Posted by Asuka_ @ 21:57 CDT, 16 March 2018 - iMsg
"We’re happy to announce that BEAT esports will be hosting the Quake BEAT Invitational featuring some of the best players in EU! on March 23 – 25 live on twitch. The event is sponsored by Soylent, AMD and Twitch."
Friday 23rd March – Group A (STARTING 18:00 CET)
18:00 CET – Cypher vs Spart1e
18:45 CET – K1llsen vs Xron
19:30 CET – Spart1e vs K1llsen
20:15 CET – Cypher vs Xron
21:00 CET – Spart1e vs Xron
21:45 CET – Cypher vs K1llsen
Saturday 24th March – Group B (Starting 16:00 CET)
16:00 CET – Raisy vs Av3k
16:45 CET – Cooller vs Toxjq
17:30 CET – Toxjq vs Av3k
18:15 CET – Raisy vs Cooller
19:00 CET – Cooller vs Av3k
19:45 CET – Toxjq vs Raisy
Sunday 25th March – Play-offs (Starting 15:00 CET)
15:00 CET – Quarter Final #1
16:00 CET – Quarter Final #2
17:00 CET – Semi Final #1
18:00 CET – Semi Final #2
19:15 CET – Grand Final
Great news! 2bad there is no quali for this event as there are plenty of good players that can compete. Clawz, base, serious, venegeur, bukster, agent (eu / ru),.. As casters.. couldn't be better pick zoot and mister J. Kaplan <- dude has really a potential casting Quake. Hope to see him cast more quake in future with zoot. Looking forward to this to see cypher / k1llsen winning the tournament. My mind says that raisy will win. All three players <3 <3 :)
i can't understand how base, who was caught cheating in QL, also there are suspicions about him in QC, can still participate in quake tournaments and be respected among quakers.
vengeurr, bukster, serious and base have all been banned for cheating and are all now top players with a lot of shady moments in the past 4 months of online cups. online raisy is weird as fuck too.
A lot of negativity, but I am happy that there are more tournaments. Now we need one model and physics for classic duel mode and the game will start to have potential.
Cypher could literally retire and some people would still have him as favorite in any tournament.
Particularly absurd since in the last part of his ql career he was heavily underrated and dismissed at every tournament he took part into;
He then moved on to another game, came back to quake champions, did nothing of note, was beat up by people that in quake live wouldn't even see him on the map, and somehow there's always someone saying he's gonna win.
There are at least 5 players better than him in this tournament alone (at least going by their performance in quake champions so far); and some more in the whole community.
Not to mention, he's still playing on wmo. The last tournament's flop didn't teach him anything. Even Rapha moved on.
That doesn't mean he needs to win in order to be favourite player. I like him as a player / person and his unique style. For me personally, cypher is the best player in Quake. If he put that amount of hours to quake as Raisy, Rapha, Pikawa or Agent he would have been unstoppable.
But you're admitting you rate him this high only based on irrational personal preferences. That's my point, i like him too, and i think he's a wasted potential, but anyone who claims he's the top in quake champions is only saying so based on emotions because the facts so far point out that for whatever reasons Cypher is far from being even top 3 in quake champions. Maybe it's just not his game.
no, he's not using wmo anymore, he said after quakecon he will nerver use it back.
now he use some logitech, u can see on his stream...
I agree with careem, I know that in quake champions is not having great results (not just him, talking about old pro quakers too), though I'd rather see him rather than raisy, clawz, rapha etc
No, they managed to throw those moneys in the trash bin. It's too much even, considering how this tournament will have the same 3-400 old school spectators. Watching the tournament for the players, not for the game.
It will have 2000 + live viewers as they have 40.000 followers on their twitch and I'm pretty sure of those 40k followers 400 will follow that tournament. After all, we have big names in this tournament. We can expect 3/4 active scene watching this tournament so we will see 2000+ live viewers for sure, if not more.
Watching streams is at the moment the only way to experience champions.. with 4 servers selected in EU queueing for 1on1 and 2on2 is taking 30 minutes currently if you are lucky.
Wished they didn't destroy tdm though so I could play not ranked.. but thats now CA like and shitty.
Hehe. Damn, cant wait to see av3k in action. Hope he played much more quake than before. I hope he will be top 3. I love his style almost more than Cyphers
Didn't expect k1llsen to go down so easily tho, I guess there goes another one who stopped caring about quake champs? shame because he was one the best
A few pros mentioned after DHW that they weren't going to practice QC exclusively without any further tournaments announced with prizemoney. This includes at least Killsen, Cooller, Noctis I think.
Most pros aren't training as hard as they could because what's the point, if every paramenter changes on a weekly basis?
You have to constantly re-learn and adapt to the "meta". It's frustrating and unrewarding for the pros, so they wait before torunaments to train and/or half ass it.
nice lineup - too bad i feel literally no hype at all watching qc duel even with names like toxjq in it. i just can not take the weird round-based format seriously, no matter how hard i try.
no rounds -> 30% more enjoyable (to play & watch)
no champs -> 70% more enjoyable (to play & watch)
brightskins and picmip -> 30% more enjoyable (to play & watch)
???? -> profit
that was the first time I saw that, got much more surprised when i realised that every clutch vs clutch leads to this. It happend like 5 times more later on. Fucking hilarious.
There was about 1100 or so during the live game. Anyhow 1100 is quite small, 2GD used to get more than that on his QL showmatches between 2 of europe's big names.
I dont find this game fun to play or watch. Waiting for diabotical at the moment.
Watching these games, this game is beyond stupid and beyond saving.
I can't think of a worse looking, playing or feeling Quake game. Even all the clones have done a better job of not compromising the game but I'm sure the id software and the yes men! will blame the community for pointing out how shallow and dull the gameplay is, how boring and uninspired the atheistic is.
From the very early CBT it was clear that there was (and continues to be) no meaningful way of collecting, sorting and prioritizing player complaints, bugs, and issues. There is an army of idiots trying to convince people to "not be negative in public" about the game because it might hurt player numbers (lol) lead by people like zoot and Makavelli. The common narrative is "Quake needs to change" yeah no shit, but this garbage is nothing but slap in the face of the Quake community who have supported this series for 20+ years.
Is anyone even aware of what Zero4 has done since got this job? Online scene: dead. LANs: dead.
look back to that dahang dhw compilation thread. makavelli unironically implies q3 is as dumbed down a game from the first two games as qc. compared to the oh so awesome walking simulator gameplay that was early q1/q2, but it's fine because it was timelimit 20, no clock and no q3 machinegun.
We could just vote ban Clutch for one week in 125fps and see how that goes, that would be the best way to make a statement. If that's what players want, just rally for it.