Inspired by the ease-of-play offered by games like Starcraft II and Quake Live, willgurht has developed a project to make finding and playing QuakeWorld games easy.
The ladder is currently in beta testing here, and everyone is welcome to check it out! Please forward any comments/questions here, and/or on IRC.
yeah, in general it's free like cpma but you still need the game (the .pak files) as with quake3. eg., visit nquake.com for an explanation.
you can get around with a shareware version of q1 and q2 and download the maps later... quake isn't free though, no matter how easy it is to pirate 10+ year old games these days ;)
Please guys, try it out and play - it really is a proper fully automatic ladder that gets the games reported automatically to the website and what not.
The success of the ladder kinda depends on the amount of players trying it out and keeping at it in the first place, should be a positive spiral. :)