The third playweek follows with todays matches, that should be all interesting. At 21:00 United Kingdom will clash Slovenia, Netherlands vs Ukraine after that and at 22:00 Czech Republic vs Spain and United Kingdom vs Iceland.
One of the most interesting fights for tonight is United Kingdom vs Iceland, with the winner becoming leader of group B


More info: QQC - Twitter - #quakequickcup

The VOD has now been posted online - http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4545061

After one week of public release for CSProMod, including reactions from pro-players in both the 1.6 community and Source community, as well as the media's differing opinions, Head of Development Alex Garfield will be a guest on Live On three this Sunday at 4 PM EST/22:00 CET. We will be talking about how the release has gone thus far and if things have gone as expected, better, or worse, his reactions to the player and media statements, more information and hopefully a general release date for 1.05, and what the plan is for CSProMod for the future of the Counter-Strike community.

Former SK Gaming Editor-in-Chief and current Replays.net editor Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips has written an article detailing the death of Warcraft 3 in Europe, Korean players growing dislike for European organizations, and the move into Starcraft II in the near future. Malystryx will be coming on the show to talk more about his thoughts , and the possible imminent death of Warcraft 3.

Tune into Live On Three this Sunday at 16:00 CDT on djWHEAT.tv


Other news topics to be discussed include:

- ESL's Intel Extreme Masters Asia Championships wind down, with the Chinese legend Fan "Jibo" Zhibo winning, and Swedish pimp Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani also qualifying for the Quake Live Global Finals, while CS 1.6 and WoW continue
- SK Editor-in-Chief Duncan "Thorin" Shields has written an article "In search of the greatest team of all time", taking a look back at four possible contendors to greatest team of all time: SK.swe (2003-2004), mTw.dk (2008-2009), fnatic (2008-2009), and AGAiN (2006-2009)
- A man by the name of Arbalet keeps pumping money into the Counter-Strike 1.6 scene; Announcing a $10,000 Cup in February, A $32,000 Cup for press only, and launches 'World Electronic Sports', an online league, starting with $3,500.
- Major League Gaming announces details of their first Combine event, which will be amateurs only; AOL Games President Ralph Rivera leaves AOL to be MLG's new President
- GGL gets bought by PrismOne, wants to be the "Facebook of gamers"
- The TeamLiquid StarLeague heads into the Round of 16 with action continuing to heat up
- Marvel vs Capcom 2 gets added to Evolution 2010, sells $4.2 Million on Xbox Live Arcade

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 7 February 2010 to 12:00 CST, 7 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 18th edition of the weekly ZOTAC QL Duel Cup is set up for your registration, it will be played on 07:00 CST, 7 February 2010.

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.


Update: ZOTAC #18 is running with players like srs\Cypher, srs\Av3k, Drz. uaReaper, BVG|tox1c, 4K*pulseh, SIRUS and many more.

Final standings:

1. srs\Av3k - 100€
2. srs\Cypher
3./4. agentJkezooR / evil_

Links: Tourney page - Tourney Brackets - #zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

Scheduled: 20:30 CST, 4 February 2010 to 22:30 CST, 6 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The Intel Extreme Masters Season 4 will see it's Asian Championship Finals played at the 2010 Taipei Game Show in Taipei, Taiwan. The Quake Live tournament will start at 20:30 CST, 4 February 2010 with first group matches. The first day of group matches will be broadcasted by Quake Live.tv, from day two on the games will be casted on ESL TV with 2GD and Joe.


Streaming: ESL TV Free (Alternative host) - ESL TV Premium - Quake-Live.tv
Coverage: ESL, Fragster.de (with live scores: groups, playoffs)
Links: Group stage, Brackets, #masters.live
Galleries / Videos: ESL pics, IEM on YouTube, Fragster: Friday gallery, Saturday gallery, Return of the p1mp
Interviews: proZaC: "There can only be one true p1mp"

After a night filled with great frags, amazing comebacks, coverage provided by QuakeLive.tv, and what could very well be the setting of an amazing new precedent, the final results for the Quake America Duel Cup #2 are in:

Walter Outlaw
Eddie T. "km Rey" J.
Alex "km Karabas" Kravchenko

Contratulations to all our champions tonight, and look forward to Cup #3 happening soon.

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules - #quakeamerica

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 6 February 2010 to 11:20 CST, 6 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The next edition of the G Data QL Cup is played at the moment 07:00 CST, 6 February 2010.

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.


Update: The Cup is running with players like srs\cypher, k1llsen, uaReaper, dignitas\GarpY and many more.

Final standings:

1. srs\Cypher - 100€
2. BVG|Guard
3./4. dignitas\GaRpY / k1llsen

Links: Tournament page - Tourney Bracket - Hall of Fame - #gdata.qlive

Finally, all video from the Tek9 AMD movie contest have been released. Among over 9000 CS and COD movies there are four quake movies.

Quake III Arena:
OMG by DisSidenT

QuakeLive:
seventeen by Hell5pawn
Aftershock by Kripp
Crash & Doom 2 by warchild

Visit tek-9.org for a full movie list and support the Quake videos by rating them.

On February 8th the biggest Quakeworld 1on1 tournament Ownage will be open for sign-ups. Registration will end after two weeks on sunday 21st, 15:00 CDT. Last year just about 150 players participated. This year the cup's organisers want to reach 256 players.

Mappool is dm2, dm4, dm6, ztndm3 and aerowalk. The tournament will be played in double elimination in BO3. This way every player has the chance to play at least 2 games. Quakeworld.nu is offering a vote on how the maps will be dropped.

The tournament is open to all players, beginner or advanced. Ring your friends, slap your mates on IRC and get yourself in shape for the biggest Quakeworld tourney alive!

Ownage - #ownage.qw
Check nQuake, a modern Quakeworld client with the use of ezQuake, for Win/Linux/Mac

That's right, it's on ladies! The next exhibition match in the PG Pro series is set to roll and by popular demand, we've officially pulled Python off his beach in the Bahamas to return to the dueling arena to take on zlr! Brought to you by Premium Gamer and netGameTV, this match will be a spectacle not to be missed!


Catch the whole adulterated event covered back-to-back by netGameRadio's Devastator & Nomey on the LIVE & now unlimited capacity video stream at netGameTV.

Full Details: forums.premiumgamer.com

Community favorite Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani, also known as "the p1mp", celebrates his return to the Quake scene. As one of Sweden´s former TDM stars he will go to enter the IEM Asian Championship in Taiwan and will fight for one of the two slots to qualify for the Global Finals in March. fragster invited proZaC to an interview to speak about the upcoming event, his shape and why god is on his side. Here's a snippet:

It's been a while since you have been part of a Quake event. What happened during the last years?

proZaC: Woah, so many things ... I studied game development and got hired by Avalanche Studios to work on Just Cause 2. Then the financial crisis happened and that put a serious monkey wrench in the wheels of the game development industry (in Sweden anyway) and I became a kindergarten teacher instead, which was the best job I've ever had. After this the timing and opportunity was perfect to go to study in Japan. So here I am!

What are your plans then? A comeback in the eSport/Quake scene maybe?

proZaC: I don't know for sure yet, but I have a lot of fun playing quake again and watching all the good matches in the recent tournaments just makes me pumped - so maybe yes?

Read the full Interview in English and German.

Quake Live groups for CB NC CTF and TDM were announced yesterday. Since there has been some delay for a few days, first match week will start Mon 8 February, so all captains should schedule their matches by the end of the week.

Groups are published here for CTF and here for TDM.

This interview was made at the CGS World finals (2007) and was intended to be published in the 3rd issue of Pro Gam3r Magazine which was never released. I found it yesterday and I thought it was still interesting enough to publish today.

Obligatory quotes:

For Graham another thing to provide job satisfaction are the people in gaming. “Some people don’t understand how great the people in gaming are. Some of my best memories, whether it be with clan mates or rival team members, or other gamers, or coaches, or managers, some of my greatest memories have been at events and in gaming."

“All I can say given in terms of advice is fuckin’ get off your ass and do it”. You heard the man. The future of competitive gaming doesn’t solely rely on players, there’s more people involved in it than that. Let’s see some new faces at events. Like Marcus and other figures in the e-Sports industry, you have to take a risk. You’ve got nothing to lose from simply trying.

Click here to read the full article (or to look at more goofy pics from WCG 2002).

Since the closure of the CGS, dj Wheat has moved away from LA and continues to run several gaming shows which you can find more about on http://www.djwheat.tv .

If you're interested in more features that were in Pro Gam3r (but you never got the mag) there is also Stermy's feature.

In a news story on CNNMoney, it's been revealed that PrismOne Group, Inc., a tech business based in Orlando, Florida, has recently made a definite agreement to purchase Professional Interactive Entertainment Corp and its related entities, the GGL, at $2.5 million dollars of initial financing.


More details should be revealed about the purchase in the coming weeks.

Sign-ups are now open for Quake America Weekly Duel Cup #2, scheduled to start Saturday, February 6th at 19:00 CDT!

Please keep in mind changes are being made to the rules at this time, do not expect any of them to be final at this moment.

Updates will be posted pending those rule 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 #2.

So, don't forget to sign up for Duel Cup #2, and good luck to all participants!

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Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules - #quakeamerica