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AUS/NZ Div1 Duel Semi Finals (5 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by M05 @ 02:00 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 02:15 CST, 21 February 2010 to 05:00 CST, 21 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

4Seasons Gaming presents the Australian and New Zealand Division 1 Duel Semi Finals featuring some of continents top players

zlr vs Haymo and

nomey vs Pathe. All 4 players have had pretty smooth runs with Zlr and Nomey yet to drop a map in the competition so far, brackets here. Semi finals will be best of 5, and due to single eliminations nature the matches are do or die for the competitors.

Predictions

We are excited to see what form our Australian duelers are in, so join us if your up this early/late or even if you just love to watch some Semi Final action. Banter / chat about the casting / players can be done in irc.

Video Cast: VOD Semi Final 1 - Zlr vs Haymo and VOD Semi Final 2 - Nomey vs Pathe

Edited by mickzerofive at 07:12 CST, 21 February 2010 - 2453 Hits

Post-SilentGamers Interview 2-pack! (7 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Jehar @ 12:24 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

This is going to be one insane weekend, with loads of streams from Quake-Live.tv and DJWHEAT.tv for the SilentGamers cup, culminating in the finals on Sunday. After that, however, Tastyspleen.tv brings you a few treats in the form of a couple interviews:

1)

DaHanG and

{sYnth}Scooby: These two players are teaming up for the second "season" of QuakeNight under the Q2 tag. We'll be discussing their partnership, the upcoming matches, and some reminiscing.

2) Overactive and h1o: We're going to be proud to announce coverage of their upcoming Warsow bomb cup, and we'll be sitting down with the two administrators to discuss the league, the current warsow scene, and perhaps some speculation on how things might have gone differently for the game on the competitive scene.

Also, a short aside on the recent banning of Thaigo from the EDL. There's some doubt of having any guests on for this segment, simply due to the fact that it's still a rather touchy subject.

So be sure to tune in to Tastyspleen.tv at 18:00 CDT this Sunday for some great interviews!

NOTICE: Postponing until Monday, due to an epicly-full weekend schedule. BE THERE!

Edited by Jehar at 19:56 CST, 21 February 2010 - 4295 Hits

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Fnatic.com interviews ESL's Carmac (25 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by roychez @ 12:11 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

In a serie of interviews for the ESL Extreme Masters IV World Championship Finals, Fnatic.com now interviews ESL's Product Manager

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz.

Carmac is a well known figure in the scene, as he has done much for it and has a wide knowledge of eSports. The reporter and Carmac talk a little bit about the impending IEM IV World Championships, his work behind the scenes, WoW as an E-Sport, Quake Live and its inception into the Extreme Masters, and more!

You can find the interview on fnatic.com.

Edited by Badb0y at 12:21 CST, 20 February 2010 - 12392 Hits

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G Data QL Cup #13 is over! (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 03:28 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 20 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 20 February 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 consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.

Quick Facts

Update: GData #13 started with players like

srs\Cypher,

srs\av3k,

k1llsen,

srs\burnedd,

evil,

Drz|uaReaper,

BVG|guard and many more.

Final standings:

1. BVG|GUard - 100€
2. xlo^madix
3./4. Evil / agentJkezooR

Stream:

nightcookie &

dubcat &

Holysh1t TV &

lvl^
Brackets: click here
Links: Tournament page - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

Edited by shorrty at 12:04 CST, 20 February 2010 - 18311 Hits

Dutch Government "Collapses" (2 comments)

( News: WiC)

Posted by lolograde @ 21:52 CST, 19 February 2010 - iMsg

Any of our Dutch ESR users around to give us any local news bits on this?

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8525742.stm

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LowLandLions win BiBS EU Season 2 (38 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by grimbob @ 09:24 CST, 19 February 2010 - iMsg

After a delay to the finals of the Bring it Back Safely Season 2 European finals, it has been announced that LowLandLions will receive a default win against the other finalists YoYoTech, thus winning their second title in a row.

Congratulations to LowLandLions, and also Mephistio for being awarded with Player of the Season award. This award was given to Mephistio for her activity and completing all matches, instead of awarding defaults.

BiBS Season 3 sign-ups are still available until 10th March, with the new season looking to start on the 29th March. More information can be found at the BiBS website.

Edited by Badb0y at 19:16 CST, 20 February 2010 - 12236 Hits

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ENC Quakelive needs more captains (78 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 17:17 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: ENC'10

The European Nations Championship 2010 was announced a few days ago and

Quake Live TDM 4v4 will be one of its game. We already received many captains applications for some countries, but a few nations are still missing applications. As the deadline to send your application in on Sunday, we urge the players who want to stand up for their nations to send us an email at enc.application@esl.eu.

The following countries for Quakelive need more captain applications:

Belarus,

Croatia,

Slovenia,

Luxembourg,

Czech Republic,

Greece,

Bosnia Hercegovina,

Lichtenstein,

Israel,

Turkey,

Switzerland,

Norway,

Estonia,

Lithuania.

Confirmed countries

Link: ENC 2010

Edited by xou at 06:12 CDT, 30 March 2010 - 23302 Hits

Cooller: death asked me to put ZeRo4 out (170 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 15:12 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

The second part of SK Gaming's three part 1on1 interview with the Quake dueling master

Anton "Cooller" Singov has been released today. In this video interview Cooller explains his thoughts on putting

ZeRo4 out of the 2002 WCG by dropping a game in the group stage,

b100.death's role in that decision and whether he'd do something like that again.

The two time ESWC champion also offers his analysis of

uNkind's WCG victory, and how luck may have aided him in a specific area, as well as his fellow Russian's perhaps wasted potential in light of Cooller's own legacy. With

Fatal1ty having retired before Cooller reached the top of the international scene does he wish he could have knocked him off just as he knocked off ZeRo4 on his route to the top?

The interview can be watched on SK Gaming.

Edited by xou at 16:54 CST, 18 February 2010 - 55179 Hits

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ClanBase NationsCup - 2nd week (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 12:19 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: CB NC13

Update: Today we will have a couple of interesting matches to be played, so give it a look in the schedule section below.
Reminder to all captains to post the scores on Cup forum, if the admin or referee is not there for your match.

Second week of the ClanBase NationsCup has started so you can find schedule down here. Few matches from the last week are rescheduled for this week, like Finland vs Switzerland in CTF and Germany vs Switzerland in TDM where Switzerland took the wildcards for both games.

Schedule

Results

Links: Rules update-Demos Policy, CTF NC, TDM NC, Twitter
Calendars: CTF, TDM
Rankings: CTF, TDM
Player stats: CTF, TDM

Edited by xou at 02:00 CDT, 21 April 2010 - 8063 Hits

UT2004 - EuroCup (1ON1) (81 comments)

( Major News: UT2004)

Posted by zelvzz @ 06:40 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

Some people are wondering whether UT2004 is completely dead or not, but nite has an answer on this question and it's a good one: no can do! So after the ESL ladder lacked activity, TOTALUNREAL thought it would be a good idea to start yet another tournament of the most popular game mode: 1on1. And we have prizes aswell!

Check out inside for all the information needed and don't hesitate to sign up.

ESL wrote:

Details

Prizes

Links: Sign-ups, Sign-up list, Announcement, Rules & League info
IRC:

#ESL.ut, #Totalunreal.HU

Edited by xou at 14:21 CST, 18 February 2010 - 27372 Hits

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InstaWars ICTF Tournament (42 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by sotrix @ 00:18 CST, 18 February 2010 - iMsg

InstaWars, a new tournament whose brackets are filling quickly, has aims of bringing competition to the unranked mod of instagib capture the flag in North America. The tournament is open to anyone who has a 4-man team to compete with and will start the 4th week of February. The sign-up deadline will be on Sunday, February 21st.

To check out the teams that have signed up so far or to know more details, check our website. We are looking forward to bringing more instagib-related tournaments in the future if all goes well!

Links: cdevastation.com,

#InstaWars.

Edited by xou at 00:37 CST, 18 February 2010 - 13632 Hits

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Chance speaks of new Quake Guide (67 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 15:30 CST, 17 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

4Seasons Gaming has managed to interview ESL IEM World Championship qualifier,

EG's Chance "Chance" Lacina. The North American is famous throughout the world for writing the Quake Bible, and I'm sure a lot of people will be ecstatic to hear that Chance is planning on writing another guide.

Excerpt

Read the full interview on 4seasonsgaming.com.

Edited by mickzerofive at 17:44 CST, 18 February 2010 - 27390 Hits

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Angry belgian kid is Angry! (18 comments)

( Movie: QL)

Posted by ztaale @ 15:17 CST, 17 February 2010 - iMsg




	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Rating: 0.7 (17 votes)

So.. I consider myself a mediocre dueller (or QL player for that) and i probably lose more games then i win..

Yesterday i played a game against a belgian aggroplayer who called himself "

onefourone" and the trashtalking and whining was pretty epic.. so epic that i just had to "~~youtube~~ own3d.tv that shit"..

So here it is, flame on! :D

-

easypwn3d

Streaming @ own3d.tv

Edited by ztaale at 18:36 CST, 17 February 2010 - 5957 Hits

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Starcraft 2 Beta Started (82 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by KekS @ 14:54 CST, 17 February 2010 - iMsg

Apparently Blizzard has just started sending out the first waves of betakeys for the highly anticipated StarCraft 2. Earlier today the minimum System requirements have been brought to light:

PC Minimum Requirements

So far it is unclear whether the keys are being distributed to fansite recommendations, blizzcon key winners or opt-ins. I will keep you posted once I have more info.

Update 1 (Source???)

We don’t have an exact start date to share at this time, but note that when it does begin, we will be adding additional regions to the beta test in phases. North America, Australia, and New Zealand will be the first regions to begin beta testing, and other regions will follow afterward in phases. We will have more information to share about all of these phases in the future.

Source: blizzard.com
Links: screenshot of the beta preloading, Livestream of beta preloading/installing (lol), In-game Livestream

Edited by KekS at 05:51 CST, 25 February 2010 - 31540 Hits

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Short interview with Zhibo "Jibo" Fan (118 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 21:33 CST, 16 February 2010 - iMsg

During the IEM Asian Championship, where

Zhibo "Jibo" Fan managed to come out on top at the Quake Live tournament,

fragster had the chance to talk with the Asian superstar. So he explained why QL wasn't his game at the beginning, what motivated him again to play the game and why he is spending most of his time to watch demos.

I heard you've spent a lot of time watching demos from other IEM Finals participants before your semifinal match. Did you find out anything special?

Jibo: I started watching demos since my first practice day. I didn't know anything about 1on1 in QL, so I needed to learn up from the lowest level. I even watched some demos two or three times, from both POV. After this, I started to collect puzzles for my tactic in this game.
The special is: Demos are like a book, aim is like a labs – combine them and you will own.

Read the full Interview in

English and

German.

Edited by Nukm at 06:27 CST, 17 February 2010 - 20952 Hits

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