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Dreamhack QL & QW Seeds+Groups released! (153 comments)

( Major News: Q1 QL)

Posted by blaze @ 16:07 CST, 23 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

When Dreamhack Winter 2009 is just days away the seeds have finally been made and released for both Quake Live and Quake World.

Unfortunately a few players dropped out of the tournament. PURRI and bodzo couldn't make it of various reasons, time and money being the major ones. They were replaced by the players who were next in line: the former Dreamhack Quake admins

Dronar and

SobriuS.

ZeroQl had troubles getting a visa and was replaced by the runner up in the Serbian QL Qualifier:

rmd!

Åke Vader and

lakso couldn't make it to the Quake World tournament either. Åke Vader because of work and lakso because of school. Both of them were replaced by the players next in line:

vo1ce and

snapcase.

Quake Live Seeds

Quake Live Groups

Quake World Seeds

Quake World Groups

Together with the seeds and groups the full rules have been added for both games. Most notably is that QL uses the "ESWC-style" for picking maps (both players remove one map each before picking maps) and QW uses regular map picks (requested by the community).

Links: Quake Live Rules, Quake World Rules, No source!

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Pros vote Dreamhack to be AGP Sanctioned (176 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 08:12 CST, 23 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

The Association of Gaming Professionals recently held a vote with its Pro Members on whether Dreamhack should be approved or not for AGP Sanctioning. The vote was based on the very late details released of the tournament like prizemoney, if it is to be LAN or server based (Quake Live), and monitors and computers used. All these things are factored into decision making of if a LAN tournament is to be AGP Sanctioned or not because it is not fair to those players traveling to book the travel details for such a tournament early only to find out the prize money is very low or doesn’t exist, instead giving hardware, for an example. Dreamhack has a stellar record of paying prize money on time and holding very well ran tournaments that are consistent, which plays an important role in this vote as well.

The vote required a majority vote and was elected to be AGP Sanctioned. The point breakdown is listed below. Usually the penalty in AGP Ranking points for such a late detail release would put this tournament at 500 points for 1st. However, because it is a 32 player, non invite tournament, and that most North American players are attending, it will be treated at 1000. Look for their streaming schedule very soon.

AGP Ranking Points for Dreamhack

Tomorrow the AGP will be releasing details on the election for European player representation.

Links: AGPTour -

#agptour, Facebook, Twitter

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Game On Cup #5 Rankings (21 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 17:55 CST, 22 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 22 November 2009 to 18:00 CST, 22 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The Cups #5 of the Intel Game On are now mostly over. You can find below the known rankings for each region/country, this post will be updated when the last matches will be over. For the results of the fourth cups, you can check the previous post.

Russia/CIS

Poland

DACH

UK

France

Spain

Italy

Turkey

MEA

The Cups #6 will be played on Wednesday 25th of November, and the sign-ups are already open: Russia/CIS, Poland, DACH, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, MEA.

Links: Game On - Cups #1 + Nordic, Cups #2, Cups #3, Cups #4

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G Data Quakelive Cup Hall of Fame (6 comments)

( Major Coverage: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 13:30 CST, 22 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

All winners at a glance (currently 36 out of 36 finished):

Overall rankings

1. Kevin "strenx" Baéza (12)
2. Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky (6)
3. Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira (4)
4. Marius "GUard" Ivanauskas (3)
5. Adrien "burnedd" Denis (2)
5. Anton "Cooller" Singov (2)
5. Marcel "k1llsen" Paul (2)
8. Konrad "prox_pl" Kubala (1)
8. Bogdan "bodzo" Mazur (1)
8. Richard "noctis" Gansterer (1)
8. Shane "rapha" Hendrixson (1)
8. Maciej "Av3k" Krzykowski (1)

Cup list

Cup #1: prox_pl
Cup #2: k1llsen
Cup #3: bodzo
Cup #4: Spart1e
Cup #5: Spart1e
Cup #6: Spart1e
Cup #7: Spart1e
Cup #8: Cypher
Cup #9: GUard
Cup #10: Cypher
Cup #11: Cypher
Cup #12: noctis
Cup #13: GUard
Cup #14: rapha
Cup #15: burnedd
Cup #16: strenx
Cup #17: Cypher
Cup #18: strenx
Cup #19: Cypher
Cup #20: strenx
Cup #21: strenx
Cup #22: strenx
Cup #23: strenx
Cup #24: strenx
Cup #25: Cooller
Cup #26: Cypher
Cup #27: Av3k
Cup #28: strenx
Cup #29: strenx
Cup #30: burnedd
Cup #31: Cooller
Cup #32: GUard
Cup #33: strenx
Cup #34: strenx
Cup #35: strenx
Last Cup: k1llsen

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ASUS Autumn 2009 ONLINE - Finals (89 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by xou @ 07:00 CST, 22 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: Asus Aut'09

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 22 November 2009 to 10:45 CST, 22 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The

CIS countries still haven't given up on

Quake 3! Started a few days ago with a huge Group Stage (80 players), the ASUS Autumn 2009 ONLINE will see its first Playoff games starting today around 10:00 CDT.

From the group stage, 24 players made it to the 1st playoff brackets. Now 8 experts players will join them in a 32-slots Double Elimination brackets which will be played as best-of-3.

Then the best 8 players from this brackets will advance to the 2nd playoff where 8 masters players will join them. Again DE brackets will be used with bo3 matches. The 2nd playoff will start Sunday at 10:00 CDT.

Experts list

Masters list

Update The finals are played on LAN today with Amai'sD, RazerJibo and srs/rzr/Cypher. The format consist of one group where all players will play against each others in bo5 matches. All results can be found on c58.ru.

Rankings

GTV:

gtv.c58.ru:27970 - IRC:

#asus.q3
Links: Cyberfight.org, Participants, Group Stage, 1st Playoff, 2nd Playoff, Finals

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ZOTAC Quake Live Cup #8 is over! (49 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 03:47 CST, 22 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 22 November 2009 to 12:45 CST, 22 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

Seven weeks, seven cups and the saga continues: the 8th edition of our weekly ZOTAC QuakeLive cup is set up for registration. Feel free to sign up until today at 08:00 CDT].

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.

Update: From 156 signed up players 122 actually checked in. Famous players participating in ZOTAC #6 were

xlo^fazz,

k1llsen,

srs\rzr\cypher,

jilc4ke/froZen,

LLL*dem0n,

srs\rzr\av3k,

mouz|cooller,

FF|prox_pl and many more.

Rankings:

1. k1llsen - 100€
2. srs\burnedd
3. srs\cypher / tox1c

Stream: HolySh1t & own3D (german commentary)
Links: Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive - Tourney tree - Hall of Fame

Edited by shorrty at 12:58 CST, 28 November 2009 - 19217 Hits

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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 16:00 CDT 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

Edited by xou at 22:46 CST, 21 November 2009 - 1339 Hits

G Data announces weekly Quake Live Cup (94 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 07:00 CST, 21 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 21 November 2009 to 13:00 CST, 21 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

G Data just announced a new weekly Quake Live Duel tournament series with 100€ for the first place that will be played every Saturday.

Starting from 07:00 CST, 21 November 2009 every week players have the chance to earn themselves 100€ and AGP ranking points. The tournament page can be found on gdatacup.com, sign ups open from now on.

Quick Facts

Final standing

1st: FF|prox_pl - 100€
2nd: BVG|guard
4th: xlo^madix / srs/rzr/burnedd

Stream: watchquake.ru
Links: Tournament page - Brackets -

#gdata.qlive

Edited by shorrty at 13:22 CST, 22 November 2009 - 27111 Hits

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EMS5 QL TDM - Playday 2 (31 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:36 CST, 19 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

The Playday 2 of the EMS5 Quakelive TDM is getting late. Because this week, we already are in the Playday 3 and some games are still missing. Here are the results of the matches which were played and the possible dates of those which weren't.

4Kings vs refuse to Lose

Excello vs viRus

Creative FearFactory.. vs Night Killers

notexec vs two-point-o

LowLandLions.ql vs dRAILED

Solid Ziigmund vs eldvakt

fnaticMSI.ql vs 3-4-metilendioximeta..

k1ck don't have any match planned in Playday 2 as

pstarZ recently got kicked from the EMS5 after the 2 protests made by

LLL.

Links: EMS5 Quakelive, Results, Groups rankings, Playday 1

Edited by xou at 16:15 CST, 23 November 2009 - 13453 Hits

IEM4 American Championship Group Matches (47 comments)

( Major News: QL)

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

Edited by xou at 07:19 CST, 19 November 2009 - 13770 Hits

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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 16:00 CDT 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

Edited by xou at 16:59 CST, 18 November 2009 - 35776 Hits

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Dreamhack Winter 2009 Prize Update (88 comments)

( Major News: Q1 Q3)

Posted by blaze @ 12:08 CST, 17 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

This winter's hottest Quake tournaments has now cleared some of the question marks regarding the tournament. The prize distribution has been revealed! The DreamHack crew are currently working around the clock with finalizing the details for this event. The tournament will most likely be played at LAN servers, if no unforeseen technology problems comes up. Expect the seeds for each game to be released this weekend and we can also announce that ALL Quake Matches will be played on Samsung 2233rz 120Hz LCDs.

Quake Live

Quake World

Very important info regarding the payment of cash prizes!

Source: Dreamhack.se

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EMS5 QL TDM: k1ck vs LLL (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by lolvc @ 04:22 CST, 17 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

Scheduled: 14:15 CST, 17 November 2009 to 15:45 CST, 17 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

As I'm playing for derailed instead of k1ck in the EMS I am able to bring you guys this great match-up in week 2 of the EMS5 TDM:

K1ck eSports vs LowLandLions (Bet / Match details)

The Lineups:

K1ck eSports: eden, abso, GaRpY, zsx
LowLandLions: draven, forever, dem0n, Q50, rax

The "nVc is always right" prediction of this game

Stream: levelupyourgame.net
Links: EMS5 QL -

#lvl^, #esl.quakelive

** UPDATE **

k1ck win 2-0 on dm6 and dm14, vods online at www.levelupyourgame.net > click on-demand on go through quake live > esl > major series filters

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ZOTAC Quake Live Cup #7 is over! (102 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 03:05 CST, 15 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 15 November 2009 to 13:00 CST, 15 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

Six weeks, six cups and the saga continues: the 7th edition of our weekly ZOTAC QuakeLive cup is setup for registration. Feel free to signup until Sunday, the 15th of November 08:00 CDT.

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.

Participated players will be av3k, burnedd, cooller, fazz, guard, madix, smoke, spart1e, strenx, tox1c.

Update: From 148 signed up players 107 actually checked in. Famous players participating in ZOTAC #7 were

cooller,

av3k,

guard,

strenx,

spart1e and many more.

Rankings:

1. srs/rzr/av3k - 100€
2. mouz.cooller
3. fnatic\strenx / fnatic\Spart1e

Stream: holysh1t.net, own3d.tv (german)
Links: Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

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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 13:00 CDT. The sign-ups for this cup will remain open until 12:30 CDT, 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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