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ESL welcomes 16 Star Players to Dubai (339 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 11:26 CDT, 2 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The ESL just announced their 16 invites for the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge Dubai from 17th to 19th October 2009, those 16 players will face each other in four groups of four players each and the top two of each group will reach the playoffs, which will be a eight player single elimination ko-stage. They also announced a change of prize money, because due the large amount of interest and sign ups the amount of players was increased from 12 to 16.

Invited Players

New Prize money distribution

The ESL also unveiled the map list that will be used for the tournament, it will be: qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney7, qztourney9 and ztntourney1.

Source: Official ESL World announcement

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Dreamhack Qualifier @ rAge, South Africa (160 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Linchpin @ 11:07 CDT, 2 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

The

rAge Quake III, 64 player ,1 versus 1 Tournament was held in South Africa from the 3rd to the 4th of October 2009 during the

rAge 2009 Expo, hosted by Arena77

"Both the Europeans,

Spart1e and

L1nkje managed to beat their respective South African opponents in the Semi-Finals. Moving on to the Grand Finals.
Spart1e mentioning that it was "really close" and that he was "extremely impressed" by the capabilities of both

Ph4ntom and

Shase.
All the participants received their prizes, with Spart1e taking home a brand new Intel Core i7, MSI motherboard, Sapphire HD4650, 'Worlds top water cooling system' and a number of other goodies. Both Fnatic players and Ph4ntom, Shase have also been interviewed by LanGamesTV." - Pantheon Gaming

Entire collection of demos from rAge including practice games

Final Placement

Press releases from Arena 77

Gameplay : CPMA 1.46 (VQ3)
Map List: pro-q3dm6, pro-q3tourney4, pro-nodm9, ztn3tourney1 and hub3aeroq3
Noteable Atendees:

spart1e,

Linkje,

Ph4ntom,

Shase,

Detrony

Sources: Pantheon Gaming - Arena77 - doGaming

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EDL #8 (13 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 07:09 CDT, 2 October 2009 - iMsg

Q2scene is proud to announce another European Duel League season. The tournament will be played in best of five with double elimination. EDL will be lead by head admin

wision. The signups will be opened until 11th of October. For more information join

#edl on QuakeNet or visit EDL.

Welcome to the 8th season of European Duel League! Summer is definitely over and that is a sign of new EDL season coming up. This year's layout will be same as previous season, meaning that we will have elimination stage, which will determine 24 players who will go to the group stage, where they will meet 8 players who were invited directly to the group stage.

Maplist

Admins

Current Signed players

If you want to participate in this tournament then just sign up on q2scene.net!

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GGL Sued by Game Hosting (29 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by TosspoT @ 05:32 CDT, 2 October 2009 - iMsg

Crossfire has broken the story of the latest gaming company to be owed significant money from another eSports organization, however this time someone has taken action!

Swedish based Game Server provider Game-Hosting have today completed the formalities on the first stage of taking GGL through court to procure some $40,000 owed to the company in unpaid bills. Game Hosting are owed the money following their hosting agreement with GGL that saw the company hosting the ClanBase.com website between January 06 and April 2008.

Eirik Pedersen of Game Hosting states:

We have finished legal proceedings against GGL and we won. GGL lost in Swedish courts and GGL is judged to pay us what they owe. Since GGL is a US company the Swedish ruling must now be transferred to US courts and enforced there. GGL has owed us money for over 1 year now and counting.

You can read the full statement and article on crossfire.nu.

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ESL US IEM Qualifier #4 (24 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 16:32 CDT, 1 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight the last qualifier for the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship will start and with it the last chance for players to qualify for the American Championship. Again 64 players in a single elimination bracket will battle for the last two slots. Tonight starting at 20:00 CDT the first three rounds will be played, the remaining rounds will be played tomorrow, also starting at 20:00 CDT.

Update: The final is not scheduled yet, we will update the news as soon as a date is available.

Already Qualified Players

Final Rankings

Results

Streaming: The matches of Qualifier #4 will be streamed and broadcasted by Quake Live TV.

Source: Participants - Brackets - American Championship Info

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Vizari out of HELL (157 comments)

( Major News: Gaming QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:22 CDT, 1 October 2009 - iMsg

The Dignitas Quake player

"HELL", who had one of the most original nickname ever, is no more. The welsh man had enough of his old nick and will now be known as Aaron-Anton "Vizari" Jones.

Also he decided to give his website some more content with a new video tutorial each week, starting next week. A download section should appear very soon with cfg and HUD files, demos and more.

No more HELL for Vizari

Link: Vizari's website

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DW 2009 Qualifications in Serbia (119 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by zeroql @ 07:14 CDT, 1 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

Today we are proud to once again present the DreamHack On Tour 2009 Qualifications in Serbia. This time a total of 17 players will win the trip of a life time! Two Counter-Strike 1.6 teams, one DotA team, one Quakelive player will win a payed trip and the chance to compete in the big tournaments of the DreamHack Winter 2009 in Sweden.

4Game.rs will be organizing several qualifiers for Serbian and European teams for DreamHack Winter 2009. After successful summer qualifier we decided to make much bigger qualifications. Beside Serbian Counter-Strike qualifier, we have added Serbian Dota and Quake Live qualifications as well as European Counter-Strike qualifications. Take the chance to win a trip of a life time!

Qualifications

Source: 4game.rs

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Qualifications for EMS5 QL TDM (58 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 06:31 CDT, 30 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

Yesterday more details were released about the upcoming EMS5 Quakelive TDM 4v4 Qualifications. During the next 4 Sundays of October (starting this weekend!), 4 cups will grant 4 teams each a slot for the EMS5 to reach the total of 16 teams. All the qualifiers will be played using Single Elimination brackets and best-of-3 matches. The sign-ups for each of them are already open!

Schedule

Maplist

EMS5 Prize Money

Links: Announcement - EMS5 QL TDM -

#esl.quakelive

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Quake Live Sept. 29th Update (180 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Lejoon @ 03:19 CDT, 30 September 2009 - iMsg

The servers were down last night European time for the weekly update. Most notable are the locked cl_yawspeed and cl_pitchspeed for disabling "ninja scripts", the step code changes and the new speedometer command. The full changelog can be found below:

Bug fixes

Gameplay Changes

Console Variables Changes

New Console Variables

Source: Quake Live Developer Blog

The QUAKE Live Updated Update from September 30th

"We have applied a small update to correct an issue discovered with last night's update. This new update should further address the name change exploit.

In addition to this important fix is included a small client-side option, for those who really like to customize their personal game environment, that allows you to set the length of time weapon impact marks are drawn in the environment. Players who currently have marks enabled (cg_marks 1), can now shorten the length of time impact marks are drawn using cg_impactMarkTime. This value currently defaults to '10000', or 10 secs."

SyncError in the Quake Live Forum

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$6,500 Quake Live Tourney in Dubai (348 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 11:08 CDT, 29 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The Electronic Sports League is proud to announce that Quake Live will be part of the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge Dubai. The event will feature a 12 player (might be reduced to 8) Tournament with Quake Live players from all over the world fighting for a share of $6,500 prize money. The event will be held at the Gitex Shopper from 17th to 19th October. The tournament will be played on LAN Servers provided by id Software.

Prize Money Distribution

Also everyone interested in participation and flying to Dubai can apply on the ESL website until 08:00 CDT, 2 October 2009.

More details about the schedule and confirmed players will be released prior to the event in the next two weeks.

Links: IEM4 - Global Challenge Dubai announcement - Signed up players (not confirmed)

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Uimasti CTF Cup #2 (28 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by fragerr @ 15:00 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

Team Uimasti are organizing a single day CTF cup on October 4th. Games will be starting at 12:00 CEST and sign-ups are open until the same time. Sign-ups are limited to 16 slots.

All team captains must idle on #cccp.q2 on October 4th before 12:00 CEST. The tournament admin is

FRAGERR. For more information visit shpongik.nextmail.ru

Rules:

Congratulations go to the previous cup winners Prime who won in a hard fought final vs TooFast !, who, evidently were not too fast.

Congrats to clan ALAN winner of the 2nd Uimasti CTF Cup!

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Jump Tournament for money to win! (20 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 14:38 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

Thanks to the great success of the previous Quake2 jump tournaments, a new edition will be held shortly! The winners will be awarded with the prize money of 125€ in total and the deadline for sign-ups is 4th of October. The tournament will be lead again by

APKIS and

_SK3L3T0R_. For more info visit Q2jump or

#q2.jump.

Previous Q2 jump news - Sign-ups

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h1oGL qualification cup (28 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by dendrofil @ 14:36 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

With

Warsow 0.5 still being fresh news, the active and well known community member

h1o is proud to once again present h1o Gaming League, in a whole new form: Ten top Warsow duelists have already been handed a direct invite to the league, everyone else is free to participate and fight for the last two spots in the upcoming qualification cup the 4th of October.

Notable signups

Once the last two players have qualified, the league will commence and weekly matches will take place for every player on Sundays or Mondays (forced to these days). With the weekly news feed, WarsowTV broadcasting and shoutcasting at our disposal, we are proud to present this all star league. Intense and thrilling fights of the highest quality is something we can assure you of, every bloody match! We will be back with more details regarding the league once the qualification is over.

Already invited players

More details about the rules and the league on warsow.net. So sign up now before it's too late.

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Quake Forever: Prizes and Registration (46 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Dronar @ 13:51 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

Dreamhack has released updated information for all tournaments at Dreamhack Winter.
Registrations for the QuakeWorld tournament is also opened. Quake Live registration will open at a later time.

Quake Forever: Quake Live
- 1on1 (PC)
- Prize purse: A value of 60 000 SEK (~ € 5 881) (cash and products)
- Registration: TBA

Quake Forever: QuakeWorld
- 1on1 (PC)
- Prize purse: A value of 15 000 SEK (~ €1 470) (cash and products)
- Registration: Open

Other Games

#DreamHack.Quake
Original news post
Registration to QuakeWorld

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The AGP has Launched: 24 Tourneys in 09 (313 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:06 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

Today the Association of Gaming Professionals, the first ever international players association in E-Sports and in Quake Live, has launched.

The AGP will unite the players to expand and sustain the sport themselves through player legislation, international and regional rankings, and tournament sponsoring and sanctioning.

The AGP is the next step in establishing Quake Live and first person shooters as a true professional sport.” said Jarod Reisin, President of VIDA. “The potential of a united players association is bigger than anything we have seen before in professional gaming. It’s proving that progress is happening and that a self sustaining sport is right here in front of us, going nowhere but up.

The AGP will be sponsoring 24 online tournaments in 2009 in Duel, CTF, and CA.

Source: AGPtour.com

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