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( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 23:00 CDT, 1 July 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 01:00 CDT, 4 July 2009 to 02:30 CDT, 4 July 2009
Schedule: Passed

The long waiting battle between

ToT)ret( and

KT.MGW)Grape is finally going to take place!

This Saturday, the foreign Zerg master battles an up and coming Protoss player from Korea. The first map will be destination, the second map is Neo Medusa, and the third will be Colosseum 2.

How to watch?

Event Information

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ESL Spring League Grande Final (25 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 11:04 CDT, 1 July 2009 - iMsg

Tonight will see the end of the ESL Spring League with its Grande Final opposing

Felix "mTw.smoke" Pafel and

Aaron-Anton "dignitas/HELL" Jones. The cup started back in March and featured 320 duelers from all over Europe.

A streaming from ESL TV will be available in order to follow the match with comments from James "2gd" Harding and Joseph "Joe" Miller.

Grande final: smoke vs HELL (bet)
Time: 13:00 CDT
Stream: ESL TV / Alternate host (for German people)

Results

More informations: ESL QuakeLive 1v1 Spring League -

#esl.tv

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Arenas Episode 6: Last Stand (15 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by eoe.d1ablo @ 09:37 CDT, 1 July 2009 - iMsg

The Episode 6 of Arenas, "Last Stand", is now available exclusively on own3D.tv in three quality formats, including HD 720p. There are also subtitles available in English and Russian (check the flags below the video player).

Tritin Films has produced and animated Arenas: The Episodes - re-creation of the Quake 3 Arena and Doom 3 worlds, previously known as "Quake Rebellion". By following the character's action from gladiators to their pre-arena stories, we bring to life the full evolution of the Quake III Arena universe and all of it's icons. If you missed the previous episodes you can watch them in the official Arenas channel.

Episode 6 - "Last Stand" - Doom finds himself in the gladiator lobby with his first challenger, Visor. They share a story about the unconscious gladiator who revolves in the revival chamber. The story of Sarge.

Source: Tritin-Multimedia

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Proleague - 01-07-09 (11 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by vedic @ 20:24 CDT, 30 June 2009 - iMsg

The 2008-2009 Shinhan Bank Proleague regular season runs from October 2008 to July 2009.

The following matches will be played at 23:00 CDT, 30 June 2009:

SK Telecom T1 -vs- Hite SPARKYZ on OGN
Hyuk <Heartbreak Ridge> Horang2
fantasy <Shades Of Twilight> go.go
Bisu <Destination> Leta
Canata <Neo Medusa> Yellow[ArnC]
TBD <Outsider> TBD

CJ Entus -vs- Woongjin Stars on MBC
sKyHigh <Destination> MVP
EffOrt <God's Garden> GuemChi
sAviOr <Outsider> ZerO
Much <God's Garden> free
TBD <Outsider> TBD

Format

How to watch

Sources

Mogulus streams

Results

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New Wolfenstein Minimum Specs announced! (27 comments)

( Major News: RW)

Posted by godjiro @ 18:10 CDT, 30 June 2009 - iMsg

Earlier today Sokal posted the minimum PC configuration needed in order to run the next opus of the Wolfenstein series. Macs are still not supported yet.

Software requirements

Hardware requirements

Source: Wolfenstein.com

NaDa video interview - June 30th, 2009 (18 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 09:09 CDT, 30 June 2009 - iMsg

As mentioned last week in the Starcraft Weekly show, hosted by

Artosis, we would be going to the

WeMade FOX house where we would then do a video tour of the building, get an interview with

NaDa,

Pure, and

Moon from Warcraft 3. We did all of this, and here is the first part of the adventure!

NaDa opens up and tells us some things that aren't usually heard in normal interviews, one has to think that it might be due to his age and him being around for a long time, when compared to younger gamers who seem more shy and give similar answers to one another.

The video interview and extended information can be found at: SCForAll.com

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BiBS & QLTV bring you Season I Playoffs! (1 comment)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Grimskov @ 01:35 CDT, 30 June 2009 - iMsg

Right after the replacement of Inner Sanctum (team3) with Courtyard Conundrum (ctf10), the BiBS Team came forth with yet another announcement:

After the end of Week#7, BiBs will go on with the Playoff-Stage for Season I.

The news gets bigger, as QuakeLive TV has agreed to take up on the complete coverage of the Semi-Finals and Final matches. These matches will be set for an appropriate timeso that both the USA and the EU can have a fair chance of spectating.

The Playoffs will consist of the initial Brackets which will include the top 8 teams of the League, the Semi-Finals, and the grand Final match.

Read relevant announcement on www.bibsql.com .

Stermy Launches Lessons (428 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by fams @ 17:55 CDT, 29 June 2009 - iMsg

Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone has launched his latest venture over at stermy.com. He now proposes both a duel pack and team pack.

Duel pack: 1 player vs Stermy

Clan pack: 2-4 players vs Stermy

Stermy: "The time is yours, feel free to ask or discuss anything Quake Live related. Strategies, movement, positioning, how to get better, aiming, equipment, settings, etc..Anything really..Please have any questions ready prior the start of the lesson!"

You can book your first lesson on stermy.com.

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Gravitas Gaming recruits DKT and sparks (34 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 16:28 CDT, 29 June 2009 - iMsg

Gravitas Gaming adds

DKT and

sparks to their new Quake Live Roster.

Brian "DKT" Flander has been a part of eSports for as long as many can remember. DKT is not only famous for his championships as a UT player, he's been a part of multiple successful Counter-Strike teams such as zEx and TSG as well as having his own cloth mousepad - the well-known DKT Pad. In addition to being a top player in multiple games, he was the general manager of the Chicago Chimera franchise, who won the CGS (DirecTV's Championship Gaming Series) Season 1 championship.

Hailing from Canada, Justin "sparks" Sparks recently participated in the Quake Live Canada versus USA shootout match where the underdogs of Canada surprised the powerhouse USA team in a 2-1 victory. Sparks is one of Canada's top Quake talents and looks to dominate the North American Quake scene with the recent official release of Quake Live.

The Official Announcement includes an interview with

sparks

GGL Super Leagues (6 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by DonKing @ 16:12 CDT, 29 June 2009 - iMsg

Who enjoys the League format? Playing a scheduled match once every 3-4 days? It's a way for the serious and the casual gamer to play in an organized competition. If you play you may advance and if you do not play, you get tossed out on your a$$, it's a way to get rid of those annoying inactive players. I am a fan of the League Format and am happy to announce that we will once again be organizing a League Tournament. Our current league system is being rebuilt and does not currently work but we are still going to put on a "For Fun" League to keep you guys active in the communities. Our first League comeback attempt will be for Quakelive and we'll have a competition for the 4 major mods, 4v4 CTF, 4v4 CA, 4v4 TDM and 1v1 DM.

Just head on over on ggl.com for all the details.

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QuakeCon 09 Venue & Tourney Announcement (83 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by SyncError @ 12:32 CDT, 29 June 2009 - iMsg

Event: QCon'09

id Software and the QuakeCon organization today announced that QuakeCon 2009, the ultimate video game festival, party, and tournament, is changing venues to the Gaylord Texan, located just north of

Dallas. The four-day event will occur over the previously scheduled dates of August 13rd–16th 2009. The Gaylord Hotel was the site of the two largest previous QuakeCon events in 2004 and 2005. As always, the event is FREE and open to the public thanks to the support of id Software, the QuakeCon volunteer staff, and the 2009 event sponsors and exhibitors.

QuakeCon will once again feature the largest BYOC (Bring-Your-Own-Computer) LAN party in North America - with spots for 3,000 gamers to hook their systems up and play on our world-class network. Of course, it wouldn’t be QuakeCon without the drama and intensity of the big-money pro tournaments, which will exclusively feature Duel and Capture the Flag competitions using id Software’s new free-to-play, web-based multiplayer game QUAKE LIVE – quakelive.com.

Reservation Information

More exciting details and announcements about QuakeCon 2009 will follow. Visit quakecon.org to get the latest information.

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Proleague - 30-06-09 (4 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by vedic @ 12:29 CDT, 29 June 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 04:30 CDT, 30 June 2009 to 07:30 CDT, 30 June 2009
Schedule: Passed

The 2008-2009 Shinhan Bank Proleague regular season runs from October 2008 to July 2009.

The following matches will be played at 04:30 CDT, 30 June 2009:

Hwaseung Oz -vs- STX Soul on OGN
Jaedong <Heartbreak Ridge> Modesty
Lomo <Shades Of Twilight> Hwasin
BackHo <Destination> Kal
HiyA <Neo Medusa> Calm
TBD <Outsider> TBD

Samsung KHAN -vs- KT Magic Ns on MBC
yoOn <Destination> Flash
oDin <God's Garden> 815
Miracle <Outsider> Luxury
great <God's Garden> Violet
TBD <Outsider> TBD

Format

How to watch

Sources

Mogulus streams

Results

Regional eSports Player of the Year vote (46 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Zerter @ 11:30 CDT, 29 June 2009 - iMsg

Similiar to last year, Turtle Entertainment's eSports Award has started a voting process to determine which six players they will recognize as the Player of the Year of their respective regions. The regional winners will eventually be compared to eachother in order to determine who will be recognized as eSports Player of the Year.

The categories and voting sites are:

Northern Europe eSports Player of the Year (SK Gaming, fragbite, rakaka.se)

Includes
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Magnus 'fox' Olsson (Quake)
-

Sebastian 'Spart1e' Siira (Quake)

complete list

Western Europe eSports Player of the Year (SK Gaming, readmore, fragster.de, eSportsFrance)

complete list

Eastern Europe Player of the Year (SK Gaming, Gameinside, eSport.pl)

Includes
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Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski
-

Alexey 'Cypher' Yushanevsky

complete list

Korea eSports Player of the Year

complete list

China eSports Player of the Year (nicez, Replays.net)

Includes
-

Fan 'Razerj' Zhibo

complete list

America eSports Player of the Year (Teamplay.com.br, Team EG, SK Gaming)

Includes
-

Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson

complete list

Source: eSports Award

Korean micro maps - week 3 (18 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 01:46 CDT, 29 June 2009 - iMsg

A couple weeks ago, I started to release Micro Maps that were originally only available to mainly pro gamers. The first map was a single player Mutalisk Micro Map, which teaches you how to properly "stack" your muta's so that units can't target them one by one, as well as learning how to micro vs. scourge the right way, since not all units respond the same.

Stop Massive Attack is the latest addition to the list, it's a team based micro map, you need at least two people in the game for it to work. The game is simple to start, you just move your civilian to a beacon and then move the zergling up to trigger the computer. From there just micro your butt off and have fun.

You can find the Micro Map list at SCForAll.com

Week 1 - Mutalisk Micro
Week 2 - Marine vs. Lurker
Week 3 - Stop Massive Attack

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Site summary for week ending 26 Jun (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 28 June 2009 - iMsg

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