Following Purgatory akm and I, Yellack, present our new Quake Live TDM Map: Limbus

Put 3 more weeks of work into it, changed some visual things and YA/MH, check out the vid:
(my voice is a little behind the moves, sorry for that)

Hello, my fellow quakers! All of you know what JeeSports is, and if you've been into the game scene lately, you've noticed, we focused on a team tourneys last season. But this spring duels are coming back - even though we wont forget about TDM and CTF, we just gonna work even harder. So, several qualifying duel tourney are coming up, and after this top 16 players will meet each other in a final battle. Participate and watch official streams on EMPIRE TV and Level UP TV.
And please, follow us in social Facebook and Twitter.


Streams: EMPIRE TV, Level UP TV
Links: Announce + Registration, Rating, #JeeQL

Greetings fellow Quakers!

Andréas, also known as "zingao" will be making teasers about a monthly quakeworld tournament project hosted in Europe (but open to all.) There will be cash prizes, although at this point it is not clear how much. Most indicators point to a playhem type of tournament idea, except not daily but monthly or perhaps weekly. A live stream is in the works to cover the project.

Links: Source, #HoH

I have posted an interview with Fatal1ty over at www.thegamingcyclist.blogspot.com. We talk about whats going on in his life nowadays, quake, esports and esreality. Here is a snippet:

Thresh once said of you (in an ESR interview) ... "Fatal1ty plays a more methodical, running patterns type game, whereas I played a more thinking, strategic style game"... He also spoke about his slower, strategic style of play. Is it possible that such gameplay could withstand the ferociously fluid style most Pro-Gamers employ today? I'll cut to the chase ... do you think you would have beaten Thresh if you were both at the peak of your powers?

JW: I feel I played the game however it needed to be played to win the game. If a certain pattern was 100% effective, why not use it? As gamers got more complex to read and play against, I had to change my game to win the match. The game over the years has changed so much, so no one style is bullet-proof. Playing all the different games I've played, each game had a different way to play them, and if you tried to employ a q3 tactic in PainkilleR, it was impossible to win! I tried it, didn't work. I had to become more aggressive and more fierce with decisions and movement to bring the fight to me. I even had to change to no accel to play the game at optimal settings. As for the match between Thresh and me, we will never know. Thresh was a great player and I much enjoyed watching him when I was 15-16 years old.

Check out the Full Interview! I hope ESR readers enjoy reading it! - MrE

Once again XTC is hosting a Quake Live online competition. This competition goes by the name "1+1" and will be a 2v2 TDM tournament to showcase the talent of South African clans.


If you are in South Africa and want to compete please signup as soon as possible.

If anyone is interested in streaming please contact myself or go to www.xtcgaming.co.za and message M4nimal.

Source: xtcgaming.co.za

VVD has announced Thunderdome, a unique tournament for quakeworld, and I'm helping him host it, along with Adde, Darkstorm and pleuraXeraphim!

The main difference from Duelmania, Ownage and Showdown is a multiple division system with double elimination brackets. The intent is to allow all players of all skills to have a chance to win, rather than be brutally stomped on by higher skill players. It also affords the higher skill players a true challenge in every single game, and a real spectacle from the first round to the finals.

There will be divisions ranging from "div 0" to "true rookie" and the final number of divisions will depend on the total signups. Registration is open until February 25th, 23:59 CET. Running around in clan arena is one thing; playing an official duel with your adrenaline blasting is another! Go sign up.

Links: Rules, Sign ups, #thunderdome

Shane "rapha'" Hendrixson, of SK Gaming, spoke in an extensive text interview about 2011, the big four of QL (himself, Cooller, cypher and av3k) and ZeRo4's influence on his development as a player.

On balancing aiming and thinking during engagements:

I know for myself that some games I've played, based just on the way I feel that day I've favored one over the other. Almost always the strategy portion in my case. I've noticed the same in cypher, for example, where some games/days he is just so on he focuses on the aiming and damage output portion of his game. Other days he doesn't feel so comfortable aiming so he switches to focusing on strategy and making less mistakes.

The entire interview can be read at SK Gaming.

After QL Regen Series successful CTF Draft Cup we have our second North American event CTF Cup. The event has now finished, brackets / VODS links below:

VODS:

Grand Finals: Naglets vs yougotmads?

Upper Bracket Finals: Naglets vs yougotmads?

Lower Bracket Finals: Guitar Heroes vs Naglets

Brackets

Thank you to Mattc0m, gambit, wonko for helping with the coverage, and a big thanks to all the participants and viewers, without you this would not be possible.

Event Links
Team Rosters
Participating Team List
Ruleset / Info

Contact Us
#REGEN (or web irc)
@QLRegenSeries

The austrian Quakeworld player Defcon5 will release his anticipated Quakeworld movie tonight at 15:00 CDT in the irc channel #qw.at on Quakenet. The movie is about the Quakeworld community and its dedication to a game which is already over 16 years old. Top players of the Quakeworld scene were interviewed at QHLAN15 answering lots of questions about the the scene and the fascination of the game.

Everyone is welcome to celebrate together with the movie maker and the Quakeworld community the release of the movie:

Defcon5: "Ill release the link to the video on irc, at 21.00Cet. I hope everyone who is curious will join me, and have a little irc party goin on.

Looking forward to see you!"

Source

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 19 February 2012 to 11:30 CST, 19 February 2012
Schedule: Passed

The 121st ZOTAC QL cup is taking place this Sunday 19th of February. In the previous cup, evil managed to win over strenx in semis and proceed to final vs cypher where he lost.


Links: Tournament page + Streams + Brackets, HOF

szr: Thank you for your love and support of QLRanks :) We've had such a great time bringing this project to the community and in celebration of hitting 1 Million Duels tracked we're really excited to present you with... A new design, bug fixes and many new features!!!


Link: QLRanks.com

Hey guys, just want to say a Big thanks to all the teams that have signed up, with 40 in total, we think this is a really good turn out and hope you guys will enjoy the up coming games, HoQLeagues TDM Round 1 is tomorrow 14:00 CST, 16 February 2012, please get your buts in #hoqleagues and make sure you are ready to play and have a sub on standby, if your not ready to play make sure you use your wildcard 1 hour before the match or it will be default loss.

Rules and Schedule

If you need help or would like a streamer ask admins, we will do our best to get a stream for your game, ofc not all games will get a stream. =p
Games can not be played late! Please read the rules and if you have any questions, you know where to find me.

Links: HoQ, YouTube, Own3d - Twitter, FaceBook, TwitchTv, Live.QL

Scheduled: 15:00 CST, 16 February 2012 to 16:00 CST, 16 February 2012
Schedule: Passed

The second Sunday cup of the impressive gaming-league will feature TDM 4v4 and will start this Sunday 12th at 13:30 CDT. The list of registered teams is already available.


Update: It seems the final (aCtion Ligan vs Neutralizerz) is planned for Thursday at 16:00 CDT

Stream: ProArena
Links: Brackets - #iGl.ql