ESR - Latest News

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Amp @ 14:49 CST, 27 February 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 17:00 CST, 27 February 2010 to 23:00 CST, 27 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

With the QNA Duel Cup #4 beginning very soon, the Quake America team has finally come to a conclusion regarding changes of format.

Here are the official rule changes as they currently stand:

Check-In Phase

Elimination Format

Tournament Seeding

Map Decision Process

These changes are effective immediately, meaning they will be used for QNA Duel Cup #4.

We would like to thank all our players for their support of Quake America, and hope you will enjoy playing tonight.

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules,

#quakeamerica, Cup #4 Brackets

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G Data QL Cup #15 is over! (17 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 14:26 CST, 27 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 6 March 2010 to 12:00 CST, 6 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.

Quick Facts

Update: Cup #15 is running with players like

k1llsen,

madix,

burnedd,

GUard,

GaRpY,

uaReaper and many more.

Final standings:

1. srs\burnedd - 100€
2. uaReaper
3-4. xlo^madix, k1llsen

Links: Tournament page - Tournament Brackets - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

G Data QL Cup #14 is over! (410 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 04:23 CST, 27 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 27 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 27 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: Checked-in players so far:

qrebo,

DaHanG,

griffin,

chance,

rekkth (Cooller),

cypher,

GUard,

rapha,

smoke,

Appleseed,

Reaper,

Evil,

burnedd,

k1llmaster,

av3k,

tox1c,

bodzo.

Final standings:

1. rapha - 100€
2. av3k
3-4. Cooller, DaHanG

Links: Tournament page - Tournament bracket - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive
Streams: own3d.tv, lvl^, holysh1t.net

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Cooller 1on1: "this is why I'm Cooller" (59 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by Thorin @ 03:02 CST, 27 February 2010 - iMsg

The third and final part of the 1on1 interview conducted with

Anton "Cooller" Singov has been released. The Russian Quake king talks about his uncanny ability to break an opponent's control as well as the importance of analysis to his game.

Did Cooller give up any kind of sporting aspirations to dedicate himself to Quake? What does Anton do outside of gaming on his PC? What does Cooller think of people taking the opinion that he is arrogant when he refuses to answer a question?

The interview can be watched on SK Gaming.

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ClanBase admins needed (16 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 03:00 CST, 27 February 2010 - iMsg

ClanBase QL crew are looking for a few dedicated people that are interested in becoming supervisors/admins in order to make sure that these Nation Cup's and all the future cups (EC + OC) are to be ran on the most efficient and highest level possible.

All the applications can be entered here.

Contacts: Mactox, PerpetualWar
Links: ClanBase

ESL runs Beta Launch Cup ! (4 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by @ 11:04 CST, 26 February 2010 - iMsg

On Sunday, the Electronic Sports League will run the Beta Launch Cup. Everybody who owns the beta and is able to play with Europeans is allowed to join. The sign-ups will be open until 06:00 CST, 28 February 2010. You've to confirm your sign up between 07:00 CDT and 08:00 CDT.

For further information, check out the announcement on ESL.

Links: Sign-up,

#esl.sc2

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fnatic interview DKT (116 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by grimbob @ 10:24 CST, 26 February 2010 - iMsg

The team over at fnatic.com have released an interview with

Brian "dkt" Flander, with a variety of topics including his upcoming tournament in Germany for the IEM Championships, and joining up with Complexity.

What is your goal for this event?
dkt: My goal is to win, always. I've said this before. Is it realistic? I don't see why not. At Qcon 08 I lost to ZeRo4/griffin (2nd/3rd), who was in the finals. At QCon 09 I lost to spart1e twice in 3 maps both sets, who went 3-2 with rapha in the finals. Then I lost to Z4muZ at DreamHack, who was also in the finals there. If you take away my horrible display at Edmonton, I've only lost to people who have been to the finals at all of my Quakelive events. So, if you beat me, chances are you're in the finals =p!

So head on over to the fnatic website to read more!

Source: Interview

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First ESL StarCraft 2 Tournament Over (72 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by Rondrian @ 14:59 CST, 25 February 2010 - iMsg

Today ESL TV hosted the first ever StarCarft 2 Beta tournament. It was a small four player tournament, each match best of three and double elimination. The ESL was the first company to receive the Blizzard Tournament license to hold such tournaments and broadcast them. So expect many more to come in the following weeks. The tournament featured two StarCraft 1 players and also two Warcraft 3 players.

Final Rankings

Results & Replays

Source: ESL News

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EMS5 QL TDM - Rankings (74 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 12:50 CST, 25 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

Scheduled: 14:00 CST, 25 February 2010 to 15:30 CST, 25 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

After quite a big delay, the Grand Final of the ESL Major Series V QL TDM will finally take place tonight! Starting at 15:00 CDT, the match will see 4Kings from the Lower Bracket opposed to fnaticMSI. The kings will need to win two bo3 sets to claim the victory. The video streaming will be provided by holysh1t.net and lvl^.

4K 1-2 fnatic (Bet / Match details + demos)

Line-ups

Rankings

Links: Announcement, Brackets, holysh1t.net,

#esl.quakelive
Subliminal message: Win ESL TV Premium keys for IEM4 World Champ. Finals

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Lowlandlions Quake Live February Cup #4 (58 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by draven- @ 08:36 CST, 25 February 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 25 February 2010 to 17:00 CST, 25 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The fourth Lowlandlions Quakelive Cup, the winner wins a Sennheiser HD515 G4ME edition.

The Quake Live February Duel Cup is going live at Thursday 25 February December 2009 at 13:00 CDT. With a Single Elimination Playoff, with the attendees playing matches in a best of three-format. This cup is for people who live in Europe.

This best of three-format means you'll need to win two maps to succeed to the next round of the playoffs. If both players win one map, the player with the most frags overall will be the one who can choose who starts eliminating the last remaining maps.

General information:
• Date: Thursday 25 February 2009 - Time: 13:00 CDT
• Prize Purse: 1st Sennheiser HD515, 2nd PureTrak Talent, 3rd PureTrak Deluxe
• Single Elimination, Best of Three-Format - 64 available slots, Players will be seeded

How to Sign-Up

Map Pool & Schedule

Rankings

Cup is over! Congratz to the winners and everyone who played all there matches. Next cup TBA

Source: Lowlandlions Quake Live February Cup -

#LLL.QL Bracket Rankings
Stream: own3D.tv

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<3 ASUS Cups (88 comments)

( Major Article: Q1 Q3 Q4 QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:27 CST, 25 February 2010 - iMsg

As I was quickly writing the news about the ASUS Winter 2010, I thought their first Quakelive tournament would also mean the end of the Quake 3 era in the ASUS Cups. And I just couldn't imagine how much these LANs helped to keep the Quake community alive in the Eastern countries. So I just went through ALL the ASUS Cups I could find and summarized ALL their Quake rankings.

The results is impressive and it looks like they will never stop: 25 LANs featured Quake in the past 7 years for a total of 39 tournaments. I was willing to calculate the total cash prize given, but that's just too much for me at the moment. If you want to try: Be my guest!

ASUS Winter 2003
Location: Moscow, Net-Land
Coverage: http://cyberfight.org/site/coverage/39/

Quake 3 TDM 2v2

ASUS Spring 2003
Location: Moscow, Click Click Boom
Coverage: http://cyberfight.org/site/coverage/43/

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Summer 2003
Location: Moscow, Net-Land
Coverage: http://cyberfight.org/site/coverage/48/

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Winter 2004
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.org/site/coverage/56/

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Spring 2004
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/59/

Quake 3 1v1

Quake 3 2v2

Quake 3 2v2 mixed (male+female)

Quake 3 4v4

Quakeworld 1v1

Quakeworld 2v2

ASUS Summer 2004
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.org/site/coverage/63/

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Autumn 2004
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.org/site/coverage/66/

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Winter 2005
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/69/

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Spring 2005
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/72/

Quake 3 4v4

ASUS Summer 2005
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/76/

Quake 3 2v2

ASUS Autumn 2005
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/78/

Quake 3 1v1

Quake 4 1v1

ASUS Winter 2006
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/79/

Quake 4 1v1

Quake 4 1v1 Female

ASUS Spring 2006
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/88/

Quake 4 1v1

ASUS Summer 2006
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/92/ & http://cup.c58.ru/_inc/live/index.php?tourney=2

Quake 4 1v1

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Autumn 2006
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/_inc/live/index.php?tourney=1

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Winter 2007
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
No Quake :/

ASUS Spring 2007
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cyberfight.ru/site/coverage/99/ & http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=6

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Summer 2007
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=7

Quake 3 1v1

Quake 3 2v2

Quake 4 1v1

ASUS Autumn 2007
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=8

Quake 3 1v1

Quake 3 2v2

Quake 3 4v4

ASUS Winter 2008
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=9

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Spring 2008
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=10

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Summer 2008
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
No Quake :/

ASUS Autumn 2008
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=12

Quake 3 1v1

Quake 3 2v2

Quake 3 4v4

ASUS Winter 2009
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
No Quake :/

ASUS Spring 2009
Location: Moscow, GAME 4
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=14

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Summer 2009
Location: Moscow, FlashBack
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=15

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Autumn 2009
Location: Moscow, Click-Net
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=16

Quake 3 1v1

ASUS Winter 2010
Location: Moscow, Click-Net
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=17

Quakelive 1v1

ASUS Spring 2010
Location: Moscow, Rush3D
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=18

Quakelive 1v1

ASUS Summer 2010
Location: Kiev, Cybersport Arena
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=20

Quakelive 1v1

ASUS Autumn 2010
Location: Kiev, Cybersport Arena
Coverage: http://cup.c58.ru/live/index.php?tourney=22 & http://demos.cyberarena.tv/setki/2811/ql.htm

Quakelive 1v1

List of aliases

Source: The one and only cyberfight.ru

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QLNC'10: The last group games (8 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 12:15 CST, 24 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

The very last games of the QL Nations Cup 2010 are now being played. Some of these matches will be very important for some teams to earn their spot in the playoffs. These will start next week and use the DE & bo3 system.

Tonight Hungary will face both Italy and Poland starting at 16:00 CDT!

Schedule of the last matches

Links: QLNC'10 , twitter, #quakequickcup
Streams: http://www.own3d.tv/derquaker

European Instagib CTF Community (11 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by pzOr @ 12:00 CST, 24 February 2010 - iMsg

Yes, you heard me, Instagib. Seeing as all servers in Quake Live have to be spawned by ID, other mods have to wait their turn. Besides all weapons, the only *kinda* supported mod is obviously, Instagib CTF.

It's a fun mod, which can be competitive, it's been around for years, and there's no point in having discussions about it here, if you don't like it, just ignore this.

But for those who kept reading this, and are interested enough, it's good news when I say the community has been growing, as a result a first try at a Tournament will be going underway soon.

We will start with a 16 Team tournament, hoping to bring out more people who enjoy Instagib ( we know you are out there ) and also trying to show ID that perhaps if they supported other mods, they would get back a lot of activity in return.

Clanbase and FraggedNation have both showed their interest in hosting InstaGib Tournaments in Quake Live, which they can't due to the servers current situation. Thanks you for reading.

For more information visit our website qlictf.info and visit us in

#qlictf.

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Quake Live Update Feb. 23rd (84 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by epsy @ 11:23 CST, 24 February 2010 - iMsg

Quake Live invites you to celebrate it's first year of public beta and brings an update along with a review of this first year of Quake Live. The update includes for the most part a new CTF map 'Fallout Bunker', advanced ingame settings menu and Bloom as a postprocessing effect.

Full changelog

Happy birthday Quake Live!

Update: Transparent "speconly" feature added for duel servers on Friday 26th.

Source: News entry, Change log, News entry for Friday mini-update
Related Links: ESR Forum topic "new 1 year" map

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ESL announces EMS VI (33 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 14:27 CST, 23 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: EMS6

Some cups from the 5th season of the ESL Major Series are not yet finished, but tonight the ESL Already announced the EMS VI! This new season will feature a total of 13 000€ in prize money for the 14 cups planned. It will take place between March and July 2010.

Cups details

Compared to seasons 4 (20 500€) and 5 (15 500€), which both included 14 cups, the overall cash prize is still getting lower. For Quakelive TDM, this second appearance in the EMS will be rewarded with 750€ while the first one offered 1 000€.

Links: Announcement, EMS VI

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