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Posted by oneroomdisco @ 13:46 CDT, 13 October 2009 - iMsg

Swedish Quake Star

Magnus "fox" Olsson will join the

mousesports Quake Live team. The 25-year-old Swede is one of the world's best Quake players and was one of the key players in the legendary iCE cLIMBERS team.

The mousesports management left the following statement on their website:

We are happy to add exactly the player we wanted to our roster. Crucial for making him an offer was, among his immense experience, the fact that he excels himself in deciding moments and as an opponent and as a spectator you always have to think about him as a favorite in every tournament. Furthermore his professional attitude towards professional gaming convinced us. These factors make fox one of the best cyberathletes in the world.

You can read the full article and interview with fox on mousesports.com.

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European Quake League sign ups open (6 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by zappater @ 12:20 CDT, 13 October 2009 - iMsg

The QuakeWorld 4on4 TDM league EQL has entered its 10th season and sign ups are now open. Sign ups will end the 20th of October with the season starting shortly after. The season will end at the beginning of December after which play offs will take place for a few weeks.

There have been a few changes to the rules, the biggest being the map pool, which is currently under discussion but will be announced soon. For those without a team there is a transfer section over at Quakeworld.nu.

EQL 10 | Sign Up | Transfer Section

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Groups for Dubai & Rules *update2* (288 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 11:59 CDT, 13 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 11:15 CDT, 13 October 2009 to 11:45 CDT, 13 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

The Intel Extreme Masters Challenge in Dubai will feature sixteen top players in Quake Live and the first part of the tournament will be a group stage with four groups with four players in each. Those four players will face each other in best of three matches and the top two of each group will advance to single elimination playoffs, which will be played best of five.

From each of the four seed pools one player will be drawn randomnly into on of the four groups. The drawing will be shown on ESL TV on 11:00 CDT, 13 October 2009.

Update 2: The groups are settled. Jibo and Cooller have been switched so the Group A will only get 1 player from Mousesports.

Groups

Seed Pools

Fixtures

Detailed Rules

Source: IEM Global Challenge Dubai - Seed Pools

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Live On Three #30 - The AGP (222 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by wheat @ 20:10 CDT, 11 October 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 15:00 CDT, 11 October 2009 to 17:00 CDT, 11 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

UPDATE - The show can be downloaded and listened to at www.djwheat.tv/2009/10/12/live-on-three-30-sk-walle-the-agp/

Live On Three #30 with

djWHEAT,

SirScoots, and

Slasher will feature

Jarod "StreetRunner" Resin as the featured guest to discuss The AGP and answer questions from the audience.

The AGP has seen both positive and negative feedback since the launch in late September. On this week's LO3, Jarod will join us to discuss his vision for the AGP and the impact the recent vote will have on players, tournaments, and the organization. During the interview the hosts be fielding questions from show chat and open up the phones for the audience to grill him about every aspect of the AGP, including the membership fee, choosing Quake Live as the flagship game, the differences between the AGP and the G7, conflict of interest in running tournaments while also being a players association, and the long term goals of the AGP. Also on the show will be SK Gaming's

Dennis "walle" Wallenberg to talk about the team's latest victory at IEM Chengdu with their new lineup.

We will also be discussing the Dubai event and the invites announced, along with our early picks, as well as the IEM North American groups.

Other topics:

Stream Embed

Tune into Live On Three this Sunday at 15:00 CDT on djWHEAT.tv.

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Starcraft Weekly - Episode 23 (1 comment)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 20:01 CDT, 11 October 2009 - iMsg

Starcraft Weekly returns with Episode 23 - Wrath of the bad props behind the camera

This week

Artosis focuses on a lot of WCG coverage from various countries, IEF in Korea that many foreigners will be attending, Kwanro and his recent move, the start of Pro League, MSL, OSL, and last but not least, the biggest announcement of the year which is

Ret is coming to Korea.

Episode 23 [VOD]

Site summary for week ending 09 Oct (1 comment)

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Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 11 October 2009 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

Top Referers

South American Fragmageddon CA League (15 comments)

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Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 16:45 CDT, 11 October 2009 - iMsg

Join us tonight at 8pm EDT for the South American Fragmageddon CA League Quarter Finals

Matches for tonight will be as follows:
rkm (rekiem)

vs. qet

| Starting at 8pm EDT
gHs

(ghost squad, CTF champions on the last q3 tournament) vs. p4F

| Starting at 21:45 EDT

GreasedScotsman and @djWHEAT to co-cast on QLTV!
www.quake-live.tv

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Cooller and Cypher play TDM for BVG (37 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 11:25 CDT, 11 October 2009 - iMsg

A few days ago

Anton "Cooller" Singov joined the QL TDM Team of Betsson Voodoo Gaming. Today it was announced that Serious Gaming player

Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky will also play TDM for BVG, at least for the time of the EMS. The first test for the new lineup will be the second EMS Qualifier later today.

BVG.QL Lineup

Source: voodoo-gaming.pl - BVG ESL-Team

noctis joins Vitriolic Gaming (39 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by felixoxo @ 07:10 CDT, 11 October 2009 - iMsg

After announcing a new Counter-Strike: Source squad just yesterday, Vitriolic Gaming now announce the expansion of their Quake Live team.

Until yesterday they have only had up and coming Irish player kRoNic representing them, but today they have brought in the Austrian player, Richard "noctis" Gansterer. Currently ranked #3 in the world according to the G7 rankings, he will be attending ESL Dubai under the new squad later this month.

vitriolic-gaming.com

EMS5 QL TDM Qualifier #2 is over (14 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 01:48 CDT, 11 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

The second Quakelive TDM 4v4 Qualifier Cup for the ESL Major Series V will be played tonight at 11:00 CDT. This time 14 teams are already signed up, and the sign-up process will still be running until the cup starts.

The cup will use a Single Elimination bracket with bo3 matches. The top4 teams will see themselves qualified for the EMS5 season after 2 rounds, but all the matches will be played.

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

1st. k1ck (GaRpY, abso, eden, zsx)
2nd. FearFactory (kertaL, Thrawn, Fanat1c, sch)
3rd. viRus (Smogii, dark, ark1, Br4z1l)
4th. Night Killers (soulreaver, rinnegan, sides, spartaz0r)

Qualified teams

Link: EMS5 Quakelive -

#esl.quakelive

Zotac Quakelive Cup #2 is over! (49 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 01:38 CDT, 11 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

The 2nd edition of the Zotac Quakelive will take place this Sunday starting at 07:00 CDT. The sign-ups are still open until 06:00 CDT.

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€.

Update:
The first & last cup won

strenx.
From 109 players who sign up, today 61 players checked in for the 2nd cup, including

burnedd,

rekkth (= Cooller),

Cypher,

k1llsen,

madix and all the other participants. Cup is now over, and the winner is K1llsen. Also, the sign-ups for the 3nd cup are now open!

Rankings

1. k1llsen - 100€
2. burnedd
3. tox1c / madix

demos

Stream: holysh1t
Links: Tourney tree, Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive

ProX and linKoo face-off in EC XX (53 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Mav_ @ 11:31 CDT, 10 October 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 11 October 2009 to 15:00 CDT, 11 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

This Sunday, we will broadcast a

Quake Live 1v1 EuroCup XX group stage game between

Konrad "ProX" Kubala and

Eythor "linKoo" Kristjansson (bet).

Both of these players are considered highly talented, but not widely known due to the lack of international LAN experience. ProX is a Quake III veteran with good results in the ESL EMS IV, while linKoo showed some brilliant skill in the last edition of the ESL Quake Live KoTH.

Tune in for the game at 14:00 CDT, your host will be

Mateusz "Mav_" Bownik. You can watch either the High Quality or the Low Quality stream.

Links: Cup page, HSTV,

#clanbase.ql

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2 World Championship Slots in Dubai (231 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 09:44 CDT, 9 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

For the Intel Extreme Masters Challenge in Dubai, a total of $31,500 will be rewarded to the best teams and players in Counter-Strike 1.6 and Quake Live. But even better, both winners receive an auto-berth into World Championship at CeBIT 2010 in Germany for a chance to be titled as the world champion!

The winner of the Quake Live tournament will receive and auto-berth for the Intel Extreme Masters World Finals taking place in March 2010. The winner will still be able to participate in the regional tournaments to earn prize money and become Continental Champion.

Counter-Strike 1.6 participants

Quake Live participants

Local Quake Live Tournaments

Short Facts about the Event

Source: ESL announcement - Intel Extreme Masters

IEM AC Groups drawings & EC Cashprizes (81 comments)

( Major News: CS QL)

Posted by xou @ 15:33 CDT, 8 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Yesterday the ESL announced the Groups Drawings for the IEM Quakelive American Championship regular season. The drawing will take place on ESL TV at 13:00 CDT along with the American and European CS Groups Drawings. The Quakelive duelers will be randomly picked from the following seeding pools into 4 groups of 4 players:

Update: The American QL groups will be as following:

Regular Season Groups

Seeding pools

Also another news was posted about the prizes for the European Championship competitions. These will be the same as the American for Quakelive with a total of $10,600.

Main Round - $2,600

Finals - $8,000

Sources: Groups Drawings - European Cashprizes - AC Groups

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Jibo playing TDM for nfinity (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 13:38 CDT, 8 October 2009 - iMsg

Since the beginning of this week,

Zhibo "Jibo" Fan will play TDM for nfinity eSports. Jibo just recently started to play Quake Live and decided to give TDM a shot again.

New Lineup

The first test of the new line-up was the OpenCup game against Team Excello, which they managed to win 2:0. nfinity is also already qualified for the upcoming ESL Major Series.

Source: nfinity.se

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