ClanBase announced last Saturday their Summer Cups for 2009. The short Summer Season is always the occasion to try new cup formats. The sign-ups are already open and will be closed on Monday 29th of June. This season will only use playoff and no group stage. The first matches will start on the 12th of July.


Source: Official announcement

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 26 June 2009 to 13:00 CDT, 26 June 2009
Schedule: Passed

The StarCraft Tournament Valor featuring players from 15 countries with the total prize money of 1,000$ ( 700$, 200$, 100$) is held by Daniel "SuperDanielMan" Lee & Nick "Tasteless" Plott and hosted by GOMtv.net.
The LIVE broadcasts of Ro.16 and onward will be available on GOMtv for all the users who have purchased Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 Premium Tickets everyone. Sadly though you'll need a Premium Account to watch the VODs.

The Round of 8 Matches have already been delayed by a week but will (hopefully) be shown this week:

08:00 CDT, 26 June 2009
idra -vs- CaStro
BRAT_OK -vs- ret
Strelok -vs- Fenix
Mondragon -vs- aoOa

Cameron "fams" Carson’s latest feature to follow up the very popular E-Motions piece. A sequel of sorts; Motivation will focus on how to stay motivated in E-Sports, what effects it can have on your game-play and personal life, and more!

Contains interviews with the following:

Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone (FPS Player)
Sun Yi "F91" Feng (Best SC player in China)
Min-sik "reis" Ko (SK Wc3 Manager)
Patrik "cArn" Sattermon (fnatic CS captain)
Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham
Daeduck "Kei" Yoon (Pro Wc3 player)
Alex "Jax" Conroy (Former owner of JMC and current co-owner of coL)

Read the full article and interviews at Fnatic.com.

Piece of Cake has blown their competition away and have won the first ever Fnatic PLAY QuakeLive Clan Arena Cup, powered by BestPoker.com!

Piece of Cake (poc) started the cup easy, as they got two def-wins as their opponents didn't show up. In the Quarter Finals, poc met deathreign and the BO3 system kicked in. Piece of Cake won quite easily: 10-1 on ca1 and 10-6 on dm6.

A harder matched followed in the Semi Finals. They were up against Fishtix who were on a good run. The first map, dm20, was won with a close score of 10-9. The second map, dm14, went to Fishtix with 10-7. The third map, dm6, was again a thriller and went to poc with 10-9 again.

In the Grand Final poc were up for possibly their hardest challenge, the French all star team, Weird Monkeys. The French side had been showing strong results all through the tournament with l1nkin leading his teammates to victory after victory. The most impressive match must have been against the mix line-up with Dutch stars such as Forever and tua, where they won 2-1.

But Weird Monkeys proved to be no challenge for Piece of Cake. 10-2 was the score on the first map, ca2. An easy victory was expected, but the second map was a lot closer, but poc again proved to be strong and took dm20 with 10-8.


We had a great time and thought it was a real success. We look forward in hosting more cups for this great community. Feel free to leave any feedback to the admins in #fnatic.play.

A special thanks goes to BestPoker.com, and of course Quake-Live.tv and their commentators and staff: gibz, Scotsman, TGM and the rest of the crew! Also, keep your eye pealed on the fnatic PLAY page, as demo's will be uploaded soon! Demos, short interviews and more can be found on play.fnatic.com.

Fresh off an unlucky defeat, ToT)ret( is back once again to prove himself to his fans around the world, this time taking on an eSTRO Protoss player. But who could it be? That is for you to decide.

We decided we want to see him play a Protoss to change things up a bit. We don’t want you to obviously pick the best Protoss in the world, rather who you think would be best against ret in a show match.

From the first series, we know that ret is weak on Neo Medusa when he spawns at the 11 o`clock position vs. Zerg, and we know that he ZvP’s, so list down 3 maps you think he would do good on that are used in Pro League, and we can use your feedback when making our choice.


Please leave your feedback on the ToT)ret( vs. eSTRO Protoss match up and maps. To watch ret's match last week against Hwata[saM], check on scforall.com.

Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham returns to broadcasting while Scott "SirScoots" Smith returns behind the mixer for this weekend's Devastation fighting game tournament.

This weekend's Devastation event will be streamed live through uStream.tv for three consecutive days, 8-10 hours a day, featuring all-day coverage, expert commentary, exhibition matches, player interviews, special guests, and special features. The event will be dubbed a Live On Three production, and mark the return of Live On Three's Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham and Scott "SirScoots" Smith to a live gaming event. djWHEAT hasn't covered an event since the Championship Gaming Series fell through, and SirScoots hasn't either since last year's MLG PC circuit for GotFrag TV. Both have been itching to get back to live streaming competitive gaming and eSports, and Devastation is the perfect event to start with. They will be joined by Live On Three co-host Rod "Slasher" Breslau, author and journalist Bryan "DrDogg" Dawson, as well as former CGS player and WCG Ultimate Gamer contestant Adande "sWooZie" Thorne.

Every game at the event will get air time including Tekken 6, Guilty Gear Accent Core, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Guitar Hero: World Tour, SF3: 3rd Strike, Marvel vs Capcom 2, SSF2 Turbo HD Remix, King of Fighters XII, and of course the main event, Street Fighter 4. The video feeds for all the games will be hooked up directly to the cabinets for great quality. This will also be the first Tekken 6 tournament in the US, and the first major KOFXII event.

The Street Fighter 4 tournament will be the largest so far this year, with major competitors flying in from all around the country and on both coasts. GameStop National champion Justin "Marvelous" Wong and his SBO partner Martin “Marn” Phan will be flying in from the east coast along with Flash Metroid, and Ari "fLoE" Weintraub from the midwest. The west coast will be representated nicely with SBO qualifier winner Peter "Combofiend" Rosas looking to extend his win streak, along with Ryan "gootecks" Gutierrez, Mike Ross, Ricky Ortiz, Ed Ma, and, Ken I. Guest commentary provided by Gootecks, Mike Ross and others will come as the tournament progresses.

All the action will start at 12:00 PM EST (18:00 CET) each day and last until 10:00 PM EST (05:00 CET). For the live stream, tune into djwheat.tv or ustream.tv/channel/djwheat.

The last week of id software's campaign "6 Maps in 6 Week" brings us the map Quarantine, which was originally designed for Clan Arena but is also suitable for TDM, 1v1 and FFA. Read the official release announcement for more information:

For week 6 of our campaign we're very excited to deliver "Quarantine," another totally new arena created by resident designer Yan 'Method' Ostretsov - author of our week two CTF arena 'Siberia' as well as other popular CA maps 'Trinity' and 'Asylum'. Quarantine was originally designed specifically for Clan Arena and features 3 primary "zones," surrounding and connected in multiple ways to an area of higher ground in the center. This architecturally and artistically distinct arena is medium sized and most suitable for 2-10 players in Clan Arena, Team Deathmatch, Duel, and Free for All. For team deathmatch, the teleporters have been blocked and power-ups added to better promote the strategy and style of TDM play.

We hope you are enjoying all of the arenas that we've released over the past six weeks, and we look forward to bringing you more in the future.

Source: Official News

This week the classic match of the week of AGP covers the 2002 World Cyber Games USA match between Jason "Socrates_" Sylka and Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel with shoutcasting from djWHEAT followed by an entertaining interview with Socrates. Presented here by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Game A is played on "Proving Grounds".

The video shoutcasted by djWHEAT is available from agptour.com, or from YouTube.

Last week the classic match featured the WCG 2002 USA qualifier between Makaveli and Zero4.

We’re back once again in the real studio where we have better lighting and that awesome blue background that you’ve all grown to love.

This week we dig deep into DreamHack and the recent winner, ToT)ret( and his upcoming series vs. eSTRO, Canada’s latest Starcraft lan, SC2GG StarLeague, Zotac Cup and its special Korean guest player, WCG USA, random people throwing the word "talent" around, Starcraft 2 beta, Tip of the Week, Pro League, GomTV Season 3, the recent Starcraft 2 discussion by Artosis & Tasteless, as well as the latest Mutalisk Micro Map we released.

You can view Episode 15 on scforall.com.

Netherland’s finest takes on eSTRO

ToT)ret( just finished taking 1st place at the 2009 DreamHack Summer event in Sweden, with a 3-1 victory over DIMAGA from Ukraine in the final match.

Ret is now up for another challenge, this time taking on pro gamers in a series of foreigner vs. pro matches that will be ongoing at SCForAll.

First up to face Ret is a player from the eSTRO pro team, who will be announced at a later date. While it’s still a mystery who he’ll play, he will definitely have his hands full, as I’m sure both NonY and IdrA can tell you from their experience from being on the team themselves.

The format will be a best of 3, and the maps will be released when the player is announced, but the good thing is that Artosis will be doing live commentary on the matches. Don’t worry if you can’t watch the games live, they will all be available in VOD format shortly after.

If you have any suggestions on who you would like to see go up against Ret, feel free to share your opinion on scforall.com.

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 21 June 2009 to 07:00 CDT, 21 June 2009
Schedule: Passed

Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will run for 20 weeks from March 29, 2009. Unlike most of the other StarCraft leagues, there will be no preliminary matches, all matches are considered as a part of the knockout tournament. Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will be broadcasted live in English by Daniel "SuperDanielMan" Lee, "SuperRageMan" & Nick "Tasteless" Plott.
In the round-of-16 GOMtv will only show 2 matches in a best-of-3 format on each Sunday. Possibly with a guest-appearance by "SuperRageMan" (see picture) the third 2 matches will be:

04:00 CDT, 21 June 2009
MVP (not ranked) Woongjin Stars -vs- Berserker (aka Iris) (#25) CJ ENTUS (BET) 1 2 3
Tempest (#34) KTF MagicNs -vs- MenSol[ZerO] (#11) Woongjin Stars (BET) 1 2 3
Maporder: God's Garden - Heartbreak Ridge (for the Bunny of Fun) - Outsider

Artosis is finally back with the Starcraft 2 discussions. The last time we had one was three months ago in March, it featured Artosis and IdrA, this time Tasteless joining in,

They both go into detail about their recent thoughts about the games updates, patches, and how it might be once the beta and eventually full game is released. They also talk about top players from other RTS games and what disadvantages they might face right away when switching to a higher skilled game.

There’s much covered in this 29 minute video, you can view it on scforall.com.

Update - the tournament is over:

1st: noctis
2nd: bodzo
3rd: fooKi
4th: madix

Demos: GF - noctis/bodzo - LBF - bodzo/fooKi - WBF - noctis/fooKi

The 5th edition of the #spontan.ql 1v1 Cup was announced a few days ago and will start this Sunday afternoon at 08:00 CDT. 64 slots in a DE brackets (bo3) are available and a few more spots will cover the waiting list, the sign-ups are still running! The map list will consist of qzdm6, qztourney4, qztourney7, qzdm13 and the brand new ztntourney1.

There is a waiting list available for the most curious ones and you can already notice a few nicknames such as fooKi, SK|bodzo, noctis, madix, Kujiwa and Calipt.

More infos: spontangames.com (#spontan.ql)

After about 2 months after the start of the 2009 2v2 Quake 3 CPM tournament we've got the Grand Final coming up. We started off with 20 teams where most were from Europe, but we had a team who joined us from USA. During the tournament we've seen a lot of good game and tight maps.
The two teams who's going to compete in the finals are:

Bulgaria vs Sweden1

HAL9000, Nzr0, grF
fluff, funnyb, Reptile

Game will be played 22.00 CEST, so get your ass to gtv.cpma.se and spectate!


* Cup website
* Brackets
* #cpm.nations on IRC Quakenet
* GTV: gtv.cpma.se