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( Major News: SC2)

Posted by therogue @ 08:33 CST, 8 December 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 10:00 CST, 8 December 2010 to 17:00 CST, 8 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 62nd SteelSeries Go4SC2 Cup hosted by

ESL takes place this Wednesday. Up to 512 players will battle it out for ranking points to qualify for the 500 Euros monthly final. As usual it will be single elimination, best of 1 fixed maps until the quarter finals, then best of three.

Useful links: Sign up / Check-in (10:40 CDT).

Quick Facts

Streams:

TheRushNetwork,

ESL Radio,

aAa,

VodPortal.ru
Links: Go4SC2, Cup page, Live coverage page, Brackets,

#esl.go4sc2

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Gaming at the movies #7 (27 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Thorin @ 07:40 CST, 8 December 2010 - iMsg

Gaming at the movies #7 gives you seven movies to read reviews of, stream and download. The usual piece of gaming cinema greatness that is the classic pick is included to ensure a happy holidays for all.

Box office for week #7:

AUT of Control (Q3) by noctis
JungleboY - Hakuna Matata (CS) by JungleboY
RTCW Competitive History - Year 2002 (RTCW) by twister
bruno (CS) by donutsmaker
Unagi (QL) by ZeroQL
Max ruuit Aspe (CS) by Goldy
FURY 3 IYC$CUF (CS) by X-BeRt^

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

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Level Up TV - DHW'10 After Movie (78 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Trance @ 10:47 CST, 7 December 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

Level Up TV would today, a week after the conclusion of the Quake Live tournaments at DreamHack Winter, like to conclude our own personal on-site coverage of the event by releasing the secondary content we promised in our initial press release.

As an organisation, we were well aware of the difficulties that we could potentially meet head on when initially taking on the huge task of covering live events on-site, we wanted to make efforts to ensure that we provided the best possible service to our viewers with the limited resources that we had at our disposal. Taking all of this into consideration we are today able to release our "Level Up TV at DreamHack" video presentation.

The 71 minute footage was recorded during the 3 days of the Quake Live tournaments and it varies in content from interviews, event area walkthroughs, the ramblings of the players and of course, a brief chat with mr. Day9 himself!

The main purpose of it, was to try and share with the viewers our first time experience at DreamHack, showcasing some of that atmosphere that both Quake Live and DreamHack is so famous for.

Once again we hope you have all enjoyed our coverage for this event and we would like to thank all of our donors, viewers and supporters.

See you in 2011!

Direct links: Part I, Part II
Related: Play the Movie!, Website and donations

, Steam Group

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EMS7 QL TDM Playoff - R2 (11 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:25 CST, 7 December 2010 - iMsg

Event: EMS7

The Playoff of the ESL Major Series Season VII Quake Live have started two weeks ago and the teams are getting into their 2nd matches now.

Winner Brackets Round 2

METSU 2-0 bloodface (Details)
fnaticMSI 1-2 Reason Gaming QL (Details)

Loser Brackets Round 1

xentorium 1-2 Four Kings (Details) @ HSTV
team alpha 2-0 deathreign (Details)

Also, make sure to check the VODs of the incredible match (Maps 1 & 2, Map 3) between

METSU and

4Kings (Details) from WB Round 1.

Links: EMS7 QL, Brackets

EC XXII Playoffs - UB2 + LB1 (73 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 12:36 CST, 6 December 2010 - iMsg

Event: EC XXII

Scheduled: 14:00 CST, 6 December 2010 to 15:30 CST, 6 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

In round 2 we got 3 great matches, this time with the group winners,

4K and

METSU playing. Check complete Double Elimination Bracket on CB or playoff matches down below.

Update:

iM has been thrown out by

xt in the LB match, where

FLiNE will meet loser from

METSU vs

alpha match.

14:00 CST, 30 November 2010 | 4K 2-0 FLiNE - (Match report & demos, lvl^ vod, hs.tv vod - map1, hs.tv vod - map2)
14:30 CST, 2 December 2010 | xt 2-0 iM - (Match report & demos, lvl^ vod - Map1, lvl^ vod - Map2)
14:00 CST, 6 December 2010 | METSU 0-2 alpha - (Match report & demos, lvl^ vod)

Playoffs

Match week #5

Match week #4

Match week #3

Match week #2

Match week #1

Official streams: lvl^, TV.HS
Links: EC XXII, Playoff tree, CBooky,

#clanbase.ql,

cbqlcrew

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QuakeLive Divisonal Group Stage (52 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xterm @ 14:44 CST, 5 December 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 19:00 CST, 6 December 2010 to 21:00 CST, 6 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

With all four Divisional Cups complete, a list of 16 of the top finishers, who have not already qualified for the Premier Division, has been collected and the groups have been filled.

The Divisional Placement Group Stage is set for Sunday and Monday evening, December 5 and 6.

Groups

Schedule

Stream: QL.tv
Links: Announcement, Group results, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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Gamelimited recruiting new forces (78 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 11:51 CST, 5 December 2010 - iMsg

After a successful performance of their two Unreal 3 players, Gamelimited decided to go another way, as they will be more focusing on Quake Live. Two players have been added to strengthen their dueling squad. Both

Viaceslavas 'fire_bot' Duk and

Fredrik 'assign' Junttila are now in the team.

Fire_bot and

Assign are considered to be quality and up-and-coming players in Quake Live.

Wieke 'LanDi' Loman will be the new team captain of the squad.

Statement provided by Assign

Gamelimited Quake Live squad

Links: Gamelimited,

#gamelimited

ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #61 (128 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:20 CST, 5 December 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

The 61st ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. As usual it will consist of SE brackets using the bo1 format until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. The prize still is 100€ for 1st place!

Hopefully, Quakelive won't crash again!

Quick Facts

Final rankings

1st. agentJkezooR - 100€
2nd. strenx
3-4th. assign & GaRpY

Final Demos: ESR
Stream:

GoodGame,

Cyberfight,

BW
Links: Tournament page, Brackets,

#zotac.qlive // HoF

ASUS Autumn 2010 - QL (121 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:01 CST, 5 December 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 08:00 CST, 5 December 2010 to 09:00 CST, 5 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

The Quake LIVE! Open tournament of the ASUS Autumn 2010 will take place at the eSports Arena in

Kiev on the 28th of November 2010. The first matches will start at 06:00 CDT while the final is expected to be played at 12:00 CDT.

Final rankings

Cypher - 20 000 rubles
Amai - 15 000 rubles
sHreK - 10 000 rubles
4th. Free - 5 000 rubles
5-6th. x1t, ext - Hardware

The other tournaments

Update:

Cypher won the Grand Final (2-1, 2-1)!

Streams:

Cyberfight
Link: Brackets,

#asus.ql

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NecroCup - Quake Live Duel #5 (38 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Dawg @ 08:09 CST, 3 December 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 4 December 2010 to 13:00 CST, 4 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

NecroRaisers are back with another QuakeLive Duel Cup to take place on Friday, 3rd December. This time we have Killer™ 2100 - The Fastest Network Card for Online Games from our sponsor Bigfoot Networks as prize for first place.

You might join our Single Elimination Brackets with a map list that doesn't require Premium account at Quake Live. The official tournament page at Joust.ru.

Info

Recent winners

Standings

Final standings:
1st.

Agent
2nd.

kRoNic

Links:

NecroRaisers, Tournament page,

#NecroRaisers, Final DEMO (Agent)

Gaming at the movies #6 (50 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Thorin @ 05:20 CST, 2 December 2010 - iMsg

Gaming at the movies #6 sets out an appetizing spread of eight movies for you to read reviews of, download and stream. Dessert is a classic selection from the past as usual.

Box office for week #6:

karrigan - Welcome to FINNland (CS) by z0rgan
DaHanG 2010 (QL) by justin
HyvlarN - Let It Rock (CS) by rglaf
CyberFight sense (Q3) by HMage
dikfilmen - deltaiotakappa the movie (CS) by BFG
finnhits vol. 1 (Q2) by Dimmo
n0swal the movie (CS) by muffz
frags done extreme II (QW) by sLASh, Delirium and don surmo

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

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IEM5 EC Group Stage - Late matches (135 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:57 CST, 1 December 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Due to the many problems with Quakelive in the past 2 weeks and the attendance at DreamHack Winter 2010 of several players, a few late matches of the IEM5 European Championship will be played tonight. The streams infos will be announced as soon as known!

Yesterday the ESL published a news about the removal of

Nitrino and

Stermy from the competition, because of the penalty points they accumulated.

Late matches

Last Results

PS: The EMS7 Playoff WB1 match between

METSU and

4Kings (Details) will also be played at 15:00 CDT tonight! Stream @ Level Up TV 2.

Streams: Level Up TV
Links: IEM5 EC QL, Results, Groups,

#masters.ql

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rapha and the American Dream (125 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by @ 07:48 CST, 30 November 2010 - iMsg

After this weekend's DreamHack Winter,

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson has once again underlined the fact that he is one of the best duellers in the world, with a victory at MSI BEAT IT and a 5-8th placing in the Kaspersky Quakelive Championship.

Timely as always SteelSeries has now released an indepth feature interview with Hendrixson on their site. The interview touches both how Hendrixson's childhood was aswell as the traits that has made him one of the best duellers ever.

Excerpt from the article

The interview stretches for a full twelve pages of content, so be sure to set some time aside for this thorough portrait of the most accomplished American dueller since Fatal1ty.

Link: SteelSeries.com

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #60 (89 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 04:36 CST, 30 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 1 December 2010 to 12:00 CST, 1 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 60th ZOTAC Quakelive is taking place this Sunday, same time as the ASUS Autumn 2010. This edition should be a lot more open as many good players are still at DreamHack Winter 2010 as well!

Quick Facts

Rankings

1st madix - 100€
2nd fire_bot
3-4th spartaz0rd / assign

Stream:

GoodGame
Links: Tournament page, Brackets, #zotac.qlive // HoF

ESL Clan Arena 4v4 Opening Cup (13 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Kapiter @ 04:35 CST, 30 November 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 2 December 2010 to 16:30 CST, 2 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

To promote the new Quakelive CA 4v4 ladder, ESL is organizing a Clan Arena cup on Sunday 28th at 14:00 CDT.

Quick infos

The map list for the cup and the ladder consists of Asylum, Campgrounds, Cold War, Hidden Fortress, Overkill, Quarantine and Trinity.

There is no cash prize planned, but the winners will get ESL Premium accounts:

1st Place: 2 month
2nd Place: 1 month
3rd Place: 1 month

Update: Due to Quakelive problems, the cup was moved to Thursday 2nd of December.

Links: Cup page, Rules, Sign-up, CA 4v4 ladder,

#esl.quakelive

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