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ProX and linKoo face-off in EC XX (53 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Mav_ @ 11:31 CDT, 10 October 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 11 October 2009 to 15:00 CDT, 11 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

This Sunday, we will broadcast a

Quake Live 1v1 EuroCup XX group stage game between

Konrad "ProX" Kubala and

Eythor "linKoo" Kristjansson (bet).

Both of these players are considered highly talented, but not widely known due to the lack of international LAN experience. ProX is a Quake III veteran with good results in the ESL EMS IV, while linKoo showed some brilliant skill in the last edition of the ESL Quake Live KoTH.

Tune in for the game at 14:00 CDT, your host will be

Mateusz "Mav_" Bownik. You can watch either the High Quality or the Low Quality stream.

Links: Cup page, HSTV,

#clanbase.ql

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2 World Championship Slots in Dubai (231 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 09:44 CDT, 9 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

For the Intel Extreme Masters Challenge in Dubai, a total of $31,500 will be rewarded to the best teams and players in Counter-Strike 1.6 and Quake Live. But even better, both winners receive an auto-berth into World Championship at CeBIT 2010 in Germany for a chance to be titled as the world champion!

The winner of the Quake Live tournament will receive and auto-berth for the Intel Extreme Masters World Finals taking place in March 2010. The winner will still be able to participate in the regional tournaments to earn prize money and become Continental Champion.

Counter-Strike 1.6 participants

Quake Live participants

Local Quake Live Tournaments

Short Facts about the Event

Source: ESL announcement - Intel Extreme Masters

IEM AC Groups drawings & EC Cashprizes (81 comments)

( Major News: CS QL)

Posted by xou @ 15:33 CDT, 8 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Yesterday the ESL announced the Groups Drawings for the IEM Quakelive American Championship regular season. The drawing will take place on ESL TV at 13:00 CDT along with the American and European CS Groups Drawings. The Quakelive duelers will be randomly picked from the following seeding pools into 4 groups of 4 players:

Update: The American QL groups will be as following:

Regular Season Groups

Seeding pools

Also another news was posted about the prizes for the European Championship competitions. These will be the same as the American for Quakelive with a total of $10,600.

Main Round - $2,600

Finals - $8,000

Sources: Groups Drawings - European Cashprizes - AC Groups

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Jibo playing TDM for nfinity (48 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 13:38 CDT, 8 October 2009 - iMsg

Since the beginning of this week,

Zhibo "Jibo" Fan will play TDM for nfinity eSports. Jibo just recently started to play Quake Live and decided to give TDM a shot again.

New Lineup

The first test of the new line-up was the OpenCup game against Team Excello, which they managed to win 2:0. nfinity is also already qualified for the upcoming ESL Major Series.

Source: nfinity.se

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tybalt: "Z4muZ wants to give TDM a shot" (44 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 11:31 CDT, 8 October 2009 - iMsg

Karl "tybalt" Danielsson is the head of the excello QL team and just recruited the Swedish old schooler, Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors.

fragster.de spoke with him about the plans and the future of excello.QL, the shape of Z4muZ and the upcoming tournaments for Quake Live.

So let's talk a bit about your "main duellers". madix and fazz have been at QuakeCon. Are you satisfied with their results?

tybalt: I am not thrilled with their performance, but at the same time I'm not too disappointed either. For madix this was seen more as vital first time LAN experience. As for fazz, I believe he got a bit unlucky and I am sure they will both be in better shape for the Dubai event later this month.

Links: Full Interview - German Version

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The AGP has been voted to be FREE! (21 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 10:34 CDT, 8 October 2009 - iMsg

The AGP’s first Community vote has now closed. The AGP was voted to be both free to all AND have a paid membership with benefits. See the results here.

The AGP will now offer a basic AGP Membership for free. Members will have vote in everything as well as be entered into the international and regional AGP Rankings.

Additionally, we now offer a Pro Membership, for the more serious player. A Pro Membership will now cover both 2009 and all of 2010. So, 15 months. Pro Members will be 60% of the AGP vote and have the ability to propose new rules and laws as well as be able to be voted as Representative of their regions and be a part of the AGP Council.

Read the entire announcement at www.agptour.com

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ESL-TV QL King of the Hill #5 (194 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 14:47 CDT, 7 October 2009 - iMsg

Update: The VOD of the show is now available.

The Quakelive ESL-TV KotH comes back again with its 5th edition. The show now gets a new day: Wednesday at 15:00 CDT!

2GD and

Joe will of course be your host for the evening to comment some 1v1 and 2v2 games, along with some crazy topics.

The current king,

dignitas/Vizari - previously known as HELL, will defend his crown against 3 new players:

- BVG|GUard
- xlo-madix
- vG^linkoo

Once the duels are over, the show will continue with the 2v2 game of the week.

noctis and

zyv will face new opponents in the names of

linkoo and

hazRd on ztn (bet)!

Results

Previous shows

Source + streaming: ESL-TV (Alternative host) -

#esl-tv.ql

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Dreamhack: Quake Live registration open! (132 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 09:34 CDT, 7 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

Today the registration for the Quake Live tournament at Dreamhack Winter 2009 opens up!
Some more information regarding the tournament is also released, such as the map pool and information regarding tournament format and settings.

Map Pool

Tournament information

To register for the Dreamhack Winter Quake Live tournament enter Esports.Dreamhack.se and register an account to sign up.

Source: Dreamhack.se

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Z4muZ joins Team Excello (90 comments)

( Major News: Q3 QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 12:08 CDT, 6 October 2009 - iMsg

Team Excello announced their newest addition:

Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors. The Swedish oldschooler is going to compete in both QL Duel and TDM. Z4muZ' biggest achievements, like the ESWC 04 win with the Swedish TDM team and the 2nd place in the QuakeCon 03 Duel Tournament, are years past. But his Quake Live Account shows a lot of recent activity.

Excello QL Lineup

Links: Team Excello News - ESR Interview from 08

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ret to Korea (16 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 01:57 CDT, 6 October 2009 - iMsg

Over the past months, two people have been dominating the non-Korean Starcraft scene, mainly

IdrA and

Ret.

IdrA has been a pro gamer in

South Korea for the past 1.5 years, while Ret has always stayed in his home country of the Netherlands. Now, the Dutchman will take a chance and head to the mecca of pro gaming and test his skills on the eSTRO pro team.

Interview Excerpt

Full interview at SCForAll.com

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ZDaemon Duel League Takes Off! (55 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by DevastatioN @ 19:44 CDT, 5 October 2009 - iMsg

Remember DooM 2? Wish it was still played? Well, it is! And as competitively as it always has been, the ZDaemon Duel League starts off this week pitting rivals against each on various classical maps.

ZDaemon is a competitive DooM 2 port that has been used for many tournaments in the past. The ZDDL has four different divisions, each with varying level of skills from new players to experts. Division 1 will be exciting for anyone who follows the game, with most of the top players in North America competing for a $400 prize pool!

Other divisions have some well known names across the community and also will yield some exciting matches. Many of the matches will be broadcasted live by Tastyspleen.tv with

jehar and another representative from the ZDaemon community.

So for those of you who miss that tense Super Shotgun action, be sure to follow this league for some good memories of a game everyone has heard of at one point in their life, and come join us in some fragging action and get involved in the community yourself.

Links: ZDDL - ZDaemon

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EMS5 QL TDM Qualifier #1 is over (26 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 12:51 CDT, 5 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS5

The Quakelive TDM 4v4 first Qualifier Cup for the ESL Major Series V was played yesterday in the early evening. With a total of 13 teams checked in for 16 slots, the matches were played quite quickly. The top4 teams were already known after 2 rounds, but then the semi-finals were forfeited. For some reason, the two finals were still played!

Qualified teams / Rankings:

- 1st. versatile Gaming (linkoo, Reynir, 2GD, hazRd)
- 2nd. nfinity eSports (dk, v3rb, JoCKo, mitch)
- 3rd. Excello (dibbe, tybalt, Nace, madix)
- 4th. dRAILED (adr, dest, Disrepute, vor)

The sign-ups for the 2nd Qualifier Cup are already open on ESL's website (Sign up!).

Link: EMS5 Quakelive

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The Edge League (93 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 07:16 CDT, 5 October 2009 - iMsg

Q2scene is once again proud to present another league. This time

Gerdt has decided to make a league with only one map played. The map will be The Edge - q2dm1, probably the most know and most played map ever in Quake2. Signups are open untill Friday 9 Oktober 24.00 CET and the league will start on Monday 12. Oktober.

Many people will agree with me when I say q2dm1 is the queen of all quake2 duel maps, and maybe even the best duel map ever built. That's why I decided to have a new duel league where only 1 map will be played: q2dm1.

Rules

Admins

Current Signed Players

The best 5 q2dm1 players ever

Links: Quick Quake2 Installer -

#edge.q2 (on Qnet).

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Site summary for week ending 02 Oct (4 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 4 October 2009 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Articles

Top Referers

Zotac Quakelive 1v1 Cup #1 is over! (96 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 11:43 CDT, 4 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: ZOTAC QL

Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 4 October 2009 to 10:00 CDT, 4 October 2009
Schedule: Passed

ZOTAC is organizing weekly tournaments for WC3, FIFA, DOTA and SC:BW with a prize money of 100€. Now it was announced that

Quake Live will also be supported from now on. Over 100 successful WC3 Cups shows their long term commitment.

The first QL tournament's page will be going online this Friday and the sign-ups will open on the 27th. The cup will then start on the 4th of October.

Source: zotac.com

Update: From 115 players who sign up, today 59 players checked in for the first cup, including

strenx,

burnedd,

guard,

GaRpY,

bodzo,

madix und

k1llsen. Cup is now over, and the winner is strenx. Also, the sign-ups for the 2nd cup are now open!

Rankings

1. strenx - 100€ (demos)
2. k1llsen
3. bodzo / burn3d (demos)

Links: Tourney tree, Tourney page -

#zotac.qlive

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