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QuakeCon 2010 Demos Online (119 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 22:56 CDT, 12 September 2010 - iMsg

Event: QC'10

The demos for all three QuakeCon 2010 tournaments are finally online.

"Unfortunately, due to technical problems the archive is missing several demos from key match-ups that were played on the tournament stage. The missing files have been documented within the archive."

Missing Demos

Update:

mickzerofive saves the day with spectator POV demos from the grand final.

Link: QuakeCon.org, QC'10 Demos

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WCG USA 2010 (60 comments)

( Major News: CS SC2 WC3)

Posted by Slasher @ 06:58 CDT, 12 September 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 11 September 2010 to 20:30 CDT, 12 September 2010
Schedule: Passed

We are here at the World Cyber Games 2010

US Finals at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, where qualifiers will take place in Starcraft 1, Counter-Strike 1.6, Tekken 6, Warcraft 3 and more as entrance to the WCG Grand Finals later this month at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This will presumably be the final year of action in the original Starcraft before moving on to Starcraft 2 next year. Players and teams participating include Evil Geniuses (CS), WinOut.net feat. Rambo (CS), Geoff "EG.iNcontroL" Robinson (SC), Kelby "EG.iNkA" Williams (SC), Phil "LongWalk" Crawford (WC3), Reepal "Rip" Parbhoo (T6) and more.

The entire event will be streamed by the Live On Three crew of Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham, Rod "Slasher" Breslau and Scott "SirScoots" Smith. Special guests to help commentate throughout the weekend include Sean "Day9" Plott, Bruce Rivington, Adande "sWooZie" Thorne and Mark "MarkMan" Julio. All the action can be watched live on djWHEAT.tv and WCG Live.

Schedule

Live Stream

Groups, Brackets and Scores can be found on WCG USA, as well as Photos on their Flickr.

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #49 - k1llsen wins (52 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 05:58 CDT, 12 September 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 12 September 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 12 September 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 49th 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!

ZOTAC QL Cup participants need at least Quake Live Premium memberships to participate as the mappool has been changed to the following: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights, Lost World.

Notable Signups include:

Cypher,

killsen,

burnedd,

guard,

agent,

madix,

draven,

GaRpY and more..

Quick Facts

Streams: Level Up TV (HQ, LQ)
Links: Tournament page, Signup, Brackets,

#zotac.qlive

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level 1v1 Cup #1 - Cypher wins (115 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 11:01 CDT, 11 September 2010 - iMsg

Event: lvl

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 11 September 2010 to 16:00 CDT, 11 September 2010
Schedule: Passed

A new russian tournament (series?) starts today. The brackets will be double elimination and similar to the ZOTAC cups, regular matches will be bo1, upper bracket final while the WB final is bo3 and the LB + grand final bo5. 1st and 2nd place will receive some minor prize money. Check-In starts 11:00 CDT and the tournament will begin 1 hour later at 12:00 CDT.

Signed up players include

Cypher,

agent,

Amai,

Nitrino and more...

Mappool

Rankings:

1st: Cypher
2nd: agent
3rd: 421

Streams: GG.ru, cyberfight.ru
Links: quakelive.ru, goodgame.ru, Bracket,

#level.ql

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ESH Sapphire EC: QL Qualifier #4 (13 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 05:19 CDT, 11 September 2010 - iMsg

Event: Sapphire EC

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 11 September 2010 to 10:10 CDT, 11 September 2010
Schedule: Passed

Fourth and final qualifier for Sapphire Euro Challenge: Quake Live cup is under way, Saturday at 07:00 CDT, 11 September 2010. Check-in start one hour earlier at 06:00 CDT. To checkin PM PerpetualWar or Mactox on #esh.ql.

Cup will have 128-slot brackets and will be played as a single elimination Bo1 until quarterfinals when it's played Bo3 until finals.

Update: Final standings:

1. winz
2. FooX
3. assign / baksteen

Playoffs of ESH Sapphire Cup is scheduled for Saturday 07:00 CDT, 18 September 2010. It will be played as a 16-slot bracket with Double Elimination Bo3 with finals being Bo5.

For those not familiar with this cup

Event Info

Qualifier #4 info

Qualified players

Streams: lvl^
Links: Qualifier #4, Sign up, Rules, Brackets, Players,

#esh.ql,

Cup updates

Video interview with Bas Peeperkorn (31 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by D.Devil @ 09:57 CDT, 10 September 2010 - iMsg

At this year's gamescom,

Bas "basZ" Peeperkorn, general manager of the Dutch-based clan Serious Gaming, gave an interview to the upcoming manager-focused project The Rocketjumper. In the 23-minute-long talk, he provides information on his clan's strategy and future website plans, shares his opinion about the esports potential of Quake Live and StarCraft 2, and also explains why Counter-Strike and CS: Source are both uninteresting for srs.

Watch the interview

Links: RJumper.com

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Still Alive - A Quakelive Movie (27 comments)

( Major Movie: QL)

Posted by titann @ 09:19 CDT, 10 September 2010 - iMsg




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Rating: 7.6 (47 votes)

Still alive was about a one month project and was originally going to be a joint movie made by me & energy but for whatever reasons i ended up doing it alone. It's a community quakelive movie which as usual from me has slightly more ctf content than other movies, collected from the beautiful people of #qlpickup.eu. The movie has a fast soundtrack and a good mix of single shots and cap/quad runs. I really tried harder on editing than my previous movies and although it's still relatively 'simple' editing I think it's a noticeable improvement over my last 2 movies in terms of syncing & flow etc. I hope you will enjoy watching as much as i enjoyed making it!

Details

Credits

Movie file (stream / download)
youtube.com
maverickservers.com
megaupload.com

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EMS7 QL TDM Qualifiers (11 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 12:30 CDT, 9 September 2010 - iMsg

Event: EMS7

Initially planned to start tonight, the Qualifiers for the seventh season of the ESL Major Series Quakelive TDM 4v4 are postponed to next week. So far, the top4 teams from the previous season are already qualified:

fnaticMSI,

4Kings,

iMmune and

notexec. All the other teams willing to take part have to qualify through one of the 4 qualifying cups by finishing in the top 3.

Qualifiers schedule

Thursday 16th September, 13:00 CDT: Qualification Cup #1 (Sign up)
Sunday 19th September, 12:00 CDT: Qualification Cup #2 (Sign up)
Thursday 23rd September, 13:00 CDT: Qualification Cup #3 (Sign up)
Sunday 26th September, 12:00 CDT: Qualification Cup #4 (Sign up)

Qualifiers rules

EMS 7 QL TDM Prize money

Links: Announcement, EMS 7 QL TDM,

#esl.quakelive

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Duke Nukem Forever goes Amsterdam (42 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Ins0mnia @ 05:59 CDT, 9 September 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 02:00 CDT, 2 October 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 2 October 2010
Schedule: Passed

Blammo the company behind GameKings and Firstlook events just announced that Duke Nukem Forever will be present at the FirstLook Event. Which is held on 2 and 3 oct 2010 in the Westergas Fabriek Amsterdam.

We have asked

Jan Johan aka JJ the PR man behind Blammo, what we could expect. Would this be the PAX demo? Will we see a playable version? He gave us the typical response: "No Comment"

FirstLook won't only bring Duke Nukem, but we will also see KillZone 3, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Medal of Honor, Gran Turismo 5, Fallout New Vegas and many more major titles.

LLL Quake Live 2v2 Cup - cherubim wins (192 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Liefje @ 05:48 CDT, 8 September 2010 - iMsg

To promote the launch of their new website, LowLandLions will run a Quake Live TDM 2v2 Cup, hosted by

draven.

It will go live at Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 12:00 CDT (check-in 30min before). With a Single Elimination Play-off, with the teams playing 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.

1st: cherubim ( noctis + zyv)
2nd: Frontline ( Cooller + foppa)
3rd: fnaAatic ( linkje + winz)

Prizes

Rules

How to Sign-Up

Schedule (32 teams)

Vods: own3d.tv
~~Stream~~: Level Up TV,

Good Game
Link: Brackets,

#LLL.ql

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ESL Pro Series Benelux Season 5 (44 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by draven- @ 12:02 CDT, 7 September 2010 - iMsg

Next Sunday we will kick off with a new season of our Amateur Series for the Benelux players! The Amateur Series is the first step towards the ESL Professional Series! In the EPS, the best duelers play for some desirable prizes. If you have what it takes to belong to the best or you just want to have some fun, do not hesitate to sign up! This season will be a short one, so taking part in it will bring you one step closer towards EPS Benelux Season 5 within no time!

Weird won last EAS division 1, securing himself a spot in EPS.

A new EAS division 1, will take place with the following players.

The winner of EAS div1 will get a spot into EPS, while top 2-5 will fight for a spot vs the top 5-8 from EPS Benelux for the last remaining two spots

The following players allready qualified for EPS Benelux

The EAS ladder is no more, you can try to qualify for EAS division 1 by playing the qualifier

Mappool

Source: Road to EPS, EAS div1, EAS division qualifer, #esl.blx.quakelive

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IEM QuakeLive Group Draw LIVE (136 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 10:33 CDT, 7 September 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Qualification for the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 American Group Stage has been completed! Through 5 IEM Qualifying Cups, 14 players, the current North American Champion, and the IEM Cup points winner are now set to be drawn into their final groups for the GRAND Finals at New York ComicCon.

The drawing was made and the groups are as following:

Group A: dkt, ZeRo4, vamp1re, Griffin
Group B: rapha, cha0ticz, sparks, Flysher
Group C: chance, rey, ziel, everkill
Group D: DaHanG, gellehsak, Vo0, FienD

Seed Pools

Group Stage Prizing

Map Pool

Schedule

Links: Stream, Official ESL Press Release,

VOD

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Global Gamers Quake2 1v1 (15 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 21:32 CDT, 6 September 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 19 September 2010 to 19:00 CDT, 19 September 2010
Schedule: Passed

Global Gamers announced their second tournament! Tourney is single elimination with best-of-three. First place match is best-of-five. Map pick system is: pick pick toss toss, with the higher seed picking first. The tournament will start at 14:00 CDT, 19 September 2010. More info on Silent Gamers.

Signups

Servers

Maplist

Prizes

LINKS:

#q2duel -

Quake II Kicker

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Clanbase Fall 2010 season announced (310 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 17:37 CDT, 6 September 2010 - iMsg

ClanBase has announced cups for the Fall 2010 season. It will feature cups in 25 different games including Quake Live and Stacraft 2. This season's QL EuroCup will use TDM as it's main gametype.

Additional info about the requirements for the cup (specifically regarding Premium/Pro accounts) can be found below. Rules will be published just before the first matchweek and will include this info as well.

Of course, if anyone feels like helping with the cups, either writing match reports or being a referee, can do that by applying as Cup Admin, so we can together ensure that coverage of the upcoming cups are on the highest level possible. Admin signup links below.

Update: Dreadful Place will replace Leviathan in the TDM mappool for this season of both CB EuroCup and OpenCup, due to the community`s request.
Signups are accepted until the end of this week.

Complete list of QL cups

Fall 2010 schedule

Fall 2010 QL Requirements

Mappools

Links: ClanBase, Fall 2010 season,

#clanbase.ql,

Cup updates

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War§ow 0.55: Coming Soon! (186 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by ETR @ 06:57 CDT, 6 September 2010 - iMsg

There hasn't been much noise around

War§ow lately outside of our own community. We have been quietly working on the next major release (0.55), preparing some nice new features and improving on War§ow's style. A quick refresher for those who don't know: War§ow is (still) a free and fastpaced cel-shaded cartoony FPS, inspired by a mix of classics such as QuakeWorld, CPM and Jetset Radio.

In the area of visuals, textures, maps, sounds and models plenty has been improved and/or updated. Weapons have been revamped, the HUD has seen some updates. War§ow will feature a real soundtrack, and some of the game announcers have been re-done. The engine has seen many improvements over the past months as well.

Anyway, this message is nothing more than a small sneak peak of what we've been working on. War§ow's development team has not been sitting still. Hope to see you soon!

For an idea of what's to come, I have attached some screenshots of some of the new or improved maps. For more detailed information on what's new, keep an eye on War§ow's devblog, follow War§ow on

Screens

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