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Bring it Back Safely season III sign-ups (52 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by lundiz @ 15:30 CST, 16 February 2010 - iMsg

We are happy to announce the third season of the BiBS CTF league! And the sign-ups are already open for EU and NA! To play in BiBS, all clans attending have to register at bibsql.com. After the registration, your clan also has to sign-up before playing in BiBS!

In order to get accepted into BiBS, every clan has to have a minimum of four players in the clan’s roster (preferably five to six players). The skill doesn't matter as the teams will be seeded into appropriate divisions. An active IRC channel for each team is required. More about the rules are coming shortly.

Planned schedule

Regarding the playings, we are still working to have the finals played in Europe. The finals in North America will not be played.

Also, here are the official rankings from North America:

NA Rankings

We're looking forward to seeing all the teams in action, both new and old!

#BiBS (qnet) or #BiBS (GS)

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Warsow bomb 5on5 longcup (74 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by Overactive @ 14:59 CST, 16 February 2010 - iMsg

A new bomb cup is upcoming for your favorite Quake stephchild Warsow. Bomb & Defuse is a Counter-Strike like gametype where the attacking team plants the bomb and the defending teams tries to prevent this.

You can try Warsow and Bomb by download it from warsow.net.

Quick Facts

Links: Tournament page, Warsow.net forum thread -

Cup IRC

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QLNC'10: Group stage review (36 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Legie @ 18:30 CST, 15 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

Since we're approaching the last one week of the QL Nations Cup 2010, I would like to summarize what has been already played and what's ahead of us in the upcoming two weeks.

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Now, 3 of the most important matches are ahead of us:

United Kingdom vs

Russia,

Netherlands vs

Sweden and

Hungary vs

Italy. We wish them all the best luck to in these fights which will decide who goes into the playoff.

The last thing I want to mention is we already started working on Colossem 2 for QQC QL NC 2010 nationscup. There you can download and watch a short preview.

Schedule of the last matches

Links: QLNC'10 , twitter, #quakequickcup

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Intel Game On Final Rankings (62 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:05 CST, 15 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

It appears the Intel Game On International Finals came to an end these last days with the final opposing

fnatic/strenx to

Stermy. Unfortunately, there wasn't much coverage of the matches and many players didn't show up for their group matches. Hopefully some demos should be available soon. Here are the final rankings:

1st. fnatic/strenx - Alienware M17x Laptop, Three day trip to CeBIT 2010 in Hannover, Germany, VIP pass to IEM4 Final at CeBIT, €150 spending money
2nd. Stermy - Roccat SDMS Bundle consisting of: Kova Mouse, Arvo Keyboard, Sota Mousepad, Apuri Mousebungee / USB Hub
3rd. noctis - All our love

If you missed them, you can also check the rankings for each region as well as the winners of the ROCCAT lotteries on the ESL website

Links: Group stage, Playoff, Game One

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DaHanG: I tend to play 10-15 hours/week (21 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by fnaticStreeT @ 03:28 CST, 15 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

With the Extreme Masters World Finals just around the corner as part of our run-up coverage to the event we had a chance to talk to the American Quake Live superstar;

Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty.

DaHanG qualified for the World Finals in a stunning fashion with the highlight being his defeat of another American juggernaut on the Quake Live scene, rapha. We asked DaHanG about his practice schedule, how the distance he has to travel affects him at European events and how it felt to beat a player like rapha in the qualifiers and plenty more for your reading pleasure.

Excerpt

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Top 10 FPS Multiplayer Maps, Really? (257 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Terbo @ 00:29 CST, 15 February 2010 - iMsg

In the latest addition of gameinformer there is an article, written by Nick Ahrens, on the top 10 first person shooter multiplayer maps. I can live with some of his choices but obviously this writer didn't do his homework. My first issue with this list has to be his 10th choice; Tokay's Tower of Quake 2. If you're going to choose any map from Quake 2 it would obviously be The Edge. The second thing that bothered me about this list is that was the only true deathmatch map chosen, not a single Unreal Tournament map. Third, this writer obviously favored the Battlefield series seeing as there were 3 different maps from the BF series.

Have a look for yourself (picture).

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Site summary for week ending 12 Feb (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 14 February 2010 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

Top Referers

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Lo3 GGL & CGS Valentine's Massacre (32 comments)

( Major News: CS CS:S QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 12:28 CST, 14 February 2010 - iMsg

Today is a special Valentine's Day Massacre episode of Live On Three with your hosts

Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham and

Rod "Slasher" Breslau (SirScoots at the olympics). djWHEAT, who worked for both Global Gaming (GGL, formerly the Global Gaming League) and the Championship Gaming Series (CGS), will be having a tell-all exclusive on the rise and fall of both of these large companies.

We want to hear your questions. Send them into Lo3@djWHEAT.tv

Topics from both leagues include:

GGL - Early 'vSports' involvement at the company, buying out and collapse of ClanBase, along with the slow death of AmeriCup and EuroCup, the Hip Hop Gaming League and Professional Baseball Gaming League, the failed Digital Games Chinese Olympics event, and the owed money to both players and former employees

CGS - Draft at Playboy Mansion, the selection of mediocre games across two seasons, the decision to use Counter-Strike: Source and not 1.6, Jonathon "Fatal1ty" Wendel's commentating ability, CEO Andy Reif being replaced, TV vs corporate and online streaming, the failure in the CS production value, and the spending of $40 million in two years

Tune into Live On Three this Sunday at 16:00 CDT on djWHEAT.tv

Embedded Stream

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Silent Gamers seeds and final 32 players (38 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by sev1_ @ 08:17 CST, 14 February 2010 - iMsg

We now have the list of duelers that will be participating in the tournament. The seeded players (in order) are:

Invited Players Seeding

The remaining sixteen duelers will be randomly chosen to play against the seeded players. The sixteen duelers are:

Amateur Players Non-Seeded

All players must check-in to the tournament at precisely 12:00 CST, 20 February 2010. It is our pleasure to inform the aficionados that all matches will be casted, starting with QL.tv on Saturday and ending with djWHEAT on Sunday for the semi-finals/finals. The matches on Sunday will be played at 13:00 CST, 20 February 2010 with one hour check-in before for all duelers. Thanks for the support!

Reminder: For questions, comments, and concerns, contact SG|sev1

Link: Silent Gamers

#SilentGamers

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #19 is over! (76 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 07:50 CST, 14 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 14 February 2010 to 11:20 CST, 14 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: ZOTAC #19 has started now with participants like

fnatic\strenx,

BVG|guard,

xlo^mAdix,

srs\av3k and many more.

Final standings:

1. fnatic\strenx - 100€
2. ND Cny
3./4. k1ck^doj / BVG|tox1c

Streams: Holysh1t TV & qlchannel
Brackets: here
Links: Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

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FPS Popularity in Asia (41 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PURRI @ 07:29 CST, 14 February 2010 - iMsg

With the Intel Extreme Masters making their third stop around the world in Taiwan recently, it seems like this Asian event was not getting anywhere near as much attention from the FPS community as the European and American finals.

Somehow (:D) I found this article about why it could be that FPS games aren't that successful in the largest competitive gaming markets in the world.

Excerpt:

Like the arcades in Japan, PC Baangs were major social places, like bars and clubs are to the western world. It was a mainstream part of youth culture. Even the layout of PC Baangs are social, with a large loveseat attached to two computers so that guys could sit with their girlfriends. Because of the ban on console imports, this allowed PC Baangs to only offer PC games and it just so happened that Starcraft was there. Would it be different had Quake or Counter Strike been available?

Go here to read the full article.

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Quake America Duel Cup #3 (18 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Amp @ 15:32 CST, 13 February 2010 - iMsg

And the results are in! After a long night that almost didn't happen, our first repeat winner and even more evidence that Quake America is as much an endurance test as anything else, we have your podium for Quake America Duel Cup #3:

Eddie T. "km Rey" J.
JUDGE717
Jeff "dCoy" Zachary

Special mention goes out to Clan Knightmare who have been putting out great showings every single tournament, with most of the top 8 being filled by their players each week consistently, and congratulations to km Rey who is our first ever repeat winner tonight.

And with that, a quick announcement that as of tonight, Quake America will be taking a one week hiatus to both reseat ourselves in our new website, and allow a chance for Silent Gamers to run their charity Pro-Am. So look forward to more annoucements coming soon! Thank you all for playing and/or watching!

EDIT #2: Brackets are up!

EDIT: Seeds have been posted for tonight! See below!

Today will see the start of the third entry in the Quake America Duel Cup series, and the final one hosted by tourney.cc.

Coverage will be provided by Jehar of QL.tv and a few independent casters.

The check in phase will begin at 18:00 CDT while brackets and seeds should be posted to make the tournament set to begin at 19:00 CDT.

For those people who would like to play, you will still have a chance to sign up and check in at the check in phase. However please be aware that all latecomers will be automatically seeded into the lowest block.

Cup #3: Current Signups, Seeds, Brackets

Streams: QuakeLive.TV, Muhu (alternative)

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules -

#quakeamerica

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G Data QL Cup #12 is over! (59 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 07:25 CST, 13 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 13 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 13 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: G Data #12 is now running with players like

xlo^mAdix,

xlo^fazz,

noctis,

evil and many more!

Final standings:

1. noctis - 100€
2. xlo^madix
3./4. xlo^fazz / BVG|Guard

Stream: Holysh1t TV
Brackets: Link
Links: Tournament page - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

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TEK9 Launch Worldwide QuakeLive Top 10 (183 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by crow- @ 06:07 CST, 12 February 2010 - iMsg

TEK-9.org launched their new monthly QuakeLive top ten ranking today, voted by TEK9's expert panel and the world's top players every month. With no sanctioned tournaments, no spam and no fees, the TEK9 top ten simply brings you the views and votes from the people you want to hear from each and every month.

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson has been on top for some time now but can he hold off the challenge of Europe's best after a shock defeat at the IEM American Championship? The biggest names in QuakeLive share their thoughts on who's the real favourite ahead of the global finals. Next month their votes will be joined by those of the previous top ten players, giving a clear and balanced ranking each time around.

TEK9 Voting Panel:

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Michal "Carmac" Blicharz
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Rod "Slasher" Breslau
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Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner
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Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham
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Duncan "Thorin" Shields
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Liam "crow" Crowley

Click here for a quick peak at the February top ten...

Find out who made the top four and read up on the panel's views on TEK-9.org.

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Cooller 1on1: "Life gave me a chance" (123 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by hoechst @ 13:12 CST, 11 February 2010 - iMsg

Today, SK Gaming released part one of a two part video interview series with

Anton "Cooller" Singov. Filmed at the office in Germany shared by SK Gaming and his team, Mousesports, Cooller explains his dreams of being the top player in the world back as a younger man. As well as whether the hunger is still there to win titles, and the reasoning he's come back to compete.

You can watch it here: Cooller 1on1 part 1: "Life gave me a chance"

Part two will be released on February 18th. Photo: fragster.de

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