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CPM 2v2 happy friends party results (37 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by eThaD @ 04:51 CDT, 25 October 2009 - iMsg

Russian

promode society is bringing one more tournament to you! Now, Dubai with its Global Challenge is not an excuse as it was with CTF tournament and everyone should be able to participate in that two-versus-two challenge. The organizer of this event, again, is

hoyden. We are waiting for every pair/triplet, doesnt matter if you are old-school cpm player or just want to try something new. Most of rules are similar to CTF tournament one's, except for the mappool and the peculiarity of 2v2 mode.

Winners:

1.

Russian Eights (fluff, funnyb, reptile)

2.

2 angry men (hal_9000, nzr0)

3.

Ultra Killers (pikoh, hoyden)

BRACKETS
DEMOS

Registration

Main rules

Most common servers

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Dubai champion Rapha guest on Lo3 #32 (31 comments)

( Major News: CS Gaming QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 17:42 CDT, 24 October 2009 - iMsg

(NOTE: There is a special time change for tomorrow's show, 3 hours earlier, and 4 hours earlier for Europe with DST in effect)

The ESL Extreme Masters Dubai event has concluded with

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson and

fnatic taking home the Quake Live and Counter-Strike 1.6 titles, respectively.

The American dueler has now won four straight major Quake events, dating all the way back to ESWC Athens. After a loss to

Magnus "Fox" Olsson in the group stage, Rapha redeemed himself by taking out

Michael "madix" Hindersson and

Richard "noctis" Gansterer in convincing fashion to meet up with

Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky in the final. The final was a rather defensive, low-scoring affair, rapha able to pull out the victory in 4 maps. The event saw the return of the legend

Anton "Cooller" Singov, surprising many by winning his group and barely losing to noctis in double overtime in the quarterfinals, as well as

Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty, who was never a Quake 3 player.

This week's special guests will be Quake Live Dubai champion Rapha, and MYM's in-game leader,

Jimmy "Jumpy" Berndtsson. We'll talk to Rapha regarding his streak of wins in Quake so far, if he'll be attending Dreamhack, and his impressions of the overall play from Dubai. Jumpy will be chatting with us regarding the team's remarkable performance in Dubai, how the new blood has adapted to a major LAN event, zet's impact on the lineup, and their preperations for Dreamhack.

Other topics:

Stream Embed

Tune into Live On Three this Sunday at 11:00 CDT on djWHEAT.tv. (Accounts for DST time change)

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( Major News: CoD)

Posted by Bob @ 04:04 CDT, 24 October 2009 - iMsg

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Starcraft Weekly - Episode 25 (4 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 05:57 CDT, 23 October 2009 - iMsg

Back for its 25th episode, the Starcraft Weekly brings you a ton of information this week on both the Korean and non-Korean scene.

Artosis officially released the IEF Suwon 2009 player list for Starcraft, which is not posted anywhere else, he talks about the WCG grand final groups that were recently released,

Nal_rA’s interview by

lilsusie, Justin.TV Starcraft Invitational,

Rets first day in Korea, Pro League, OSL, MSL, a battle report of

UpMagic vs.

Iris, Starcraft 2 Battle Report 4, and more.

Episode 25 [VOD]

4K eats nfinity (154 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:09 CDT, 22 October 2009 - iMsg

In a short press release made public yesterday, the English powerhouse 4Kings announced the addition of a Quakelive team. The players are all from the nfinity TDM lineup, which barely survived 2 weeks after the recent addition of Jibo. With 8 TDM players, the team could easily have 2 squads running in the TDM competitions.

4Kings Quakelive players

For now, nothing was announced on nfinity's website and all these players still appear in the Quakelive roster.

Update: As stated by Andreas "Fisk" Johansson on nfinity.se, his Quakelive team just followed him when he moved from nfinity to 4Kings.

Source: 4Kings

Ret to Korea - Day 1 (15 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 03:38 CDT, 22 October 2009 - iMsg

One of the two most famous non-Koreans of the year,

Ret, landed in South Korea just shy of one week ago.

Artosis and company were there to greet the newest addition to the pro gaming scene.

In the first 4 minutes of the video, you’ll see the Nerd Pack wait and at the airport and meet up with Ret, followed by a 13+ minute video of Artosis facing Ret, which was his first official game in Korea.

An interview will be conducted with Dutchman before he heads to IEF in a couple weeks, so look out for that.

Also, for those who have slow internet connections, we’ll be uploading Rets coverage in Korea to our YouTube channel a couple days after each video is officially released, so watch out for that.

Ret in Korea - Day 1 [VOD]

ZTN Destruction starring Fox (64 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 09:13 CDT, 21 October 2009 - iMsg

This week the AGP Classic's Match of the Week is a more recent Quake Live match, from the 2009 ESL-TV Invitational, featuring one of Sweden's best players, Magnus "fox" Olsson. He goes against Jeffrey "draven" Debipersad. It wasn't a close match, but fox really shows amazing aim and control. From spawn killing to item management.

fox vs draven

Also posted this week is another QuakeCon 2002 match on a map not seen too often called the Chastity Belt featuring Paul "CZM" Nelson and Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel.

CZM vs Fatal1ty

Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support of these great classic matches! For match requests of any game mode, visit agptour.com.

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LLL Quakelive October Cup *updated* (23 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:00 CDT, 21 October 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 27 October 2009 to 15:30 CDT, 27 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

The people from LowLandLions are organizing a Quakelive 1v1 Cup on the 27th of October. All the matches will be played as bo3 in single brackets. 32 slots are already planned and the winner(s) will be rewarded with some hardware prizes (PureTrak Talent & 2Gb GeIL Memory).

The maplist will consist of qztourney7 (Furious Heights), qztourney9 (House of Decay), qzdm6 (Campgrounds), qzdm13 (Lost world) and ztntourney1 (Bloodrun). So far, the only big name on the sign up list is the German player k1llsen. It's time to shine Internet heroes!

Update: Due to the amount of sign-ups, the cup has been extended to 64 slots.

Source: LLL.com -

#LLL.QL

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IEM Global Challenge Dubai: ALL 20 hours (39 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 06:02 CDT, 21 October 2009 - iMsg

Two days ago one of the greatest Quake Live tournaments ended and now you will be able to watch all those games again with commentary from 2GD, Joe and some guest hosts: The ESL TV video-on-demand brings you all the great games again. Check out all the games, like the final between

rapha and

Cypher or the thrilling five mapper between

noctis and the legendary

Cooller.

Source: - VOD Overview - ESL TV

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Dreamhack: Complete QL signups (261 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 15:08 CDT, 20 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

Today all of the players that's going to have the opportunity to play Quake Live at Dreamhack got accepted into the tournament site.

32 players, most of them picked by performance of LAN and online tournaments but also a few that comes directly from the Dreamhack Qualifiers for Quake Live in Portugal, Serbia and South Africa.

Signups:

These signups is not in any particular order.

If any players from this list should drop out the players from the waiting list will be added. We'll use the "First signed, first served" method, so those who signed up first will be the first ones to get into the tournament from the waiting list.

The full list, rules and prices can be found at Dreamhacks E-sport site.

Update

Yes, cooller is signed and accepted into the tournament! :D
Source: Blaze in the comments section

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DEFRAG WORLD CUP 2010 Map Contest (9 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by ZubnaRpasta @ 14:58 CDT, 20 October 2009 - iMsg

Dear DeFRaG community, we are happy to announce the map contest for DFWC2010. DFWC2010 will consist of 6 rounds + 1 qualification round.

Each mapper that wants to participate in the contest, should send his map with an approximate descripition of it. Maps selection will be accomplished by a commitee of three judges (GT-Agressor, apparaat, gnj).

Tips for your map

Send your maps untill the 1st of December, 2009 to dfwc2010@gmail.com. Maps should be ready till the 1st of January, 2010. Then, it'll take commitee at least 2 weeks to test, judge, and choose maps for DFWC2010 rounds. Mappers can also participate as a player. As previous DFWCs have shown there are no big advantages for a mapper.

We hope to receive some nice maps!

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EMS5 QL TDM Qualifier #3 is over (37 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:27 CDT, 20 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

The 3rd Quakelive TDM 4v4 Qualifier Cup for the ESL Major Series V takes place tonight and will start around 11:00 CDT. So far, 14 teams are already signed up, and the sign-up process will still be running until 11:00 CDT.

All matches are played as bo3 in single elimination brackets. The top4 teams will see themselves qualified for the EMS5 season after 2 rounds, but all the matches will be played for seeding purposes.

Update: The cup is now over. Here are the rankings:

1st. Solid Ziigmund (dash1, Gandhi, feeder, s7ry)
2nd. two-point-o (epiotic, ouzo, wit, kekkie)
3rd. eldvakt. (bl4jnd, nite, Ironbyte, zscope)
4th. 3-4-metilendioximetanfetamina (ChOu, Dabra, Centinela, DosK)

Qualified teams

Link: EMS5 Quakelive -

#esl.quakelive

Starcraft 2 Battle Report #4 (55 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by Paladia @ 17:46 CDT, 19 October 2009 - iMsg

Number four of the popular Starcraft 2 battle reports was "leaked" earlier today. The battle reports are videos of Starcraft 2 match which are commentated by the game developers and as such give a good insight of how the final game will play.

This time around we get to see some new features in action, such as Psi Storms, Siege Tanks, new cliff mechanics and especially the Nuke, which has been made much more accessable in Starcraft 2 and some argue is overpowered in its current incarnation.

Links
Youtube (low quality)
Download (high quality, ingame.de)

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Global Challenge Dubai QL 1v1 is over (812 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 16:01 CDT, 19 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 02:40 CDT, 19 October 2009 to 12:20 CDT, 19 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

The second Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge to feature a Quakelive competition, after the Pro/Am Challenge of Cologne, will take place in

Dubai during the Gitex Shopper & Consumer Electronics Expo. A plethora of fine duelers including

rapha,

noctis,

spart1e,

DaHanG,

Cooller and many more will battle for the $6,500!

Many games will be covered by

2GD,

Joe and their friends on ESL TV with single and free 700kbps streaming. All the group matches will be played as best-of-3, then the top2 players from each group will advance to the playoff, played as best-of-5.

The day 3, as well as the Quakelive tournament, is now over (Day #1 & Day #2 posts/comments are still available). Don't forget to check the VODs on ESL TV and grab some demos from the match links!

Thanks to all the ESL staff for that great tournament and excellent coverage!

Final rankings

Playoff results

Groups B & D's results - Day #1

Groups A & C's results - Day #2

Groups

Map choice procedures

Useful links

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Intel GameOn QL Cup by ESL *Update 3* (129 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by otacon @ 09:25 CDT, 19 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Intel Game On together with the Intel Extreme Masters by ESL will host a series of Quake Live cups for players from around Europe and the Middle East. The first cup to kick off will be the Nordic Cup #1 on the 18th of October.

Update: Intel have been reading your feedback and have added Iceland to the Nordic region!

Update 2: Ireland is now included with the UK, and Russia has been expanded to include the CIS countries.

Update 3: The first Nordic cup took place last night with

fooki beating

linkoo in the grand final. Sign up for the second cup is open now!

Nordic cups details

Game On countries/regions

The top 16 players from each country/region will qualify for their national/regional finals for the chance to win these prizes:

Prizes for each country/region
- 1st: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition i7-965
- 2nd: Intel® Core™ i7 processor i7-940
- 3rd: Intel® Core™ i5 processor i5-750
- 4th: ROCCAT™ Kone – Max Customization Gaming Mouse

The best player from each region also qualifies for the international final: The Intel® Extreme Masters GameOn Cup – Finals. We will release further information about the other countries/regions next week.

Source: ESL Nordic Cups announcement