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ZDaemon Duel League Finals (DooM 2) (14 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by DevastatioN @ 17:53 CST, 12 January 2010 - iMsg

The ZDaemon Duel League is a competitive doom 2 league using the port ZDaemon. After a long fall/winter season, the top division has only one game left, the match between

DevastatioN and

JKist3.

The finals will be the best of 5, consisting of the maps DooM2 Map1, Dwango5 Map1, Judas23, Dwango5 Map7, and King1.

Broadcasted by

Jehar and

Hatred on Tastyspleen.tv, the show will begin at 13:15 CDT on Saturday January 16th.
Winner will take home $250 US, and the loser will end up in 2nd place for $100 US.

Division 1-4 results

Sources: ZDDL Website

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How does the new Quake Live update feel? (163 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 12:33 CST, 12 January 2010 - iMsg

About a month ago id Software released an important update for Quake Live which included changes of the hitboxes and the damage output of the LightningGun.

has spoken with a few top players to catch some opinions about the new patch.

Kévin "strenx" Baeza:

"The hitbox is perfect now and we know who has good aim and who doesn't. I guess it's a very good idea which doesn't disturb my game at all. I love the new shaft and I nearly shaft the same as before, so why shouldn't I be happy?"

List of asked Player

You can read all the statements in English and in German.

If you are a fan of

John "ZeRo4" Hill you should also check out the first part of a portrait about the american quake player, which you can find in German only.

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Kuh3liga Winter signups open *update* (25 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 15:14 CST, 11 January 2010 - iMsg

Kuh3Liga is preparing for the upcoming Quake Live winter season 2010. The signups just started on 9th of january and will be open until the 18th of january. Unlike Clanbase they offer a Clan Arena league so CA players can rocketjump into action! All matches will be played best-of-three.

Leagues
Quake Live TDM 4v4
Quake Live CTF 4v4
Quake Live CA 5v5

Mappool
TDM maps: qzdm6, qzdm7, qzdm14, qzdm20
CTF maps: qzctf2, qzctf3, qzctf7, qzctf8, qzctf10
CA maps: qzdm6, qzdm20, qzca1, qzca2, qzca3

About questions adding ql guid/id`s ask on quakenet. After adding all guid´s a league admin will control the profile so this can take a little while. When signups are closed the groups will be built and playing starts on 24th on january, exact date will be announced.

TDM Premiereship matches will be played every sunday at 15:00 CDT and Holysh1t TV will broadcast some of the matches.

Update
Draft groups are online
Quake Live TDM 4v4
Quake Live CTF 4v4
Quake Live CA 5v5 - to be announced

Links: kuh3liga.eu -

#kuh3net.ql

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2nd [AVA] ClanArena Trophy sign in (13 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 14:47 CST, 11 January 2010 - iMsg

The sign in phase for the second "Avalon-Clan"-CA-Trophy starts now. After positive feedback of the first Trophy tournament the participent places have advanced, from 12 to now 32 teams. For the available 32 slots were 17 invites spread, the other 15 slots are open now for a free sign up. 4v4 tournaments are divided in 3 divisions.

Mappool is DM6, DM14, DM20, CA1, CA2, CA3, T6, T7.

Invited teams, rules, dates can be found on avalon-clan.

Links: avalon-clan.com -

#ava-trophy

IEM4 EC Missing Games Final Part (91 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 00:13 CST, 11 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 14:00 CST, 11 January 2010 to 15:00 CST, 11 January 2010
Schedule: Passed

Tonight will see the end of the online part of the European Championship with the two very last games before the European Finals to be played in Cologne from 21st to 24th January. With 2 late matches, Stermy will need to qualify himself tonight by beating kRoNic first, then he'll face l1nkje to hypothetically take the lead in Group G. The stream will be provided by Own3d.tv starting at 15:00 CDT.

Results

Previous games

Links: European Championship,

#esl.quakelive
Streaming: Own3d.tv,

IEMtv

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Site summary for week ending 08 Jan (15 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 10 January 2010 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Articles

Top Referers

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EQL Final: the Viper Squad vs Slackers (21 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Zalon @ 12:00 CST, 10 January 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 10 January 2010 to 15:00 CST, 10 January 2010
Schedule: Passed

Tonight at 14:00 CDT the 10th season of the European Quake League will come to it's conclusion. As the Division 1 final between

the Viper Squad and

Slackers will be played.

Both teams are 3 times EQL champions, with tVS winning the previous 2 seasons without loosing a single match.

Slackers last EQL championship was in EQL Season 7, when they were supposed to play vs tVS, but that game resulted in a walkover.

A part from that, the two teams have never met in a major QuakeWorld final before, leaving

Slackers hungry for a victory, as they seek out to break

the Viper Squad's 3 season winning streak.

To help them achieve that goal, they have brought back danish TDM veteran and QuakeWorld legend

David "ParadokS" Larsen. With Paradoks' record of playing in more than 16 major QuakeWorld TDM finals, he will surely bring some much needed stability and experience to the Slackers side, and improve their chances of beating the Finnish powerhouse.

Expected lineups

Commentators for the match

Jehar &

Adde

The game can be watched via stream or using QTV.

Links: EQL, QTV, Stream, Mumble, nQuake

Source: QuakeWorld.nu

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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #14 is over! (93 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by shorrty @ 05:27 CST, 10 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 10 January 2010 to 12:00 CST, 10 January 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 14th edition of the weekly ZOTAC QL Duel Cup is set up for your registration, it will be played on 07:00 CST, 10 January 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.

Update: ZOTAC QL Cup #14 is running with players like

fnatic\spartie,

k1llsen,

stermy,

srs\av3k,

RazerJ and many more!

Quick Facts

Rankings:

1. fnatic\spart1e - 100€
2. srs\av3k
3. 4K*RazerJ (Jibo) / stermy

Streams:

Lanfeust,

GameSports,

CyberArena TV
Links: Tourney page - Tourney brackets -

#zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame

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NA Quake Live Beginner Cup (17 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by ra_ar @ 09:13 CST, 9 January 2010 - iMsg

www.quakebalance.com and www.fraggednation.com have teamed up to bring skill matched competition to North American's for Quake Live! Its long been a vision for our team to provide events for players of all skill and introduce to beginners just how much fun competitive events can be when your matching with players of similar skill.

Date/Time: Sunday 17 Jan, 1pm to 5pm EST

Tournament Wesite
Tournament Sign-ups

Rules are posted on our tournament page, as well as the map listing for the event.

Format

Contact Info

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( Major News: QL)

Posted by Bob @ 07:56 CST, 9 January 2010 - iMsg

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( Major Article: CoD)

Posted by Bob @ 11:15 CST, 7 January 2010 - iMsg

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ClanBase QuakeLive ladders opened (61 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by PerpetualWar @ 13:46 CST, 6 January 2010 - iMsg

ClanBase QuakeLive ladders have been opened yesterday. Players are encouraged to join ladders for 4 different gametypes:

* QL DUEL (rules)
* QL TDM 2v2 (rules)
* QL TDM 4v4 (rules)
* QL CTF 4v4 (rules)

All ladders will be AGP sanctioned, but for the moment only duel is. More info soon.

You can join ladders here.
Also don`t forget to read the rules for each ladder you want to apply for, and the general ladder rules.

More info: Clanbase news, twitter.

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AGP Player Representatives and Site (157 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 23:41 CST, 5 January 2010 - iMsg

The AGP has just announced the North America and Europe Duel Representatives. The Europe region of the AGP had a private vote among the members. The North America region had 5 Pro member volunteers to run for the position. With each branch needing 5 members, they were elected automatically, without need of a vote. This position will be held for all of 2010. For more details of what an AGP player representative is and does, read about it on the AGP Legislation and Representation page.

Europe Duel Representatives

North America Duel Representatives

AGPTour.com has also released some big changes and additions to the official site. This includes new updated Rankings (layout, functionality, and regions), AGPTOUR.TV, new Association information and sections, drop downs, and much more.

Full Change Log

1. The AGP Rankings are now up to date and have a new look and functionality. Also added are the NEW regional rankings. If you are not listed in regional rankings or you do not have a profile link in international rankings, than you are not an AGP member. *Note: while we are rankings players internationally that are not AGP members, we have no way of knowing what region you are in for Regional Rankings.* In the future, the rankings will be updated at the beginning of every month unless a big point LAN event happens. Then they will be updated thereafter. Rankings for additional game modes will be announced with the launching of the other game modes and competitions. www.agprankings.com domain can now be used to get there fast.

2. AGPTOUR.TV has now been launched. It is a one stop page for all AGP related viewing. All AGP Sanctioned competitions will be linked in the schedule as well as other related video. We will also feature streaming video when we can right here as well. We will do our best to list all major time zones as well to keep time confusion to a minimum. This should speed up searching for game times.

3. The much needed Top Links bar has been added including drop downs for some old sections of the site and new ones listed below.

4. The Association section has been expanded to include more information about each section of the AGP. This includes Sanctioning, Mission, Legislation, and each game mode’s branch (which will be officially launched soon in addition to Duel).

5. Each game mode’s page (Duel for example) will include all regions that have sanctioned competitions, total competitions, and total members. Each region page of each game mode will contain the said regions elected representatives, total amount of competitions, and a list of all members for that region (Europe for example).This will take some time as we need information from our members to be gathered as well as launch our new regions.

*To AGP members: PLEASE sign in to your account and edit your profile to now say what COUNTRY and REGION you are playing from as well as which GAME MODES you will be playing in. Without this information, we cannot fill out these sections accurately.*

6. We now have a Competitions page with all international competitions in Quake Live that are included in the Rankings. We also now have regional competitions pages that include all AGP Sanctioned competitions in each region. In addition, we also now have official competition pages per competition, with additional information and Ranking point breakdowns.

7. AGP Classics is now starting to take shape. It is still in beta and as we start to launch entire tournaments in streaming video, this section will grow and change in format yet again. And yes, more games than this will be on here in time. If anyone would like to help in this project, please contact us via IRC or HERE.

8. We have drop downs links now of our social networks like twitter and facebook. Join us on each for fast updates on all AGP related news and competitions. We also just added an XFIRE community page for you XFIRE users, as listed on our XFIRE page. Go there for details and installation information.

The AGP has just begun. Thanks to all of you and your support. In the next month we will be launching new regions, new AGP Sanctioned competitions, and new game mode branches of the AGP. Stay tuned!

PS: As a New year's gift, I've added Socrates POV for the AGP Classics Match of the Week posted earlier on ESR. Check it out!

Source: AGP Tour

#agptour, Facebook, Twitter

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QHLAN13 1on1 and 2on2 finals coming up (10 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Åke Vader @ 10:58 CST, 5 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: QHLAN13

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 5 January 2010
Schedule: Passed

After four days of massive carnage the 1on1 and 2on2 tournaments on QHLAN will come to an end in two mind blowing finals played during this very evening. First up will be the 2on2 finals between

Locktar /

Bps and

OK98 /

Lethalwiz (link to match on Goldrush) which will be played in a best of five series on DM2, DM4, DM6, Aero and ZTNDM3. After the 2on2 final the last games in the 1on1 will hopefully be played depending on how far that tournament has come by then.

Live coverage will be available through a stream and QTV with

Jehar and

Adde in the virtual commentary booth.

Info
2on2 finals: 20:00CET
Stream: www.quakeworld.nu/live/
QTV: QHLAN QTV
IRC: #QHLAN (Quakenet)
Tournament site: QHLAN13 Tournaments
Coverage: Quakeworld.nu, Refragged

Source: Quakeworld.nu

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IEM4 Asian Championship - 6 invited! (132 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:48 CST, 5 January 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Today the ESL released the 6 first players who are invited for the Asian Championship Finals. These finals will take place in

Taipei City between the 5th and the 9th of February 2010 during the Taipei Game Show. All 6 will be playing in the Quakelive tournaments along with 2 more players who still are unknown.

The 6 invited players are as following:

Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani
Joe "Fenda" Fender
Tahara "uNleashed" Naonobu
Lee "Gosia" Byungwook
Zhibo "Fan Zhibo" Fan
Sung-Lin "Mustaine" Tsai

Cash prize - $4,000 total

Note that Fenda and proZaC are currently residing in Japan and are therefor allowed to participate in the Asian Championship.

Links: Announcement, Asian Championship Finals

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