Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 21 June 2009 to 07:00 CDT, 21 June 2009
Schedule: Passed

Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will run for 20 weeks from March 29, 2009. Unlike most of the other StarCraft leagues, there will be no preliminary matches, all matches are considered as a part of the knockout tournament. Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will be broadcasted live in English by Daniel "SuperDanielMan" Lee, "SuperRageMan" & Nick "Tasteless" Plott.
In the round-of-16 GOMtv will only show 2 matches in a best-of-3 format on each Sunday. Possibly with a guest-appearance by "SuperRageMan" (see picture) the third 2 matches will be:

04:00 CDT, 21 June 2009
MVP (not ranked) Woongjin Stars -vs- Berserker (aka Iris) (#25) CJ ENTUS (BET) 1 2 3
Tempest (#34) KTF MagicNs -vs- MenSol[ZerO] (#11) Woongjin Stars (BET) 1 2 3
Maporder: God's Garden - Heartbreak Ridge (for the Bunny of Fun) - Outsider

Artosis is finally back with the Starcraft 2 discussions. The last time we had one was three months ago in March, it featured Artosis and IdrA, this time Tasteless joining in,

They both go into detail about their recent thoughts about the games updates, patches, and how it might be once the beta and eventually full game is released. They also talk about top players from other RTS games and what disadvantages they might face right away when switching to a higher skilled game.

There’s much covered in this 29 minute video, you can view it on scforall.com.

Update - the tournament is over:

1st: noctis
2nd: bodzo
3rd: fooKi
4th: madix

Demos: GF - noctis/bodzo - LBF - bodzo/fooKi - WBF - noctis/fooKi

The 5th edition of the #spontan.ql 1v1 Cup was announced a few days ago and will start this Sunday afternoon at 08:00 CDT. 64 slots in a DE brackets (bo3) are available and a few more spots will cover the waiting list, the sign-ups are still running! The map list will consist of qzdm6, qztourney4, qztourney7, qzdm13 and the brand new ztntourney1.

There is a waiting list available for the most curious ones and you can already notice a few nicknames such as fooKi, SK|bodzo, noctis, madix, Kujiwa and Calipt.

More infos: spontangames.com (#spontan.ql)

After about 2 months after the start of the 2009 2v2 Quake 3 CPM tournament we've got the Grand Final coming up. We started off with 20 teams where most were from Europe, but we had a team who joined us from USA. During the tournament we've seen a lot of good game and tight maps.
The two teams who's going to compete in the finals are:

Bulgaria vs Sweden1

HAL9000, Nzr0, grF
fluff, funnyb, Reptile

Game will be played 22.00 CEST, so get your ass to gtv.cpma.se and spectate!


* Cup website
* Brackets
* #cpm.nations on IRC Quakenet
* GTV: gtv.cpma.se

The1Crow is back with his latest Starcraft interview, this time it’s with ESC.Dreiven, one of Poland’s best players.

We haven’t seen much Starcraft coverage from Crow, since he left MYM, but this interview will surely make you happy, enjoy.

June 12th, 2009

Unfortunately, we had to do the low-tech show again this week, due to some time constraints, but we’ll back into the real studio next week.

This week we cover the ESL, GOL Invitational, Ansadi StarLeague recap, Valor tournament, SC2GG StarLeague, DreamHack, ICCUP, Liquipedia, Starcraft 2, OSL, MSL, Pro League, Samsung Khan vs. SK Telecom T1 match, Leta and his recent happenings, and the tip of the week.

You can view Episode 14 by clicking here.

Dreamhack Summer starts TODAY for Quakeworld and Quake 3 (CPM) duel tournament.

QuakeWorld GRAND FINAL 20.00 CEST
LocKTar vs nabbe (3-0)


Quake 3 CPM GRAND FINAL 21.00 CEST
Vo0 vs LuGia (3-0)

Schedule


Quake World
Quake 3 Groups:

Gtv: gtv.cpma.se:27960


The finals of both games will be shown at Dreamarena Extreme with commentary by Jay (2gd) and Joe. The finals will also be played at Samsungs new 120hz TFT monitors.

Official site: dreamhack.se/dhs09
lowje's gallery: http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1706424

*Updated Results from Quake 3 CPM*

The 5th week of id software's campaign "6 Maps in 6 Week" brings us yet another ctf map. Here is official release announcement that covers Courtyard Conundrums background and information about the next map:

For week 5 we bring you "Courtyard Conundrum," another classic CTF arena from the earliest days of Threewave and our friends "Casey" and "Zoid." Like Bloodlust, Courtyard Conundrum was originally created and released in 2000 as part of a 3-pack of CTF maps for the original QUAKE III Arena. This arena has been a long-time favorite, and is a welcomed addition to the QUAKE LIVE CTF arena rotation. Courtyard Conundrum provides a nice combination of larger open bases and tighter connecting areas, and is most often played with 8-12 players.

We've almost reached the end of this 6 map run, but stay tuned next week as we debut a totally new map for Clan Arena.

Source: Official News - Threewave

To celebrate last night's release of the famed duel map, Blood Run by "ztn", QuakeLive.TV will host a special King of the Hill event at 20:00 CDT, 10 June 2009. For anyone new to this event, it is a 1v1 mini-tourney open to the entire QuakeLive community. Anyone can join the server and their attempts to become King of the Hill will be broadcasted to the masses. The winner stays to defend their spot until defeated and a new King is crowned.

At 20:30 CDT, we'll switch gears and feature an exhibition between top duelers chance and whaz. Whoever is the current "King" in our KotH tourney will test their mettle against the exhibition winner.

From then on, we have an all-star lineup of duelers ready to try to take down the reigning King. There's one more catch: We'd like to really feature the impressiveness that is Blood Run, as it has earned its place as one of the best dueling maps in Quake history for a reason, and ask that matches be played on the new map until the current King has been undefeated two times, at which point, the challenger can request a different map. If the King is toppled, we head back to Blood Run.

Tune in for and participate in our King of the Hill Blood Run Special Feature tonight at 20:00 CDT at QuakeLive.TV!

As part of a new set of projects, Team fnaticMSI have launched play.fnatic.com.

PLAY is a new concept that FNATIC have been working on alongside BESTPOKER.com in order to provide further competition and fun cups for games alongside the regular leagues and tournaments. The aim is to run Sunday Cups throughout the month in varied games, game modes and rule sets each with prized provided by the guys at Bestpoker.com.

These cups will be played only on a Sunday and generally will always be Single elim, brackets to the finals. On June the 21st, we will be running a 5on5 QuakeLive Clanarena tournament with a potential $700 prize pot . So head on over to fnatic.com for more information.

Related:
The-First-Quakelive-tournament-on-PLAY
PLAY-IS-LIVE---PLAYFNATICcom

Marty is posting on the QUAKE Live forums:

Blood Run was built for Duel competition, but we're also enabling it for play in Free for All and Team Deathmatch.

Speaking of TDM, we used the QUAKE Live down-time last night, adding duel map Blood Run, to also make a change to the Team Deathmatch server configurations for higher skilled players.

We've had a number of requests to have weapon respawn times in Team Deathmatch set to 30 seconds. This creates gameplay that is difficult and frustrating for newer or lower skilled players, but we understand the value for players and teams that are higher skilled and particularly understand the nuances of TDM strategy and gameplay.
To accomodate both types of players, we've set our higher skill matches to use the requested 30 second weapon respawn times (these matches will be labeled 'pro TDM'), but left lower skill matches unchanged (these will continue to simply be labeled TDM).

This is good news ESR readers!

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 14 June 2009 to 08:00 CDT, 14 June 2009
Schedule: Passed

Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will run for 20 weeks from March 29, 2009. Unlike most of the other StarCraft leagues, there will be no preliminary matches, all matches are considered as a part of the knockout tournament. Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will be broadcasted live in English by Daniel "SuperDanielMan" Lee & Nick "Tasteless" Plott.
In the round-of-16 GOMtv will only show 2 matches in a best-of-3 format on each Sunday. The second 2 matches will be:

04:00 CDT, 14 June 2009
Flash (#3) KTF MagicNs -vs- HoeJJa (#60) KTF MagicNs (BET) 1 2 3
Shuttle (#70) STX SOUL -vs- Hwasin (#15) STX SOUL (BET) 1 2 3
Maporder: God's Garden - Heartbreak Ridge (for the Bunny of Fun) - Outsider

This movie features frags by clan Tier ThirteeN, one of most active polish Quake 3 teams since the beginning of 2008. It consists of an intro, 4 different parts and an outro :

Part. 1 - Team DeathMatch : most frags made in official clan games
Part. 2 - Duel : frags made in duel games
Part. 3 - Moments : some funny and interesting moments we experienced during the game
Part. 4 - Mix : both duel and TDM frags including pickups

The three main soundtracks used are songs of Lamb of God, Soilwork and Korn. We hope that you will find it interesting to watch our movie. Enjoy!

Video from all around E3 2009. You will see booth babes, the Nintendo, Activision Microsoft, and Sony booths along with many others. There are also special appearances by Mario, Sonic, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The video, which was shot in 1080p using a Sony EX1, is presented for your viewing pleasure in 720p.



Music
-White Rabbits: "Percussion Gun"
- Throw Me The Statue: "Ancestors"
- Shout Out Louds: "Tonight I Have to Leave It"