ESR - Coverage

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( Major Article: Q3)

Posted by Bob @ 15:12 CDT, 20 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

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ESWC 2008 Interviews + drop outs (10 comments)

( News: Q3)

Posted by Bob @ 20:31 CDT, 13 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

In the build up to the ESWC Finals in

San Jose a number of the participants have agreed to answer a number of questions for us. The interviews are listed below and more will come over the following days...

dkt

4K^ddk

xgo

toxter

Known drop outs

Thanks go out to those who have agreed to do interviews.

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QCon: where Guitar Hero beats Quake (404 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Carmac @ 13:22 CDT, 12 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

It is been over a week since QuakeCon's final was played but not everything about it has been written. The story of the closing show of QuakeCon did not quite make it to the esports press until today.

A new video and a column by Carmac show an interesting perspective on an event where they encourage people to leave before the QuakeLive final starts and players have to wait three hours to start playing.

Those Two Dudes Back There

Here is a mandatory quotation from the article:

Then we sat through over an hour of Guitar Hero 3, a Quake tattoo show, a quick draw match, a Bawls drinking contest, about an hour or more of t-shirt throwing and contests for the first people to bring a bra / a pokemon item / whatever else to Marty Stratton for a Corvette lottery ticket. The list is longer but I would rather forget than remember the items on it.

The finalists sat tired and hungry, and jetlagged in the case of Cypher, as this dragged on for three hours while Hollenshead and Stratton took their sweet time entertaining the public.

You can read the entire thing right here.

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QCON Quake Live pre-final video footage (3 comments)

( News: QL)

Posted by Bob @ 13:06 CDT, 12 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz of SK Gaming has released footage of a presentation taking place on stage before the Quake Live 1v1 finals at Quakecon.

The footage includes

Vo0 chatting up an unknown girl and another girl giving away a bra in exchange for a ticket for a prize draw. It also shows

Cypher being told he has to wait until it's all done as well as how the MCs have no idea about the Quake Live tournament that took place or previous Quakecons.

It's worth a watch so make sure you check it out.

Carmac has also written up his thoughts on the event over at SK Gaming.

Exerpt:
"The finalists sat tired and hungry, and jetlagged in the case of Cypher, as this dragged on for three hours while Hollenshead and Stratton took their sweet time entertaining the public."

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Mojo's Boring ESWC Canada Gallery (2 comments)

( Major Gallery: Q3)

Posted by meat man @ 01:32 CDT, 8 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Hooray.

First Image >>

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That was QuakeCon 2008 (165 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 10:51 CDT, 7 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

Before this years QuakeCon faded away in our memories, here are a few videos from the event.

Enemy Territory.TV overs us the Carmack Keynote and Press Conference plus the Fatal1ty interview.

Now see what QuakeUnity deliver us, note that from time to time some new videos arrives. The shoutcast of the videos is provided by Michal "Carmac" Blicharz, Rod "Slasher" Breslau, Brian "destrukt" Flander and Stuart "Django" Ewen.

Carmack Keynote QuakeCon 2008

1v1: Griffin vs. ZeRo4: 3 Maps (new)
1v1: ZeRo4 vs. Rawfuh: 2 Maps
1v1: ZeRo4 vs. Rapha: 2 Maps
1v1: ZeRo4 vs. Chance: 3 Map Set (Chance kicks Zero4 in the Lower Bracket)
1v1: Rapha vs. Cypher Map2 (contains short Cypher Interview)
1v1: Fox vs. Cypher: Map1
1v1: Chance vs. Carnage Map1
CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map1
CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map2
CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map3

Roger from QuakeUnity:
And don't forget about the QuakeLive 1v1 and CTF finals videos. The 1v1 finals video has been edited and just needs to be rendered and uploaded. It will contain all the in-game footage of the 2 maps played between ZeRo4 and Cypher along with video from main stage and award ceremony.

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ESWC Finals: Qualified players updated (299 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Nicky @ 02:38 CDT, 6 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

The qualified player list for the

ESWC Finals was updated a while back (apparently). One player has been replaced and 4 players added.

Full List of Attendees:

Additions:

Qualifiers Cancelled:

Previous News Post
Brought to my attention by this forum post made by oreozz

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ESWC.ca - Griffin, Bono qualify (99 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by meat man @ 19:57 CDT, 5 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 4 August 2008 to 21:00 CDT, 6 August 2008
Schedule: Passed

Quake is finally live at the ESWC

Canadian national finals at the lavish Polish Community Centre in East Vancouver. 6 players are here to compete for 2 final spots in San Jose for the ESWC Finals. ALL Demos have now been uploaded, links can be found below in "Results".

Players:

Results:

Final Standing:

More Important News:

ESWC Canada/Vanlan - Day 1 Report by advent™

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QuakeCon 2008 (419 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nicky @ 02:36 CDT, 2 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

Scheduled: 11:00 CDT, 2 August 2008 to 00:00 CDT, 3 August 2008
Schedule: Passed

Matches are now over at QuakeCon. Results of the QUAKE LIVE 1v1 Championship and the QUAKE LIVE CTF Championship can be found below.

Demos are now available for the bracket matches HERE !!! ,the finals of 1v1 and CTF.

QuakeLive demo help:

Quakewars Demos

QUAKE Wars demo help:

Roger from QuakeUnity has begin to upload shoutcast videos
CTF rage_vs_inninitforthemoney (3 Maps)

QUAKE Wars final shoutcast video:

1v1 (complete)

Map List:

Players:

Prize Distribution:

Final Standing:

Results:

CTF (complete)

Map List:

Teams:

Prize Distribution:

Final Standing:

Results:

Galleries:
friday night until saturday
friday
thursday

SK Gaming QuakeCon Articles:

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QuakeCon so far (268 comments)

( Major News: ET:QW QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 08:03 CDT, 1 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

Press conference from id Software & Keynote speech from John Carmack

Live Blog @ IGN
Summary @ Quake Unity
Key points @ SK Gaming

Shacknews: The highlights from press conference

id Details Rage Gameplay

Game Videos:
Wolfenstein extended trailer
Wolfenstein PCGames video Interview
Rage extended trailer

Articles
Carmack Video Interview' @ Gamevideos - John praises and bashes consoles
Which id Game Mosts Interests You? @ Voodoo Extreme - Poll with Rage, DOOM IV, Wolfenstein, Quake Live
id & EA Interview @ Gamasutra - they talk about their relationship on 5 pages
Quake Live Preview @ GameSpot
d Software's Tim Willits Talks Rage @ Gamespy

QuakeLive website with a redesign
Wiki description of QuakeCon

Some Coverage

EnemyTerritory.tv - Coverage of the ET:QW Tournaments, streaming video, event blogging
[ technical problems, they filming the matches from monitors, oh boy... ]

Picture gallery Wolfenstein booth babes @ Big Download

QuakeLive 1v1 Tournament

Top players in QuakeLive Tourney: Zero4, Carnage, Chance, Destrukt, Blt, Griffin, Cypher, Fiend, Cl0ck, Rapha, Vo0, Daler and Fox

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id Press Conference & Carmack Highlights (93 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by RogeR1 @ 23:02 CDT, 31 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

QuakeUnity.com has a write up on the id Software press conference and John Carmack keynote. A much smaller than usual crowd was on hand to listen to id Software's press conference followed by John Carmack's keynote here at QuakeCon 2008.

The main highlights of the press conference were the official DOOM4 announcement and the announcement of Wolfenstien RPG and Doom II RPG from id Mobile, the cell phone gaming division of the company. Very little new information was given about id's upcoming title Rage. Compared to last year's very exciting announcements of Quake Live and the Wolfenstein movie, this year was fairly uneventful.

I'll be working on getting the video up sometime tomorrow. Technical difficulties relating to being rushed to setup and not being able to properly test our equipment before are the reasons for the delay. :(

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ESWC 2008 Finals: Qualified players (126 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by xou @ 10:19 CDT, 31 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Here the list of the players who are already qualified/invited for the

ESWC 2008 Finals in

San Jose during the NVISION 08 event. For all we know, the Canadian Quake 3 qualifiers are still to be played (4-6th August).

From the National Qualifiers:

From the ESWC Masters Paris 2008:

World Defending Champion:

Sources: Official list -

esportsfrance.com

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Quake Live Debuts To Masses At QuakeCon (175 comments)

( Major News: Q3 QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 20:51 CDT, 30 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

QuakeUnity will be providing exclusive video coverage of QuakeCon 2008's tournaments, which will include the debut of public footage from id software's new project, Quake Live. Starting Thursday, July 31st, the QuakeUnity coverage team will be live on-site in Dallas, providing video-on-demand high definition video as well as live audio for the $12,500 Quake Live 1v1 and the $12,500 Quake Live 4v4 CTF tournaments. These tournaments will showcase the first public footage of id software's return to Quake. Footage will also be available of John Carmack's keynote as well as any other special presentations by id.

Former Radio iTG commentator

Stuart "Django" Ewen and Quake journalist

Rod "Slasher" Breslau will be broadcasting matches along with various special guests throughout the weekend. All videos will be produced on-site in 720p high definition and be made available for download and streaming via flash video very soon after they are shot. Multiple versions of each video will be available for download along with the option of choosing either a high quality h264 or a standard quality flash video stream.

Several of the best Quake 3 players in the world will be on-hand to play in the Quake Live tournaments and showcase their skills for the world. Legendary professional gaming multi-millionaire

Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel will be on hand to give his thoughts about the future of the Quake series. Currently the spokesman of the Championship Gaming Series, Wendel jump-started his gaming career and business franchise by winning Quake 3 tournaments nearly a decade ago. Wendel will be joined on-hand by his CPL World Tour rival Dutchman

Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager, American Quake 3 superstar

John "ZeRo4" Hill, and the ESWC Masters 2008 Q3 champion,

Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky.

Id Software's thoughts on Quake Live:

Id Software's John Carmack and Marty Stratton recently did a round of interviews with several major web publications about Quake Live and the future that the game holds.

Marty Stratton on Quake Live's userbase:

"When we started this, we were originally thinking it would be maybe a six-month project, to sort of wrap a website around Quake III, and get it out. And here we are almost a year later and it's just about to roll into a larger beta. On the other hand, when we first paced this thing out, there were really solid arguments that could be made that we would see 50,000 users, 500,000 users, or 5 million users. We really didn't know. There were at least two orders of magnitude of uncertainty as far as how many people would be interested in playing something like this. Some of that has at least been relieved now by the fact -- I was very happy to find over 100,000 people signed up for our beta with no promotion, no advertising, anything like that. Which in hindsight I suppose makes good sense, there are one to two thousand people usually playing Quake online when you sample, which means there's a community of many tens of thousands of active Quake III players still, nine years after the game was released."

John Carmack on the advertising that will support Quake Live's ability to be free:

"It's worth noting that I've never been a big supporter of in-game advertising in conventional games because I definitely do feel that if you're playing 50 to 60 bucks for a game, throwing advertising in on top of it is…there's a justifiable reason for some people to be upset about that. Quake Arena was always much more of a sporting arena combat sort of thing where integrating advertising directly into the game doesn't even feel like a tacky bolt-on. In fact what we've done with Quake Live is all of the original levels have been passed over and brought up to a modern level of polish where eight or nine years ago when Quake Arena would have been out, the state of the industry accepted a lot of things like mismatched texture seams and things that just weren't quite up to the level of attention to detail that we follow now. All the levels have had a pass through them bringing the attention to detail to modern standards without changing anything fundamentally in the graphics engine, just touching up all the data. They've also then been modified so that all the levels have billboard type things in them which are nicely integrated with spotlight lighting and so on in there where we can stream in-game ads as well as of course things that happen on the scoreboard and when you die and so on. It's a perfect fit for this type of thing because it's not a matter of taking some game we just happened to have around and throwing up ads that you can't skip in between every level or something like that, it fits well with the original tone of the game."

Marty Stratton on Quake Live's surprisingly graphical appeal:

"One nice thing, just to add to that, is that the game now basically runs automatically at whatever resolution your monitor is at. It just detects and does that automatically. Obviously it starts out in a web browser, you can play it at any point in a web browser interface with your friends list on one side, but just going full-screen, it automatically goes to the maximum your monitor will support. So if you've got a monitor that's over HD resolution, the game just looks ridiculous. It's amazingly crisp and sharp. Even compared to modern games, you lose a lot of the jagged edges, just because you can run at such a high resolution. Any system you've bought in the last three years, even at the highest resolution, is still going to run it at 120 frames per second

QuakeUnity will be conducting it's own lengthy interview with both John Carmack and Marty Stratton at QuakeCon. All things Quake Live will be discussed in addition to forthcoming titles Doom 4, Rage, Wolfenstein 2, and what's going on with the next Quake Arena game.

Sources:

ShackNews

1UP

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SK|rapha: ‘French food is bleh’ (283 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by nineX @ 13:43 CDT, 30 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Joe “nineX” Szymkowicz had a chance to sit down with

Shane “rapha” Hendrixson, of SK-Gaming, after his trip to the ESWC Masters Quake 3 competition. Exhausted from the combination of jet-lag and an intense field of competition, Rapha talked about his future in gaming and some topics swirling around the deathmatch community.

Excerpt From The Interview

Head on over to GGL-Wire for the complete interview and keep an eye out for more interviews from the ESWC players.

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Quake 3 Map Statistics: October 2008 (38 comments)

( Major Article: Q3)

Posted by cYmoZz @ 13:24 CDT, 30 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

I made a little statistic how well the top players did on the different maps. I considered every player who attended at least two of the big Q3 events in 2008:

ESWC Masters Paris, GameGune,

ESWC Finals or

ESWC Masters Athen.

Top 5 on each map (min. 4 games on the specific map):

"player name" "number of wins" / "number of matches"