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Jump Tournament for money to win! (20 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 14:38 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

Thanks to the great success of the previous Quake2 jump tournaments, a new edition will be held shortly! The winners will be awarded with the prize money of 125€ in total and the deadline for sign-ups is 4th of October. The tournament will be lead again by

APKIS and

_SK3L3T0R_. For more info visit Q2jump or

#q2.jump.

Previous Q2 jump news - Sign-ups

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h1oGL qualification cup (28 comments)

( Major News: WSW)

Posted by dendrofil @ 14:36 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

With

Warsow 0.5 still being fresh news, the active and well known community member

h1o is proud to once again present h1o Gaming League, in a whole new form: Ten top Warsow duelists have already been handed a direct invite to the league, everyone else is free to participate and fight for the last two spots in the upcoming qualification cup the 4th of October.

Notable signups

Once the last two players have qualified, the league will commence and weekly matches will take place for every player on Sundays or Mondays (forced to these days). With the weekly news feed, WarsowTV broadcasting and shoutcasting at our disposal, we are proud to present this all star league. Intense and thrilling fights of the highest quality is something we can assure you of, every bloody match! We will be back with more details regarding the league once the qualification is over.

Already invited players

More details about the rules and the league on warsow.net. So sign up now before it's too late.

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Quake Forever: Prizes and Registration (46 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Dronar @ 13:51 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: DHW09

Dreamhack has released updated information for all tournaments at Dreamhack Winter.
Registrations for the QuakeWorld tournament is also opened. Quake Live registration will open at a later time.

Quake Forever: Quake Live
- 1on1 (PC)
- Prize purse: A value of 60 000 SEK (~ € 5 881) (cash and products)
- Registration: TBA

Quake Forever: QuakeWorld
- 1on1 (PC)
- Prize purse: A value of 15 000 SEK (~ €1 470) (cash and products)
- Registration: Open

Other Games

#DreamHack.Quake
Original news post
Registration to QuakeWorld

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The AGP has Launched: 24 Tourneys in 09 (313 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Streetrunner @ 12:06 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

Today the Association of Gaming Professionals, the first ever international players association in E-Sports and in Quake Live, has launched.

The AGP will unite the players to expand and sustain the sport themselves through player legislation, international and regional rankings, and tournament sponsoring and sanctioning.

The AGP is the next step in establishing Quake Live and first person shooters as a true professional sport.” said Jarod Reisin, President of VIDA. “The potential of a united players association is bigger than anything we have seen before in professional gaming. It’s proving that progress is happening and that a self sustaining sport is right here in front of us, going nowhere but up.

The AGP will be sponsoring 24 online tournaments in 2009 in Duel, CTF, and CA.

Source: AGPtour.com

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Stickrunners Season 4 - FIGHT! (10 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Kruzz @ 01:42 CDT, 28 September 2009 - iMsg

Stickrunners season 4 is about to start and we were very surprised of how many teams that actually signed up. We now have 16 teams and 2 divisions and we wont accept any more teams (I doubt there is any :]). The coverage of this season will be a bit weak since a lot of admins are playing both in div 1 and div 2, and since they're played at different times it's gonna be very hard to manage the GTV. So if there's anyone out there that would like to help us out with GTV this would be much appreciated. Like I said there's gonna be 2 divisions and some teams might not belong in division 1 but we had no choice to put some of the weaker teams in division 1, here's the results:

Division 1

Division 2

*Update* Schedule & lineups are now online and you can find them here.

Dont forget that we start this Sunday, 4th October. Once again I'd like to thank all the teams that signed up and made this happen and if you'd like to admin, give us a slap in our irc channel! GL & HF!

Website: stickrunners.com - GTV:

gtv.stickrunners.com - IRC:

#Stickrunners

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ESL US IEM Qualifier #3 (17 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 18:35 CDT, 27 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight it is time to find another two players for the ESL Intel Extreme Masters American Championship. The ESL America Quake Live IEM Qualifier #3 is on schedule and 64 players are trying to earn two of the eight spots for the American Championship. All players will meet on

#esl.quakelive.

The sign up for #4 is still open. Use your chance and qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship.

Already Qualified Players

Final Rankings

Results

Stream - by JUDGE // by gator
Links: Brackets - ESL News

Site summary for week ending 25 Sep (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 27 September 2009 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

Top Referers

Excello Zowie QL Duel Cup (106 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 15:25 CDT, 27 September 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 13:00 CDT, 27 September 2009 to 17:30 CDT, 27 September 2009
Schedule: Passed

Update: The guys from holysh1t.net will stream the games from now on.

Announced a while ago, the ZOWIE QuakeLive Duel-Cup is still planned for this Sunday 27th, 13:00 CDT. The guys from QuadV are considering to broadcast the semi-finals and finals, which could be played on Monday if the cup runs a bit too late. Anyone interested in streaming the earlier rounds should contact the admins. The prediction competition is still planned and consist of guessing the correct top3 of the cup. Give your answer to xlo-tybalt on #excello.ql for a chance to win a Zowie product.

Infos

Infos: Brackets -

#excello.ql

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own-age.com goes offline (150 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Hell5pawn @ 10:07 CDT, 26 September 2009 - iMsg

Two days ago Sean "own-age" Kuehnel has written a news item on his site saying that he's no longer willing to keep his site running.

It saddens me to write this post. But after almost 9 years of keeping this website up I am finally not going to support it anymore. The site is scheduled to go offline on 08-Oct-09. The past couple years I've been keeping the site up but being an extremely passive supporter of the site just making sure it is up and the server bills get paid for.

To all the people who helped and supported over the years, I can't thank you enough. I will miss you guys and the community that supported the site.

You can catch me on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Skuehnel

See you guys around, Sean "own-age" Kuehnel.

own-age.com was a place that gathered thousands of movies from various games and it's forums contained helpful movie-making information. Apart from that, Sean "own-age" Kuehnel is well known for his quake3 movie "AnnihilatioN".

Source: own-age.com

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Interview with Johan 'toxjq' Quick (103 comments)

( Major News: Q3 Q4 QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 11:50 CDT, 25 September 2009 - iMsg

iCE-cLIMBERS Player and Quake 4 Legend

Johan "toxjq" Quick got interviewed by

fragster.de. He speaks about new hobbies, his experience with Quake Live and about a possible comeback of ic.

Tell us what you have been doing since you have retired from gaming.
toxjq: Well, first of all I wouldn't say that I have retired from gaming in that sense but I haven't been playing much since the last Quake 4 event i32. I did compete in ESWC Athens last year with a few weeks of preparing in Quake 3, but I really wasn't expecting a high placement in that tournament since I wasn't prepared enough but of course I tried to make the best of it at that point.

Links: English interview - German Version

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EzQuake Version 2.0 released (31 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Badb0y @ 11:20 CDT, 25 September 2009 - iMsg

The modern QuakeWorld client EzQuake is updated to version 2.0, now a stable version not a beta anymore. New version is released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Goal of ezQuake project is unify the development of QuakeWorld clients.

about the update

Changelog 2.0 :: new manual :: Download

#ezQuake ::

EzQuake

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Starcraft Weekly - Episode 22 (9 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 22:17 CDT, 24 September 2009 - iMsg

What will be his last weekly show in New Hampshire, before he heads to New York for the WCG finals and then back to Korea,

Artosis fills your palate with more juicy news and gossip from the past week and a half.

This week he focuses on some topics such as WCG Poland finals, ICCUP tournaments, Ansadi StarLeague 2, update on the 2 factory video tutorial,

Brent and

Kenny show with special guest star

djWHEAT, DreamHack qualifiers, Zotac Cup, North East Lan information, WCG USA, GomTV drama,

Frozean and his recent dilemma, Pro League All Stars, the start to the upcoming OSL/MSL/Pro League season, eSTRO workshop information, and much more.

Episode 22 [VOD]

WCG USA 2009 national final this weekend (18 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 21:15 CDT, 24 September 2009 - iMsg

The 2009 USA World Cyber Games national finals will start tomorrow, with 150 players coming in from various parts of the country, but this news is just for the 10 important ones.

We see 8 of the 10 players as returning competitors in the national finals, while only two of them are new additions, one coming by way of qualifying by himself, KawaiiRice, and the other being iNkA, who was given his spot by a player who dropped out.

10 Finalists

Maps

Dates, Time, Location

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Fatal1ty: "I'm ready!" (238 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Affentod @ 15:16 CDT, 24 September 2009 - iMsg

At this year's gamescom ESL interviewed the eSports legend Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel. Fatal1ty talked about his impression of the Intel Extreme Masters, Quake Live, his passion about gaming and why he sticks with ESReality. Will we see Fatal1ty back again at big tournaments? Check out the video

[*] Quake Live: About the game, new players and him playing Quake once again
[*] eSports: How the tournaments evolve and his visions for the future
[*] Passion: His reaction to seeing the players compete at the events
[*] Intel Extreme Masters: About the challenge, WoW and the tournament itself
[*] Comeback in Intel Extreme Masters: "If I come and play, I gonna play to win!"

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ESL-TV QL King of the Hill #4 (122 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:27 CDT, 24 September 2009 - iMsg

Update: The VOD of the show is already available!

The 4th edition of the ESL-TV KotH QL Duel 1v1 will start tonight at 12:00 CDT with

2GD and

Joe. The current king,

fnatic/spart1e, will try to keep his crown while facing these 3 players:

- dignitas/HELL
- YYT`calipt
- BVG|tox1c

Also, once the duel are over, the show will feature the first game of a new 2v2 KotH. Either on ztn, dm6 or t6,

noctis and

zyv will play against

link1n and

Stermy (bet).

The show should last for a bit more than 2 hours tonight and will be the last to be aired on Thursday. Starting with the next one, the new day and time for Quakelive on ESL-TV will be Wednesday from 15:00 CDT to 17:00 CDT.

Results

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

#esl-tv.ql

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