1. Best Comeback

Match: K1llsen vs. DaHang on Toxicity (Day 1 - Groupstage)
Link: http://trance.gg/Quake-demos/DHW13/Demos/Groups/B/Round%204/ESCk1llsen(POV)-vs-PointDaHanG-toxicity-2013_11_28-16_51_56.dm_73
Pov: K1llsen
Time-stamp: from 6min on.

VOD: http://www.twitch.tv/dreamhackql/b/483484677?t=5h15m

rapha came back from 12-0 or 13-0 in aerowalk versus somebody like killsen or dahang didn't he

no

Best comeback

Match: Rapha vs Evil on tox in semi final
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIO_AgBjmfU&t=6m08s
Pov: Rapha
Time: 6 min on

2. Best Match

kRoNic vs Camma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpceQKwfW6A

:D

fucking tense nailbiter and a brilliant showcase of different playstyles.

best game, hands down

great games, specially T7. This one has the plus that was a direct matchup for the qualification.

Twister vs Plazma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7HUolEDPsU

was very fun to watch :D

Wow great games!!.. havent watched them earlier, thanks for the heads up!!

cypher vs rapha

I just love this match up

Ph4ntom vs Rapha, especially ztn.
http://youtu.be/nY2xrzcNm-4
Do you love sick rockets? C'mon maan!

Cypher v Rapha

TitancYpheR(POV)-vs-SK-rapha-aerowalk-2013_11_30-20_09_01.dm_73

(http://trance.gg/Quake-demos/DHW13/Demos/Playoffs/5%20-%20Final/)

Grand Final Cypher vs rapha.

Cypher vs Rapha on lost world no doubt

Spartie vs Ph4ntom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VOh3HXz6xY

want to shout some "Whaaaat"? watch this

This. Was tense as fuck match.

3. Best Unexpected Performance

no_il: taking a map from spartie and others!

Ye i somehow managed to make a 6 frag comeback on the last 2-3 minutes of my cure match vs spartie. I think I was the only low seed to take a map off a top seed, I don't think anyone was expecting that, especially not me.

I would still have to vote for my mate plazma for most unexpected performance.

phantom maybe, dunno what people expected but to me he looked better than expected

i tought he was close to that level of play. Too bad he hit a solid 0% in every whole first second of his lg in every fight. Also the Rail looked off.

plazma: beating both twister and matr0x - something I think barely anyone expected.

ph4ntom was extremely good considering he doesnt have the opportunity to practice with the european 1337. i thought he would be roflstomped.

Cooller for not dropping a single map during the tournament?

Didn't he essentially win almost nothing except a map off rapha? :/

thats not the point. he performed extremely well coming from not europe/ not america and i would go as far as claiming he has champion potential would he only live and play with/near the leet people

He performed worse than he was expected to by average esr posters and pretty much exactly as he was expected by actual ql duelers. Why would he get an unexpected performance award?

You love to contradict in your own sentences, don't you?

that's like your opinion man

nop, fact. just look at this fixture.

Yeah sorry that my expectations on ph4ntom didn't fit the popular one, stop annoying me.

Hehe ye, to hell with this fact thing. Let's give out the awards according to your uninformed opinion.

sigh your snobbery is tiring. A good deal of chat folk showed similar surprise, ph4ntom taught a bunch a lesson that day I guess.

edit: also you underperformed severely before the tournament that will surely have influenced the odds on this one.

Surely I should get the award then.

You should get a lot more than that.

Plazma, Gienon and Etty (in this order)

People were talking about Aussies, Southafricans, Sting, Matr0x, Fazz etc, but almost no one mentioned these 3 to cause upsets or even go out of the groups. No would be also a good choice, but I think mentioned above deserve it more.

I wouldn't consider gienon and etty upsets. Everyone who follows the duel scene closely knows they are good players. Their group had evil and avek who were obviously going through and then sting and detrony competing for 3rd/4th place who were two of the weaker (maybe even weakest) top seeds. If you look at predictions from the group drawing threads they are very mixed with many predicting etty or gienon.

Much more unexpected imo:
Plazma obviously who beat me, ph4ntom and matrox to place 3rd in the group.

Bpatela who beat Lars, Sothis and Zeun handily and played close against all of Fazz, Tox, Fraze and Dem0n in particular almost beating Fazz (3-2 on maps, 3-2 loss on ztn).

No_il - 1700-1800 elo online, never any sort of victories against good players. Comes to lan and beats me, matrox and plazma on hub, also takes cure against spart1e.

> Bpatela who beat Lars, Sothis and Zeun handily

I was always under the impression(from the way that ppl on ESR and shoutcasters talked, in general) that Bpatela would have been expected to defeat those three, anyway? ??

Not saying that *I* thought this, but, that's the impression I have gotten. Perhaps I am wrong, though. :D

Against zeun yes, against sothis and lars I would say he may have been slight favorite aswell. The unexpected part for me were the tense games against the high and top seeds.

Ahh, I see :D

About Etty and Gienon - yeah, their group was quite certainly easier, but I don't think there were many people who said before tournament that Gienon will beat Sting (he actually didn't, but placed higher in the group).

Bpatela - I kind of expected him to play well. I just checked, he was top8 in september 125 fps league and top12 in october. He got really unlucky with drawings, dem0n and Fraze were top4 from top seeds (with k1llsen and +one).

About No - I just checked his results, he's great on hub, but he got crushed on almost every other map besides few. One map vs Spart1e is not enough even if you're such an underdog like him.

Anyway, probably Plazma will take it :D

Thanks, I definitely surprised myself as well, still I would have to give the award for most unexpected performance to plazma. Bpatela played really well and out all the players who didn't advance to group stage he diffidently deserved it the most, still I can't say I wasn't expecting such a performance by him though.

I managed to make a 5 or 6 frag comeback against spartie on cure in less then 3 minutes, maybe I should try and submit for best comeback although I feel like he wasn't playing up to his normal standard and it was more of an unexpected upset (considering I'm the only low seed to take a map off a top seed) then a great match so I'm not sure if I want to submit myself just yet. I'd anyways donate the money back to faceit/125fps or some other quake related cause if I were to actually win it.

i actually said before the event be aware of etty because he usually plays on a 1hz monitor so on LAN he can actually gain superpowers. So yeah, i'm awesome

Natalia

Phantom

Evil is the most unexpected performance though. wether u were waiting for him in the finals, or dismissed him below top4 - everyone guessed wrong.

hi yellack

i still want to know what happened in the evil/rapha match.

evil lost

his brain malfunctioned, he went full retard, later vs avek in bronze final he was ice cold killing machine once again though. weirdest shit ever.

illuminati made him do it

Evil is not complaining anywhere, not making excuses, for he is a man of few words and high integrity, but it has become known that smth went wrong with his keyboard.
FaceIt didn't iview Evil, and here in Russia he's busy with his job, pretty much never available for iviews either.

You really couldn't type the word "something"?

Such high integrity that when the game resumed he took all major items to leave Rapha with no control? Yes, such integrity indeed!

Plazma for sure, he lost only vs two beastly favourites at group stage, and pretty easy manage to reach top3 in his group.

plazmaister

plazma by far

plazma

Player: bpatela - hands down the most awesome performance from this guy. I did not expect him to play such close matches against high and top seeds. Also he confidently mowed down me, brescia and zeun, and every one of us 3 played quite good too, but still not poaing that big of a challenge for him. My vote is for him

bratela. he did amazing, shame he was in the hardest group.

I was surprised by Detrony. Expected to see low seed play, but he took down Sting, won a map with Evil and his games were nice to watch overall... But still most unexpected was Plazma :)

4. Best Frag

There probably were better ones but:
Match: Twister vs Ph4ntom
Link: http://trance.gg/Quake-demos/DHW13/Demos/Groups/D/Round%202/c%5d-)twister(POV)-vs-%5bnDc%5dPh4ntom-bloodrun-2013_11_28-21_21_16.dm_73
POV: twister
Time-stamps: 4:03, 5:20

Match: Cypher vs Dahang
Link: http://trance.gg/Quake-demos/DHW13/Demos/Groups/B/Round%207/TitancYpheR(POV)-vs-PointDaHanG-toxicity-2013_11_29-20_14_24.dm_73
POV: Cypher
Time-stamp: 8:42 (VOD link)

an exact link to the frag in the vod


I especially like phantoms "uuuaaaargh"

http://youtu.be/J5GD6aStvsw?t=21m5s

uuuaaaargh (c) Ph4ntom

God damn, that sound is so funny, someone needs to sample that.

K1llsen
http://youtu.be/H0opWvKgOnM?t=7m1s
http://youtu.be/H0opWvKgOnM?t=43m31s

I like the first one, would love to see it from killsens pov

that second one was too epic

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the second one looks like "4% lg in close range fight? fuck it im gonna solve it with rail"

Match: Cypher vs Rapha
Link: http://youtu.be/aOtiCAiu0sQ?t=38m7s
POV: Rapha (would have to get the demo for Cypher's POV)
Time-stamp: 38:10 on youtube, about 5:05 in-game

Yep, that was insane.

Match: fazz vs tox
Link: http://trance.gg/Quake-demos/DHW13/Demos/Groups/A/Round%206/ictox(POV)-vs-fazz-furiousheights-2013_11_29-18_58_07.dm_73
Pov: fazz
Time-Stamp: 1:18

Best frag
Ph4ntom vs Spartie
Ph4ntom pov
http://youtu.be/4VOh3HXz6xY?t=12m30s
8:50 of map 1

hahahaha, brilliant

thats not really impressive imo.

Perhaps not amazing air rockets or whatever, but 3 crucial rockets and some serious lg dodging changing the outcome of the match. But each to their own :)

ok true, it was sick play. but more a showcase of gamesense rather than aim. hmm, of course one could argue that these aspects should be included in "best frag" category.

however, in context of the other posted frags: this shouldnt be #1.

Match: Cypher vs rapha
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtiCAiu0sQ&t=6m50s
POV: Cypher
Time-stamp: 0:06:50 (VOD) 5:00 (game)

Match: gienon(POV) vs sting
Timestamped YT link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxBGpW_70k&t=7m15s
Timestamp: 2nd map (ZTN), 6:10

If all else fails, just plasma.

Match: gienon(POV) vs sting
Timestamped YT link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxBGpW_70k&t=13m50s
Timestamp: 4th map (T7), 1:55

i would vote for the second link that was nasty. respect

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Best Frag

Match: Ph4ntom vs. Spart1e (Map3)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VOh3HXz6xY&t=34m35s
POV: Ph4ntom
Time-stamp: 8:35 (demo), 34m35s (VOD)

Match: luukets vs detrony
Link: www.trance.gg/Quake-demos/DHW13/Demos/Groups/...6_19.dm_73
POV: luukets
Time-stamp: 7:23 (game)

"If all else fails, just plasma."
if all else fails, just grenate launcher

Match: kr0nic vs. _gory
Link: http://www46.zippyshare.com/v/59018821/file.html
POV: _gory
Time-stamp: 8:20

Match: kr0nic vs. _gory
Link: http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/12739805/file.html
POV: _gory
Time-stamp: 2:20

Match: k1llsen vs. _gory
Link: http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/49001196/file.html
POV: _gory
Time-stamp: 4:22

kronic 1st frag on t7 vs camma

http://youtu.be/CpceQKwfW6A?t=35m41s

thanks

Santa mvp

Indeed.
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A week has passed and the memories of the matches have died down a bit, atleast for me. Id have to watch some vods to pick a nominee.

Best comeback: Nataliya recovering after not asking about the arm

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SO all of this is supposed to be biased toward the lower skilled contenders? Obv best matches are in the top 4, same for best come back etc.

kinda stupid to see plazma kronik and others applying, the way i understood it, it was not supposed to be charity. All that, in the end sounds bad. Sorry had to say it.

well.. that's like your opinion, man

You are wrong. Rapha vs evil was one of the worst games of the entire tournament and it was a semi final.

who's nataliya btw?

interviewer

Off topic, but the playoffs were a bit of a disappointment, no? Final and rapha/dahang the only five mappers, and all other games 3:0 with only one other exception, if I recall correctly. This means 13 3:0 games versus 2 five and one four mapper.

many 3:0s were actually 3 very close games iirc

Maybe, but tox/evil, evil/rapha and avek/cypher were real, anticlimatic bummers. Spartie seemed to underperform, too. Not meaning to indulge in wild speculation here, but my feeling was that our (naturally fragile?) pro player heroes might not have been comfortable.

what do you mean by not comfortable? some people who had never been to a lan before performed far better than anyone expected, and as for the pro heroes, adapting to the LAN and performing is part of what defines them being a pro anyway. The only instance of someone being visibly uncomfortable was evil when playing vs rapha. He just went apeshit.

Just a hunch, might be anything. Monitors, surroundings, atmosphere, whatever. Newcomers probably being more resistant of course, because they're excited enough to be on a lan anyway, and lacking the comparison.

But as said, just wild speculation.

Wait! Now I know what's been lacking .... COOLLER!

Call me lazy but I don't feel like putting in entries for any one of those awards. I dont mind if you, memento_mori take my donation.
Even though it's only €15.

You deserve it nonetheless, all the stuff you've done for the quake community!

tl;dr Dont expect any entry from me, so you can have ze monies.

Best regards,
RAW-fragv

e: i realize i look like a dick like this.. i appreciate the work you put into the awards and am thankful for it, just not going to watch demos and vods :D

You're just being lazy!

All to Cooller please.

DreamHack's VODs on YouTube:

Best unexpected performance goes to plazma! =D

Best Unexpected Performance
Player: sws.bpatela !

Best Unexpected Performance
Player: sws.bpatela d^_^b

1. Best comeback - CYPHER
2. Best match - CYPHER
3. Best unexpected performance - CYPHER
4. Best frag - CYPHER

Best unexpected performance? wat Q(°_°Q)

Best comeback

K&lsen VS Dahang on Toxicity (match 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0opWvKgOnM

Plazma passing his group in 3rd place wasnt even unexpected if you knew his game(and group)

Etty was way more unexpected imo.

The whole problem here is that this nominations are as subjective as you can get because of depending on what were somebody's expectations. I kinda like it and hope there will be some voting (I actually don't know whether there is going to be a poll or the judges will make decisions by themselves).

zliveFazz

Yes I agree. I just wanted to share my opinion. I played em both quite alot and knew they would most likely both pass their groups. However etty looked really solid and played better under pressure so I personally was more impressed with that from a "underdog" prespective.

It's good to see your opinion, as you played them and attended the event with them you have good foundations to draw up one :D

i agree with your opinion about fazz'sszszszsss opinion, so my vote is etty for unexpected performance.

gory for byuing trips ticket for pure rampage

Any kind of conclusion?

Yes, post is coming!

Ph4ntom

Ph4ntom - Best Rockets of the Tourney!