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Ownage Winner Bracket Final on TONIGHT! (33 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Åke Vader @ 10:50 CDT, 15 April 2010 - iMsg

The most prestigious duel tournament in Quakeworld features one of it's key games tonight as the Swedish player

Locktar takes on

Milton from Finland in a best of five map series on DM2, DM4, DM6, ZTNDM3 and Aerowalk. You can watch the game on QTV or tune in via the live stream that will be available.

14:00 CDT - Ownage Winner Bracket Final: Locktar vs Milton

Results - Demos+Commentary

Links: Announcement, QTV, Stream

Edited by Zalon at 19:07 CDT, 15 April 2010 - 8532 Hits

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Serious Gaming adds StarCraft II team (34 comments)

( Major News: SC2 WC3)

Posted by Zerter @ 13:10 CDT, 14 April 2010 - iMsg

Serious Gaming / Team Razer, best known on this site for their star Quake players

av3k and

Cypher, has today announced the addition of a StarCraft II division consisting of various new and oldschool top RTS players, the team will consist of none other than (with descriptions as given in the announcement newspost):

Nikolaus "SonKiE" Cassidy - Terran

description

Dong Hwan "viOlet" Kim - Zerg

description

Lennart "Sushilicious" Roest - Zerg

description

Patrick "DaBoO" Bolleboom - Zerg

description

Jos "Zerter" Buijvoets (Manager) - Protoss

description

Oskar "Zubie" Rudberg (Support) - Protoss

description

The original newspost also contains various statements and additional information surrounding the StarCraft II division, including plans to add additional players in the future.

Edited by xou at 17:23 CDT, 14 April 2010 - 10084 Hits

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Swedish ESWC Qualifier (43 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Dronar @ 11:55 CDT, 14 April 2010 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'10

Swedish E-Sport Association, the people behind the popular league Swedish National League, presents the Swedish ESWC Qualifiers.

Qualifiers for Quake Live will be held June 5-6 in

Jönköping.
The winner will travel to France and represent Sweden in the world finals at Disneyland, Paris.

Games

Quake Live and Street Fighter 4 will be held at the internet café Game City in Jönköping. Guitar Hero will be held in the evening either at Game City or in one of Jönköping's nightclubs.

Information on how to sign up will follow

Pressrelease (Swedish only)

Edited by xou at 07:00 CDT, 23 April 2010 - 12097 Hits

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Starcraft Pros In Cheat Scandal (50 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Magician @ 06:37 CDT, 14 April 2010 - iMsg

The story originated on gamepron.com reports that top Korean players are being named and shamed for throwing matches to make money on illegal betting. It’s apparently been a problem that the e-sports organisers have been trying to stamp out for a while, and it has now reached an impass, with players being outed, or forced to retire. It’s the biggest drama the game has seen in some time, and could shake things up for the leagues as they move ahead to the Starcraft II launch, with sponsorship being put at risk, and so forth.

Korean sources:
morningnews.co.kr
news.naver.com
ajnews.co.kr

Edited by Badb0y at 09:31 CDT, 15 April 2010 - 17739 Hits

EMS6 QL TDM Qualifier #4 (21 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 14:52 CDT, 13 April 2010 - iMsg

Event: EMS6

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 14 April 2010 to 15:30 CDT, 14 April 2010
Schedule: Passed

The last and 4th qualification cup for the EMS6 Quakelive TDM will start on Wednesday 14th at 13:00 CDT. The check-ins will start at 12:30 CDT (read more about the check-in system).

A maximum of 16 teams will be able to participate and the cup will use a single brackets and bo1 matches. The rules and map pool remain the same as the last season. The top3 teams will see themselves qualified for the EMS6.

Update: The cup is over, even if the final won't get played, and the 3 last teams to qualify are as following:

idk
Excello
beton

Details

Qualification cups schedule

Qualified teams

Links: Sign up, Sign-ups list, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive
Streams: ESL Radio

Edited by xou at 21:00 CDT, 14 April 2010 - 7824 Hits

Clanbase QL competitions (24 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 06:26 CDT, 13 April 2010 - iMsg

Event: CB NC13

This is very busy week with a lot of games ahead of us with CB NC CTF matches in this week and one CB NC TDM match left from the last week.

CTF is in the finals with

Germany - France

fighting for Gold and

Netherlands - Finland

for Bronze, while TDM is in the semifinals yet with

France waiting winner from the

United Kingdom - Poland

match, and

Serbia waiting loser from the same match for Bronze Finals.

Also we got a CB OC TDM starting this week with a lot of matches already scheduled and one more qualifier to be played for CB EC Duel after which the groups will be published.

Maybe worth mentioning is the fact that for this year of CB EC Duel competition we got some prizes to give away, provided by our sponsor Steelseries:

1st: 1x SteelSeries Siberia v2
2nd: 1x SteelSeries Kinzu
3rd: 1x SteelSeries QcK+ SK Gaming

Most of the games will be streamed on Holysh1t or lvl^.

Schedule:

CB NC CTF

CB NC TDM

CB OC TDM Premier League

Links: Cup pages (NC CTF, NC TDM, OC TDM), Brackets (NC CTF, NC TDM, OC TDM),

Cup updates on twitter

Edited by xou at 02:00 CDT, 21 April 2010 - 10495 Hits

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Korean starcraft matchfixing allegations (6 comments)

( News: SC2)

Posted by Raaaaaagh @ 03:38 CDT, 13 April 2010 - iMsg

The Korean Starcraft scene is being rocked by the biggest e-sports scandal in history, with allegations of match fixing involving A-list players and eSport betting sites. News is pouring in from various sources (as are tears of betrayel from Savior fans), but hard facts thin on the ground. Its a complete circus right now, but to jump into the rumour mill anyway, click the link below.

"Apparently a number of current pro gamers has been found involved in match set-ups and illegal betting after being in contact with an illegal gambling group. Unidentified pro gamers has been found illegally leaking team's replay files and intentionally losing matches. Teams involved are currently taking measures to oust the offending members and forcing more serious offenders to retire. Rumors speculate a vast number of A-listers are of those being punished including Savior, AKA Ma Jae Yoon."

link

Edited by Raaaaaagh at 00:14 CDT, 14 April 2010 - 4559 Hits

Site summary for week ending 09 Apr (5 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 11 April 2010 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

Top Referers

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QLNC'10: Playoffs round 2 (88 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 14:15 CDT, 11 April 2010 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

The matches for the 2nd round in the playoff of the quakelive nc 2010 are all now scheduled. Most of them will get streamed on either lvlup, HS.tv or Own3d.tv. Here is the schedule:

WB Semis
LIVE: France vs Hungary (New bet)
Austria 1-2 Poland (Report)

LB Round 1
Netherlands 2-0 Iceland (Report, VOD)
United Kingdom 2-0 Finland

Previous rounds

Links: Brackets, QQC,

#quakequickup

Edited by xou at 15:54 CDT, 15 April 2010 - 47636 Hits

Ownage Semifinals (10 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Zalon @ 13:00 CDT, 11 April 2010 - iMsg

The Ownage QuakeWorld tournament is going into it's final stages, and tonight we will get to see no less than two Semifinal games.

We have both the QuakeWorld superstar

Milton and the multiple DreamHack champion

LocKtar, each facing tough opponents.

The games will be played at 13:00 CDT.

Milton vs

Valla (demos+commentary)

slabi vs

LocKtar (demos+commentary)

As always you can follow it via QTV or stream.

Edited by Zalon at 07:09 CDT, 12 April 2010 - 6435 Hits

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ZOTAC SC2 Beta Cup #7 (31 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by KekS @ 05:00 CDT, 11 April 2010 - iMsg

Event: Zotac SC2

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 11 April 2010 to 13:00 CDT, 11 April 2010
Schedule: Passed

Like every Sunday

GameSports.de &

ZOTAC bring you the weekly

ZOTAC StarCraft II Beta Cup, starting on Sunday 07:15 CDT, 11 April 2010, checkins will as per usual open at 06:00 CDT. There's 100 € price money up for grabs and we'll be running with 1024 signups and 512 checkins like the last couple of weeks.

Winners of the ZOTAC SC2 cups so far

Quick Facts

Update (15:50 CDT, 10 April 2010):
I just got word from

Day[9] that he'll be doing commentary for the semifinal & final tomorrow again - so stay tuned.

Quarter Finals

Semi Final

Final:

mouz.MaNa 3:2

Liquid'Nazgul Replays

Streams: Day[9], mavensc2, glhf.tv
Other Streams:

gamesports,

phipstv,

dreamsofstarcraft2,

[M],

aAa,

sc2tv.ru,

/

xDkFat
Links: Brackets, Info, Playerlist, Replaypacks of all Zotac SC2 cups,

#zotac.sc2

Edited by KekS at 14:21 CDT, 11 April 2010 - 31676 Hits

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #27 is over! (22 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 20:44 CDT, 10 April 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 11 April 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 11 April 2010
Schedule: Passed

Once again the cup format will consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize is 100€ for 1st place!

Quick Facts

Update: ZOTAC #27 is running with

spart1e,

madix,

k1llsen,

burnedd,

dem0n,

evil,

kook and others.

Final standings:

1. k1llsen - 100€
2. LLL*dem0n
3./4. xlo^madix / kook

Stream: AdivinesTV, failtelevision
Links: Tournament page, Brackets, Hall of Fame,

#zotac.qlive

Edited by shorrty at 14:12 CDT, 11 April 2010 - 13586 Hits

EMS6 QL TDM Qualifier #3 (9 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:42 CDT, 10 April 2010 - iMsg

Event: EMS6

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 11 April 2010 to 16:30 CDT, 11 April 2010
Schedule: Passed

The qualification cup #3 for the EMS6 Quakelive TDM will start on Sunday 11th at 13:00 CDT. That's just after the check-ins which will start at 12:30 CDT (read more about the check-in system).

A maximum of 16 teams will be able to participate and the cup will use a single brackets and bo1 matches. The rules and map pool remain the same as the last season. The top3 teams will see themselves qualified for the EMS6.

Details

Qualification cups schedule

Qualified teams

Update: Next and LAST Qualifier will be Cup #4 on Wednesday, 14th April 13:00 CDT (Sign up)!

Qualifier #3 standings

Links: Sign up, Sign-ups list, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

Edited by xou at 15:36 CDT, 11 April 2010 - 6452 Hits

SilentGamers Duel Cup Qualifier (17 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 04:59 CDT, 10 April 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 10 April 2010 to 16:00 CDT, 10 April 2010
Schedule: Passed

QuakeLive.TV is proud to present the second SilentGamers Duel Cup. Today our coverage kicks off with the qualifying round where 32 players will duel for their chance to be one of the 16 who will advance to next weekend's Duel Cup.

Round 1 Match-ups

Note: Over the last several weeks we've been testing the own3D.tv streaming service. As a result we've received a great deal of positive feedback from the community regarding the stream quality. We do strive to bring the best quality QuakeLive coverage possible. We want to encourage those that have not yet seen our new stream to tune in this today to check it out and let us know what you think.

Links: Full bracket
Stream: www.QuakeLive.tv

Edited by xou at 02:07 CDT, 21 April 2010 - 6762 Hits

G Data QL Cup #20 is over! (41 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 04:52 CDT, 10 April 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 10 April 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 10 April 2010
Schedule: Passed

Once again the cup format will consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize is 100€ for the first place.

Quick Facts

Update: G Data #20 started with

strenx,

Spart1e,

madix,

burnedd,

k1llsen,

Cny,

evil and many more.

Final standings:

1. fnatic\strenx - 100€
2. srs\burnedd
3-4. k1llsen, fnatic\Spart1e

Links: Tournament page, Brackets, Hall of Fame,

#gdata.qlive
Streams: Holysh1t, adivinestv

Edited by shorrty at 11:27 CDT, 10 April 2010 - 20399 Hits