Greetings fellow quakers!

I was thinking the other day why not show the ESR population what happens in a small quake community within a small country? So I decided to write a few lines about my people and how we enjoy the game.

When you address to a new group of people it is polite to introduce yourself, so I’ve been told :). In this note, my name is Alex, I just turned 28 and my role in our small community is to organize and admin cups, write news, articles and in general, represent the quake community when outside so called “esport” organizations have a proposal or interest in the quake scene. I’ve been playing quake for literally half of my life, it’s in my blood, I love this fucking game and I hope that I will always save some little time for it.

But enough with the “cool story bro” I guess most of you are in the same situation :), so let me tell you the story of my people :D.

We call ourselves the “ Romanian Quake League” :P and after a couple of online cups we decided to hold a LAN like in the good old days. The newschoolers of our community that came in contact with quake only from QuakeLive never went to LANs so we thought it will bring them joy and to be honest we also missed the LAN Party feeling :D.

With this in mind we searched for an internet caffe that could meet the necessary requirements (spots available, 120hz monitors etc) to hold a proper QuakeLive tournament.
We were lucky and we found such a place close to Bucharest downtown, with easy access for everyone. Everybody liked the place and the event so much that we decided to hold a second one. You would say that it wasn't a real LAN :) and you are right, but from the icaffe we pinged stable 5-6 ms to Bucharest servers so closest to lan conditions as possible.
Both of the tournaments had the same format and consisted in two cups: Duel and 2v2 CA (draft teams).

The first LAN event was held on the 15th of December 2012 and gathered 25 quakers from all over the country. But like they say a picture is worth a thousand words I’ll let the images speak.
Here you can find pictures from the RQL LAN #1.


The second LAN event was held in the same location on the 20th of April 2013 and like the first edition we filled all the spots at the icaffe. We have the pics to prove it right here :).


Demos from the semis and grand final can be found here.

We had prizes at every cup we held, but money is not important, we play for the love of the game :). After every cup we celebrate and if we don't held cups, at least once every two months we gather and drink till the bartenders kick our asses from the pub :D. The beauty of our small, elitist community is that all of us are friends with each other and we enjoy hanging out and party together. We are like a big family, or at least i like to see it this way :).

We are planning to do a fall edition, if there's interest from you guys we can stream the event with live coverage but with romanian-english potat accent :))).

Special thanks to SyncError for granting us league admin privileges to one of our accounts so we could spawn multiple premium servers.

The rest of the love goes to all of the people that keep this religion alive!

Quake !!