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QUAKELIVE NA CTF 4V4 DRAFT - $500 Prize Pool (3 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by quakectf @ 14:43 CST, 8 January 2024 - iMsg

When: Jan 24 - Mar 17 (8 week event)
Where: Online (North America)
Who: QFL | Quake for Life CTF League
Total prize money : $500 + any community donations

Currently 56/60 confirmed participants as of this post. 4 spots remain. Must be present on QFL discord to participate.

NA CTF Pickup games will also occur in our Discord regularly throughout this event on our official Texas, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Virginia servers. We welcome and encourage new/returning players to join our CTF community.

Format: 4 week Swiss, 4-week Single Elim Bracket, completing in 8 weeks.

Playoff Map Pool: Ironworks, Infinity, Spider Crossings, Noir, Cold Cathode, Antacid, Gospel Crossings

Registration: https://www.quakectf.com/signup

Brackets / Results:
- Official website: https://www.quakectf.com/
- Discord: https://www.quakectf.com/discord
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/quakectf

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fragged by phorest (4k update) (7 comments)

( Major Movie: QL)

Posted by phorest @ 11:42 CST, 1 January 2024 - iMsg




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Rating: 8.1 (10 votes)

UPDATE:I updated the links for 4k version. (youtube and mega)

osp/cpma/ql fragmovie, frags and edited by

phorest (also know: harmless or SKZIPHZE)

Download:
https://mega.nz/file/nNI31BJD#U0UlLddDky14SiO...A32FmzJ2F8

QUAKELIVE 1V1 CASH TOURNAMENT - Project Velocity (16 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by machine @ 12:51 CST, 29 December 2023 - iMsg

I know, I know...you're here for the fame and fortune...

Well strap on your seat belt and get ready to battle!

North America Only (US + Canada)

$100 Prize Pool

https://www.prjctvelocity.com/

https://twitter.com/prjctvelocity

Signup here:
https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/cAZ7...2dev9pe2fq

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TEAM EVENT HORIZON PRESENTS: SESSIONS SEASON 3 (2 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by TeamEventHorizon @ 19:04 CST, 22 December 2023 - iMsg




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Rating: 8 (3 votes)

Sessions Complete Season 3 is now available on YouTube!

Peep the 'Sessions' series finale right here!

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FortressOne (7 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by esdf @ 14:02 CDT, 3 October 2023 - iMsg

Not so much of an announcement or a recent release, but more of a reminder that there is actually a lively community playing the game that invented Overwatch. It is, of course, Team Fortress mod from the oldest instalment of Quake, now available as a standalone game that requires you do nothing but slap the download link.

Most notable features of the modernised game client are multi platform support (Win, Linux) and support for potat pcs that is bound to make our friends behind the modern day Iron Curtain happy (they even got #russia on discord!). Other than that, it's all down to the community which is hosting 2v2 & 4v4 TF leagues, ladders and overall keeps the game alive either through constant development or daily pickup games.

If you're interested in pugging, first step would be to hop on to the website and grab the client and optional files. Next up, sign in to the website via discord and grab your token. Run the game client and paste the line in to console. Congrats, you're ready to play! Hop on to the discord server and sign yourself up for a few games. And in true quaker fashion, don't watch the tutorials on how to play (because you're the best player!) and simply annoy the rest of your team mates for the day.

Links: website, discord

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Counter-Strike 2 Released (13 comments)

( Major News: CS2)

Posted by Demiurge @ 17:39 CDT, 27 September 2023 - iMsg

Valve officially released Counter-Strike 2, its sequel/free upgrade to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, today, Wednesday, September 27, 2023.

Counter-Strike was first released as a modification for Valve's Half-Life as a beta in 1999. Valve purchased the rights to Counter-Strike in 2000 and released a string of updates. CS 1.3, released in 2001, quickly became one of the most popular games in the world, and helped to pioneer and catapult competitive gaming to a larger international audience. In 2003, Valve released CS 1.6 exclusively on its then-new platform, Steam. One year later, in 2004, Counter-Strike: Source launched and fought for popularity against 1.6 for many years, until Counter-Strike Global Offensive was released in 2012. CS:GO has since dominated as one of Steam's most popular games; most often claiming the number 1 position in popularity.

Counter-Strike 2 iterates on the Global Offensive formula with significant updates to netcode, graphics, and gameplay. Official servers implement a new approach to backwards reconciliation with the introduction of subticks, a lay-explanation of which can be found in Valve's official Moving Beyond Tick Rate video. Valve attempted to cater to competitive and casual desires for scene clarity by meticulously refining visibility of models against the backgrounds of maps. An additional highlighted update to the gameplay is dynamic and reactive smoke grenade behavior, which sees smoke grenade volumes responding to environmental disturbances such as explosions and bullets and causally filling the surrounding environment geometry.

From the CS2 Steam store page: A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2 marks the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike’s history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.

In addition to the classic objective-focused gameplay that Counter-Strike pioneered in 1999, Counter-Strike 2 features:

All-new CS Ratings with the updated Premier mode
Global and Regional leaderboards
Upgraded and overhauled maps
Game-changing dynamic smoke grenades
Tick-rate-independent gameplay
Redesigned visual effects and audio
All items from CS:GO moving forward to CS2

Source: Steam, Counter-Strike 2 homepage

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QuakeCon 2023 (110 comments)

( Major News: QC)

Posted by diegowar @ 08:27 CDT, 7 August 2023 - iMsg

When: August 10-11-12
Where: on LAN, at the Gaylord Texan, in Dallas, USA.
Start Time: 09:00 CDT, 10 August 2023
Total prize money : $150,000
Stream A:

https://www.twitch.tv/quake or

https://www.youtube.com/quake
Stream B:

https://www.twitch.tv/quake2

Qualified players:
-> From the QPL :

Vengeur,

Rapha,

K1llsen,

Raisy,

Zenaku,

Maxter,

Nosfa,

Strongsage,

Dramis,

Av3k,

Serious,

Cha1n,

Toxjq,

Psygib,

Sib,

Xron.
-> From the challengers :

Garpy,

Cnz,

Bukster,

Keltz,

Dandaking,

Spart1e,

Yup,

Effortless.

Unfortunately, due to travel restrictions, Av3k, Serious, Xron and Yup won't be able to come.

Format : The challengers and bottom seeds from the QPL fight it out in a group stage. The best two from each group will be able to join the top 8 QPL seeds into a double elimination bracket.

Brackets / Results:
- Official page (click on "Quake World Championship")
- Liquipedia coverage

Day 1 schedule : here (local times).
Day 2 schedule : here (local times).
Day 3 schedule : here (local times).

PS: For those attending QuakeCon, don't hesitate to say hello to John Carmack, creator of the Quake series, who will be there as well after a long absence.

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QuakeLive 1v1 Tournament - RESP Classic - King of the Jungle (44 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by d1z @ 04:16 CDT, 31 July 2023 - iMsg

RESP (

Russian eSports Project) are happy to announce a Quake Live 1v1 Tournament - King of the Jungle. The tournament will take place on 06:00 CDT, 6 August 2023, eight invited players will compete for a total prize pool of 100,000 rubles (˜1090 $)

Broadcast starts at 06:00 CDT, 6 August 2023. Don't miss the exclusive broadcast only on VK Play Live!

Players:

cYpheR

AGENT

fog

swex

ash

pavel

cherrypuff

Jibo

Brackets

Map pool: Blood Run, Sinister, Furious Heights, Cure, Aerowalk

Prizepool:
1st place 50,000 rubles (547 $)
2nd place 30,000 rubles (328 $)
3rd place 20,000 rubles (219 $)

Hosts and commentators of the tournament: the legendary

LEXER,

BASE and

POLOSATIY!

Tournament schedule:
06:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 1:

cYpheR x

cherrypuff (BO3)
06:40 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 2:

swex x

pavel (BO3)
07:20 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 3:

AGENT x

Jibo (BO3)
08:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 4:

ash x

fog (BO3)
08:40 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 5: Lower Bracket (BO1)
09:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 6: Lower Bracket (BO1)
09:20 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 7: Upper Bracket First Semi-Final (BO3)
10:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 8: Second Upper Bracket Semi-Final (BO3)
10:40 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 9: Lower Bracket (BO1)
11:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 10: Lower Bracket (BO1)
11:20 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 11: Lower Bracket (BO1)
11:40 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 12: Upper Bracket Final (BO3)
12:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 13: Lower Bracket Final (BO3)
13:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 14: Grand Final (BO5)

Tournament trailer by

ILY4:

Links: RESP VK Live, Brackets

Attached Thumbnail: 115160-115159-photo_2023-07-30_16-36-54.jpg (31 Jul 2023, 182KB, 2935 downloads)

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[FPS] Cup: The movie (1 comment)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by Nosf @ 14:32 CDT, 18 July 2023 - iMsg




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Rating: 6.5 (1 vote)

New defrag movie by

Nachos featuring demos from FPS Cup.

Attached Thumbnail: 115152-FPS-Cup.png (18 Jul 2023, 1607KB, 5275 downloads)

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Destruct | WarFork & WarSow Montage (3 comments)

( Major Movie: WSW)

Posted by lolograde @ 15:14 CDT, 19 June 2023 - iMsg




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Rating: 6.2 (9 votes)

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Quake Live returns to TimConLAN 10 (4 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 14:46 CDT, 15 June 2023 - iMsg

TimCon 10 will take place on the 14th-17th of September 2023. The venue will be the Esports Game Arena located in

Alphen aan den Rijn. Games featured will be Quake Live, DOOMBRINGER, Quake 3 CPMA, Quake 3 DeFRaG and Midnight Guns. Players may secure their spot on the TimConLAN website.

Schedule

What is TimCon?

PC Rental

Donations

Follow Us

Links: Website, Discord, Esports Game Arena.

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D Y S P H O R I A by Ryan_H (6 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by xero- @ 20:57 CDT, 13 April 2023 - iMsg




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Rating: 7.8 (16 votes)

Brand new Quake movie from

Ryan_H featuring

CPM &

VQ3 frags. Check out the full video below!

Links:

playmorepromode.com,

#uscpmpickup Discord

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Crescendo - A CPM Duel tournament to warm up for TimConLAN 9 (3 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by gaiia @ 07:47 CST, 2 February 2023 - iMsg

In preparation for TimConLAN 9, gaiia presents:

Crescendo - a CPM Duel tournament!

The event will commence at 11:00 CST, 11 February 2023.
To sign up, head on over to the Official CPMA Discord and request the admins or myself (

gaiia#2491) to give you access to the tournament channel. Alternatively, you can sign up via

Challonge directly.

Crescendo - Tournament details

Prize pool

TimConLAN 9? What's that?

If you have any questions regarding the event, please don't hesitate to ask gaiia#2491 on Discord.

Links: Official CPMA Website, Duel Challonge, Official CPMA Discord, Stream, Twitter

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Speedrunners - a defrag compilation (5 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by Teen Queen @ 09:17 CST, 14 January 2023 - iMsg




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Aftear nearly a year,

powerofheavymetal released an hour long compilation of vq3/cpm defrag runs.

It's a no-nonsense, light editing compilation that viewers of his channel are used to.
Uploaded in 4k resolution

VIDEO LINK

Links from the video description

More DeFrag:
24/7 defrag spectating bot

https://www.twitch.tv/defraglive

24/7 Showcase of defrag LEGENDS and their world records!

https://www.twitch.tv/defraglegends

DeFrag discord :
https://discord.gg/ZG4dKNVQJu

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Quakeum Traditional OSP Duel Tournament #2 (16 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Heero-2b @ 15:19 CST, 6 January 2023 - iMsg

One-day Duel Tournament in OSP Quake 3 Arena

Format
Double Elimination, Best of three maps (BO3) Upper&Lower Bracket, Grand Final BO5

End of registration: 26.1. 2023
Tournament draw: 27.1. 2023
Playing day: sunday 29.1. 2023

Map pool
ztn3tourney1
pro-q3dm6
hub3aeroq3
pro-q3tourney4
pro-nodm9
pukka3tourney2
hektik

Tournament web & registration: https://quakeum.com/tournament

Attached Image: 115114-quakeum_Duel_Tournament_2_2023_promo.jpg (6 Jan 2023, 488KB, 1065 downloads)