Quick update, the North American 2v2 tournament is on but we still need 3 more teams!

Please e-mail me your rosters, with team name, captain and means of contact before January 20, 2009!

Tournament begins: 12:00 CST, 24 January 2009


Play more promode with your barn!
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Quake Nations Cup 2009 is getting closer and closer to start in another two games and a 3rd one is opening its Sign Ups!

QuakeWorld Nations Cup is opening on 19th January and all nations got exactly ONE WEEK to Register to JohnNy_cz, who will be the head admin.
All important information about QuakeWorld is available on the official Tournament Page so check it out!

Quake 2 NDML is in the middle of the Sign Up period. So far, there are 8 national teams in it. Little birdie told me that the registration will be open till the end of January, so spread the info about QNC everywhere you can.

Quake 3 admins have caught the first cheater, so team Russia gets a new captain, mr.Jibo! check out the Der Quaker Interview.
We were able to see some great games on GTV during the first two weeks of competition and if you have missed some matches, you can check all the results and demos on the official Tournament Page.

Quake 4 and Quake Live Sign Up period is coming to its end and the last possibility for you and your national team to be part of this season's QNC is Sunday 18th January.
Right now, there are 5 teams in Quake 4 and 13 teams in Quake Live. If you still want to play, just check out this post.

BTW: Be sure, that the NO HUNTING SiGN is currently very well guarded :-)

QuakeWorld ::: Quake 2 ::: Quake 3 ::: Quake 4 ::: Quake Live

The general regulations, competitions rules and games settings have now been released by ESWC for their 2009 season.

Competition rules and Games Settings Overview


Defending Champions for ESWC Grand Final 2009 will be confirmed early May.

Going into the first round of the Lost Saga MSL 2009 season, Savior was a heavy underdog in his first match, which was against his arch nemesis Bisu.

Bisu had a 5-1 record going into the match against Savior, and was also the reigning 3 time MSL champion. This didn't worry the Zerg king at all as he was well prepared to face anyone.

Savior was able to defeat Bisu by heavily damaging his economy to slow him down and put him behind, followed up by mass hydralisk drops into the main base and expansions of his opponent. The game ended with Savior dropping hydralisks in the final Protoss expansion and blocking the ramp with a morphing lurker egg to keep any units from getting in. While Bisu still had a sizable army left, Savior had destroyed the very last pylon to end the game and force a GG from Bisu.

• Savior B-cut - the hero has returned

Image Source: Fomos.kr

After a long time, the Rocket Arena 1.80 Final version of this famous mod is now available. For all the Rocket Jumpers out there here are tweaked maps, bug fixing and new features.

This version is based on the opensource engine ioQuake3, a progressive q3 engine built with OpenAL sound. RA3 use now its own .exe file to start, that contains a reference to a standalone version in the future. Also the path to config files and screenshots has changed because of ioQuake3.


You need to create a new folder with a copy of your updated baseq3 folder.
Quick way to Install

The new good things are:
- Coach Support
- Picture in Picture Window System (multiscreen not only for coach)
- Map Fixing (some fix tested on the Beta2-Mappack)
- Smoke Trails can be colored by the currently set team colors
- Smooth progressive movement through ioQuake3 engine
- Hitsounds on/off function
- Option to change the roundlimit time

new full ChangeLog

Some help is also available at the chaosbunnies site. For example you found there a new file that could reduce laggs and improve performance, a new readme and helping commands.

Source: ra3.raplanet.com | official RA3 Website
#rocketarena in quakenet

Related links:
Rocket Arena Chaos Bunnies Mappack
RA3 1.8 Beta2-Mappack

UKeSA, launched in late 2008 with the goal of unifying the UK esports scene in multiple games and platforms and offering up prize money via their official leagues, announced over 20 games for their first season yesterday.

The glaring omission was a duelling game, but luckily UKeSA have offered the community a chance to prove that they should add one. Ideally they will add a version of Quake 3, until Quake Live is ready to go and you can help ensure that Quake and a dueller has a chance to be part of the first season.

Cadred.org has an official poll on the site here : http://www.cadred.org/Forums/Poll/48756/

Simply sign up to the site (sorry, its the only way you can vote) and cast your vote in a positive light. We will be passing the results to UKeSA over the weekend.

The first week of the Quake Nations Cup Q3 TDM is behind us, excepted for 2 late encounters. It is now time to have a look at the second round of the group stage with the following matches:

·: Thursday 15th, 16:00 CDT: German / Belarus (bet)
·: Thursday 15th, 16:30 CDT: Poland / Spain (bet)
·: Sunday 18th, 15:00 CDT: United Kingdom / Croatia (bet)
·: Sunday 18th, 15:00 CDT: Sweden / Denmark (bet)
·: Sunday 18th, 15:15 CDT: Hungary / Netherlands (bet)
·: Sunday 18th, 16:00 CDT: Russia / Ukraine

Not scheduled - Belgium / Czech Rep.
Not scheduled - France / Slovenia

Wildcarded & not scheduled - Belgium / Serbia

The dates and times are still subject to change and the news will be updated as often as needed. If you happen to be the captain of a nation which hasn't scheduled its match yet, please get involved!

Note that the signups for the Quake 4 and the Quakelive Nations Cups 2009 TDM are still opened on quake.cz (CzEnglish can be hard to understand)!

GTV: 147.32.127.208:27970, 193.19.177.35:27970 or 147.32.30.24:27970
IRC: #quakequickcup - Scorebot: #qqc.scores

This week the attention shifts from Quake III to Quake IV, from its immediate release until the last real competitive event one year later. Magnus "fox" Olsson shares his view on the different events and more in particular about how he placed at them and how he felt the game stacked up to its older brother, Quake III.

This is one of the questions you can read in this week's edition:

The Intel Summer Championships lurked around the corner immediately after and somehow it seemed all the attention had shifted over to toxjq and Ztrider, who was a rising talent by then, in the Swedish scene, did you experience this as well?

One of the following prizes can still be won if you enter in the competition, each week we ask a question and after six times the person who managed to answer the most questions correctly will win one of these prizes:

1. Radeon HD 4850 (RV770PRO)
2. GeIL Evo One DDR2 (4GB)
3. Sennheiser HD515 Headphones

Thus far we have already have two rounds and we everyone already had time to look for answers on the following questions:

Week 1: How tall is Magnus "fox" Olsson (in cm)?
Week 2: Under which team did fox and proZaC play together in TDM?

and if you want to stay in the running for one of these prizes then be sure to check out the third question.

The interview as well as the full details concerning the competition can be found on LowLandLions.com.

Intel's ExtremeGameFaces website just released four new "Ask A Pro" videos featuring Chance "chance" Lacina (shot at ESWC Masters), Tom "Griffin" Wall (shot at ESWC Masters), and Annie "Ecstacy" Leung (shot at ESWC Grand Finals). Questions range from Chance's opinion on QuakeLive to Annie's practice regimen in UT3, so there should be a little something for everyone.


Source: extremegamefaces.com - Youtube playlist

Scheduled: 03:00 CST, 11 January 2009 to 05:00 CST, 11 January 2009
Schedule: Passed

GOM TV presents the second half of the Quarter Finals (alias Round of 8) in the Averatec Intel Classic 2008 Season 2 on Medusa, NewChupungryong & Destination:

Tournament Tree

Jangbi (#6) -vs- BackHo (#19) wasn't played due to a medical problem, BackHo forfeited his match and Jangbi won by default.
Pretty alias free (#10) -vs- Mind (#15) Map 1 Map 2 Map 3

Frag Dominant decided to hold a Q3 CQ3 2v2 TDM tournament at the beginning of 2009. The maps used will be pro-q3dm6, q3dm7 and ospdm6, and the matches will be played as bo3 in a single elimination bracket. Only north american teams can sign up and try their luck for the following prizes:


Update: The seeds have been made public and are "based heavily on past experience individually, as a team and current activity level". The brackets should now be filled very soon.


Tournament website / Brackets
#fd.q3cup - GTV: gtv.takingbackesports.com:27960

The german esport site readmore released an interesting interview with the popular e-sport journalist Carmac. The polish pope of competitive gaming is questioned about his departure of SK-Gaming, his sight on the current state of e-sports and his future plans.

readmore.de: So what are your expectations for 2009? Will eSports grow? Will it suffer due to a worldwide economic downturn?

Carmac: Unfortunately, I think we are all going to suffer and we can see by what happened with the WC3L and the NGL that we're all going to have to try and adjust. We will not see teams getting sponsorships as easily and the same goes for tournament organisers. But that's not all bad, you know. When it's tough, companies need to think of how to work better and more efficiently. Harsh times are an impulse to maximise efficiency, to improve yourself. Teams will have to come up with better ways of attracting sponsorship and in the long run it's for the better. At least eSports will be get rid of incompetent people that don't run their business the way they should. It's not like eSports will die or anything like that. Esports has always grown thanks to people, not money, so that process is not going to stop so easily. Even despite the crisis I think that we will have a very interesting year. I will try to see to it personally, my man!

If you got interested on this fascinating individual's thoughts on competitive gaming, head over to the readmore for the full interview.

A few months ago, Sombra was found guilty of cheating in the Euro Open Cup with proofs he provided himself. This year we had to go over this kind of situation again in the Quake Nations Cup Q3 TDM. The captain of the Russian team, Zubich, was proved guilty of cheating in the match against the Austrian team.

The whole admin team carefully checked his demos and we are now all convinced that he was using cheats. Therefor we decided to give Austria a default win (worth 3 points) for this match. Since the Russian players (from team fall1) also watched his demos, approved of the cheating and apologized to me, I won't penalize the Russian team but only its captain, Zubich. He is now banned from the quakequickcup.com and quake.cz tournaments. Team Russia will remain in the Nations Cup and its new captain is now Zhibo "Jibo" Fan.


He is also added on my list of cheaters

Games-Services has released the first list of countries which will take place in the 7th ESWC season in 2009.

"Each ESWC National Strategic Partner will be responsible for the entire national process of selection of its video games champions according to the regulations, specifications and charters provided by the ESWC Organizing Committee. All the qualified champions will have the opportunity to represent their countries and clubs next June 2009 in Paris for the 7th ESWC Grand Final."

Games Services are still in discussions with the following countries ....


Updated listed will be made available in a few weeks.