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( Major News: QL)

Posted by Amp @ 15:32 CST, 13 February 2010 - iMsg

And the results are in! After a long night that almost didn't happen, our first repeat winner and even more evidence that Quake America is as much an endurance test as anything else, we have your podium for Quake America Duel Cup #3:

Eddie T. "km Rey" J.
JUDGE717
Jeff "dCoy" Zachary

Special mention goes out to Clan Knightmare who have been putting out great showings every single tournament, with most of the top 8 being filled by their players each week consistently, and congratulations to km Rey who is our first ever repeat winner tonight.

And with that, a quick announcement that as of tonight, Quake America will be taking a one week hiatus to both reseat ourselves in our new website, and allow a chance for Silent Gamers to run their charity Pro-Am. So look forward to more annoucements coming soon! Thank you all for playing and/or watching!

EDIT #2: Brackets are up!

EDIT: Seeds have been posted for tonight! See below!

Today will see the start of the third entry in the Quake America Duel Cup series, and the final one hosted by tourney.cc.

Coverage will be provided by Jehar of QL.tv and a few independent casters.

The check in phase will begin at 18:00 CDT while brackets and seeds should be posted to make the tournament set to begin at 19:00 CDT.

For those people who would like to play, you will still have a chance to sign up and check in at the check in phase. However please be aware that all latecomers will be automatically seeded into the lowest block.

Cup #3: Current Signups, Seeds, Brackets

Streams: QuakeLive.TV, Muhu (alternative)

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules -

#quakeamerica

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G Data QL Cup #12 is over! (59 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 07:25 CST, 13 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 13 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 13 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: G Data #12 is now running with players like

xlo^mAdix,

xlo^fazz,

noctis,

evil and many more!

Final standings:

1. noctis - 100€
2. xlo^madix
3./4. xlo^fazz / BVG|Guard

Stream: Holysh1t TV
Brackets: Link
Links: Tournament page - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

TEK9 Launch Worldwide QuakeLive Top 10 (183 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by crow- @ 06:07 CST, 12 February 2010 - iMsg

TEK-9.org launched their new monthly QuakeLive top ten ranking today, voted by TEK9's expert panel and the world's top players every month. With no sanctioned tournaments, no spam and no fees, the TEK9 top ten simply brings you the views and votes from the people you want to hear from each and every month.

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson has been on top for some time now but can he hold off the challenge of Europe's best after a shock defeat at the IEM American Championship? The biggest names in QuakeLive share their thoughts on who's the real favourite ahead of the global finals. Next month their votes will be joined by those of the previous top ten players, giving a clear and balanced ranking each time around.

TEK9 Voting Panel:

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Michal "Carmac" Blicharz
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Rod "Slasher" Breslau
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Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner
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Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham
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Duncan "Thorin" Shields
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Liam "crow" Crowley

Click here for a quick peak at the February top ten...

Find out who made the top four and read up on the panel's views on TEK-9.org.

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Cooller 1on1: "Life gave me a chance" (123 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by hoechst @ 13:12 CST, 11 February 2010 - iMsg

Today, SK Gaming released part one of a two part video interview series with

Anton "Cooller" Singov. Filmed at the office in Germany shared by SK Gaming and his team, Mousesports, Cooller explains his dreams of being the top player in the world back as a younger man. As well as whether the hunger is still there to win titles, and the reasoning he's come back to compete.

You can watch it here: Cooller 1on1 part 1: "Life gave me a chance"

Part two will be released on February 18th. Photo: fragster.de

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ClanBase NationsCup - 1st week (54 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 12:05 CST, 11 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: CB NC13

Update: Team

Belgium is going to play CTF cup under different captain. link

Since ClanBase NationsCup already started, I thought to give you insight for the matches ahead of us.
As most of you know, we run both CTF and TDM this year so schedule is right here:

Schedule

Results

Unfortunately some teams decided to quit at this stage like team

Austria (not enough interested players) and team

Belgium (no apparent reason) regarding CTF.

More info: CTF, TDM, twitter

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UNAGI 2: The Return of The Power Promo (41 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by zeroql @ 09:59 CST, 11 February 2010 - iMsg

I am collecting frags for my quake live movie sequel "UNAGI 2: The Return of The Power". If you have some really nice frags, quadruns, caps or funny scenes, send them to zeroql23@gmail.com!

Sending in Demos

This movie won't be realized in near time, cause I got two big projects on my hand at the moment but you can be looking forward to these two: "Colosseum 2: QuakeLive National CUP Movie" and a private movie for a cool guy from Germany, I wont start until i finisht these two projects.

Anyways this time I am going to put soul in this movie and with help from my friends Predrag Pecev and RavenTL (an awsome CS movie maker), it's going to be 10x better than the first part! For a first glimpse, check out the promotion Trailer:
Stream: own3d.tv
Download version: team-qcg.com

If you didnt watch my first Unagi movie, check out...

UNAGI: Frags that fits over The Power

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Quake America Duel Cup #3: Sign Up! (4 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Amp @ 16:30 CST, 10 February 2010 - iMsg

Sign-ups are now open for Quake America Weekly Duel Cup #2, scheduled to start Saturday, February 13th at 19:00 CDT!

Updates will be posted pending any rule or schedule changes.

Also, remember that this is the Sign-Up phase. On the day of the tournament there will be a Check-In phase where players will verify they are present. If you miss either the Sign-Up or the Check-In, you will not be put into the bracket for Duel Cup #3.

So, don't forget to sign up for Duel Cup #3, and good luck to all participants!

Also, the tournament that would have been set to be on February 20th has been postponed. This will serve two purposes. The first will be to allow the Silent Gamers to run their tournament, the second concerns Quake America's new website.

Please be aware, we are still running one more tournament on the 13th through our previous tourney.cc hosts. We are merely taking a very short hiatus after our tournament on the 13th so as to migrate to our new website at quakeamerica.com and to offer some cross promotion to our good friends at Silent Gamers.

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules -

#quakeamerica

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l1nkje & Spart1e interviewed (18 comments)

( Major News: ESR QL)

Posted by roychez @ 14:00 CST, 10 February 2010 - iMsg

In the light of the ESL Extreme Masters, Fnatic.com has interviewed both

Pierre-Emeric "l1nkje" Portier and

Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira. The interviews cross topics such as the Extreme Masters European Championship, the FnaticMSI team and more.

Seeing how you performed now, are there any specific areas in your game play that you will focus on improving in the future?
l1nkje: Yeah of course. I said on fragster.de that I wanted to focus onto duelling in 2010, and that’s what I’ll do. Since I’m not a dueller, i kind of need to “restart” my game, so yeah, I’ll improve everything. I need a fresh start, a start over. Maybe I’ll have to talk with my mates and ask them what I do so wrong :)

Many people say that on any given day you could win a tournament, however at this event you were out in the group stage, what went wrong?
Spart1e: Like I mentioned earlier. Lack of sleep/concentration and a(not just one) mistake of me. I guess that it was quite the same for me as av3k when he played calipt. I felt I was in such a good form, that I underestimated my opponents. From now on I am gonna play 100% in every game:P.

Besides the interviews, the article also contains a write-up on the ESL Extreme Masters European Championship Finals. Enjoy them all here!

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Drama in the CPM-community (365 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by blaze @ 08:45 CST, 10 February 2010 - iMsg

About a month after the launch of #cpmduel at quakenet they arranged their first duel tournament this weekend.

The tournament itself went on very smoothly where almost everyone involved were happy with it. The ones who weren't happy about it was

buxter who played in the winner bracket-final game versus

eThaD. eThaD beat him in two straight maps and threw him into the loser brackets where he got knocked out.

eThad at Dreamhack Winter 2008

A few hours after the cup was finished a demo was published on challenge-tv.com where the poster "QuakeSuperHero" accused eThaD of using wallhack.
While watching the demo he think he caught eThaD at least 29 times where he's had to have wallhack. (note that a CPM duel is 10min).

Some parts of the CPM community has turned against eThaD and some support him in this. The discussion at challenge-tv.com has started where it seems like most people thinks he cheats.

ethad seems to counter this very calmly and not doing anything until buxter wants to have a chat at irc.

Wallhack or not? Discuss!

edit:
Statement by buxter

<buxter> frankly, i don't care about this whole mess, it wasn't me who started it, i gave my opinion with explanation, controversial as it might be but still only my point of view, and nothing more, certainly not proof of QUakeSuperHero thesis.

Actually it's this QuakeSuperHero that's the bad guy, not buxter. Pardons to buxter!

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SG Duel cup Invites and Dates (91 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by sev1_ @ 17:06 CST, 9 February 2010 - iMsg

Once again, we are pleased to announce the newest gaming league in Quake Live, Silent Gamers. Our first season will be mainly to establish our name as a league and to bring awareness of those who are deaf and hard of hearing. With this said, we'd like to state who the sixteen invited competitors are:

(in no particular order)

Invited Players

In addition, the time when this dueling tournament will take place has been set from February 20th to February 21st starting at 2pm EST. Without a doubt, the invited experienced duelers will mold our competition into a serious, entertaining event that will definitely help us achieve our goal as a league.

Reminder: Sign-ups will commence at 10 p.m. EST tonight! (10/2/2009)
For questions, comments, and concerns, contact SG|sev1 or SG|ack|dM in mIRC

Link: Silent Gamers

#SilentGamers

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Interview with 4Kings QL TDM team (16 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by IspAH @ 14:03 CST, 9 February 2010 - iMsg

The 4Kings lineup was interviewed after their win against Zigi. After that the team moved to the Losers Bracket finals and, courtesy of the LowLandLions, were propelled through to the grand final where they will meet with Fnatic.

You lost against LowLandLions. Could have you predicted that?

jocko: No, since no jocko, no win.

Are you confident enough?

dk: of coz, I always think we are going to win… of coz sometimes happens the opposite ? but we are always confident. All are cooking with the same water.

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Intel GameOn Finals (77 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 02:28 CST, 9 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

After several weeks full with cups and exciting matches the Intel GameOn Finals will kick off. The winner earns a Alienware m17x notebook, a trip to Cebit, Hannover, Germany and 150€ pocket money. Cebit the winner can follow the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship. Within the next few days ten players from ten different countries will face off to find out who is the best. Also find out which players won which countries and won nice prizes.

Final Country Results

Final Groups

The group stage will be played best of three and the top two of each group will advance to single elimination playoffs, which will be best of five.

Links: Schedule & Results - GameOn Cup Site

QuakeNight QLive 2v2 Season 2 Invites (31 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by xfoo @ 21:19 CST, 8 February 2010 - iMsg

Once again, we asked the NA QuakeLive community if they wanted a TDM 2v2 Season 2, and the response was solid. I want to thank all the teams who signed up. As stated previously, we are trying something a little different for Season 2. For obvious reasons, we are using two separate competition levels: Pro and a Pro-2B.

And the teams are...

* Matches will begin Monday night starting 7-10 pm CST - on 02.22.10.
* At least 1 match from each level will be casted every Monday by QL.TV or GameFire.
* Private servers will be made available for competing teams to scrim/practice and play their matches.
* Any questions are to be directed to the head admin sirdark at

irc.gamesurge.net #quakenight.

Head to quakenight.com to view the Week 1 matches. Good luck to all teams and as always, play, record demos, ggs, and have fun.

IEM Asian Championship VODs & babes (54 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Carmac @ 21:03 CST, 8 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship is over and all that's left of it are Jibo's face is all over the Quake Live website, VODs of the matches and videos.

Three galleries from the event can be found right here. Moreover, This news item has got all the VODs rounded up. The most interesting matches are directly linked here:

Jibo

We have interviewed

proZaC and

uNleashed at the event - those can be found right here. Most importantly, we have shot a booth babe video with

the p1mp - you won't regret watching:

proZaC rates TGS

photo: ESL

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Silent Gamers QL Duel Cup (58 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by sev1_ @ 17:05 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg

We would like to announce the newest addition to Quake Live gaming leagues, Silent Gamers. Silent Gamers is a tournament that not only satisfies the gaming needs of the Quake Live deaf and hard of hearing community, but also Quake Live in general. Currently, we are hosting a 32 man QL dueling tournament where 16 of the competitors will be invited and the other 16 competitors will be randomly chosen. In addition, we are offering a cash prize of $200 to the first place winner of our competition. The tournament will be organized in the following manner:

*It will be double elimination
*All duels leading up to the final will be a series of three games, best two out of three
*The way to choose maps is TBA
*The final will be a series of five games, best three out of five
*The competition will be played over the time frame of two days.

For those that have not heard of us and want to support us,
we can be found on

#SilentGamers @ gamesurge.net. We appreciate all your support!

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