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Site summary for week ending 16 Oct (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

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

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Update: PURRI WINS EDL INVITATIONAL (30 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 17:20 CDT, 18 October 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 18 October 2009 to 13:00 CDT, 18 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

Update: The tournament is over, final results are:

1st: PURRI - 100€
2nd: Provi - 50€
3rd: Damiah - 30€

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Q2scene just announced their 8 invites for European Duel league Invitational. Eight players will face each other in two groups of four players each and the top two of each group will reach the playoffs. The tournament will have full coverage with GTV and a shoutcaster -

jehar with video / audio streaming. The tournament will start on 18th of October at 13:00 CET.

Along with EDL #8, we will host on this site one-day invitational tournament for 8 players from all over Europe. Players will be divided in two groups, where players will play each other and two top players will advance to double elimination playoffs. Rules are almost the same as in EDL while playoff is played in double elimination BO3 matches and grand final will be BO5.

More infos

Links: Quick Quake2 Installer -

#edl - Q2scene, all about Quake 2!

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Global Challenge Dubai QL 1v1 - Day #2 (496 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 16:29 CDT, 17 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 18 October 2009 to 13:15 CDT, 18 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 2 matches covering Groups A and C are now over and saw the qualification of rapha, fox, Cooller and DaHanG. A new post will cover Day #3 as well as the brackets announcement from Lo3.

Monday's schedule - Day #3

Saturday's results - Day #1

Sunday's results - Day #2

Groups

Prize money distribution

Map choice procedures

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Global Challenge Dubai QL 1v1 - Day #1 (563 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 13:00 CDT, 16 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

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 1 matches are now over in group B & D and saw the qualifications of cypher, stermy, noctis and madix for the playoff. A new post will cover Day #2.

Saturday's results - Day #1

Sunday's schedule - Day #2

Monday's schedule - Day #3

Groups

Prize money distribution

Map choice procedures

Useful links

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Anton "Cooller" Singov at the GC Dubai (45 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 09:03 CDT, 16 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Even though

Anton "Cooller" Singov didn't make an appearance in the Quake Live scene yet he still received an invite for the Global Challenge Dubai.

fragster analyse what can be expected from the mousesports player after his heyday and how he will continue after the Dubai tournament.

"We've motivated him a bit" says mousesports-Manager René "Rene" Lannte when fragster spoke with him; successfully as it seems. Cause if you look at the playing time of his Quake Live Account, it seems that Cooller is definitely taking the tournament in Dubai serious.

Links: Full article - German version

Edit: Taken from the mousesports-Twitter:

Visa issues fixed - Cooller will travel to Dubai tomorrow. Thanks to @ESLMichal for doing an AWESOME job in Dubai! ^RL

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Starcraft Weekly - Episode 24 (4 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 04:17 CDT, 16 October 2009 - iMsg

Alright folks, it’s currently the day before

Ret arrives in Korea, time to get excited!

Artosis brings you the Starcraft Weekly show, Episode 24 and focuses on the Justin.TV Invitational, Ansadi StarLeague 2, Nostalgia tournament, Fnatic tournament, Rets trip to Korea, recent ICCUP news, IEF information,

Bisu and the OSL,

Fantasy and the MSL,

Leta and Pro League,

Nal_Ra and his job transfer,

Nal_Keke retires, and more.

Episode 24 [VOD]

IEM Dubai Quake Live Preview (24 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by crow- @ 21:38 CDT, 15 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

TEK-9.org previews the opening Extreme Masters Global Challenge event for QuakeLive in Dubai. The feature includes a group-by-group rundown of each player, from hot favourite

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson to local underdog

Anas "spammah" Ilyas and everybody in-between. A quick taster can be found below...

Anton "Cooller" Singov (mousesports)

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

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rapha: "[Cooller] could do it again" (58 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 17:29 CDT, 15 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Quakecon and Gamescom champion

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson has given an interview to SK-gaming prior to the Global Challenge Dubai, for which his first game is scheduled to be played on the 18th of October. rapha talks about the Dubai event, Q3 legend Cooller and his fellow Americans. Find out why he considers DaHanG "a force to be reckoned" or l1nkje someone who "can't be taken lightly". Here is a teaser:

SK-Gaming: Cooller has been at least half out of shape for the past couple of years and seemingly only capable of winning a great map here or there in comparison to his form of old. What is your take on the current iteration of Cooller? Is he ready to reclimb the mountain and become one of that very small but elite handful of players again do you think? Do you feel as though he is a player who could rediscover the drive which once made him close to unbeatable?
rapha: I think he just needs the right motivation again to start putting in the time and effort needed to be at the top , he just needs something to play for. Maybe it's more $, maybe it's something else. There's no doubt that he could do it again, it's just a matter of whether he be willing to do it :) because knowing him, he hates losing.

If that tickles your fancy, check SK-gaming to read the full interview.

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Quake LIFE Blogs Site Re-Release (34 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 11:18 CDT, 15 October 2009 - iMsg

This is the announcement of the re-RELEASE of Quake Life, with a new name and look: Quake LIFE Blogs - www.quakelifeblogs.com from gameriot.

The reason for the change is to make it more clear what this site is about, and that is blogging. You don't need to set up your own blog site on a server, you can use this one.

Everyone and anyone that is part of the Quake scene has a voice and opinion. They have the potential of being creative, sharing information of any sort and any type, and posting news if they would like. This site will feature this alone. For the entire Quake community.

Each person can have their own blog that others subscribe to and follow individually. Just sign up and in and create and name a new blog. Then start. Blogs can be made to express opinions, post the best videos on the web, follow events; basically anything can be done on here. You can form discussions, create sub communities, create a travel blog, it doesn't matter. Every blog will automatically go on the front page when submitted. Enjoy!

Source: QuakeLIFEblogs @ gameriot.com

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EG.DaHanG: "I would like to have a turn" (80 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by dunnisdone @ 09:35 CDT, 15 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Kristina "Korini" Chin of myEG.net just sat down with

Chance "Chance" Lacina and

Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty of

Evil Geniuses to talk before ESL Dubai. The interviews cover everything from the groups to their hopes for the Quake community, but you can check out a small sample below:

EG|Korini: How do you feel about the bracket stage's best of five format and the fact that players will not be able to drop maps because of it?
EG|Chance: I think it's awesome. The more maps we play the more likely it is for the better player to win. Who wouldn't want that? The only drawback could be that it takes longer to play matches, but personally this doesn't bother me and it's well worth the trade.

EG|Korini: What are your thoughts about the overall progression of QL as a competitive game? Does the current level of competition have any impact on the growth of the community?
EG|DaHanG: It's been cool to observe the styles evolve in Quake Live, especially on the new maps where it's so evident. There are certainly talented players willing to play, but I think some old school players coming back will help spur growth and interest. Cooller, for instance, has decided to come back and there are tons of comments on esreality.com supporting him. Hopefully more old players return and the scene is further revitalized!

Links: EG.Chance Interview - EG.DaHanG Interview

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Kuh3Liga Groups for Fall 2009 announced (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 23:24 CDT, 14 October 2009 - iMsg

Kuh3Liga now sets completely on Quake Live. Maybe they will have some smaller cups for Quake 3 in the future.

The signups for both leagues, Quake Live TDM 4v4 (pro-settings) & Quake Live CTF 4v4, are now closed. The leagues will started on 18.10.09. The games will be finished in about 7 weeks when all games are played. This are the groups for Fall 2009:

QuakeLive TDM Draft Groups

Quake Live CTF 4v4 Draft Groups

Listed known players like zik, jibo, krysa, z4muz, madix, nace, smoke, slaine will participate. For sure Holysh1t will broadcast some matches as they did in the past.

Edit: Kuh3Liga decided not to held the CTF league because only 10 clans signed up.

Links: TDM Clans, CTF Clans -

#kuh3net.ql
Related Links: What is the kuh3liga?, Kuh3liga Fall Season opens Signups

OWN-AGE.COM GOES BACK ONLINE (17 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by spookmineer @ 22:51 CDT, 14 October 2009 - iMsg

Sean and the admins have found a way to save own-age.com. Sean has found a host and will slim down the code for better stability. Funding has been taken care of: at the moment, at least another two years of up-time is guaranteed.

Looks like the website won't be closing for good after all. I will be spending the next couple days getting this site back in order. Please be patient as I get this site up and running on the new host.

Thanks for all for the support the past 2 weeks.

A lot of data still has to be transferred to the new host, so most links don't work yet, but pretty soon the site will be back in full running order. This site will remain a "portal" to centralize movie links, the forum will be intact, and all the movie tutorials will still be there.

Related Links: own-age.com goes offline

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BiBS North America starting! (8 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by bjqrn0 @ 13:41 CDT, 14 October 2009 - iMsg

After 2 months of painstakingly delays, Bring it Back Safely is finally opening its doors to North American clans wishing to compete in the league!

The target date for kicking it all off is October 21st, so hurry up registering your clan! Also remember to get at least 4 people on your roster and sign up to the actual season once you're registered! Map pool remains ctf2, 3, 7, 8, 10 - at least for now (with the possible addition of ctf9 depending on interest amongst the teams)

The new admin crew for the NA section consists of

Kitten,

Br1ck,

fear_ and

ceenyne. Any questions? Just give them a hint on

#BiBS (qnet) or #BiBS (GS).

For more details, you can read the original announcement on bibsql.com.

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QUAKE LIVE UPDATE - Oct 14th (231 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by SyncError @ 11:32 CDT, 14 October 2009 - iMsg

QUAKE LIVE has been updated to address a number of issues, including one that could cause projectile weapons to deal no splash damage (such as no-damage rockets). In addition a long list of fixes we have brought additional game features including colorizable grenades, low ammo warnings, and a bulk of fixes and additions made in an effort to improve everyone's Team Deathmatch experience.

Added

- Added cg_weaponColor <0xRRGGBBAA> (default: 0x007000FF). Used to colorize grenades according to cg_weaponColorStyle.
- Added cg_weaponColorStyle <1|2|3> (default: 1)
o 1 = In All Game Modes: All grenades colorized according to cg_weaponColor.
o 2 = In Team Games: Enemy grenades colorized according to cg_enemyUpperColor, all friendly grenades (including your own) colorized according to cg_teamUpperColor. In Non-Team Games: All grenades colorized according to cg_weaponColor.
o 3 = In Team Games: Enemy grenades colorized according to cg_enemyUpperColor, all friendly grenades (excluding your own) colorized according to cg_teamUpperColor, and your own grenades colorized according to cg_weaponColor.In Non-Team Games: All grenades colorized according to cg_weaponColor.

- Added per weapon Low Ammo Warnings that display when a weapon is below 20% max ammo (Less than 5 for weapons with 25 max, less than 30 for weapons with 150 max). Enabled using the pre-existing option: cg_drawAmmoWarning 1
- Added cg_lowAmmoWarningPercentile <0.01 - 1.00> (Default: 0.20) to customize when you are warned of being low on ammo.
- Added Low Ammo Warning sound to inform players of when their ammo becomes low, or when they are switching to a weapon with low ammo.
- Added cg_lowAmmoWarningSound <0|1> (Default: 1) Allows a client to toggle the low ammo warning sound on or off.
- Added cg_drawAmmoWarning <2> Allows a client to use a smaller text display for their 'Low Ammo Warning' and 'Out of Ammo' warning messages.
- Added Annoucer Voice-Overs to Team Deathmatch, such as "red team takes the lead".
- Added cg_playTeamVO <0|1> (Deafult: 1) Allows a client to disable some of the team related VO, to option out of the new Team Deathmatch VO behavior.
- Added cg_weaponBar <0|1|2|3|4> (Default: 1) Replaces cg_newWeaponBar.
o 0 - Disabled
o 1 - Left docked icons
o 2 - Right docked icons
o 3 - Center docked icons
o 4 - Large floating icons (Legacy Q3 Style)

- Added cl_allowConsoleChat <0|1> (Default: 0) Allows a client to use the console area as a chat box, text entries that do not begin with a '' will be transmitted as chat text.

Major Fixes

Additional Fixes

Changed

Source: Quake Live-Forum

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AGP Classics Fatal1ty OT Comeback (92 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 15:43 CDT, 13 October 2009 - iMsg

AGP Classics Match of the Week Returns! On suggestion of many, this week will feature one of South America's best players of the past, from Brazil, named Thomaz "Fist1" Fortes. He goes against

Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel. The match was during QuakeCon 2002 and is on Campgrounds. The game goes into overtime.

Fatal1ty vs Fist1

QuakeCon 2002 had many great matches as well as many Fatal1ty comebacks including the infamous Aim FULL game that we posted earlier this week as well in HD.

Fatal1ty vs Aim

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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