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( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Zalon @ 14:13 CDT, 7 September 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 7 September 2009 to 15:00 CDT, 20 September 2009
Schedule: Passed

Three months ago, DreamHack Summer marked the end of the spring season for the QuakeWorld scene. Since then the QuakeWorld scene has kept silent, with players taking their annual "summer break". Today, the first sign of activity was shown when the Ownage crew announced a new season of the 256 player duel tournament!

The tournament will kick off September 21st, with a single elimination bracket where the final 16 will be going into double elimination. The map pool will be dm2, dm4 and dm6 plus additional maps depending on the outcome of the signup vote.

Signups just opened, and already the list of signups show some familiar names.

Source: QuakeWorld.nu

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An Ambiguous Farewell by subz (66 comments)

( Major Movie: UT)

Posted by spyteman @ 11:14 CDT, 7 September 2009 - iMsg




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Former CPM hero and legendary movie maker

subz has put together a small piece of art for one of his favourite games back in the days: UT99. You might remember his skills from other well known movies such as Rocket Science (Q3) and The Oblivious (UT), and again he comes up with something quite refreshing, me thinks. But go check it out yourself.

Movie File () 0MB
- own3D (HD stream) (389 clicks)
- Youtube (HD stream) (443 clicks)

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Excello Quake Live Cup *UPDATE* (66 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Kruzz @ 08:00 CDT, 7 September 2009 - iMsg

Update: After only a few days of open registrations and several big name signed up, we here at Excello have decided to revamp the tournament a little to make sure that everyone gets a chance to take part and only the best are included in the final tournament. First of all we have decided to close the registrations at 17:00 CDT, 12 September 2009. Once they're closed we will directly invite 16 players from the list to the final competition.

The other players will play in a Single Elimination BO3 style tournament for the remaining 16 spots. We feel that this suits the community best; seeing how everyone gets a chance to play and only the top tier players progress into the final tournament. The Selection Tournament will be held on the 13th of September at 12:00 CDT.

Also, we have been thinking about changing the ZOWIE QL Cup to Double Elimination format; however, a decision has not yet been made and we appreciate any input you might have. - if so post something in the comments below the post.

Previous infos

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Starcraft Weekly returns - Episode 20! (10 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 02:57 CDT, 7 September 2009 - iMsg

Well hello everybody, welcome back to the Starcraft Weekly show with

Artosis. It’s been about a month since the last show, and many people were wondering if we were scrapping the whole idea or what, well the answer is NO, we’ve just been busy with different things and continue to think up new and fresh ideas for the upcoming months.

During this weeks show, Artosis talks about the past happens in the foreign and Korean Starcraft scene, which include IEF, OSL, MSL, GomTV, Pro League,

IdrA,

Ret, BlizzCon, multiple WCG events,

PJ’s interview, people retiring,

Jaedong,

Fantasy, and more.

Episode 20 available at SCForAll.com

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Team EG's Chance Releases Quake Bible (151 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by detonatR @ 19:09 CDT, 6 September 2009 - iMsg

Taking a break from dueling, Team EG's Chance Lacina took a stab at writing his very own guide to Quake Live, for both beginners and hardcore gamers alike. His guide, a four part Quake Bible, takes a more philosophical approach at dueling in hopes of guiding readers to make the right decisions both in-game and out.

This article is structured around insight. Insights are the foundation for your improvement; the building blocks of your game. They enable you to make the right choices at the right times. Without them, you can't build a structure strong enough to carry you into the next level. Remember that in every step forward there is an often hidden insight holding it in place that you must find in order to further establish it as your strength. Meaning, if you're playing great - there's a reason why. You have to find that reason to retain that level of play. If you're playing miserably, there's a reason why. You have find that reason and stamp it out.

The following sections primarily contain insights to help you improve your game on your own, this is the most important thing you can learn. You won't always have someone to tell you how to play. Irregardless I cover a few key subjects that should be your primary focus every time you play. Those two subjects are enemy status and timing. We'll get to them a little later. For now, we need to understand some principles to keep your head together.

Part 1: Intro and Discipline
Part 2: Presence and Enemy Awareness
Part 3: Resource Timing and Aim
Part 4: Motivation, Resolve, and Conclusion

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Site summary for week ending 04 Sep (1 comment)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 6 September 2009 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

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Top Referers

Bolted Warsow Bomb & Defuse-cup finished (36 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by blaze @ 12:00 CDT, 6 September 2009 - iMsg

Update: Grand finals was played between Jitler Hugend and Team Zissou in a very exciting 3 map game. Cocaine, alley and wbomb1 was the maps, where JH dominated the first map but then had a tough time in the upcoming two maps. Zissou managed to get two straight maps and therefore won the cup! Congratulations Team Zissou for the first Bomb and Defuse-title! Demos can be found on ESR.

The groupstage was played best of 1, but as we proceed to the playoffs the teams will instead play best of 3, single elimination.

Group A

Group B

2 teams from each group will proceed to the playoffs. Group A is finished and Group B have a few games left to do. So from group A we'll see Team Zissou and rndm take on, as it seems now, Jitler Hugend and Lost in Nirvana from group B.

To watch make sure you join warsow-tv at tv.warsow-esport.net:44400. My guess is that the playoffs will start in about ~30min (~19.30 CSET), but there's matches going on all the time. So don't hesitate to join and watch!

More info about the cup :: Download Warsow 0.5

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Trickography 2 (26 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by zeroql @ 10:50 CDT, 6 September 2009 - iMsg




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Rating: 8.7 (51 votes)

At first it supposed to be another youtubish clip on the net showing of my demos. But then other people got involved into the project so it became a sequel for the so called sinex'' trickography. This is why the quality is quite poor for todays standards, so don''t bug me about it.

Anyway I'm happy i involved these people in. So what you're about to witness is these ''glitchy'' edited tricks mixed with 3 different genre soundtracks. And most probably this is the last NGA productions project.

Movie File - 720x400 (nga-tg2.x264.mp4.rar) 135MB
- filefront.com (115 clicks)
- MaverickServers.com (19 clicks)
- own3d.tv (+stream) (221 clicks)
- quakeunity.com (+stream) (323 clicks)

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CSL+ Season 1 All-Star Match (16 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by KekS @ 03:26 CDT, 5 September 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 5 September 2009 to 21:00 CDT, 5 September 2009
Schedule: Passed

Announcement

To start off the second Season of the Collegiate Starleague TeamLiquid puts up the best players from Season 1 to bring you this showmatch.
For your entertaining pleasures

Cholera and

Day[9] will be casting this live starting 19:00 CDT, 5 September 2009.

For those who don't know Tasteless' brother alias Day[9]:

just watch this

j2.joLin -Rides of Valkyries-

Tifa

Meat[AoV]* -Athena II-

Freaky

gt.rOo -Shades of Twilight-

Nesh

ToT)yosh( -God's Garden-

StRyKeR

ACE-Match on Outsider
* replaced clazziquai

TL News - Stream -

#teamliquid

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Euro Quake2 League #12 Signups Open (10 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 00:52 CDT, 5 September 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 5 September 2009 to 16:59 CDT, 20 September 2009
Schedule: Passed

Q2scene is about to start another great season of the infamous Euroq2l. After many very successful seasons q2scene decided to continue the tradition! The league will again be lead by the head admin

wision. The league will have divisions for any kind of skill-level. If you want to sign your clan up click here if you want to create one you have to contact an admin first. The deadline for signups is 20th of September.

"Welcome to the 12th season of the most awesome Q2 4v4 TDM league! Hopefully you have all woken up from summer sleep.. If not, then now is the right time. The signups for this season are opened until 20th of September, so you've got enough time to sign your clan in. Layout of the league will be announced right after the signups are closed. Don't forget the usual stuff like fixing your clan info and squad list."

Quick Quake2 Installer

#euroq2l (on Qnet).
Q2scene, all about Quake2!

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BiBS Season 2 - European groups (49 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 05:00 CDT, 4 September 2009 - iMsg

Update: The final euro groups are now ready and the first matches will start next Monday.

As previously stated in the Sneakpeek to Season 2 news, the sign-ups for the second season of the Bring it Back Safely QuakeLive CTF 4v4 are still running. Today, up to 32 European clans already signed up while the closing date is due in a few days: Sunday 30th of August.

The group draft will then be publish on the 1st of September and the final groups will be released on thursday 3rd. After that, everything should be ready for the first matches which should start on Monday 7th. Concerning the American tournament, more details should be announced soon.

Signed clans

Maplist

Source: BiBS - IRC:

#BiBS -

#BiBS

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OSE CTF Finals & NGL CA Finals (36 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 00:12 CDT, 3 September 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 20:30 CDT, 3 September 2009 to 22:30 CDT, 3 September 2009
Schedule: Passed

With QuakeCon 2009 behind us, we can get back to our normal every day routines of viewing some of the best online QUAKE LIVE action. In an effort to make this happen why not kick off with the National Gaming League CA finals and the Online Sports Entertainment CTF finals. All of this happening on a jam packed Thursday, September 3rd.

FoJ vs f27 | NGL CA Finals | Thursday, September 3 at 9:30pm EDT
With a bit of a delay in the final stages of the NGL Clan Arena tournament due to QuakeCon, we are finally going to see the result to the NGL Clan Arena finals live. With two very talented teams fighting for the top spot, it is bound to be a match that will wow each and every viewer. Fires of Judaism is one of the top clans in Quake Live due to their domination of just about every single mod. But let’s not forget about Focus 27 and their stacked lineup. With ben running the show, backed by carnage, wn, and wreck, it's bound to be an amazing outing of skill and determination.

eMG vs EG | OSE CTF Finals | Thursday, September 3 at 10:30pm EDT
With Team EG coming off of an amazing winning performance at this year’s QuakeCon, they're looking to seek revenge against eMg who got the better of them in the NGL CTF finals. These two teams, being no strangers to CTF, will certainly come out guns blazing. eMg, looking to deny EG of another finals win, will certainly need to bring their A-game in order to do so. There is no doubt that this will be one of the most intense CTF matches that QL.TV will have the privilege of covering. So grab your popcorn and pop-a-squat because you're in for a treat!

As always don’t miss the action on www.quake-live.tv!

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Warsow 0.5 Bomb & Defuse Cup! (85 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by blaze @ 15:01 CDT, 2 September 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 09:00 CDT, 6 September 2009 to 16:00 CDT, 6 September 2009
Schedule: Passed

After about a week after the release of Warsow 0.5 the tourney admin

Uz, arranges the first team based cup! Uz is the admin for Bolted, a Warsow tourney site that's been hosting a lot of different competitions over the years. Their aim has been mainly duel cups, but after the huge success with implementing "Bomb and Defuse" mode in Warsow he decided to give it a go.

Bomb and Defuse is a round based mode where one team has to defend two different bomb sites from the attacking team. The attacking has to plant a bomb which will destroy one of these bomb sites. This cup will be played over one day only, so it's a good opportunity to give the game a try!

Cup info:

For those of you who don't know what Warsow is, feel free to visit the site: www.Warsow.net

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Looking Back Over My Shoulder by th0ca (59 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by silu @ 12:21 CDT, 2 September 2009 - iMsg




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I've got here for you a new DeFRaG movie. As usual it's a single DeFRaG movie starring Czech skilled vq3 player Ex1tuS. I made it exactly how I like it - fast DnB, lots of first person cameras and a interesting color filter. There are some demos with world records but I was going mainly for the audio video synchronization and I think that the result is OK. This time there is only one version available - 720p with 11125 kbps. I hope you will enjoy this movie and that you will spread it among your friends.

Thanks for watching!

Infos

Tracklist

Contact

Screenshots

Movie File - XviD 1280*720 (HSP-LBOMS-720p.zip) 512MB
- hellshare.com (74 clicks)
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- own-age.com (72 clicks)
- own3d.tv (+stream) (287 clicks)
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- uloz.to (24 clicks)

QUAKE LIVE Sept 1st Update (279 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by SyncError @ 17:01 CDT, 1 September 2009 - iMsg

At QuakeCon we announced a number of new and exclusive awards that we'd be offering to attendees related to their participation in the event. We're very happy to be awarding those with the update today.

For these, and other very special awards, we've created a new awards category called the "Trophy Case." Your trophy case will contain one time only awards that highlight participation or excellence in a designated QUAKE LIVE event, contest, or competition. The first awards in the Trophy Case will be related to QuakeCon 2009, but we will continue to designate other special events, competitions, and unique personal contributions to the QUAKE LIVE community for Trophy Case awards. Congratulations to everyone receiving a QuakeCon 2009 award.

Also for QuakeCon fans, we've added 2 event leaderboards - a QuakeCon 2009 BYOC leaderboard, and a QuakeCon 2009 Tournament leaderboard. To check out who did all the damage at QuakeCon, simply click the links or you can always click Leaders, then click the customize button and select "QuakeCon 2009 BYOC" or "QuakeCon 2009 Tournaments" from the "Timeframe" menu. Remember, you don't need a QUAKE LIVE account to check out the leaderboards, so if you're at the top and want to let someone know how much you R4WK - just send them the link.

Changelog

- FireFox 3.5+ on Mac OSX is now supported.
- Added 2 event leaderboards, QuakeCon 2009 BYOC leaderboard, and QuakeCon 2009 Tournament leaderboard.
- Added Trophy Case awards category.
- Added "QuakeCon 2009" Award presented under "Trophy Case" to any player who completed a game of QUAKE LIVE at QuakeCon 2009.
- Added "QuakeCon 2009 Pro" Award presented under "Trophy Case" to top 3 finishers in Duel and CTF money tournaments at QuakeCon 2009.
- Added "QuakeCon 2009 VIP" Award presented under "Trophy Case" to QuakeCon 2009 staff.
- Added "Alienware Quick Draw 09" Award presented under "Trophy Case" to winners of the Alienware Quick Draw contest at QuakeCon 2009.
- Changed Courtyard Conundrum - qzctf10 The plasmagun and lightninggun have swapped locations.
- Changed Hidden Fortress- qzdm20 Team Deathmatch now only has one powerup - quad, instead of both quad and haste. Free For All now has quad damage and regeneration instead of quad and haste.
- Added cg_deadBodyDarken <0|1> (default = 0) Toggling this cvar on will darken "bright" players as soon as they become corpses.

- Added cg_deadBodyColor <0xRRGGBBFF> (default = 0x101010FF) Altering this cvar allows you to customize the color applied to dead bright bodies when cg_deadBodyDarken is enabled.
- Changed shotgun pattern to use 20 pellets in a diffused 3 ring pattern, each dealing 5 damage for a total of 100 damage.
- Added cg_smokeRadius_NG <0-16> (default = 16) Lowering the value of this cvar will scale the radius of the smoke puffs drawn in the nailgun trails. A value of 0 will entirely disable the smoke trails.
- Added cg_bubbleTrail <0|1> (default = 1) Toggling this cvar off disables the underwater bubble trails drawn behind many bullets and projectiles while underwater.
- Removed cg_noProjectileTrails due to the addition of the cg_smokeRadius_NG and cg_bubbleTrails.
- Added cg_waterWarp <0|1> (default = 1) Toggling this cvar off disables the minor under-water warping effected that exists when submerged underwater. The effect has little impact on gameplay but can be induce disorientation in some players.
- Added cg_zoomScaling <0|1> (default = 1) Toggling this cvar off disables the zooming in / zooming out scaling effect that is used as a transition between your cg_fov and cg_zoomfov; causing the +zoom to act as a quick snap to and from the zoomed fov.
- Added cg_zoomToggle <0|1> (default = 0) Toggling this cvar on alters the behavior of +zoom such that a single key press will enable zooming and a repeated keystroke disables zooming, no longer requiring players to hold the key down while zooming.
- Added cg_zoomSensitivity <float> (default = 1) The value of this cvar is multiplied to our current zoom sensitivity, allowing the user to increase or decrease their sensitivity while zoomed. A value of 0 will revert the zoomSensitivity code to the Q3 legacy code that was previously available in QuakeLive.
- Added cg_drawFragMessages <0|1> (default = 1) Toggling this cvar off disables the "You Fragged So-and-So" centerprint message from drawing on your screen. The shorthand obituary will still print to the HUD to make note of any kills.
- Added cg_buzzerSound <0|1> (default = 1) Toggling this cvar off disables the end-game buzzer sound in all gametypes.
- Changed cg_allowTaunt <0|1> (default = 1) to now also disable gesture events clientside in addition to disabling Team Arena style VO taunts when this cvar is disabled.
- Added cg_lightningStyle <1|2|3|4> (default = 1) Altering this cvar will cycle through various lightning stream effects: Default Q3/QL, QuakeWorld inspired, Team Arena shaft, and thin shaft options.
- Renamed cg_oldRail <0|1> (default = 1) to cg_railStyle <1|2> (default = 1). The new naming structure fits in line with the cg_lightningStyle and the old convention made little sense, as the reference "old" is lost between iterations of the game.
- Renamed cg_oldRocket <0|1> (default = 1) to cg_rocketStyle <1|2> (default = 1). The new naming structure fits in line with the cg_lightningStyle and the old convention made little sense, as the reference "old" is lost between iterations of the game.
- Renamed cg_oldPlasma <0|1> (default = 1) to cg_plasmaStyle <1|2> (default = 1). The new naming structure fits in line with the cg_lightningStyle and the old convention made little sense, as the reference "old" is lost between iterations of the game.
- Fixed "Falling Damage Received when Landing Crouched from Jumppads"
- Optimized cg_drawGun 0 by disabling the weapon sway/position calculations when the weapon is not being drawn.
- Changed cl_mouseAccel, cl_mouseAccelStyle, cl_mouseAccelOffset and cl_maxPackets to now replicate (save to config in database).
- Added cg_newWeaponBar 2 and cg_newWeaponBar 3 options for right and center aligned weapon ammo bars.

Source: QUAKELIVE.com

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