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ESWC Masters of Athens 2008 participants (367 comments)

( Major News: Q3 WC3)

Posted by Zerter @ 12:22 CDT, 22 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'09

The international participants for the

Electronic Sports World Cup's Masters of Athens have been announced.

They are:

Quake III: Arena

av3k -

2007

Chance

Cooller -

2003,

2004,

2005,

2007

Cypher -

2006,

2008

fox -

2004,

2005

Jibo

K1llsen -

2008

Linkin

Makaveli

Noctis

Rapha -

2008

Toxjq

Warcraft III participants

Announced as well are the computer regulations and computer specifications.

Tournament regulations

Computer specifications

Source: ESWC

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Quake Forever Returns! (331 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Dronar @ 07:26 CDT, 19 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: DHW'08

Scheduled: 03:00 CST, 27 November 2008
Schedule: Passed

Date: November 27-30, 2008
Event DreamHack
Location: Elmia - Jönköping, Sweden

The success continues! Quake Forever returns to DreamHack Winter 2008!

Once again the best players in the worlds most explosive gaming series gathers in

Jönköping to fight for the title of "Quake Forever Champion".
This winter we're planning 3 tournaments to find out who's the quickest, the most tactical and the best team player.

QuakeWorld returns once again to DreamHack, but this time in the long lost form of Team Deathmatch.

Quake III Arena also returns with the new game mode of CPM. More speed, more action!
The upcoming success

Quake Live storms into DreamHack with a 1on1-tournament. Who's the next king of FPS?

As it's not certain if QuakeLive will be released in time for this event, the game may be changed to Quake III Arena (VQ3)

Tournaments

Signup

Current Signups

External Links:
DreamHack Winter 2008

#DreamHack.Quake

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The EuroCup Invites (39 comments)

( Major News: CoD CoD CS:S ET UT3)

Posted by Ins0mnia @ 13:33 CDT, 14 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: EC XVIII

The invites for the 18th season of the

ClanBase EuroCup has been started. The teams and players that are going to play for this Online cup are slowly getting known. Sadly not via the promised video show. According to ClanBase, the location they are wasn't fully prepared for it and there for ClanBase couldn't do anything else then to stop it and continue via I.R.C. Which is of course a disappointment for anyone.

The invites are now live on #EuroCup (QuakeNet).

MoHAA

Invited Teams

Call of Duty 2

Invited Teams

Counterstrike Source

Invited Teams

Call of Duty 4

Invited Teams

Enemy Territory

Invited Teams

Unreal Tournament 3

Invited Teams

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"We need to be more imaginative." (34 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by xou @ 12:43 CDT, 14 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'09

Our favorite Polish e-sport journalist

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz once again managed to catch one of the key men behind the ESWC for another interview:

Matthieu Dallon. They discuss subjects such as the Masters events, the last ESWC Finals in USA and the games chosen for ESWC 2009. Here is a short extract:

Have you ever regretted any of ESWC’s game choices?
No. But I regret some games we have not chosen and I really understand the disappointment of some communities, but we cannot work with all the good games. We have to represent families of games, we have to make choices valuable worldwide, we have to favour the most popular titles and we also have personal affinities.

Feel free to read the entire interview on SK-Gaming.com. Also, you can still find the video interview from the ESWC 2007 Finals with the same fascinating individuals on GGL.com

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ClanBase EC18 live show tomorrow (26 comments)

( Major News: CoD CS:S ET UT3)

Posted by Ins0mnia @ 07:19 CDT, 13 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: EC XVIII

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 14 September 2008 to 15:00 CDT, 14 September 2008
Schedule: Passed

Tomorrow

ClanBase will announce all the teams and players that are invited for the ClanBase EuroCup XVIII and each season ClanBase did this via IRC or a live radio show during their EuroCup invites. This season is different, this year ClanBase will have a video show LIVE from the lan-centre

Outpost in Antwerp, Belgium.

The show will be hosted by no other then

Kristof "Einh" Kennes. ClanBase states that the video link isn't known yet. However, five minutes before the show they will put the link up so you can follow it as you wish.

Anyway tomorrow's schedule will be:

The Schedule

For other information, visit ClanBase or visit them on IRC at #EuroCup (QuakeNet).

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ESWC Masters of Athens 2008 announced (125 comments)

( Major News: Q3 WC3)

Posted by Zerter @ 11:45 CDT, 12 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'09

Scheduled: 02:00 CDT, 17 October 2008
Schedule: Passed

Electronic Sports World Cup just announced the ESWC Masters of Athens to take place from October 17th to 18th and will feature

Quake III and

WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne competitions.

Both games will have a 15.000$ prize pool and 12 international participants as well as 4 Greek champions. The champions of the event will receive an auto-berth to ESWC 2009.

Those interested in applying to enter the event can do so here until September 21, participants will be announced the next day, seeding will be announced October 8th and groups will be announced October 10th.

Snippet ESWC Athens announcement

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First Pool of Official Games for ESWC'09 (204 comments)

( Major News: CS Gaming Q3 WC3)

Posted by TUMULT @ 13:48 CDT, 11 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'09

Electronic Sports World Cup today announced the first pool of games titles for ESWC 2009 video games competitions worldwide: Counter-Strike 1.6, Quake 3, Warcraft III and Trackmania Nations Forever.

The first line-up of games selected as ESWC 2009 official disciplines are:

•

Counter-Strike 1.6 (PC) (c) Valve Software
•

Counter-Strike 1.6 (PC) reserved for women (c) Valve Software
•

Quake 3 Arena (PC) (c) ID Software (the game version could be subjected to modification with the release of Quake Live)
•

Trackmania Nations Forever (PC) (c) Nadeo
•

Warcraft III : The Frozen Throne (PC) (c) Blizzard

All tournaments are open to male and female players except CS 1.6 Women. In the coming weeks, the ESWC Committee will announce further titles that will take part in ESWC global competitions, including most probably a football game and a RPG-like title. The 7th season of ESWC will start in October with National Preliminaries worldwide and a series of ESWC Masters tournaments to end summer 2009 with the ESWC Grand Final event.

source

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LowLandLions interviews top COD4 Teams (15 comments)

( Major News: CoD)

Posted by Bocerbo @ 15:17 CDT, 3 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: i34

The LowLandLions community website decided to host a whole series of interviews with a player in each of the top teams across Europe and even North-America concerning the three big LANs during August.

Each interviews takes the interviewee chronologically through the events, discussing their performance in the most interesting games and how the teams handled defeat and victory. Besides that the interviews have been tried to keep as up-to-date as possible, by asking questions concerning possible line-up changes that happened after the event due to disappointing results.

MYM Morg
Pandemic - Nabore
TEK9.Stevy
Fnatic/LINQAN
Ravens fRiJeC
Infused.revoltz
eSuba.Mazarini
Dignitas.Mick
H2k.vazy
[R] rzE
LLL.doekoe
bb\mofje
EG.Wombat

Have fun reading the interviews, it surely will take up quite a while to read them all. Thanks to all the players who agreed to answer the LowLandLions' questions.

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Interview with k1llsen, forsees retiring (144 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Slasher @ 06:54 CDT, 2 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

A video interview from ESWC 2008 with

Marcel "k1llsen" Paul after his victory over

Zhibo "RazerJ" Fan in the semifinals, leading to the grand final match against

Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky. Paul talks about his mindset heading into the finals, his overall thoughts about this year's ESWC, and his plans to retire from gaming. Special guest appearance by

Anton "Cooller" Singov.

The interviews with Cypher and

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson will take a bit longer due to the length of each.

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ESWC Interviews: Czm, Cooller, chance (107 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Slasher @ 19:42 CDT, 29 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

In case you missed them, Slasher and Carmac of SK-Gaming.com have conducted four video interviews from ESWC 2008 with

Paul "czm" Nelson,

Anton "Cooller" Singov,

Chance "chance" Lacina, and

Tom "griffin" Wall.

Post-event interviews with

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson,

Marcel "k1ller" Paul, and

Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky will be up shortly.

czm after his stage match loss to Cypher:

Chance after his win over Cooller

Cooller after his stage match win over ZeRo4

griffin on his ESWC performance

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WCG Admin Talks Drug Use in E-Sports (56 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by lolograde @ 08:53 CDT, 28 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: WCG'08

Gameplayer.com.au has an interesting interview with the Australian tournament admin for the WCG on the topic of drug use in E-Sports.

Excerpt,

"In one WCG, a player I knew took amphetamines an hour before his match to boost his reflexes. His team ended up losing the match, although it certainly had an impact - his performance helped his team to win one map out of three - it kind of hits home that only the really talented will come out on top in the end."

The rest of the interview can be viewed here gameplayer.com.

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ESWC Quake3 Finals - Cypher wins (1003 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Nicky @ 02:16 CDT, 27 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 25 August 2008 to 21:00 CDT, 26 August 2008
Schedule: Passed

It's over. Handshake between Cypher and K1llsen. POV demos can be found on the ESWC FTP.

Final Standing:

Map Pool:

GTV:

Scorebots:

Group Stage 1

Groups:

Matches and Fixtures:

Group Stage 2

Groups:

Matches and Fixtures:

Final Bracket

Matches:

Main Stage Schedule:

ESWC Finals :: Quake3 Schedule :: LIVE Stream :: Demos

#ESWC :: #ESWC.Q3

Seedings & Groups :: ESWC 2008 got Dirded

Cooller threatens to punish ZeRo4, Eastern Trio talks

Pre-ESWC talk: chance, rapha, dkt

Slasher interviews czm on losing to Cypher and his Quake 3 career

Slasher interviews griffin on his ESWC performance and the difficult monitors

Carmac interviews Cooller on ZeRo 4 and an unfair system

German coverage at fragster.de

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ESWC 2008 Finals Q3 Seedings & Groups** (475 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by xou @ 13:45 CDT, 23 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 18 August 2008 to 10:00 CDT, 18 August 2008
Schedule: Passed

Today, the seedings for the ESWC 2008 Finals games were published on eswc.com. The first group stage will feature 4 groups of 6 players, 2 players per group will then process to the 2nd group stage made of 2 groups of 4 players. The seedings will be as following:

Top seeds
High seeds
Challengers

Update 2 - Due to the numerous drops, the ESWC organizers have decided to change the group stage layouts. The first group stage will now feature 4 groups of 6/7 players, 2 players per group will then process to the 2nd group stage made of 2 groups of 4 players. The new groups are as following:

Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D

As stated in the pools drawing news on eswc.com:

The pool composition could be subjected to modification according to possible late withdraw of team or player.

Seeds PR - Groups PR - Groups

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( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Bob @ 17:04 CDT, 21 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

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ZeRo4: "I enjoyed losing so much" (298 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Carmac @ 19:55 CDT, 20 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

SK Gaming has added its share of pre-ESWC hype with a 15-minute video interview with

John "ZeRo4" Hill, one of the most accomplished players in the history of Quake 3.

The interview was conducted at the ESWC Masters of Paris, ZeRo4's first event after a four-year sabbatical from competitive gaming. During the conversation the SK player shares his views on the current state of Quake 3, how it changed and evolved and on how he finds himself in it.

The video with the most fascinating of individuals is definitely a must-see for every Quake fan. View it below:

1on1 with John "SK.ZeRo4" Hill

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