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Asus Winter 2010 (160 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 13:21 CST, 23 February 2010 - iMsg

The Asus Winter 2010 is taking place today in

Moscow and players such as

cypher,

Cooller,

Jibo,

evil and

Amai joined this LAN event. The group stage is already over and the cup is now in its playoffs.

The playoffs are played on a Double Elimination brackets with best-of-3 matches.

Final rankings:

1st. srs/rzr/cypher - 20 000 rubles (~489€)
2nd. mouz.Cooller - 12 000 rubles (~293€)
3rd. 4K^Jibo - 8 000 rubles (~195€)
4th. agentJkezooR - 4 000 rubles (~97€) + CM STORM Sentinel Advance
5-8th. Mars, Sd!Amai, magic_iddqd, evil - 1 500 rubles (~36€) + CM STORM Sentinel Advance

Groups

Playoffs

Stream: holysh1t.net (Russian comments by

Dunlee)
Coverage: c58.ru (+ gallery),

#asus.ql
Demos: cypher, Cooller, agentJkezooR, Evil, Amai

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#cpmpickup wants your moneys (104 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by spyteman @ 11:28 CST, 23 February 2010 - iMsg

Update: We were able to pay the rent for the servers, thanks to everybody who donated. Any surplus or futher donations will be used for paying rent in the future.

Year after year, it's again time to pay the rent for the #cpmpickup servers, and as usual we are lacking money. The rent for a full year is 310€ but so far we got merely about a 100€ covered. If we do not collect enough money to pay the rent by the end of the week, all pickup servers including GTV and mumble will go down and it will be very tough (or rather close to impossible) to find a similar offer for the same money in the future.

So please, dear CPMA community, make up your mind whether all the hours of pickup fun, talking crap on IRC and keeping the European (read: whole) CPMA community alive is worth a few bucks of your money or not. It's fairly cheap compared to other activities like movies or pub crawling, but unfortunately it's not completely for free either. The more people contribute, the cheaper it is!

You can donate using e.g. Paypal or your credit card. Thanks to everybody who's contributing!

Links: #cpmpickup, Donation website

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QuakeAmerica.com v2 and Duel Cup #4 (26 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Amp @ 17:28 CST, 22 February 2010 - iMsg

The Quake America team is proud to announce the launch of their new website QuakeAmerica.com. New features besides running the tournaments include access to community videos, streams, and forums. Keep in mind it is still a work in progress, but is now in a presentable state. The Quake America team would like to encourage everyone to participate in all features of the website beyond the Duel Cup Series, such as the forums.

Also, we have officially opened sign-ups for Duel Cup #4 set to begin at 18:00 CST, 27 February 2010. Note that as we are using a new bracket builder software, some rule changes are currently pending. Especially those regarding the check-in phase, elimination system and seeding style. Final decisions on those rules will be posted later.

The Quake America team would like to thank the Quake community for all the support we've been given over the past few weeks, and hope you will enjoy our return to running the Quake America Duel Cup Series.

Links: Quake America, Rules, Forums,

#quakeamerica

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ClanBase NationsCup - 3rd week (3 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 07:22 CST, 22 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: CB NC13

Update: Three games to be played tonight as seen in schedule down here. If

Belgium don`t show up tonight in their game vs

Poland, it will be their second no-show and kick from the TDM cup ...

Serbia fights

UK and interesting to see if they could beat them in CTF as they did in TDM yesterday. And we also got

Hungary vs

Switzerland in TDM match.

Important: If any game need to be rescheduled or moved to another date, admins must be contacted (PerpetualWar for CTF /TDM and Astral for CTF). Otherwise, double no-show might be applied. Rules can be found down below.

We are at middle of the group stage with 3rd week ahead of us.
Unfortunately a lot of games has been rescheduled already and many wildcards have been used and some teams even had their first forfeits. Look for the schedule and results down here.

Schedule

Results

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

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Silent Gamers Cup - Rankings (254 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by sev1_ @ 01:57 CST, 22 February 2010 - iMsg

Update: The cup is over! Here are the rankings:

1st. DaHanG
2nd. rapha
3rd. ZeRo4
4th. tehnewbz
5-6th. swooped / griffin
7-8th. dCoy / Chance

All demos are available on quakescene.com and some VODs can be found on Quake-Live.tv and djWHEAT.tv.

That's right, tomorrow starts the Silent Gamers Cup featuring three IEM ESL World Championship competitors from the US

rapha and

DaHanG as well as

Vo0 from the Netherlands who qualified but can not play, and his spot was deservedly given to

Griffin. Video Streaming will be available thanks to Quake-Live.tv and djWHEAT.tv as we prepare for an exciting weekend and glimpse at our star players before the IEM World Tournament begins in March.

Contestants

Tournament and Stream Information

Link: Silent Gamers, Brackets,

#SilentGamers

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Site summary for week ending 19 Feb (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

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Top Referers

10 Players of Ownage (37 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Zalon @ 15:00 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Tonight is the end of the sign-up period for Ownage, the double elimination QuakeWorld Duel Tournament. This means that players can start playing their games, and with 176 confirmed participants, the QuakeWorld scene is looking forward to a blast of a tournament.

Not just the amount of players is impressive, also the list of top players who have signed up is above expectations, with a lot of old players making their comeback. As a pre-season build up, QuakeWorld.nu have conducted a series of interviews with some of the top contenders.

The players sharing their thoughts of the tournament include:

Milton,

LocKtar,

Rikoll,

Valla,

xpr,

kingpin,

xenic,

niw,

LuGia and Quake3 star turned QuakeWorld rookie

fooki

The interviews are available at QuakeWorld.nu

Links: Ownage, Participants, Brackets

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Lo3 #42 Silent Gamers Day 2, Alex Valle (215 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 05:11 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:30 CST, 21 February 2010 to 19:00 CST, 21 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

Live Stream

Myself and

Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham will be casting the final day of the Silent Gamers Cup (Brackets: WB, LB). The following will be the attempted stream running order:

Matches

At the conclusion of the event, Street Fighter legend

Alex Valle will be coming on to talk about a new fighting tournament series he is a part of that is launching called the SoCal Level|Up Tournament series. The debut event will is set to take place next weekend, February 27th, at Dave & Busters at The Block at Orange. There will be a 64-man tournament in Street Fighter 4 and Tekken 6, featuring the west coast's top players and a bonus $1,000 for each winner. Level|Up COO

Jimmy "ShinJN" Nguyen and media specialist

AJ "PotatoHead" Papa will be joining the call as well to talk about the release and concept of this project, the first event next weekend, and what we might see in the future, including the release of Super Street Fighter 4 in the near future.

Other news topics we will touch on

Note: If you're on Reddit, go to http://www.reddit.com/tb/b4o4z

Watch it at djWHEAT.tv!

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IEM4 World Championship Finals *update2* (227 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 05:07 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Update 2: The ESL announced that

Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani won't be able to attend the World Championship Finals and will be replaced by

Brian "coL|dkt" Flander in Group B.

Update: The schedule of the competition is now available.

The conclusion of the Intel Extreme Masters IV will start in less than 2 weeks during the CeBIT in

Hannover with the World Championship Finals. Yesterday, the ESL staff announced the tournament format and the prize money details for Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft and Quakelive.

Tournaments format

Prize money details

Links: Game format information, Prize Purse

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #20 is over! (56 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 04:59 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 21 February 2010 to 12:00 CST, 21 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

Let's make it twenty - 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: ZOTAC #20 is running now with players like

mouz|cooller,

stermy,

k1llsen,

BVG|guard,

evil,

fnatic\strenx and many more!

Final standings:

1. fnatic\strenx - 100€
2. stermy
3./4. BVG|tox1c / BVG|GUard

Brackets: click here
Streams:

qlivechannel -

FLY-CORE -

tv.holysh1t.net
Links: Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

AUS/NZ Div1 Duel Semi Finals (5 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by M05 @ 02:00 CST, 21 February 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 02:15 CST, 21 February 2010 to 05:00 CST, 21 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

4Seasons Gaming presents the Australian and New Zealand Division 1 Duel Semi Finals featuring some of continents top players

zlr vs Haymo and

nomey vs Pathe. All 4 players have had pretty smooth runs with Zlr and Nomey yet to drop a map in the competition so far, brackets here. Semi finals will be best of 5, and due to single eliminations nature the matches are do or die for the competitors.

Predictions

We are excited to see what form our Australian duelers are in, so join us if your up this early/late or even if you just love to watch some Semi Final action. Banter / chat about the casting / players can be done in irc.

Video Cast: VOD Semi Final 1 - Zlr vs Haymo and VOD Semi Final 2 - Nomey vs Pathe

Post-SilentGamers Interview 2-pack! (7 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Jehar @ 12:24 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

This is going to be one insane weekend, with loads of streams from Quake-Live.tv and DJWHEAT.tv for the SilentGamers cup, culminating in the finals on Sunday. After that, however, Tastyspleen.tv brings you a few treats in the form of a couple interviews:

1)

DaHanG and

{sYnth}Scooby: These two players are teaming up for the second "season" of QuakeNight under the Q2 tag. We'll be discussing their partnership, the upcoming matches, and some reminiscing.

2) Overactive and h1o: We're going to be proud to announce coverage of their upcoming Warsow bomb cup, and we'll be sitting down with the two administrators to discuss the league, the current warsow scene, and perhaps some speculation on how things might have gone differently for the game on the competitive scene.

Also, a short aside on the recent banning of Thaigo from the EDL. There's some doubt of having any guests on for this segment, simply due to the fact that it's still a rather touchy subject.

So be sure to tune in to Tastyspleen.tv at 18:00 CDT this Sunday for some great interviews!

NOTICE: Postponing until Monday, due to an epicly-full weekend schedule. BE THERE!

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Fnatic.com interviews ESL's Carmac (25 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by roychez @ 12:11 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

In a serie of interviews for the ESL Extreme Masters IV World Championship Finals, Fnatic.com now interviews ESL's Product Manager

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz.

Carmac is a well known figure in the scene, as he has done much for it and has a wide knowledge of eSports. The reporter and Carmac talk a little bit about the impending IEM IV World Championships, his work behind the scenes, WoW as an E-Sport, Quake Live and its inception into the Extreme Masters, and more!

You can find the interview on fnatic.com.

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G Data QL Cup #13 is over! (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 03:28 CST, 20 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 20 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 20 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: GData #13 started with players like

srs\Cypher,

srs\av3k,

k1llsen,

srs\burnedd,

evil,

Drz|uaReaper,

BVG|guard and many more.

Final standings:

1. BVG|GUard - 100€
2. xlo^madix
3./4. Evil / agentJkezooR

Stream:

nightcookie &

dubcat &

Holysh1t TV &

lvl^
Brackets: click here
Links: Tournament page - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

LowLandLions win BiBS EU Season 2 (38 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by grimbob @ 09:24 CST, 19 February 2010 - iMsg

After a delay to the finals of the Bring it Back Safely Season 2 European finals, it has been announced that LowLandLions will receive a default win against the other finalists YoYoTech, thus winning their second title in a row.

Congratulations to LowLandLions, and also Mephistio for being awarded with Player of the Season award. This award was given to Mephistio for her activity and completing all matches, instead of awarding defaults.

BiBS Season 3 sign-ups are still available until 10th March, with the new season looking to start on the 29th March. More information can be found at the BiBS website.

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