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Cpm 2v2 NATIONSCUP Week 1+2! (28 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by blaze @ 10:24 CDT, 10 April 2009 - iMsg

So the first two weeks we'll see a lot of games! Each team will play 3 games during these two weeks. So it's time to start scheduling.
As usual tell me or ethad ASAP when you scheduled the game. It's close to impossible for us to run this event otherwise.

(Since every group has 5 teams one team has to sit out every round. That causes that some teams will just have to play 2 games these weeks)

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

GAMES HAS TO BE PLAYED BEFORE MONDAY 27/4

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Cpm 2v2 NATIONSCUP (48 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by blaze @ 10:04 CDT, 10 April 2009 - iMsg

Event: CPM TDM NC 09

Next monday (13/4) the 2v2 version of the Nationscup kicks in with 20 teams fighting for the pride left in CPM.
Since the teams only need 2 players to get a game going we thought we'd speed things up and make you play 3 games per 2 weeks.
First two weeks schedule can be found here!

Master Seed

High Seed

Mid Seed

Low Seed

No Seed

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Team Members

Rules

I'd like to remind every team that to have at least one player in #cpm.nations to make the scheduling smooth. Before we start I'd like to hand out a round of applauses to the refs helping us with the event and the few admining here at ESR.

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Spontangames.de Duel Cup #3 Results (14 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:38 CDT, 9 April 2009 - iMsg

Last Sunday was held the 3rd Spontangames.de Duel Cup after a failed 2nd edition. 32 players went through a single elimination bracket and the final standings are as following:

1st. Sebastian "spart1e" Siira
2nd. Bogdan "bodzo" Mazur
3rd. Tomas "doj" Jonson
4th. Marcel "Marcel" Wcislowski

Feel free to check the demo of the final and the brackets for your personal enjoyment.

Website: spontangames.de - IRC:

#spontan.ql

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FOOKI WON qlive.co.cc! (196 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by CAREEM @ 21:23 CDT, 8 April 2009 - iMsg

The winner of our first qlive.co.cc is

fooki! In the Winner Brackets Final

bodzo knocked the Swedish player out to the Loser Brackets with a score of 2-1. However,

fooki managed to beat everyone in LB and played his Polish opponent once again in the Grand Final. The games were a worth watch:

bodzo's amazing RailGun vs

fooki's unstoppable LightingGun!

Final standings:

fooki
bodzo
Blanka
4-6. pizo, bloodpa1nt, fl4sh

Demos, brackets and videos of the tournament are available. The signups for next tournament are already open! There will be only 64 slots this time. Feel free to signup and follow the tournament! More info on IRC:

#qlive.co.cc

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Stickrunners Season 2 Registration (37 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Kruzz @ 22:04 CDT, 7 April 2009 - iMsg

The second Stickrunners season is about to take off! The schedule is set to start on Sunday 19 April and finish on Sunday 17 May. It's only five match days because we noticed that it requires a lot of organization to keep things running smoothly. Since the exam period is starting in June, we'd like to finish in time. This means that we will only accept 18 teams in 3 divisions. We will look at the recent activity and time of registration to select the teams. Those who finished the previous season will automatically be accepted for the new one (except one perhaps, if all 19 teams wish to sign up). We are sorry that some will be disappointed, but we simply can't handle more in our free time. Good organization is what made last season so successful, we need to keep it manageable to continue providing a great league.

If you want to participate in this league check our site for more information!

Game:

Quake 3 OSP/CTF 5on5
IRC channel: #Stickrunners
Homepage: Stickrunners
Servers: We will be using the same servers like last time,

XS4ALL.
GTV:

gtv.stickrunners.com

We at Stickrunners really hope that you'll sign up, frag some dudes/dudettes, cap some flags and just have fun, see you soon!

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Q3 EMS 4 Qualifier #3 is over (21 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by xou @ 12:57 CDT, 6 April 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS IV

The third qualifier for the Q3 1v1 EMS4 took place this last sunday and saw 28 players signed up. Once again a 1st group stage, a 2nd group stage and then the first round of the playoff were needed to get the top4 duelers who are now qualified. Here they are:

Marcel "k1llsen" Paul
Grégory "falcuma" Ollivier
Daniel "[a1r-r41d]" Götell
Miloš "Zubb" Zubal

Qualified players

The Qualifier #4 was planned for this next Sunday the 12th, but is now delayed until Sunday 19th of April. Note that the deadline for the invitations applications still is the 12th of April.

Source: ESL.com -

#esl.q3

Nexuiz 2.5 released (173 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by morfar @ 11:40 CDT, 6 April 2009 - iMsg

Last Friday Nexuiz 2.5, an open source FPS, after just short of a year from previous release, finally arrived with a lot of changes and tweaks. Most noticeable changes include new weapon models, maps, sounds and physics tweaks. In total, it contains around 3000 revisions since version 2.4.2.

Nexuiz is based on the Quake 1 engine but uses Quake 3 map format. Its gameplay is inspired by Unreal Tournament, but has a number of gameplay elements not common in other games.
Since Nexuiz 1.0 in 2005 the unusual features have been the central part of the gameplay, for example: Splash damage goes through solid walls; There is no limit for how much health and armor you can carry; Health regeneration and rotting system.

Due to the extent of changes there is NO PATCH available. To make sure nothing breaks, extract Nexuiz 2.5 to it's own folder, do not overwrite earlier versions!

New features:

For a more complete list of changes see the Sourceforge homepage. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions, check the Nexuiz forum or the FAQ.

Download mirrors

Site summary for week ending 03 Apr (7 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 5 April 2009 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

Top Referers

ESWC Bankrupt? (210 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by oneroomdisco @ 13:15 CDT, 5 April 2009 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'09

As just reported on Team-aAa.com (french), it appears that Game-Services, the company that owns ESWC, is undergoing judicial liquidation (bankruptcy).

Complexity had contacted Game-Services about this issue, and received this response:

Games-Services SA ceases all activities. Its liquidation has been pronounced by the Commercial Court of Paris March 30, 2009. In consequence, all the employees and managers have been relieved from their duties and laid off April 2nd, by the adjudication. The process of liquidation, which is starting this week, will notably organize the potential trade-in or resale of the company’s assets including the Electronic Sports World Cup and Overgame.

So although ESWC can be bought by another company, it appears that as of now, there will be no future ESWC Qualifiers or Final Events.

Also reported by Complexity here.

Attached Misc File: 69105-games-services.png (5 Apr 2009, 39KB, 860 downloads)

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Batoo OSL 2008/2009 Grand Final (24 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by KekS @ 13:00 CDT, 4 April 2009 - iMsg

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 4 April 2009 to 07:00 CDT, 4 April 2009
Schedule: Passed

Takes place 04:00 CDT, 4 April 2009.

Jung "Fantasy" Myung Hoon (#7) -vs-

Lee "Jaedong" Jae Dong (#1) (BET)
_{KeSPA Rankings as of April 2009}

In the Semifinals

Jaedong took down

by.herO 3:0

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

and

Fantasy beat

Bisu 3:0 aswell

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Tournament Tree

Mappool

*UPDATE* (08.04.09 - 14:00h CEST)
And it's over, VODs (Korean AND English) are up here:

Korean

English

Links

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Stickrunners Season 1 is over (19 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Kruzz @ 11:10 CDT, 4 April 2009 - iMsg

The first season of the new league Stickrunners is now over and we really enjoyed this and we hope to be back really soon with a new season of pure action. We would like to thank all the participating teams,

XS4ALL for helping us out with servers and gtv, all the admins and also

chatfragger and

DeViL who started this whole project. If you look down you can see some info about this season, all the review and also all the movies that we made, we made some "movie reviews" each week, we took the best caps and frags and put them in to a movie for about ~5min, added some music, nothing pro about them, simple movies with awesome intros!

Final Standings

Reviews

Movies

Once again I'd like to thank all the people who made this happen and I really hope that you will be back for our next season (date not set yet!) and I hope you all have a nice summer and keep on fragging! GG WP all!

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Starcraft Weekly - Episode 9 (No comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by PuertoRican @ 07:36 CDT, 4 April 2009 - iMsg

Friday, March 27th

After a few days away, we’re bringing you this week’s episode a couple days late. First we get into the Starcraft 2 news, followed by the ESWC, ESL, Liquibition, SC2GG StarLeague, Day[9] podcast, WCG Ultimate Gamer show, Ansadi StarLeague, TG Sambo-Intel Classic 3 match, MSL final recap, Winners League recap, OSL recap, recent trades in the past week, followed by the KeSPA Rookie Draft news.

Friday, April 3rd

This has been one crazy week, so much has gone on, mainly with the ESWC Asia Masters. In this episode, we cover the ESWC Asia Masters, ESL Major Series, Ansadi StarLeague, North American Starcraft Clan League, Idra’s latest matches in MSL and GOM, Jaedong and his recent happenings, SkyHigh and his recent Winners League results, Jaedong and Fantasy’s upcoming OSL match, Starcraft 2, and what we’re showing next week.

You can view Episode 9 by Clicking Here.

If you're unable to view it from the original source, you may view also watch it through YouTube, Click Here for part 1 of 2, & Click Here for part 2 of 2..

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OSP CTF channel for Europeans (51 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by linkoo @ 20:18 CDT, 3 April 2009 - iMsg

Yes you heard it,

#sponti is a new chan which will have servers all over Europe and you can !add to whatever CTF server is fitting to your ping or preference.

Psi founded this chan yesterday and we already have access to 3 servers, French, German and Icelandic.

hazrd is working on the website which will give you news coverage/updates/cups

Admins at the moment are;

Psi

link

hazrd

erazor

We're all looking forward to seeing you play on the official EUROPEAN osp ctf channel

P.P.S
If you live in Sweden, UK, Germany or anywhere in Europe and want to donate a server that would be very well recieved.

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New study: FPS games improve Eyesight (73 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Demiurge @ 18:14 CDT, 3 April 2009 - iMsg

A new study from the Center for Visual Studies at the University of Rochester in New York, indicates that playing action first person shooters like Unreal Tournament and even Call of Duty 2 improves visual perception. Non-fps games however yielded little effect in the experiment.

In 2002, Daphne Bavelier, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Rochester in New York state, found that playing action video games improved visual attention skills (ScienceNOW, 18 April 2002). This time she compared avid gamers with nongamers on a type of visual perception called contrast sensitivity. It allows people to make out objects in dim lighting and to distinguish objects from a busy background.

The article also implies that the research will continue further on the specifics and differences of the effects of playing various types of first person shooters.

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EMS IV Q3 Qualifier #2 *update* (39 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by Nukm @ 07:30 CDT, 3 April 2009 - iMsg

Event: EMS IV

The second qualifier for the Quake 3 EMS is over and another 3 players are qualified to fight for the €750 price pool.
This week, 29 players started into Group stage one. After the second Groupstage only 8 players advanced to the Playoff and these 3 came out on top:

- Vitali "ash" Fedorov
- Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira
- Sergei "K1llMaster" Govorov
- Alvaro "pizo" Pradas ( DM can't play his last match)

They are joining the already qualified:

fire_bot |

guard |

mAdix |

noctis.
The Qualifier #3 signups are still opened and you can also apply to get one of the 8 invitation slots.

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