Artosis is back with Episode 21 of the Starcraft Weekly show, still airing from the wild jungle that he calls home, aka New Hampshire.

This week he talks about a lot of events that are going on in the foreign Starcraft scene, such as the WGT Titan League final, For Love of the Game tournament, Nostalgia tournament, Collegiate Star League, WCG Mexico finals, WCG Pan-America, North East lan, Strategic Q&A, Terran tutorials, Ansadi Star League 2, Ultimate Pro League, All Star match, Nal_Ra’s new job, Starcraft 2 updates, Razer and Blizzard partnership, future eSTRO workshop 2009 videos, and a lot more.

Episode 21 [VOD]

Head admin chatfragger decided to go for the 4th Stickrunners Q3CTF OSP season. "Even if only 4 clans sign up," he says, "we will fight till the very end! Quake 3 turns 10 years in December and we’ll still be around by then."

Signups are open. The league format is likely to be the same as the summer cup. That is 4v4 by default and 5v5 if both clans agree. Games are again planned for Sundays on the XS4ALL servers :)

You know the drill to join: send him a mail at chatfragger@fastmail.fm with the clan name, contact person and lineup.


We’re scheduled to start on Sunday October 4th.

Website: stickrunners.com. - GTV: gtv.stickrunners.com - IRC: #Stickrunners

After a brief summer hiatus Quakenight.com returns with three new NA leagues for this fall.

First, Quakenight will be running a new and experimental dueling competition. Rather than having individuals competing head to head, this league will pit teams of duelers against each other. Each team will select 3 duelers to play one map in a best of 3 map match. Will your team put in the seasoned veteran or send in the one map wonder kid against the opposing team's best player?

The second league will be North America's first 2v2 TDM competition. Currently this is one of the most active scrimmage game types in NA, and will feature the best of the upcoming and top players.

Finally, after the success of the Quakecon CTF tournament Quakenight will be running an instagib CTF league. While the league may not be everyone's cup of tea we think there will be some fun to be had.

GGL and NGL have agreed to provide private servers to the competitions while GameFire TV has agreed to provide shoutcasting for the Team Duel League. Quakelive Tv also did a fantastic job casting for our other leagues and we hope they will return for these seasons.


Links: www.quakenight.com - www.gamefire.com - www.quake-live.tv - www.ggl.com - www.nationalgamingleague.org

Quake Live is now officially part of the Intel Extreme Masters Continental Championship Season. That means that there will be regional Quake Live Championships in at least Europe and North America for Quake Live. The tournament system for both regions is already announced, but it's still open if the the Quake Live tournaments will be completely online or will end together with World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike 1.6 in offline finals.

In both regions eight players get directly invite to the Continental Championship and the top two of four qualification cups will also go to each Continental Championship. The Continental Championship will be played in a system of four by four groups. The first player of each group advances directly to the Continental Finals, while the second one faces the third one of another group for a slot on the finals.

The official website says that the North American Championship qualification will start on September, 20th, so we can expect more details pretty soon.

Sources: Official announcement - European Championship Overview - North American Championship Overview

In an announcement today, Team LowLandLions said they will be releasing Magnus "fox" Olsson, and that the organization will be picking up Dutch Quaker Jeffrey "draven" Debipersad. When asked about the decision, team manager Birger De Geyter said:

" I would like to wish Magnus the best of luck in his future. The time has come for LowLandLons and fox to move on. I am certain he will sign with a great team and LowLandLions will continue its focus on the Benelux market. Draven fits perfectly into that strategy and I am very happy that Jeffrey will represent LowLandLions in the Quake Live playing field moving forward."

While it's understandable that the team would want to go in a more local approach to their roster, Olsson is still one of the best duelers in the world and will be a tough asset to replace. He will be a huge pickup for any team that has the opportunity.

Source: LowLandLions

The polish clan Betsson Voodoo Gaming found his way back to the roots! BVG began in 2002 with a Quake 3 Team called "Night-Watchers". Since 2005 the team is known as Betsson Voodoo Gaming, a polish top multigaming clan! Now the former Quake Live team from Geh aB Clan got a part of Betsson Voodoo Gaming and weill represent them in the growing Quake Live scene.

Additionally, two ex players from Rush3D, Nitrino and frozen, are back in the business for us and tox1c got a part of the new Quake Team of the polish organization, too.

Update: The russian Quake 3 superstar, Makaveli got a part of us as well.


The team will be playing in the upcoming Quake Live tourneys, including the ClanBase TDM Cup or the next ESL Major Series with Quake Live TDM.

BVG also interviewed zkillah right after his team joined.

peolan just released a new version of his demo player for Quake Live. Its a Firefox extensions that adds a comfortable demo menu to the QL home page. New features include demo sorting, search and playlists.


Links: Download - Quake Live Forum Thread

The fifth season of the ESL Major Series has been announced today featuring €15,000 in prize money for thirteen games including Quakelive.

Quake 3 Duel was included last season and was won by Alexei "Cypher" Yanushevsky. Since Quakelive Duel is part of the Intel Extreme Masters 4, we have brought in TDM 4v4 for this EMS5!


Details about how to qualify will be announced next week! Stay tuned to the ESL Major Series homepage!

Announcement on ESL

udpate: [M]strenx is replacing YYT`calipt who overslept. Watch the VOD!

Tonight the guys over at ESL-TV are organizing their second Quakelive King of the Hill starting at 12:00 CDT. This one will be a special German KotH as k1llsen, eoe`d1ablo and YYT`calipt will try to defeat the current king: noctis.

2GD, once again, and PURRI will host this Quakelive event and they might even come with a special "old-skool" German battle through the course of the evening.


Stream: ESL-TV (Alternative host)

Yeah it's been a while and I still haven't quite perfected the audio settings for the podcasts, but WE'RE BACK. It's been a busy month; went to QuakeCon, new apartment, aph got a job, we've been busy. So we're just catching up a bit and you're meeting us all over again for the first time. Yes, the quality is eh, but it will be better next cast. Hope you like the shorter shows, and we'll be back again soon to discuss more of the topics we mention. By the way, thank you Norway for being such great listeners :)

Yes, muhu does say this is Episode 8 when it is actually Episode 9; I don't care.

Head on over to Ready Up Radio to download the podcast.

Its that time once again, time for all pro gaming teams to head away to their workshops.

Around this time every year, 11 of the 12 pro gaming teams head out across South Korea, or even to different countries, for their team workshop. A workshop is a 3 day event where a team comes closer together by building a stronger friendship with its teammates and coaches, as well as discussing the past and upcoming season, and obviously to just have a vacation from their normal life of being on the computer most of the day.

As we’ve seen already, Woongjin Stars, SK Telecom T1, and the Hite Sparkyz are among a few teams who have already left for their workshop, while teams like KT Rolster and eSTRO left today to Taebaek and will return on the 11th.

CJ Entus will depart to Incheon, where they will spend two days and three nights going over strategies and having fun all together. You can watch the 2008 workshop video that was filmed while on location in Pocheon, Korea (pictures here). They went white water rafting, had paint pall tournaments, stayed in a big house, and cooked some nice barbecue, among other things. Savior, IdrA, Xellos, Iris, DarkElf, and more.

--- CJ Entus 2008 workshop video ---
--- eSTRO 2008 workshop video ---

Artosis brings you the first, hopefully of many, video tutorials. Since he’s currently in USA, he doesn’t have his good mic with him, so please forgive the static.

This first tutorial is played out on Blue Storm, against a popular online commentator that goes by the name of Ahzz. The game itself is a Terran vs. Zerg, and the length is about 23 minutes.

TvZ Bionic Tutorial [VOD]

Quake.cz is going to hold a Duel Cup for Quake4, with Hawr1x being the organizing Head behind it. The cup is not restricted to european players so feel free to sign up, though you might need to play some matches on european servers.
It will take place on Sunday, 13th September at 17:00 CEST while the Checkins being at 16:30 CEST. To Checkin join #q4.cz at Quakenet.

To sign up, leave a comment using following format:
!ADD - Pavel "Hawr1x" Kymla, CZ, Czech Quake

Related Links: Quake.cz

Today the CPMChallenges CTF and Duel tournaments will officially kick off. Players and teams should start finding their First round matchups and start reporting matches as soon as possible. Rosters and seeds have been locked in, and results for matches need to be reported by September 17th to either nineX or eThaD in the #CPMChallenges channel on Quakenet.

The tournament would also like to thank Maverick Server for sponsoring the tournament with several 16-slot servers. Good luck to all players.

Update: Please see updated schedule in the "Rules" sections of the brackets for days you need to report scores by.

Links: CTF Brackets - Duel Brackets - Duel Maps