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Return to Castle Warwitch tonight! (No comments)

( News: ESR)

Posted by ZeD_ @ 12:31 CST, 25 November 2012 - iMsg

As we all know it's sunday night and sunday night is for some Return to Castle Wolfenstein action! Tonight is a bit special show since there's quite few surprises for the viewers, to find out which, well in that case you MUST tune in to the stream at 20.00 CET!

So moving on, tonight we will see 2 matches.

1st starting at 21.30CET -

badazz vs.

HighBot
and the 2nd match starting 22.30CET between no other than

mortis vs.

squad.ee !

GamesTV.org information:

http://www.gamestv.org/event/36428-badazz-vs-highbot
&
http://www.gamestv.org/event/36512-team-mortis-vs-k1ck-esports

*** http://www.twitch.tv/warwitchtv ***

So make sure you tune in at 20.00 CET! Both matches will be streamed by

WarWitch and this weeks maps are mp_beach & mp_village !
Grab your pringles and coke. Sit back, relax and enjoy the show! Official RtCW channel @ quakenet is #rtcw.wars .

Links:

http://clanbase.ggl.com/news_league.php?lid=12928
http://www.twitch.tv/warwitchtv

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rapha talks post-DH final (64 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 05:12 CST, 25 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: DHW'12

Following an unsuccessful attempt at defending his DreamHack crown

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson spoke to me in a video interview.

Some of the topics we discussed:
- Facing

k1llsen in the quarter-final
- Beating

av3k yet again in a series.
- rapha's perspective on av3k's strengths as a dueler.
- tourney7 and how it fits rapha's style.
- IPL, Shootmania and rapha's future in QL dueling.

Video interview

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vZ.ZER042H: The Movie | QL by v1v24 (10 comments)

( Movie: ESR)

Posted by v1v24 @ 17:55 CST, 24 November 2012 - iMsg




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Rating: 6.8 (19 votes)

- New Quake Live Duel Frag Movie!
- Mini-Epic Film!

It's frags by ZER042H and fast montage by me.

Music: Jack Wall, Peter Gabriel and Two Steps From Hell.

Instruments: Wolfcam QL, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Sony Vegas, Ripbot.

Original videofile: Length 2.57, Format MP4, Codec x264, Framerate 30x20 FPS*BF, Resolution 1280x720, Size 175 Mb.

Movie File - Stream () 0MB
- YouTube.com (51 clicks)
Movie File - Download (vZZer042h The Movie.mp4) 175MB
- MaverickServers.com (11 clicks)
- Narod.ru (4 clicks)

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Fragged by Masuilis | Quake Live Movie (1 comment)

( Movie: QL)

Posted by v1v24 @ 17:47 CST, 24 November 2012 - iMsg




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Rating: 4.8 (11 votes)

New Quake Live TDM Movie

Frags: Masuilis
Editing: v1v24

Music:
John Lord Fonda - Music is not computer algebra
Miss Kittin - Requiem for a hit

Soft:
WolfcamQL 8.5
Adobe After Effects CS4
Sony Vegas 9
Ripbot

Length: 3.34
Codec: x264
Framerate: 30 FPS
Resolution: 1280x720

Movie File - Stream () 0MB
- YouTube.com (29 clicks)
Movie File - Download (Fragged by Masuilis.mp4) 211MB
- MaverickServers.com (4 clicks)
- Narod.ru (0 clicks)

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ClanBase EuroCup XXVI Quarterfinals (33 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 04:54 CST, 24 November 2012 - iMsg

After smooth and surprising group stage, all 6 finalists are known. Team

sitto is waiting winner from first quarter final game and team

le from second one, to play in semi finals.

Quarter finals

13:00 CST, 4 December 2012 | l0w 3-0 PlanB - (Match report)
13:00 CST, 4 December 2012 | 102 3-0 Unknown - (Match report)

Stream: LevelUp TV
Links:

EC XXVI, Rules, Playoffs, Roster,

#clanbase.ql

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SPARTACUP #2 BOMB 5on5! (7 comments)

( News: ESR)

Posted by Pikkuinz @ 04:36 CST, 24 November 2012 - iMsg

Time to gather some war§ow bomb material !

Name: Sparta BOMB cup #1
Game: Warsow 1.02
Time: 15:00 CET, 25 November 2012
Gametype: 5on5 BOMB
Format: Group Stage / single elim bracket
Signup/Check-in: Signups end and check-in ends at 14:59 !!!
Maps: wbomb1 | wbomb2 | wbomb4 | wbomb6 | emsummer
Servers: TBA
Streaming: TBA

IRC: #spartacup @ quakenet

CUP PAGE

form and sign your teams/mix asap !

find mates playing warsow and participating to pickups on #warsow.pickup !

#warsow & the national ones are good source too !

spread the word everywhere u can ! :p

DEMOPACK/VODS/STREAMING all in!

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Dreamhack Winter 2012 - Day 3 (641 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 15:30 CST, 23 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: DHW'12

Scheduled: 09:00 CST, 24 November 2012 to 10:00 CST, 24 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

Tomorrow is the final day of DreamHack Winter 2012. There's only one game left to be played and that's ofcourse the Grand Finals! The finals will start at 10:00 CDT. Follow the Grand Final thorugh DreamHack.tv (exact link will be added asap).

More information can be found in the ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post. There's also a tournament website with the groups and brackets.

Grand Final

Live Scores

Previous Results

Group Results

Group A
Rapha 3 - 0 empish (t7: 19-4, hk: 23-6, sl: 28-2, tx: - , ztn: - )
bat4dead 0 - 3 nicerdicer (tx: 2-37 t7: 4-23, hk: 5-47 , lw: - , ztn: - )
Rapha 3 - 0 nicerdicer (tx: 11-(-1), t7: 13-3, hk: 20-3, lw: - , ztn: - )
bat4dead 0 - 3 empish (tx: (-2)-40, t7: 1-22, hk: 1-26, sl: - , aw: - )
Rapha 3-0 bat4dead (ztn: 33-1, sl: 27-(-3), aw: 35-(-1), t7: - , lw: - )
empish 3-1 nicerdicer (tx: 9-26, hk: 10-8, aw: 10-9, t7: 6-4, lw: - )

Standing:
1. Rapha, 2. empish, 3. nicerdicer, 4. bat4dead

Group B
Cypher 3 - 0 draven (tx: 22 - 3, t7: 7-4, ztn: 8-4, aw: - , sl: - )
pavel 3 - 0 snapphanen (tx: 36-(-1), ztn: 21-0, lw: 27-0, aw: - , t7: - )
Cypher 3 - 0 snapphanen (sl: 24-2, lw: 20-2, hk: 44-5, t7: - , tx: - )
pavel 3 - 0 draven (hk: 28-12, ztn: 9-3, tx: 20-4, aw: - , t7: - )
Cypher 3-1 pavel (t7: 8-4, aw: 13-6, lw: 0-2 , ztn: 5-4 , hk: - )
draven 3-0 snapphanen (sl: 25-3, lw: 22-2, ztn: 31-3 , aw: - , tx: - )

Standing:
1. Cypher, 2. pavel, 3. draven, 4. snapphanen

Group C
Av3k 3-0 fire_bot (hk: 22-0, t7: 8-2, aw: 15-1, lw: - , ztn: - )
Spart1e 3-0 cooke (aw: 41-0, ztn:33-1, hk:44-3 )
Av3k 3-2 Spart1e (ztn: 18-8, hk: 16-19, t7:6-5, sl: 9-18, aw: 16-12 )
fire_bot 3-0 cooke (ztn: 27-2, aw: 23-0, lw: 20-0, hk: - )
Av3k 3-0 cooke (ztn: 23-3, lw: 21-8, t7: 14-10 )
Spart1e 3-0 fire_bot (hk: 10-3, ztn: 10-1, sl: 11-2, t7:, aw: )

Standing:
1. Av3k, 2. Spart1e, 3. fire_bot, 4. cooke

Group D
k1llsen 3-0 Madix (lw: 8-3, sl: wo, ztn: 23-(-2) , hk: - , tx: - )
evil 3-0 ninzie (ztn: 20-8, lw: 18-3 , t7: 21-7, sl: , tx: )
k1llsen 3-0 ninzie (sl: 43-3, ztn: 21-1, hk: 46-(-2), aw: - , t7: - )
evil 3-0 Madix (ztn: 13-9, t7: 11-5, sl: 15-5, lw: - , hk: - )
k1llsen 2-3 evil (ztn: 24-1, hk: 11-15, t7: 8-6, sl: 2-12, tx: 6-9 )
Madix 3-0 ninzie (ztn: 19-0, lw: 26-3, tx: 32-0, t7:, aw: )

Standing:
1. evil, 2. k1llsen, 3. Madix, 4. ninzie

Quarter Final Results:

av3k 3-1 pavel (ztn: 5-2, lw: 7-8, t7: 10-0, aw: 16-11, tx: - )
Rapha 3-1 k1llsen (lw: 11-6, sl: 7-5, aw: 5-15, hk: 17-2, tx: - )
Cypher 3-0 empish (hk: 22-8, tx: 27-8, aw: 31-4)
evil 3-1 Spart1e (aw: 26-11, ztn: 9-6, hk: 18-7, t7: 16-(-1), sl: - )

Semi Final Results:

av3k 0-3 Rapha (ztn: 1-6, hk: 0-14, t7: 2-4, lw: - , tx: - )
Cypher 2-3 evil (ztn: 5-8, t7: 1-7, lw: 2-1, aw: 9-8, tx: (-2)-16)

Final Standings

Configs, huds and demos can be found on trance.gg.
Demos of the finals along with a pack including all demos will be posted tomorrow after the finals.

Thanks to Dreamhack, the sponsors Kingston HyperX, Plantronic GameCom & Twitch.TV, the streamers and ofcourse the players for a very good tournament!

Configs / demos: trance.gg (Updated with all demos)
Video on demand: Day 1, Day 2
International Coverages:

E-Sport France,

Good Game.ru

IRC:

#DreamHack.Quake,

#leveluptv
Official Links: ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post, Tournament website
Streams: DreamHack.tv (Grand Final @ DreamHack TV)

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FACEIT QL Sunday Cup #9 (112 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by roychez @ 12:42 CST, 23 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: FACEIT

Scheduled: 08:00 CST, 25 November 2012 to 12:00 CST, 25 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

The FACEIT Quake Live Sunday Cup #9 is coming up this weekend! Previous edition we saw a final between pavel and baksteen, which was won by the former.

This Sunday Cup will be a challenge for some of the newer players, as most of the big dogs are still in Sweden for DreamHack. We will keep the map pool the same as previous weeks this Sunday, but for the next edition we will look at it again. It will kick off at 09:00 CDT and check-ins open at 08:00 CDT. Sign-ups are currently already open.

The stream will be hosted by

Daniel "ddk" Kapadia and

Xavier "Zoot" Dhorne. It will kick off at 09:30 CDT.

Map Pool

Rules

Final Standings

Note: If you are having problems logging in, go to FACEIT.com, log in (right top) and then click the link in the post.

Stream:

FACEIT TV
Links: FACEIT, Bracket //

#FACEIT,

FACEITCommunity,

@FACEITcom

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Fragged by Masuilis | Quake Live Movie (8 comments)

( News: QL)

Posted by v1v24 @ 08:07 CST, 23 November 2012 - iMsg

New Quake Live TDM Movie

Frags: Masuilis
Editing: v1v24

Music:
John Lord Fonda - Music is not computer algebra
Miss Kittin - Requiem for a hit

Soft:
WolfcamQL 8.5
Adobe After Effects CS4
Sony Vegas 9
Ripbot

Length: 3.34
Codec: x264
Framerate: 30 FPS
Resolution: 1280x720

YouTube.com
Narod.ru

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Nexuiz €4000 Tournament (27 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by therogue @ 04:08 CST, 23 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: Nexuiz €4000 + FFA

The ESL together with the developers, Illfonic, are happy to announce a €4000 tournament for Nexuiz.

Following on from the update earlier this week which brought high performance UGLY mode and made the previously pay DLC a part of the regular game, the developers are eager to try to jump-start a competitive community for the game.

Nexuiz is currently in the Steam autumn sale for €5 (half price) or €15 for the 4 pack.

Nexuiz €4000 Tournament breakdown

Early sign up is open here. When the dates of the cups have been fixed the post will be updated and everyone signed up will be mailed.

Illfonic, the small studio behind the game, have been working hard on improving the game since it's release in May. Their aim is to bring deathmatch back into the spotlight, with a fast, fun and visually attractive game built on the latest CryENGINE 3.

Links: ESL, Nexuiz, Steam

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DreamHack Winter 2012 - Day 2 (525 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 15:58 CST, 22 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: DHW'12

Scheduled: 05:00 CST, 23 November 2012 to 14:00 CST, 23 November 2012
Schedule: Passed

The second day of DreamHack Winter 2012 is starting tomorrow, 07:00 CDT 23 November 2012, with the playoffs. All the Quarter- and Semi finals will be played one by one.

More information can be found in the ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post. There's also a tournament website with the groups and brackets.

Playoffs schedule

Live Scores

Update: The VODs from day 1 are up! Gallery by

nicerdicer from day 1.

IRC:

#DreamHack.Quake,

#leveluptv
Official Links: ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post, Tournament website
Streams: DreamhackQL, DreamHackQL (Russian), DreamHackQL (No cast)
Fixtures: Grand Final

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Dreamhack Winter 2012 - Day 1 (271 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 03:08 CST, 22 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: DHW'12

DreamHack Winter 2012 is starting today at 05:00 CST, 22 November 2012 with the group stage of the duel tournament.

More information can be found in the ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post. There's also a tournament website with the groups and brackets.

Updates: Unfortunately

matr0x dropped out last minute and was replaced by

DRz.bat4dead.

DRz.L33gend also dropped out, he was replaced by

ninzie

Group Stage Schedule

Live Scores

IRC:

#DreamHack.Quake,

#leveluptv
Official Links: ESR DreamHack Winter 2012 Coverage post, Tournament website
Streams: DreamhackQL, DreamHackQL (Russian), DreamHackQL (No cast)

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HoQ TDM Divisions Released (23 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Williebobc @ 10:37 CST, 21 November 2012 - iMsg

Dear guys and gals! The current 4v4 Team Deathmatch league divisions have been published here and the games are scheduled to start at 14:00 CST, 29 November 2012 with a massive 46 teams participating.

Please take your time to read the rules and prepare yourselves for a fun and exciting season! Admins for this season will be williebobc (me), Drayan and frs. Should anyone require assistance or additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us in

#HoQLeagues

We will try to cover as many games as possible on our stream @ HoQtv and also will gladly assist any other streamer(s) to cover as many games as we can, if you would like to cover some games please can you contact me/drayan as soon as possible!

Additional notice for streamers

Streams: HoQ on own3d.tv, HoQ on twitch.tv, LvL^

Links: HoQ, Live.QL,

HouseofQuake,

@HouseofQuake,

HoQLeagues,

#HoQLeagues

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Nexuiz : Duel goes free, UGLY mode & ESL (56 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by therogue @ 09:44 CST, 21 November 2012 - iMsg

Event: Nexuiz €4000 + FFA

Nexuiz, the other fast-paced deathmatch game of 2012, released a big update yesterday which among other things included two big improvements for competitive play: the Duel mode DLC has been made free, and a new UGLY mode to give you picmip style performance over shiny graphics.

Also in yesterday's update: added support for up to 32 players, three new levels and STUPID mode for benchmarking with DX 11 and uncompressed textures.

The ESL have partnered with Illfonic, the small studio behind the game, to host a series of prize winning cups and help them gather more feedback on how to make the game better. They have been working hard on improving the game since it's release in May. More details will be announced soon.

Their aim is to bring deathmatch back into the spotlight, with a fast, fun and visually attractive game built on the latest CryENGINE 3.

Improvements since release

A demo is now available on Steam, giving you the full game for 30 minutes a day.

Links: Nexuiz, Steam, ESL

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MAME Player won Donkey Kong Tournament (16 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by Badb0y @ 08:19 CST, 21 November 2012 - iMsg

On the weekend a Classic Arcade Tournament with Donkey Kong was held in Denver. DK is a simple looking game but hard to master. An average beginner overlives one minute on the first screen. The game has four different screens (barrel, pie, elevator, rivet) and that was a sensation at the release in 1982. What the game makes so hard is to control barrels (barrel controling with randomness) and avoid the unpredictable flame patterns.

Since the movie documentary 'King of Kong' (wiki, imdb, movie on youtube) from 2007 was released the game got a new attraction. Since then the gamestyle has changed because it was discovered that the game has a kill screen aka end screen (youtube) and new players started playing because of the popular movie. The goal is to hit a new worldrecord. For a new highscore a good strategy is needed, and luck. DK Experts believe a score between 1,2 - 1,4 million points is possible. To do a perfect DK game the kill screen must be seen. This happens at the start of Level 22. Normaly the points of this kind of game are between 900.000 and 1 million and the game length is around 2,5 hours.

These new DK players that started about three years ago, are PC MAME players using mostly keyboard. The winner of the Kong Off 2 Tournament is Jeff Willms, coming directly from MAME. According to donkeykongblog, Willms never played before on a arcade machine and could adapt to the arcade controls. The worldrecord highscore wasnt touched this time, but the tournament got many kill screens so that alone is history.

Sidenote: If you wanna found out about the "first progamers" check out another documentary called 'Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade' on youtube. It didnt end well.

Links: Kong Off 2 Coverage, VOD's (kongoff, kongoff1, kongoff2)

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