ESR - Coverage

The first matches of the IEM5 Quakelive European Championship are starting this week. All the matches are default scheduled to Wednesday after 15:00 CDT, and one of them will be picked up by ESL TV. All the games are played as bo3 and the maplist is as following: Aerowalk, Blood Run, Dismemberment, Furious Heights, Hektik, Lost World, Vertical Vengeance.

Also, as

Balk won't be able to participate in the tournament anymore,

Kenneth "plaZmaa" Aulie is taking his place in Group B (Announcement)!

Playday 1

Streams: ESL TV, Level Up TV
Links: IEM5 EC QL, Results, Groups,

#masters.ql

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LAST CHANCE TO QUALIFY FOR MSI BEATIT (323 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 07:12 CDT, 27 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: Beat it

UPDATED: Postponed qualifier #2 will be hosted on Saturday, 30th with the start at 17:00 CET. This was because it clashed with the Dreamhack Qualifier, which has now been changed from 14:00 start to 13:00 CET.

As many of the players required, we have moved Qualifier #2 to Saturday, 30th of October. Seeing as there is IEM night on Wednesday and some players have to commit to their work and other non e-sports related stuff, we have met their need and postponed the qualifier.

This last qualifier will however differ from previous two as not 4 players will qualify for MSI BEAT IT QuakeLive tournament at DreamHack, but 3 slots will be available for Sweden. The reason is the confirmed invitation of

Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager, famous Quake player.

Qualifier on Saturday will be played in best-of-three format from the beginning just like the previous one. Level UP Tv will of course be there to provide stream for your viewing pleasure.

Prize purse

Qualified players

Qualifier tournaments

Statement from Danijel "StreeT" Remus, Operations Manager of FnaticMSI PLAY

Links: Fnatic.com, Level Up TV

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Quake Live Update - October 26, 2010 (313 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 03:44 CDT, 27 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: QLPP

Todays

Quake Live Premium Pak 3 features more than just 4 new/old maps, it also includes balance and physics changes, some chat tokens, fixes, FreezeTag and map adjustments.

Most notable, Chain Jumping was added, the Quad Damage multiplier was reduced from 4x to 3x and the step height adjusted from 18 to 22. Read the full changelog below.

New Premium Maps

Code Updates

- Added Chat Tokens for Subscribers. Works on online servers when used in 'Team Say' messages:

#h - Current health value
#a - Current armor value
#w - Current weapon & ammo count
## - To print the character '#'

- Added Chain Jumping (Small acceleration boosts gained by performing closely timed sequences of jumps).
- Added 'Thaws' to the in-game and end-game scoreboard in FreezeTag
- Added AutoThaw in FreezeTag, frozen players now auto-thaw after 120 seconds.
- Added thaw tick sound in FreezeTag.
- Added cg_drawCrosshairTeamHealthSize upon request, to allow you to set the font size (between 0.10f and 0.26f) of the teammate health/armor read-out on teammate crosshair hovers.
- Added 'find' command to substring (case-sensitive) search the console history
- Changed FreezeTag such that Quad & Battle Suit power-ups do not persist across FT rounds.
- Changed the nailgun to now fire 10 nails @ 12 damage each (instead of 15nails x 8dmg).
- Changed the nailgun spread from 500 to 400.
- Changed the nail speed from 900 to 1000.
- Changed Flight power-up into a holdable jetpack, hold the 'use' key to boost.
- Changed Quad factor from 4x to 3x.
- Changed Spectator CompHud Scoreboard highlight color, it (yellow) proved illegible on most streams and projections for Duel. I've kept the use of cg_team_colorized in team gametypes, but now use a higher contrast gray in non-team gametypes.
- Changed Stepheight from 18 to 22.
- Changed the default 'rate' value from 8000 to 16000, now restrict its range from 8000 to 25000.
- Fixed hitching that would occur when connection was lost to the XMPP network.
- Fix for telefrags not killing spawn protected players in instagib (which resulted in them becoming invulnerable, instead of telefragged).
- Fix for double countdown in FreezeTag.
- Fixed alias command string limit getting truncated to 64 instead of the full 256 characters.
- Fixed cg_forceEnemyModel defaults to now properly load "keel/bright".
- Fixed old qzdm3 demos to now properly redirect to 'hearth' instead of 'arenaofdeath'
- Fixed bot item knowledge, bots should better time items.

Notable Map Updates

Web Updates

pmove speculation

Source: quakelive.com, quakelive.com/forum

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Video: reload on his way to the IEM (45 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by swine @ 15:33 CDT, 26 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The EPS-Player

Philipp "reload" Kotecki participated as one of the underdogs in the last chance qualifier for the European Mainround of the 5th Intel Extreme Masters season. During that tournament he had to play against a few of the top players, like another EPS-Player

Sebastian "abso" Wanek or

Alessandro "stermy" Avallone. stermy was his opponent in the semi-final and reload managed to put up a decent fight against the italian powerhouse. He also had to face the Dignitas player

Dan "zsx" Sanders.

Fragster.de took his demos from both games and uploaded them as videos.

Links: Demo vs zsx, Demos vs stermy

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EuroCup XXII - Fourth match week (73 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 13:59 CDT, 25 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: EC XXII

We are in the fourth match week with only one more left to be played in the group stage. While in Group A we got two group leaders with 3 wins and 0 losses (4Kings and alpha), Group B has METSU, FLiNE and iM as leaders. Unfortunately NK dropped the cup due to not having enough players interested in ql anymore. Check rankings for full overview.

~~14:00 CDT, 25 October 2010 NK - FLiNE~~
~~15:15 CDT, 25 October 2010 NK - faces~~
14:30 CDT, 26 October 2010 4K - mow - wildcard
~~14:30 CDT, 26 October 2010 NK - action~~
14:00 CDT, 27 October 2010 evo 0-2 alpha - (Match report & demos)
14:00 CDT, 28 October 2010 iM 0-2 FLiNE - (Match report & demos, lvl^ VOD)
15:00 CDT, 28 October 2010 dr 0-2 xt - (Match report & demos)
15:00 CDT, 31 October 2010 aCtion 0-2 METSU - (Match report & demos)

Match week #3

Match week #2

Match week #1

Official streams: lvl^, TV.HS
Links: EC XXII, Rankings, CBooky,

#clanbase.ql,

cbqlcrew

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #55 (94 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:20 CDT, 24 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 24 October 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 24 October 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 55th ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. As usual it will consist of SE brackets using the bo1 format until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. The prize still is 100€ for 1st place!

Quick Facts

Final rankings:

1st. k1llsen - 100€
2nd. GUard
3-4th. Nitrino / fire_bot

VODs: Level Up TV
Links: Tournament page, Brackets,

#zotac.qlive // HoF

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New players for Dreamhack Winter! (78 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by blaze @ 10:20 CDT, 22 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

Update: lvl^ will be cover the qualifiers! Stay tuned for more info.

The Kasperskys Quake Live Championships tournament gets better and better. Today 3 new players were invited, to make the lineup even more impressive:

spart1e,

noctis and

k1llsen. The Grand Final of Kasperskys Quake Live Championship will as usual be played at our very own Dream Arena Extreme. With room for 1100 shouting fans this is something out of the ordinary.

Tournament Schedule

Player List

We're also announcing an official online qualifier for the Kasperskys Quake Live Championships. If you want a wild card, here's your chance. Sign up on PlayDH and make sure that you'll take this chance!

The qualifier will be played on Saturday the 30th of October. Starting with check-in at 06:00 CDT in #Dreamhack.Quake and the qualifier starting at 07:00 CDT. The winning player will receive a Wild Card into the tournament.

Links: Announcement, Online Qualifier,

#Dreamhack.Quake

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IEM5 EC Group Stage announced - Updated2 (161 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:55 CDT, 21 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The groups of the IEM5 European Championship have just been announced today! For Quakelive, 30 players were split in to 6 groups of 5. All matches will be played as bo3, and each victory will be rewarded with a bonus of $50. After this group stage, the 12 best players will be qualified for the European Championship Finals and get another bonus of $150.

The default date for the Quakelive matches is Wednesday 15:00 CDT and ESL TV should cover the best match of each week on this time.

Groups

Schedule

Update: Since Cny will remain banned from Quakelive, it was decided to remove him from the tournament. His slot will be handed to the winner of a match between the 2 players who finished at 4th rank during the last chance qualifiers:

plaZmaa vs zsx

(Details). The match should be played Saturday 23rd around 14:00 CDT.

Update 2:

Daniel "zsx" Sanders will replace Cny in Group F!

Link: Announcement, IEM5 EC QL,

#masters.ql

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ZOTAC QL Hall of Fame 2010-2011 (7 comments)

( Major Coverage: QL)

Posted by xou @ 05:36 CDT, 21 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

All winners at a glance:

2010-2011 rankings

1. Kevin "strenx" Baéza (18)
2. Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski (5)
2. Nikolay "agent" Mayorov (5)
2. Sebastian "spart1e" Siira (5)
5. Marcel "k1llsen" Paul (4)
6. Anton "Cooller" Singov (3)
7. Sergey "evil" Orehov (2)
7. Marius "GUard" Ivanauskas (2)
7. Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky (2)
7. Pavel "pavel" Fomkin (2)
11. Michael "mAdix" Hindersson (1)
11. Pelle "fazz" Söderman (1)
11. Boris "Amai" Vitaly (1)

Cup list

Cup #53: k1llsen
Cup #54: av3k
Cup #55: k1llsen
Cup #56: GUard
Cup #57: strenx
Cup #58: strenx
Cup #59: strenx
Cup #60: mAdix
Cup #61: agent
Cup #62: Cypher

Cup #63: strenx
Cup #64: av3k
Cup #65: strenx
Cup #66: Cooller
Cup #67: agent
Cup #68: Cooller
Cup #69: canceled
Cup #70: spart1e
Cup #71: spart1e
Cup #72: strenx

Cup #73: evil
Cup #74: strenx
Cup #75: k1llsen
Cup #76: spart1e
Cup #77: evil
Cup #78: strenx
Cup #79: strenx
Cup #80: strenx
Cup #81: agent
Cup #82: strenx

Cup #83: strenx
Cup #84: Cooller
Cup #85: av3k
Cup #86: av3k
Cup #87: GUard
Cup #88: k1llsen
Cup #89: fazz
Cup #90: av3k
Cup #91: strenx
Cup #92: strenx

Cup #93: spart1e
Cup #94: Cypher
Cup #95: agent
Cup #96: strenx
Cup #97: agent
Cup #98: pavel
Cup #99: Amai
Cup #100: strenx
Cup #101: strenx
Cup #102: pavel

Cup #103: spart1e
Cup #104: xxxxxxx

Related: HoF 2009-2010, Old brackets (before #79)

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EuroCup XXII - Third match week (17 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 13:48 CDT, 18 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: EC XXII

Third week will be busy one, since we have several games from previous weeks scheduled again due to Wildcards being taken at the time.

:: Match week #3

14:00 CDT, 18 October 2010 dr 0-2 alpha - (Match report & demos, HS VOD - Map 1, HS VOD - Map 2, lvl^ VOD)
14:00 CDT, 19 October 2010 xt 0-2 alpha - (Match report & demos, lvl^ VOD)
14:00 CDT, 20 October 2010 METSU 2-0 faces - (Match report & demos, lvl^ VOD)
14:30 CDT, 20 October 2010 4Kings 2-0 dr - (Match report & demos)
14:30 CDT, 20 October 2010 NK - FLiNE - wildcard
14:00 CDT, 21 October 2010 faces 0-2 FLiNE - (Match report & demos, lvl^ VOD)
14:30 CDT, 21 October 2010 evo 0-2 mow - (Match report & demos)
15:00 CDT, 24 October 2010 iM 2-1 aCtion - (Match report & demos)
14:00 CDT, 24 October 2010 iM 2-0 faces - (Match report & demos)

Match week #1

Match week #2

Official streams: lvl^, TV.HS
Links: EC XXII, Rankings, CBooky,

#clanbase.ql,

cbqlcrew

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New invites and map pool for Dreamhack (138 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 06:47 CDT, 18 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

Three new players were today invited to join the fight with

av3k,

Cooller,

fox and

DaHanG to win the Kasperskys Quake Live Championship 2010.

Invited Players

Along with the invites the map were also made official. A slight change from the previous big tournaments and since the maps were tweaked and a few was added.

Map pool

Another pleasant surprise is that Level Up Tv will be the official streaming partner for Dreamhack Winter 2010.
Level Up will send a team of experienced shoutcasters and broadcasters to Dreamhack to provide on site coverage. We at Dreamhack thinks this is a major step in the right direction to get you the best Quake Live event ever!
More infos and schedule will be released at Level Ups site.

Stay tuned for the next update, where possible online and international qualifiers will be announced, more players and the tournament schedule!

Source: Dreamhack.se

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Level Up TV announce their DHW2010 Plans (35 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by lolvc @ 06:29 CDT, 18 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

Level Up TV announce the plans to celebrate their one year anniversary this November 2010; a team to travel and provide live on-site video coverage of not one, but two Dreamhack Winter 2010 Quakelive Tournaments!

1. Fnatic Play MSI BEAT-IT 1v1 Tournament on the 25th November 2010.
2. Dreamhack's own Kaspersky 1v1 Tournament on the 26th and 27th November 2010.

Details on who we're sending:

As an organisation, we are well aware of the difficulties that broadcasters often face when initially taking on the huge task of covering live events on-site, and as such we wouldn’t want to over promise and underachieve. However with an unquenchable thirst for coverage we can with full confidence promise to provide both our HQ and LQ livestream with special guest commentary from both pro-gamers and James "2GD" Harding (When we can get him away from the Stunlock Studios Stand!).

In addition to this, being on site will allow us to provide the supplementary video-on-demand content following the event that we've not yet previously had the opportunity to work on - such as; group interviews, Exhibition video tours and our teams evening antics to display that unique festival atmosphere DreamHack is so famous for.

If you have any comments regarding specific improvements we could make to our existing video streams, or any ideas on how you think we should cover DreamHack Winter 2010 then please direct your comments to levelupyourgame@gmail.com or reply to this post.

This is our first live event and as such, our team are financing this on our own terms. However if you have thoroughly enjoyed the coverage we have brought to you thus far and would like to contribute toward the costs of the additional equipment we require to move toward live event coverage for the forseeable future then please, we welcome all donations through our counter on the right hand side of our website and here: http://leveluptv.chipin.com/leveluptv-dreamhack

About Level Up TV:

Related: Related: Website and donations

, Steam Group, Announcement

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