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Upcoming week competitive QL(26 - 2 dec) (29 comments)
Posted by Teen Queen @ 13:54 CST, 25 November 2012 - iMsg
7th edition is here, more matches will probably be added during the week. Check back regularly to make sure you don't miss any ql quake live action


rapha talks post-DH final (64 comments)
Posted by Thorin @ 05:12 CST, 25 November 2012 - iMsg
Following an unsuccessful attempt at defending his DreamHack crown United States of America Shane "rapha" Hendrixson spoke to me in a video interview.

Some of the topics we discussed:
- Facing Germany k1llsen in the quarter-final
- Beating Poland av3k yet again in a series.
- rapha's perspective on av3k's strengths as a dueler.
- tourney7 and how it fits rapha's style.
- IPL, Shootmania and rapha's future in QL dueling.

ClanBase EuroCup XXVI Quarterfinals (33 comments)
Posted by PerpetualWar @ 04:54 CST, 24 November 2012 - iMsg
After smooth and surprising group stage, all 6 finalists are known. Team Italy sitto is waiting winner from first quarter final game and team Croatia le from second one, to play in semi finals.

Quarter finals
13:00 CST, 4 December 2012 | Sweden l0w 3-0 PlanB Russia - (Match report)
13:00 CST, 4 December 2012 | Russia 102 3-0 Unknown Europe - (Match report)

Stream: LevelUp TV
Links: ClanBase EC XXVI, Rules, Playoffs, Roster, mIRC #clanbase.ql
Dreamhack Winter 2012 - Day 3 (641 comments)
Posted by blaze @ 15:30 CST, 23 November 2012 - iMsg
Scheduled: 09:00 CST, 24 November 2012 to 10:00 CST, 24 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

Tomorrow is the final day of DreamHack Winter 2012. There's only one game left to be played and that's ofcourse the Grand Finals! The finals will start at 10:00 CDT. Follow the Grand Final thorugh DreamHack.tv (exact link will be added asap).

More information can be found in the ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post. There's also a tournament website with the groups and brackets.


Configs, huds and demos can be found on trance.gg.
Demos of the finals along with a pack including all demos will be posted tomorrow after the finals.

Thanks to Dreamhack, the sponsors Kingston HyperX, Plantronic GameCom & Twitch.TV, the streamers and ofcourse the players for a very good tournament!

Configs / demos: trance.gg (Updated with all demos)
Video on demand: Day 1, Day 2
International Coverages: France E-Sport France, Russia Good Game.ru

IRC: mIRC #DreamHack.Quake, mIRC #leveluptv
Official Links: ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post, Tournament website
Streams: DreamHack.tv (Grand Final @ DreamHack TV)
FACEIT QL Sunday Cup #9 (112 comments)
Posted by roychez @ 12:42 CST, 23 November 2012 - iMsg
Scheduled: 08:00 CST, 25 November 2012 to 12:00 CST, 25 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

The FACEIT Quake Live Sunday Cup #9 is coming up this weekend! Previous edition we saw a final between pavel and baksteen, which was won by the former.

This Sunday Cup will be a challenge for some of the newer players, as most of the big dogs are still in Sweden for DreamHack. We will keep the map pool the same as previous weeks this Sunday, but for the next edition we will look at it again. It will kick off at 09:00 CDT and check-ins open at 08:00 CDT. Sign-ups are currently already open.

The stream will be hosted by United Kingdom Daniel "ddk" Kapadia and United Kingdom Xavier "Zoot" Dhorne. It will kick off at 09:30 CDT.


Note: If you are having problems logging in, go to FACEIT.com, log in (right top) and then click the link in the post.

Stream: United Kingdom FACEIT TV
Links: FACEIT, Bracket // mIRC #FACEIT, Facebook FACEITCommunity, Twitter @FACEITcom
Nexuiz €4000 Tournament (27 comments)
Posted by therogue @ 04:08 CST, 23 November 2012 - iMsg
The ESL together with the developers, Illfonic, are happy to announce a €4000 tournament for Nexuiz.

Following on from the update earlier this week which brought high performance UGLY mode and made the previously pay DLC a part of the regular game, the developers are eager to try to jump-start a competitive community for the game.

Nexuiz is currently in the Steam autumn sale for €5 (half price) or €15 for the 4 pack.


Early sign up is open here. When the dates of the cups have been fixed the post will be updated and everyone signed up will be mailed.

Illfonic, the small studio behind the game, have been working hard on improving the game since it's release in May. Their aim is to bring deathmatch back into the spotlight, with a fast, fun and visually attractive game built on the latest CryENGINE 3.

Links: ESL, Nexuiz, Steam
DreamHack Winter 2012 - Day 2 (525 comments)
Posted by blaze @ 15:58 CST, 22 November 2012 - iMsg
Scheduled: 05:00 CST, 23 November 2012 to 14:00 CST, 23 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

The second day of DreamHack Winter 2012 is starting tomorrow, 07:00 CDT 23 November 2012, with the playoffs. All the Quarter- and Semi finals will be played one by one.

More information can be found in the ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post. There's also a tournament website with the groups and brackets.


Update: The VODs from day 1 are up! Gallery by Ukraine nicerdicer from day 1.

IRC: mIRC #DreamHack.Quake, mIRC #leveluptv
Official Links: ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post, Tournament website
Streams: DreamhackQL, DreamHackQL (Russian), DreamHackQL (No cast)
Fixtures: Grand Final
Dreamhack Winter 2012 - Day 1 (271 comments)
Posted by blaze @ 03:08 CST, 22 November 2012 - iMsg
DreamHack Winter 2012 is starting today at 05:00 CST, 22 November 2012 with the group stage of the duel tournament.

More information can be found in the ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post. There's also a tournament website with the groups and brackets.

Updates: Unfortunately Poland matr0x dropped out last minute and was replaced by Sweden DRz.bat4dead. Tunisia DRz.L33gend also dropped out, he was replaced by Sweden ninzie


IRC: mIRC #DreamHack.Quake, mIRC #leveluptv
Official Links: ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post, Tournament website
Streams: DreamhackQL, DreamHackQL (Russian), DreamHackQL (No cast)
HoQ TDM Divisions Released (23 comments)
Posted by Williebobc @ 10:37 CST, 21 November 2012 - iMsg
Dear guys and gals! The current 4v4 Team Deathmatch league divisions have been published here and the games are scheduled to start at 14:00 CST, 29 November 2012 with a massive 46 teams participating.

Please take your time to read the rules and prepare yourselves for a fun and exciting season! Admins for this season will be United Kingdom williebobc (me), United Kingdom Drayan and Finland frs. Should anyone require assistance or additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us in mIRC#HoQLeagues

We will try to cover as many games as possible on our stream @ HoQtv and also will gladly assist any other streamer(s) to cover as many games as we can, if you would like to cover some games please can you contact me/drayan as soon as possible!


Streams: HoQ on own3d.tv, HoQ on twitch.tv, LvL^

Links: HoQ, Live.QL, YouTubeHouseofQuake, Twitter@HouseofQuake, Facebook HoQLeagues, mIRC#HoQLeagues
Nexuiz : Duel goes free, UGLY mode & ESL (56 comments)
Posted by therogue @ 09:44 CST, 21 November 2012 - iMsg
Nexuiz, the other fast-paced deathmatch game of 2012, released a big update yesterday which among other things included two big improvements for competitive play: the Duel mode DLC has been made free, and a new UGLY mode to give you picmip style performance over shiny graphics.

Also in yesterday's update: added support for up to 32 players, three new levels and STUPID mode for benchmarking with DX 11 and uncompressed textures.

The ESL have partnered with Illfonic, the small studio behind the game, to host a series of prize winning cups and help them gather more feedback on how to make the game better. They have been working hard on improving the game since it's release in May. More details will be announced soon.

Their aim is to bring deathmatch back into the spotlight, with a fast, fun and visually attractive game built on the latest CryENGINE 3.


A demo is now available on Steam, giving you the full game for 30 minutes a day.

Links: Nexuiz, Steam, ESL
Level Up TV: EuroCup Weekly Episode 4 (26 comments)
Posted by Wintastic @ 09:05 CST, 20 November 2012 - iMsg
Tonight we will demo-stream the last EuroCup group match between Russia deliberate murder and Sweden aCtion Ligan, which will be followed up by another episode of the EuroCup Weekly show, where we talk about the recent matches and the upcoming playoffs.

Going live with United Kingdom Disrepute and United Kingdom vor at 13:00 CST, 20 November 2012.

Stream: United Kingdom LevelUpTV
Links: Facebook LevelUpTV, twitter.com @LevelUpTV, YouTube LevelUpTV, levelupyourgame.net
Pilot Talk E00 with ShadyAK & ESDF (55 comments)
Posted by esdf @ 06:50 CST, 20 November 2012 - iMsg
Pilot podcast orientated for Deathmatch/Arena-based FPS players touching on in-depth competitive FPS issues. A quick glance into Quake as a competitive title by two Veterans (?), with emphasis on telling it how it really is!


Special thanks to GeeRecordsOfficial for the intro song! Very talented and creative music producer! Don't be afraid to message her despite the million+ video views, she's always fast and friendly with responses! You can find her channel by following this link.

Links: Download (mp3), NoProblemTV, YouTube NoProblemTV, YouTube Gee Records, Twitter esdf, Twitter ShadyAK
Daily Cups Update (21 comments)
Posted by Memento_Mori @ 07:11 CST, 19 November 2012 - iMsg
In order to better understand the demand and being able to provide the best settings for the cups, we are going to test a new format for the Quake Live Daily Cups. In a nutshell, we increased the rank-caps to levels 4, 6, 8 and 10, and removed the free-account map pool from the lowest level. More details below.


During this week, we will monitor the participation and gather further feedback. If you have suggestions for the format, or any other related idea, feel free to post.

Links: FACEIT, mIRC #FACEIT, Facebook FACEITCommunity, Twitter @FACEITcom, Facebook Strenx
Site summary for week ending 16 Nov (4 comments)
Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 18 November 2012 - iMsg
Upcoming week competitive QL(19-25 Nov) (27 comments)
Posted by Teen Queen @ 11:34 CST, 18 November 2012 - iMsg
qlQuake Live players can boast at previous weeks achievements with a whooping 40+ matches going on, several duel cups with prize pools, a total of ~$1500 in cash prizes and some hardware from zowie and lots of team based gametype action. This week won't lag far behind - tune in the streams, sign up for duel cups and play more quake.


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