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Quake Live becomes part of ENC 2010 (293 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by pennY @ 11:39 CST, 26 January 2010 - iMsg

For the first time

Quake Live will be part of the European Nations Championship. Today the ESL announced Quake Live and Counter-Strike 1.6 Female to be the two new disciplines of the European Nations Championship 2010 instead of Defense of the Ancients (DotA) and Call of Duty 4. Play mode is 4on4 Team Deathmatch. Prize money will be announced tomorrow.

ENC 2010 Games:

Counter-Strike 1.6 (Play mode: 5on5)
Warcraft III (Play mode: 4 x 1on1 & 1 x 2on2)
FIFA 10 (Play mode: 3 x 1on1)
Counter-Strike: Source (Play mode: 5on5)
Counter-Strike 1.6 Female (Play mode: 5on5)
Quake Live (Play mode: TDM 4on4)

Source: European Nations Championship 2010

Update: The ESL just announced that the total prize money for the 2010 season will be 120.000€. More details about prize money share and events will be announced soon.

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Strum - A Promode minimovie (78 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by ios @ 14:59 CST, 25 January 2010 - iMsg




	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Rating: 7.6 (81 votes)

This minimovie was originally intented for Tek-9 contest, but I was busy at that period so I didn't manage to deliver to deadline but here it finally is!

It's a short frag movie which lasts just under two minutes.
Movie features frags from ph1l, Memphis & emir4nt all coming from different CPM modes such as Duel, Tdm, Ctf / Ntf and CA.

I'd like to thank god, my mom and local porn line.

(Stream is MUCH lower quality)

Movie File - Stream () 0MB
- Own3d.tv (1040 clicks)
Movie File - High Quality (STRUM_by_emir4nt.mp4) 85MB
- Maverickservers.com (222 clicks)
- QuakeUnity.com (190 clicks)
- TCPM Tournaments (37 clicks)

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IEM EU Championship Round Up on TEK9 (19 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by crow- @ 13:20 CST, 25 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

TEK-9.org rounds up all the action from a top quality weekend of QuakeLive action at the IEM EU finals in Cologne, Germany. We look back on the highs, the lows, the upsets and the controversies from a great start for Quake in 2010. Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky emerged as the continent's eventual champion after a nail-biting finale but find out who we thought was the MVP, the Biggest Upset and much more...

You can read the full round up here on TEK-9.org.

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Site summary for week ending 22 Jan (2 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 24 January 2010 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

Top Referers

IEM Euro Championship Post-Game Recap (131 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by Slasher @ 14:59 CST, 24 January 2010 - iMsg

VOD now available: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4204267

The QuakeLive.TV team (FishStix, Jehar) were joined by Live On Three co-host Slasher for a post European Championship event recap and inteview series.

Cooller,

Carmac, and

DaHanG come on the show to discuss all the happenings from this weekend, include lots of talk regarding the Cooller vs av3k semifinals.

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Quake America Duel Cup #1: Sign up! (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Amp @ 17:19 CST, 23 January 2010 - iMsg

Signups for Quake America Duel Cup #1 are now open!

In order to sign up for the Quake America Duel Cups, simply follow the link at the top of any page on the Quake America website, then follow the directions. You will be required to register yourself into the tourney.cc database.

Duel Cup #1 will begin on 21:00 CDT on Saturday, January 30th. Sign up now to get in!

Keep in mind, if you would like to play, you need also be present in #quakeamerica on the GameSurge IRC network at least 20 minutes ahead of time in order to go through the sign in phase.

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules,

#quakeamerica

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #16 is over! (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 16:15 CST, 23 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 24 January 2010 to 12:00 CST, 24 January 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

Final standings:

1. srs\burnedd - 100€
2. dignitas\GaRpY & fnatic\spartie :P
3./4. 4K^pulseh / evil

Links: Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

AMD MInimovie Contest Voting Begins! (14 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Bob @ 06:50 CST, 23 January 2010 - iMsg

With over 100 movies submitted the voting now begins for TEK9's movie contest sponsored by AMD. Starting from today 10 movies will be uploaded each day for you to watch and rate out of 5 stars.

Prizes

You can check out their movies section throughout the day to see what gets added and cast your votes.

Source: TEK-9.org

G Data QL Cup #9 over! (28 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 05:08 CST, 23 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 23 January 2010 to 12:00 CST, 23 January 2010
Schedule: Passed

The next edition of the G Data QL Cup will be played on 07:00 CST, 23 January 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.

Quick Facts

Final standings:

1. BVG|guard - 100€
2. srs\burnedd
3./4. 4K^pulseh / uaReaper

Links: Tournament page - Tourney Brackets - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

AGP Tour Under New Management (41 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by detonatR @ 20:13 CST, 22 January 2010 - iMsg

Today, the AGP Tour would like to announce that effective immediately it will be under new management. The new management team will include highly experienced administrators from several different gaming genres. With this change in management, the AGP Tour will be going in a whole new direction to expand its current operations to include more sponsors, games, LAN and online tournaments, and a new structured point system. While more titles are being looked into, you can expect popular game titles like Modern Warfare 2, Team Fortress 2, WarCraft III, and Counter-Strike to join Quake Live in the Tour.

The new AGP Tour is also planning to go deeper into the gaming community. With that, feedback from the community is always welcomed. If you would like to contact us regarding anything including the games you would like to see in the Tour, please message us through the website (www.agptour.com).

More information will be announced in the coming weeks.

IEM4 European Championship Finals QL (1460 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 14:29 CST, 20 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 21 January 2010 to 10:00 CST, 24 January 2010
Schedule: Passed

The Intel Extreme Masters 4 will see its European Championship Finals played at the ESL TV Studio in

Cologne between the 21st and the 24 of January. The Quakelive tournament will start on 07:00 CST, 21 January 2010 with the first group matches. ESL TV will cover most of the games with their two commentators

2GD and

Joe.

Final standings and prizes

Grand Final

3rd place match

Semi finals

5th/6th/7th/8th place matches

Quarter finals

Group standings

Group stage results - Thursday

Group stage results - Friday

Schedule

Groups

Streaming: ESL TV Free (Alternative host) - ESL TV Premium
Streaming for linux users: /OctoshapeClient -url:ESL.oph350 (mplayer required)
Links: Group stage, Brackets,

#masters.live
Coverage: IEM4 Cologne, Fnatic, TEK9, DerQuaker,

Fragster (with live scores: groups, playoffs)
Twitters: IEMtv, Carmac, Fragster, TEK9
Interviews: TEK9 :: l1nkje@fragster :: fox on his Quarter final draw :: Community predictions
Galleries / Videos: IEM on YouTube - Fragster: Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday, ESR

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Interview with Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira (36 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 12:10 CST, 20 January 2010 - iMsg

The fnatic player

Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira had a very good start into the year 2009 with a second place at QuakeCon. But then his performance got worse from tournament to tournament.

fragster sat down with the Swede and found out the reasons for his latest results at LAN events, including his biggest weakness when it comes to gaming. Here is a snippet:

More and more top players participate at those online tournaments, even Cooller, Cypher and Co. Is it useful to play them right before such an important event like the IEM European Finals?

Spart1e: LAN events are always more important than online cups. I guess a lot of players are playing those cups for practise. I am playing for the money. With such short notice before an event you can't know if the players are doing their best or if they are playing to see how their opponents are playing. If I knew I already had good praccpartners to play with I wouldn't play it. But if not, I guess it could be a good idea to play the cups, maybe not to win, but to see and prepare for your big event.

The full interview can be read in

English,

German and

Swedish.

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Quakelive TDM Nationcup 2010 - Week2 (36 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 04:33 CST, 20 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

Two more Week2 games of the ql nationscup 2010 will be played tonight. Russia vs Denmark at 14:00 CDT will be streamed on lvl^ and cyberarena.tv as well. And Hungary vs Spain at 15:00 CDT still doesn't have any stream planned so far.

Week 2 matches

Results

Links: ql nationscup 2010,

QQC,

#quakequickcup, Week1
Coverage:

Fragster

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IEM4 EC Finals - Groups (318 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 11:30 CST, 19 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight the ESL finally announced the Quakelive groups for the European Championship Finals! Also,

Marius "BVG|GUard" Ivanauskas confirmed that he won't be able to attend the event. He will be replaced by

Romain "LLL*dem0n" Leclercq.

As you may already have noticed,

Carmac is secretly wishing for the sprayed cum to reach the ceiling and already made a column with plenty of infos.

Groups

Source: Group page

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TEK9 interviews IEM EU finalists (43 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by crow- @ 09:47 CST, 19 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

TEK9's

Liam "crow" Crowley talks to a selection of Europe's top stars ahead of the biggest LAN event of 2010 so far, the IEM European Championship finals. From

av3k to

Z4muZ, nine potential favourites share their thoughts on the weekend ahead - how they've prepared, what they're aiming for and who they're afraid of...

Click here for a quick taster...

You can read the full article here on TEK-9.org.

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