glad its 16 Players now, f*ckn great lineup. really deserves the flat payout structure \o/
hope 2gd will cast it

He will. And if he gets tired they'll borrow LOSERS (;p) or me I guess. I tell you, there's going to be a fucking shitload of casting for them boys!

2gd getting tired? I propose you [ed:they] let him comment more than one match at a time, and put cs there too, most of the time he will talk abt the connection between 9/11 conspiracies and why aliens stole my babysitter anyway -which makes it kinda funny, I'm starting to like it =))

why did you pick t9 over t4 when the poll you created (http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1754174) shows more interest in t4 rather than t9?

I didn't pick the maps. The maps rules were set before the map poll was made, by the way.

The one that picked the maplist is pretty clueless, with leaving t4 out.

going to be an awesome event. nice payouts too.

I really hope its covered well, has VOD's up quickly and isnt on at a stupid time!

1. rapha
2. noctis
3. spartie
4. strenx/dahang

1. cooller
2.
3. rapha
4. noctis
5. spartie
6. strenx/dahang

I'm obviously not including cooller, it's unfair to the other players

keep fap fap fap fapping. No chance for cooller

Yup.

No kidding. These peeps have selective memory.

yea he is a hard player to seed atm ^^

We will try to broadcast ALL games or at least the grand majority of it and yeah with english casting by probably 2gd and joe.

So save some money for esl tv premium stream ;)

esl-tvprem is np, i somehow got an abo although afaik i just ordered it once. but im fine with it now anyway :D
plz make sure to get the demos

Yep, same here. I just wanted to buy it for one month, too. But I don't care anymore as long as they provide me with Quake all the time :))

I'll personally buy 10 premiums if every game is streamed!

2gd \o/

x2 \o/

.

Incredible lineup, that's insane (assuming they all accept / show up)

they singed up, so they all should be there.

i hope my visa problems get fixed so i can watch it live.

now some info on the open tournament plz.

strpy make some pics for meh! :D

if i'm able to go, i'll take as much pic as needed.

there's an idea. If some site wants coverage, all u need to do is fix me a vsa:)

btw. 100% confirmed are already:

- fox
- noctis
- rapha
- dahang
- cooller (only trouble might be visa)

is noctis going to get sponsored for this?

dunno, ask him, but afaik he is paying the trip on his own.

no need to ask him, he is going to read this anyway :p

if anyone wants to sponsor me for this event only i'd be up for it :p

open up a paypal account and i'd donate some :p

^^

I expect you to prac like a maniac and win this!

mb he's registered with miles and more .. ;)

see how well cooller and jibo do with little to no ql experience =)

cooller best player ever!!

Well, cypher also hadn't had much QL experience but still did well at QCon

agreed!

I guess they hadnt played it at all except several duels. Cypher have played several months

with cooller on his side as coach/advisor, I see difficult times for the other players

.

i live in hope

5th to 8th place: $200

thats nice ,but still its dubai..whats 200$ in dubai :P

for 200$ you can buy a 14y old child to marry you there lol :D

maybe but also just a gallon of oil :)

ok thats it, we're all going dubai with pocketfuls of 200$
^^

734.592 AED :)

:P ok,tnx ?:)

I hope strenx will take this tournament :P

btw; smoke star player?

For some reason I can see him take any tourney, as long as it's done on the internet.
Having a hard time putting him in top6 at a lan event, since from what i've seen he has a hard time with his psyche at times.

Should replace dm6 with t4, it's more interesting in ql.

t9 for t4 imo

I agree.

No dm6, no Strenx.

Removing thoose maps is just very retarded, rather than removing maps they should add and have a greater mappool.

unreal lineup \o/

Just Quakelive as far as i know.

:) this lineup unreal \o/

Nope, unreal won't be played. It's just Quake Live, sorry bro.

ahah :D

Best looking lineup in years .
Jibo & Cooller FFS !
Feels like a seeding nightmare though :P

Wow really nice line-up. Really looking forward to this.

I'm no longer playing QL since QW season started again, but following these tournaments is great fun.

Nice to hear 2gd is commentating ...ehm.. well everything about this news update is great actually :D

does anyone have a firm in Dubai maybe? :D
(K0NV1C7, semtex, skywalker, Sleevz, Voodoo, warning123 ?)

Since i'm not flying with Emirates, or staying in a hotel, i need for some company with a office in dubai to invite me in order to get a visa.

Awesome players, only one who is missing is toxjq, I thought he might show up. :S
This might go to noctis imo, also madix and k1llsen might rank pretty high, they did good these days. ;)
Also pretty interested in strenx lan play! ;)

be realistic :P

I am. ;)

Not so sure about the madix and co. thingi, but would indeed love to see toxic in action again <3
Seeing if strenx can collect his mind for a lan event will be intresting, he can do very good if he can.

Cooller. There, I said it. Now plus me.

1. rapha
2. Spart1e
3. cypher
4. noctis
5. stermy/fox
6. Cooller/Jibo

1. Rapha
2. Noctis
3. DaHang
4. Spartie
5. Cypher
6. Cooller
7. fox
8. Strenx
9. jibo
10. fazz

strenx 7. ? I think he can win if he can get things sorted on lan, otherwise noctis. ;)

Yes id have stenx for top3 as well if this wasnt a lan game, not sure he can collect himself enough to get that far.
But saying that I hope im wrong since I love watching amazing aimers get totally outaimed! <3

really hoping for atleast double elimination. best would be group stages with 4 groups and best 3 advancing to DE :D

did you read the news? It will be group stage with four groups of four, but top 2 advance to SE playoffs

There will be no double elimination, but there's going to be something really great.

(Rondrian don't fucking say anything.)

Oh, and Cypher will only play if he apologises!

don't tell them about the space map ffa?

ESL officially picked up dm17 for their map pool??? GREAT NEWS!!11

make sure you don't let cooller warmup before the games to ensure rage, then ;D

Round robin? ;)

So who thinks Cooller is actually going to try, or has been trying?

Or is he going for shits and giggles again/

Guess i missed the giggles there :

http://www.sk-gaming.com/video/40077-Cypher_beating_Cooller

Allright it's VQ3, but it was just a year ago and he looks quite serious to me :P

1. rapha
2. noctis
3. spart1e
4. cypher
5-8. fox strenx DaHanG

t4 instead of dm6, and some info on the open tourney plz.

this promises to be a great event tbh, rly hope to see it live.

and what ever happens i would just like to thank carmac and especially Rondrian for all there help.

keep both maps, and add maps instead of removing them..

no av3k:(

It's not a ragequitting competition!

Honestly, av3k is no no form to get even close to wining this cup, therefore it would be pointless for him to participate.

like smoke, jibo, madix, cooller? :)

ehehe, you've got a point there. ;)

at least some of them may show us some "serious gaming"

;)

Don't count jibo and cooller out before they have shown if they can transfer to ql or not.

The thing is, I don't thing they're trying.

Well we won't know for sure before they have been there :)

^^

t4 instead of dm6/t9 obviously :C

Top 5
1. Spart1e
2. rapha
3. noctis
4. cypher
5. strenx

3 of those players, cooller will beat withing taking rail and shaft on dm6

I ll beat you withing withing.

offtopic

what happened to nicky?

real life

also, why this smoke (whoever he is) over av3k?

perhaps its a matter of who can make it with some picks.

cause av3k didnt sign up?
smoke will be slaughtered though

never heard or seen smoke in any tourneys, so I guess your right >_<

Av3k is banned from ESL.

oh i thought cypher was banned..

did Av3k talk shit as well ? :P

Banned for? Raging on livestream?

He insulted Cypher's dog.

Is there anyone left not banned?

Carmac, prolly :)

and cypher's dog

called it a bitch?

conclusion: he refused to apologise to the dog

gg cypher.


(there i said it first)

Let's hope we don't get another rapha/spartie/noctis domination.

Though the highest probability is for thoose people to be in the top, anything can happen in a tourney like this. It's a collection of so many great players that all has the potential for fighting in top3 and higher.

Strenx shaft vs Jibo shaft

Rapha brain vs Cooller brain

well... this is going to be interesting.

doubt they have chances. especially on new maps. nevertheless they are the best. will be nice to see them playing. hope they will care

jibo's shaft doesnt even compare to strenx :(

stermy shaft vs strenx then :P

And on lan, I don't think jibo is that far behind strenx (at least he wasn't in cpma). His percents may be lower, but he's not afraid of spamming. I've noticed strenx doesn't spam much - maybe its accuracy vanity or maybe it's just that he doesn't bother spamming corners cause his reactions are fast enough anyway.

Maybe, but on the other hand stermy almost never shows him aim off by playing other good people.
Guess he is afraid of getting his name sullied :p

Wow, what a lineup :)

Does anyone know how much ql coolller has been playing?

If not, then isn't he just going to get raped on T7 and T9; hence no chance in the tourney?

He played not more, and not very well
Need practice, practice, and again practice (c)

Ah awesome, thanks!
Yeah looks like Noctis has been showing him how its done :)

Well yes of course. He doesn't stand a chance at top three if you ask me.

DM6 needs to go away. But as one can see even a solid DM6 player plays the shit out of it. *hint hint for particular NAs*

ping 100+

60-70 in my games

his aim looks pretty weak :O/

No local talent?


I'm hilarious.

we have a local tournament in addition to this

I'd replace dm13 with t4 personally. looks to be a great event otherwise.

dm13 is one of the best duel maps imo, and a classic, no way it wouldnt be inclouded.

I'd also like to see t4 tho, too bad it itsnt on the list :S

Both dm13 and t4 are great maps, none of them deserves to get removed.

Ali N.A.B. or what was he called is missing though :/

what a waste, inviting chance...

sick lineup! go cooller!

Hmm, would've picked HELL , err i mean vizari, over smoke. That way the list would be balanced (almost).


Needs more Z4muz tho :F

doubt it, smoke is a far better pick

I hear funnyb is better than both of them.

Oh and you promised to lower your price after that betting incident, what happened? :(

well, i lied :ő( SUCKY FAIV DORRA

ZeRo4, toxic, CZM, Z4muZ, fooki, Fatal1ty, unkind, lexer and b100.death then this would beyond epic.

Bring there Fatal1ty and give him ffa map to rule :).

rofl

Actualy at that time Fatality will be in Poland doing his Q4 ffa during PGA event :P

no av3k :(

last time av3k was in shape?

i dont know

replace this smoke nobody with toxjq and you have the best ql tourney ever (not saying much, but still)

First Place : Rapha
Last place : cooller

hah Bible doesnt rule there

You wish... noctis is not losing to rapha again. ;)

Dubai and so low price money ..

OMG I'M SPRAYING CUM EVERYWHERE!!!1

OMG I'M SPRAYING CUM EVERYWHERE!!!1

somebody tell rapha to hide the bible :P

nonsense

rapha should try to convert those filthy infidels

:D

Great lineup and great map list (no T6/CA2).

T4 for T9 and the map list would be perfect

someone get a Sheik to sponsor the event & tripple the prize moneys :)

I second that. [+] ;)

T4 for T9 and the map list would be perfect the same since 6 years but with one new map

diddums

then they could let all maps there, as elimination and even finals won't be best of all anyway
since when quake = less maps?
let competitors choose what map they want, even t6, is t6 not a 1v1 map? wtf
I like how you all feel your penis rock solid because cooller will be there, yet you want dm6 and dm13 out, so dm6 out, dm13 out, t4 out and you expect to see cooller playing great matches on the new maps and beat noctis and spartie who were practicing like crazy on the new ones? why don't you better say you don't wanna see the old champs play anymore? it is much more easy to ask that, instead hiding behind the map issues

Dude I didnt say anything about cooller.

This is true, but t9 is a shit map and should not be used in competition. QCON games showed that

damn Cooller in Dubai now thats gangsta!!

Suppose that a terrorist attack happens in Dubai during this tournament. The venue is bombed and all players are killed.

1) What will happen with Quake
2) How long will it take to replace those 16 players skill-level wise, i.e., when would the next generation step in to replace them

hmmmmmmm

fat would take in interest in playing ql again :P

I never get tired of posting this picture haha

:p

i never get tired of fapping to it

No dkt?

:(

madix killed him

He's banned from ESL.

Why is dkt and av3k banned??

dkt talked bad about Obama.

are you being serious?

Of course! We don't want players involved in public political discussions! It has nothing to do with esports!

what about admins?

Cause I can name at least one esl admin who mentioned a political figure in a public discussion!

We'll fire them all!

Who isn't?

Finaly a tournament without CA2 and t4,,, About fucking time! ;)

maybe a tournament without dm6 instead of t4 :)

mayby.. i wouldnt like it tho.. the lesser of two evils.. t4 should never have been played in tournaments imho :)

but i also hate ztn.. so who am i to have opinions :p

t4 is one of the best maps to play and watch imo :)

fun to watch, not to play :)

JIBO!!!!

I dont know who decided to leave t4 out, but thank you Carmac :P

This one is easy to predict.

1. Jibo
2. cypher
3. fox

btw, prize money is so low :(

lol :>

But ya prize money is hella low for an event in Dubai

terribad prediction

Fnatic send nearly their whole squad. That's some big investment...

t4 is great map, leave out dm6, its fucking boring

Just making sure everyone know what they are doing by going to Dubai. Dont get your passports stolen!

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commenta...64368.html

- Russia Anton "Cooller" Singov

spraying cum everywhere

fuck DM13 & DM6

Thank fuck for no T4, just remove dm6 as well and the maplist would be perfect.

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p.s. also go Strenx m8, Shaft Champion

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haha, we seriously need GTV.

:D

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Awesome line up :D

Was toxjq invited? What'd he say?

Whats this stuff about av3k and cypher being banned?

I'd like to see python there too - gives the aussie (and nz) crowd someone local to cheer for.

it was open sign up and we choose those 16 from the sign ups.

dkt you aint going :<

holy shit, my penis is rock solid right now.

cooller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

someone delete that qlr pic, fast

Wow what a lineup. Still wondering why the hell the Russians don't get some servers though. Too expensive?

quake is not dead

rejoice

Epic lineup and stuff. :D

DAHANG!!!!

Stermy is so forgotten.

Imo this time, he is in the top 3.

wbfinal: rapha - fazz
lbfinal: cypher - fox
sfinal: rapha - cypher

winner: rapha

no t4 = no fazz imo.

you might be right, but i think that fazz is in good shape and has become a more random map player

Oh snap! It's not DE!

Err... how do you determine 2nd to 4th place then (to distribute prize money)?
I assume you understand that SE can determine only the winner?
Please do not let QCon CTF situation to repeat. We alrady have: 1) LAN, 2) awesome players, 3) good prize money. Do not ruin all this with bad tourney scheme!

a game between the loser of the semi finals?

... will show who of them is better. But we need to sort out 3 players, not two: 2 semi-finals losers and one final loser. To give 2-nd position to the one who lost in final is not correct (though is done frequently and because of that can be very frustrating).

Uhm... I'm pretty sure we can come up with something to determine third place ;-)

When we release all the details about our plan for the tournament I am quite sure that people will be more than satisfied.

You should also somehow determine 2-nd place too! With SE, loser of the final is not necessarily 2-nd best (again, see QCon CTF as an example).

There are much better systems out there than double elimination at determining exactly where the players stand in terms of skill if that's what you want.

Are you trying to say that playoffs won't actually "be a eight player single elimination ko-stage", as written in this news post?

No, I am saying that there are systems which determine very fairly and very precisely where players stand, and not just the top 4. Why don't you ask for those?

Hmmm... and where am I asking for something else than such system? :)

Well, I guess that if you can't imagine that we will be able to determine a third place with SE, then you don't know what you want? ;-)

Anyway, we're going to run a system which will be good for competition and the show at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_system_tournament

? :)

ROUND ROBIN!

PUTINS PLAN

strenx takes it

Great move leaving t4 out. I used to love it back in 2001-2003, but now that i've been playing QL again I really found it a depressing map compared to the other maps.
Allthough dm6 doesn't seem to good either, but I'm having trouble leaving it out since there are some great specialists on that map.
Other maps are great!

Really?

how is T9 considered a good map all of a sudden?

+ its new
+ no rg

- its far too basic, feels like all tactics have been played out already
- plays like a poor man's t2
- very spammy

it's such a mediocre map, would take t4 or t6 over this map any day of the week

not t6 :(

There are specialists on t4 as well, fazz e.g.

depressing? you must be doing something wrong cuz its fuckin intense on a high level.

can't believe ql is (sort of) taking off...it's a christmas miracle

south africa and dubai of all places

Rage in SA = vQ3 :)

So we be able to watch this without an ESL premium account?

this

Premium account is not required to watch anything, it just allows much better video quality.

can anyone tell me why dkt and av3k are banned from esl? just interested. It's good that for once cheating/laming has some meaningful consequence.

zzz who said they were going in the first place?

[10:52:34] [xlo^madix] u going ?
[10:53:47] [srs\rzr\Av3k] i think there is no sense to go for me
[10:53:53] [srs\rzr\Av3k] i lose 1-2 weeks
[10:53:57] [srs\rzr\Av3k] for playing and stuff
[10:54:00] [srs\rzr\Av3k] then get 10th place
[10:54:02] [srs\rzr\Av3k] or even worse
[10:54:04] [srs\rzr\Av3k] and back angry

i asked why they were banned

carmac has a weird sense of humor :p

ok i see :)

-weird+polish

Rest assured that if they break the rules while competing in the Intel Extreme Masters, there will be consequences.

Gonna be a great tournament. Wanted to see calipt though.

1. noctis
2. rapha
3. cypher
4. strenx/spartie

top4: noctis, rapha, cypher spartie - in no particular order.

1. Rapha
2. Cypher
3 .Stermy
4. Dahang/Noctis

this looks promising

but t9 is NOT better than t4. far from it.

av3k is scared of a free trip to dubai, silly kid.

Such a high quality tournament and such a waste without GTV. Feels like it's 1999 again.

How can it be a waste if you will be able to see .every.single.match.?

EVERY SINGLE MATCH? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Picture in Picture :P

:p

Because watching fast moving blurry objects is aesthetically unpleasing. I would also trade commentators to gtv chat in a heartbeat. It was one of the rare (if not the only) things that brought the community from all skill and experience levels together to interact and have fun.

Maybe waste is too harsh, but it could be so much better.

I myself don't watch Quake tournaments to admire the graphics.

It is not about graphics but about the visual representation as a whole. Put yourself on spectators shoes for a second; if you were about to watch the world cup final, would you pick small and blurry stream with shoutcast, over large and sharpe image with no shoutcast? For me it's a no brainer, in an activity where all the skill and beauty of it can only be appreciated by seeing it, the visual representation is always priority.

Sorry to say, but your business model is not in line with what is best for the audience you are trying to reach, and to try to sell it as such is very Angel-ish.

GTV does not exist. What does that have to do with ESL's business model?

Well only reason I could think of, that would make syncerror say that GTV is not pushing esports forward, is ESL's business model that is investing a lot in commercial streaming. Infact, if I were running ESL, I would try to lobby id NOT to release GTV in exchange for pushing Quakelive.Basically every competitive ladder and league would benefit from having a GTV, except ESL.

Not to mention that for id, GTV is the best place to sell ads. Nobody is going to watch ads when they are playing and at the stream they are unreadable in-game, but in GTV people are not as focused to the game and spend lot of time staring waiting rooms and empty maps between matches.

I don't think there ever going to be the same GTV as in Q3. IMO, if there will be anything GTV-like at some point, it will have shoutcasting support embedded. And I don't see how it may change or affect ESL business model (it will be like - free users get to watch shitty stream, and gtv is for premium only).

It would be pretty sad if everyone who wanted could not run a GTV in their games. That would make the game, that was suppose to bring life in to DM scene, less accessible for community activities than it's predecessor almost 10 years ago.

Good of you to base your comment on facts, not ludicrious assumptions.

My "ludicrious assumption" is that ESL, as the premier quakelive league, is not pushing for GTV. Please do correct if I am wrong.

Such an assumption is plain stupid. Why would we bother asking id Software NOT to implement GTV in their game if we could simply choose not to use it for our events?

wow you got him there, problem is i don't think he anywhere implied anything like that

ORLY? #259?

so for you "not pushing for gtv"="asking not to implement gtv"? talk about ludicrous assumptions

Read a couple of comments above.

did you read this part: "Sorry to say, but your business model is not in line with what is best for the audience you are trying to reach, and to try to sell it as such is very Angel-ish. "

Cause I think in it he does say he think ESL is working against gtv.

If I would want to say, that I think ESL is actively working against GTV, I would just say it. Honestly, I dont think they are business savvy enough to do it.

Why I said, that I would do it, was to illustrate that if they didnt execute their business plan half-assed, they should and would be actually working against the community.

Right now we just have a premier league that is not working for the goals, that are best for the community as a whole, namely GTV, because it would hurt their business. If we had premier league that would push openly and aggressively for GTV, I'm fairly positive we would already have it or it would be high in id's priority list.

"If we had premier league that would push openly and aggressively for GTV, I'm fairly positive we would already have it or it would be high in id's priority list. "

And I really, really doubt that.

Because as far as I can tell, id is business savvy enough, to concentrate their ressources on where they earn their money: finalizing rage.
And I don't think id cares much about what ESL has to say about that. So, if might actually, be smart for the ESL, as the smaller company to accept what they get in a friendly cooperation, rather than assume the part of the whiny kid. atm it looks like this: ESL needs id, id doesn't need ESL. Sure ESL helps a little with publicity, but not that much. The release of Rage, if it does well, will do tons more, even for QL.

So, I'm saying the earliest we are gonna see gtv is after rage is out. I would be happy to be proven wrong, though.

It's a fair doubt, but I do think while id is not putting much resources in to QL right now (hi zenimax), because they dont have to, they would be under a lot more pressure to do so, if there would be almost no tournaments for QL as nobody could spec them. We might still be using Q3+GTV.

And Of course it's smarter for ESL to hang back and not support the community in this, whether id would listen or not, as the current situation is boosting their business.

We want GTV, ESL TV cannot cover every single match in every single tournament

For matches that ESL TV would cover, we would have the option to not allow GTV

Just like we do for all matches in all games that have GTV (cs,css...)

Carmac should have just said that then. It's a very admirable stance to take, when you think that GTV would potentially not only bring ESL more competition, it could also harm your tournaments prestige if other tournaments were showing the most important matches at GTV, and your stream services business to other tournaments like dreamhack could take a dive. Certainly it would not be as hot possibility for growth as it may be now.

That said, if what you are saying is ESL's official stance on GTV, it puts the "not pushing esports forward" stance of id to a whole new light. Basically it would mean, that QL team is either incompetent or lieing. Neither of the options bode well for this games future

GTV in all its forms is a huge part of eSports and without it I don't believe we would be where we are today

We support GTV in all games that have it, only restricting it for streamed where it makes sense

I can't speak for Carmac but I think he may be frustrated at your conspiracy theories since he is working very hard on producing this year's Masters and doing as much as possible to make Quake Live successful

Personally I haven't heard anything about GTV (except for a little bit at the beginning I have had little involvement with the QL stuff in the company) but personally I am sure that it will come when id are ready (along with custom maps and private servers)

Everyone in eSports is far too impatient and needs to spend less time complaining about everything and more time playing.

So assuming that company does SWOT analysis and actually runs their company according to it, is conspiracy now? I guess that explains the state of so called esports.

Also just "being patient" is not an option if you see things moving clearly in the wrong direction, and would like to chance the course. Personally, I would be more than happy if esports were to die tomorrow and best players would go back to playing for fun and bragging rights, if that would mean I could see those games in GTV.

That said, you have now given us official ESL stand on GTV, which is that you advocate it for the good of esports, which means that SyncError is full of crap. So I thank you for making the picture little bit clearer to me.

Disclaimer: What I said is not official, but is just as far as I know from my involvement. When people misunderstood our announcement of not having HLTV/STV for some matches that were on ESL TV to mean we were getting rid of HLTV/STV, much of the same questions arose.

I haven't been following the quake live threads that attentively (mostly because it's the same stuff every time), so I haven't seen SyncError or any comment on id about GTV, if anyone cares to link me to it would be appreciated :)

At the moment GTV (in general) is best for spectators, but offers almost nothing to sponsors. Stream is OK for spectators but offers lots to sponsors. So stream wins. Without sponsors, we do not have eSports, just competitive gaming.

I think id (and valve, and blizzard) of all companies should be able to improve GTV and make it attractive to sponsors. We already have ingame adverts, we just need to be able to customise them, and of course being able to pipe a shoutcast into the game would be awesome, or even the video stream itself, PiP

I agree with your assesment on these two broadcasting options, but in my opinion competitive gaming (and it's terms) has to come first, especially for the developer of said game. If esports can stem out of that without trying to take over, then I'm happy for the ones involved in it.

I guess my thanks were bit premature, the picture is getting fuzzier again. If I'm so wrong and ludicrous, why is it so hard to give us the official policy in this matter.

" in my opinion competitive gaming (and it's terms) has to come first"

Totally agree, that is how all sports develop and is why the major esports games are still cs, wc3 and sc, because there are more people playing those games than whining about them (not aimed at you)

Why are you putting a spin on this? I think I made very clear what I am assuming in my last post.

See, this is what bothers me with the whole GTV ordeal. Everyone "involved" is dancing around the issue without giving clear answers, especially id. It's like a bad smell from the cellar; you dont know if it's a dead rat or a squirrel or what. Only thing you can be sure is that there is something rotten in it.

But there is a chance to prove me wrong here when it comes to ESL, as a project manager you could surely give an official and clear answer in writing for the community and for id software.

Is ESL supporting the demands for a GTV?

The word LUDICROUS is not clear enough for you?

Listen, you wanted this conversation and no offence, but you are not good enough politician to dodge yes or no questions in convincing or meaningful way. So please, step up or sit down.

nop, tbh he did it good enough, and u becoming uber boring.

This is good news. If you happen to swing by here again, what's the pricing?

(I'll research tomorrow)

Edit: I did now...

http://www.esl-america.net/us/premium/?paycla...country=us

Six bucks a month eh? Chump change. Perfectly reasonable. I'll pay $6 bucks to spec this tournament in high quality with every game. No problem.

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Created account. Tried to buy ESL T.V for 1 month ($6), but I can't.

Anybody?

rapha, notics, spartie, cypher and dahang for top5.

noctis <o/

Videl! This is TDM for you <o_

Haha wtf:P
What is that? Rabbitkiller?

Open beta yet?

hahaha wtf is that:D

pk ?

What is that game?

some tf2 mod, ask technics for the exact name

its called bisonours party. its about ganja smoking carebears whose town gets invaded by pedobears

check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzy0y0SdGXo

lol

cool :D

1. Wow. Greatest idea I've ever.
2. What is that music playing at the end? This is for everybody.

NIN - Suck

Looks a lot like hldm gameplay wise

no t4 means less chances for fazz and more chances for stermy
not able to make precise ql predictions, as usual

highest probability imo for 1-3: stermy, spart1e, noctis and rapha
possible upsets (have the potential for 1st place for sure): cypher, strenx, k1llsen
possible very good matches but I don't see him going for the title -cooller (if he show up) -possible very nice t9 matches
guys I don't think have a chance for 1-3: Chance :p, madix (need to work more on his mental games), l1nkje (very good at times but lack consistency), smoke, Fan Zhibo
-DaHanG -the probability he go for top 3 is 50-50, don't know much abt his shape
-fox -he achieve great shape at times, the probability he get his top here is pretty small though, seems his momentum of maximum shape comes kinda random lol
-fazz -no t4 is a big disadvantage for him, in the preliminaries, yet he sure has the potential of top 3 -don't think he will do that great there though

note: if noctis will face rapha in the finals I am affraid he will not be able to face the stress so he'll lose once again, yet I'd say there is a probability of let's say 45% he will beat rapha
note 2 lol: I would have invite burned the young ql player, it would have feel motivated for sure

Way to put it on the line.

As usual I generally have to go with proven tournament players:

Rapha
Cypher
Noctis
DaHanG
Strenx

Who I'd like to see win?

Strenx or DaHanG

Get some new blood in here.

DaHang looked pretty strong last time, if he have been praccing hard id see him as a strong contender for 1st this time.

DM6 and ZTN are his bane.

He's got to get better than excellent on one of those maps to stand a chance. Otherwise it's an automatic loss.

This goes back to not having new maps, and observing inferior players riding on their past experience.

I'd go ZTN all the way if I were him. DM6 is shit. Has been shit. Will be shit. Is shit.

Rapha is not a star on DM6 either. The elimination of T4 will make it tougher on him.

And CA2... the map is a fucking joke of instagib proportions.

He prefers DM6 over T4 afaik.

Oh. :)

totally idd and about burned too

id need to develop GTV with integrated VOIP. admins (the casters/people hosting the GTV) would be the only ones with the privileges to use it.

So selected games on the gtv would have the wonderful 2gd and joe casting, while the others would be just like q3 gtv. a little audio wouldn't take much more bandwidth than normal gtv would it? ;(

oh well, i'm just rambling and dreaming.

QuakeLive without some kind of GTV in the future is just depressing...

I guess Cooller and Jibo wants to see Dubai. I doubt they'll do any harm in the tournament. I bet they even don't know the 'new' maps well or at all. Hope they can prove me wrong though.

rapha won't win this time, mark my words!

rapha won't win this time, mark my words!

I sure hope so.

they won't even shoot, just eating kebab and pizza

oh, and rice! :o

strenx / noctis / cypher will win =]

fatal1ty

This is indeed the kind of tourney he would wan't to win, it has the majority of great players in the world attending.
But doubt that he will go without praccing for months :P

smoke gonna suck very hard vs pros

what idiot decided to leave out t4..

here have a [+]

ZeRo4, Fazz, Jibo, prozac and Daler who specialises in t4 would cry their eyes out at night if this happened to them.


Two of them will be at ESL without their magic map, and guess you as well. :(

yeah im already cryin'

i think the results will be similar to qcon

Remember that these are only invites, it might be so that half of them can't come.

but it doesnt look like it, all players confirmed their participation! :D

As far as I know, not all of them have :O

first i thought when i saw the news: " awesome lineup" then: " i'm definitely gonna watch this on livestream,even when the matches are at night!"

and then i realised that i have to pay in order to watch it.

fuck off

you don't have to pay in order to watch it. ESL TV always has a free stream that you can easily watch without any costs and that is watchable and after a few shows hours watching you can still decide if you want to support us and ESL TV by buying in for the Premium Stream of if you prefer to use the free stream.

ok, then I'll be good ;)

even though i'm still not sure if i will get my visa, i would just like to thank Rondrian and Sput for all there patience and help. They went above and beyond.

Just coz of those two i'm buying premium^^

cypher will win!

at least top3 I think

what server did they play on?
http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/RazerJ/20053907/Tourney
http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/matches/Ahktfuy

do you know?

cooller always wins no matter where he places at!

1. rapha
2. cypher
3. noctis
4. dahang
5-8 strenx, fox, spartie

I don't think cooller and jibo will be able to catch up with so little practice, but I hope I'm wrong :)

Will be cheering for all the oldies though - what can I say... I get sentimental for the old names :P

Go cooller, jibo, fazz and fox \o/