The1Crow is back with his latest Starcraft interview, this time it’s with ESC.Dreiven, one of Poland’s best players.

We haven’t seen much Starcraft coverage from Crow, since he left MYM, but this interview will surely make you happy, enjoy.

June 12th, 2009

Unfortunately, we had to do the low-tech show again this week, due to some time constraints, but we’ll back into the real studio next week.

This week we cover the ESL, GOL Invitational, Ansadi StarLeague recap, Valor tournament, SC2GG StarLeague, DreamHack, ICCUP, Liquipedia, Starcraft 2, OSL, MSL, Pro League, Samsung Khan vs. SK Telecom T1 match, Leta and his recent happenings, and the tip of the week.

You can view Episode 14 by clicking here.

Dreamhack Summer starts TODAY for Quakeworld and Quake 3 (CPM) duel tournament.

QuakeWorld GRAND FINAL 20.00 CEST
LocKTar vs nabbe (3-0)


Quake 3 CPM GRAND FINAL 21.00 CEST
Vo0 vs LuGia (3-0)

Schedule


Quake World
Quake 3 Groups:

Gtv: gtv.cpma.se:27960


The finals of both games will be shown at Dreamarena Extreme with commentary by Jay (2gd) and Joe. The finals will also be played at Samsungs new 120hz TFT monitors.

Official site: dreamhack.se/dhs09
lowje's gallery: http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1706424

*Updated Results from Quake 3 CPM*

The 5th week of id software's campaign "6 Maps in 6 Week" brings us yet another ctf map. Here is official release announcement that covers Courtyard Conundrums background and information about the next map:

For week 5 we bring you "Courtyard Conundrum," another classic CTF arena from the earliest days of Threewave and our friends "Casey" and "Zoid." Like Bloodlust, Courtyard Conundrum was originally created and released in 2000 as part of a 3-pack of CTF maps for the original QUAKE III Arena. This arena has been a long-time favorite, and is a welcomed addition to the QUAKE LIVE CTF arena rotation. Courtyard Conundrum provides a nice combination of larger open bases and tighter connecting areas, and is most often played with 8-12 players.

We've almost reached the end of this 6 map run, but stay tuned next week as we debut a totally new map for Clan Arena.

Source: Official News - Threewave

To celebrate last night's release of the famed duel map, Blood Run by "ztn", QuakeLive.TV will host a special King of the Hill event at 20:00 CDT, 10 June 2009. For anyone new to this event, it is a 1v1 mini-tourney open to the entire QuakeLive community. Anyone can join the server and their attempts to become King of the Hill will be broadcasted to the masses. The winner stays to defend their spot until defeated and a new King is crowned.

At 20:30 CDT, we'll switch gears and feature an exhibition between top duelers chance and whaz. Whoever is the current "King" in our KotH tourney will test their mettle against the exhibition winner.

From then on, we have an all-star lineup of duelers ready to try to take down the reigning King. There's one more catch: We'd like to really feature the impressiveness that is Blood Run, as it has earned its place as one of the best dueling maps in Quake history for a reason, and ask that matches be played on the new map until the current King has been undefeated two times, at which point, the challenger can request a different map. If the King is toppled, we head back to Blood Run.

Tune in for and participate in our King of the Hill Blood Run Special Feature tonight at 20:00 CDT at QuakeLive.TV!

As part of a new set of projects, Team fnaticMSI have launched play.fnatic.com.

PLAY is a new concept that FNATIC have been working on alongside BESTPOKER.com in order to provide further competition and fun cups for games alongside the regular leagues and tournaments. The aim is to run Sunday Cups throughout the month in varied games, game modes and rule sets each with prized provided by the guys at Bestpoker.com.

These cups will be played only on a Sunday and generally will always be Single elim, brackets to the finals. On June the 21st, we will be running a 5on5 QuakeLive Clanarena tournament with a potential $700 prize pot . So head on over to fnatic.com for more information.

Related:
The-First-Quakelive-tournament-on-PLAY
PLAY-IS-LIVE---PLAYFNATICcom

Marty is posting on the QUAKE Live forums:

Blood Run was built for Duel competition, but we're also enabling it for play in Free for All and Team Deathmatch.

Speaking of TDM, we used the QUAKE Live down-time last night, adding duel map Blood Run, to also make a change to the Team Deathmatch server configurations for higher skilled players.

We've had a number of requests to have weapon respawn times in Team Deathmatch set to 30 seconds. This creates gameplay that is difficult and frustrating for newer or lower skilled players, but we understand the value for players and teams that are higher skilled and particularly understand the nuances of TDM strategy and gameplay.
To accomodate both types of players, we've set our higher skill matches to use the requested 30 second weapon respawn times (these matches will be labeled 'pro TDM'), but left lower skill matches unchanged (these will continue to simply be labeled TDM).

This is good news ESR readers!

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 14 June 2009 to 08:00 CDT, 14 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 & Nick "Tasteless" Plott.
In the round-of-16 GOMtv will only show 2 matches in a best-of-3 format on each Sunday. The second 2 matches will be:

04:00 CDT, 14 June 2009
Flash (#3) KTF MagicNs -vs- HoeJJa (#60) KTF MagicNs (BET) 1 2 3
Shuttle (#70) STX SOUL -vs- Hwasin (#15) STX SOUL (BET) 1 2 3
Maporder: God's Garden - Heartbreak Ridge (for the Bunny of Fun) - Outsider

This movie features frags by clan Tier ThirteeN, one of most active polish Quake 3 teams since the beginning of 2008. It consists of an intro, 4 different parts and an outro :

Part. 1 - Team DeathMatch : most frags made in official clan games
Part. 2 - Duel : frags made in duel games
Part. 3 - Moments : some funny and interesting moments we experienced during the game
Part. 4 - Mix : both duel and TDM frags including pickups

The three main soundtracks used are songs of Lamb of God, Soilwork and Korn. We hope that you will find it interesting to watch our movie. Enjoy!

Video from all around E3 2009. You will see booth babes, the Nintendo, Activision Microsoft, and Sony booths along with many others. There are also special appearances by Mario, Sonic, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The video, which was shot in 1080p using a Sony EX1, is presented for your viewing pleasure in 720p.



Music
-White Rabbits: "Percussion Gun"
- Throw Me The Statue: "Ancestors"
- Shout Out Louds: "Tonight I Have to Leave It"

We are now announcing the 5th Spontan Duel Cup as promised! Crush your opponents into dust and become the Spontan Quake Live Champion or defend your title agaisnt new blood, whatever your target make sure you signup before it's too late!

Cup Start: Sunday, 14th of June 2009, Time: 15:00 CET, Check-in 30 Mins. before

Basic rules:

* 32 slots (maybe more)
* best of 3, double elimination, means with Looser Bracket
* Mappool: qzdm6, qztourney4, qztourney7, qzdm13 and bloodrun (ztn)
* Timelimit 10 Mins.
* Final Round: 3 Maps, 3rd Map gets decided due to Elimination (Winner's first)

More Infos and howto signup can you on www.spontangames.de

In 1997 Sten "ztn" Uusvali created the original version of Blood Run for QUAKE 1 as a homage to E1M5 Gloom Keep, and it became an instant hit. Following the release of QUAKE III Arena, ztn re-built Blood Run from scratch and released it in 2000 to an even greater reception. Over the past 9 years, Blood Run has become a staple of Duel competition, and a favorite of players around the world. Countless professional tournaments have been decided, and hundreds of thousands of dollars earned over the years within the halls of Blood Run.

Everyone on the QUAKE LIVE team would really like to thank Sten for allowing us the privilege of bringing Blood Run to QUAKE LIVE, and we know he was excited to once again bring many hours of fun to this community. Enjoy!

Official announcement: QuakeLive

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 12 June 2009 to 12:00 CDT, 12 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.

08:00 CDT, 12 June 2009
XiaOzI -vs- CaStro
ret -vs- Tidy
Target -vs- Fenix
HoRRoR -vs- aoOa

This week is the last week of the second season of the ESL Pro Series UK. The UK's best quakers are fighting for £2,500 in prize money.

EPS UK II Week 11 matches
ddk vs HELL (match)
GaRpY vs kRoNic (match)
IspAH vs rax (match)
dozo [2:0] dopey (match)

Though the field was already narrowed down to just 8 players due to drop outs, it is still quite competitive at the top. HELL and ddk sit on top of the leader board with perfect 6-0 records each. They are scheduled face each other tomorrow night, the result will determine who is #1 going into the finals.

The finals will take place on July 4th in London, more details will be announced soon. The winner of the finals will earn £1,000 on top of their win bonuses.

iFNG VoDs
The videos from the ddk vs GaRpY match which took place at our first Intel Friday Night game at the end of April are now online. Check them out here on YouTube.

iFNG #2
Next Thursday (June 18th) we are hosting another Intel Friday Night Game in London, but unfortunately without Quake 3. If you are still interested and would like to support eSports in the UK then you can find out more on the event page.

ESL Pro Series UK Homepage - Q3 Rankings - Q3 Results