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Fragster interviews Juven1le & bab (159 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by draven- @ 14:58 CST, 15 February 2011 - iMsg

German community site

Fragster decided to interview

Juven1le &

bab of RAGE Gaming's Quakelive squad.

Preview:

Juven1le: I started out watching old Quake 3 demos of top players. I started playing alot and I got around 1.800 TDM games total in Quake Live. I don't have any "personal cheats" besides a comfortable setup that I've been playing on for ages. Ingame I mainly try and be as dynamic as possible, dishing out damage wherever I can.

Source: Interview English, Interview Germany

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #70 (113 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:13 CST, 13 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 13 February 2011 to 11:20 CST, 13 February 2011
Schedule: Passed

The 70th ZOTAC QL Duel Cup is taking place this Sunday. Last week the cup was canceled as Quakelive went down.

Quick Facts

Stream:

GG,

c58,

BW,

ADtv
Links: Tournament page, Brackets (Mirror),

#zotac.qlive // HoF

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TDM 2v2 Pre-EMS8 - Devilish (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 06:23 CST, 13 February 2011 - iMsg

The second TDM 2v2 Pre-EMS8 cup will start tonight at 15:00 CDT and will be played on Devilish.

Details

Note about team size restrictions

Link: Announcement, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

IEM5 QL Lets take a look shall we? (34 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 22:38 CST, 12 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Whilst sitting here organizing our trip and counting the sleeps until the IEM5 World Championships, anticipating thoughts are running through my head. As suspected in all of our heads that same iconic question. Who will be crowned the Quake Live World Champion?

Excerpt: Last years struggle over the doubtfulness that the games interest would once again become a 'starvation' for players has been answered. The liveliness of the game has grown a lot in the past year, and the decisions of those from 'ye old times' whose minds were once balanced between playing seriously or disappearing, have made their moves. With the exception of one unfortunate soul, and arguably a few “invitation allocation decisions”, these World Championships contain, at this current time, the best Quake Live duelers the world has to offer.

Read the full write-up on 4seasonsgaming.com.

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Asus Winter 2011 QuakeLive QR3 (3 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 06:17 CST, 12 February 2011 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 12 February 2011 to 15:00 CST, 12 February 2011
Schedule: Passed

The 3rd qualification cup for the coming online Asus Winter 2011 QuakeLive is played tonight at 12:00 CDT. The last cup is planned for the 16th of February.

The format is Single Elimination with bo1 matches except for semifinals and final which should use bo3. The map pool is Blood Run, Lost World, Furious Heights, Hektik, Aerowalk, Dismemberment and Vertical vengeance.

The top3 players from each cup will qualify! Also, 4 invited players will join them to form a Group Stage of 16 players.

Qualified players

Stream:

c58 (14:30 CDT)
Link: Brackets, Applications -

#asus.ql

Gaming at the movies #12 (86 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Thorin @ 17:35 CST, 10 February 2011 - iMsg

Gaming at the movies #12 returns with 6 movies to read reviews of, download and stream.

Box office for week #12:

Forbidden Colors (CS, 2011) by DreaM
midget (Q3 CPM, 2005) by tom
Finnish it (UT2004, 2006) by Electry
Na`Vi - On the way to victory - IEM 4 (CS, 2011) by Pan4o
The Afterspray (QL, 2010) by Hell5pawn
dkt2 (CS, 2003) by destrukt

Gaming at the movies can be read and viewed at SK Gaming every week.

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Asus Winter 2011 QuakeLive QR2 (15 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:41 CST, 10 February 2011 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 10 February 2011 to 15:00 CST, 10 February 2011
Schedule: Passed

The 2nd qualification cup for the coming online Asus Winter 2011 QuakeLive is played tonight at 12:00 CDT. The next 2 cups are planned for the 12th and 16th of February.

The format is Single Elimination with bo1 matches except for semifinals and final which should use bo3. The map pool is Blood Run, Lost World, Furious Heights, Hektik, Aerowalk, Dismemberment and Vertical vengeance.

The top3 players from each cup will qualify! Also, 4 invited players will join them to form a Group Stage of 16 players.

Qualified players

Stream:

c58
Link: Brackets, Applications -

#asus.ql

EMS7 QL TDM Playoff - R4 (5 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:35 CST, 10 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: EMS7

Scheduled: 14:00 CST, 10 February 2011 to 15:20 CST, 10 February 2011
Schedule: Passed

The LB Round 3 match of the ESL Major Series Season VII Quake Live will be played tonight after 3 weeks of intense scheduling. The game will see fnaticMSI facing bloodface and should start at 15:00 CDT.

LB Round 3
fnaticMSI 2-0 bloodface (Details) - VODs: lvl^, GG

Previous rounds

Stream: Level Up TV,

GG
Links: EMS7 QL, Brackets

Anima Gaming 32-man Duel Showcase (34 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 17:44 CST, 9 February 2011 - iMsg

Tonight, 19:00 CST, 9 February 2011,

Anima Gaming and

QuakeLive.tv team up to bring you coverage a 32-man North American Duel Showcase. The NA Quake Live scene has been slow as of late, but tonight's showcase features some of the best talent that you may not see in larger tournaments, such as IEM.

Format and Maps

As per usual, the entire event will be streamed and feature commentary by QuakeLive.tv's

Jehar and

GreasedScotsman.

Stream: GamesCast, Quake-Live.tv
Links: brackets -

#AG.league -

#QL.tv

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TDM 2v2 Pre-EMS8 - Hidden Fortress (18 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:22 CST, 9 February 2011 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:00 CST, 9 February 2011 to 18:30 CST, 9 February 2011
Schedule: Passed

The first TDM 2v2 Pre-EMS8 cup will start tonight at 15:00 CDT and will be played on Hidden Fortress. The 2nd cup will be played on Sunday evening and will feature Devilish!

Details

Note about team size restrictions

Update - The rankings are:

1st. IP - megBeguk & pavel
2nd. c85 - Extreme & Shadow
3rd. DieDickenKinder - Andy & randallFlagg
4th. cze - debtorr & flatecek

VODs:

GG (YT)
Link: Announcement, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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Asus Winter 2011 QuakeLive QR1 (30 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:48 CST, 8 February 2011 - iMsg

The qualifications for the coming online Asus Winter 2011 QuakeLive are starting tonight with the first cup at 12:00 CDT. The next 3 cups are planned for the 10th, 12th and 14th February (Happy Valentines!).

The format is Single Elimination with bo1 matches except for semifinals and final which should use bo3. The map pool is Blood Run, Lost World, Furious Heights, Hektik, Aerowalk, Dismemberment and Vertical vengeance.

The top3 players from each cup will qualify! Also, 4 invited players will join them to form a Group Stage of 16 players.

Update on QR1 top3:

1st. pavel
2nd. x1t
3rd. Free

Stream:

c58
Link: Brackets, Applications -

#asus.ql

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Russian Cooller interview translated (128 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 12:27 CST, 7 February 2011 - iMsg

After

Anton "Cooller" Singov's IEM victory Cyberfight.ru hosted a stream on which the champion took questions from a thread on the site and answered them. Thanks to

ToyTiger his answers can now be read in English.

Amongst the many topics discussed:

Cypher's opinion that Cooller couldn't win or place top 3 at IEM, Cooller's matches vs.

fazz,

noctis,

av3k & Cypher,

strenx's development, whose Q3 config he copied and his upcoming frag movie.

The full translation transcription can be read at SK Gaming.

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The Ultimate Gaming Championship (114 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Memento_Mori @ 11:29 CST, 7 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: UGC

Today,

Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone announced the Ultimate Gaming Championship, a LAN party event that will be held from March 31st to April 3rd in

Lignano Sabbiadoro at the touristic resort Villaggio GeTur.

The event will welcome 1 000 gamers and features a prizes purse up to $30,000 for the following official tournaments:

- Quake Live - $7,000 (Details)
- StarCraft 2 - $7,000
- Call of Duty 4
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
- Super Street Fighters IV

Besides the official tournaments there will be community run tournaments as part of the BYOC event.

Link: Announcement, UGC.it

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ESL TDM 2v2 Cups this week (2 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:00 CST, 7 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: EMS8

The eighth season of the ESL Major Series is coming soon! And as the game type will be TDM 2v2 instead of 4v4 in the previous season, we will be running two cups this week to have a taste of 2 rather new 2v2 maps: Hidden Fortress and Devilish!

The first cup will be played on Wednesday 9th of February starting at 15:00 CDT and will use Hidden Fortress. The second cup on Sunday 13th at 14:00 CDT will use Devilish. The format will be Double Elimination brackets with best-of-1 matches with 16 teams. The number of teams could be increased depending of the amount of sign-ups.

Note about team size restrictions

More infos

Link: Announcement,

#esl.quakelive

DreamHack 2011 Prize Purse - €170,000 (36 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Cyn1c @ 04:10 CST, 7 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: DHS'11

DreamHack organizers have announced a 1 500 000 SEK (~170 000€ ) total prize purse for its 2011 events. The prize purse will be distributed over multiple tournaments throughout the year that would fall under the 2 major events - DreamHack Summer 2011 (18-21 June) and DreamHack Winter 2011 (24-27 November).

The first set of games have already been announced while the announcement for the rest is still awaited. DHW 2010 attracted over 17,000 visitors and had 13,292 unique computers in the network, renewing their title of "The Largest Computer Festival in the World."

Here's what the DreamHack CEO, Robert Ohlén had to add :

"2011 will be yet another historic year for DreamHack and its community by breaking the one million mark in prize money for eSports alone. Today DreamHack and partners are proud to present the sum of SEK 1, 5 million in DreamHack’s Prize Purse for 2011. The Prize Purse will be distributed over multiple events and the official tournament games will be presented shortly.

The Prize Purse and tournaments will reinforces yet again DreamHack’s position as one of the leading eSports events worldwide. This year we will intensify our work around eSports, hold more qualifiers and focus on an even greater World Finals at DreamHack Winter in November."

Link: Official Newspost

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