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rapha and the American Dream (125 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by @ 07:48 CST, 30 November 2010 - iMsg

After this weekend's DreamHack Winter,

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson has once again underlined the fact that he is one of the best duellers in the world, with a victory at MSI BEAT IT and a 5-8th placing in the Kaspersky Quakelive Championship.

Timely as always SteelSeries has now released an indepth feature interview with Hendrixson on their site. The interview touches both how Hendrixson's childhood was aswell as the traits that has made him one of the best duellers ever.

Excerpt from the article

The interview stretches for a full twelve pages of content, so be sure to set some time aside for this thorough portrait of the most accomplished American dueller since Fatal1ty.

Link: SteelSeries.com

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #60 (89 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 04:36 CST, 30 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 1 December 2010 to 12:00 CST, 1 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 60th ZOTAC Quakelive is taking place this Sunday, same time as the ASUS Autumn 2010. This edition should be a lot more open as many good players are still at DreamHack Winter 2010 as well!

Quick Facts

Rankings

1st madix - 100€
2nd fire_bot
3-4th spartaz0rd / assign

Stream:

GoodGame
Links: Tournament page, Brackets, #zotac.qlive // HoF

ESL Clan Arena 4v4 Opening Cup (13 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Kapiter @ 04:35 CST, 30 November 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 2 December 2010 to 16:30 CST, 2 December 2010
Schedule: Passed

To promote the new Quakelive CA 4v4 ladder, ESL is organizing a Clan Arena cup on Sunday 28th at 14:00 CDT.

Quick infos

The map list for the cup and the ladder consists of Asylum, Campgrounds, Cold War, Hidden Fortress, Overkill, Quarantine and Trinity.

There is no cash prize planned, but the winners will get ESL Premium accounts:

1st Place: 2 month
2nd Place: 1 month
3rd Place: 1 month

Update: Due to Quakelive problems, the cup was moved to Thursday 2nd of December.

Links: Cup page, Rules, Sign-up, CA 4v4 ladder,

#esl.quakelive

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Games Cast TV Launches Open BETA (106 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 21:56 CST, 28 November 2010 - iMsg

From the people who brought you QuakeLive.TV comes a brand new eSports Unity project, titled Games Cast TV. We are PROUD to announce that the Open BETA was officially launched this morning at 13:00 CDT! The goal behind our project is to lower the barrier of entry for enjoying eSports by aggregating and embedding as much eSports content as possible into our web platform, making viewership easy and seamless.

Quake fans will be happy to know that QuakeLive.TV, Level Up TV, and djWHEAT are ALL part of the Games Cast Network. Games Cast TV includes broadcasters and coverage of Quake Live, Starcraft 2, Super Street Fighter IV, and many other popular eSports titles. We invite you to participate in the Open BETA by checking out Games Cast TV today!

Games Cast TV Partners

Games Covered

In order to make the best possible eSports viewing platform, we are seeking as much feedback as possible. Please try out the BETA and let us know what you think!

Links: Press Release,

GamesCast, Open BETA

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Cypher wins DHW10 Kaspersky Championship (856 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 13:30 CST, 27 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

The Kaspersky Quakelive Championship tournament at DreamHack Winter 2010 is now over. Make sure you watch the VODs made by Level Up TV and check out the demos.

Final rankings

srs/rzr/Cypher - 45 000 SEK (~4 900€)
EG|DaHanG - 15 000 SEK (~1 600€)
ESC|k1llsen - 10 000 SEK (~1 000€)
4th. fnatic\strenx
5-8th. Cooller, av3k, rapha, stermy
9-12th. noctis, spart1e, Krysa, GUard
13-16th. GaRpY, p0ni, fazz, Vo0

Results

Groups

Schedule

Streams:

Level Up TV (VODs /

),

gS-TV,

c58 (HQ/LQ)
Links: Tournament page, Spreadsheet,

#DreamHack.Quake
Coverage: TEK9, SK, StermyTV,

Fragster,

FFF,

Cyberfight, Day1 @ ESR

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Kaspersky and Level Up TV at DHW2010! (12 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by lolvc @ 09:37 CST, 27 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

Level Up TV are today able to happily announce that Kaspersky, sponsors of the tournament held at Dreamhack Winter this weekend have kindly provided us with 50 keys for their Internet Security Software worth £39.99 each, to give away.

How to get one of the 50 keys

How we'll dish the 50 keys out

As an organisation, we are well aware of the difficulties that broadcasters often face when initially taking on the huge task of covering live events on-site, we hope that thus far you have enjoyed our first live event and hope that we can continue any successes through today and onto future events.

Thanks for watching our coverage this weekend!

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HoQLeagues 4v4 CTF League Signups Open! (16 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by HowHard @ 09:12 CST, 27 November 2010 - iMsg

The HoQLeagues 4v4 CTF League Signups are now open! With prizes donated by the guys @ FragBelly.com the soon to be launched eSports real cash betting site.

Signups close on Sunday 12th December but obviously no matches will be forced over Christmas + New Year but they can be played.

Details + Prizes

FragBelly.com are happy to be donating over £400 in prizes to House of Quake. Visit us at FragBelly.com to convert your in-game skills into real life cash.

The CA 2v2 Signups close tonight so make sure to get signed up if you plan on it!

Links: 4v4 CTF Signups, CA 2v2, DUEL,

#HoQLeagues, FragBelly.com,

fragmovie: DreamHack Winter participants (28 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by [F_]bina @ 07:45 CST, 26 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

DreamHack Winter is taking place this weekend and there is alot of coverage.

fragster has taken a look back at the previous tournaments and especially those players, who are participating in DreamHack Winter and

Djordje "zeroql" Simonovic, in cooperation with fragster, made a preview movie about their best moves.

Go check it out!

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DHW'10 QL Kaspersky Championship - Day 1 (776 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 03:00 CST, 26 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

Scheduled: 03:00 CST, 26 November 2010 to 16:30 CST, 26 November 2010
Schedule: Passed

This Friday morning is starting the Kasperksy Quakelive Championship tournament at DreamHack Winter 2010. First day will be focused on Group Stage (bo3), and the 2nd day will feature the playoffs matches (bo5). The guys from Level Up TV will be streaming from the event, and a few other streams could also be available.

Results

Groups

Schedule

Prize distribution

Streams:

Level Up TV,

gS-TV,

Cyberfight
Links: Tournament page, Spreadsheet,

#DreamHack.Quake
Coverage: TEK9, SK, StermyTV,

Fragster,

FFF,

Cyberfight

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rapha wins FnaticMSI BEAT IT Finals (1088 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 15:32 CST, 25 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: Beat it

The BEAT IT Finals at DreamHack Winter 2010 is now over. Make sure you watch the VOD's made by Level Up TV and demos.

Final rankings

SK-rapha - $6,000 + MSI GT663
srs/rzr/Cypher- $3,000
fnatic\strenx - $1,500
4th. mouz.Cooller
5-6th. av3k, k1llsen
7-8th. stermy, DaHanG
9-12th. zsx, spart1e, dem0n, noctis
13-16th. Vo0, fazz, tox1c, GUard

Results

Schedule

Preview Movie

Streams:

Level Up TV (VODs /

, spec demos),

gS-TV, DH Main Stage
Links: Brackets, Fnatic
Coverage: TEK9, SK, StermyTV,

Fragster,

FFF

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rapha: "[Cypher]'s game has stepped up" (13 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 14:41 CST, 25 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: DHW10

SK Gaming's

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson spoke in an interview about his matches over the Summer against

Cooller,

Cypher's return to the top and the challenge of competing for a DreamHack title.

Sample Q&A to whet your appetite

The interview can be read at SK Gaming.

INTEL EXTREME MASTERS AUS & NZ QUALIFIER (15 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 09:43 CST, 25 November 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Finally, the tournament our

Australian and

New Zealand followers have been waiting for has arrived. The Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 will debut an Oceanic blooded participant in

Germany, Hanover, next year for Quake Live. Thanks to our gracious and giving community, 4Seasons Gaming has successfully raised enough funds to fly over a representative to compete on behalf of Oceania. This will be Oceania's second debut at an International Quake Live event, the first being Quakecon 2010 in which we saw ArchaicMSI's

Daniel "Dandaking" De Sousa take out 7th/8th spot, defeating the likes of

Draven and

dkt then losing out to some nice games against

DaHang.

(OLD) Tournament Hype Video

Prize Purse

Dates

Qualified Players

Groups and Finals

Join the Experience

Links:

- Tournament Page,

- Intel Extreme Masters

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Last Call for IDL Signups (15 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by peterg @ 14:30 CST, 24 November 2010 - iMsg

First, what is the IDL? The IDL stands for the International Doom League which uses ZDaemon for competitive Doom 2 CTF. The league uses a draft format modeled somewhat after the NFL. It is primarily an American based league but does have a few people from Europe playing who have managed to make a good showing. The IDL is entering it's 9th season and hoping to expand from 8 teams to 12 teams. Signups end Nov. 26th and you can sign up on the internet. If you want to hang out with us drop by #idl on irc.quakenet.org. The IDL community plays private CTF and we'll be sure to invite you too! If you want to see what the IDL is all about check out this envenomated video featuring Mikehail one of the league's hottest flag runners.

Why should you try it?

Links

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PLAY OF THE YEAR WINNERS (40 comments)

( Major News: All)

Posted by M05 @ 03:21 CST, 24 November 2010 - iMsg

Earlier this year in August 4Seasons Gaming announced their new partnership with Logitech aswell as their extra provision of equipment from the company. With all the recent success of 4SG and some of that being due to the surrounding communities we decided some of our prizes should be avaiable to the communities that help us grow in the first place. A competition was held to find the best 'play of the year', open for all players from all games and all countries. See the original thread and video here. The winners have now been decided and announced (see below)

2010 Logitech POTY Winners

For more information about us and what we do, of if you would like to follow along with us in future competitions see the links section below

Links: 4SG, Facebook, Videos, Tweets, Logitech

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k1llsen: I think I deserved that win (72 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Thorin @ 17:48 CST, 23 November 2010 - iMsg

IEM V Gamescom champion

Marcel "k1llsen" Paul has been interviewed in the lead up to the DreamHack Winter and MSi Beat IT tournaments which will take place later this week.

Responding to whether his Gamescom victory was lucky or not:

Was it lucky? I mean where was the luck factor there? I think I deserved that win and worked hard for it and in the end my work just paid out finally, after I was very unlucky at ESWC 2010 and DH Summer. BUT overall I would say yes of course it was, since you can't really push yourself to have a good day it's there or not.

The full interview can be read at SK Gaming.