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DHW13 - Performance Awards Winners (76 comments)

( Major News: ESR QL)

Posted by Memento_Mori @ 05:04 CST, 30 December 2013 - iMsg

It's time to announce the winners of the Performance Awards for Dreamhack Winter 2013 Quake Live Championship. As you may know, these awards were suggested during the DHW 2013 Donations. After the tournament, we stated a selection process (1, 2), and now we finally have the outcome.

Winners

Congratulations to the winners! And a huge thanks to all the donors, without whom this would not have been possible.

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King of Newskool (16 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by spekyr @ 18:44 CST, 29 December 2013 - iMsg

Scheduled: 21:00 CST, 5 January 2014 to 22:30 CST, 5 January 2014
Schedule: Passed

After King of Oldskool, SpawnKill Tournaments is hosting yet another one day cup, this time based on newer maps. It is scheduled on Sunday, 5 January at 22:00 CDT.

King Of Newskool map pool

Points distribution

SpawnKill Point System Ladder

Tournament Admins

New enforced rules

Mwave.com.au will be powering up the competition now, so once someone has accumulated 100pts they will be able to select a product from their website at equal or less value of $70.

SpawnKill ODC is expanding to the

North American territory, vote for the preferred schedule here

Stream:

Diabz
Links: Sign-up,

SpawnKillODC

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Site summary for week ending 27 Dec (1 comment)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 29 December 2013 - iMsg

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SPL 2014 Day 2 Week 1 (6 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by esdf @ 15:08 CST, 29 December 2013 - iMsg

With Day 1 over, Day 2 of the first week of SPL is just around the corner. Action resumes tomorrow, on Monday 30th at 05:00 CDT. First game of the day is Samsung Galaxy KHAN vs Jin Air Green Wings (ex KeSPA Team 8).

KHAN vs Green Wings

KT vs CJ

Day 2 preview

Day 1 review (WALL OF TEXT)

First thing to grab the attention in this season's Proleague was the venue. The venue is amazing, well suited even for GSL/OSL finals (needs more seating capacity tho). SPOTV's touch to the Proleague comes in addition of Ace booths. The two booths are elevated above the regular booths and covered in a curtain so the viewers can't see the ace players of each team until the curtains drop. A touch that certainly adds to the suspension of waiting for the ace match.

Venue aside, the opening game of the season saw Team MVP obliterated (stomped, any adjective you want that describes ultra rape is fitting) by SK Telecom T1. There isn't much to write about, my only regret is that we didn't get to see Soulkey play. However, second game of the day was a real joy to watch, even going to the ace match.

Everyone expected IM to stomp Prime, perhaps not in the manner in which SKT T1 stomped MVP, but still - stomp was inevitable in everyones minds. The game kicked off as expected with Squirtle not having much trouble dispatching a CJ rookie, TerrOr. Even though Terror didn't play bad, he just couldn't cope with Squirtle's play, doing some really rookie mistakes (like forgetting to cancel 2 dead hatcheries). Next up was HerO against Jila and everyone expected an easy win for HerO, mostly because Jila (formerly known as GoJila in SC2 and Kal in BW) just recently got out of military. What happened was HerO losing his Mothership Core to a Phoenx and two Stalkers and that was pretty much all she wrote for HerO. Jila went on to 3Gate Stargate all-in and HerO typing GG in 8th minute of the game and Prime was back in this game. Even though HerO's PvP ain't really good, no one expected a build order loss against a guy who just got out of army. Next up was another PvP starring Creator vs YongHwa. What happened was another shock, not so much in YongHwa losing, but more in Creator cheesing. You could always count on Creator to play a straight up game. You could, at least. Early in to the game YongHwa found his base filled with cannons and abandoned the main and transfered the probes to his just completed Nexus on natural. Next up was YongHwa's turn to do something and possibly salvage the game, with Creator not having much units and MSC with no energy it looked as a possibility. Things were looking good for YongHwa, as he tried to snipe the MSC before it charge. Unfortunately for him, he sniped it too late. Creator pulled a clutch move, the milisecond before YongHwa sniped the MSC it charged and he successfuly threw down a nexus cannon to secure the map lead for Prime. IM sent out ByuL against yet another Prime protoss, Remember (aka Chance) in hopes to get the game to ace match. ByuL handled Remember easily with a really creative use of burrowed roaches and finished him off with hydralisks to get the game to ace match. Ace featured ByuL for IM and Creator once again for Prime. And once again Creator cheesed, this time unsuccessfuly as his 2gate proxy got scouted on time and handled easily by ByuL. Few moments later, the Prime protoss had no option but to gg out and lose the game for his team. Overall, Prime performed above expectations and showed that they're not here just to give free wins, like EG-TL once was.

Streams:

Youtube,

Twitch
Links: Team Liquid, Liquibets, Vods

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DeathMatch Radios Come Back 1v1 CPM Cup! (24 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Vi0Lat0Rs @ 17:36 CST, 28 December 2013 - iMsg

Scheduled: 18:00 CST, 4 January 2014 to 19:30 CST, 4 January 2014
Schedule: Passed

DeathMatch Radio is coming back from the shadows and would like to celebrate by hosting a

Quake 3 CPM 1v1 Cup! DMR will be broadcasting and recording highlight matches through out the tournament through Twitch.tv. The tournament will be held on January 4th at 7pm EST (5th January 01:00 GMT for EU residents)

Format

Map Pool

Registrations can be made at dmr1v1cpm.challonge.com/1v1cup. Stream will be live at 18:30 CDT, there will be a Half Hour Pre-Game Show before the tournament starts reintroducing DeathMatch Radio into the scene.

Stream: DmRadio1
Links:

Facebook, Sign-up

Due to Tourney.CC Failing - Our sign ups have been moved to
http://dmr1v1cpm.challonge.com/1v1cup

PRDX| earth_quake (32 comments)

( Major Movie: QL)

Posted by earth @ 14:25 CST, 28 December 2013 - iMsg




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Rating: 6.9 (27 votes)

A short fragmovie of and by

earth_quake.

Not much to comment here, but I hope you enjoy watching this! (And that you download it, rather than enduring youtube quality...)

Credits

Programs

Movie File - Stream () 0MB
- YouTube (260 clicks)
Movie File - Download () 1126MB
- DropBox (41 clicks)
- uZu (3 clicks)
- uZu (Active) (1 click)
- uZu (updated) (2 clicks)
- uZu (updated) (2 clicks)

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SPL 2014 Day 1 Week 1 (15 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by esdf @ 08:54 CST, 28 December 2013 - iMsg

The Proleague is finally here. New season kicks off tomorrow, on Sunday 29th at 05:00 CDT. MVP will go against SK Telecom T1 in what is to be the opening match of SPL 2014, followed by Incredible Miracle against Prime.

There is one more Proleague starting along with SPL, the FPL (Fantasy Proleague) which is hosted by Team Liquid. Only thing you need to do to earn some e-fame and e-dollars is to create your own team within the next 20 hours. There is only one rule regarding FPL that you need to know:

Roro destroys your anti team.

MVP vs SKT T1

IM vs Prime

Streams:

ESportsTV,

Twitch.TV
Links: Team Liquid, Team Liquid FPL

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cluex.org to host $2000 event in 2014 (45 comments)

( Major News: UT2004)

Posted by ShX @ 18:58 CST, 25 December 2013 - iMsg

We are proud to announce that the target prize pool for the 10 years of UT2004 event has been reached, and enabled us to reach the much desired goal of $2000!

This couldn't have happened if it were not for your support, for which we are eternally grateful! A full list of donators can be seen over here. Also worth mentioning is the fact that this is going to be the fifth (5th) biggest prize pool event in the history of UT2004!

Despite reaching $2000, we are still hoping for additional donations (if at all possible) to further increase the event's overall prize pots. It goes without saying that every single donation will be used for the sole purpose of the tournament; All additional donations will be added to the image below, showing the current prize pool status.

Current prize-pool stage

Possible start date

"Division Zero" participants

Showmatch: Falcon vs Hypno

Update

Please stay tuned for more surprise bits and pieces to be announce, so stay tuned about 10 years of UT2004 by cluex.org event! We hope you've enjoyed a wonderful Christmas, and wish you a very happy New Year!

Source: cluex.org/10years, cluex.org/event

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DreamHack Winter 2013 QL Highlights (75 comments)

( Major Movie: QL)

Posted by AsphyxEvents @ 04:18 CST, 25 December 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13




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Rating: 4.5 (118 votes)

DreamHack Winter 2013 was arranged from 28 November to 1 December at the Elmia Fair in Jonkoping, Sweden. Here is my highlight movie from the DreamHack Winter 2013 QL tournament.

Movie Specifications

Extras

Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed it!

Movie File - Stream () 0MB
- Youtube (1628 clicks)
Movie File - Download () 0MB
- MediaFire (118 clicks)
- MEGA (126 clicks)

DHW13 - Performance Awards Polls (22 comments)

( Major News: ESR QL)

Posted by Memento_Mori @ 17:11 CST, 22 December 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

Scheduled: 15:00 CST, 22 December 2013 to 05:00 CST, 29 December 2013
Schedule: Passed

The time has come to pick the winners of the Performance Awards. I collected all entries for the four categories, and now it's up to you! Vote for the entries you deem the most worthy!

Information

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2014 SK Proleague (46 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by esdf @ 16:58 CST, 22 December 2013 - iMsg

As this calendar year is coming to an end, a new SC2 SK Proleague season is closing in with each day passing. December 29th marks the start of a new season. A lot has changed since the last season. One of the big changes is that OGN will no longer broadcast PL and it will be broadcasted exclusively on SPOTV Games and SPOTV2.

Wall of text

TLDR

Round 1 Preview

Sources: Team Liquid, Team Liquid (2)

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Site summary for week ending 20 Dec (1 comment)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 22 December 2013 - iMsg

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Spawn Kill - King of Oldskool (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by spekyr @ 02:46 CST, 22 December 2013 - iMsg

Scheduled: 23:00 CST, 28 December 2013
Schedule: Passed

Once again it will be back after Camma defeated Python 2 - 1 in a thrilling showdown, but this time it will be old school maps, if python participates again, experience will shine through on this one. Spawn Kill King of Oldskool tournament starts this Sunday at 22:00 CDT (2:30pm Australian Eastern Time).

King Of Oldskool map pool

Points distribution

Leaderboard

Tournament Admins

NEW RULES TO BE ENFORCED

Streaming provided by

Diabz. People of Australia and New Zealand may begin signing up. We know you loved it, so come back again and watch, play, drink beer, whatever your flavour.

Stream:

Diabz
Links: Sign-up,

SpawnKillODC

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ClanBase has come to an end (195 comments)

( Major News: ESR QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 12:55 CST, 21 December 2013 - iMsg

ClanBase, once great and respected league, has come to the end of the road. CB management have put statement out explaining the reasons behind shutting down. Even though CB wasn't so popular lately to a large number of gamers around the world, it was home for many old school games including UT, ET, CoD2, MoH:AA and Quake, and will surely be missed by many.

R.I.P. ClanBase

Official ClanBase Statement

The Final Statement by ClanBase

Dear everyone,

ClanBase is no more, we are sorry.

For those unfamiliar with the name: ClanBase once was a cool site to visit if you were an online gamer. With cups and ladders hosted for games such as the Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike and Call of Duty series, a teenager really had quite some options for multiplayer entertainment. Heck, we even had LAN finals for our renowned EuroCups.

Those days are far behind us and as it stands today, the company that owns the ClanBase site - GGL - is unable to cover the costs required to run the website. Moreover, lately the owners of the site do not wish to cooperate with the voluntary crew, keeping everybody in the dark and thus showing complete disrespect to people who spend many hours a day trying to make our tournaments a success.

The website has now been offline for more than three weeks due to an unpaid bill. No action is being taken by the owner to get the website back online. Having no vision for the future, we - the ClanBase Crew - have lost our last hopes about ClanBase ever coming back online, and unfortunately we announce the end of a great era.
The history and the truth as the ClanBase Crew sees it

A US-based company called Global Gaming League (Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc.) noticed the success of the site and bought it from the original owners in December of 2004. They had financial backing for server hosting and our tournaments. Things were going well until in 2007 CB suffered its first heart attack when GGL couldn’t deliver the prize money they put up for the EuroCup. This can be marked as the start of our downfall.

The CB Crew has always been made up of volunteers with the majority being just teenagers. There was no possibility for us to come up with the money on our own that was promised, yet we were always the ones getting blamed. After all, it was our cup season and our name. It is no surprise that after this blow there was no way for us to host another season with the promise of any kind of prize until the debt was settled with the previous winners.

To this day, GGL owes around €24,000 in prize money which will never be settled. The other sites who were in the same gaming business of course had no problems hosting their tournaments however they wanted. ClanBase, however, lost a great deal of its reputation along with some top teams who never got their winnings.

As time went by the site also started to decay. After the takeover we had paid developers who tried to put the code in shape. There were some noteworthy developments such as the seasonal and invitational ladders, but after the first test run we couldn’t get the necessary changes implemented - because GGL stopped paying the developers.

Money. The source of all evil.

GGL started moving the servers between hosts (RackSpace, Amazon, GreenQloud) to save costs, and to avoid further missed payments. This appeared in the news a few times when providers came out with how they were lied to. We also lost the ability to upload files anything other than demos. Fortunately, a Crew member had the means to help out.

Funding continued to dry up. After the first wave of cuts where we lost the two developers and a head admin, things cooled down for a while. Recently, a general system administrator was cut off which got interesting at one point when CB suffered a denial of service attack to which the host (GreenQloud) responded with moving the servers to a different IP address. However, the domain name had to be updated as well to point to the new address. Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while.

So how do we get money? The site had ads for a while which obviously was not enough. We may have been naive thinking that upping the quality of the site would be a good move, which was promised more times we bother to count. GGL thought otherwise. In fact, many of the cool features our gamers would have loved to see on the website were never implemented - because “CBv2” was supposedly just around the corner.

Their first bold move was trying to get adult banners on CB - a website that was home for thousands of teenagers. The Crew was shocked and appalled by this. Fortunately, we managed to get our voice through (by threatening to go on strike) - but we also lost several valuable crew members who had enough of the poor conditions and bad decision making.

Next to adult material, gambling can also be a good source of income. The Poker and Betting ladders were introduced. It is doubtful that much money was ever made of this, at least nobody said otherwise. The only thing certain is that these projects never got off the ground.

A poor attempt was also made to gather money in the form of offering VIP membership. Nobody took this very seriously and as expected, nobody bothered to opt in after a while. The only benefit to having VIP was the ability to get rid of some of the ads. Perhaps a regular donation system would’ve been more useful.

By the end of August 2013, yet another problem surfaced: the money ran out for the hosting. This is when CB started to go down every month when the time came to pay for the next 30 days.

Of course we tried contacting GGL through our manager who was in charge of handling communications. As you may have guessed by now, he also failed to receive his payment for a while and a company owing money to you, and who knows how many others, is not in a hurry to get back to you.

The ClanBase management tried to directly contact the GGL founder and president Ted Owen (since everyone else left), with very little success. Whenever we got a response it usually consisted of no more than a few words.

The last we heard from him, he stated that “GGL will move on without ClanBase, and besides, why did the Crew never put any money in it?”

Mr. Owen, the Crew put time in it. A lot of time... for free. Every day. And to clarify, nobody has ever reached out to us to ask for any kind of financial aid. Not that we would’ve ever agreed to anything if the money had to go through GGL as that would’ve resulted in the money never reaching its intended destination.

Ultimately, we understand that our users would have expected us to come out with the truth sooner. It has taken us three weeks to make a public statement - but the only reason it took so long is that we were trying to not lose the hope and to reach out to mr. Owen. Unfortunately, our last request (or offer) to him - to release the ClanBase site to the crew for us to be able to continue running it on our own, without the GGL - was not welcomed.

It is thus our sad duty to inform you that ClanBase is gone. We would like to sincerely thank over a thousand admins working on the website over the past 15 years of ClanBase’s existence. And an even bigger thanks goes out to all the players who supported us over the years and who did not lose faith no matter what.

This writing has not come easily because ClanBase has been a big part of our lives, and we definitely did not want to see it end like this.
Thank you,
ClanBase

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ESH ONW #13: QL CA 4v4 (35 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 11:21 CST, 20 December 2013 - iMsg

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 11 January 2014 to 09:40 CST, 11 January 2014
Schedule: Passed

After a big pause at Esports Heaven, Quake Live is making a comeback, first with few smaller ONW cups and later on with some prize cups just like before.

First ONW cup that will happen, will be CA 4v4 where TDM, CTF and Duel will follow. At the moment we feel the CA scene, even though is popular in public games, is lacking in competition. Cup will happen after the Christmas and New Year holidays, at Saturday, 07:00 CST, 11 January 2014. Check-ins will start one hour earlier at 07:00 CDT.

Tournament Details

Schedule

Important info for new players

Final Standings:

1. unnamed.ql (team)
2. Toggle.exe (team)
3. Faces of Meth (team) / Italy Contrition Act (team)

Links: Signups, Cup page, Brackets,

#esh.ql

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