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Posted by Regulator @ 07:12 CST, 26 February 2015 - iMsg




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A Duel Movie starring some of Twister's best moments.

ENJOY THE MOVIE - Sorry for being inactive.

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Aerowalk QuadDamage (Week 4 Final) (40 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Jehar @ 18:33 CST, 25 February 2015 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 7 March 2015 to 16:00 CST, 7 March 2015
Schedule: Passed

The (in)famous Quad Damage tournament is back! Uniting Quake players from every title, the Quad Damage will span four games across four weeks: QuakeWorld, Quake II, Quake Live, and Quake IV. To keep the focus on game differences rather than map knowledge, we'll be showcasing the tried and true Aerowalk in each game. Playing in any week will net you points - playing in multiple games will net you bonus points!

This is the final week, finally! Work and illness have delayed things for almost a month, but we want to finish this cup off with a bang. This has been largely experimental, but unquestionably fun. After this week, there will be some notes and tweaks, and we'll churn out another... likely sans Q4. I'm sure it will be missed.

Details

Stream: Tastyspleen.tv
Signups (Week 4: QuakeLive): Xfire
IRC:

#tastycast

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QuakeCon 2015 QL tournament (329 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by [eXodus] @ 05:39 CST, 25 February 2015 - iMsg

Event: QC15

After looking if QuakeCon 2015 had any tournament I saw they had nothing but "Stay tuned for more information".

However there are rules up for: QUAKECON® 2015 QUAKE LIVE® TRI-MASTER TOURNAMENT

The Quake Live Tri-Master Tournament will feature competitions for up to sixteen (16) four-player teams, where each team will be put to the test in a triathlon comprised of Capture the Flag (CTF) , Team Deathmatch (TDM), and Duel to determine which team can stake their claim to being the one true TriMaster Champion. Teams who come out on top will share prizes of $32,000. Following the Triathlon Tournament, the top two individual duelers selected by their team will then face off to claim an additional $8,000 and the title of Grand Master Champion.

Update: The Quake Live Tri-Master Tournament has now been announced on QuakeCon.org.

Link: The rules

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Fragging for Fun... Or Real Sport? (84 comments)

( Major Article: Gaming)

Posted by storm @ 08:11 CST, 24 February 2015 - iMsg

This is an argument for the validity of electronic sports as an actual recognised sport. I wrote this in 2006 but didn't publish it until now. Most of the information might be a bit dated, but I think it might be useful for some people. This is aimed towards an audience that is not familiar with eSports and therefore has explanations in some depth and comparisons to other established sports.

Contents:
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Chapter 1: eSports history
Page 3: Chapter 2: Gaming team evolution
Page 4: Chapter 3: What makes an eSport athlete?
Page 5: Chapter 4: Money in eSports
Page 6: Chapter 5: Media Coverage in eSports
Page 7: Chapter 6: What the future holds for eSports
Page 8: Chapter 7: So what needs to be done?
Page 9: Chapter 8: eSports organisations
Page 10: Bibliography

Pic

By Steven Timms aka 'storm'

Article Page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 || next page >>

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Site summary for week ending 20 Feb (7 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 22 February 2015 - iMsg

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Partners in Crime - NA 2v2 TDM League (28 comments)

( Major News: Reflex)

Posted by peterg @ 11:40 CST, 18 February 2015 - iMsg

Sign ups are now open for the new Reflex NA TDM 2v2 league - Partners in Crime. Sign ups will be open from now until February 27th. Play starts March 2nd.

There wil be groups stages followed by single elimination playoffs. Matches are BO3 with maps of AFRODM1, DP4, THCDM6, THCDM13, and XFDM2. Maps are chosen via pick-pick-drop-drop. The full league is expected to last around a month. Full rules are available.

Head over the the Reflex forums for more information and to sign up now!

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Site summary for week ending 13 Feb (5 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 15 February 2015 - iMsg

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HoQ TDM Winter Season Catchup Round (18 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by doz3r @ 15:17 CST, 15 February 2015 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 22 February 2015 to 16:00 CST, 22 February 2015
Schedule: Passed

The schedule for the catchup round looks like this:

Thursday 19/02/15 15:00 CDT
Div2

Rekt vs

dioxide 2-0 (defwin)

Sunday 22/02/15 13:00 CDT
Div2

b1ngo vs

Virtual Owners 2-0
Sunday 22/02/15 15:00 CDT
Div1

EliteFour vs

Deliberate Murder 1-2
Sunday 22/02/15 16:00 CDT
Div2

Virtual Owners vs

D1CKS 0-2

Thursday 26/02/15 15:00 CDT
Div2

D1CKS vs

dioxide 2-0 (defwin)

Lineups Div1

Lineups Div2

Streams:

102

QUAD

FlairTV
Links: Schedule, Results

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Instadoom (23 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Demiurge @ 08:47 CST, 15 February 2015 - iMsg

It's possible you have been missing a lot of major news lately, by concentrating on the serious competitions. Take a break from playing hard and going pro by indulging in instant gamisocializing

There have been various attempts over the years to "improve" the Doom palette. While these attempts had various goals, and succeeded to various degrees, one question remains: did the authors get paid billions of dollars for recoloring pictures? No? Then their attempts were objectively inferior to one group of people who did!

Read more and screenshots (Cache)

The hope is strong that certain developers leverage visual enhancement technologies discovered by mobile developers, the so called 'filters', as one of the numerous means of rejuvenating modern gamer interests.

Source: doomworld.com

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[EU] reflex tournament #1 (63 comments)

( Major News: Reflex)

Posted by tehace @ 09:09 CST, 9 February 2015 - iMsg

Scheduled: 09:00 CST, 21 February 2015 to 14:00 CST, 21 February 2015
Schedule: Passed

tehace,

MnstH and

newborn are running a Reflex Duel tournament on the 21st of February. For more infos, check out the post on the Reflex Forum, also the Cup page is a good place to sign-up and read about stuff.

Maps list: bdm3, dp4, thcdm13, dp5, thct1

Stream: Zlive
Links: Cup page,

#reflex.eutourney

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QLReddit 2v2 Tourney #2 (27 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 16:05 CST, 8 February 2015 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 22 February 2015 to 15:00 CST, 22 February 2015
Schedule: Passed

Quakelive Reddit channel organizes a 2v2 TDM tournament on Sunday 11:00 CST, 22 February 2015. Check-in is now open.

Sign-up

Information

Donate

Update: Postponed until 12:00 CDT or until server spawning get fixed.

Streams:

102.ash, Fazz, Funnyb
Links:

#qlreddit, QuakeLive Subreddit, Sign-up

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Site summary for week ending 06 Feb (4 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 8 February 2015 - iMsg

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The Silent Gamers Return - CTF Tourney (35 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by flair @ 09:03 CST, 8 February 2015 - iMsg

Scheduled: 19:00 CST, 15 February 2015 to 21:00 CST, 15 February 2015
Schedule: Passed

QuakeLive players will be happy to hear that

Ackshun is bringing back the Silent Gamers Organization. There are plans to host CTF and Duel events for North America, and rumors of TDM for Europe! The first event of 2015 will be a three day double elimination CTF Tournament. Check in for registered teams will be one hour before the tournament in the quakenet.org irc channel #silentgamers. If you do not have an irc client you can use your browser to open the web client. Please make sure you check in so we can start the first round of matches at 19:00 CST, 13 February 2015 and if you have any questions send them to shun@silentgamers.org.

The Teams

Map List

Format

Prize Pool

Result & VOD

Stream:

FlairTV
Links: Website, #silentgamers

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HoQ TDM Winter Season Round 4+5 (16 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by doz3r @ 00:30 CST, 7 February 2015 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 15 February 2015 to 14:00 CST, 15 February 2015
Schedule: Passed

The schedule for the upcoming games looks like this:

Sunday 08/02/15 16:00 CDT
Div2

brainWashed vs

Virtual owners

result

Wednesday 11/02/15 15:00 CDT
Div1

Pacmen vs

EliteFour

result

Sunday 15/02/15 13:00 CDT
Div2

b1ngo vs

brainWashed

result

Sunday 15/02/15 14:00 CDT
Div2

Rekt vs

virtual Owners

result

Update:

aCtion Ligan drop out (15/02)

Lineups Div1

Lineups Div2

Streams:

102

QUAD

FlairTV
Links: Schedule, Results

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N.A. Quake Live Duel Cup #6 Feb. 2015 (62 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by flair @ 19:59 CST, 2 February 2015 - iMsg

Scheduled: 19:00 CST, 21 February 2015 to 22:00 CST, 21 February 2015
Schedule: Passed

Details for the sixth North American DuelCup have been confirmed. There are a few changes suggested by players that we will be adopting since this cup is for the community after all! Current and future events will be played Saturdays at 20:00 CDT. This change is for players in the Pacific time zone who have expressed concern about the cups being too early. Additionally the Grand Finals has been reverted to its original format to reward the upper bracket finalist. Thank you for the suggestions and Thank you for Quaking!

Watch the Results in 60fps on Youtube

Format

The format for February remains largely the same except for a few tweaks including a change to the grand finals, max 64 players cap (cause why not?) and the sign ups closing 15 minutes before the start. Map selection will remain pick/pick with Best of Three upper and best of one lower. We have been doing pick/pick since December and the games have been much better! I know some of you don't like it. Tough. The full rules & guidelines can be read at DuelCup.com but here is a quick summary containing some of the most common topics that I am asked.

1.) Occasionally someone will ask "I don't have 3 days and 300 duels played! Can I still play?" and the answer is: "get in touch with admins". This rule exists to deter aliasing so the tournaments can be seeded properly.

2.) In a "Pick-Pick" tournament the players each pick a map from the pool, and then drop maps until one remains. The map that remains will server as a tie breaker. Best of One sets still decide maps by dropping until there is a single map left to play.

3.) Type "cv cointoss" following by "heads" or "tails" into the console to see who picks/drops first. The winner of the coin toss may pass the first map drop/pick to their opponent or take it for themselves.

4.) Upper Bracket games are Best of Three sets: PICK PICK, drop drop, drop drop, tie-breaker

5.) Lower Bracket games are Best of One sets: drop drop, drop drop, drop drop, play last

6.) Grand Finals is a Best of Five/Seven (please read for further clarification)
The upper bracket finalist is assumed to have proven themselves by not dropping a set throughout the tournament, and therefore if they take 3 map wins before their opponent they win the grand finals. However if the player from the lower bracket takes 3 map wins first then the best of five becomes a best of seven. Map selection remains the same starting with a coin-toss. Player who wins the coin-toss may pick the first map or pass the choice to their opponent. Subsequent picks are then chosen the loser of the most recent map.

6.) Server settings can be copied from below (makes a Texas server).

{"maps":["bloodrun"],"cvars":{"g_gametype":1,"premium":0,"sv_hostname":"N.A. Duel Cup","g_password":"duel","g_complaintLimit":0,"g_timeoutCount":3,"g_timeoutLen":60,"web_location":6}}

No additional modifications are allowed. The only values you may change are the maps, server name, server password, and server location. Do not make premium servers. There is no point and it only causes issues with players needing invites. If you simply use a password and provide the information in #duelcup irc on quakenet I assure you no one will bother you. Always provide an admin a link to your game and the password BEFORE you ready up. We can avoid having to ask you mid game accidentally. Admin names on irc flair, SG|shun, SG|Rob. Alternatively you can put the info into the #duelcup chat. Anything sent to flair in IRC is safe from the stream. Anything sent to flair in game is subject to show up on stream!

Map List

Sign Ups

Prize Pool

Stream:

FlairTV
Links:

Last Cup, #duelcup, duelcup.com

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