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2010 TEK9 Awards (128 comments)

( Major News: Gaming QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:33 CST, 28 January 2011 - iMsg

Previously called the Heaven Media Awards in 2009 and a few days late after the new year, the TEK9 Awards of 2010 were just announced yesterday. Mostly focused on CoD4 and Quakelive, the awards will try to determine the best players, events and movies of 2010 through a few categories.

The voting process is public, but you need to be logged on the TEK9 website in if you want to be counted in. The polls will be closed on Wednesday January 19th.

2010 TEK9 Awards

Best Quake Live Player nominees

Best Quake Live Event nominees

Best Quake Live Movie nominees

Update: The results of the polls are now public and you can read about the winners on TEK9.

Links: TEK9 Awards of 2010

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IEM5 World Championships - Groups (354 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Dronar @ 18:07 CST, 27 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

ESL has just now released the groups for the World Finals at CeBIT in March

All groups of the World Championship are drawn. These teams and players qualified via continental finals our qualification tournament and will face each other in five weeks. The competition for the World Champion title will take place March 1st to 5th at CeBIT, Germany.

Quake Live

StarCraft II

Links: ESL IEM5

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EQL:Pro - Final & Bronze games! (11 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by G_Uru @ 10:23 CST, 27 January 2011 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 30 January 2011 to 15:30 CST, 30 January 2011
Schedule: Passed

As EQL:Pro is coming to an end on this Sunday evening the 30th of January, we already have some drama prior to the final games considering which clans have made it there.

OJOJ VITUN HELPPO! lost against

Suddendeath while

Slackers showed

Fusion that they are still just as hot as they've always been, especially considering the official playoff games!

Two of the winner candidates are playing for the third spot instead of being in the finals. The semifinal series ended up with some last minute dramatic turn-arounds and unexplainable (un)lucky situations which did result in games that will be remembered for a long time. Make sure to cancel any arrangements you've already made for Sunday and come share the drama with us and enjoy the best 4on4TDM action there is on the planet! Let's hope the finals will be even more dramatic!

Schedule

Rosters

Coverage and other links

Enjoy!
Yours, the admins!

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IEM5 European Championship Finals - VODs (39 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:40 CST, 27 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Most of the VODs and demos from the

European Finals of the IEM5 at Kiev have now been uploaded. So here are the links where you'll be able to find all the Quakelive goodies. In bold are the recommended Group Stage matches after the polls made on ESR.

Note that the demos from this part of the tournament are nowhere to be found. If any player who saved them would like to share his demos or if anything is missing in this post: Please let us know!

Day 1

Day 2

Playoffs

Also,

SeriousQuakeLive has started putting demoVODs online if you want to dig that path.

Links: ESL TV, Level Up TV

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Anima Gaming Quake Live Showcases (12 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Mellow @ 19:54 CST, 26 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: AGSS

Before the

Anima Gaming Spring Season starts, we will be hosting a few showcase events in order to build up a player-base and get activity on the rise. Events such as Duel, CTF, and TDM are constantly being played in these, and since those are the three major events during the regular season, we want players to get a feel for how the season will go.

Anima Gaming Quake Live Showcases

Formats and Maps

Join #AG.league on GameSurge and sign up yourself or your team for these events! The regular season is approaching fast, and we need all the support we can get from you!

All available coverage will be streamed/casted by QuakeLive.tv. The VODs of the CTF Showcase are available now!

Stream: QuakeLive.tv
Links: Brackets CTF, Brackets Duel -

#AG.league -

#ql.tv

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ESH FTP: Playoffs (15 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 15:53 CST, 26 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: ESH FTP: QL

After Group stage, we are moving to playoffs of Full Tilt Poker Challenge. We have two separate double elimination brackets for each division, and it will be played over next few weeks, where div 2 matches will be played on Mondays while Div 1 matches will continue to be played on Thursdays. Complete schedule can be found below.

Division 1

Division 2

Playoffs schedule

Brackets schedule

Group stage finalists

Related article: Full Tilt Poker Challenge: QL
Stream:

LevelUpTV,

c58
Links: Cup page (Div 1, Div 2), Brackets (Div 1, Div 2),

#esh.ql

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LowLandLions: Quake Live Duel Open (194 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by draven- @ 08:02 CST, 26 January 2011 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 26 January 2011 to 16:59 CST, 26 January 2011
Schedule: Passed

Lowlandlions Quakelive Cups continues in 2011, the winner wins a Sennheiser PC330D G4ME.
Quake Live Open is going live at Wednesday 26 January 2011 at 13:00 CDT. With a Single Elimination Play-off, the attendees will play matches in a best of one(bo1) format, until the quarter finals. The quarter finals till finals will be played in a best of three format.

Informations

Prize Purse

Schedule

Rankings:

Cypher (Sennheiser PC330D)

Cooller (PureTrak Stealth + glidz)

Agent (G Data Internet Security)
4th

Alfaomega

Source: LLL: QL Open -

#Lowlandlions - Brackets
Stream: LevelupTV - c58 - VODS

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German League about to start ** (56 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by chzzen @ 07:35 CST, 26 January 2011 - iMsg

The

national duel league received an immense response from the community with 130 participants from

Germany,

Austria and

Switzerland. It is the biggest duel league in Quake Live with players from all skill levels and it is about to start this Monday with it's first match week.

Wednesday and Thursday night will be the last chance for numerous players to participate in the second league.

SL grave,

jilly,

DkH bldr and

mTw roxXx are just a few names to mention for the qualification to the second division.

First cup: Wednesday 01/26
The cup is done and

jilly took the first spot for the second division by winning the cup. Videos of all streamed matches can be found here: www.teamoxid.de/tv/view/vods

The second cup today: Thursday 01/27
Start: 19.00 CET
Grid: 16 players, Double Elimination
Map rule: 1st round is played Best Of 1 (Details here)
Stream:

Teamoxid

Premier Division Participants

Second Division Participants

Prizes

Mappool

You can find further details about the tournaments in today's ESL news post (German).

Official coverage partner:

fragster,

readmore,

derQuaker.com
Official streams:

Level Up,

ESL TV,

BloodyWarriors,

Teamoxid

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IEM5 European Championship Finals - Day4 (991 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Demiurge @ 07:15 CST, 26 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 09:00 CST, 23 January 2011 to 13:00 CST, 23 January 2011
Schedule: Passed

The European Championship Finals of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 is now over in Kiev. The finals consisted of the three absolutely amazing games, and the best player has come out on top to the great satisfaction of his many fans.

Final Standing

Cooller - $4,000
av3k - $2,500
strenx - $1,150
4th. Cypher - $750
5-6th. k1llsen, fazz - $500
7-8th. Spart1e, noctis - $400
9-10th. madix, tox1c - $350
11-12th. GoHLink, zsx - $300

Playoff results

Quake Live Group Results

Stream links

Groups: QuakeLive, StarCraft II / Brackets: QuakeLive, StarCraft II
Links: European Championship Finals, Schedule -

Coverage: Level Up TV, SK, Fnatic, TEK9, TL, ESFI, Razer,

Fragster,

FFF,

DerQuaker,

Quakelive.sk
Galleries: ESL, Fnatic, Reason, Fragster, vh

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Nations Cup first matchweek (16 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 01:54 CST, 26 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: NC XIV

First match week already started with next matches:

TDM Matchweek 1

CTF Matchweek 1

Official streams: Level Up TV
CBooky: TDM, CTF
Links: ClanBase, NC TDM, NC CTF,

#clanbase.ql,

cbqlcrew

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IEM5 EU Champion Cooller on Lo3 #68 (166 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 14:26 CST, 25 January 2011 - iMsg

Scheduled: 18:00 CST, 25 January 2011 to 20:00 CST, 25 January 2011
Schedule: Passed

Update: VOD of the show is now up.

Live On Three #68 with djWHEAT, Slasher & SirScoots is tonight with a recap of the ESL IEM European Championships. I have made the rounds and can happily say we are fortunate enough to bring on the three champions in Quake Live, Starcraft 2 & CS 1.6 even as the early morning hours hit. First time and long-awaited Quake Live champion Anton "Cooller" Singov, Sweden's continued dominance in SC2 with Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi, and fnatic's Patrik "cArn" Sättermon showing what a leader is capable of.

GSL S4 Finals:
- Preview and predictions of the S4 Grand Finals between MVP and MarineKing, the first GSL Terran champion.
- Recap of the Ro4 and Ro8 - IdrA & Jinro foreigner losses, NaDa gets swept, NesTea the last Zerg hope goes down.
- What four foreigners should go to Code A for S5?

News includes:
- Danish CS 1.6 player assault by Ukranian police at IEM, forced bribery with police (http://www.hltv.org/news/6068-ze-assaulted-by-ukrainian-police)
- Controversy hits Quake Live in Cooller/strenx semifinal with lag issues 2 minutes in the fifth map, the power cutting out, and now an infamous 27-second replay. (http://www.esfiworld.com/ql/match/2011-01-23-strenx-vs-cooller)
- Grubby rumored to leave EG for Chinese team to play WC3 in China instead of SC2 (http://www.tatazu.com/index.php?action-viewnews-itemid-16062)
- ESEA Founder Craig Levine confirms SC2 finals for it's inaugural season will be held online, not at their Dallas LAN (http://vvvgaming.podbean.com/2011/01/20/losers-bracket-round-51/)

Show starts at 7 PM EST/01:00 CET and can be seen live at http://www.djWHEAT.tv/live.php

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Cooller IEM V Euro Champion interview (175 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 19:28 CST, 23 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

With his victory in the final of the IEM V European Championships

Anton "Cooller" Singov has finally made his way back to the top of the world of Quake and acquired a major title after so many thought his time to be a champion had been and gone.

How has Cooller changed his approach to ztn, a map he was one the maestro of, to defeat an

av3k who has defeated him on it seemingly every time they have met? Did Cooller ever lose hope during his quest to become a champion again that he could see it through and reach his goal?

The interview can be viewed at SK Gaming.

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Carmac: "least unfair as possible" (164 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 12:49 CST, 23 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz, ESL's Product Manager for the IEM, spoke in a video interview at length about all of the significant circumstances and factors surrounding the controversial pause, power outage and subsequent recreation of the final moments during the Cooller-Strenx fifth map.

Carmac explains that the lag on the LAN server was a result of power problems spiking the server. He says the power went out in the surrounding area of Kiev not just the Cyber Sport Arena. Carmac explains ESL's decision to recreate the conditions for the final moments of the game and his questioning on Strenx not pausing himself . Should the game have been paused at that moment in the first place?

The interview can be viewed at SK Gaming.

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Cooller post-Strenx match interview (15 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 11:42 CST, 23 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Following a thrilling and unexpected end to the last map of his semi-final vs.

Strenx the ever popular

Anton "Cooller' Singov spoke in a video interview about the controvertial pause/power outage incident and his thoughts on the upcoming final.

What was Cooller's reaction to being killed by Strenx to send the game to overtime? Answering a later question Cooller uses the phrase "biggest epic fail" in what context? What does Cooller think of his matchup vs.

av3k being as he had said he preferred av3k over Cypher?

The interview can be viewed at SK Gaming.

IEM EU Group Stage Movie - Part 1 (6 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by ODEE @ 19:36 CST, 22 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Team Dignitas have been following their players at the Intel Extreme Masters EU Finals over the past few days. Today they have released their first movie from the event, it shows Swedish dueller

Michael "Mad1x" Hindersson talking to fellow Swede

Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira following his defeat to

K1llsen.

The video also shows scenes from Kiev and the CyberSport Arena along with Starcraft II footage featuring

Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi.

The 13.13 minute movie can be viewed on the Team Dignitas website.

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