rapha,

smoke,

Appleseed,

Reaper,

Evil,

burnedd,

k1llmaster,

av3k,

tox1c,

bodzo.

Final standings:

1. rapha - 100€
2. av3k
3-4. Cooller, DaHanG

Links: Tournament page - Tournament bracket - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive
Streams: own3d.tv, lvl^, holysh1t.net

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EMS5 QL TDM - Rankings (74 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 12:50 CST, 25 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

Scheduled: 14:00 CST, 25 February 2010 to 15:30 CST, 25 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

After quite a big delay, the Grand Final of the ESL Major Series V QL TDM will finally take place tonight! Starting at 15:00 CDT, the match will see 4Kings from the Lower Bracket opposed to fnaticMSI. The kings will need to win two bo3 sets to claim the victory. The video streaming will be provided by holysh1t.net and lvl^.

4K 1-2 fnatic (Bet / Match details + demos)

Line-ups

Rankings

Links: Announcement, Brackets, holysh1t.net,

#esl.quakelive
Subliminal message: Win ESL TV Premium keys for IEM4 World Champ. Finals

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QLNC'10: The last group games (8 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 12:15 CST, 24 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

The very last games of the QL Nations Cup 2010 are now being played. Some of these matches will be very important for some teams to earn their spot in the playoffs. These will start next week and use the DE & bo3 system.

Tonight Hungary will face both Italy and Poland starting at 16:00 CDT!

Schedule of the last matches

Links: QLNC'10 , twitter, #quakequickcup
Streams: http://www.own3d.tv/derquaker

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ESL announces EMS VI (33 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 14:27 CST, 23 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: EMS6

Some cups from the 5th season of the ESL Major Series are not yet finished, but tonight the ESL Already announced the EMS VI! This new season will feature a total of 13 000€ in prize money for the 14 cups planned. It will take place between March and July 2010.

Cups details

Compared to seasons 4 (20 500€) and 5 (15 500€), which both included 14 cups, the overall cash prize is still getting lower. For Quakelive TDM, this second appearance in the EMS will be rewarded with 750€ while the first one offered 1 000€.

Links: Announcement, EMS VI

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ClanBase NationsCup - 3rd week (3 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 07:22 CST, 22 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: CB NC13

Update: Three games to be played tonight as seen in schedule down here. If

Belgium don`t show up tonight in their game vs

Poland, it will be their second no-show and kick from the TDM cup ...

Serbia fights

UK and interesting to see if they could beat them in CTF as they did in TDM yesterday. And we also got

Hungary vs

Switzerland in TDM match.

Important: If any game need to be rescheduled or moved to another date, admins must be contacted (PerpetualWar for CTF /TDM and Astral for CTF). Otherwise, double no-show might be applied. Rules can be found down below.

We are at middle of the group stage with 3rd week ahead of us.
Unfortunately a lot of games has been rescheduled already and many wildcards have been used and some teams even had their first forfeits. Look for the schedule and results down here.

Schedule

Results

Links: Rules update-Demos Policy, CTF NC, TDM NC, Twitter
Calendars: CTF, TDM
Rankings: CTF, TDM
Rules: CTF, TDM
Player stats: CTF, TDM

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IEM4 World Championship Finals *update2* (227 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 05:07 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Update 2: The ESL announced that

Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani won't be able to attend the World Championship Finals and will be replaced by

Brian "coL|dkt" Flander in Group B.

Update: The schedule of the competition is now available.

The conclusion of the Intel Extreme Masters IV will start in less than 2 weeks during the CeBIT in

Hannover with the World Championship Finals. Yesterday, the ESL staff announced the tournament format and the prize money details for Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft and Quakelive.

Tournaments format

Prize money details

Links: Game format information, Prize Purse

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #20 is over! (56 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 04:59 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 21 February 2010 to 12:00 CST, 21 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

Let's make it twenty - once again the cup format will 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 consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.

Quick Facts

Update: ZOTAC #20 is running now with players like

mouz|cooller,

stermy,

k1llsen,

BVG|guard,

evil,

fnatic\strenx and many more!

Final standings:

1. fnatic\strenx - 100€
2. stermy
3./4. BVG|tox1c / BVG|GUard

Brackets: click here
Streams:

qlivechannel -

FLY-CORE -

tv.holysh1t.net
Links: Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

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Fnatic.com interviews ESL's Carmac (25 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by roychez @ 12:11 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

In a serie of interviews for the ESL Extreme Masters IV World Championship Finals, Fnatic.com now interviews ESL's Product Manager

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz.

Carmac is a well known figure in the scene, as he has done much for it and has a wide knowledge of eSports. The reporter and Carmac talk a little bit about the impending IEM IV World Championships, his work behind the scenes, WoW as an E-Sport, Quake Live and its inception into the Extreme Masters, and more!

You can find the interview on fnatic.com.

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G Data QL Cup #13 is over! (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 03:28 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 20 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 20 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

Once again the cup format will 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 consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.

Quick Facts

Update: GData #13 started with players like

srs\Cypher,

srs\av3k,

k1llsen,

srs\burnedd,

evil,

Drz|uaReaper,

BVG|guard and many more.

Final standings:

1. BVG|GUard - 100€
2. xlo^madix
3./4. Evil / agentJkezooR

Stream:

nightcookie &

dubcat &

Holysh1t TV &

lvl^
Brackets: click here
Links: Tournament page - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

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ENC Quakelive needs more captains (78 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 17:17 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: ENC'10

The European Nations Championship 2010 was announced a few days ago and

Quake Live TDM 4v4 will be one of its game. We already received many captains applications for some countries, but a few nations are still missing applications. As the deadline to send your application in on Sunday, we urge the players who want to stand up for their nations to send us an email at enc.application@esl.eu.

The following countries for Quakelive need more captain applications:

Belarus,

Croatia,

Slovenia,

Luxembourg,

Czech Republic,

Greece,

Bosnia Hercegovina,

Lichtenstein,

Israel,

Turkey,

Switzerland,

Norway,

Estonia,

Lithuania.

Confirmed countries

Link: ENC 2010

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ClanBase NationsCup - 2nd week (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 12:19 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: CB NC13

Update: Today we will have a couple of interesting matches to be played, so give it a look in the schedule section below.
Reminder to all captains to post the scores on Cup forum, if the admin or referee is not there for your match.

Second week of the ClanBase NationsCup has started so you can find schedule down here. Few matches from the last week are rescheduled for this week, like Finland vs Switzerland in CTF and Germany vs Switzerland in TDM where Switzerland took the wildcards for both games.

Schedule

Results

Links: Rules update-Demos Policy, CTF NC, TDM NC, Twitter
Calendars: CTF, TDM
Rankings: CTF, TDM
Player stats: CTF, TDM

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Chance speaks of new Quake Guide (67 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 15:30 CST, 17 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

4Seasons Gaming has managed to interview ESL IEM World Championship qualifier,

EG's Chance "Chance" Lacina. The North American is famous throughout the world for writing the Quake Bible, and I'm sure a lot of people will be ecstatic to hear that Chance is planning on writing another guide.

Excerpt

Read the full interview on 4seasonsgaming.com.

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QLNC'10: Group stage review (36 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Legie @ 18:30 CST, 15 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

Since we're approaching the last one week of the QL Nations Cup 2010, I would like to summarize what has been already played and what's ahead of us in the upcoming two weeks.

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Now, 3 of the most important matches are ahead of us:

United Kingdom vs

Russia,

Netherlands vs

Sweden and

Hungary vs

Italy. We wish them all the best luck to in these fights which will decide who goes into the playoff.

The last thing I want to mention is we already started working on Colossem 2 for QQC QL NC 2010 nationscup. There you can download and watch a short preview.

Schedule of the last matches

Links: QLNC'10 , twitter, #quakequickcup

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Intel Game On Final Rankings (62 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:05 CST, 15 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

It appears the Intel Game On International Finals came to an end these last days with the final opposing

fnatic/strenx to

Stermy. Unfortunately, there wasn't much coverage of the matches and many players didn't show up for their group matches. Hopefully some demos should be available soon. Here are the final rankings:

1st. fnatic/strenx - Alienware M17x Laptop, Three day trip to CeBIT 2010 in Hannover, Germany, VIP pass to IEM4 Final at CeBIT, €150 spending money
2nd. Stermy - Roccat SDMS Bundle consisting of: Kova Mouse, Arvo Keyboard, Sota Mousepad, Apuri Mousebungee / USB Hub
3rd. noctis - All our love

If you missed them, you can also check the rankings for each region as well as the winners of the ROCCAT lotteries on the ESL website

Links: Group stage, Playoff, Game One

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DaHanG: I tend to play 10-15 hours/week (21 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by fnaticStreeT @ 03:28 CST, 15 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

With the Extreme Masters World Finals just around the corner as part of our run-up coverage to the event we had a chance to talk to the American Quake Live superstar;

Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty.

DaHanG qualified for the World Finals in a stunning fashion with the highlight being his defeat of another American juggernaut on the Quake Live scene, rapha. We asked DaHanG about his practice schedule, how the distance he has to travel affects him at European events and how it felt to beat a player like rapha in the qualifiers and plenty more for your reading pleasure.

Excerpt

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