ESR - Latest News

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Memento_Mori @ 13:26 CST, 11 November 2012 - iMsg

In the past few months, a number of individuals in the community has discussed, planned, and tested what we all hope will bring additional energy to our beloved duel scene in Europe.

FACEIT and

Kevin "strenx" Baeza are proud to officially launch a brand new series of daily cups:

Starting this month, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will feature two cups running concurrently each day. Each cup will be capped by Faceit-Rank, meaning you can join the cup only if your skill is lower or equal to the value (you can always join higher ranked cups). The prize pool will be 10$ per cup, distributed among the first places, for a total of 400$ sponsored by strenx’ project donations.

Details

The goal of these cups is to give duelers a chance to step up their daily practice, facing opponents of adequate skill and similar mindset. Depending of your skill, you may able to join easier and harder cups to test how the tricks you learn work with other both kind of players.

Update: given various requests, we increased from level 9 to level 10, to let top player participate.

Links: FACEIT,

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEITcom,

Strenx

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Upcoming week competitive QL(12-18 Nov) (30 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by Teen Queen @ 06:49 CST, 11 November 2012 - iMsg

Bringing you the fifth edition of the weekly compendium. Lots of duel action, TDM matches and CTF runs. Sign up for open duel tournaments, watch awesome streams and play more quake. Thanks to cityy for making a better image.

Monday (2 DUEL, 1 CTF, 5 TDM)

Tuesday (2 DUEL, 3 TDM)

Wednesday (2 DUEL, 1 iCTF)

Thursday (3 DUEL)

Friday (1 DUEL)

Saturday(2 DUEL)

Sunday (4 DUEL, 1 iCTF, 14 CTF, 3 TDM)

Previous weeks

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LEVEL UP TV: EuroCup weekly episode 3 (6 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by frs @ 21:17 CST, 10 November 2012 - iMsg

Disrepute and

vor discussing EuroCup 26 week 2-3 happenings.

Embed

Episodes: Episode 1, Episode 2
Links:

LevelUpTV,

@LevelUpTV,

LevelUpTV

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ZOWIE Quake Live Challenge (114 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by ins @ 15:51 CST, 10 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: ZOWIE QL

Scheduled: 08:00 CST, 17 November 2012 to 14:00 CST, 17 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

ZOWIE has decided to run a Quake Live Duel cup next Saturday, the 17th of November, which could turn into a weekly tournament if the turnout is good. Sign up, people!

Tournament Info

Prizes

Important Rules

Note: You will not be able to register in the check-in phase, so please register as soon as you can if you have any intention of playing.
Stream:

sLowbi @ NoProblemTV (Casters:

ShadyAK and

ins/

~~funnyb~~)
Links: Brackets //

@excello,

excello.net,

#excello.quake

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Grrrr... interviewed (41 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by Thorin @ 14:20 CST, 9 November 2012 - iMsg

I've published an interview with

Guillaume "Grrrr..." Patry, the only non-Korean to ever win an OSL in BW.

Some of the topics we discussed:
-The BW scene before Grrrr...'s move to Korea.
-His transition to life in South Korea.
-The excessive partying and drinking which inhibited his professional career and results.
-The rise of players like

YellOw,

Kingdom,

BoxeR and

NaDa.
-Thoughts on Korean culture and BW/esports' peak over there.
-Thoughts on MOBA and SC2.

On whether he was the best foreigner before going to Korea:

I can't say that I was the best foreigner, but back then some of the best players in practice did poorly in tournaments. It was the opposite for me, I played better under pressure. In 1999, the best players were not Korean. Around mid-2000, that's when Koreans started dominating Starcraft.

The interview can be read at Team Acer.

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Half-Life AG TDM Nations Cup 2012 Finals (23 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Worldspawn @ 23:38 CST, 8 November 2012 - iMsg

Tournament - Half-Life AG Nations CUP 2012

Lineups

Mod - Adrenaline Gamer 6.6
Format - 5vs5, best of 5 maps
Tournament phase - finals
Date - 11.11.2012 [21:00 CET]
HLTV - 77.111.210.199:53226
Live Stream - aghltv.tk/stream
Maps - 1.crossfire 2.stalkyard 3.lost_village2 4.endcamp 5.boot_camp

Playoffs brackets on challonge.com

Group A results, Group B results

Update:

Bulgaria [2 : 3]

Scandinavia

VODs

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HoQ CTF prizes announced (30 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Williebobc @ 15:26 CST, 8 November 2012 - iMsg

House of Quake is pleased to announce that we will be giving prizes for the CTF Season 4. The top team from each division will win 5 tokens: 1 pro for each team captain and 4 premium for the most active team members for 6 months.
These are provided by myself and drayan, with a little help from id, so please continue the good work and be sure to play all your games :P

Current standings for this season...

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3

Next Round: 14:00 CST, 11 November 2012 (Sunday), playing Japanese Castles, Troubled Waters and Reflux

GL and remember to have fun!!!

Streams: HoQ on own3d.tv, HoQ on twitch.tv
Links: HoQ, Live.QL //

HouseofQuake,

@HouseofQuake,

HoQLeagues,

#HoQLeagues

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FACEIT QL Sunday Cup #7 (234 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by roychez @ 11:01 CST, 8 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

Scheduled: 08:00 CST, 11 November 2012 to 14:00 CST, 11 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

The FACEIT QL Sunday Cup #7 will once again open its doors at 08:00 CST, with check-ins at 07:00 CST. For this you can sign-up already as well. The last two weeks we have seen evil take it, with Spart1e as runner-up in both. Will we see other challengers this week? Be sure to try!

Joining

Daniel “ddk” Kapadia this Sunday will be Dutch FPS-legend,

Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager, who already had a short casting stint at Adroits. The two will be bringing you live action on our stream from 08:30 CST and onwards. We have also made some changes in our streaming settings, to accommodate more people and to further our cause of bringing a lag-free experience.

Map Pool

Rules

Final Standings

Thursday Special

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:

FACEIT TV
Links: FACEIT, Bracket //

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEITcom

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DHW: Last 5 player invites (325 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 12:56 CST, 7 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: DHW'12

The signups for the Kingston HyperX Quake Live Tournament at DreamHack Winter 2012 closed last Sunday which means we finally can release the complete line up! Once again we're going to have a tournament filled with skilled players. The last 5 invites are not an exception to this!

The last 5 invites to DreamHack Winter 2012 are:

ins,

reload,

STING_PL,

unnamedtony and

Cypher.

Player list

We're also proud to announce that

nvc will be commentating the event and

zeroql will provide coverage in English.

nicerdicer and

foppa (aka frozen) will also provide coverage and commentate the event in Russian. Both of the streams will cover the tournament on location!

Seeds and groups will be released in about one week from now! Don't forget to check out the rules! Questions? Send a mail to esport@dreamhack.se.

Links: Original Post

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SK Gaming ShootMania Team Invite to IPL5 (229 comments)

( Major News: SM)

Posted by JoshSuth @ 18:26 CST, 6 November 2012 - iMsg

We have invited SK Gaming's brand new ShootMania team to our $100,000 IPL5 ShootMania tournament at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The tournament runs from November 29th - December 2nd and features 8 of the top teams from North America and Europe.

SK Gaming's new roster consists of:

- Shane "rapha" Hendrixson
- Andrew " id_" Trulli
- Mark "cl0ck" McGrail

They will be facing off against the teams already qualified for the tournament: colwn, TCM-Gaming, Planet Xpress, Spin Move, Epsilon. NA Qualifier #4 Winner is determined November 9th. Wild Card Qualifier Winner is determined at the event November 30th.

SK.rapha had this to say

For biographies, statements, and more information about the team, check out the full article.

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For fun 4v4 tdm cup vol.2 (32 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by nicerdicer @ 13:53 CST, 6 November 2012 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 10 November 2012 to 14:00 CST, 10 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

This Saturday you have a chance to play 4v4 TDM Fun Cup, which will be organized by dEus Gaming.

Information

Links: Registration,

#rbls.cz

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GtkRadiant 1.6.3 adds Quakelive support (76 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Kapiter @ 19:40 CST, 5 November 2012 - iMsg

The latest version 1.6.3 of GtkRadiant, official level design toolchain for id Tech 3, is now supporting Quakelive and improves Urban Terror support, check the official announce.

Since

TTimo resigned from id, he took over the GtkRadiant project and joined Frozen Sand.

QL support by

QBall & Obsidian.

Many others games are planned like Wolf:ET, RTCW and War§ow.

Links: TTimo's blog - GtkRadiant official site - #radiant

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#tdmpickup news (58 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by wision @ 15:39 CST, 5 November 2012 - iMsg

It has been almost two years since this QuakeLive TDM pickup channel was founded by

Draven and almost a year since we started indexing games with QLStats. To celebrate all that and also upcoming 10 000th #tdmpickup game on QLStats, we would like to announce few changes & improvements to our beloved TDMBot.

Auto-teams

Substitute

Elite pickup

Draft tournament

Most of these features were done by

Lam, so feel free to plus him wherever you see his comments. If you have any other ideas for our bot, please comment below. We hope you will enjoy many more years with #tdmpickup.

Links: tdmpickup.eu, beta.quake.cz/qlstats/tdmpickup

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Baksteen interview by Esportsfrance (97 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Infuscomus @ 06:14 CST, 5 November 2012 - iMsg

Hello everyone. Here is an interview with

Baksteen I did last week. The interview covers many questions, his career, his duel progression, the Adroits LAN and his future in QuakeLive. Some questions have already been answered in the previous Baksteen interview by

twister - I didn't see that interview before I did mine actually...

Esportsfrance: Do you think there is room for young players - like you or lukelawlz for instance - to reach the top 4 ? Will Cypher, rapha, Av3k or k1llsen always be on the top if they keep playing ?
Baksteen: I don't think they will, beside the fact they're getting older and won't peak anymore, even they make mistakes, so if new players train really hard, and find some new style to counter the old pro's, they can be defeated. I think burnedd was one of those players, but unfortunately he went inactive.

Read the full interview on Esportsfrance.
You can also check my others interview if you didn't already. dem0n, Guismo12.

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Site summary for week ending 02 Nov (11 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 4 November 2012 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Articles

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