This weekend we saw the completion of the Quake Live 1v1 tournament at LAN ETS, a 700 person BYOC in Montreal giving away over $15,000 in prize money. We all invite you and encourage you to come to the next event! Thank you to DeepKilla for administrating the tournament, and Syncerror for providing servers for the event!

Final Standings:

1st Gillz ($200)
2nd Freelance ($125)
3rd Blatrix ($75)

Videos: Casted streams by muhu
Links: Brackets, Info, ETS Gallery, Area51 News Post, Flickr Gallery

The 4 qualification cups for the next EMS VI Quakelive TDM have been announced and will start with the first cup on Wednesday, 24th March at 14:00 CDT. The top3 teams from each of these qualification cups will earn a slot for the Group Stage. As the number of participating teams in this new season will be 16, the top4 teams from the previous season are getting a direct invitation.


The sign-ups are already opened!

Link: Announcement, EMS VI

First Quake Live CTF NC playoff week started today with awesome matches ahead of us. Look at the Playoff tree and Roster for more details.
Also important thing to mention is that in Quake Live TDM NC only one match more needs to be played between Slovakia and Poland in the group stage before the start of playoffs next week.
Unfortunately, there will be no additional time for scheduling playoff matches like there was for CTF NC, which means that playoffs start next week and all challenging must be done in this week.


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

After one week break because of the IEM4 World Finals, we are bringing new information about the QQC QLTDM NC2010. Five rounds of the group stage are almost finished. The last match, which will be played on this Sunday 14th of March will decide the second advancing team in Group A. Team Sweden will face team Netherlands tonight at 15:00 CDT. Match will be streamed on lvlup and right after the game we will announce the playoff. So don't miss the broadcast.

Two matches have been played last week which decided more advancing teams. On Tuesday UK won their match against Russia 2-1. This victory secured UK their spot in playoff from 1st place. Because of the loss Russia ended on 3rd place with 7 points, but unfortunately only the top2 teams go to playoff.

Another important match between Italy and Hungary was played on Wednesday. The advancing team wasn't decided by points gained from the match, but the match itself decided who advance. Italy won their map which was qzdm6 which was first step towards the playoff. Second map was qzdm20 and Hungary managed to get a victory there so the match moved to a deciding map. Hungary managed to win again and with the victory they secured a slot in playoff.

Playoff officially starts on Sunday at midnight and I remind you that live broadcast will be on stream lvlup right after SWE vs NED. There is only one way for Sweden to advance to play-off and that's 2-0 win against Netherlands. If they will win 2-1, Finland will take 2nd place because of the game between these two teams.

Link: Group Stage

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 14 March 2010 to 13:50 CDT, 14 March 2010
Schedule: Passed

Known for its QuakeLive Cups ZOTACs next Starcraft 2 Beta Cup takes places next Sunday, 08:00 CDT, 14 March 2010. There's 100 € pricemoney up for grabs and since cup #2 had 331 signups and the full 256 slots after check-ins covered they decided to make it bigger this time (1024 slots for signups, 512 for check-ins).

Final:
RoX.KIS.DIMAGA 3-1 MYM]DeMusliM


Stream: ZOTAC|koik & AZRAELeva & Millenium WebTV
Links: Brackets, Info, Playerlist, Sign-up, #zotac.sc2

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 14 March 2010 to 13:00 CDT, 14 March 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 is 100€ for 1st place!


Update: ZOTAC #23 started with strenx, cypher, burnedd, GaRpY, madix and many more.

Final standings:

1. srs\cypher - 100€
2. fnatic\strenx
3./4. k1llsen / godch1ld

Links: Brackets, Tourney page, Hall of Fame, #zotac.qlive

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 13 March 2010 to 11:30 CST, 13 March 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.


Final standings:

1. fnatic\strenx - 100€
2. srs\burnedd
3-4. x1t, BVG|guard

VODS: VODs from derQuaker Stream with Mick05 on own3D.tv!

Links: Brackets, Tournament page, Hall of Fame, #gdata.qlive

The Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 was held on 5.-7. march in Enschede-Netherlands, the biggest Crossfire event so far.

Video on Demand for the tournaments CoD4, Enemy Territory and Quake Live are available on QuadV now. You need to be registered on QuadV to watch the shoutcastings. Some alternative Youtube links are available too.

Grand Final matches were
Call of Duty 4 - Reason Gaming vs Fnatic
Enemy Territoy - Dignitas vs Rockit
Quake Live - Butchji vs FeRuS

Past coverage on TosspoT´s crossfire.nu
CIC7 is complete (winners)
CIC7 final day

The CyAC QuakeLive Duel Cup #1 signups have closed. Many top asian stars have signed up for the tournament. Some of the players to keep an eye out for that have performed well in previous QuakeLive Duel Cups are:

SERVAL
Fumio
MUSTAINE
Bsan
Fenda

Some other noticeable signups who could cause an upset are:

blackbear_kr
fakeQQQ

The entire cup will be broadcasted with play-by-play commentary provided by hanatyan of Himitsukichi Games and BRZRK of Ukeru.jp. They will be joined by guest casters in the names of uNleashed and toriyama.



The stream continues Sunday 14th March 06:00 CDT

After last month's inaugural TEK-9.org Quake Live Top 10 Rankings list, which was extremely well received by the community, the March version has just been released. The rankings are based off of five journalist and broadcaster perspectives, with professional player votes being added next month.

With the Intel Extreme Masters Season 4 Championships now over, the rankings list looks quite similar to the final standings of the event, with some small differences. Everyone agrees on one point though, that Shane "rapha" Hendrixson is currently the best Quake player in the world.


"The Russian continues to play sexy Quake, aggressive, compulsive and dynamic, whilst rapha is more calculated, precise, complex, fast thinking and much more the strategist than his rival" commented ReDeYe on the finals. djWHEAT was disappointed by the bottom half of the competition stating "I was so underwhelmed with the 7-12th place play, that I've actually given the 10th spot to Quake 3's infamous UnnamedPlayer. Hopefully that will incite some change in those who are currently just below that coveted 10th ranking spot. "

See the rankings and read up on the panel's views on TEK-9.org.

During the IEM IV World Finals, the ESL published the list of the Quakelive TDM teams which will take part in the qualification process of the ASUS ENC 2010. The Qualification Round 1, which will consist of 3 matches and 3 w/o, should start next week.

The winners of QR1 will play against the teams in QR2. Then the winners of QR2 will meet the teams of QR3. Finally, the winners of QR3 will be qualified for the regular season. 6 nations are getting a direct invitation and won't need to get into the qualification process.


Source: ESL

The sign-up is now closed.

There are 86 clans in total signed up ready to compete each other! We wish them good luck to reach the top!

I will also remind you about when the first match week is:

First match week: Monday, March 29th – Sunday, April 4th.

Note: Please make sure your team plays as many matches as possible (preferably all of them) for everyone's enjoyment.

BiBS Cup Site :: Sign-ups
#BiBS @ QuakeNet & GameSurge

The ESL's Benelux section has announced the second game for its fourth ESL Pro Series season. At long last, Call of Duty 4 is lucky enough to be included, as it appears. Efforts by the game's Benelux community seems to pay off now, as this supreme competition platform has been opened for them as well now.

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