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QuakeCon 2013 - Finals (1240 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 05:19 CDT, 3 August 2013 - iMsg

We are at final day of the QuakeCon Pro Tournaments. Every match will write history! The games starts with Clan Arena 3v3 at 10:45 CDT. Brackets can be found on quakecon site. For the Grand Final of Quakelive Duel & Doom 2 Duel they switch to the big mainstage, and they pushed back both by 1 hour.

In the Grand Finals were
QL Duel - rapha vs Evil
QL CA 3v3 - Watch This vs The Dream
Doom II Duell - JKist3 vs DevastatioN

All games from the Stream are already online!

Quake Live Intel Duel Masters

Quake Live Clan Arena 3v3 Open

20th Anniversary DOOM Challenge

Final Standing and Prize money

On friday John Carmack held a basic talk about "Physics of Light and Rendering" on stream (VOD).
Today id's new Art Director, Hugo Martin, will referat about "From Sketchbook to the Big Screen" on Bethesda stream (VOD).

Thanks to QuakeCon staff, Quakelive team, sponsors Intel & id, all the players, shoutcasters and FACEIT for a perfectly run tournament!
A word from roychez and ddk.

Pics: Flickr, FACEIT
Demos: Trance
Configs: Trance
VODs Day 1 Duel: QuakeCon or Esportsfrance with timecodes
VODs Day 2 CA: QuakeCon or Esportsfrance with timecodes
ESR: Day 1, Day 2

VODs Day 3: QuakeCon Part 1 (CA Finals, Doom Duel 3rd Place, QL Duel 4th & 3rd Place), QuakeCon Part 2 (Grand Finals Doom Duel & QL Duel)

Stream: QuakeCon by

Xavier "Zoot" Dhorne and

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia, and production by FACEIT
Official Links: Tournament Results & Tree,

Twitter,

quakecon

Attached Thumbnail: 95123-schedule.jpg (3 Aug 2013, 70KB, 1120 downloads)

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QuakeCon Tournament Update (6 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by SyncError @ 11:52 CDT, 2 August 2013 - iMsg

Event: qcon13

Yesterday's Intel Quake Live Duel Masters was full of exciting matches and moments captured by the colorful and insightful FACEIT coverage team. Rapha remains standing in the Duel Masters bracket after an intense match verse DaHang who has been pushed into the lower bracket alongside Evil and ZeRo4 who face off Saturday afternoon when the Duel Masters resumes.

In the 20th Anniversary DOOM Challenge JKist3 leads in the winner's bracket awaiting to the results of the Saturday lower final match between DevastatioN and DemonSphere.

Today the action continues with the Quake Live Clan Arena 3v3 Open. A small single elimination feeder began this morning at noon to fill out our 16 team double elimination bracket that will be beginning today at 13:30 CDT. The FACEIT tournament coverage continues at twitch.tv/QuakeCon. Tune in!

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QuakeCon 2013 - Day 2 (216 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 08:01 CDT, 2 August 2013 - iMsg

Lets start the comments for Day 2. Friday is the day of Clan Arena! According to brackets all Doom 2 rounds matches are played yesterday. No Doom today. SyncError sums up the first day. For more details about the games just tune on the livestream.

Quake Live Intel Duel Masters schedule

Quake Live Clan Arena 3v3 Open schedule

20th Anniversary DOOM Challenge schedule

CA Info

Free Premium Weekend for Quakelive announced. Carmack Keynote Speech as VOD. Don't forget about the Steam Sale going on all weekend.

Pics: Flickr, FACEIT
Demos: Trance (CA added)
Day 1 VODs Duel: Quakecon or Esportsfrance with timecodes
Day 2 VODs CA: QuakeCon or Esportsfrance with timecodes, Socrates Interview

Stream: QuakeCon by

Xavier "Zoot" Dhorne and

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia, and production by FACEIT
Links: Tournament Results & Tree,

Twitter,

quakecon

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QuakeCon 2013 Schedule & Groups (679 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by roychez @ 02:56 CDT, 1 August 2013 - iMsg

Event: qcon13

This year's QuakeCon features tournaments in Quake Live and Doom 2. On Thursday the Quake Live Intel Duel Masters and 20th Anniversary DOOM Challenge will kill off, while on Friday the Quake Live Clan Arena 3v3 Open will mostly take place.

The Duel Masters this year will feature a slightly different format than usually. The 32 players are divided over eight groups. But instead like the normal format, the top players are in one group, and will fight for the top four seeds, and so on, giving interesting matches straight from the bat. All players move on from the groups, which are to determine seeds, to the Double Elimination bracket.

Quake Live Intel Duel Masters schedule

20th Anniversary DOOM Challenge schedule

Quake Live Clan Arena 3v3 Open schedule

Quake Live Intel Duel Masters groups

The stream will be on QuakeCon on Twitch TV, with commentary by

Xavier "Zoot" Dhorne and

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia, and production by FACEIT.

Links: QC Tournament, QC Group Standings, QC Demos

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Winz Interview (25 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by sulit @ 23:14 CDT, 31 July 2013 - iMsg

Had a chance to ask

Winz some questions about Quake Live, Dueling, and his past esport experiences. It's not a long interview, it's pretty short.

Topics

Read the Full Interview on Duelcraft.net

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InZENity - cpm duel cup #1 (30 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by p4n @ 05:09 CDT, 31 July 2013 - iMsg

Scheduled: 10:30 CDT, 2 August 2013 to 13:00 CDT, 2 August 2013
Schedule: Passed

Hello everyone! Another

challenge promode duel cup is here -

pan of Team ZEN brings you the 1st InZENity CPM DUEL CUP. It will be held at 10:30 CDT, 2 August 2013. If you are interested, you can sign up! All participants are welcome to join

#ZEN on Quakenet and everyone to spectate on stream. Rules can be found on the cup page.

Main Info

Final Standings: HAL_9000 zoid Memphis

Well Played everbody!

VOD: noproblemtv
Stream:

NoProblemTV
Links: Q3 PRO Installer, Q3A map archive,

#ZEN,

#cpmpickup, CPMA website

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QL VOD Archive Hub (24 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by kk-super_koziol.pl @ 15:54 CDT, 30 July 2013 - iMsg

QL VOD Archive Hub created by marduk0x00 is a site condensing all your Quake needs into one place.

Apart from serving as a giant QL VOD search engine (scanning all important channels and with nice customisation options) it also lists quality streams, frag movies, configs and useful QL tools. It has everything. Check it out!

Links: QL VOD Archive Hub

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125 FPS July League, Playoff Stage (137 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 07:09 CDT, 29 July 2013 - iMsg

Event: 125 FPS

We start 125 FPS July League Playoff Stage, welcome!

8 players at 1/8, and 4 players waiting them at /14, BO5 before final and BO7 at final (no bronze match) , mappool 7 maps, start at 11:00 CDT. Droping of maps until required amount is left, then picking for the order. See playoff bracket.

Schedule and results

Live report

Map Pool

Donate

AlexeyA:
"Hi everybody! My name is Aleksey. Beginning with February 2013 I am sponsoring the 125 FPS QuakeLive League (http://125fps.com) and provide almost all of the prize money from my own pocket. Why do I do this? Because like many of us I played the first Quake and even Duke Nukem)) on lan during my childhood. Time goes by and I’m a grown-up man now with all the obligations that come along with it. Yet still I want the Quake community to flourish and reward me and all fans of the game with great matches, tournaments, reports etc.
When there are no tournaments with prize money the interest of players and fans decreases and that’s what I’m trying to combat. I’m sure I’m not the only one. The community has a lot of adult, successful people, as well as many young people who fell in love with the game.
I want to ask the community to help build on the foundation I and the 125fps team have laid and increase the prizes in the coming leagues. Fundraising is nothing new and is employed to collect funds for all kinds of events. I’m sure that many of you will be happy to chip in a sum that’s admissible for yourselves and even happier to follow the tournament you yourself made a contribution to!
Below are various ways to donate money for prize funds of 125fps.com leagues.
The reputation of the 125fps leagues guarantees for a fair distribution of funds. I myself will continue to contribute about 31500p(~1000$) every month.
I propose the following prize money distribution (31500RUR + donations)
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15% of the donations will go towards the organization and coverage of the league, in particular recruitment of streamers.
Additionally I suggest limiting the prize pool of every league by 3500$. If there is more than 2500$ worth of donations the surplus funds get transfered to the next league. The biggest donators will be listed below every leagues prize pool (voluntary).
The fundraising will start with the announcement of the next league."
Webmoney

Z931807341831
R136682015795
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Yandex-money 410011371660580
PayPal nikolay.grishin@gmail.com (nico_qd's account)

You can discuss this text at the original post here

Our JULY Donators

Cup Admins: Yavich, Nico, Rell, Xron (search on IRC or write to admin@125fps.com)
Streams:

Zoot,

125_FPS,

aAaTV
Links:

Announce and full info, Quali Round,1st GS, 2nd GS,

Cup Website, Application,

#125fps,

ESFR announcement, 125 FPS twitter

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Site summary for week ending 26 Jul (2 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 28 July 2013 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

Speedrunning Charity Marathon (75 games) (37 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by ZeriouS @ 20:39 CDT, 27 July 2013 - iMsg

It's over! After a 5 day marathon they received in total US$ 252.930,64 with the live viewer count rising up to around 50000 viewers and being the number one channel on Twitch for a certain period outclassing everyone else.

"Speed Demos Archive, the home to video game speed runs, is proud to present the third annual speed running marathon: Summer Games Done Quick 2013. It is a 5-day online event (from July 25-29th) to raise money for Doctors Without Borders, streamed live for you to watch!"

Among the played games are Doom 64 (The Absolution), Final Fantasy, Metroid, Sonic The Hedgehog, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and many more. In front of a live audience. Have you seen the Doom 64 speedrun on Watch Me Die difficulty? The run time was 1:15, check the VOD. It has been watched by ~30000 viewers live.

Details

Games List (in order of scheduling)

About SDA

About Doctors Without Borders

Donation history

VODs: Speed Demos Archives
Stream: Twitch (Offline)

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Esports Solutions at QuakeCON BYOC (54 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by easytarget @ 19:26 CDT, 27 July 2013 - iMsg

Event: qcon13

We are very proud to announce that we will be running the tournaments section of the BYOC at this years QuakeCon. We will be bringing you a ton of different Quakelive game types to compete in and of course we will be running the QuakeCon BYOC Quake Live Open Duel competition. Anyone who is attending will be able to sign up for any and all events that we host in the BYOC. Prizing will be offered by our main sponsor partner RAZER.

We have worked very hard at featuring some new games as well as many other popular titles that everyone of all ages enjoys to play. These featured games will also have some of the events streamed live and we will also have a main stage with ten laptops for finalists to battle for top spot on.

Some of the developer sponsored games we will be hosting are:

We will also be running events for: SC2, LoL, Urban Terror, DOTA2, and CSGO. These are the main games that we have plans to run events for but as you all know there is alot more that ends up going on at QCON once you get there so feel free to come say hello to all of us at our booth in the BYOC.

Links:

@ESportSolutions,

@ESortSolutions

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FACEIT Sunday Summer Cup #4 (105 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by ins @ 15:10 CDT, 27 July 2013 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

The last Summer Cup before Quakecon, we present to you, FACEIT Sunday Summer Cup #4!

The FACEIT Summer Season will be played each Sunday for the coming month, where 128 players can join and play for $125, as well as points to qualify them for the Finale.

You can already sign-up for the tournament at this moment. Check-ins will open at 07:00 CDT, with the cup starting at 08:00 CDT.

This Sunday (28 July) will be the third Sunday Summer Season cup. It will be brought to you by

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia and

Bruno "ins" Pereira on

FACEIT TV. The stream will go live at 08:30 CDT.

Prizes & Points

Map Pool

Rules

You can sign up for the Sunday Summer North American Cup #4 already, which will start at 13:00 CDT.

Stream:

FACEIT TV
Links: Sign Up,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEIT,

FACEITcom

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FACEIT CA 3v3 Road to Quakecon Finale (90 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by roychez @ 08:02 CDT, 27 July 2013 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

Scheduled: 09:00 CDT, 27 July 2013 to 11:30 CDT, 27 July 2013
Schedule: Passed

The FACEIT Clan Arena 3v3 Road to Quakecon Finale is here! Who will be the best CA of Europe?

l0wfly, colwn, Ze and Faces of Meth all managed to qualify over the last few weeks. This afternoon at 09:00 CDT they will determine who is the best out there, with players such as stermy and dem0n playing.

Commentary will be provided live this afternoon at 09:00 CDT on

FACEIT TV, brought to you by

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia and

Bruno "ins" Pereira.

Teams & line-ups

Map pool

Stream:

FACEIT TV
Links: Post on FACEIT,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEIT,

FACEITcom

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cluex.org's DM 1vs1 - main event! (22 comments)

( Major News: UT2004)

Posted by ShX @ 19:29 CDT, 26 July 2013 - iMsg

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 28 July 2013 to 13:00 CDT, 28 July 2013
Schedule: Passed

Congratulations for the following players that will take part in the finals of the #11 1vs1 DM cup:

ACo,

astz,

BaSS3_KiCK,

daywalker,

F51,

GoHLinK,

jani,

Kane274,

lo2dk,

miNo,

Naut,

Psy,

ScrMz,

skAven,

skl and

ziLL.

Replacements

Key information

The Maplist

Streams & UTV

The prizes

Thank you very much (again) for your time, let the games … RE-BEGIN!

Stream: To Be Announced
UTV: 85.214.22.87:7777 / 188.134.95.123:1337 / utv.utzone.de / 46.191.253.102:1337
Links: cluex.org, Announcement,

#cK.ut,

cluex.org Facebook,

cluex.org YouTube

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FACEIT CA 3v3 Road to QuakeCon #4 (63 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by roychez @ 09:38 CDT, 26 July 2013 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

With QuakeCon 2013 coming closer and closer, FACEIT will warm you up with some Clan Arena 3 versus 3 action! Tonight the final team for our Finale on Saturday 27 July will be determined.

In yesterday's Road to QuakeCon Clan Arena cup you could see dem0n, gohann and zsx taking the win under the noses of f1sted with a strong performance, making them the third team to qualify.

The final team will be decided tonight. Ash and winz have selected their teams. The Russian is joined by none other than Cypher, and a yet to be determined player. Winz has selected his French compatriots Guismo and fishbone.

The final two teams are faces with jwzr, ph and visser, and nat with baran3k, b0rky and pixion.

Commentary will be provided live this Friday at 13:00 CDT on

FACEIT TV, brought to you by

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia and

Bruno "ins" Pereira.

Teams & dates

Map pool

VODs

Stream:

FACEIT TV
Links: Post on FACEIT,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEIT,

FACEITcom

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