Update: Team Belgium is going to play CTF cup under different captain. link

Since ClanBase NationsCup already started, I thought to give you insight for the matches ahead of us.
As most of you know, we run both CTF and TDM this year so schedule is right here:


Unfortunately some teams decided to quit at this stage like team Austria (not enough interested players) and team Belgium (no apparent reason) regarding CTF.

More info: CTF, TDM, twitter

I am collecting frags for my quake live movie sequel "UNAGI 2: The Return of The Power". If you have some really nice frags, quadruns, caps or funny scenes, send them to zeroql23@gmail.com!


This movie won't be realized in near time, cause I got two big projects on my hand at the moment but you can be looking forward to these two: "Colosseum 2: QuakeLive National CUP Movie" and a private movie for a cool guy from Germany, I wont start until i finisht these two projects.

Anyways this time I am going to put soul in this movie and with help from my friends Predrag Pecev and RavenTL (an awsome CS movie maker), it's going to be 10x better than the first part! For a first glimpse, check out the promotion Trailer:
Stream: own3d.tv
Download version: team-qcg.com

If you didnt watch my first Unagi movie, check out...

Sign-ups are now open for Quake America Weekly Duel Cup #2, scheduled to start Saturday, February 13th at 19:00 CDT!

Updates will be posted pending any rule or schedule changes.

Also, remember that this is the Sign-Up phase. On the day of the tournament there will be a Check-In phase where players will verify they are present. If you miss either the Sign-Up or the Check-In, you will not be put into the bracket for Duel Cup #3.

So, don't forget to sign up for Duel Cup #3, and good luck to all participants!

Also, the tournament that would have been set to be on February 20th has been postponed. This will serve two purposes. The first will be to allow the Silent Gamers to run their tournament, the second concerns Quake America's new website.

Please be aware, we are still running one more tournament on the 13th through our previous tourney.cc hosts. We are merely taking a very short hiatus after our tournament on the 13th so as to migrate to our new website at quakeamerica.com and to offer some cross promotion to our good friends at Silent Gamers.

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules - #quakeamerica

Activision/Blizzard Q4 2009 Conference Call has it

In the light of the ESL Extreme Masters, Fnatic.com has interviewed both Pierre-Emeric "l1nkje" Portier and Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira. The interviews cross topics such as the Extreme Masters European Championship, the FnaticMSI team and more.

Seeing how you performed now, are there any specific areas in your game play that you will focus on improving in the future?
l1nkje: Yeah of course. I said on fragster.de that I wanted to focus onto duelling in 2010, and that’s what I’ll do. Since I’m not a dueller, i kind of need to “restart” my game, so yeah, I’ll improve everything. I need a fresh start, a start over. Maybe I’ll have to talk with my mates and ask them what I do so wrong :)

Many people say that on any given day you could win a tournament, however at this event you were out in the group stage, what went wrong?
Spart1e: Like I mentioned earlier. Lack of sleep/concentration and a(not just one) mistake of me. I guess that it was quite the same for me as av3k when he played calipt. I felt I was in such a good form, that I underestimated my opponents. From now on I am gonna play 100% in every game:P.

Besides the interviews, the article also contains a write-up on the ESL Extreme Masters European Championship Finals. Enjoy them all here!

About a month after the launch of #cpmduel at quakenet they arranged their first duel tournament this weekend.

The tournament itself went on very smoothly where almost everyone involved were happy with it. The ones who weren't happy about it was buxter who played in the winner bracket-final game versus eThaD. eThaD beat him in two straight maps and threw him into the loser brackets where he got knocked out.


eThad at Dreamhack Winter 2008

A few hours after the cup was finished a demo was published on challenge-tv.com where the poster "QuakeSuperHero" accused eThaD of using wallhack.
While watching the demo he think he caught eThaD at least 29 times where he's had to have wallhack. (note that a CPM duel is 10min).

Some parts of the CPM community has turned against eThaD and some support him in this. The discussion at challenge-tv.com has started where it seems like most people thinks he cheats.

ethad seems to counter this very calmly and not doing anything until buxter wants to have a chat at irc.

Wallhack or not? Discuss!

edit:
Statement by buxter

<buxter> frankly, i don't care about this whole mess, it wasn't me who started it, i gave my opinion with explanation, controversial as it might be but still only my point of view, and nothing more, certainly not proof of QUakeSuperHero thesis.

Actually it's this QuakeSuperHero that's the bad guy, not buxter. Pardons to buxter!

Once again, we are pleased to announce the newest gaming league in Quake Live, Silent Gamers. Our first season will be mainly to establish our name as a league and to bring awareness of those who are deaf and hard of hearing. With this said, we'd like to state who the sixteen invited competitors are:

(in no particular order)

In addition, the time when this dueling tournament will take place has been set from February 20th to February 21st starting at 2pm EST. Without a doubt, the invited experienced duelers will mold our competition into a serious, entertaining event that will definitely help us achieve our goal as a league.

Reminder: Sign-ups will commence at 10 p.m. EST tonight! (10/2/2009)
For questions, comments, and concerns, contact SG|sev1 or SG|ack|dM in mIRC

Link: Silent Gamers #SilentGamers

The 4Kings lineup was interviewed after their win against Zigi. After that the team moved to the Losers Bracket finals and, courtesy of the LowLandLions, were propelled through to the grand final where they will meet with Fnatic.

You lost against LowLandLions. Could have you predicted that?

jocko: No, since no jocko, no win.

Are you confident enough?

dk: of coz, I always think we are going to win… of coz sometimes happens the opposite ? but we are always confident. All are cooking with the same water.

ESL's Extreme Masters Quake Live World Tour is Quake Lives largest and most prestigious event world-wide. With professional players coming out of the woodwork from all over the globe, competition is fierce. Sebastian 'Spart1e' Siira, Pierre-Emeric 'l1nkje' Portier and Kevin 'strenx' Baeza are a few of these world-class athletes. Hailing from France and Sweden, these three Quake Live stars are in the heart of Quake Live territory, Europe.

Europe is exactly where these three set of on their travels to Germany, with the Extreme Masters (EM) European Championship. This online qualifier brought out the best of the best in Europe's Quake Live talent, just to see who would advance to the 16 man EM EU Championship Finals, to see who will attend the Global Finals in Hannover Germany.


Excerpt
What were your training preparations like before the event?
I just played with different average/good players. By this I learned how to play vs different playing styles and learned the best from all the players I played.

Do you have any specific practice partners you like to train with?
The last days before the event I played with noctis which was really good for me. Except for him I just play with any good player that is around. Strenx has always been one of my favorite practice partners, but I learned lately that I can´t just concentrate my practice with only one player, but needs different players.

How does your personal life affect your E-Sports career? Is it harder to manage things equally when leading up to a tournament?
Of course I have to do sacrifices when I also have a "2nd work" playing games. A lot of times I have to say no to my friends the days before an tournament, or have to say no to them because I am going away for an event. My boss at work is really nice and always gives me vacation when I need it. But I always take as little vacation as possible. Sometimes I even work the same day as an tournament. Which is really bad. I am always really tired going into a tournament. It is like i have to choose between sleep or playing to get into form, and I always picks playing. But it will change in the future. If I didn't have to work like I do, I would be more consistent and do better at tournaments, but E-Sport is still just a hobby -Sebastian 'Spart1e' Siira Interview excerpt



Interviews and a writeup can be found HERE.

4Kings lineup was interviewed after their win against Zigi. After that the team moved to the LB finals and, courtesy of the LowLandLions, were propelled through to the grand final where they will meet with Fnatic link

After several weeks full with cups and exciting matches the Intel GameOn Finals will kick off. The winner earns a Alienware m17x notebook, a trip to Cebit, Hannover, Germany and 150€ pocket money. Cebit the winner can follow the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship. Within the next few days ten players from ten different countries will face off to find out who is the best. Also find out which players won which countries and won nice prizes.


The group stage will be played best of three and the top two of each group will advance to single elimination playoffs, which will be best of five.

Links: Schedule & Results - GameOn Cup Site

Once again, we asked the NA QuakeLive community if they wanted a TDM 2v2 Season 2, and the response was solid. I want to thank all the teams who signed up. As stated previously, we are trying something a little different for Season 2. For obvious reasons, we are using two separate competition levels: Pro and a Pro-2B.


* Matches will begin Monday night starting 7-10 pm CST - on 02.22.10.
* At least 1 match from each level will be casted every Monday by QL.TV or GameFire.
* Private servers will be made available for competing teams to scrim/practice and play their matches.
* Any questions are to be directed to the head admin sirdark at irc.gamesurge.net #quakenight.

Head to quakenight.com to view the Week 1 matches. Good luck to all teams and as always, play, record demos, ggs, and have fun.

The Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship is over and all that's left of it are Jibo's face is all over the Quake Live website, VODs of the matches and videos.

Three galleries from the event can be found right here. Moreover, This news item has got all the VODs rounded up. The most interesting matches are directly linked here:

proZaC vs. uNleashed
Jibo vs. uNleashed
proZaC vs. Jibo

We have interviewed proZaC and uNleashed at the event - those can be found right here. Most importantly, we have shot a booth babe video with the p1mp - you won't regret watching:


photo: ESL

Elements of War - Custom Crosshair System
http://www.moddb.com/mods/elements-of-war/videos/custom-crosshair

Only have a few things available to EoW's crosshair, but if I had mad people making my game:

1. Crosshair as large as the screen
2. Multi-Colored CrosshaiR
3. Weapon based
4. Team based
5. Camera system based
6. CrosshaiR ONLY HUD
7. You name it, players want it!

Paris, Saturday the 6th of february 2010

Almost a year after it disappeared, against All authority is proud to announce the re-opening of its Counter-Strike 1.6 (© VALVe) section as well as the arrival of a new partner: ASUS with it's Republic of Gamers.

The ex-eSport-Eu players and their manager are now part of *aAa* - the most talked about french Counter-Strike team in the past couple of years - who will by the way celebrate it's 10th birthday in 2010. Asus, high-end and innovating gaming computer manufacturer through it's Republic of Gamers products, renews it's confidence to the ex-eSport-Eu team by helping with the transition to their new team: aAa. The players will also be equipped with micro-ATX Rampage II GENE motherboards, Matrix graphics cards and Xonar sound cards.

aAa.cs is now:
Jérôme "heuka" Bassat (captain)
Philippe "faculty" Rodier
Rémi "instanz" Poilblanc
Olivier "eternalz" Metge
Fabien "atLaNtis" Deguiraud
Arnaud "ricain" Dumas De Rauly (manager)

"For us, it is important to be close to players and to listen to what they have to say in order to produce the custom computer components that fit their needs. At this level of competition, every second counts, every detail is important, every FPS can make a difference. At ASUS, we are proud to support the ex-eSport-Eu players all along their transfer to aAa with the best hardware possible - the Republic of Gamers line."
Karim Ouahioune, Channel Marketing & Gaming Manager ASUS

"I remember my first big LAN, the Atomic Re-SO 2005, at that time, we played against aAa during the first phase and I was happy and proud to do so but I also envied the players. So it is with great pleasure that we carry on the legacy."
Jérôme Bassat, aAa.cs captain


About Asus - Republic of Gamers
Asus - The Republic of Gamers (ROG) was formed in 2006 with the sole purpose of bringing gaming and overclocking specific hardware to gamers and overclockers the world over. Through technological innovation, design, extensive gaming and overclocking research and development, ROG hardware - specifically motherboards and graphics cards – have been on the frontline of performance and dependability, the preferred choice of champions everywhere, setting 4 new 3DMark Vantage World Records for Entry, Performance, High and Extreme presets.


Source : http://www.team-aaa.com/equipe/news-15728-0-1-aaa_cs_revient.html
Official Statement : http://misc.team-aaa.com/Team/aaa_cs_2010_uk.pdf