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Silent Gamers Cup - Rankings (254 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by sev1_ @ 01:57 CST, 22 February 2010 - iMsg

Update: The cup is over! Here are the rankings:

1st. DaHanG
2nd. rapha
3rd. ZeRo4
4th. tehnewbz
5-6th. swooped / griffin
7-8th. dCoy / Chance

All demos are available on quakescene.com and some VODs can be found on Quake-Live.tv and djWHEAT.tv.

That's right, tomorrow starts the Silent Gamers Cup featuring three IEM ESL World Championship competitors from the US

rapha and

DaHanG as well as

Vo0 from the Netherlands who qualified but can not play, and his spot was deservedly given to

Griffin. Video Streaming will be available thanks to Quake-Live.tv and djWHEAT.tv as we prepare for an exciting weekend and glimpse at our star players before the IEM World Tournament begins in March.

Contestants

Tournament and Stream Information

Link: Silent Gamers, Brackets,

#SilentGamers

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Site summary for week ending 19 Feb (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

Top Referers

10 Players of Ownage (37 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Zalon @ 15:00 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Tonight is the end of the sign-up period for Ownage, the double elimination QuakeWorld Duel Tournament. This means that players can start playing their games, and with 176 confirmed participants, the QuakeWorld scene is looking forward to a blast of a tournament.

Not just the amount of players is impressive, also the list of top players who have signed up is above expectations, with a lot of old players making their comeback. As a pre-season build up, QuakeWorld.nu have conducted a series of interviews with some of the top contenders.

The players sharing their thoughts of the tournament include:

Milton,

LocKtar,

Rikoll,

Valla,

xpr,

kingpin,

xenic,

niw,

LuGia and Quake3 star turned QuakeWorld rookie

fooki

The interviews are available at QuakeWorld.nu

Links: Ownage, Participants, Brackets

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Lo3 #42 Silent Gamers Day 2, Alex Valle (215 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 05:11 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:30 CST, 21 February 2010 to 19:00 CST, 21 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

Live Stream

Myself and

Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham will be casting the final day of the Silent Gamers Cup (Brackets: WB, LB). The following will be the attempted stream running order:

Matches

At the conclusion of the event, Street Fighter legend

Alex Valle will be coming on to talk about a new fighting tournament series he is a part of that is launching called the SoCal Level|Up Tournament series. The debut event will is set to take place next weekend, February 27th, at Dave & Busters at The Block at Orange. There will be a 64-man tournament in Street Fighter 4 and Tekken 6, featuring the west coast's top players and a bonus $1,000 for each winner. Level|Up COO

Jimmy "ShinJN" Nguyen and media specialist

AJ "PotatoHead" Papa will be joining the call as well to talk about the release and concept of this project, the first event next weekend, and what we might see in the future, including the release of Super Street Fighter 4 in the near future.

Other news topics we will touch on

Note: If you're on Reddit, go to http://www.reddit.com/tb/b4o4z

Watch it at djWHEAT.tv!

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IEM4 World Championship Finals *update2* (227 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 05:07 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Update 2: The ESL announced that

Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani won't be able to attend the World Championship Finals and will be replaced by

Brian "coL|dkt" Flander in Group B.

Update: The schedule of the competition is now available.

The conclusion of the Intel Extreme Masters IV will start in less than 2 weeks during the CeBIT in

Hannover with the World Championship Finals. Yesterday, the ESL staff announced the tournament format and the prize money details for Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft and Quakelive.

Tournaments format

Prize money details

Links: Game format information, Prize Purse

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #20 is over! (56 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 04:59 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 21 February 2010 to 12:00 CST, 21 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

Let's make it twenty - 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.

Quick Facts

Update: ZOTAC #20 is running now with players like

mouz|cooller,

stermy,

k1llsen,

BVG|guard,

evil,

fnatic\strenx and many more!

Final standings:

1. fnatic\strenx - 100€
2. stermy
3./4. BVG|tox1c / BVG|GUard

Brackets: click here
Streams:

qlivechannel -

FLY-CORE -

tv.holysh1t.net
Links: Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

AUS/NZ Div1 Duel Semi Finals (5 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by M05 @ 02:00 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 02:15 CST, 21 February 2010 to 05:00 CST, 21 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

4Seasons Gaming presents the Australian and New Zealand Division 1 Duel Semi Finals featuring some of continents top players

zlr vs Haymo and

nomey vs Pathe. All 4 players have had pretty smooth runs with Zlr and Nomey yet to drop a map in the competition so far, brackets here. Semi finals will be best of 5, and due to single eliminations nature the matches are do or die for the competitors.

Predictions

We are excited to see what form our Australian duelers are in, so join us if your up this early/late or even if you just love to watch some Semi Final action. Banter / chat about the casting / players can be done in irc.

Video Cast: VOD Semi Final 1 - Zlr vs Haymo and VOD Semi Final 2 - Nomey vs Pathe

Post-SilentGamers Interview 2-pack! (7 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Jehar @ 12:24 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

This is going to be one insane weekend, with loads of streams from Quake-Live.tv and DJWHEAT.tv for the SilentGamers cup, culminating in the finals on Sunday. After that, however, Tastyspleen.tv brings you a few treats in the form of a couple interviews:

1)

DaHanG and

{sYnth}Scooby: These two players are teaming up for the second "season" of QuakeNight under the Q2 tag. We'll be discussing their partnership, the upcoming matches, and some reminiscing.

2) Overactive and h1o: We're going to be proud to announce coverage of their upcoming Warsow bomb cup, and we'll be sitting down with the two administrators to discuss the league, the current warsow scene, and perhaps some speculation on how things might have gone differently for the game on the competitive scene.

Also, a short aside on the recent banning of Thaigo from the EDL. There's some doubt of having any guests on for this segment, simply due to the fact that it's still a rather touchy subject.

So be sure to tune in to Tastyspleen.tv at 18:00 CDT this Sunday for some great interviews!

NOTICE: Postponing until Monday, due to an epicly-full weekend schedule. BE THERE!

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Fnatic.com interviews ESL's Carmac (25 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by roychez @ 12:11 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

In a serie of interviews for the ESL Extreme Masters IV World Championship Finals, Fnatic.com now interviews ESL's Product Manager

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz.

Carmac is a well known figure in the scene, as he has done much for it and has a wide knowledge of eSports. The reporter and Carmac talk a little bit about the impending IEM IV World Championships, his work behind the scenes, WoW as an E-Sport, Quake Live and its inception into the Extreme Masters, and more!

You can find the interview on fnatic.com.

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G Data QL Cup #13 is over! (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 03:28 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 20 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 20 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

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.

Quick Facts

Update: GData #13 started with players like

srs\Cypher,

srs\av3k,

k1llsen,

srs\burnedd,

evil,

Drz|uaReaper,

BVG|guard and many more.

Final standings:

1. BVG|GUard - 100€
2. xlo^madix
3./4. Evil / agentJkezooR

Stream:

nightcookie &

dubcat &

Holysh1t TV &

lvl^
Brackets: click here
Links: Tournament page - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

LowLandLions win BiBS EU Season 2 (38 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by grimbob @ 09:24 CST, 19 February 2010 - iMsg

After a delay to the finals of the Bring it Back Safely Season 2 European finals, it has been announced that LowLandLions will receive a default win against the other finalists YoYoTech, thus winning their second title in a row.

Congratulations to LowLandLions, and also Mephistio for being awarded with Player of the Season award. This award was given to Mephistio for her activity and completing all matches, instead of awarding defaults.

BiBS Season 3 sign-ups are still available until 10th March, with the new season looking to start on the 29th March. More information can be found at the BiBS website.

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ENC Quakelive needs more captains (78 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 17:17 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: ENC'10

The European Nations Championship 2010 was announced a few days ago and

Quake Live TDM 4v4 will be one of its game. We already received many captains applications for some countries, but a few nations are still missing applications. As the deadline to send your application in on Sunday, we urge the players who want to stand up for their nations to send us an email at enc.application@esl.eu.

The following countries for Quakelive need more captain applications:

Belarus,

Croatia,

Slovenia,

Luxembourg,

Czech Republic,

Greece,

Bosnia Hercegovina,

Lichtenstein,

Israel,

Turkey,

Switzerland,

Norway,

Estonia,

Lithuania.

Confirmed countries

Link: ENC 2010

Cooller: death asked me to put ZeRo4 out (170 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 15:12 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

The second part of SK Gaming's three part 1on1 interview with the Quake dueling master

Anton "Cooller" Singov has been released today. In this video interview Cooller explains his thoughts on putting

ZeRo4 out of the 2002 WCG by dropping a game in the group stage,

b100.death's role in that decision and whether he'd do something like that again.

The two time ESWC champion also offers his analysis of

uNkind's WCG victory, and how luck may have aided him in a specific area, as well as his fellow Russian's perhaps wasted potential in light of Cooller's own legacy. With

Fatal1ty having retired before Cooller reached the top of the international scene does he wish he could have knocked him off just as he knocked off ZeRo4 on his route to the top?

The interview can be watched on SK Gaming.

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ClanBase NationsCup - 2nd week (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 12:19 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: CB NC13

Update: Today we will have a couple of interesting matches to be played, so give it a look in the schedule section below.
Reminder to all captains to post the scores on Cup forum, if the admin or referee is not there for your match.

Second week of the ClanBase NationsCup has started so you can find schedule down here. Few matches from the last week are rescheduled for this week, like Finland vs Switzerland in CTF and Germany vs Switzerland in TDM where Switzerland took the wildcards for both games.

Schedule

Results

Links: Rules update-Demos Policy, CTF NC, TDM NC, Twitter
Calendars: CTF, TDM
Rankings: CTF, TDM
Player stats: CTF, TDM

UT2004 - EuroCup (1ON1) (81 comments)

( Major News: UT2004)

Posted by zelvzz @ 06:40 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

Some people are wondering whether UT2004 is completely dead or not, but nite has an answer on this question and it's a good one: no can do! So after the ESL ladder lacked activity, TOTALUNREAL thought it would be a good idea to start yet another tournament of the most popular game mode: 1on1. And we have prizes aswell!

Check out inside for all the information needed and don't hesitate to sign up.

ESL wrote:

Details

Prizes

Links: Sign-ups, Sign-up list, Announcement, Rules & League info
IRC:

#ESL.ut, #Totalunreal.HU

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