Scheduled: 18:00 CST, 26 February 2009 to 20:00 CST, 26 February 2009
Schedule: Passed

Updated: VoD is now available at noobflicks.com or on djwheat.tv alternatively blip.tv

After a week of absence, Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham's eSports podcast Live on Three returns tonight with special guest Rod "Slasher" Breslau. The show will focus on two big releases in the past week, QuakeLIVE and Street Fighter IV, their progress thus far and how they might effect the competitive gaming landscape. Other topics set to be talked about include the recent Frag Dominant 2v2 controversy, arQon's move to id software, and some recent controversy regarding CEVO. GotFrag, and payment of prizes to Counter-Strike player Moe "mOE" assad.

The show starts at 7 PM EST / 1 AM CET.

Watch at http://www.djwheat.tv/2009/02/26/live-on-three-e05-watch-inside/

A StarCraft 2 discussion led by Artosis and IdrA. New units, theory on high-level competitive play, differences in the races from StarCraft 1, and MBS Pros/Cons are amongst what is discussed.

Artosis will be looking for any responses in this thread from people who are interested in discussing a certain topic in the next episode, similar to the Blizzard.com response thread for each new sc2 batch that is released.

About Artosis:
Artosis is a 6 time WCG USA finalist and 2 time grand finalist who has since turned his direction toward commentating, where he does so every week in South Korea.

About IdrA:
IdrA is the only foreign professional StarCraft player in South Korea. He practices many hours each day alongside the world’s best gamers in the CJ Entus pro team.


You can view the video by clicking here.

If you have any trouble with the original link, you can watch the discussion through Youtube in a 3 part series: Part 1 of 3, Part 2 of 3, Part 3 of 3.

The jury selected the top nine movies for each category of the Games Mini Video Contest sponsored by Dell and the community portals opened a vote for their designated categories. Everyone can vote for his/her favorite until the 9th March - the winners will be announced the day after. The community's votes will be weighted 50:50 with the jury's votes to determine the contest winners.
Every community Portal will raffle a Dell Mini 9 Notebook among the voters.

The top 9 videos in the Quake category:

Joint Deviance - by Bernd “Bliccer” M.
Contact - by Denisas “Sinex” C.
Moment - by Péter “mccormic” K.
Journey - by Matthias “kekskruemel” B.
Quake Lessons - by Thomas “c3llux” B.
The Last Stand - by Markus “keller” U.
back2oldsql - by Patrick “dKsL” S.
Special - by Andrey “FlaT” S.
Why so serious? - by Djordje “zeroql” S.

Vote for your favorite Quake movie here (registraton required)

Scheduled: 03:00 CST, 1 March 2009 to 05:30 CST, 1 March 2009
Schedule: Passed

What was a rumor is now official and there will be a show match between the two TG Sambo Classics winners:

Season 1 Winner Jaedong (KeSPA #4) and Season 2 Winner Bisu (KeSPA #1 ) (BET)
Map: 1 2 3 4 5


GOMTV has confirmed that they will battle it out in a best-of-5 series on Andromeda, Destination, Medusa, Colosseum2 and as fifth map Andromeda (first map being the 5th map again), in that order. This will happen on 03:00 CST, 1 March 2009. The Winner will receive 7,200 US$ and the loser 720 US$ and a Notebook.

Episode 5 has been put together much faster for you, so go and watch it now!


Last week the show focused on a few less topics but went more into depth about the ones that were addressed. Right away we got into foreign news and talked about the new "foreign pro gamer" in Korea, former MYM Starcraft team finds a new sponsor with ESC gaming, Idra vs. F91 in Liquibition, BlizzCon 2009 announcement, Starcraft 2 patch and art update, Bisu vs. Jaedong special GomTV match, CJ Entus winning streak finally ends, Hyvaa’s big break into Pro League, Sea[Shield] returns as a winner instead of loser, Guemchi and his victory over Bisu, go.go and Jaedong go head to head, Flash and his match against UpMagic, and more.

This week we touched on Starcraft 2 right away and the mechanics of the game, MasterOfChaos and his new program, ICCUP's new season, the result of Idra vs. F91 in Liquibition, Lecaf aka Hwaseung Oz and the real reason why they switched names, Leta vs. Flash in MSL recap, Bisu and his all kill, Hyvaa and his tears, Piano and his amazing win, Sea[Shield] and his return to the top, the poor decision SKT1 made against CJ Entus in the Winners League, Savior and his match against Zero, Nada and JangBi's upcoming match, next week's video tour inside the STX Soul practice room and also 3 new interviews with their players, and of course more talk about the upcoming Starcraft 2 discussion video.


You can view Episode 5 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.

Scheduled: 18:00 CST, 31 December 1969
Schedule: Passed

The GGL is proud to announce that CPM Challenges are back! Signups are open to both North American and European duelers. With other tournament formats in the plans for the future, we would like to start the new year off with a bang and bring some of the duelers back out of the woodwork. Note: This tourney is being held on Sunday, not Saturday as previously stated.

UPDATE: The tournament has been canceled and will be re-announced for another time.

Team registration is finally open, EU seems to be ahead right now, and more teams on the way. NA players need to get their teams back into shape, but more importantly to create teams. The teams that form now will have a chance at getting themselves into international recognition. I do not plan to fall short of that myself with Team Kevegm, and I know many that are beyond my skill.

A few teams in NA are in record still a team, and I'm expecting good performance from them when the time comes, but to keep up with them, training with your new team is top priority.

Team Registration
To list your team for the tourney msg me: TheMafia on ESR or
Join #uscpmpickup and/or #cpmpickup on QuakeNet and pm me.

Team List
The current TCPM CTF Team List can be found in the event details

xano0ch's Promo Video
Save as: CTF Promo Video

Additions:
Thank you to arqon and ix for their support through this post:
http://www.promode.org/?p=576

We're proud to announce our first 5v5 CQ3 CTF cup. We decided to go with CQ3 because VQ3 tends to become quite based on aim. The weapons in CQ3 are slightly tweaked and the movements are very similar excepted for the ramp jumps from CPM. The map pool will consist of q3wcp1, q3wcp9, q3wcp22, q3wcp15, q3w3, q3ctf2 and q3wcp5. All games will be played on EU servers.

One player in each team should be assigned as leader, whose task is quite simple: Schedule one match a week, take screenshots afterwards and send them to one of the operators in #vq3pickup / #vq3p.cups. Those screens will later be uploaded on the website.

Update: 2 out of 8 slots are still empty for the cup. We would love to get two more teams in order to make a clean 8-teams bracket. Feel free to apply by contacting an admin in #vq3p.cups!

Website: vq3pickup.matrix.is

Milk it

Game: Warsow 0.42
Release Date: 26th February 2009

Codec: x264
Resolution: 1280x720
Length: 7:29
Size: 239 MB
Recommended mediaplayer: Media Player Classic - Free download here

Information:
This movie contains frag highlights from Warsow 0.42.

I made this video to:
1) Do something nice for the Warsow community and
2) Learn more about videoediting and kill some time.
This is my first proper project and a masterpiece is not to be expected,
but a watchable video with some nice frags is.

Screenshots
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 1 March 2009 to 16:00 CST, 1 March 2009
Schedule: Passed

The second Qualification Cup for the ESL UK Quake 3 Pro Series takes place on Sunday. The top 4 players will qualify!


Sign ups for the cup are still open, anyone who lives in the UK or Ireland can take part and qualify. Already 15 players are signed up. Think you are one of the best in the UK? Then sign up here and prove it.

The qualifier begins at 12:00 CDT this Sunday!

Website: ESL.eu

Taken from Quake Live News:

First, we want to thank everyone who has been playing, testing, providing feedback, inviting friends and hopefully enjoying the QUAKE LIVE closed beta. We've grown considerably over the past 6 months and are now excited to announce that we're opening QUAKE LIVE to the general public as an open beta the evening of Tuesday, February 24th. On Monday morning (U.S. central time) we'll be taking beta.quakelive.com down for about 36 hours and then opening to the public at www.quakelive.com on Tuesday evening.

Coordinated with the open beta will be a stats wipe and pruning of player accounts, however we want to make it as easy as possible for all of you to transition over. On Monday, we will be deleting the player accounts of people that have not played in the last 28 days. If you have played within the past 28 days, you will lose your stats, but will NOT lose your player name, custom settings, profile information, etc.. When the site opens again on Feb. 24th, you will be able to use your current email address and password to login as usual. If you have friends that haven't played recently, but will want to maintain their account, let them know that they should play a game between now an Sunday. After Tuesday, we do not expect to ever completely wipe QUAKE LIVE player stats again.

We're going to post some additional information in the Developer Notes about the opening of the game, what it means to leave the 'beta' tag on the site during this time, and discuss some features and functionality that we're planning for the next couple of months that we know you'll be interested in. This is a very exciting time for the project and we hope that all of you, who have contributed your time and feedback, share in that excitement. We hope all of you continue to be active contributors to the game as we work to make it better for months and years to come.

Source: quakelive.com

From SK-Gaming.com and ESL World.

Michal "Carmac" Blicharz, former Editor-in-Chief of SK Gaming, will now assume the role of Product Manager for ESL's Extreme Masters series and from the look of it have a large input into the way the tournament is presented to its audience.

"Throughout my time in eSports I have written about and analysed almost every eSports tournament there was," said Carmac, "the time has come to start building something."

You can read the full article here.

As part of our QuakeLive public beta launch coverage, QuakeUnity brings you an interview with id Software's John Carmack and Marty Stratton. John and Marty discuss the QuakeLive backend infrastructure, their work with mod authors to bring additional features to the game, and the hiring of developers from inside the Quake community. Additionally, the duo weigh in about the complexities of the technology behind QuakeLive, the possibility of licensing the system, their commitment to stop cheating, and the marketing strategy behind the game.

Although id Software has no plans to allow user-made modifications to be incorporated into QuakeLive, they have gone out of their way to hire one of the most successful Quake III mod authors to help them with their project. id revealed to QuakeUnity that Kevin "arQon" Blenkinsopp, author of the popular mod Challenge ProMode Arena (CPMA), has been hired as a contractor on QuakeLive. If you're not familiar with CPMA, it is the premiere mod of choice for Quake III tournaments. It includes competitive features such as modified gameplay physics, multi-view demos, and highly customizable HUDs.

You can read the full interview on quakeunity.com.

The famous European duel league has reached the playoffs stage! This EDL season had 107 participants and now 16 players are left. Only one of them can become the new EDL champion! The playoffs will be played with best-of-5's in a double brackets. The deadline for these matches is Sunday 16:00 CST, 1 March 2009.


Website: q2scene.net - IRC: #edl - Download Quake 2