ESR - Coverage

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 11:51 CDT, 30 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

Tonight we finally released the groups for the ESL Major Series Quakelive TDM 4v4. 16 teams are divided in 4 groups, and the top2 from each group will advance to the playoffs (DE). All matches will be played as best-of-3. The first games will start next week! For more informations, you can have a look at the news posted on ESL.

Groups

Seedings

Schedule

Source: Announcement, Group stage

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IEM European Championship Details (8 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 11:21 CDT, 30 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

As announced yesterday the Intel Extreme Masters European Championship will have four qualifiers Cups with the top four of each cup joining the 16 invited players for a regular season with 32 players. Today the ESL announced the details about the qualification cups and also the first five invited players.

Qualification Cup Schedules

Qualifier Rules

Here are the first five invites for the European Championship, the next five will be announced on Sunday and the last six will be announced on Tuesday.

European Championship Invites

Source: Qualifier Announcement - Invite Announcement

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IEM European Championship (87 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 09:59 CDT, 29 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The ESL just announced a change for the Intel Extreme Masters European Championship. They increased the number of participants from 16 to 32 players online and the top 16 will play in the offline finals instead of the top 8. That change also includes that now 12 players will meet in the World Championships in Hannover instead of 8.

That also means that the prize money for the European Championship is increased to $5,200 for the online group stage. The offline prize money stays at $8,000, that makes a total of $13,200 for the European Championship.

16 players will be invited directly, while another 16 players can qualify over four qualification cups. The top four of each qualification cup will join the Intel Extreme Masters European Championship.

Qualification Cup Dates

Prize money overview

The first five invites for the European Championship will be announced tomorrow.

Source: Official Announcement

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Game On Cup #1 Rankings (59 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:19 CDT, 29 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

Considering the amount of rankings gathered for these first cups, the previous post just won't be updated. So here is a brand new post for the results of the first cups of the Intel Game On tournament. Mostly all matches were played yesterday evening, except for two 3rd place matches in DACH and UK.

Russia/CIS

Poland

DACH

UK

France

Spain

Italy

Turkey

MEA

Also, here are all the Nordic cups' rankings as well as the final rankings.

Nordic

Congratulations to the MEA and Turkish players for playing with such high pings (they still don't have any Quakelive servers)! Feel free to post links to demos in the comments. You can also watch the VOD of the ESL TV show which covered the Nordic semi-finals and final (fox vs spart1e), and the Russian/CIS final (Cooller vs Cypher)!

The Cups #2 will be played on Sunday 1st of November, and the sign-ups are already open: Russia/CIS, Poland, DACH, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, MEA,

Source: Game On

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Intel GameOn QL Cups tonight + ESL TV! (103 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by therogue @ 14:00 CDT, 28 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

Tonight is the first night of cups (for all countries/regions except Nordic) in the Intel Game On Quakelive cups that are in cooperation with the Intel Extreme Masters by ESL.

ESL TV coverage tonight!
ESL TV are planning to coverage at least one match tonight from the fourth and final Nordic cup. Check out ESL TV tonight from 16:00 CDT! There is a good chance you will see one of

fox,

Spart1e or

madix playing!

Sign ups will be open until half an hour before the cups begin, at 8pm (local time for each cup). Remember, everyone has a chance to at least win some ROCCAT hardware so please don't be afraid to sign up and play!

Sign up to tonight's cups!

Prizes

Road to finals

Game On countries/regions + Links to sign up

Source: none!

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American Championship schedule *updated* (67 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:28 CDT, 27 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Today ESL announced the detailed schedule for the IEM4 Quakelive American Championship . It's now money time and each game won will be rewarded with $75. Due to the late announcement, players are given a free wild-card for their first match to get it rescheduled.

The first matches are planned to begin at 22:00 CDT, 28 October 2009 with

Griffin versus

relic and

LoSt-CauZe vs

sparks at 22:30 CDT. We're trying to get coverage for most matches, but so far we still need to wait before announcing anything.

Update: Fixed the dates which were wrong due to the newser using European timezone in the source.

Complete schedule

Groups

Source: ESL, American Main Round

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ZeRoQL wins Serbian Dreamhack Qualifier (38 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 10:24 CDT, 27 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

The Serbian Dreamhack Qualifier was held on October 24, 2009 in the Core Gaming Center. 8 Quake Live players who qualified online participated. The big prize was a trip to Sweden for competing in the Dreamhack Quake Live Duel Tournament that will be held 26/29 November. The Results are:

1st: ZeRoQL
2nd: Remedy
3rd: PartyB

Participants

Links: Tournament Site (not updated) - Demos - Players picture

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EMS TDM Qualifier Cup #4 VODs (31 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 11:00 CDT, 26 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

Shoutcasting team Level up,

nVc and

Disrepute, did some live castings of the EMS Season 5-Qualifier Cups.

Because there is no GTV available and pretty much no coverage of TDM yet, they streamed games from the qualifier cup #3, and #4 on last sunday. Sometimes TDM players joining them so the comments they make should be a bit more in depth. Level Up try to have in the future more "pro" players on the castings, like they had with

deus yesterday.

Top 4 teams of each of the 4 qualifier cups went directly to the ESL Major Series. This 4th EMS TDM Qualifier Cup it was LowLandLions, fnatic, refuse2lose and East Front. It was very late the last matches were played, fnatic won.

EMS TDM Qualifier #4 VoDs
refuse2lose vs steam, refuse2lose vs northstar, East Front vs refuse2lose, fnatic vs refuse2lose
nvcgamer.eu/lvlup - press play, then at the bottom of that it says "on demand" > Quake > ESL > Extreme Masters

Teams in the ESL Major Series finals
So now we have the 16 teams that are going to the ESL Major Series finals! Isn´t it great?!

Qualified Teams

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ESL Dubai QL Highlights Video by the AGP (84 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:33 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The AGP presents a complete highlight video from the entire ESL Quake Live Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge in Dubai. The tournament was intense some amazing highlights. Hope you all enjoy.

Featuring:

Shane "SK|rapha" Hendrixson

Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky

Richard "vtL/noctis" Gansterer

Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson

Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira

Alessandro "fnaticstermy" Avallone

Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov

Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty

Zhibo "RazerJibo" Fan

Pierre-Emeric "fnatic\l1nkje" Portier

Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina

Pelle "xlo-fazz" Söderman

Felix "mTw|smoke" Pafel

Anas "spammah" Llyas

Kévin "fnatic\strenx" Baeza

Michael "xlo-madix" Hindersson

ESL Dubai featuring Quake Live's Best

Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support of these great classic matches!

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ZOTAC Quake Live Cup #4 is over! (64 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 06:51 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

The 4th edition of the weekly ZOTAC Quake LiveCup will take place this Sunday starting at 08:05 CDT, 24 September 2025. The sign-ups are still open until 08:00 CDT, 24 September 2025 so be sure to check their homepage and sign up.

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. Also the best player will be rewarded with 100€.

Signed up well known players until now are

k1llsen,

mTw|smoke,

quad|psyr3x,

faculty|siLw,

xlo|fazz,

xlo|madix,

bodzo and

BVG|guard.

Update:
From 95 players who sign up, today 71 players checked in for the 4th cup. In the grand final, fazz faced arguably Germany's strongest player, k1llsen. Cup is now over, and the winner is fazz.
Be sure to sign up for next weeks cup at qlive.zotac-cup.com!

Rankings

1. xlo^fazz - 100€
2. k1llsen
3. mTw|smoke / Arm3D`pulseh

Demos

Stream: Holysh1t (english) & GameSports (german)
Links: Tourney tree, Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive on irc.quakenet.org:6667

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Dreamhack: Complete QL signups (261 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 15:08 CDT, 20 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

Today all of the players that's going to have the opportunity to play Quake Live at Dreamhack got accepted into the tournament site.

32 players, most of them picked by performance of LAN and online tournaments but also a few that comes directly from the Dreamhack Qualifiers for Quake Live in Portugal, Serbia and South Africa.

Signups:

These signups is not in any particular order.

If any players from this list should drop out the players from the waiting list will be added. We'll use the "First signed, first served" method, so those who signed up first will be the first ones to get into the tournament from the waiting list.

The full list, rules and prices can be found at Dreamhacks E-sport site.

Update

Yes, cooller is signed and accepted into the tournament! :D
Source: Blaze in the comments section

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EMS5 QL TDM Qualifier #3 is over (37 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:27 CDT, 20 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

The 3rd Quakelive TDM 4v4 Qualifier Cup for the ESL Major Series V takes place tonight and will start around 11:00 CDT. So far, 14 teams are already signed up, and the sign-up process will still be running until 11:00 CDT.

All matches are played as bo3 in single elimination brackets. The top4 teams will see themselves qualified for the EMS5 season after 2 rounds, but all the matches will be played for seeding purposes.

Update: The cup is now over. Here are the rankings:

1st. Solid Ziigmund (dash1, Gandhi, feeder, s7ry)
2nd. two-point-o (epiotic, ouzo, wit, kekkie)
3rd. eldvakt. (bl4jnd, nite, Ironbyte, zscope)
4th. 3-4-metilendioximetanfetamina (ChOu, Dabra, Centinela, DosK)

Qualified teams

Link: EMS5 Quakelive -

#esl.quakelive

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Global Challenge Dubai QL 1v1 is over (812 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 16:01 CDT, 19 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 02:40 CDT, 19 October 2009 to 12:20 CDT, 19 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

The second Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge to feature a Quakelive competition, after the Pro/Am Challenge of Cologne, will take place in

Dubai during the Gitex Shopper & Consumer Electronics Expo. A plethora of fine duelers including

rapha,

noctis,

spart1e,

DaHanG,

Cooller and many more will battle for the $6,500!

Many games will be covered by

2GD,

Joe and their friends on ESL TV with single and free 700kbps streaming. All the group matches will be played as best-of-3, then the top2 players from each group will advance to the playoff, played as best-of-5.

The day 3, as well as the Quakelive tournament, is now over (Day #1 & Day #2 posts/comments are still available). Don't forget to check the VODs on ESL TV and grab some demos from the match links!

Thanks to all the ESL staff for that great tournament and excellent coverage!

Final rankings

Playoff results

Groups B & D's results - Day #1

Groups A & C's results - Day #2

Groups

Map choice procedures

Useful links

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Intel GameOn QL Cup by ESL *Update 3* (129 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by otacon @ 09:25 CDT, 19 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Intel Game On together with the Intel Extreme Masters by ESL will host a series of Quake Live cups for players from around Europe and the Middle East. The first cup to kick off will be the Nordic Cup #1 on the 18th of October.

Update: Intel have been reading your feedback and have added Iceland to the Nordic region!

Update 2: Ireland is now included with the UK, and Russia has been expanded to include the CIS countries.

Update 3: The first Nordic cup took place last night with

fooki beating

linkoo in the grand final. Sign up for the second cup is open now!

Nordic cups details

Game On countries/regions

The top 16 players from each country/region will qualify for their national/regional finals for the chance to win these prizes:

Prizes for each country/region
- 1st: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition i7-965
- 2nd: Intel® Core™ i7 processor i7-940
- 3rd: Intel® Core™ i5 processor i5-750
- 4th: ROCCAT™ Kone – Max Customization Gaming Mouse

The best player from each region also qualifies for the international final: The Intel® Extreme Masters GameOn Cup – Finals. We will release further information about the other countries/regions next week.

Source: ESL Nordic Cups announcement

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Global Challenge Dubai QL 1v1 - Day #2 (496 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 16:29 CDT, 17 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 18 October 2009 to 13:15 CDT, 18 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

The second Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge to feature a Quakelive competition, after the Pro/Am Challenge of Cologne, will take place in

Dubai during the Gitex Shopper & Consumer Electronics Expo. A plethora of fine duelers including

rapha,

noctis,

spart1e,

DaHanG,

Cooller and many more will battle for the $6,500!

Many games will be covered by

2GD,

Joe and their friends on ESL TV with single and free 700kbps streaming. All the group matches will be played as best-of-3, then the top2 players from each group will advance to the playoff, played as best-of-5.

The day 2 matches covering Groups A and C are now over and saw the qualification of rapha, fox, Cooller and DaHanG. A new post will cover Day #3 as well as the brackets announcement from Lo3.

Monday's schedule - Day #3

Saturday's results - Day #1

Sunday's results - Day #2

Groups

Prize money distribution

Map choice procedures

Useful links

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