ESR - Latest News

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:19 CDT, 29 October 2009 - iMsg

Considering the amount of rankings gathered for these first cups, the previous post just won't be updated. So here is a brand new post for the results of the first cups of the Intel Game On tournament. Mostly all matches were played yesterday evening, except for two 3rd place matches in DACH and UK.

Russia/CIS

Poland

DACH

UK

France

Spain

Italy

Turkey

MEA

Also, here are all the Nordic cups' rankings as well as the final rankings.

Nordic

Congratulations to the MEA and Turkish players for playing with such high pings (they still don't have any Quakelive servers)! Feel free to post links to demos in the comments. You can also watch the VOD of the ESL TV show which covered the Nordic semi-finals and final (fox vs spart1e), and the Russian/CIS final (Cooller vs Cypher)!

The Cups #2 will be played on Sunday 1st of November, and the sign-ups are already open: Russia/CIS, Poland, DACH, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, MEA,

Source: Game On

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CPL Founder Angel Munoz Interviewed (37 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by detonatR @ 17:58 CDT, 28 October 2009 - iMsg

In his first written interview in over two years, CPL Founder Angel Munoz sits down to discuss his past, present, and future in the gaming world.

Angel Munoz is a man that needs little introduction. He founded one of the biggest eSport event circuits (CPL), which lasted for a little over a decade before shutting down and bought by outside investors in 2008. For his work in eSports, Angel Munoz has often been considered the "father of eSports", but he is not without his controversy.

As everyone knows, you sold the CPL to an investment group from the United Arab Emirates in 2008, are you still involved with CPL operations or perhaps consulting? Is it still the same people running the CPL but under new ownership or has that changed?

Angel Munoz: The original plan was for me to be on the Board of Directors and for my company (NewWorld.com) to retain a 10% interest in the new CPL, but that did not work out. So now that CPL has moved its main operations to Asia, I will no longer retain my board chair or have any interest in the CPL. The new CPL has excellent management, advisors and partners, and honestly no longer need me to agree or disagree with their plans.

The full interview can be found on mylgn.com.

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Intel GameOn QL Cups tonight + ESL TV! (103 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by therogue @ 14:00 CDT, 28 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

Tonight is the first night of cups (for all countries/regions except Nordic) in the Intel Game On Quakelive cups that are in cooperation with the Intel Extreme Masters by ESL.

ESL TV coverage tonight!
ESL TV are planning to coverage at least one match tonight from the fourth and final Nordic cup. Check out ESL TV tonight from 16:00 CDT! There is a good chance you will see one of

fox,

Spart1e or

madix playing!

Sign ups will be open until half an hour before the cups begin, at 8pm (local time for each cup). Remember, everyone has a chance to at least win some ROCCAT hardware so please don't be afraid to sign up and play!

Sign up to tonight's cups!

Prizes

Road to finals

Game On countries/regions + Links to sign up

Source: none!

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QUAKE LIVE UPDATE - Oct 27th (8 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 18:30 CDT, 27 October 2009 - iMsg

Ten days after last update, the Quake Live Halloween Update just brings us some bugfixes, we get rid of splash damage through surfaces, and we see the initiation of in-game weapon accuracy display.

Sync Error´s update introduction

Changelog

Source: QuakeLive Forum

American Championship schedule *updated* (67 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:28 CDT, 27 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Today ESL announced the detailed schedule for the IEM4 Quakelive American Championship . It's now money time and each game won will be rewarded with $75. Due to the late announcement, players are given a free wild-card for their first match to get it rescheduled.

The first matches are planned to begin at 22:00 CDT, 28 October 2009 with

Griffin versus

relic and

LoSt-CauZe vs

sparks at 22:30 CDT. We're trying to get coverage for most matches, but so far we still need to wait before announcing anything.

Update: Fixed the dates which were wrong due to the newser using European timezone in the source.

Complete schedule

Groups

Source: ESL, American Main Round

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ZeRoQL wins Serbian Dreamhack Qualifier (38 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 10:24 CDT, 27 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

The Serbian Dreamhack Qualifier was held on October 24, 2009 in the Core Gaming Center. 8 Quake Live players who qualified online participated. The big prize was a trip to Sweden for competing in the Dreamhack Quake Live Duel Tournament that will be held 26/29 November. The Results are:

1st: ZeRoQL
2nd: Remedy
3rd: PartyB

Participants

Links: Tournament Site (not updated) - Demos - Players picture

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AtomicFall CTF 4v4 Tourney Results (64 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by eThaD @ 09:00 CDT, 27 October 2009 - iMsg

#promode.ru is proud to announce a one-day

CPM CTF tournament, which will take place 17 October at 09:00 CDT. It's already 3rd tournament organized by

hoyden. Two previous tournaments were for only Russian teams and gathered about 8 each. Now we are ready to move further and invite all the European teams to join our CTF celebration. Forget long leagues and a lot of def. loses it's only one day, everything fast and smoothly. To the registration.

Update:
In the final the two favorite teams met each other, plus+ and Ca!. It was a 3rd maps match, plus+ showed great skills, and Ca! did some nice tactics on the first two maps.

pikoh, admin of this tourney said it was a nice show for everyone who seen it on GTV. Enjoy the demos!

Winners:
1. plus+: snapcase, fluff, ddk, ahxnxa
2. CA!: rDmr, funnyb, chris, luke, ele, nono, jagga
3/4. - imba: Jaze, CAiNE, bomber, panic, xano0ch
3/4. - kindergarten: Polytech, hoyden, Craig, Memphis, TheDynamite

Demos available

Brackets:
Group stage
Play-off

Rules

Map-pool

Servers

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QuakeLive.TV Event: QuadCast/AllYourBase (22 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 18:21 CDT, 26 October 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 18:30 CDT, 28 October 2009 to 21:00 CDT, 28 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

To commemorate QuakeLive.TV's coverage of over 60 events resulting in more than 100 VODs and also hitting the 20th round of the community-favorite, King of the Hill 1v1, QLTV has decided to throw a special event on Wednesday night.

To begin, QLTV will launch its brand new podcast show, The QuadCast at 7:30pm EDT (11:30pm GMT). At the normal start time for King of the Hill, 9pm EDT (1am GMT), we will begin the all new All Your Base event featuring CTF open to the community!

Be sure to tune in!

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EMS TDM Qualifier Cup #4 VODs (31 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 11:00 CDT, 26 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

Shoutcasting team Level up,

nVc and

Disrepute, did some live castings of the EMS Season 5-Qualifier Cups.

Because there is no GTV available and pretty much no coverage of TDM yet, they streamed games from the qualifier cup #3, and #4 on last sunday. Sometimes TDM players joining them so the comments they make should be a bit more in depth. Level Up try to have in the future more "pro" players on the castings, like they had with

deus yesterday.

Top 4 teams of each of the 4 qualifier cups went directly to the ESL Major Series. This 4th EMS TDM Qualifier Cup it was LowLandLions, fnatic, refuse2lose and East Front. It was very late the last matches were played, fnatic won.

EMS TDM Qualifier #4 VoDs
refuse2lose vs steam, refuse2lose vs northstar, East Front vs refuse2lose, fnatic vs refuse2lose
nvcgamer.eu/lvlup - press play, then at the bottom of that it says "on demand" > Quake > ESL > Extreme Masters

Teams in the ESL Major Series finals
So now we have the 16 teams that are going to the ESL Major Series finals! Isn´t it great?!

Qualified Teams

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IEF Suwon 2009 - players list (23 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 05:08 CDT, 26 October 2009 - iMsg

With less than 5 days to go, the

IEF Suwon 2009 event is turning out to be the greatest event for foreign

Starcraft players that has ever been seen before, with 9 different countries taking part for just the Starcraft portion alone.

Some past greats make their triumphant return during IEF Suwon 2009, most notably

Assem (former pro gamer in Korea on the former Hexatron, now eSTRO, team),

Rekrul (also a former pro gamer on Hexatron,

Midian (United Kingdom’s best player of all time), as well as

SEn (Starcraft prodigy from Taiwan, which is a country that was never known for its large pool of players).

Some more recognizable faces to the 2009 competitive scene are

IdrA,

Ret,

White_Ra,

Strelok,

Fenix,

iNcontroL,

Artosis,

G5,

iNfeRnaL,

Chill,

DIMAGA,

Gretorp, and

MACHINE are all mentally prepared to win the coveted title this year.

Bisu,

Stork,

Effort,

Boxer, and an amateur player will make up team Korea this year, pretty much giving themselves the 99% chance to walk away with 1st place, especially when having the home field advantage.

As for the overall IEF event itself, it will truly be an amazing event that has been organized by many dedicated people who strive to bring not only Asia, but the world a spectacular tournament and show. Hints of importance for this event can be seen when you look at the Korean government stepping in to work alongside one of many eSports events, the interest and need for foreign gamers to be enlisted in the tournaments, as well as the concerts that will take place by some of the biggest Korean artists that are out to date.

Teams

Maps

Additional Information

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The AGP Duel Rankings Released (95 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 23:12 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg

The AGP has officially released it’s international Quake Live Duel Rankings. Based on a points system used by many professional sports and tailored to Quake Live, the AGP hopes to sustain an accurate system for all competitions to use by the players. This will create accurate seedings as well as proper skill separation for lower skilled tournaments.

The Official AGP Rankings: Duel Top 10 in Points (out of 70)

Beginning with the 2009 QuakeCon Masters and Open tourneys and the recent IEM4 Global Challenge Dubai, the AGP Rankings awarded points based on progression to all participants. QuakeCon, having the most prize money and tournament spots this year (32+), receives more points between the two. In the future, online tournaments will be awarded the third most, following last by Ladders.

AGP Rankings will also be awarded in other game modes in competitions sanctioned by the AGP. Those will be posted soon. If you are an organizer of a competition and want it approved by the players, as well as be put into our points system, email us for review (contact).

Expect complete point breakdown of competitions involved in the next few weeks as well as regional and national rankings based on this same point system.

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Site summary for week ending 23 Oct (No comments)

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Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

Top Referers

Blizzard loses vs KeSPA (46 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by Paladia @ 16:32 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg

There will be no season four of the popular GomTV Classics. The Korean e-Sports Player's Association (KeSPA) and Blizzard Entertainment has had an ongoing war concerning the esport future of Starcraft 2 in South Korea and the first major battle seems to have been won by KeSPA.

Blizzard has for a long time been trying to get a larger piece of the pie that is generated by the massive Starcraft interest in South Korea. As their negotiations with the two largest tv broadcasters, OGN and MBC, failed, they then proceeded to sponsors GOM, an independent league in an attempt to make GOM the dominating Starcraft, WoW and WC3 body.

Over the past few years, with the help of a massive prize pool from Blizzard, GOM has grown to become one of the largest leagues. However, now it seems as this has come to an end as KeSPA has denied seven of its most popular teams from participating in the league, which in the end ment it would lose most of its popularity and hence it was forced to cancel the upcoming season. The affected teams were Air Force, Estro, MBC, KT, OGN, STX, SKT1.

Who will win the war in the end? According to reports Blizzard and KeSPA will meet to attempt further negotiations in December.

Source: Fomos.kr

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ESL Dubai QL Highlights Video by the AGP (84 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:33 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The AGP presents a complete highlight video from the entire ESL Quake Live Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge in Dubai. The tournament was intense some amazing highlights. Hope you all enjoy.

Featuring:

Shane "SK|rapha" Hendrixson

Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky

Richard "vtL/noctis" Gansterer

Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson

Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira

Alessandro "fnaticstermy" Avallone

Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov

Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty

Zhibo "RazerJibo" Fan

Pierre-Emeric "fnatic\l1nkje" Portier

Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina

Pelle "xlo-fazz" Söderman

Felix "mTw|smoke" Pafel

Anas "spammah" Llyas

Kévin "fnatic\strenx" Baeza

Michael "xlo-madix" Hindersson

ESL Dubai featuring Quake Live's Best

Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support of these great classic matches!

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ZOTAC Quake Live Cup #4 is over! (64 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 06:51 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

The 4th edition of the weekly ZOTAC Quake LiveCup will take place this Sunday starting at 08:05 CDT, 25 September 2025. The sign-ups are still open until 08:00 CDT, 25 September 2025 so be sure to check their homepage and sign up.

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. Also the best player will be rewarded with 100€.

Signed up well known players until now are

k1llsen,

mTw|smoke,

quad|psyr3x,

faculty|siLw,

xlo|fazz,

xlo|madix,

bodzo and

BVG|guard.

Update:
From 95 players who sign up, today 71 players checked in for the 4th cup. In the grand final, fazz faced arguably Germany's strongest player, k1llsen. Cup is now over, and the winner is fazz.
Be sure to sign up for next weeks cup at qlive.zotac-cup.com!

Rankings

1. xlo^fazz - 100€
2. k1llsen
3. mTw|smoke / Arm3D`pulseh

Demos

Stream: Holysh1t (english) & GameSports (german)
Links: Tourney tree, Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive on irc.quakenet.org:6667

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