Finding the best CSGO gambling sites in 2019 is not that easy. CSGO gambling has had a chequered past to say the least, with many sites being shut down and penalised because of illegal activity.
There is clearly a demand among some Counter-Strike lovers to bet on their favourite game but for the sector to be sustainable long-term, CSGO gambling sites must comply with the laws - primarily for the safety and security of esports fans but also for the sake of themselves.
In the latest dev stream they had some comments about plans for CA and CTF. We've been loud and clear about CTF, so I figured why not have a poll about how we feel about CA :)
Broadcasting Schedule for the week of March 8th 2010:
20:00 CST, 8 March 2010: QuakeNight 2v2 TDM - chronic insanity vs DaFoneMen
21:00 CST, 8 March 2010: QuakeNight 2v2 TDM - Paramedics vs IAM
21:30 CST, 9 March 2010: The QuadCast Episode 15
20:00 CST, 10 March 2010: King of the Hill
18:00 CST, 13 March 2010: Quake America Duel Cup #6
Live On Three sees the return of co-host and Team EG manager Scott "SirScoots" Smith from the Canadian olympics, who will talk about his trip and his players performances here this week at the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 Finals. Quake Live champion Shane "rapha" Hendrixson will be this week's featured guest, going over his road to victory including revenge on American champion Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty, a miraculous comeback against Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky, and an epic final with Anton "Cooller" Singov.
Also joining the show today are ESEA News Editor-in-chief Mark "jESUIT" Cheben and World of Ming lead editor Nick "Bodi" Johnson. jESUIT will be talking about the launch of ESEA's new site, and diving into the Counter-Strike 1.6 action which saw the first event major champion for a Ukrainian team with Na'Vi taking out the legendary fnatic in the finals. Bodi will dive into World of Warcraft, where America's Team EG, who picked up a stand-in just days prior to the event and was expected to easily be knocked out in the group stages, clawed their way through the best of America, Europe and Korea to take top honors.
Tune into Live On Three today at 16:00 CDT on djWHEAT.tv
- Lots of talk of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 4 finals including DDoS attacks and scheduling issues, broadcasters Jay "2GD" Harding and Joe Miller's comments about Slasher, and Quake Live players comments before and during the event
- Major League Gaming has announced their first 2010 Pro Circuit details including the removal of Gears of War 2, the addition of Tekken 6, Smash Bros. and Modern Warfare 2, and the noticeable absence of Super Street Fighter 4. We'll also speculate what the PC games and announcement may be, and where you may be able to find out
- Justin Wong won the first Level|Up tournament, still the best player in the United States, is now using cammy a lot
- Another Starcraft 2 patch is out, how the balance of the game is going
Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 7 March 2010 to 13:00 CST, 7 March 2010 Schedule: Passed
Known for its QuakeLive Cups ZOTACs next Starcraft 2 Beta Cup takes places this Sunday, 07:00 CST, 7 March 2010. There's 100 € pricemoney up for grabs and still some free slots left (512 slots for signups, 256 for check-ins).
Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 7 March 2010 to 11:00 CST, 7 March 2010 Schedule: Passed
Here we go, once again the cup format will consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.
Wednesday 3rd Match - Group A
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - Cooller vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - stermy vs av3k - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - rapha vs chance (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - Cooller vs stermy - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - rapha vs av3k - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - Jibo vs chance (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - stermy vs rapha - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - Cooller vs chance - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - av3k vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - Cooller vs rapha - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - av3k vs chance - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - stermy vs Jibo - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - Cooller vs av3k - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - stermy vs chance - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - rapha vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
Thursday 4th Match - Group B
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - DaHanG vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - fox vs strenx - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - cypher vs dkt (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - DaHanG vs fox - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - strenx vs cypher - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - dkt vs griffin (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - fox vs cypher - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - DaHanG vs dkt - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - strenx vs griffin - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - DaHanG vs cypher - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - strenx vs dkt - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - fox vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - DaHanG vs strenx - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - fox vs dkt - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - cypher vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
Friday 5th Match - Relegation
08:00 CST, 5 March 2010: Relegation 1 - rapha vs DaHanG - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
09:00 CST, 5 March 2010: Relegation 2 - av3k vs fox - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
Saturday 6th Match - Playoff
03:00 CST, 6 March 2010: Semi Final 1 - Cooller vs av3k - on ESL TV A (details)
04:10 CST, 6 March 2010: Semi Final 2 - cypher vs rapha - on ESL TV A (details)
05:10 CST, 6 March 2010: Bronze Final - cypher vs av3k - on ESL TV A (details)
06:40 CST, 6 March 2010: Final - Cooller vs rapha - on ESL TV A (details)
From Global Challenge Dubai
1st - Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson
From American Championship Finals
1st - Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty
3rd - Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina
5-6th - Thomas "EG|griffin" Wall
7-8th - Brian "coL-dkt" Flander
From European Championship Finals
1st - Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky
2nd - Maciej "srs/rzr/av3k" Krzykowski
3rd - Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov
4th - Kévin "fnaticMSIstrenx" Baéza
5th - Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson
6th - Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
From Asian Championship Finals
1st - Fan "4K^Jibo" Zhibo
Group A
1. Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov (5 wins)
2. Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson (4 wins, 1 loss)
3. Maciej "srs/rzr/av3k" Krzykowski (3 wins, 2 losses)
4. Alessandro "stermy" Avallone (2 wins, 3 losses)
5. Fan "4K^Jibo" Zhibo (1 win, 4 losses)
6. Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina (5 losses)
Group B
1. Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky (5 wins)
2. Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson (3 wins, 2 losses, won vs DaHanG)
3. Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty (3 wins, 2 losses, lost vs fox)
4. Kévin "fnaticMSIstrenx" Baéza (2 wins, 3 losses)
5. Thomas "EG|griffin" Wall (1 win, 4 losses, won vs dkt)
6. Brian "coL-dkt" Flander (1 win, 4 losses, lost vs griffin)
- Twelve players participate, six in each group
- Group stage will be played in Best-of-3
- Relegation and Playoffs will be played in Best-of-5 and Single Elimination
- First player of each group directly advance to playoffs
- Second and third play a relegation, winners advance to playoffs
- Mappool: qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney7, qztourney9 & ztntourney1
After dominating the Quake scene in 2009, Shane "rapha" Hendrixson was thrown off his throne by EG player DaHanG at the IEM NA Finals. At the World Championship in Hannover rapha took revenge with a 3:0 victory and is looking stronger than ever. fragster sat down with him to talk about his performance and the US scene.
You mentioned that you practiced with Cooller a lot before the Event. So what did you expect before the game and what do you think about how it went?
rapha: Well our styles clash and I have the feeling that we know each other inside out. There were so many times where one of us tried to attack and he was just shot down immediately. Or we would know that one of us is waiting in a certain area to catch the other out, so we would always choose the right path to run away. The first mistake normally costs a match, so it is about who will do less mistakes during the game. I did too many yesterday and he managed to win and rightfully so. I hope I get to face Cooller in the final but if I don't, I am not worried about it. I am only worried about getting into the final.
After some very inconsistent but anyhow pretty good performances, fragster sat down with Magnus "fox" Olsson to talk a bit about the IEM 4 World Championship. fox provides an insight into his preparation for the Quake Live tournament, that consisted mostly of playing HoN. Furthermore, he explains how his goals for the tournament have changed dramatically.
How did you prepare for the event?
fox: I am almost embarrassed to tell people how I did prepare. I improved my HoN skills to such an amazing degree that it kinda affects other games and that’s how my Quake skills grew. I actually played about, I would say, maybe five 1on1 matches the past three weeks.
Following his relegation match against fox at the IEM IV World Championship Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski gave an interview to SK Gaming. As well as talking about his dominant performance against the Swede av3k addressed the controversy regarding Cooller's restarts at DreamHack and the IEM European Finals, his own at the latter event and also his comments about ESR users getting their cell phones and shoes taken by Polish youths which caused so much uproar. av3k explains his side of the stories and how he feels about Cooller and those ESR users.
ZeniMax Media Inc., the parent company of id Software has announced some details concerning QuakeCon 2010. It will be held August 12-15 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. More details about QuakeCon 2010 will be revealed in the coming weeks.
Play in world-class tournaments, meet and interact with game developers, be the first to learn new information about upcoming computer and videogames and have the opportunity to frag with friends on QuakeCon’s massive Bring Your Own Computer network.
We excited we're finally playing StarCraft 2 (in a slightly hacked together form); it's very good so far! We talk about the World Finals of the IEM Quake Live tour, the incredible amount of whine from the recent strenx interview, who we look forward to seeing in the tournament, and a bit about this past year of open beta Quake Live. Also, next show we will be having a special announcement about a huge LAN event taking place in the US that will actually be using Quake 3 in its deathmatch tournament.
The Intel Extreme Masters IV will see its very last event, the World Championship Finals, played at the CeBIT 2010 in Hannover. The Quakelive tournament will start at 04:30 CST, 3 March 2010 with the first Group A matches. A few group matches and all playoff matches will be casted on ESL TV by 2GD and Joe. Additional streams will be available from ESL TV and ESL Radio during the Group Stage and relegation matches.
Here is a statement from Carmac about this first day of the Quakelive tournament:
The Intel Extreme Masters World Championship has experienced delays in the schedule due to technical difficulties with the Quake Live LAN server. The remaining Group A matches are moved to Thursday and will be finished after the Group B matches.
The players have been experiencing high pings (50+) on the LAN servers. The ESL IT staff have found no problems with the network (the server was also connected directly into the switch the Quake Live section was on, which did not help). There also seems to be nothing wrong with the server software that would cause this problem.
To address the issues we delayed the tournament matches and restarted it online later in agreement with the players (the ping to Frankfurt servers is less than 10). Later on, due to DDoS attacks on our network and one player's technical difficulties (which no player was able to solve), a decision was made to continue the tournament on Thursday.
At the moment id Software is working with the ESL IT to build another server in order to make sure that the game will be played on LAN for the remainder of the event. We are doing our best to address the situation.
I am very sorry that we were not able to deliver the optimal spectating experience today. I would like to sincerely apologise for the situation. We will do our very best and more to deliver the kind of experience that we have been delivering so far this season on three of the remaining days of the tournament.
Michal "Carmac" Blicharz
There is also a statement about the DDoS Attacks on the ESL website.
Wednesday 3rd Match - Group A
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - Cooller vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - stermy vs av3k - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - rapha vs chance (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - Cooller vs stermy - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - rapha vs av3k - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - Jibo vs chance (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - stermy vs rapha - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - Cooller vs chance - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - av3k vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - Cooller vs rapha - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - av3k vs chance - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - stermy vs Jibo - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - Cooller vs av3k - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - stermy vs chance - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - rapha vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
Thursday 4th Match - Group B
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - DaHanG vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - fox vs strenx - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - cypher vs dkt (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - DaHanG vs fox - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - strenx vs cypher - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - dkt vs griffin (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - fox vs cypher - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - DaHanG vs dkt - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - strenx vs griffin - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - DaHanG vs cypher - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - strenx vs dkt - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - fox vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - DaHanG vs strenx - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - fox vs dkt - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - cypher vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
Friday 5th Match - Relegation
08:00 CST, 5 March 2010: Relegation 1 - rapha vs DaHanG - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
09:00 CST, 5 March 2010: Relegation 2 - av3k vs fox - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
Saturday 6th Match - Playoff
03:00 CST, 6 March 2010: Semi Final 1 - on ESL TV A
04:10 CST, 6 March 2010: Semi Final 2 - on ESL TV A
05:10 CST, 6 March 2010: Bronze Final - on ESL TV A
06:40 CST, 6 March 2010: Final - on ESL TV A
From Global Challenge Dubai
1st - Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson
From American Championship Finals
1st - Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty
3rd - Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina
5-6th - Thomas "EG|griffin" Wall
7-8th - Brian "coL-dkt" Flander
From European Championship Finals
1st - Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky
2nd - Maciej "srs/rzr/av3k" Krzykowski
3rd - Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov
4th - Kévin "fnaticMSIstrenx" Baéza
5th - Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson
6th - Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
From Asian Championship Finals
1st - Fan "4K^Jibo" Zhibo
Group A Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson Maciej "srs/rzr/av3k" Krzykowski Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov Alessandro "stermy" Avallone Fan "4K^Jibo" Zhibo Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina
Group B Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty Kévin "fnaticMSIstrenx" Baéza Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson Thomas "EG|griffin" Wall Brian "coL-dkt" Flander
- Twelve players participate, six in each group
- Group stage will be played in Best-of-3
- Relegation and Playoffs will be played in Best-of-5 and Single Elimination
- First player of each group directly advance to playoffs
- Second and third play a relegation, winners advance to playoffs
- Mappool: qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney7, qztourney9 & ztntourney1
Tim "DaHanG Fogarty is one of the top favorites in the IEM 4 World Championship. In Hannover fragster asked the EG player about the accusations of strenx and the recent changes in his playstyle.
You managed to win the last Zotac-Cup and beat Cypher in the final, how do you feel about that match?
DaHanG: Everyone knows about the ping and the issues he had and I won't deny that that helps a ton, especially with a ping in the 80s. That's just so hard and I am surprised that he even played. But in the end it is out of my control and if he makes it to the final, I have to play him. I would have liked to play Cooller or someone on equal pings but that's just the way it went down. So I will say that the ping won the match and we will see how it goes down in our group.
Kevin "strenx" Baeza is a 19 year old student from France. Many Quake fans got their first impressions of strenx in the infamous interview after his match with Anton "Cooller" Singov.
Today he’ll be heading off to Germany to compete in the Intel Extreme Masters World finals at CeBit. But before leaving, he had a lot of things he wanted to get off his chest about a lot of things.
"For me it will be funny. I won’t go through and that’s all. If I go through group I will laugh. We will see, I will just try my best, but I won’t pretend that I will win."
"Americans are more no-life than Europeans. They are putting in more practice hours than the Europeans. OK, they win tournaments but let’s look statistics: if you train A LOT for a year you are not sure to win prize money. If you work hard for 1 year you can earn more than [the equivalent of] 50 1st places in a tournament."
He also talks about Cooller's disrespect for him, why he hates DaHanG and what he thinks about people who make excuses.
Posted by therogue @ 13:57 CST, 2 March 2010 - iMsg
The first ESL Pro Series to feature Quake is back starting next week with Quake Live. Sixteen of the UK & Ireland's best players will be quaking for the next 15 weeks for pride and prize money.
Featuring big names such as GaRpY (last season's Quake 3 champion), VIZARI, zsx and kRoNic and upcoming players such as pulseh it should be an exciting season.
There are still 3 places left to play for open to anyone that resides in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Qualifiers are being held on Wednesday 3rd, Thursday 4th and Sunday 7th March. See this news for more information and to sign up.