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( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 02:28 CST, 9 February 2010 - iMsg

After several weeks full with cups and exciting matches the Intel GameOn Finals will kick off. The winner earns a Alienware m17x notebook, a trip to Cebit, Hannover, Germany and 150€ pocket money. Cebit the winner can follow the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship. Within the next few days ten players from ten different countries will face off to find out who is the best. Also find out which players won which countries and won nice prizes.

Final Country Results

Final Groups

The group stage will be played best of three and the top two of each group will advance to single elimination playoffs, which will be best of five.

Links: Schedule & Results - GameOn Cup Site

QuakeNight QLive 2v2 Season 2 Invites (31 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by xfoo @ 21:19 CST, 8 February 2010 - iMsg

Once again, we asked the NA QuakeLive community if they wanted a TDM 2v2 Season 2, and the response was solid. I want to thank all the teams who signed up. As stated previously, we are trying something a little different for Season 2. For obvious reasons, we are using two separate competition levels: Pro and a Pro-2B.

And the teams are...

* Matches will begin Monday night starting 7-10 pm CST - on 02.22.10.
* At least 1 match from each level will be casted every Monday by QL.TV or GameFire.
* Private servers will be made available for competing teams to scrim/practice and play their matches.
* Any questions are to be directed to the head admin sirdark at

irc.gamesurge.net #quakenight.

Head to quakenight.com to view the Week 1 matches. Good luck to all teams and as always, play, record demos, ggs, and have fun.

IEM Asian Championship VODs & babes (54 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Carmac @ 21:03 CST, 8 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship is over and all that's left of it are Jibo's face is all over the Quake Live website, VODs of the matches and videos.

Three galleries from the event can be found right here. Moreover, This news item has got all the VODs rounded up. The most interesting matches are directly linked here:

Jibo

We have interviewed

proZaC and

uNleashed at the event - those can be found right here. Most importantly, we have shot a booth babe video with

the p1mp - you won't regret watching:

proZaC rates TGS

photo: ESL

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Silent Gamers QL Duel Cup (58 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by sev1_ @ 17:05 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg

We would like to announce the newest addition to Quake Live gaming leagues, Silent Gamers. Silent Gamers is a tournament that not only satisfies the gaming needs of the Quake Live deaf and hard of hearing community, but also Quake Live in general. Currently, we are hosting a 32 man QL dueling tournament where 16 of the competitors will be invited and the other 16 competitors will be randomly chosen. In addition, we are offering a cash prize of $200 to the first place winner of our competition. The tournament will be organized in the following manner:

*It will be double elimination
*All duels leading up to the final will be a series of three games, best two out of three
*The way to choose maps is TBA
*The final will be a series of five games, best three out of five
*The competition will be played over the time frame of two days.

For those that have not heard of us and want to support us,
we can be found on

#SilentGamers @ gamesurge.net. We appreciate all your support!

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Site summary for week ending 05 Feb (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

New Articles

Top Referers

QuakeLive TDM NationsCup 2010 - Update (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 10:48 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: QL NC'10

The third playweek follows with todays matches, that should be all interesting. At 21:00

United Kingdom will clash

Slovenia,

Netherlands vs

Ukraine after that and at 22:00

Czech Republic vs

Spain and

United Kingdom vs

Iceland.
One of the most interesting fights for tonight is United Kingdom vs Iceland, with the winner becoming leader of group B

Week 3 matches

Results

More info: QQC - Twitter -

#quakequickcup

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Lo3 #40 CSPromod w/ Alex Garfield (37 comments)

( Major News: CS QL WC3)

Posted by Slasher @ 10:47 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg

The VOD has now been posted online - http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4545061

After one week of public release for CSProMod, including reactions from pro-players in both the 1.6 community and Source community, as well as the media's differing opinions, Head of Development

Alex Garfield will be a guest on Live On three this Sunday at 4 PM EST/22:00 CET. We will be talking about how the release has gone thus far and if things have gone as expected, better, or worse, his reactions to the player and media statements, more information and hopefully a general release date for 1.05, and what the plan is for CSProMod for the future of the Counter-Strike community.

Former SK Gaming Editor-in-Chief and current Replays.net editor

Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips has written an article detailing the death of Warcraft 3 in Europe, Korean players growing dislike for European organizations, and the move into Starcraft II in the near future. Malystryx will be coming on the show to talk more about his thoughts , and the possible imminent death of Warcraft 3.

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

Embedded Stream

Other news topics to be discussed include:

- ESL's Intel Extreme Masters Asia Championships wind down, with the Chinese legend

Fan "Jibo" Zhibo winning, and Swedish pimp

Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani also qualifying for the Quake Live Global Finals, while CS 1.6 and WoW continue
- SK Editor-in-Chief Duncan "Thorin" Shields has written an article "In search of the greatest team of all time", taking a look back at four possible contendors to greatest team of all time: SK.swe (2003-2004), mTw.dk (2008-2009), fnatic (2008-2009), and AGAiN (2006-2009)
- A man by the name of Arbalet keeps pumping money into the Counter-Strike 1.6 scene; Announcing a $10,000 Cup in February, A $32,000 Cup for press only, and launches 'World Electronic Sports', an online league, starting with $3,500.
- Major League Gaming announces details of their first Combine event, which will be amateurs only; AOL Games President Ralph Rivera leaves AOL to be MLG's new President
- GGL gets bought by PrismOne, wants to be the "Facebook of gamers"
- The TeamLiquid StarLeague heads into the Round of 16 with action continuing to heat up
- Marvel vs Capcom 2 gets added to Evolution 2010, sells $4.2 Million on Xbox Live Arcade

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #18 is over! (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 03:45 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 7 February 2010 to 12:00 CST, 7 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 18th edition of the weekly ZOTAC QL Duel Cup is set up for your registration, it will be played on 07:00 CST, 7 February 2010.

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 #18 is running with players like

srs\Cypher,

srs\Av3k,

Drz. uaReaper,

BVG|tox1c,

4K*pulseh,

SIRUS and many more.

Final standings:

1. srs\Av3k - 100€
2. srs\Cypher
3./4. agentJkezooR / evil_

Links: Tourney page - Tourney Brackets -

#zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

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IEM QL4 Asian Ch. Finals (414 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 03:38 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 20:30 CST, 4 February 2010 to 22:30 CST, 6 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The Intel Extreme Masters Season 4 will see it's Asian Championship Finals played at the 2010 Taipei Game Show in Taipei, Taiwan. The Quake Live tournament will start at 20:30 CST, 4 February 2010 with first group matches. The first day of group matches will be broadcasted by Quake Live.tv, from day two on the games will be casted on ESL TV with

2GD and

Joe.

Quake Live Groups

Group Results

Playoffs

Tournaments & Prizemoney

Final Standings

Streaming: ESL TV Free (Alternative host) - ESL TV Premium - Quake-Live.tv
Coverage: ESL,

Fragster.de (with live scores: groups, playoffs)
Links: Group stage, Brackets,

#masters.live
Galleries / Videos: ESL pics, IEM on YouTube, Fragster: Friday gallery, Saturday gallery, Return of the p1mp
Interviews: proZaC: "There can only be one true p1mp"

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Quake America Duel Cup #2 Results! (10 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Amp @ 01:59 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg

After a night filled with great frags, amazing comebacks, coverage provided by QuakeLive.tv, and what could very well be the setting of an amazing new precedent, the final results for the Quake America Duel Cup #2 are in:

Walter Outlaw
Eddie T. "km Rey" J.
Alex "km Karabas" Kravchenko

Contratulations to all our champions tonight, and look forward to Cup #3 happening soon.

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules -

#quakeamerica

G Data QL Cup #11 is over! (16 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 07:30 CST, 6 February 2010 - iMsg

Event: G Data QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 6 February 2010 to 11:20 CST, 6 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The next edition of the G Data QL Cup is played at the moment 07:00 CST, 6 February 2010.

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: The Cup is running with players like

srs\cypher,

k1llsen,

uaReaper,

dignitas\GarpY and many more.

Final standings:

1. srs\Cypher - 100€
2. BVG|Guard
3./4. dignitas\GaRpY / k1llsen

Links: Tournament page - Tourney Bracket - Hall of Fame -

#gdata.qlive

Tek9: AMD movie contest entries overview (37 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Hell5pawn @ 18:59 CST, 5 February 2010 - iMsg

Finally, all video from the Tek9 AMD movie contest have been released. Among over 9000 CS and COD movies there are four quake movies.

Quake III Arena:
OMG by

DisSidenT

QuakeLive:
seventeen by

Hell5pawn
Aftershock by

Kripp
Crash & Doom 2 by

warchild

Visit tek-9.org for a full movie list and support the Quake videos by rating them.

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Quakeworld Tournament Ownage #3 (14 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Badb0y @ 16:37 CST, 5 February 2010 - iMsg

On February 8th the biggest Quakeworld 1on1 tournament Ownage will be open for sign-ups. Registration will end after two weeks on sunday 21st, 15:00 CDT. Last year just about 150 players participated. This year the cup's organisers want to reach 256 players.

Mappool is dm2, dm4, dm6, ztndm3 and aerowalk. The tournament will be played in double elimination in BO3. This way every player has the chance to play at least 2 games. Quakeworld.nu is offering a vote on how the maps will be dropped.

The tournament is open to all players, beginner or advanced. Ring your friends, slap your mates on IRC and get yourself in shape for the biggest Quakeworld tourney alive!

Ownage -

#ownage.qw
Check nQuake, a modern Quakeworld client with the use of ezQuake, for Win/Linux/Mac

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PG Exhibition Match: Python vs zlr (51 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by noetix @ 19:10 CST, 4 February 2010 - iMsg

That's right, it's on ladies! The next exhibition match in the PG Pro series is set to roll and by popular demand, we've officially pulled Python off his beach in the Bahamas to return to the dueling arena to take on zlr! Brought to you by Premium Gamer and netGameTV, this match will be a spectacle not to be missed!

Prizes

Catch the whole adulterated event covered back-to-back by netGameRadio's Devastator & Nomey on the LIVE & now unlimited capacity video stream at netGameTV.

Full Details: forums.premiumgamer.com

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"There can only be one true p1mp" (57 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 07:58 CST, 4 February 2010 - iMsg

Community favorite

Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani, also known as "the p1mp", celebrates his return to the Quake scene. As one of Sweden´s former TDM stars he will go to enter the IEM Asian Championship in Taiwan and will fight for one of the two slots to qualify for the Global Finals in March.

fragster invited proZaC to an interview to speak about the upcoming event, his shape and why god is on his side. Here's a snippet:

It's been a while since you have been part of a Quake event. What happened during the last years?

proZaC: Woah, so many things ... I studied game development and got hired by Avalanche Studios to work on Just Cause 2. Then the financial crisis happened and that put a serious monkey wrench in the wheels of the game development industry (in Sweden anyway) and I became a kindergarten teacher instead, which was the best job I've ever had. After this the timing and opportunity was perfect to go to study in Japan. So here I am!

What are your plans then? A comeback in the eSport/Quake scene maybe?

proZaC: I don't know for sure yet, but I have a lot of fun playing quake again and watching all the good matches in the recent tournaments just makes me pumped - so maybe yes?

Read the full Interview in

English and

German.

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