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3 last invites for DreamHack Winter! (240 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 15:50 CST, 8 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

The last 3 invites were today handed out. First out is the FPS-Legend from the CPL World Tour a few years back,

Vo0. The Dutch player has been attending to DreamHack a few times before, claiming the Gold in the DreamHack CPM tournament.

The bronze medal winner of our last Quake Live tournament this summer was also invited:

strenx.

The last invite goes to the Swedish Quake profile

fazz, who impressed everyone this summer with his enjoyable mind and play style and thus won the Kaspersky's Award for his performance!

With the three last invites an additional International Qualifier was announced. It will take place in Spain during the 13th of November. Notable attendees in Spain is Sl1p and p0ni amongst others.

After the 14th of November when the qualifier in The Czech Republic is finished the lineup for the Kaspersky's Quake Live Championships will be complete.

Player List

Links: Dreamhack.se, Tournament info, Rules

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Ready Up Radio Episode 24 (24 comments)

( Major News: Q3 QL)

Posted by nineX @ 11:43 CST, 7 November 2010 - iMsg

After last week's discussion of our "ideal game", we got ahold of putty, current developer and old Quake player from team Chatkill. We get his thoughts on what different development companies are doing wrong and what they're doing right. We also talk about past games that we've loved and what made them favorites. For the most part though, it's a great discussion of what we'd like to see from any upcoming games and what they need to be relevant in the competitive gaming community.

We also go over the 2nd Season of the GSL, which will coming to an end this upcoming Saturday (Nov 13). Season 2 has been wonderful and I'm looking forward to the next one already. I would highly suggest everyone get a subscription to GomTV as the coverage has been wonderful and only getting better.

Also, any CPM players should contribute to the CPMNERDS page! PM bgs on #uscpmpickup to add yourself to it.

Head on over to Ready Up Radio to download the podcast.

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #57 (200 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:41 CST, 7 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 7 November 2010 to 11:00 CST, 7 November 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 57th 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!

Notable participants are:

Cooller,

Cypher,

strenx,

Guard,

noctis,

GaRpY,

madix and many more.

Quick Facts

Stream: Level Up TV,

GG.ru,

QL.ua
Links: Tournament page, Brackets,

#zotac.qlive // HoF

QHLAN14 Day 3 - Playoffs (170 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Zalon @ 16:43 CDT, 6 November 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 06:00 CDT, 4 November 2010 to 07:00 CST, 7 November 2010
Schedule: Passed

Day 3 of the QHLAN QuakeWorld LAN in Stockholm, Sweden, today we will see the playoff stage of both the 1on1 tournament and the 4on4 tournament.

1on1 Tournament

Groups

Group play standings

Playoffs (+demos)

2on2 Tournament

Groups

Standings

Playoffs (+demos)

4on4 Tournament

Groups

Standings

Playoffs (+demos)

To follow the games get nQuake and watch the games via QTV - a stream will be available for finals!

Stream schedule

Finals will be played Saturday from 15:00 CDT and on

Links: Tournaments, QTV, Stream, Demos, Shrine Tourney
Coverage: QuakeWorld.nu,

QuakeWorld.nu,

QuakePhil
Galleries: esreality

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QHLan 14 flash-interviews (11 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by !phil @ 10:34 CDT, 6 November 2010 - iMsg

Some in-your-face flash interviews with some of the top names attending this years QHLan

Warning: contains strong language and/or nudity. (Ok, maybe not nudity) :)

SR-ParadokS and SR-en_karl
Valla and Rikoll
Phrenic
FA-Zalon
Sassa
flintheart playing
LethalWiz and Warzon Trophy
Molle
Fest Hat
sd-Goblin and sd-BPS
tVS-Ihminen and tVS-Milton

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LEVEL 1V1 CUP #3 (11 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by slrx @ 05:18 CDT, 6 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: lvl

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 7 November 2010 to 15:00 CST, 7 November 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 3rd duel cup from Team Level will feature 1v1 over a DE Brackets. Matches will be played as bo1 except for the WB, LB and Grand Finals which will be bo3. The map pool has been slightly changed: Vertical Vengeance (t4) has been replaced with Hektik. The preferred server location will be

Russia. Check-In starts at 11:00 CDT on

#level.ql and the tournament will begin 1 hour later at 12:00 CDT.

Mappool

Results:

1 - Amai
2 - n1
3 - Limon

Streams: goodgame.ru, team level
Links: Tournament Page, Brackets,

#level.ql (registration open), team level
Demos: Grand Final

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MLG Dallas Starcraft 2 (75 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by Slasher @ 12:40 CDT, 5 November 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 16:00 CDT, 5 November 2010 to 16:00 CST, 7 November 2010
Schedule: Passed

Major League Gaming's National Championships are this weekend in Dallas, Texas, and will feature the largest Starcraft 2 tournament thus far outside of Korea.

The event is being streamed live all weekend on MLG's site with commentary by

Sean "Day9" Plott,

Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham, and

JP McDaniel.

MLG DC champion

Greg "EG.IdrA" Fields will be on hand to defend his title against MLG DC 2nd place finisher

Kyung Hyun "d.SeleCT" Ryooa and a slew of opponents from around the globe. TeamLiquid has sent their entire team to the event including star player

/

Dario "LiquidTLO" Wünsch and Swedes

Hayder "HayprO" Hussein and

Jonathan "Jinro" Walsh who have been in Korea for GSL, MLG Raleigh champion and mothership rusher

Chris "HuK" Loranger, along with

Jos "Ret" de Kroon and

Tyler "NonY" Wasieleski.

Other first-time MLG attendees include fnatic stars IEM North American champion

Jian Carlo "Fenix" Morayra Alejo, and the impressive

Yang "Sen" Chia Cheng.

The Americans will look to defend their home turf with Root gaming's strong lineup of

Kevin "qxc" Riley,

Jonathan "KiWiKaKi" Garneau and

Paul-David "SLush" Pagé and EG's

Bryce "Machine" Bates,

Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson, and

Jacob "LzGamer" Winstead.

Other notable names to look out for include MLG Raleigh third place finisher

Giacomo "Socke" Thüs, GSL participant

Trevor "TorcH" Housten and YouTube caster

Alex "HDStarcraft" Do.

Schedule

Links: SC2 Brackets, SC2 Stream

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QuakeLive Heats Back Up At National ESL (27 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:20 CDT, 5 November 2010 - iMsg

Yesterday evening the National ESL, previously know as ESL America, just announced their next plans for Quakelive.

First, a new 1v1 League with 4 Divisions (Premier, Select, Main and Open) will start at the end of November! The placement will be arranged through a series of Divisional Placement Cups followed by a Divisional Placement Group Stage. All the spots of the Premier Division and most of the Select Division are already filled.

The 4 Divisions details

Also, a lot of cups are already planned until February 2011, starting with a TDM 2v2 Cup on next Tuesday! It will be followed by a CA Invite Cup on the 16th of November and the 9th 1v1 Open Cup on the 17th. See the detailed schedule from the announcement for an exhaustive list of the coming cups (note that the "Divisional Placement Cup I" was delayed to Sunday 7th November).

And finally, Quake-Live.tv announced that they will cover most of these events if not all!

Links: Announcement,

#esl.quakelive

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TDM interview #5 - fnatic deus & link1n (34 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 12:15 CDT, 4 November 2010 - iMsg

Closing my TDM interview series, i got to talk with the fnatic players

deus &

link1n.

As usual, you will hear about their lineup, thoughts about the maps etc, but you will also find out why they play for iM/4k in the EuroCup XXIII, what happened to link1n's Duel plans and who deus's favorite TDM players are. So check the full interview on the next page

If you have not read them already, make sure to also check out:
Interview #1 with

foppa
Interview #2 with

ZeRoQL &

Juven1le
Interview #3 with

Disrepute
Interview #4 with

PURRI &

Damiah

Links: link1n's CFG+HUD, fnatic@ESL, iM@CB, 4K@CB

Article Page: 1 || next page >>

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IEM5 EC Group Stage - Playday 2 (269 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 12:34 CDT, 3 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Wednesday will see the first games of the 2nd Playday in the IEM5 European Championship. As usual, ESL TV will be covering 2 matches on the evening, starting at 16:00 CDT:

winz vs

k1llsen and

madix vs

dem0n. Note that a few matches from Playday 1 still remains to be played.

Also, the

Cypher Marathon will take place in the early evening as the Belarus player will play 3 of his matches on a proper internet connection from

Kiev. From 12:30 CDT, he will play against madix, dem0n and

serak. We encourage streamers who are interested to contact us!

Last but not least, the top2 players from the Last³ Qualifier have been added to the roster:

Robert "tox1c" Kopczynski will replace fox in group F and

Viaceslavas "fire_bot" Duk will take DAXIO's slot in group C.

Playday 2

Playday 1 Results / Late matches

Streams: ESL TV, Level Up TV, SeriousTV,

QL.ua,

GG
Links: IEM5 EC QL, Results, Groups,

#masters.ql

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Gaming at the movies #2 (11 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Thorin @ 02:46 CDT, 3 November 2010 - iMsg

Gaming at the movies returns with 8 movies for you to read reviews of, download and stream. Includes a classic movie selection from the past.

Box office for week #2:

keiz the movie III (CS) by equality
The Slavonian (CS) by SOM
defraging is not a crime (Q3 Defrag) by breacH
Jaedong vs Flash Montage (SC:BW) by nimbus
fnatic f0rest - GC Shanghai MVP (CS) by VILLAGE
This is Quake 3 by sk!a (Q3) by sk!a
The Badge v2.0 (Q3) by strandtyp and ironcock

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

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NecroCup - Quake Live Duel #2 (12 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Dawg @ 17:25 CDT, 2 November 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 5 November 2010 to 17:00 CDT, 5 November 2010
Schedule: Passed

NecroRaisers back with another QuakeLive Duel Cup to take place on Friday, 5th November at 18:00 CET.

This time we have Killer™ 2100 - The Fastest Network Card for Online Games from our sponsor Bigfoot Networks as prize for first place.

Players will join a Single Elimination (bo3) brackets with a bo5 for Final match. Maplist for this tournament still dont have premium maps so premium account is not necessarily. The official IRC Channel of this competition is #NecroRaisers and tournament page at Joust.ru.

Info

Final rankings:
1st.

madix - Network Card Killer™ 2100
2nd.

bodzo
3-4th.

agent /

_unsteady

Stream: CZ-SK TV
Links: NecroRaisers, Tournament page,

#NecroRaisers, VODs, Final demos

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QHLAN14 in two days (70 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by !phil @ 10:36 CDT, 2 November 2010 - iMsg

QHLan 14 is around the corner, scheduled to kick off in less than 2 days on Nov 4th. QHLan is to QuakeWorld what ESWC is to Quake 3, or Wimbledon to Tennis :) The full player list is available, but I want to bring to your attention some of the biggest names to ever attend this LAN, making it potentially the biggest and baddest LAN tournament in the 14-year history history of QW.

Badass participants

All told there will be 200+ people at this LAN (which, by the way, is conducted in cooperation with the nonprofit hazard and does not have any commercial sponsors) and of those it will be about 100 hardcore quake players, from the super newb (me) to the super pro :) But, seriously, for every player mentioned above, at least 2 more players will be there who have honest chances to beat them.

I will be tweeting the action and any videos/pictures/interviews that I manage to smuggle across the border!

Tournaments

Link: QHLan 14

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Fifth and final matchweek in group stage (42 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 02:55 CDT, 1 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: EC XXII

We are in the fifth and final match week in the group stage. First 3 teams from both groups have their spot already secured in the playoffs.

Teams going to Playoffs

In the group A though

xentorium is closest to securing spot for themselves if they win their final match vs

e-violence. If not

mowers might have a chance IF they win their both matches, which is not likely to happen but chance is still there.

15:00 CDT, 2 November 2010 4K 1-0 mow - mow forfeited
16:00 CDT, 2 November 2010 4K 2-0 alpha - (Match report & demos, HS VOD Map 1, HS VOD Map 2, lvl^ tv VOD)
15:00 CDT, 3 November 2010 evo 0-2 xt - (Match report & demos)
15:30 CDT, 3 November 2010 METSU 1-0 FLiNE - FLiNE forfeited
~~13:00 CST, 7 November 2010 dr - mow~~ - mow dropped
15:00 CST, 7 November 2010 faces 2-0 aCtion - (Match report & demos)

Match week #4

Match week #3

Match week #2

Match week #1

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

#clanbase.ql,

cbqlcrew

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IEM5 EC QL Last³ Chance Qualifier (165 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 11:39 CDT, 31 October 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 31 October 2010 to 15:45 CDT, 31 October 2010
Schedule: Passed

Due to the late withdrawal of

fox from the IEM5 European Championship, a new cup will be run in order to find a replacement to the Swedish player. Code name of this cup: Quake Live Last Last Last Chance Qualifier. Coming from the previous "Last qualifier", 6 players will meet in a Double Brackets on Sunday 31st, starting at 12:00 CDT. The top2 of the cup will be granted the last slots in Groups C & F.

Update: As it the age limit for the IEM is 16 years old and it was just found that the Polish player DAXIO is 14 years old, a 2nd slot will be granted during this last qualifier to replace him!

Participating players

Stream: Level Up TV
Links: Last Last Last Chance Qualifier, IEM5 EC QL,

#masters.ql