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DanDaKing: "I was going really crazy" (9 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by swine @ 13:50 CST, 4 March 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Five matches, two wins – sadly three losses. Fragster sat down at CeBIT for an interview with Daniel "dandaking" De Sousa and mickzerofive from 4seasonsGaming. They are not only talking about the group stage B and the really great chances for the australian eSport scene, but also their upcoming plans.

fragster: I'm here with dandaking from Australia. Daniel, yesterday you said something like "I need a minute – heart beating" in your ingame-chat – why, what was going on?

Daniel 'dandaking' de Sousa: Because I was up, i think, 7:1 at the start on t7 versus Spart1e and then he starts a comingback and it was 7:6 and I was like getting really nervous, because I was fright that he's gonna get the kill. And then I got a kill after that and I won 8:6 and I was going really crazy, because I can't believe it – I was in shock, I guess.

Links: Interview (German version), Fragster IEM Coverage, Quake @ Fragster

Edited by swine at 13:54 CST, 4 March 2011 - 10232 Hits

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Want to play Cooller in third place-game (13 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by swine @ 13:40 CST, 4 March 2011 - iMsg

Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira just attend on IEM World Championship Finals. He had a really good start at group stage, but lost at semifinals to the American Quake player

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson. In an interview with fragster, which has been made before the second semifinal he's talking about his preparation and other stuff.

Would you agree that it's a great job by yourself go straight ahead to the semifinals? You were able to participate in so many tournaments – often it works, sometimes you're going down really fast. Was it a highlight for you?

Spart1e: It depends, really. I'm not really happy with the fourth place, but if I manage to win the third place-game tomorrow and place third, then I will be happy about my performance. I played really bad actually in the semifinal against rapha today and if it's the same tomorrow I will be really disappointed about myself.

Interview: English version (German version), Fragster IEM Coverage, Quake @ Fragster

Edited by swine at 13:52 CST, 4 March 2011 - 5818 Hits

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IEM5 Finals - Day4 (906 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:10 CST, 4 March 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The playoff of the IEM5 World Championship Finals will be played from Thursday afternoon to Saturday morning. Below you can find the schedule and streaming informations.

For more details and links, please check the IEM5 World Championship Finals Coverage post. Results and VODs will be added to the coverage as soon as known.

Update: Day4 is over (all demos are up)! Check the VODs (Level Up & ESL TV) if you missed the action!

Day4 Schedule

Highlight videos (Days 1, 2 & 3)

Stream links

IRC:

#lvl^
Related: day1, day2

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Edited by xou at 02:02 CST, 5 March 2011 - 328460 Hits

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deKontamination - Church of Frag (30 comments)

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Posted by xou @ 05:26 CST, 4 March 2011 - iMsg




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satan_inside from Church of Frag just released a new movie after Spirit of Frag. This new video is called deKontamination. The editing feels well, the music fits the pace and the frags, without being impressive, does the job.

Description from the author

Source: Quakelive Forum

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- hotfile.com (32 clicks)

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Cooller: "I can show rapha some secrets" (26 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 15:37 CST, 3 March 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Following another 3:0 series win over

av3k, this time in the IEM V World Championship, the Russian maestro

Cooller spoke in a video interview about playing av3k and his next match vs.

Strenx.

Why has the Cooller-av3k matchup changed so much? Does Cooller agree with the theory that av3k plays worse against the one or two opponents who specifically neutralise his style? What does Cooller think of Strenx's interview comments and a matchup against him next? Would Cooller enjoy a repeat IEM final of him and

rapha?

The interview can be watched at SK Gaming.

Edited by xou at 02:24 CST, 4 March 2011 - 15212 Hits

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rapha feels confident ahead of sem-final (1 comment)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by @ 11:55 CST, 3 March 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

SK Gaming's Shane "rapha" Hendrixson is more than happy with his win over Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty and is looking forward to tomorrow's semi-finals which he feels confident he will win. Unfortunately, the Swede from Fnatic is not feeling the same and confided in Australia's dandaking reveals to ESFI World.

Tomorrow the tournament will head closer towards the sharp-end as the semi-finalists will be whittled down to two. Can Rapha win the Intel Extreme Masters twice in a row?

Interviews: SK-rapha, A-MSI dandaking

Edited by xou at 04:51 CST, 4 March 2011 - 7252 Hits

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rapha: feels like a deja vu (54 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 11:23 CST, 3 March 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

In the quarter-finals of the IEM V World Championship

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson ran into

DaHanG in the playoffs once again and once again the reigning champion emerged victorious. In this video interview he discussed his feat.

What moments jump out at rapha from his series with DaHanG? Is DaHanG a favourable matchup for him considering their history? Are players like

Spart1e better for rapha than people who play a very adaptive style? Is it fair to say rapha's side of the bracket is easier? Does rapha still feel like a favourite?

The interview can be watched at SK Gaming.

Edited by Thorin at 15:21 CST, 3 March 2011 - 24101 Hits

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ESL Bundesliga open to one more player (14 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by chzzen @ 07:47 CST, 3 March 2011 - iMsg

The

ESL Bundesliga is about to reach it's fourth play day but unfortunately one of the players dropped pretty much immediately: Former Warsow, Quake 4 and Quake Live ESL Pro Series player

BoBeL did not attend his first matches and got removed from the first league. This leaves one spot open that will be decided in tonight's Knockout Series 12 for another German speaking player coming from

Germany,

Austria,

Switzerland or

Liechtenstein.

Most anticipated participants are former ESL Pro Series player

mutz, best EAS winning streak holder

grave and Austrian national player

baker.

Cup details

Maps

Result

jaysson

grave

mutz

VODs:

Teamoxid TV Archive
Cup: Bracket, Official news
Related news: Readmore, Fragster, derQuaker.com, Teamoxid

Edited by chzzen at 17:17 CST, 3 March 2011 - 7017 Hits

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Strenx: Would be nice if [Cooller] lost (61 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 16:05 CST, 2 March 2011 - iMsg

After topping Group A at the IEM V World Championship

Kevin "strenx" Baeza discussed his group play, his Russian nemesis and looked to the playoffs.

How did Strenx manage to beat

av3k again? Why does the Frenchman think it "would be nice if [

Cooller] lost"? How did Strenx help

Spart1e beat Cooller in Group B? What is Strenx's take on

Cypher failing?

The interview can be watched at SK Gaming.

Edited by xou at 00:44 CST, 3 March 2011 - 23895 Hits

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Strenx 2010 (99 comments)

( Major Movie: QL)

Posted by h8m3 @ 11:06 CST, 2 March 2011 - iMsg




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Quake Live movie about

fnatic.MSI QL squad player -

Kevin "strenx" Baeza.

Directed and edited by

Dmitry "MMd" Lomonosov.
Music by Bloc Party - Ares (Villains Remix)

Kevin's 2010 achievements:

4th Extreme Masters IV Euro Finals
7th Extreme Masters IV World Finals
1st ESWC France 2010
5th ESWC 2010
3rd DreamHack Summer 2010
7th QuakeCon 2010
5th EM Global Challenge Gamescom
3rd MSI Beat It
4th DreamHack Winter 2010

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- gamefront (203 clicks)
- MaverickServers.com (13 clicks)
- sendspace (90 clicks)

Edited by xou at 11:06 CST, 2 March 2011 - 40339 Hits

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IEM5 Finals - Day2 (565 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:37 CST, 2 March 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 02:15 CST, 2 March 2011 to 10:00 CST, 2 March 2011
Schedule: Passed

The second day of the IEM5 World Championship Finals is starting Wednesday morning at 03:15 CDT. Below you can find the schedule and streaming informations.

For more details and links, please check the IEM5 World Championship Finals Coverage post. Results and VODs will be added to the coverage as soon as known.

Update: Day 2 is over! You can already grab demos from match pages (and spec demos from Trance), and VODs from ESL TV. The VODs from Level Up TV should follow in the evening!

Day2 Schedule

Stream links

IRC:

#lvl^
Related: day1

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Edited by xou at 02:38 CST, 3 March 2011 - 263088 Hits

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Re: IEM5 Finals - Day2 - LIVE (No comments)

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Posted by langley @ 10:20 CST, 2 March 2011 - iMsg

never seen fazz in this kind of form before, hope he keeps on playing!

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dan "nice to have the chance to play" (45 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 21:32 CST, 1 March 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Gamesworld.ru present a quick video interview featuring Daniel "dandaking De Sousa after completing all his matches in day 1 at the Intel Extreme Masters S5 World Championships. Dan is asked if he is pleased with his result, what it felt like to play some of the best players in the world and how he is enjoying the event so far.

Tournament: Demos, Photos + Videos (comming soon)
Links: Pre-Tournament Interviews (1,2), 4sg, ArchaicMSI, GamesWorld

Edited by mickzerofive at 21:32 CST, 1 March 2011 - 25021 Hits

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Nitrino (33 comments)

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Posted by h8m3 @ 14:52 CST, 1 March 2011 - iMsg




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Nitrino OSP/VQ3 movie

Starring:

Aleksey "Nitrino" Kartashev

Featuring: cypher, jibo, k1llmaster, makaveli, morfez, cny, spg and other players

Made by:

Sergey "Morgot" Sirkin

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Edited by xou at 15:50 CDT, 1 October 2011 - 14239 Hits

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czm: "my focus was really poor" (78 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 12:29 CST, 1 March 2011 - iMsg

American Quake legend

Paul "czm" Nelson spoke in a video interview at the end of day 1 of the IEM V World Championship about how he felt his group play went.

What is czm's overall assessment of his group play? As someone so famous for being able to make comebacks in a short space of time what has held him back in this era? How does

rapha compare to legendary names like

Fatal1ty,

ZeRo4,

czm and

socrates?

The interview can be watched at SK Gaming.

Edited by xou at 16:27 CST, 1 March 2011 - 29208 Hits

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