There will be no season four of the popular GomTV Classics. The Korean e-Sports Player's Association (KeSPA) and Blizzard Entertainment has had an ongoing war concerning the esport future of Starcraft 2 in South Korea and the first major battle seems to have been won by KeSPA.

Blizzard has for a long time been trying to get a larger piece of the pie that is generated by the massive Starcraft interest in South Korea. As their negotiations with the two largest tv broadcasters, OGN and MBC, failed, they then proceeded to sponsors GOM, an independent league in an attempt to make GOM the dominating Starcraft, WoW and WC3 body.

Over the past few years, with the help of a massive prize pool from Blizzard, GOM has grown to become one of the largest leagues. However, now it seems as this has come to an end as KeSPA has denied seven of its most popular teams from participating in the league, which in the end ment it would lose most of its popularity and hence it was forced to cancel the upcoming season. The affected teams were Air Force, Estro, MBC, KT, OGN, STX, SKT1.

Who will win the war in the end? According to reports Blizzard and KeSPA will meet to attempt further negotiations in December.

Source: Fomos.kr

The AGP presents a complete highlight video from the entire ESL Quake Live Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge in Dubai. The tournament was intense some amazing highlights. Hope you all enjoy.

Featuring:
Shane "SK|rapha" Hendrixson
Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky
Richard "vtL/noctis" Gansterer
Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson
Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira
Alessandro "fnaticstermy" Avallone
Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov
Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty
Zhibo "RazerJibo" Fan
Pierre-Emeric "fnatic\l1nkje" Portier
Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina
Pelle "xlo-fazz" Söderman
Felix "mTw|smoke" Pafel
Anas "spammah" Llyas
Kévin "fnatic\strenx" Baeza
Michael "xlo-madix" Hindersson


Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support of these great classic matches!

The 4th edition of the weekly ZOTAC Quake LiveCup will take place this Sunday starting at 08:05 CDT, 9 April 2026. The sign-ups are still open until 08:00 CDT, 9 April 2026 so be sure to check their homepage and sign up.

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. Also the best player will be rewarded with 100€.

Signed up well known players until now are k1llsen, mTw|smoke, quad|psyr3x, faculty|siLw, xlo|fazz, xlo|madix, bodzo and BVG|guard.

Update:
From 95 players who sign up, today 71 players checked in for the 4th cup. In the grand final, fazz faced arguably Germany's strongest player, k1llsen. Cup is now over, and the winner is fazz.
Be sure to sign up for next weeks cup at qlive.zotac-cup.com!

Rankings

1. xlo^fazz - 100€
2. k1llsen
3. mTw|smoke / Arm3D`pulseh

Stream: Holysh1t (english) & GameSports (german)
Links: Tourney tree, Tourney page - #zotac.qlive on irc.quakenet.org:6667

Russian promode society is bringing one more tournament to you! Now, Dubai with its Global Challenge is not an excuse as it was with CTF tournament and everyone should be able to participate in that two-versus-two challenge. The organizer of this event, again, is hoyden. We are waiting for every pair/triplet, doesnt matter if you are old-school cpm player or just want to try something new. Most of rules are similar to CTF tournament one's, except for the mappool and the peculiarity of 2v2 mode.

Winners:
1. Russian Eights (fluff, funnyb, reptile)
2. 2 angry men (hal_9000, nzr0)
3. Ultra Killers (pikoh, hoyden)

BRACKETS
DEMOS

(NOTE: There is a special time change for tomorrow's show, 3 hours earlier, and 4 hours earlier for Europe with DST in effect)

The ESL Extreme Masters Dubai event has concluded with Shane "rapha" Hendrixson and fnatic taking home the Quake Live and Counter-Strike 1.6 titles, respectively.

The American dueler has now won four straight major Quake events, dating all the way back to ESWC Athens. After a loss to Magnus "Fox" Olsson in the group stage, Rapha redeemed himself by taking out Michael "madix" Hindersson and Richard "noctis" Gansterer in convincing fashion to meet up with Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky in the final. The final was a rather defensive, low-scoring affair, rapha able to pull out the victory in 4 maps. The event saw the return of the legend Anton "Cooller" Singov, surprising many by winning his group and barely losing to noctis in double overtime in the quarterfinals, as well as Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty, who was never a Quake 3 player.

This week's special guests will be Quake Live Dubai champion Rapha, and MYM's in-game leader, Jimmy "Jumpy" Berndtsson. We'll talk to Rapha regarding his streak of wins in Quake so far, if he'll be attending Dreamhack, and his impressions of the overall play from Dubai. Jumpy will be chatting with us regarding the team's remarkable performance in Dubai, how the new blood has adapted to a major LAN event, zet's impact on the lineup, and their preperations for Dreamhack.


Tune into Live On Three this Sunday at 11:00 CDT on djWHEAT.tv. (Accounts for DST time change)

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Back for its 25th episode, the Starcraft Weekly brings you a ton of information this week on both the Korean and non-Korean scene.

Artosis officially released the IEF Suwon 2009 player list for Starcraft, which is not posted anywhere else, he talks about the WCG grand final groups that were recently released, Nal_rA’s interview by lilsusie, Justin.TV Starcraft Invitational, Rets first day in Korea, Pro League, OSL, MSL, a battle report of UpMagic vs. Iris, Starcraft 2 Battle Report 4, and more.

Episode 25 [VOD]

In a short press release made public yesterday, the English powerhouse 4Kings announced the addition of a Quakelive team. The players are all from the nfinity TDM lineup, which barely survived 2 weeks after the recent addition of Jibo. With 8 TDM players, the team could easily have 2 squads running in the TDM competitions.


For now, nothing was announced on nfinity's website and all these players still appear in the Quakelive roster.

Update: As stated by Andreas "Fisk" Johansson on nfinity.se, his Quakelive team just followed him when he moved from nfinity to 4Kings.

Source: 4Kings

One of the two most famous non-Koreans of the year, Ret, landed in South Korea just shy of one week ago. Artosis and company were there to greet the newest addition to the pro gaming scene.

In the first 4 minutes of the video, you’ll see the Nerd Pack wait and at the airport and meet up with Ret, followed by a 13+ minute video of Artosis facing Ret, which was his first official game in Korea.

An interview will be conducted with Dutchman before he heads to IEF in a couple weeks, so look out for that.

Also, for those who have slow internet connections, we’ll be uploading Rets coverage in Korea to our YouTube channel a couple days after each video is officially released, so watch out for that.

Ret in Korea - Day 1 [VOD]

This week the AGP Classic's Match of the Week is a more recent Quake Live match, from the 2009 ESL-TV Invitational, featuring one of Sweden's best players, Magnus "fox" Olsson. He goes against Jeffrey "draven" Debipersad. It wasn't a close match, but fox really shows amazing aim and control. From spawn killing to item management.


Also posted this week is another QuakeCon 2002 match on a map not seen too often called the Chastity Belt featuring Paul "CZM" Nelson and Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel.


Brought to you by the AGP (Association of Gaming Professionals). Thank you for your continual support of these great classic matches! For match requests of any game mode, visit agptour.com.

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 27 October 2009 to 15:30 CDT, 27 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

The people from LowLandLions are organizing a Quakelive 1v1 Cup on the 27th of October. All the matches will be played as bo3 in single brackets. 32 slots are already planned and the winner(s) will be rewarded with some hardware prizes (PureTrak Talent & 2Gb GeIL Memory).

The maplist will consist of qztourney7 (Furious Heights), qztourney9 (House of Decay), qzdm6 (Campgrounds), qzdm13 (Lost world) and ztntourney1 (Bloodrun). So far, the only big name on the sign up list is the German player k1llsen. It's time to shine Internet heroes!

Update: Due to the amount of sign-ups, the cup has been extended to 64 slots.

Source: LLL.com - #LLL.QL

Two days ago one of the greatest Quake Live tournaments ended and now you will be able to watch all those games again with commentary from 2GD, Joe and some guest hosts: The ESL TV video-on-demand brings you all the great games again. Check out all the games, like the final between rapha and Cypher or the thrilling five mapper between noctis and the legendary Cooller.

Source: - VOD Overview - ESL TV

Today all of the players that's going to have the opportunity to play Quake Live at Dreamhack got accepted into the tournament site.

32 players, most of them picked by performance of LAN and online tournaments but also a few that comes directly from the Dreamhack Qualifiers for Quake Live in Portugal, Serbia and South Africa.

These signups is not in any particular order.

If any players from this list should drop out the players from the waiting list will be added. We'll use the "First signed, first served" method, so those who signed up first will be the first ones to get into the tournament from the waiting list.

The full list, rules and prices can be found at Dreamhacks E-sport site.


Update

Yes, cooller is signed and accepted into the tournament! :D
Source: Blaze in the comments section

Dear DeFRaG community, we are happy to announce the map contest for DFWC2010. DFWC2010 will consist of 6 rounds + 1 qualification round.

Each mapper that wants to participate in the contest, should send his map with an approximate descripition of it. Maps selection will be accomplished by a commitee of three judges (GT-Agressor, apparaat, gnj).


Send your maps untill the 1st of December, 2009 to dfwc2010@gmail.com. Maps should be ready till the 1st of January, 2010. Then, it'll take commitee at least 2 weeks to test, judge, and choose maps for DFWC2010 rounds. Mappers can also participate as a player. As previous DFWCs have shown there are no big advantages for a mapper.

We hope to receive some nice maps!