As some of you know we've been planing a 2v2 nationscup and here are groups and seeds.

UPDATE: If you can't play your match/matches on Sunday then you have to play the remaining ones the next Sunday (19th)

Sunday the 12th @ 18.00CET you'll play your 4 matches in groups and we'll post results and see the 12 teams that will play in 2 groups of 6 and the bottom 2 of each group will then be disqualified with an ending 8-slot brackets double elimination. Matches will be bo3 except the last match which will be bo5.

Check the site for fancy groups.

Scheduled: 00:00 CDT, 5 April 2009 to 09:00 CDT, 5 April 2009
Schedule: Passed

THE ROUND OF 64 STARTS 4 HOURS LATER

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.

00:00 CDT, 5 April 2009, Ro.128
PrOtoss KTF MagicNs -vs- g_soulkey Woongjin Stars
tosky Hwaseung OZ -vs- ReaL Woongjin Stars
YellOw Air Force ACE -vs- jjonga CJ ENTUS
Azang CJ ENTUS -vs- Barracks KTF MagicNs

04:00 CDT, 5 April 2009, Ro.64
Spear Hwaseung OZ -vs- ClouD Airforce ACE
AdamaS (aka casey) Airforce ACE -vs- PrOtoss (aka Stats) KTF MagicNs
keke Wemade FOX -vs- DArKeLf CJ ENTUS
skyhigh CJ ENTUS -vs- Rage Airforce ACE

Hello fellow ESR readers! My name is claw, I'm new to the site and I would like to mention something very exciting that is being organized in the scene of Quakeworld. I am the admin of the Fusion QWCA League which basically started from scratch. I loaded up Quake1 after seeing all the new updates that have been made from the community and it made me realize that we haven't had a clan arena league in a while. Now this was just a small venture to get a few clans in USA since thats where I play mostly. But after venturing into different networks and clans I decided to make it a world wide affair.

In the span of 2 weeks, this has gone from rumor, to webpage, to getting servers up in USA, Europe, Brazil, Chile, Australia. The league is setup so that each clan in each division plays primarily against clans in the division, but of course to spice things up were going to have intercontinental play where every month 1 or 2 matches will be played. That means a clan from USA might play a clan from Brazil, or a clan from Europe or a clan from Australia.

Also we are working on a current clan arena mod that is going to have nice nice nice goodies. This mod is just being tailored for league play which has nice options. There is a nice variety of maps to be played, some which range from the original quake1 maps, a quake 2 map, a quake 3 map, and a few others. So everyone that plays any other game should give this a try so we can have lots of teams and players. My goal is to try to have an organized league so that maybe perhaps we can get recognized and have serious competitions sponsored, its a long shot but this is where it starts.

More infos: Website - #qwca.fusion - Install Quake!

FileFront has been bought back by the original founders from Ziff Davis Media and will NOT be shutting down.

After learning about Ziff Davis Media's plan to shut down FileFront at the end of March, the original founders of FileFront made the decision to buy it back from Ziff Davis Media.

We're happy to announce to the gaming community that as of today, April 1st, 2009, FileFront is a completely independent company again and is no longer part of Ziff Davis Media. All previously suspended services should be active and working again. We thank Ziff Davis Media for their cooperation and willingness to keep the site and community alive.

And no, this wasn't an April Fool's joke.

Information: welcome.filefront.com
Thanks Ravager

Control is a movie about 2 mods: Defrag and CPMA. The cast features NoGhost (PR 1.16) mod players that started playing on 1.32 and somewhat became successful with that.

- Part 1, Defrag, features crazy fast caps & runs, times of those are highly ranked.
- Part 2, CPMA, probably not hardcore frags but bearable I guess. Most of frags are from flag modes (CTF & NTF) but still managed to pop in some TDM & 1v1 footage.

Creator comments:

So for some time I've been wanting to make a Q3 movie. After realizing that my footage is pretty crap.. I needed someone to help me out with that. Fortunately, Nightmare was willing to do it and sent me loads of footage on 08/01/09 (when project started). I know I'm not the best when it comes to editing and/or fragging but I had loads of fun while making this movie and hopefully I get to make another one soon :)

After the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco was held, Wolfenstein´s publisher Activision released three new trailer and fifteen screenshots. Singleplayer content is shown.

shacknews

Peter Sokal the community manager for id Software who is working closly with Raven, Endrant and Activision, have set up a news page for Wolfenstein.
twitter.com/idWolf

Sokal said in a forum posting "If you were a fan of RTCW's multiplayer you can expect to see many of the elements that made it such an awesome experience, along with some new ones."

It has been 6 months since the QQC admins team caught Jordi "Sombra" Orteu cheating (with him revealing this information by sending his endgame screenshots showing that a wallhack and a radar were being used). After more than 1400 comments, this case slowly faded away and disappeared in time. Sombra was never seen since then. We all thought that the fact he cheated forced him to leave the quake scene for good and we'll never see him again. We were wrong.

This morning Ondrej "Legie" Konecny received a judicial notice saying that he needs to appear in Prague's court on the 27th of April in the matter of: (wording)

"Complaint towards the subject www.quakequickcup.com in the matter of suspicion of committing the following crimes: false allegation, utter libel, damage to the good name."

It's definitely a shocker for the entire QQC admins team as it seems Sombra took this matter much more seriously than we all expected. We'll bring you more information on the 27th.

Today’s match looks to favor the Protoss race as Bisu, Stork, JangBi, and Best take on Flash, Leta, Nada, and Hwasin in the OnGameNet All Star Race Battle.

First up at 04:00 CDT, we have Stork versus Flash on Tau Cross. This will most likely be a tough match for Flash, as Stork is extremely experienced on this map and has been doing very well this year in PvT matches. Flash on the other hand has been struggling to keep an even TvP record this year, and the map isn’t in his favor.

Since the winner of each round gets to pick his next opponent, Stork would probably pick Leta to go up against, as Leta showed in his last game on Destination that he isn’t able to take on a player such as JangBi on that map, let alone Stork. If Flash wins, he would have a hard time picking any of the other players, as they are all very good on this map.

Scheduled: 15:30 CDT, 30 March 2009 to 16:30 CDT, 30 March 2009
Schedule: Passed

Want to watch any good duel game tonight? Cybersport.pl would like to invite you for the Grand Final of the polish duel championships CyberMiszcz Q3 Cup. We will watch a virtual fight between Jedrzej "kertaL" Pytkowski (Dinhz) and Andrzej "avenger" Kaczmarczyk (Fear Factory X-Fi). Prize for the winner is a Logitech MX-518 Gaming Mouse.

It will be a classic Best-Of-Three game (avenger has to win 2xBO3, he comes from lower brackets) with the ESWC map list. The game will start approx at 22:30 CEST.

kertaL [ 2:1 ] avenger (bet)
[14:17] pro-q3dm6
[28:12] hub3aeroq3
[27:21] pro-q3tourney4

Date: 30 march 2009 @ 15:30 CDT
GTV: 194.187.43.243:30000

Source: Cybersport.pl - Brackets - Demos

Friday, March 20th

We kick things off with the foreigner scene. SC2GG and its StarLeague are covered first, followed by the ESL Major Series, NonY vs. F91 in Liquibition, latest news about PGL, WCG Ultimate Gamer stuff, ESWC Asia Masters, Starcraft 2, WeMade FOX loses a Protoss player, KTF MagicNs gain a new Terran player, a lot of Winners League, MSL, and OSL coverage, followed by what we’ll be showing next week.

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.


You can view Episode 8 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 3, Click Here for part 2 of 3., & Click Here for part 3 of 3.

Last night the grand finals between Sweden and Poland A. Sweden managed to take home that win with 3 straight maps. Poland put up a really good fight, especially at their own map pick cpm21. The other two maps could Sweden take home quite easy through really solid play and map control.

Swedens lineup: fluff, funnyb, link, rep and voodoochopstiks as coach
Polands lineup: dziku, pejn, v3rb, WAP and RAUL as their coach.

Screenshots (thanks rep): Ospdm5a, Cpm21, Cpm27
Demos: Ospdm5a, Cpm21, Cpm27
VODs and mp3s can be found at djWHEATs site.

Myself and ethad would like to thank every team for playing, spectators for speccing and djWHEAT for casting the final games. Congratulations to the top4 teams! The 2009 CPM TDM Nationscup is now over, we'll be back next with a 2v2 cup and later on with a few surprises.

Over 'n out!

Scheduled: 14:00 CDT, 29 March 2009 to 16:00 CDT, 29 March 2009
Schedule: Passed

After the semi-final between United Kingdom and Poland A last Sunday the teams for the grand final has been decided.

Grand Final:
Poland A vs Sweden will be played at Sunday 29/3 21.00 CET in best-of-5 maps. A shoutcast from djWHEAT will be available. Poland came out of the semifinal with a quite tight game against United Kingdom where they won 2:1 in 3 exciting maps. Sweden won their semifinal against Icemark with 2:0 maps, where an especially close cpm4a.

Consolation Final:
Icemark vs United Kingdom (to be scheduled)

Thanks to djWHEAT there are VODs, mp3s and demos available from the UK vs Poland A game. All of them can be found at djwheat.tv. Although the VOD from map 3 has unfortunately been lost.

Tourney site: cpmnations.tourney.cc - #cpm.nations

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 29 March 2009 to 08:00 CDT, 29 March 2009
Schedule: Passed

Guess what - it's BACK!
LIVE on 04:00 CDT, 29 March 2009

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.

Just like Averatec-Intel Classic Season 2 which was enjoyed by people from around 190 countries, Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will be also broadcast live in English by Daniel Lee & Nick "Tasteless" Plott.

This week will feature the following Round of 128 matches (matchlist with images):
ToSsGirL (STX SOUL) -vs- Casey (Samsung Khan) 1 2 3
idra (CJ ENTUS) -vs- Trap (STX SOUL) 1 2 3
Rage (Air Force ACE) -vs- perfectman (Hwaseung OZ) 1 2 3
ClouD (Air Force ACE) -vs- Fire (Woongjin Stars) 1 2 3


Also on April 5th top 64’s 1st round will be played, and starting from the April 12th the mobilization of top 32 players in full force will be witnessed. Read the full article here.

The QuakeWorld Quake Nations Cup 2009 has now reached its final encounter. This Sunday the final battle between Finland and Netherlands will take place. The match is scheduled for 13:00 CDT and will be broadcasted on QuakeTV. Also you can bet on the game on Goldrush.

Here you can watch the live stream

You can read the full preview on quakeworld.nu.