Today is a special Valentine's Day Massacre episode of Live On Three with your hosts Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham and Rod "Slasher" Breslau (SirScoots at the olympics). djWHEAT, who worked for both Global Gaming (GGL, formerly the Global Gaming League) and the Championship Gaming Series (CGS), will be having a tell-all exclusive on the rise and fall of both of these large companies.

We want to hear your questions. Send them into Lo3@djWHEAT.tv

Topics from both leagues include:

GGL - Early 'vSports' involvement at the company, buying out and collapse of ClanBase, along with the slow death of AmeriCup and EuroCup, the Hip Hop Gaming League and Professional Baseball Gaming League, the failed Digital Games Chinese Olympics event, and the owed money to both players and former employees

CGS - Draft at Playboy Mansion, the selection of mediocre games across two seasons, the decision to use Counter-Strike: Source and not 1.6, Jonathon "Fatal1ty" Wendel's commentating ability, CEO Andy Reif being replaced, TV vs corporate and online streaming, the failure in the CS production value, and the spending of $40 million in two years

Tune into Live On Three this Sunday at 16:00 CDT on djWHEAT.tv

We now have the list of duelers that will be participating in the tournament. The seeded players (in order) are:


The remaining sixteen duelers will be randomly chosen to play against the seeded players. The sixteen duelers are:


All players must check-in to the tournament at precisely 12:00 CST, 20 February 2010. It is our pleasure to inform the aficionados that all matches will be casted, starting with QL.tv on Saturday and ending with djWHEAT on Sunday for the semi-finals/finals. The matches on Sunday will be played at 13:00 CST, 20 February 2010 with one hour check-in before for all duelers. Thanks for the support!

Reminder: For questions, comments, and concerns, contact SG|sev1

Link: Silent Gamers #SilentGamers

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 14 February 2010 to 11:20 CST, 14 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.


Update: ZOTAC #19 has started now with participants like fnatic\strenx, BVG|guard, xlo^mAdix, srs\av3k and many more.

Final standings:

1. fnatic\strenx - 100€
2. ND Cny
3./4. k1ck^doj / BVG|tox1c

Streams: Holysh1t TV & qlchannel
Brackets: here
Links: Tourney page - #zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

With the Intel Extreme Masters making their third stop around the world in Taiwan recently, it seems like this Asian event was not getting anywhere near as much attention from the FPS community as the European and American finals.

Somehow (:D) I found this article about why it could be that FPS games aren't that successful in the largest competitive gaming markets in the world.

Excerpt:

Like the arcades in Japan, PC Baangs were major social places, like bars and clubs are to the western world. It was a mainstream part of youth culture. Even the layout of PC Baangs are social, with a large loveseat attached to two computers so that guys could sit with their girlfriends. Because of the ban on console imports, this allowed PC Baangs to only offer PC games and it just so happened that Starcraft was there. Would it be different had Quake or Counter Strike been available?

Go here to read the full article.

And the results are in! After a long night that almost didn't happen, our first repeat winner and even more evidence that Quake America is as much an endurance test as anything else, we have your podium for Quake America Duel Cup #3:

Eddie T. "km Rey" J.
JUDGE717
Jeff "dCoy" Zachary

Special mention goes out to Clan Knightmare who have been putting out great showings every single tournament, with most of the top 8 being filled by their players each week consistently, and congratulations to km Rey who is our first ever repeat winner tonight.

And with that, a quick announcement that as of tonight, Quake America will be taking a one week hiatus to both reseat ourselves in our new website, and allow a chance for Silent Gamers to run their charity Pro-Am. So look forward to more annoucements coming soon! Thank you all for playing and/or watching!

EDIT #2: Brackets are up!

EDIT: Seeds have been posted for tonight! See below!

Today will see the start of the third entry in the Quake America Duel Cup series, and the final one hosted by tourney.cc.

Coverage will be provided by Jehar of QL.tv and a few independent casters.

The check in phase will begin at 18:00 CDT while brackets and seeds should be posted to make the tournament set to begin at 19:00 CDT.

For those people who would like to play, you will still have a chance to sign up and check in at the check in phase. However please be aware that all latecomers will be automatically seeded into the lowest block.

Cup #3: Current Signups, Seeds, Brackets

Streams: QuakeLive.TV, Muhu (alternative)

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules - #quakeamerica

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 13 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 13 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.


Update: G Data #12 is now running with players like xlo^mAdix, xlo^fazz, noctis, evil and many more!

Final standings:

1. noctis - 100€
2. xlo^madix
3./4. xlo^fazz / BVG|Guard

Stream: Holysh1t TV
Brackets: Link
Links: Tournament page - Hall of Fame - #gdata.qlive

TEK-9.org launched their new monthly QuakeLive top ten ranking today, voted by TEK9's expert panel and the world's top players every month. With no sanctioned tournaments, no spam and no fees, the TEK9 top ten simply brings you the views and votes from the people you want to hear from each and every month.

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson has been on top for some time now but can he hold off the challenge of Europe's best after a shock defeat at the IEM American Championship? The biggest names in QuakeLive share their thoughts on who's the real favourite ahead of the global finals. Next month their votes will be joined by those of the previous top ten players, giving a clear and balanced ranking each time around.

TEK9 Voting Panel:

- Michal "Carmac" Blicharz
- Rod "Slasher" Breslau
- Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner
- Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham
- Duncan "Thorin" Shields
- Liam "crow" Crowley


Find out who made the top four and read up on the panel's views on TEK-9.org.

Today, SK Gaming released part one of a two part video interview series with Anton "Cooller" Singov. Filmed at the office in Germany shared by SK Gaming and his team, Mousesports, Cooller explains his dreams of being the top player in the world back as a younger man. As well as whether the hunger is still there to win titles, and the reasoning he's come back to compete.

You can watch it here: Cooller 1on1 part 1: "Life gave me a chance"

Part two will be released on February 18th. Photo: fragster.de

Update: Team Belgium is going to play CTF cup under different captain. link

Since ClanBase NationsCup already started, I thought to give you insight for the matches ahead of us.
As most of you know, we run both CTF and TDM this year so schedule is right here:


Unfortunately some teams decided to quit at this stage like team Austria (not enough interested players) and team Belgium (no apparent reason) regarding CTF.

More info: CTF, TDM, twitter

I am collecting frags for my quake live movie sequel "UNAGI 2: The Return of The Power". If you have some really nice frags, quadruns, caps or funny scenes, send them to zeroql23@gmail.com!


This movie won't be realized in near time, cause I got two big projects on my hand at the moment but you can be looking forward to these two: "Colosseum 2: QuakeLive National CUP Movie" and a private movie for a cool guy from Germany, I wont start until i finisht these two projects.

Anyways this time I am going to put soul in this movie and with help from my friends Predrag Pecev and RavenTL (an awsome CS movie maker), it's going to be 10x better than the first part! For a first glimpse, check out the promotion Trailer:
Stream: own3d.tv
Download version: team-qcg.com

If you didnt watch my first Unagi movie, check out...

Sign-ups are now open for Quake America Weekly Duel Cup #2, scheduled to start Saturday, February 13th at 19:00 CDT!

Updates will be posted pending any rule or schedule changes.

Also, remember that this is the Sign-Up phase. On the day of the tournament there will be a Check-In phase where players will verify they are present. If you miss either the Sign-Up or the Check-In, you will not be put into the bracket for Duel Cup #3.

So, don't forget to sign up for Duel Cup #3, and good luck to all participants!

Also, the tournament that would have been set to be on February 20th has been postponed. This will serve two purposes. The first will be to allow the Silent Gamers to run their tournament, the second concerns Quake America's new website.

Please be aware, we are still running one more tournament on the 13th through our previous tourney.cc hosts. We are merely taking a very short hiatus after our tournament on the 13th so as to migrate to our new website at quakeamerica.com and to offer some cross promotion to our good friends at Silent Gamers.

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules - #quakeamerica

In the light of the ESL Extreme Masters, Fnatic.com has interviewed both Pierre-Emeric "l1nkje" Portier and Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira. The interviews cross topics such as the Extreme Masters European Championship, the FnaticMSI team and more.

Seeing how you performed now, are there any specific areas in your game play that you will focus on improving in the future?
l1nkje: Yeah of course. I said on fragster.de that I wanted to focus onto duelling in 2010, and that’s what I’ll do. Since I’m not a dueller, i kind of need to “restart” my game, so yeah, I’ll improve everything. I need a fresh start, a start over. Maybe I’ll have to talk with my mates and ask them what I do so wrong :)

Many people say that on any given day you could win a tournament, however at this event you were out in the group stage, what went wrong?
Spart1e: Like I mentioned earlier. Lack of sleep/concentration and a(not just one) mistake of me. I guess that it was quite the same for me as av3k when he played calipt. I felt I was in such a good form, that I underestimated my opponents. From now on I am gonna play 100% in every game:P.

Besides the interviews, the article also contains a write-up on the ESL Extreme Masters European Championship Finals. Enjoy them all here!

About a month after the launch of #cpmduel at quakenet they arranged their first duel tournament this weekend.

The tournament itself went on very smoothly where almost everyone involved were happy with it. The ones who weren't happy about it was buxter who played in the winner bracket-final game versus eThaD. eThaD beat him in two straight maps and threw him into the loser brackets where he got knocked out.


eThad at Dreamhack Winter 2008

A few hours after the cup was finished a demo was published on challenge-tv.com where the poster "QuakeSuperHero" accused eThaD of using wallhack.
While watching the demo he think he caught eThaD at least 29 times where he's had to have wallhack. (note that a CPM duel is 10min).

Some parts of the CPM community has turned against eThaD and some support him in this. The discussion at challenge-tv.com has started where it seems like most people thinks he cheats.

ethad seems to counter this very calmly and not doing anything until buxter wants to have a chat at irc.

Wallhack or not? Discuss!

edit:
Statement by buxter

<buxter> frankly, i don't care about this whole mess, it wasn't me who started it, i gave my opinion with explanation, controversial as it might be but still only my point of view, and nothing more, certainly not proof of QUakeSuperHero thesis.

Actually it's this QuakeSuperHero that's the bad guy, not buxter. Pardons to buxter!

Once again, we are pleased to announce the newest gaming league in Quake Live, Silent Gamers. Our first season will be mainly to establish our name as a league and to bring awareness of those who are deaf and hard of hearing. With this said, we'd like to state who the sixteen invited competitors are:

(in no particular order)

In addition, the time when this dueling tournament will take place has been set from February 20th to February 21st starting at 2pm EST. Without a doubt, the invited experienced duelers will mold our competition into a serious, entertaining event that will definitely help us achieve our goal as a league.

Reminder: Sign-ups will commence at 10 p.m. EST tonight! (10/2/2009)
For questions, comments, and concerns, contact SG|sev1 or SG|ack|dM in mIRC

Link: Silent Gamers #SilentGamers

The 4Kings lineup was interviewed after their win against Zigi. After that the team moved to the Losers Bracket finals and, courtesy of the LowLandLions, were propelled through to the grand final where they will meet with Fnatic.

You lost against LowLandLions. Could have you predicted that?

jocko: No, since no jocko, no win.

Are you confident enough?

dk: of coz, I always think we are going to win… of coz sometimes happens the opposite ? but we are always confident. All are cooking with the same water.