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MLG CEO Interviewed by TechCrunch (30 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by detonatR @ 02:22 CST, 12 November 2009 - iMsg

This past weekend, thousands of gamers descended upon the Anaheim Convention Center to spectate and compete in one of the biggest video game competitions of the year, put on by Major League Gaming. Over two hundred teams of four individuals competed for the Halo 3 Championship where prize money totaled almost $60,000; while an additional $60,000 was up for grabs for titles such as Gears of War 2, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and EA Sports Madden NFL. An estimated 700,000 people viewed the live stream over the course of the weekend.

In this interview, Matt spoke about many of the misconceptions of the gaming business, including companies continued persistence of trying to bring video gaming to broadcast television; instead of focusing almost entirely on internet streaming.

Excerpt

The full interview can be found over at Techcrunch

Game On Cup #4 - Rankings (117 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 02:00 CST, 12 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 11 November 2009 to 18:00 CST, 11 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

Due to the Quakelive "hotfix" which took place in the middle of the Cups #4 of the Intel Game On, many matches were not played yesterday. You can find below the known rankings for each region/country, this post will be updated when the last matches will be over. For the results of the third cups, you can check the previous post.

Russia/CIS

Poland

DACH

UK

France

Spain

Italy

Turkey

MEA

The Cups #5 will be played on Sunday 22nd of November, and the sign-ups are already open: Russia/CIS, Poland, DACH, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, MEA.

Source: Game On
Links: Cups #1 + Nordic, Cups #2, Cups #3

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IEM America Playday #1 (60 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 17:38 CST, 11 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight the IEM4 American Championship should see the next Playday 1 games played. For the streaming coverage, Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham from djWHEAT.tv and the guys from QL-TV will be around to shoutcast the following matches:

- finished: walter vs Vo0 (bet / results + demos) - with djWHEAT
- finished: SK-rapha vs EG|Chance (bet / results + demos) - with djWHEAT

- rescheduled: EG|Griffin vs Loaded|relic (bet / match details) - with QL-TV
- finished: swooped vs Loaded|carnage (bet / result + demos) - with QL-TV

Some matches are still subject to rescheduling and this post will be updated as often as possible.

Streams: djWHEAT.tv (Audio only), QL-TV

Already played matches of playday 1

Links: American Championship, Groups,

#esl.quakelive

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BiBS EU: Playoffs shoutcasting & AGP (20 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by lundiz @ 16:59 CST, 11 November 2009 - iMsg

With the Bring it Back Safely playoffs coming up we are proud to announce an action packed schedule with some of the biggest names in the shoutcasting business! With QLTV doing a great job in the opening season we are happy to have them back shoutcasting the playoffs together with djWHEAT and holysh1t TV!

Dates
Sunday December 6 - brackets
Sunday December 13 - semi finals, 3rd place match and finals

December 6 (casted by holysh1t TV)

December 13 (casted by QuakeLiveTV and djWHEAT)

We are also psyched to offer the top teams of the playoffs AGP Ranking points. With the co-operation of the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals), teams will earn Ranking points based on their final standings. This will contribute to the international, regional, and national CTF Rankings. Being the first AGP Sanctioned league for CTF, this will give you serious bragging rights! All team members must be members of the AGP (free registration) in order to qualify. More details on this soon including point breakdown as well as the launching of the CTF Rankings and player legislation.

#BiBS @ QuakeNet/GameSurge

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Doom 2: 1996 - Ronbob vs Sslasher (114 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 08:19 CST, 11 November 2009 - iMsg

In presenting the history of Deathmatch as well as Id Software's release of Doom Classic on the iPhone, the AGP is proud to present Doom 2 in the AGP Classics Match of the Week!

This tournament took place in 1996 and is called DMcon1. They had 2 tournaments at this LAN, one for Map1, and one for map Dwango5. Map1 was played much slower and more protective than Dwango5, as you will see. Also, watch the special use of the BFG; there was a special 'hidden' ability it possessed that was utilized.

D2: Ronbob vs Sslasher

This is the semi-final of the Dwango5 tourney. Ronbob (pov) vs Sslasher (not to be confused with Slasher (Rod Breslau).

We also posted the Final of the Map1 tournament, where Sslasher plays Galiu.

D2: Sslasher vs Galiu

Presented by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals).

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Quake Live Update - 10th 11th Nov 2009 (24 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by bates @ 04:07 CST, 11 November 2009 - iMsg

Yesterday there was a little Quake Live Update going on.
Sync Error mentioned that these changes do not reflect the bulk of what id is been working on lately. It was important to release a fix to a recently discovered game exploit, and work progresses in other areas for an upcoming update.

Here are the Updates which where made:

* Fixed demo playback for demos with long file names.
* Fixed the accuracy menu to update properly in Clan Arena.
* Fixed the players-left-alive count to update properly in Clan Arena when an alive player disconnects.
* Fixed banned players' profile pages to once again report the status of their suspension.
* Fixed issues that had arose with the Match tool-tips.
* Changed 'cg_gibs 0' to now entirely disable the death spark effects.
* Changed Cobalt Station - qzdm16's max player limit to 8 players in CTF mode.

Source: Quake Live Forum

Update - Nov. 11th
Quake Live has been updated with the latest MacOS PunkBuster files to resolve the issues that came about with last night's update.

Source: Quake Live Forum

2v2 CTF on Quake 3's Birthday! *update* (22 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Kruzz @ 06:54 CST, 10 November 2009 - iMsg

Stickrunners is back from another great season of Q3CTF and this time we're doing something that we'e never done before. Wednesday 2 December is Quake3’s 10th anniversary, so we’re gonna celebrate that the arena way!

chatfragger and I (

Krz) have been planning a small 2v2 CTF tourney on Wednesday evening.

Now open for signups: Join #Stickrunners at Quakenet and pm either me (Krz) or chatfragger with team name and who's playing.

NEW DATE FOR THE TOURNEY! DECEMBER 3RD IS THE PLAYDAY!

Information

Website: stickrunners.com - GTV:

gtv.stickrunners.com - IRC:

#Stickrunners

IEM4 European Championship Qualifier #2 (160 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 01:25 CST, 10 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 9 November 2009 to 18:00 CST, 9 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The second Qualifier cup of the European Championship will kick off tonight at 14:00 CDT. Again, the sign-ups will remain open until 13:30 CDT, then the check-in process will begin. About 130 players already signed up!

Once more, the cup should use a single elimination brackets with 128-slots. The first 2 rounds would be played as bo1 and all the other rounds as bo3. The top4 players from this cup will be qualified and join the following ones:

Invited Players

Qualified Players

The VOD of the first cup is still available on ESL TV. But it's very unlikely that ESL TV will cover this second cup. Feel free to contact an admin on IRC if you wish to stream some matches.

Update: The cup is over and some VODs of the matches can be found from levelupyourgame.net. Congratulations to GaRpY and Z4muZ For breaking our current "number of overtimes in a game" with 7 OTs on dm13, the first map of the final! The Qualifier cup #3 will be played on Thursday 12th (Sign-ups) Here are the finals rankings and the 4 players who qualified:

1st. Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors
2nd. Gareth "GaRpY" Marshall
3rd. Richard "Weird" Krooman
4th. Marius "GUard" Ivanauskas

Streaming: watchquake.ru, levelupyourgame.net
Links: Sign-up, Sign-ups list, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive, Qualifier #1

Dreamhack Winter 2009 Update (67 comments)

( Major News: Q1 QL)

Posted by blaze @ 15:09 CST, 9 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

With Dreamhack Winter 2009 just above 3 weeks away, Dreamhack is releasing some updated information about the Quakelive and Quake World tournaments. Both tournaments will be played on 26-27th November. The Quakelive tournament group stages will start at 05:00 CDT, Quake World players at 12:00 CDT. The finals for both games will be played in front of a huge crowd at DreamArena Extreme. All times given below are CET.

Quake Live schedule & information

Sign-ups

The Quake World tournament still have a few slots open, so sign up today!

Quake World schedule & informations

Sign-ups

Source: Dreamhack.se (QW) / Dreamhack.se (QL)

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Shub_Nigga turns out to be Yuka (354 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by LoCK @ 14:32 CST, 9 November 2009 - iMsg

Apparently the recent comeback of the Q2-legend Shub_Nigga was too good to be true as it turned out to be the known cheater Yuka.

Loosely translated from the Swedish site Rakaka.se:

"Shub_nigga was a fake

A few days ago Rakaka.se reported that the Q2-legend Shub_Nigga had come back to the spotlight and Quake Live. Shub had joined pstarz where, amongst others, Quake star Cooller playes TDM. The team also won their first match against top seeded LLL.

The truth has come to light about "Shub_Nigga".
Alot of people were saying on both the comment section and IRC that this probably was a fake. One thing that stood out was that Shub didn't know any Swedish, although he is Norwegian. These accusations have now shown their selves to be true.

Shub_Nigga was really another player called Yuka, who have been caught cheating in the past.
Apparently it was a known cheater who has previously played in k1ck (where some Swedes also play) by the name Yuka who had started calling himself Shub. This worked so well that he managed to trick the whole pstarz clan. ESL havn't had a clue about this since pstarz still remain the victor over LLL in the ESM QL TDM.

id Softwares Community Manager, SyncError, caught the impostor.
After being asked by some known Quake profiles SyncError chose to check this Shub_nigga via IP tracking, and it turned out to be the already banned Yuka."

When I asked SyncError on IRC about his method on finding out it was actually Yuka playing he said:

"Several players (around a dozen) had reported shub_nigga in the past few days. Claims that he neither knew his native tongue and that his play style was different.
They believed him to be another player who was already actively playing on another team. I looked into the claims and after following a few trails from the account information found that yuka had obtained a new ip address and registered the account 'shub_nigga' on Nov 2nd.
I then spoke with yuka on irc and he confirmed that he was playing under the alias.
The account is currently banned."

Source: Rakaka.se - SyncError (id Software community manager)

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Site summary for week ending 06 Nov (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 8 November 2009 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

New Articles

Top Referers

Game On Cup #3 - Rankings (57 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 14:00 CST, 8 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: GameOn

The Cups #3 of the Intel Game On are now mostly over. You can find below the rankings for each region/country. For the results of the second cups, you can check the previous post. Thanks to all the people who provided video streamings!

Russia/CIS

Poland

DACH

UK

France

Spain

Italy

Turkey

MEA

The Cups #4 will be played on Wednesday 11th November, and the sign-ups are already open: Russia/CIS, Poland, DACH, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, MEA.

Streams: own3d.tv, watchquake.ru, levelupyourgame.net, quake.net.pl
Source: Game On

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ZOTAC Quake Live Cup #6 is over! (95 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by vash_ @ 00:00 CST, 8 November 2009 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 8 November 2009 to 12:00 CST, 8 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

The 6th edition of the weekly ZOTAC QuakeLive cup will take place this Sunday. The sign-ups are open until 08:00 CDT so be sure to check their homepage and sign up.

Update: From 144 signed up players 103 actually checked in. Famous players participating in ZOTAC #6 were

cooller,

k1llsen,

guard,

strenx,

spart1e and many more.

Rankings:

1. fnatic\strenx - 100€
2. mouz|cooller
3. BVG|guard / linKoo

Links: Tourney tree -

#zotac.qlive

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CPM 1v1 KTGA Tourney - Finished! (104 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by pikoh @ 03:00 CST, 7 November 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 08:00 CST, 7 November 2009 to 13:00 CST, 7 November 2009
Schedule: Passed

After months of silence CPM tournaments are making a return. This is a day to declare a one-day duel tournament which will take place on Saturday, November 7th. Everyone willing to play is welcome to participate. Keep the game alive and register on tourney.cc!

Finals will be broadcasted on livestream with comments provided by

nVc

Update: Tourney finished, with bad organization, with many default loose, but finished. Results can be found in the brackets. I want say thanks for everyone who participate and play,

nVc for broadcasting and

blaze for GTV. After this want say my apologies to

Nos3k and

sl1m, they could not play this event because my mistake. Hope the next time tournament will be better, if someone would come.

Rankings

Demos and VOD

More Info

Current Signups

Waiting List

#ktga

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IEF Suwon 09 - Warcraft 3 replay pack (11 comments)

( Major News: WC3)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 06:47 CST, 6 November 2009 - iMsg

There are a total of 17 games featuring players like

Grubby,

Lyn,

Soccer,

Who,

TH000,

TeD,

Nicker,

Infi, and many more.

Some said the Th000 vs. TeD series was decent.

IEF Suwon 2009 Warcraft 3 replay pack.

Full IEF video and news coverage on scforall.com.

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