Finding the best CSGO gambling sites in 2019 is not that easy. CSGO gambling has had a chequered past to say the least, with many sites being shut down and penalised because of illegal activity.
There is clearly a demand among some Counter-Strike lovers to bet on their favourite game but for the sector to be sustainable long-term, CSGO gambling sites must comply with the laws - primarily for the safety and security of esports fans but also for the sake of themselves.
In the latest dev stream they had some comments about plans for CA and CTF. We've been loud and clear about CTF, so I figured why not have a poll about how we feel about CA :)
Just to keep you up-to-date on Wolfenstein, Gamespot gets the first official interview about the multiplayer part, Q & A with the lead game designer Matt Wilson of Endrant Studios.
Summary:
- Axis vs. Resistance
- 3 gameplay modes: Objective, Stopwatch and Team Deathmatch (of course no FFA...)
- 3 classes: Soldier, Medic and Engineer
- Wolfenstein MP includes all the standard weapons from the singleplayer mode, some of the more exotic veil weapons will not be in the multiplayer
According to crossfire.nu on friday there will be another mp interview release on wolfenstein-zone.com with the focus on competitive gameplay.
SK|Lyn & WhO, two famous Warcraft 3 professionals from Korea were interviewed last week after the Warcraft 3 community at WCReplays.com gave their feedback on the questions they wanted answered.
The interview is conducted in a Korean restaurant, where everything is more relaxed and not so uptight like in most interviews.
The first minutes of the video feature both Artosis and Tasteless eating and practicing random games for the eStars event they commentated at.
SK|Lyn & WhO video interview and more info at SCForAll.com
fragster.de interviewed Alessandro "stermy" Avallone, who is best known for his success in Quake 4 and in FIFA at the CGS events, but was also just recently invited for the ESL TV Invitational Quake Live tournament. Konstantin "swine" Bös sat down with the Italian and spoke with him about the ESL TV tournament, his preparations for QuakeCon, Quake Live in general and of course the stermy lessons.
Are you confident about the QuakeCon rule set and map pool?
stermy: I personally wanted to see a fifty-fifty balance between new and old maps. I would have preferred to have for example, two great new maps and two old and legendary maps like dm6 and ztn. Or Even a five maps map pool would have been ok. But I'm not sure how the seven maps format will work out.
The Interview is available in english and in german.
The new Defrag movie by KOS, feel, is out now. Featuring w3sp only, all the runs (cpm and vq3) are world records. It is meant to be the sequel to w3sp strafes, but he merely changed the name.
You could call it the sequel to "w3sp strafes", but as you can see the name changed, so did the content and the main idea of showing it off.
Again all runs are world records with the difference, that you'll now get some weapon runs as well. Both; VQ3 and CPM physics.
Most of the runs are recorded online.
Two maps from w3sp strafes will appear again, but as you may have guessed, improved heavily.
w3sp wanted this one to be more dynamic and alive compared to the previous one, which makes also sense when watching faster weapon runs.
Also he asked for even more smoothness...
The focus of attention on getting the content underlined remained the same.
Last but not least, worth to be mentioned, is the outro run, which is the sickest demo I've personally ever seen.
(Clue: It's a RA-map again. Which one, you gotta see yourself.)
- No motion blur.
Don't get me wrong, I like it very much, but it's still more an effect on itself rather than a real enchancement.
I wanted the the look to be as close as possible to the real in-game one.
Quake is just not motion blurred when you play it.
- 50 fps.
Tried dozens of different fps settings, resampling settings, pulldown settings and ended up with clean double PAL anyway.
It just looks rich and smooth.
- No DOF / Grain:
Because both of them became the new Lens-Flair : P
- 8:5 HD:
Most of the people got a widescreen monitor and I wanted this one to be full-screen.
If you are going to watch this on a 16:9 TV, the crop or aspect ratio squish will be just subtle.
MUSIC:
Amon Tobin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Self Oscillate and an epic track by Soundhacker.
1. 1440x900, 50 FPS, x264
Software: x264 codec, any player able to decode x264 via ffdshow. Other decoders with multi-core support might work as well. (MPC&ffdshow recommended)
Hardware: At least a fast dual core with over 2,6 Ghz. Any tripple-core, quad-core or higher.
2. 1280x800, 50 FPS, Xvid
Software: Xvid codec, pretty much any player.
Hardware: Pretty much any hardware configuration.
Due to schedule issues, this match has been pushed back to the following weekend, sorry for the wait.
The foreigner vs. pro gamer show match series returns this Saturday after a short break, partly due to all pro gaming teams not still in Pro League going on vacation and also the eStars event. This also marks the first eSTRO Terran player being used in this series.
This week, ToT)ret( takes on the fastest player in the Gangnam region of Seoul, South Korea. Ret’s opponent is none other than Suny[gm], a macro style Terran player who has displayed his skill before in the Shinhan Bank Pro League, when he faced off against Shine, Pusan, and Free, where he won those matches.
You can use SCForAll.com as a source to watch the matches, or also head on over to the main Justin.tv channel and you’ll be able to login and chat with other people.
Korean Date (foreign date/time below) - Saturday, August 1st at 3pm KST
European Date - Saturday, August 1st at 8am CET
New York - Saturday, August 1st at 2am EST
California - Friday, July 31st at 11:00pm PST
Posted by SyncError @ 18:04 CDT, 28 July 2009 - iMsg
For the third tuesday in a row id Software updated Quake Live:
We're happy to bring you today's QUAKE LIVE update. As we continue to work through the remainder of this week our current focus is geared towards competition and shoutcasting features for QuakeCon 2009 - to be held this coming August 13-16. Included in today's update are some often requested clientside features and important fixes.
* Fixed lightning gun sound, no more loud enemies.
* Added team_say for spectators so they can chat only among spectators.
* Increased the speed of nailgun nails.
* The powerups now spawn at the same time after match start.
* cg_lagometer 2 will now display the client ping estimation along with the standard lag-o-meter graph.
* cg_chatBeep allows you to enable/disable the audible beep when you receive a message.
* cg_teamChatBeep allows you to enable/disable the audible beep when you receive a message from a teammate.
* cg_selfOnTeamOverlay toggles whether you see yourself in the team overlay.
* cg_fov lower limit is now 10.
* Changed demo autorecord naming to more easily sort and locate.
* cg_autoaction 0-3
0 - do nothing
1 - auto record demo
2 - auto record a screenshot at end of game
3 - auto record demo and screenshot
* cl_autoRecordDemo has been removed in favor of the new cg_autoaction system.
* cl_demoRecordMessage 0/1 allows you to toggle the "RECORDING..." message on the hud when recording a demo.
* cl_conTimestamps can now display values in game time.
0 - Do nothing
1 - Show values in game time (affected by cg_levelTimerDirection)
2 - Show values in servertime
* Fix for several keys becoming unbound (2,e,u,o,s,m)
* Spectators will no longer get the "Internal combustion" message upon respawn after following a player that was mined.
* Fix for a dropweapon bug that could cause other players in the game to auto switch to another weapon.
* Removed setu/sets commands.
* Fix for odd sv_maxclients values.
* Warmup delay is now disabled for bot games.
* Zoomed fov calculation now takes aspect ratio into account.
* Some FireFox users were experiencing crashes while loading into maps, these issues have been resolved.
Competition mode changes:
* Added support for limiting the amount of timeouts called, and configuring their default duration. Time outs remaining are indicated on the team scoreboards.
* Server owners can deop other clients with the 'deop' command.
* Pause and Timeout events print to the console.
QuakeCon 2009 Gets Supercharged with the Ventrilo Ultimate Power Up Sweepstakes!
Winner Takes Off in New Ford Shelby GT500 Coupe!!
Ventrilo, the premier group voice communications program used in tournaments and multiplayer games, is ready to blow the doors off of QuakeCon 2009 with the sponsorship of its annual "QuakeCon Ultimate Power Up" Sweepstakes. One extremely lucky attendee will rocket away from QuakeCon 2009 in a brand new supercharged 2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 Couple, valued at approximately $52,000. The 14th annual QuakeCon will be held at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas from August 13 - 16, 2009 and is open to the public and free to all attendees.
A total of 100 tickets for the Shelby Mustang GT500 drawing will be awarded to QuakeCon attendees for everything from performance in the QuakeCon Pro, Open and Quick Draw Tournaments, to participation in other QuakeCon contests, events and random drawings. The winner will be randomly selected at 9 p.m. (Central Standard Time) on Saturday, August 15, as part of the tournament finals event on the QuakeCon Main Stage.
MESQUITE, Texas - July 22, 2009 - Ventrilo, the premier group voice communications program used in tournaments and multiplayer games, is ready to blow the doors off of QuakeCon 2009 with the sponsorship of its annual "QuakeCon Ultimate Power Up" Sweepstakes. One extremely lucky attendee will rocket away from QuakeCon 2009 in a brand new supercharged 2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 Couple, valued at approximately $52,000. The 14th annual QuakeCon will be held at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas from August 13 - 16, 2009 and is open to the public and free to all attendees.
"One look under the hood of this 2010 Shelby and you'll start strategizing on how to get your hands on this powerhouse street machine," said Brian Knapp, president, Flagship Industries. "Ford and Shelby are both iconic American names that represent a long history of street legal horsepower, and it's a thrill to be giving one away to the lucky winner of the Ventrilo Ultimate Power Up competition. As always it's an honor to be working with our friends at id Software and giving back to the gaming community."
"This is the most powerful production Mustang ever made and thanks to Ventrilo, someone from QuakeCon will walk away with the keys to this beast of a machine," said Todd Hollenshead, president, id Software. "QuakeCon 2009 will be a can't miss event for LAN fiends, game fans or id Software devotees; and Ventrilo giving away this bad ass muscle car is an example of why everyone needs to make sure that they have August 13 to 16 on their calendar for the world's best video game party."
The 2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 Coupe to be given away will be Kona blue and comes with a six speed transmission mated to a supercharged 5.4 liter V-8 pumping out a brutal 540 horsepower and 510 lb-ft of pavement destroying torque. The car will be on display throughout QuakeCon in the main exhibition area.
A total of 100 tickets for the Shelby Mustang GT500 drawing will be awarded to QuakeCon attendees for everything from performance in the QuakeCon Pro, Open and Quick Draw Tournaments, to participation in other QuakeCon contests, events and random drawings. The winner will be randomly selected at 9 p.m. (Central Standard Time) on Saturday, August 15, as part of the tournament finals event on the QuakeCon Main Stage.
QuakeCon Power Up Rules:
QuakeCon 2009 registered attendees who are 18 years of age and older AND are legal residents of the United States, its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia are eligible to participate. No purchase necessary. A total of 100 raffle tickets will be distributed throughout the QuakeCon event. Additional information about contest rules, eligibility, restrictions and requirements will be available at www.quakecon.org.
About QuakeCon:
Often described as the "Woodstock of Gaming," QuakeCon is a four-day, non-stop celebration of games and the people who play them. Free to all and open to the public, QuakeCon 2009 will feature North America's largest Bring-Your-Own-Computer (BYOC) LAN party for nearly 3,000 people, drawings and contests for over $75,000 in cash and prizes, the $50,000 QUAKE LIVE Duel and Capture the Flag Championship tournaments, exhibits with the latest games and hardware, and non-stop entertainment, parties and events. First created in 1996 by a group of friends on IRC and now going into its fourteenth year, QuakeCon remains true to its original mission as an event created by gamers, for gamers. Sponsored by id Software and other industry-leading software and hardware manufacturers, QuakeCon continues to be run by a dedicated group of volunteers, including an executive team with more than 75 years of combined experience producing the event. 6,000 people attended QuakeCon 2008.
Additional information about contest rules, eligibility, restrictions and requirements will be available at www.quakecon.org.
Stermy has announced on his personal website that AMD will be sponsoring his trip to QuakeCon 2009.
Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone is seen as one of the biggest favourites for this years QuakeCon event in Dallas, USA. Avallone didn't have an organization to support his trip yet, but he did already announce his participation at QuakeCon.
AMD will support the Italian star player with their strongest PC and finance the whole trip.
Scheduled: 00:00 CDT, 1 August 2009 to 02:00 CDT, 2 August 2009 Schedule: Passed
The winner of these two matches will move on to the Shinhan Bank Pro League 08-09 finals where they will play against SK Telecom T1 in Busan, South Korea, on August 8th.
Game 1. Lomo vs sKyHigh on Destination
Game 2. Jaedong vs EffOrt on Neo Medusa
Game 3. HiyA vs Movie on Colosseum 2
Game 4. PerfectMan vs Iris on Shades of Twilight
Game 5. BackHo vs Snow on Heartbreak Ridge
Game 6. Killer vs Kwanro on Gods Garden
Game 7. Neo Harmony
Game 1. HiyA vs sKyHigh on Destination
Game 2. Young vs Movie on Colosseum 2
Game 3. Lomo vs Iris on Shades of Twilight
Game 4. Jaedong vs Orion on Gods Garden
Game 5. ggaemo vs EffOrt on Neo Medusa
Game 6. BackHo vs Kwanro on Heartbreak Ridge
Game 7. Neo Harmony
Super duper Ace matches will be played on Neo Medusa!
This evening the fourth show of the ESL-TV QL Invitational sponsored by Razer will feature the Playday #3 matches. LLL*fox, SK|bodzo, [R]draven and dignitas/HELL will try their best to win this new Playday for a slot in the Finals and 100€.
It's no wonder the show will once again start at 12:00 CDT and be hosted by 2GD and Joe.
- Competition 1: Guess the First frag of the show
Yes, test your psychic quake ability and see if you can guess the first frag and how it happens! the closest person to the truth will be the winner.
Example answers:
contestant 1: strenx kills fazz with a machine gun!
contestant 2: strenx kills fazz with a machine gun at Red armor
contestant 3: strenx kills fazz with a machine gun at Red armor around the 2 minutes 10 second mark
contestant 4: strenx kills fazz with a fish! A dangerous new weapon thats never before seen in quake! but will surely be hotfixed in before the match proceeds...
Now, Had strenx killed fazz with a machine gun over at Red armour around the 2 minutes 10 second mark contestants 1,2 and 3 would all be correct, but the one who went into the most detail, making his guess more unlikely but more precised. will be the winner. So contestant number 3 wins! So if you want to break away from the crowd, give us as much info as you can! But of course your more than welcome to play it safe. Contestant number 4. wins nothing
- Competition 2: Razer Trivia!
During the show there will be one Razer trivia Question. The first person who can answer this question correctly will be the winner! oooOOoo speed round!
- Competition 3: Predict all Matches correctly!
Yes, If you are winning the cbooky ladder or think you know your Progamers. Try and guess all the winners of each of the 3 matches correctly. If your lucky or smart enough to get all right, your be in with a chance to win one of Razers new gaming mice.
All entries must be entered in the comments section before the show starts at 12:00 CDT, 27 July 2009. The Playday #2 Winners were vincentmalloy (Small Goliathus), d3c4y (Medium Goliathus) and sNb (DeathAdder).
Maps will be chosen using the elimination system. The winner of a coin toss starts removing a map, loser removes, loser picks and winner picks. Last remaining map will be used as decider if needed. Match will start on loser's map pick.
The e-Stars Seoul Heritage League is a new invite-only tournament featuring some of the best oldschool players in Starcraft history. This tournament is a celebration of 10 years of e-sports, and boasts a $40,000 prize pool.
This match will take place at 06:30 CDT, 26 July 2009:
NaDa -vs- sAviOr
Game 1: Python
Game 2: Destination
Game 3: Neo Medusa
Games will be broadcast on OGN, so use the main stream or the mirror stream to watch. Mogulus streams will be posted in this thread closer to the cast.
The 2008-2009 Shinhan Bank Proleague playoffs have begun, with the top 6 teams from the 5 rounds of proleague advancing.
The following matches will be played at 23:00 CDT, 25 July 2009:
CJ Entus -vs- Samsung KHAN (Match 2) on OGN sKyHigh <Shades Of Twilight> Stork Kwanro <Neo Medusa> Miracle EffOrt <Heartbreak Ridge> great Much <Destination> JangBi Iris <Neo Harmony> firebathero Movie <Andromeda> Juni TBD <Outisder> TBD
Posted by Slasher @ 20:23 CDT, 25 July 2009 - iMsg
The EVO 2009 Championships are now over, and Daigo has claimed victory over Justin Wong in one of the greatest matches in fighting game history. Justin Wong switched to Balrog which wasn't part of his three character practice-regime at all, came from the loser's bracket, too out Daigo in the first set, and forced a final game in the second set. We had wondered among all the big names at EVO if we would see any surprises, and we actually had quite a few to come through the bracket, including the top 8. Eduardo Perez stormed through the bracket with his Balrog play, while Long "ShadyK" Tran and Sanford "Santhrax" Kelly made a bigger splash than most people expected. Southern California's EdMa stayed the most consistent, earning a third place finish after his third place at Devastation. The East Coast dominated the competition in the 5v5 event, going 15-1 and only losing one match the entire tournament.
In Spain, Mousesports has won the GameGune title over Wicked in the final, going undefeated throughout the event, while ledpc had a strong National showing for Spain and took third. The eStars event is still going on with Europe taking on Asia, Europe losing the the Continental Cup, but dominating the King of the Game tournament with SK Gaming, fnatic and mTw all in the brackets. In Dallas, Texas, the best teams in America are battling it out at the ESEA Season 3 finals, where Evil Geniuses and compLexity are currently ahead of the pack.
- Sanford Kelly - Took fourth at EVO for Street Fighter 4 and wasn't even going to go originally, and finally earned a championship in Marvel vs Capcom 2, defeating Justin in the final.
- EdMa, Placed third at EVO and took his SoCal team on his shoulders in the 5v5.
- Issei - The dominant Japanese Third Strike player who won the 2v2 3S tournament at EVO with Justin Wong, now lives in New York City, and will now train Street Fighter 4. Will give lots of insight into Japan.
- Mousesports, star player cash or manager django - Winners of the GameGune tournament, a representative from Mousesports will be on the show to talk about their recent win.
- A report from someone at the KODE5 US finals
- We will give our reactions of the EVO livestream, from both a production and talent/commentator point of view, and how we felt about the experience overall from being from home. Videos start to go up on IGN for the EVO 2009 VOD's, how good is the quality, footage used, production, and speed. Some YouTube accounts have been taken down or outright deleted for having EVO 2009 videos, even if they're just rips from the uStream VOD's, which are still available on uStream's site.
- MLG announces a huge deal with EA Sports and Sony, will include a $180,000 tournament series featuring several of EA's games, including the large existing Madden community. MLG has also officially announced it's Anaheim date, which was unconfirmed to this point. How do sports games fit into the competitive gaming equation?
- The eStars Seoul Heritage Starcraft League is currently going on, celebrating 10 years of eSports within the Korean Starcraft community, featuring $40,000 and some of the most legendary players, including BoxeR, NaDa, sAviOr, YellOw, and more.
- Reports from China say that Starcraft 2 has been banned from the ChinaJoy event, we give our reactions. Moon and NaDa play a Starcraft 2 showmatch.
- id Software releases a new Quake Live patch, includes more features for commentators and spec options, which we will use for QuakeCon. The ESL QL invite is still going on, and includes Stermy spanking av3k in the showmatch. Fatal1ty updates his facebook status looking for QL players to sponsor for QuakeCon.
- pureSports sent their American CoD4 team to the Oupost On Fire 3 LAN, the first American showing since Doctors/EG and Pandemic went to Europe. They have been knocked out in the second round of the lower bracket.
SK|Lyn & 
Artosis and 
fragster.de interviewed 
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone, who is best known for his success in Quake 4 and in FIFA at the CGS events, but was also just recently invited for the ESL TV Invitational Quake Live tournament. Konstantin "swine" Bös sat down with the Italian and spoke with him about the ESL TV tournament, his preparations for QuakeCon, Quake Live in general and of course the stermy lessons.
ToT)ret( takes on the fastest player in the Gangnam region of Seoul, South Korea. Ret’s opponent is none other than 
Suny[gm], a macro style Terran player who has displayed his skill before in the Shinhan Bank Pro League, when he faced off against Shine, Pusan, and Free, where he won those matches.
id Software updated Quake Live:
LLL*fox, 
SK|bodzo, 
dignitas/HELL will try their best to win this new Playday for a slot in the Finals and 100€.
#esl-tv.ql - Coverage: fnatic & fragster (DE)
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Daigo has claimed victory over Justin Wong in one of the greatest matches in fighting game history. Justin Wong switched to Balrog which wasn't part of his three character practice-regime at all, came from the loser's bracket, too out Daigo in the first set, and forced a final game in the second set. We had wondered among all the big names at EVO if we would see any surprises, and we actually had quite a few to come through the bracket, including the top 8. 
Eduardo Perez stormed through the bracket with his Balrog play, while 
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ARSENiC (DeathAdder)
vincentmalloy (Small Goliathus), 
ledpc had a strong National showing for Spain and took third. 
mTw all in the brackets. In Dallas, Texas, the best teams in America are battling it out at the ESEA Season 3 finals, where