i will update this post with new information

Nice!

Get some demos up as well. :)

Group B is a bit stacked... :D

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Davai Kolyan!

Oh god. 13 out of the 16 Renaissance players. Awesome lineup.

Go Kronic, push that space button to hit them all :D

I predict pavel going in top3 easily, with evil and agent being the main adversaries for the endgame boss fight. Evil being the boss. others will need smth more than pure skill to overcome these three, like bfg9000 (not a 10k model, I insist), or the Portal Gun. Especially vs Agent's chess-ninya style.

wonder what country you are from *rolls eyes*

wtf^^ really nice lineup! looking forward to some intense games. group b looks hard :x

damn so much action!

Unfortunatly, Agent can't play more in our league, and we sub him with 060718 (next player in their group B from 1st group round)

What happened? Agent was the main contender against Evil.

you could fix groups a bit... look at A and B groups...

Why every tournament admin thinks it's totally ok that a change in the set of contenders doesn't invalidate previous groups?

group b stacked as shit:]

Another Cooller vs Strenx match, I don't think the internet can handle 2 of those in one week.

It's like El Clásico, so many of them that you stop caring after a while...

It's good to know that Strenx has beaten Cooler recently - less arrogant bullshit from Anton this way. (Or more?)

No amount of winning/losing will stop them from trash talking each other.

Nothing to do but to bring out the popcorn =D

Group B is group of death, group A is weakest.

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gogo twister and baksteen... win dat Pavel! o/

Stream?

Stream.

...or this (www.quakehistory.com/en/streams/0,128), although I think it's the same.

Thanks! Watching with all family!

greetings to them!

But everybody but me ran away when polish rap kicked in :(

well, can't say I'm surprised

happy kurwa!

k1llsen vs. Cypher -- I expect the highest amount of ragequit possible!

If it was Cypher vs Spartie, they'd ragequit simultaneously just after the match start.

So many awesome online tournaments these days!!!

kornic the pornoman gogogo

Group B destroys!

Can ANYONE tell us - what happened to Agent? Was he disqualled? Was he shot? Was he taken into sexual slavery by anhe? How come the most dangerous adversary to Evil 'can't play more in our league'?

Agent said he now dont want to play with ANY streamers, at any cup.
But we need to do the show, not only digits at challonge's bracket... So, agent said he leave the league.. very sad.

Nico, it would've been a reason if u actually DID the show, but as of now it's just random streams with different streamers all the time, and sometimes no streams at all, and... It's not like you didn't know Agent might pull off something, so why even bother with his strange behavior? He's going up the ranks, he's recording demos (u DO have an obligatory demo recording rule, don't you?)

It's not like it affects your tourney in any way. Let him play - u still have LOADS of other participants to show on a stream (a solid, official stream at that).

Let Agent be this strange beast in a box - we don't see himself, but we see the results (and, what's more important - we can dl demos from your site. Right?)

and if he get's to the final? no stream then? why have someone in your cup who could ruin everything. it's too late now anyway his gorrup has been played

he does things like this again and again... at this time i just said "ok, very sad, bb"...

fuck him. everyone respects the rules, but him? no way hose

"Let Agent be this strange beast in a box"

Why should he be treated with some kind of privilege if he acts like that?

A 'privilege'? As long as the guy delivers demos of his pov it's not a privilege, but rather a chance for the cup admins/streamers to make fun of it - Agent's history proves that no matter his manners and behavior he's one of the best chessmate quakers out there. As for situation where he reaches the finale - streamers might just run the fucking demo and commentate it 'a posteriori'.

Quite a new format, maybe, but it also reduces the annoying 'waiting for players to show up, to find a server, to connect, to warmup' delays on live stream.

Might be even implemented on regular basis on FaceIT cups - many times we've seen unexpected results for top contenders in brackets, while watching some boring low-level matches live, showing us some weird matchup choices instead of smth beautiful (like cooller-zeun or evil-seven), but with demos recorded all the way - zoot and ddk could cast the most entertaining recent demos up until the ro16 (and not wasting time for filler-talk about 'how have you been lately' for half an hour inbetween two low-skill games).

No, sorry, I think being the only player who doesn't have spectators is a privilege.

He and his attitude doesn't deserve privileges.

just ban that kid and forget about him. he hasn't even won something BIG to act like a "star".

agent is stupid boy... really stupid!!! I dont want to play!! hahaha.. kid.. not first time to happen.. remember few weeks ago at faceit.. he didnt wanted to play vs guard... :D hhahahah

Yeah, but he's still a prodigy who can steamroll his way to top1 anyday he feels like it:)

but without anyone spectating him and refusing to give demos )))))))))))

yeah its obvious this cunt is dodgy as, the way he acts just screams cheater to me, but ive never seen him play so i cant really say :P

Fraze, buddy, just shut up. You have proven to be a much more dodgy cunt. And it just screams that youre a cheater to me. And u can't even prove otherwise,whereas Agent had been visiting a few lans in the old ASUS cup days and he kicked some serious ass there. ON A LAN. See? I've capsed it for you, so that your cunt clearly sees it, shuts up and learns not to give away 'cheater' stamp that easily.

Relax and enjoy your 'rocket science' compact cassette tape.

what are his intl lan results? has agent ever made it through group stages of dreamhack for example, against people that he roflstomps online?

considering ive played at like 3 aussie lans in the last 1.5 years and also dreamhack winter 2011, think its fair to say i dont cheat and am not in any way 'dodgy' haha noone who has actually played me would think i cheated, noone. also old asus cup days as in what 2001? haha also man up and make an account anon rather than just troll and talk shit

Considering what lans? What have you achieved on those LANs to prove you don't cheat now? Before you came here to EU you were pretty much unknown and mid-to-low skilled player, as far as your progress shows. (no offence, just facts)

Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to prove you're a cheater, but when you say 'cheater cunt' about a man who PROVED his superior abilities on lan, making it top3 at the very least back in pre-2013 era you just highlight yourself as an empty-headed hater. And a cunt.;).

Also - keeping in mind how much time have passed since his last (and pretty successful) LAN and his consistent participation in online tourneys (that is - constant improvement of his chessmate style) it's no wonder he's one of the best duellers now, being one of the rare kind of gladiators who can overcome Evil in his current form.

Don't worry, u can keep accusing people of 'cheating', like the random ffa crowd does, when they got raped by someone hitting fraglimit. Afaik cheating accusations come from weak-minded lovers of cod or dotalol brainless pussies, as u can't really overcome a skilled tactical player in QL by cheating. A pro doesn't need wh to track your movement or predict situation changes with high probability (as u should probably know as a pro, don't u?;))

As for Agent -
Here's some LAN facts : ASUS cup 2011 - 2nd place (1st went to cypher),
Moscow Open 2010 - 1st place,
ASUS open ESWC 2010 Russia Preliminaries 3rd place (1st cula, 2nd evil),
ASUS winter 2010, 3rd place (1st cyfa, 2nd cula), and a few more lans, placing 3-4th.

Also, he won numerous online cups here and there. Numerous means 'a lot', fraze. Agent does what you don't, eh?:). He doesn't care to explain some of his decisions, but it all correllates with his personal life (girls, buddies etc) which he considers more important than waiting for an opponent to connect for 3 hrs. (he explained it a couple of times in russian ivews).

How stupid and insecure is a person who calls Agent (or any decent pro) a cheater with all the seriousness? U can troll and make fun of it alright, but claiming it seriously is a plain unrecoverable stupidity.

also, watch for enlightenment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_e...FFSFyJESWc

also consider an iview:
http://cyberfight.ru/site/news/76952/?highlight=agent
where agent praises spartie's sportsmanship for switching to ru server (agent played lotsa zotacs with 95-100 ping and won quite a few at that, but spartie was the only one who accepted the server change with ~40 ms for each player afterwards)

You have to admit that it is fishy that he doesn't want people watching him play (1) and that his phenomenal timing is yet to be proven on an international lan (2).

first of all, where did i say he looked like a cheater or anything from his play? i didnt u stupid russian anon idiot, i said the things hes been doing like dodging streams and not sending demos etc, why would u do that unless u had something to hide?

The only reason i was an unkown player before I came was because i lived in fucking australia, how can i prove im good if im not here or atleast in america? You cant, i was exactly the same skill i was obviously just noone knew about me cause i wasnt from here. When i was at dhw2011 i beat P0ni like 4-5 times in a row, i can even show u demos if u want, and i was at a lan, so unless i was cheating at the lan then, i was doing it legit and that was 1.5 years ago... ud rkn i would have improved by then ;P

Also i won 2 online cups here, simply cause the map pool, if the map pool for sunday cup was the same as the thursday one i can guarantee i would have done alot better (i was undefeated in thursday cups even beating another one of your RUSSIAN AMAZING ZOMG CHESS STYLE players in pavel (whom if i didnt lag on the first and my best map toxicity i woulda won 3-0).

Well i dont know what u rkn my level is, but if Agent is a 'pro' then so would i be, so what are u talking about if u actually rkn that i cheat? Isnt that a bit hypocritical? Also i never said he was a cheater from his play for the second time, just the things he does looks suspect, and if u deny that, then you are stupid.

Mate, I already told u - I do NOT accuse u or any decent pro of cheating anywhere, as it IS plain stupidity to accuse a pro of that. That's the whole point. One cannot become even closely decent in Quake using cheats.

You said 'the way he acts just screams cheater to me', well, leave those hysterical whiny screams to random ffa girlie noobs and low-skill pussies, raging from every 2 consecutive rails up their asses. You are not one of their kind, so it's much more manly to keep suspicions of any kind for yourself, unless proven otherwise.

And here are the facts: Agent has PROVEN to have top skill and so did you. So quit embarrassing yourself with this theme. I remember Strenx being totally suspected in wh and aimbot back in the days, and even when he kicked some serious ass on ESWC and a couple of other lans noobs still came up with 'suspicious' theories. It took QCon grand finals to shut the most of dirty noobs mouths.

Every other QL tourney you can see some occasionally connected person in the chat sidebar screaming: "but how evil new where to go and shoot? he's obviously using a wallhack!". Suspisious, huh?:)))

I haven't seen any pro touching this 'cheating' theme in any context but jokes and kidding around. Pro will steamroll his way to the victory or die trying no matter how many wh aimbots rise against him:))).

Fraze, u have proved to be strong QL gladiator, a pro, just as Nikolay Mayorov, so keep yourself calm and ready for action.

Let's leave this dirty 'cheating' theme to a random cod schoolbus.

well yeah i probably shouldnt have said anything especially having not ever played the guy (which is alot diff than me saying hes a cheat from playing him), i just thought the behaviour was abnormal which i suppose it is :> and generally it is unlike me to ever say anything i guess ;P and yeah everyone gets the occasional cheater tag, so sorry russian ;)

Saying this for Russia - this retard isn't one of us. "))"

You are either a troll or a moron: you keep writing about Agent's massive top3 results, but
Agent only played on Russian LAN cups which very often have limited sign ups from the western part of the community, therefore having limited participation. And although the claim that agent may be a cheater is far-fetched (he's just craving attention, diva-style, like little girl with pigtails not like stronk men), it is pretty funny how much it made you rage, and that your accusations of insecurity seem to manifest back on you, since you're accusing a high-profile Australian player whose major Quake LAN attending history streches back to 2001, from an anonymous account.

Ironic how you're instantly dismissive of Fraze due to his background being a close-nit community not centered around Western Europe, yet you glorify agent's achievements despite his background being a close-nit community not centered around Western Europe. This is why I dislike Russian community portals: for every person who organises events or news coverages, there are at least 5 xenophobic dickheads, mainly falling under 2 categories: "gopniki" and "pidorasy pozornie".

In the end the way a top player has to prove himself is attending an international lan. Without that it is all gaga.

Fraze did and did ok for a first major event, especially considering this was before his euro experience. Agent hasn't afaik: who knows the reason what I have always thought it is weird that some people dodge lans like the plague when it is somewhat close to them (c'mon it's one plane in more than 10 years in an activity he's done more than sleeping).

he's known for timing every single item on the map to the very moment they respawn, 0 failures. That's why he has a dodgy reputation to begin with, which makes it particularly weird that he doesn't want anyone to see him playing.

yeah well i havnt played or watched but that behaviour sounds a bit ridic

I wouldn't call it 0 failures. I've scene cases of the opponent delaying an item considerably and picking it up when agent couldn't see or hear the pickup, and then agent appearing considerably early for the next pickup, i.e: unaware of the delay, while the rest of the match he is cycling them perfectly.

But yes, it is weird that he wouldn't want to be streamed at all, as even if he does use timers, it's not like you can be 100% sure that he's using timers through watching his matches, unlike wallhack or aimbot.

will stream today's group B

nice play from seven vs evil !!

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edit: :| Nice ztn though :|

WP sev3n!!

somebody, somehow, just frigging get that avek-evil-lostworld demo

ooooooh that av3k - evil dm13 <3

mental evil/av3k dm13
edit: lol, t7 not half bad either:DDD

Great games today, especially av3k-evil - some crazy stuff. Thanks zoot and ins for casting!

av3k you were awesome anyway <3

fuck i missed all games from yesterady and today, thanks to whoever put this post on top today.

sev3n evil'd evil on ztn "I'm gonna use simple tactics, I'm gonna hit more than you and I'm gonna win"

fucking gg son, too bad you threw away t7, getting caught twice with your rail out

and get some warm up next time you get home

Will u stream games today zoot ? Nice stuff yesterday.

yesterday he said on stream that he will...

maybe

Will stream today's group C2! www.twitch.tv/zootlive - maybe semi-silent FaceIt Level 10 cup coverage after

cheers, appreciated!

eta for this~ ?

starting roughly 16:50 CET

= live right now

not on the side bar, esr stap kilin kwak

thx for stream zoot \o/ good craic

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this series delivers. yesterday evil/av3k dm13 and t7, today cypher/ash aerowalk: instant classics

edit: wp k1ller!, much respect

Damn you ash, playing so good yet not able to finish the game. +back, mofo!

zadrot ebany

ztn cypher k1llsen w45 d4 5h17 !!!1eleven

today is going Down! Yo !

Woo, looks lime I'm home from work just in time for some quake action \o/

im relly happy for u :D

OMG Cooller playing today, up this post ffs!!!

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gonna be streaming the last group stage on www.twitch.tv/zootlive

xavier is the man.

demon is becoming quite a whiner, in renaissance it was the maps, vs strenx today the spawns. cmon dude, i know losing sux but losing and whining is even worse.

becoming ? I've always whined :P Especially in ctf.

Also pro-active in defending the right to whine for da peepz !

It's mind blowing how players like cypher can disrespect me to the fullest saying 'god blessed you once' and there's barely any comment on that except for some laughter and if I whine in french with strenx who I know quite well irl some people get offended ;)

to be fair I believe Cypher got his good share of esr shit recently as well, so don't feel as anyone is picking on you. the hate is spread quite evenly i think:]

Because everyone rages and whines occasionally... it's when someone whines ALL the time that shit gets repulsive. Cypher used to just rage occasionally just like everyone else, nobody gave a fuck, but recently he's been whining on a regular basis, and fuck that.

Now you're even whining about people not tolerating your whines. Holy shit man.

youre whining about me whining about people whining about my whine.

whineception

Strenx Cooller tomorrow @ 11:00 CST

omg timestamps

da fuck? reason?

Those cars won't sell themselves.

Dont think so, in mother russia cars sell cooller.

strenx had to leave early and cooller arrived late from work

/!\ WARNING: COOLLER /!\

:D

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live now on twitch.tv/zootlive with cooller vs strenx coming up in a moment and guard vs evil possibly straight after

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So... live on stream in front of 800+ people, strenx just stated as a fact that Guard "got busted for faking his ping", and concluded with something along the lines of "I do not approve of his attitude" and refused to cast Guard vs Evil because of this...

So... did anybody actually bust guard for faking his ping?

how is ping cheating, when we played last 2 maps on server, where STRENX GOT 15-20 MS BETTER ping then mine.
He got owned he is crying right now, becose he will lose 3 fans..

Mate, everyone on stream understood the extreme stupidity of accusing u of 'ping cheat' except lil' strennie. This immature kid is just laughable. He's very good at Quake, but he has so little amount of manliness within him... he just yet has to find his unbendable inner man:).

oh ,thank you god, someone sees the real deal :)

dont think many people think highly of strenx other than his play so i owuldnt be too shocked :P

Everyone except zoot

gg evil's comedy show

He was either drunk/altered minded or did it on purpose - no way Evil could move, time and hit so badly.

VOD of Strenx vs Cooler and Guard vs Evil awesome matches!
btw and Cooller vs Cypher 100$ match here too

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when did guard and avek play?
dont remember watching it

group B2, ^^

i found their match at the start of group C2 VOD
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yeah guard's games are all over the place, because he couldn't play on tueasday.

sosi, cooller !

plz upload demos.

Why is Guard ahead of Av3k in Group B? Av3k's beaten him 2-1...

guess map count is considered when there's a three way tie
avek 2-1 guard
avek 1-2 evil
evil 0-2 guard

I feel something's wrong with this system

What should be wrong with this system?
It is head-to-head result as the first tiebreaker, what results in a 3-Way-Tie with a 1-1 result for guard/evil/av3k. This is solved with the second tiebreaker, the mapscore.

the wrong here is considering 2-1 win or loss different from 2-0. it's bo3, so it is SUPPOSED that u have at least 1 map to lose without any consequences. taking into account 2-1 2-0 difference is somewhat similar to taking into account the number of frags. what difference should it make how many frags you have dealt if you lost in the end (or won), the end result is the only thing that matters, no matter the frag amount/frag difference. Same with bo3 - the only thing that matters is win or loss, not the win/loss ratio.

full double elim solves the problem with pretty much equal amount of matches to play, but the FDE system is completely fair, so why not use it as a golden standard? everyone's always sure of consequences of EVERY fight, it's easy to track and it has zero chance of rendering results somewhat unfair.

Also FDE lacks annoying 3-way ties and shit.

The system takes the Bo3 W-L ratio as the main factor into account, but you have to use tiebreaker at some point and 3-way ties aren't annoying.

Full double elimination isnt completely fair, because it uses seeding. First of all, with 5-man groups you have to give a person a first-round bye and even with 4-man group it depends on seeding.
If you assume that A>B, A<C, A>D, B>C, B>D, C>D:
1st scenario
WB Round 1: A vs B, C vs D
LB Round 1: B vs D
WB Round 2 A vs C
LB Round 2 B vs A
=> A,C advance
2nd scenario:
WB Round 1: A vs C, B vs D
LB Round 1 A vs D
WB Round 2: B vs C
LB Round 2: A vs C
=> B,C advance

Ok thank you :)

Cooller pavel gamesz!

All from cooller pov, followed by cooler fragmovie B-))

there is no vods from guard - evil game :///

there is on twitch.tv/zootlive - just gotta find the most recent long vod, and search. i will cut them all up hopefully by the end of the league itself