ESR - All News

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 14:11 CST, 1 January 2010 - iMsg

The first season of the ESR Community QL League is nearing its end, so I want to remind everyone to play their remaining games until the 10th January. People with less than half of their matches played won't be able to play next season.

This fun league is meant for all active players regardless of skill. Players are divided in different divisions (~11 players each) and have ~6 weeks to play their bo3 matches whenever they find the time.

Season #2 Signups are open now! Players are encouraged to join

#esr.ql

Edited by Nukm at 11:55 CST, 3 January 2010 - 7409 Hits

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CZM vs Z4muZ - ESWC 2004 Final (72 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 11:31 CST, 31 December 2009 - iMsg




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Rating: 8.6 (27 votes)

The AGP Classics Match of the Week presents the 2004 ESWC USA vs Sweden Final. The structure of this tournament grouped players of the same country against other countries. They would play a best of three set, one player per game. The winner of the finals won $10,000, to be split amongst the team. *note: the timer is off in this demo*

This is game 2 of the final and was shoutcasted by iTG'Trillian.

Paul "CZM" Nelson vs

Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors
The Arena: ZTNTourney1: Bloodrun. Game 2.

CZM vs Z4muZ: Part 1

CZM vs Z4muZ: Part 2

Links: AGP Tour

#agptour, Facebook, Twitter

Edited by xou at 12:13 CST, 1 January 2010 - 26952 Hits

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China QL movie:Mini Show (23 comments)

( Movie: QL)

Posted by d4ncecat @ 06:32 CST, 31 December 2009 - iMsg




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Rating: 7.3 (13 votes)

hello! i'm

George "d4ncecAt" Z

This is my first time to use vegas

12 demos in one mini movie

hf:)

Player:

wolfwang

quacmin

Programs used:
- Quake Live
- Fraps
- Vegas

Sounds:
- Soundtrack: Wired - X-Ray Dog

Misc:
- length: 1:54
- size: 95.9 MB
- Video: 1280x720, 40 FPS, x264, 7000kbps
- Audio: 192kbps vbr mp3

Movie File - stream (mini show.mp4) 0MB
- own3D (139 clicks)
- vimeo (10 clicks)
- wegame (4 clicks)
- youtube (120 clicks)
Movie File - High Quality (mini show.mp4) 95MB
- depositfiles (11 clicks)
- filefront (11 clicks)
- megaupload (19 clicks)
- own-age (8 clicks)
- pldx (10 clicks)

Edited by george5078 at 04:22 CST, 2 January 2010 - 10609 Hits

Arenas Episode 0 - Chosen by Vadrigar (16 comments)

( Major Movie: Q3)

Posted by eoe.d1ablo @ 05:33 CST, 31 December 2009 - iMsg




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Rating: 7 (14 votes)

The new version of Episode 0 of the animated Quake Series "ARENAS" by Tritin Multimedia has been released.

AE0 - Chosen by the Vadrigar - Reboot: Stationed on Phobos, Doom finds that the attack on the Mars moon is only the beginning of his adventure.

About Arenas: The Episodes animated short series. Produced and animated by Joe Goss, Arena's is a re-creation of the Quake 3 Arena and Doom 3 worlds. By following the character's action from gladiators to their pre-arena stories, we bring to life the full evolution of the Quake III Arena universe and all of it's icons.

Watch in HD 1080p on own3D.tv! (click HD button in player)

Episodes Overview

Movie File - HD 1080p Stream (Arenas Episode 0) 240MB
- own3D.tv (495 clicks)

Edited by eoe.d1ablo at 06:49 CST, 31 December 2009 - 6716 Hits

Re: Q3A Config Tweaking (1 comment)

( Article: ESR)

Posted by terrorhead @ 23:33 CST, 30 December 2009 - iMsg

Thanks.

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TEK9 interviews Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty (64 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by crow- @ 12:28 CST, 30 December 2009 - iMsg

TEK9's Liam "crow" Crowley sits down with IEM American champion

Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty for an in-depth interview covering his recent win in Edmonton, the chances of a CZM, Zero4 or Fatal1ty making a comeback and rapha's future with SK.

Click here for a quick taster...

You can read the full interview here on TEK-9.org.

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Quake 3 Mapping Competition *Winners* (102 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by MaverickMSG @ 10:35 CST, 30 December 2009 - iMsg

*Update*: The competition is over and the winners were announced last night, see below.
*Update 2*: The final maps have been released. Link below.

NoGhost.net is hosting a Quake 3 mapping competition. Mappers from the community are encouraged to participate in this competition; both veteran mappers and those looking to get into mapping are welcome to join in on the fun. Prizes will be awarded to the best maps and be judged by the community and players.

The contest started on November 1st and will run until December 12th. Judging will occur during the following 1 to 2 weeks. More information can be found at the official website and you can see the maps develop on NoGhost.net. AMD, ATI, and Sapphire have graciously agreed to sponsor this competition with graphic cards, quad core processors, and power supplies.

Winners:
First place: Justin "StormShadow" Ingels with Devilish (screenshots)
Second place: Tom "Phantazm11" Perryman with Substation 11 (screenshots)
Third place: Simon "Sock" O'Callaghan with Focal Point (screenshots, site)

Winner's forum thread is here; judging mappack is here; Official Competition Map Pack download

Rules

Judging

Official Website: maverickservers.com #maverickservers- Contact:

MaverickMSG

Edited by MaverickMSG at 08:24 CST, 21 January 2010 - 37959 Hits

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quakelive tdm nationcup 2010 - 1st week (73 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Legie @ 06:03 CST, 30 December 2009 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

The beginning of the QQC Quake Live NationsCup 2010 is finally here, and we bring you the 1st week matches. All the captain were already asked to schedule their first matches. The first play week will be extended, because many players cannot play so soon after new year. The first play-week will last from 4th to 17th of January 2010.

Since holysh1t tv changed their mind, matches will be covered on lvlup. Feel free to contact the admins if you are able to stream some matches. Also, we ask all players to send their demos to zeroql23@gmail.com after their games for this year's nationcup frag highlight movie. The best way to contact

Legie and

eJo is on #quakequickcup.

Week 1 matches

We wish all participants best luck and have fun and I hope that tourney will be at least as good as last two years.

Links: ql nationscup 2010, Schedule,

#quakequickcup

Edited by xou at 16:58 CST, 1 January 2010 - 23417 Hits

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Street Fighter 4 - Season Summary 2009 (12 comments)

( Article: Gaming)

Posted by Aquashark @ 03:44 CST, 29 December 2009 - iMsg

Fighting games declined rapidly in the early 2000's and their glory faded from the collective consciousness, perhaps undeservedly for a genre competitive from day one and older than traditional established "eSports".

With no arcades, predominantly 2D graphics, troubling netcode and a sluggish 3D transition, their art barely shined through most of this decade. And when it did, many gamers didn't recognize the outlandish setting and reactions fell along these lines "What game is this?", "There was a Street Fighter 3?".

However the flame kept burning, mainly fueled by Japan (and Asia through extension), Shoryuken.com,
Daigo parry hype, emulators, GGPO and "Mahvel Baybee" (in no specific order).

Now, shortly arrived in 2009, Street Fighter4 comes along with a home console release (and eventually PC) resurrecting the genre it's synonymous with. SF4 attracts (mostly deserved) critical acclaim becoming a commercial success and the "new thing" to play.

The scene boomed with hordes of new players (leeched from other fighting games, veterans coming out of retirement, as well as new talent: nostalgic gamers or just plain 09ers), all of them dropping on top of the already established scene (caught somewhat by surprise).

Competitive Street Fighter4 could only benefit from this reception and the amount of activity throughout the year was impressive.
This was reflected in massive tournament turnouts for fighting games events, arguably peaking with 1024 players participating over 2 days at Evo 2009 in July. "Arguably" because tournaments like Gamestop Nationals or SBO 2009 branched in 3 countries with many qualifier rounds before the main event.

In turn, this competitive drive attracted massive interest from spectators. The live stream for Devastation 2009 (produced by the familiar faces of djWHEAT & LO3 Crew) accounted a total of 160,000 viewers over 2 days, paving the way for Evo 2009, whos live stream audience peaked at over 23,000 viewers at one moment. Also match videos uploaded on YouTube gathered thousands, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands views. Many other fighting games gained traction from their exposure next to Street Fighter4, thus growing the overall scene.

All this newly sparked interest could only be satisfied and maintained by gradually more intensive coverage. The fighting games community was paradoxically reluctant to do live streams in the beginning (probably not realizing the growth of their audience) and other forms of coverage was lacking or hidden in SRK forums.

However passionate people (empowered by copious amounts of whining) started to make things happen and coverage improved radically. The second half of the year had live streams every weekend (sometimes overlapping) making it feel indeed like a season of something established you'd follow on TV.

So what exactly happened this year?

International & major tourneys:

Local & minor tournaments:

Bonus round - funniest moments of 2009:

Additional media:
- photo gallery of all major events in 2009: http://karaface.smugmug.com/ESports
- Super Street Fighter 4 trailers: New Contenders, New Features And Online Modes

Edited by Aquashark at 18:14 CST, 29 December 2009 - 7876 Hits

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quakelive tdm nationcup 2010 - GROUPS (130 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Legie @ 18:21 CST, 28 December 2009 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

As we promised you - we are introducing you group-draw for this year. Teams were divided into 4 groups and ever group consists od 6 teams. Record of group-drawing you can find on lvlup.

GROUP A

GROUP B

GROUP C

GROUP D

Links: QQC QL NC 2010, #quakequickcup

Edited by xou at 18:53 CST, 1 January 2010 - 40749 Hits

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Site summary for week ending 25 Dec (22 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 27 December 2009 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

Top Referers

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CPMChallenges Duel QuickCup 1 Results (23 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by nineX @ 15:58 CST, 27 December 2009 - iMsg

After reshaping the tournament because hardly any American players showed up, it was turned into European-only and play went on. Though

wuxia/HAL9000 had to leave the tournament to take care of an emergency, there were still some great matches from all players. The first CPMChallenges Duel QuickCup is over and the results are:

Final Standings:
1.

fedor/sivek
2.

buxter
3.

guhard

I will post as many MVDs as I can including some great lower and upper bracket finals matches. Thank you to everyone who participated. Another is in the works.

Cup page (Note:The brackets broke and weren't recording scores and maps)

Edited by Nicky at 02:06 CST, 31 December 2009 - 12282 Hits

Quake Live TDM Nationcup 2010 - Seeds (72 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by eJo @ 11:37 CST, 27 December 2009 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

Here are seeds for Quake Live TDM Nationcup 2010.

Seed #1

Seed #2

Seed #3

Seed #4

Seed #5

Seed #6

Update: Group drawing will be on 28.12.2009 at 20:00CET by www.levelupyourgame.net.

Edited by iNkind at 07:05 CST, 2 January 2010 - 24538 Hits

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Live On Three 2009 special with Cooller (80 comments)

( Major News: CS Q3 QL SC WC3)

Posted by Slasher @ 04:38 CST, 27 December 2009 - iMsg

We will be having a special edition of Live On Three today recapping 2009 with an extended show of 3 hours or more. We will have on several special guests, including the legend

Anton "Cooller" Singov, to talk about his results in 2009, thoughts on the 2010 IEM championships, Quake Live moving forward, and how it feels to be close to the top again.

Spcial guests:

Duncan "Thorin" Shields (SK-Gaming Editor in Chief)

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz (Head of the Intel Extreme Masters)

Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski (Starcraft player and commentator)

Anton "Cooller" Singov (Russian Quake 3 legend)

Filip "Neo" Kubski (Captain of Polish CS 1.6 champions AGAiN)

Robb "JediRobb" Chiarini (Runs Devastation)

Topics will be discussing (not all listed):

- Best event of 2009
- Best team of 2009
- Best player(s) of 2009
- Best play of 2009
- Favorite games of 2009
- Best overall event of 2009
- Biggest influence in eSports 2009
- Worst team/players of 2009
- Biggest upsets of 2009
- Biggest disappointments of 2009
- Best stream of 2009

Stream Embed

Tune into Live On Three this Sunday at 16:00 CDT on djWHEAT.tv. (pre-show half hour earlier)

Edited by Slasher at 09:18 CST, 27 December 2009 - 19381 Hits

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QHlan 13 (15 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by ruskie @ 14:53 CST, 26 December 2009 - iMsg

Event: QHLAN13

Scheduled: 09:00 CST, 2 January 2010 to 09:00 CST, 6 January 2010
Schedule: Passed

As usual the QHLAN crew launched their new website with the info you might need.
The 13'th edition of the biggest Quakeworld LAN in the world will as be taking place between 2-6 of January 2010. The venue will be Arlandahallen in Märsta (just outside of Stockholm)

The entrance fee for this spectacular event is 300SEK (€30) and included in this is loads of quake 'n fun for a whole weekend along with at least a 1on1 and a 4on4 tournament, so make sure to sign up your team! There are quite a few known players signed up already, which should make for a great action packed event.

Source: qhlan.org/qhlan13

Edited by Zalon at 14:04 CST, 4 January 2010 - 13420 Hits

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