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G Data Quake Live Cup #3 is over! (8 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 12:51 CST, 28 November 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 5 December 2009 to 11:00 CST, 5 December 2009
Schedule: Passed

The signups for the third edition of our weekly G Data Quake Live cup are open now.

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:

Participating players:

srs\av3k,

xlo^fazz,

xlo^madix,

BVG|guard,

bodzo and many more.

Rankings:

1. bodzo - 100€
2. BVG|guard
3. xlo^madix / xlo^fazz

Quick Facts

Stream: HolySh1t TV
Links: Tournament page - Tournament Brackets - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

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G Data Quake Live Cup #2 is over! (54 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 04:32 CST, 28 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 28 November 2009 to 13:00 CST, 28 November 2009
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.

Update: Participating players:

k1llsen,

madix,

burnedd,

guard,

bodzo and many more.

Rankings:

1. k1llsen - 100€
2. BVG|guard
3. bodzo / jilc4ke(froZen)

Streams: HolySh1t Livestream & HolySh1t ustream
Links: Tournament page - Tourney tree -

#gdata.qlive

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KTGA: CPM TDM Tourney - SCHEDULE (136 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by pikoh @ 03:45 CST, 28 November 2009 - iMsg

As you know the annual CPM TDM Nations cup is to begin in a few months. We've decided to host an introduction tournament which will start on 28th of November and last till the end of the year. We suggest all interested players to enter, whether they are CPM players or

VQ3 / QL teams willing to try out something new for them.

Update:

List of Participants

Groups

Week 1 Matches

Week 2 Matches

Complete schedule can be found on this spreadsheet.

Links: Tourney Page -

#ktga - Groups and schedule

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Dreamhack Winter: av3k wins QL 1on1 (192 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 09:34 CST, 27 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

If you missed the Quake Live 1on1 tournament from swedish DreamHack Winter 2009 on thursday/day 1 you can still watch some recorded VODs on ustream.tv and levelupyourgame.

Playoffs schedule on friday/day 2

Four players are left in the tournament, the starting matches will be

stermy vs

Z4muZ and

Cooller vs

av3k. Because of Z4muZ mouse problems and sound problems from Stermy the matches will be slightly delayed. djWHEAT.tv and Quake-Live.tv wont be streaming today but LevelUp jumps in with

Slasher on the mic and also

2GD &

Joe from ESL TV will shoutcasting the final match.

Schedule

Match details

Final standing

1st: Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski - 2400€
2nd: Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors - 1455€
3rd: Anton "Cooller" Singov - 970€
4th: Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone

Live Streams:
- DreamArena.se with 2GD & Joe from ESL TV, Justin.tv, DH-Justin
- LevelUpyourgame.net with Slasher, c.zeroboy.net/lvlup,

#lvl^
- GameSports with gS-Jay

Coverage:

fragster.de - Groupstage, Playoff - Photo gallery Thursday/Friday/Saturday - Interviews dkt, madix, Z4muZ

sk-gaming - After game statements on video -1- -2- -3- -4-
Justin.tv - VODs Grand Final with 2GD & Joe
LevelUp - VODs friday with Slasher (howtoplay)

Demos:
Grand Final av3k vs Z4muZ
Demopack various

Related links:
Thursday/day 1, Seeds & Groups released

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DreamHack: QuakeWorld Coverage (66 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Zalon @ 16:01 CST, 26 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

The QuakeWorld tournament at DreamHack Winter was delayed a bit due to the Quake Live tournament taking longer than expected. Now the group games are getting played with the Quarterfinals coming up later tonight.

QuakeWorld.nu runs a live stream with a mix of QuakeWorld commentators. While all the games are available via QTV.

Final Standing

1st:

LocKtar - 700€

2nd:

nabbe - 475€

3rd:

bps - 300€
4th:

snapcase

Justin.tv vods of the final (Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4)

Final Results

Semifinal Results

Schedule for Friday

Quarterfinal Results

Group A - Standings & Results

Group B - Standings & Results

Group C - Standings & Results

Links: Stream, QTV, Mumble, QuakeWorld.nu

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Dreamhack: Live Stream all event! (748 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 00:06 CST, 26 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

Scheduled: 03:30 CST, 26 November 2009 to 09:00 CST, 27 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

Please Digg and Reddit:

In collaboration between myself, id software's TTimo, the Dreamhack staff,

Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham and

GreasedScotsman of QuakeLive.tv, we will be providing live video coverage of the the entire group and bracket stage of the event. We have also changed the groups around so that we can cover all of the main matches of the group stage, and have provided a (very loose) schedule. All the action starts at thursday 05:00 CDT.

Additional commentary will be provided by

2GD,

Slasher, and

clampOK. Watch it all at QuakeLive.tv.

Thursday schedule

04:30 CDT Dreamhack Pre-game show
05:00 CDT DaHanG vs Z4muZ
05:00 CDT destrukt vs fazz
05:30 CDT Cooller vs link1n
06:00 CDT fox vs av3k
07:30 CDT Spart1e vs linKoo
08:00 CDT Madix vs Strenx
08:30 CDT Stermy vs chance
10:00 CDT Round of 16 TBA
11:00 CDT Quarterfinals TBA

The day 2 stream of the semifinals and finals starts on Friday at 04:00 CDT will be done by djWHEAT at djWHEAT.tv.

2GD and

Joe will also be streaming the semifinals and finals live on the DreamArena stream.

LIVE STREAM

Alternate Streams: GameSports, lvl^

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TEK9 previews Dreamhack Winter (60 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by crow- @ 06:24 CST, 25 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

TEK-9.org previews the upcoming QuakeLive tournament at Dreamhack Winter in Jönköping, Sweden. The feature includes a detailed rundown of the top contenders, from fan favourite

Anton "Cooller" Singov to unpredictable dark horse

Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski and more in-between. A quick taster can be found below...

Magnus "fox" Olsson (mousesports)

You can read the full preview on TEK-9.org.

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Game On Cup #6 Rankings (7 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 06:02 CST, 25 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 25 November 2009 to 18:00 CST, 25 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The Cups #6 of the Intel Game On are now over. You can find below the known rankings for each region/country, this post will be updated if some last matches are still missing. For the results of the fifth cups, you can check the previous post.

Russia/CIS

Poland

DACH

UK

France

Spain

Italy

Turkey

MEA

The Cups #7 will be played on Sunday 6th of December, and the sign-ups are already open: Russia/CIS, Poland, DACH, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, MEA.

Links: Game On - Cups #1 + Nordic, Cups #2, Cups #3, Cups #4, Cups #5

Serious Sam HD released (54 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Paladia @ 04:41 CST, 25 November 2009 - iMsg

While FPS-games certainly are more common now than years ago, the old, fast paced, unrealistic style of FPS-games such as Quake, DOOM or Unreal are almost a dying breed.

However, for those looking for a hardcore single player or co-op FPS experience, the remake, Serious Sam HD - The First Encounter was released today for the PC (via Steam) and Xbox360 with a fairly light price tag of 20€.

Screenshot

Features

System requirements

Source: Steampowered.com (purchase link)

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Doom 3 Gopher vs Rocketboy $25,000 (69 comments)

( Major News: D3)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 22:02 CST, 24 November 2009 - iMsg

The AGP Classics Match of the Week presents Doom 3! During QuakeCon 2005,

Fredrik "gopher" Quick faces off against

Yang "RocketBoy" Meng, the CPL Winter Doom 3 champion. Gopher is from the famous TDM Quake 3 team iCE cLIMBERs. This is the consolation finals after Gopher won the first map on DM4, coming from the losers bracket. This game is on DM2, also known as Delta Labs.

D3: Gopher vs Rocketboy Part 1

D3: Gopher vs Rocketboy Part 2

Links: AGP Tour

#agptour, Facebook, Twitter

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IEM US Regular Season - Final Day (14 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 18:31 CST, 24 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 21:00 CST, 25 November 2009 to 00:40 CST, 26 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

Tomorrow is the final play day of the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship regular season. We are looking for another two players that will be directly qualified for the LAN finals taking place in

Edmonton on the 11th to 13th December. The top player of each group is direclty qualified for the Continental Finals America, the second and third placed players of each group will face up against second and third placed players from other groups in a relegation match on Sunday, 29th November. The winner of those relegation matches will join the offline finals as well.

Already qualified for the offline finals are

dkt and

rapha,

DaHang will probably also reach the offline finals directly, because his last match vs.

swooped will be forfeited due illness.

Wednesday Night Matches

Standings

Broadcasting links for the matches will be announced later on. Demos of already played matches like

Vo0 vs.

rapha can be found here.

Source: ESL IEM US QL Site

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dkt: "My goal is always to win" (155 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by swine @ 14:10 CST, 24 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

An American trio of Quake players will participate at the Quake Live tournament at the DreamHack Winter event. One of them is Brian "dkt" Flander, who managed to show a good offline performance at the QuakeCon 2009. Fragster.de spoke with him about the IEM American Finals, the upcoming DreamHack and the American Quake scene.

Who will be the toughest opponent in Jönköping?
dkt: Probably Cypher. He is a great player. He has very solid aim and positioning and his mental game is underrated. There are many European players who are very good. I think Cooller will be better at this tournament than he was in Dubai and I think fox/DaHanG will also be very good

Spart1e, who managed to beat you twice at QuakeCon, is also attending at DreamHack. Can you take him down this time in his home country just like he did to you?
dkt: Hopefully, he is a very good player, but I feel I'm better than I was at QuakeCon. I don't know how much he has practiced or anything, but it would be fun to play against him again.

Read the full interview on Fragster.de (

English version or

German version).

Source: DreamHack Winter 2009-Coverage

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EMS5 QL TDM - Playday 3 (7 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 12:01 CST, 24 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

We already are in the catch-up week of the EMS5 Quakelive TDM and some matches results are still missing. For now, let's have a look at the results of the Playday 3 and a quick view at these late games.

LowLandLions.ql vs k1ck eSports Club TDM

Night Killers vs refuse to Lose

viRus vs 3-4-metilendioximeta..

eldvakt vs two-point-o

4Kings vs Creative FearFactory..

Late matches:

fnaticMSI.ql vs 3-4-metilendioximeta.. - PD2

Low Land Lions vs dRAILED - PD2

notexec vs Solid Ziigmund - PD3

fnaticMSI.ql vs Excello - PD3

According to the schedule, the playoff matches will start next week with the Winner Brackets quarter finals. The playoff page will be created on Monday 30th November in the morning and the first matches will be pre-scheduled on Thursday 3rd December at 15:00 CDT.

Links: EMS5 Quakelive, Results, Groups rankings, Playday 1, Playday 2

Quake Live TDM Nationcup 2010 (67 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Legie @ 08:30 CST, 24 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

The

Quake Live TDM 4v4 Nations Cup is approaching and with us as hosts, it has become a pleasant tradition. If your country wants to participate, simply choose your captain, who's responsibility is to pick and register the lineup. For further details about this process, please check our website www.quakequickcup.com.

The current title holders are from

France, they came on top vs team

Russia, followed by

Sweden on the 3rd place. I have a feeling this years NC cup will be something special and I am definitely looking forward to see all the top players back in action. Hope you guys do too. You can also take a look at the hall of fame or read some more info about previous nation cups.

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ESWC RETURNS (206 comments)

( Major News: CS Gaming WC3)

Posted by dfb @ 05:36 CST, 24 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'10

Games-Services, the original company behind the ESWC, filled for bankruptcy several months ago. In the aftermath of this, Stéphane Cosse, the head of DIP Communication and DIP Organisation (An event organiser), has purchased the rights to the ESWC brand, trademark and tournament management system for €50,000 and cyberleagues.fr for €1,500.

The ESWC has now unveiled their plans for the summer of 2010 with a new $200,000 dollar e-Sports event taking place in Disneyland Paris from June 30 to July 4, 2010.

Games Included

However, according to SK-gaming Cosse was a lead figure in Adéclik who ran a $50,000 event called ClickArena back in 2003 where in similar circumstances to the CyberXGames the prize money turned out to be a hoax and no team received a penny. Perhaps in light of this the ESWC has made a further announcement:

"in order to prevent more harm and damage to the ESWC image and to maintain coherent the ESWC project and spirit, DIP-Organisation is studying the possibilities to found a way to compensate the last ESWC champions."

Source: Official announcement