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Lost Saga MSL 2009 groups and schedule (31 comments)
( Major News: SC)
Posted by PuertoRican @ 22:24 CST, 8 January 2009 - iMsg
January 8th was the MBC Star League (MSL) group drawing for the top 32 players who either qualified in the MBC Survivor Tournament (MST) or were seeded from the last MSL event.
This season is sponsored by Lost Saga, a new video game in Korea.

Last night was very action packed as the gamers were brought out one by one and entertained their fans with special walk-in intros like UpMagic's list of MSL players that he lit on fire and made it sparkle, Bisu's dance imitation of the Korean singer Bi Rain, Magma's bull dog face, Bul_T's version of the latest Wonder Girls dance, Nada's call to the camera as he threw a 1-2-3 boxing combo into it, Hwasin's dark sunglasses to imitate Bi Rain, and FireBatHero's partially seductive striptease as he turned his back to the crowd and took off his jacket to show the screaming female fans the top of his back that had no shirt on.

The man of the night was originally supposed to be the three time MSL winner Kim Taek Yong aka Bisu, but that was short lived as eSTRO's Magma shocked the crowd by calling out all of the "6 dragons", aka the top 6 Protoss players in Korea right now Bisu, Stork, Kal, Free, JangBi, Best), saying he isn't afraid to play any of them and that he usually calls them the "6 raptors" at home, since they're so small in size when compared to dragons.



Nada, Stork, Kal, were among many of the people who were moving Magma's name on the group stage board back and forth into their group, hoping to get a piece of this monster Zerg player, but in the end it was Bisu who had the last chance to move around players names and he stuck Magma in his group to make it Bisu (P), Savior (Z), Magma (Z), and Zero (Z) in group A.
Many fans and critics laughed at Bisu for putting Magma in his group, as he said the reason for doing it is that he wanted to make things interesting, but many people know that he likes to give himself an easy group to improve his chances later on. (Protoss vs. Zerg is Bisu's best match up and the best Zerg vs. Protoss player in the group Savior, has a 1-5 record vs. Bisu)


The 2009 Lost Saga MSL top 32 and groups look like this:


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WCG looking for the Ultimate Gamer (73 comments)
( Major News: Gaming)
Posted by xou @ 08:51 CST, 8 January 2009 - iMsg
WCG and SCI-FI announced a partnership some months ago in order to produce a new TV reality show, initially called Gamequest, with some e-sport flavor additives. Yesterday, the whole thing took a new dimension as WCG release a video teaser of the show on wcgultimategamer.com.

The 12 esports' superstars, including sWooZie, iNcontroL or Valkyrie (who confessed "it was the most amazing and stressful situation I have ever been in in my life!"), were chosen during auditions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago & Austin. They lived all together during a few weeks and competed on PGR 4, Virtua Fighter 5, Halo 3, Rock Band 2, Dance Dance Revolution and NBA’09 to become WCG Ultimate Gamer's Best All-around Gamer and earn $100,000.

The way the competition works there is very simple: the gamers have to play their regular video games, and also their equivalent in real life! Which means they have to drive a real car, play basket ball with a real ball, play a real guitar or punch some stuff around.

Hannah Simone and Joel Gourdin were picked to host the TV show which should be aired on the Sci-Fi channel in March 2009. You may also find an extended version of the teaser on vimeo.com.

Source: www.wcg.com
Windows 7 Beta tomorrow (102 comments)
( Major News: OT)
Posted by spyteman @ 06:27 CST, 8 January 2009 - iMsg
Tomorrow, January 9, Microsoft is going to release a public beta of what is supposed to be the next big thing in operating systems: Windows 7. As many users were really disappointed in Windows Vista, which was only released 2 years ago, Microsoft promised to listen closely to feedback and improve their OS around the wishes of the Windows community. Windows 7 is said to be faster and easier to use than former versions and comes with a bunch of new features for the desktop, including new software such as Internet Explorer 8.

* Windows 7
* New features
* Videos
* Windows 7 Beta demo video from CES 2009

Apparently the number of downloads will be limited to 2.5 million copies, and the beta will stop working on August 1, 2009. So better be quick to download it once it is released (probably evening hours in Europe).

source: the interbits.
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Stamina 1 top 32 players and contest (35 comments)
( Major News: SC)
Posted by PuertoRican @ 13:50 CST, 6 January 2009 - iMsg
The Stamina 1 ladder is now over and the top 32 participants have been decided. While running for 2.5 weeks, the ladder portion of the event showed a lot of people really going back and forth for the 28 out of 32 spots available, the other 4 spots being invitees from the previous tournament held.

Starting Sunday the 11th, the best of 3, single elimination round will take place and right off the bat we see famous names like MYM.DinOt and MYM.Dreiven going head to head as they’re both fighting for the first place prize of $300.

If you’re familiar with the WCG, or the latest Blizzard invitational event in California, you might have heard of [flag=US]Artosis, he’s a well known commentator from the states as well as being a 6 time WCG USA finalist and 2 time grand finalist. He will be casting all of the top 32 matches, which will be available after the tournament is over in a VOD format.

[hide=Introduction to the Stamina 1 event] What is Stamina? Stamina is a new tournament with cash prizes open to any players outside of Korea. The tournament will start out with an 18 day ladder based on ICCup. At the end of 18 days, the top 28 ranked players in the ladder will be qualified for the final tournament to fight it out for $500 in cash prizes. Throughout the event there will be in-depth coverage as well as VODs of the best games released.

Stamina also marks the start of a new ranking system for players of SCForAll.com events. A side ladder will be kept to keep track of player¡¯s finishes in the soon to be frequent events on the site. These rankings will help to determine invites and special events in the future.

As always, any feedback is greatly appreciated. We hope to start bringing many events to the non-Korean community, and any input you have to make these events better in any way will be greatly appreciated!


Stamina 1 schedule:

Stamina - how to play:

1) Get an ICCup ladder account (www.iccup.com) with no games played on it. Make sure that you also have an account at www.SCForAll.com with the same ID/name.

2) Request to join this team: http://www.iccup.com/teams/5605.html

3) After December 19th, 12:05am KST (December 18th, 11:05am EST, 5:05pm CET), start playing on the ladder.

4) Make sure you actively watch for updates on the tournament and to check for messages from admin¡¯s on ICCup.com and SCForAll.com.

5) Ladder ends on January 5th KST. At this time the top 28 players from the ladder will be seeded into the final 32 man tournament. The last 4 seeds will be the top 4 players from the Spirit tournament¡¯s top 16 who are not already qualified for the final Stamina 1 tournament.

6) On January 11th at 17CET the final tournament of 32 will begin. Any players who do not show up at this time will be replaced by the highest ranked Stamina 1 ladder player who shows up to the final tournament. Rounds of 32, 16, and 8 will be played in a BO3 format using map1: Destination, map2: Medusa, map3: Colosseum II. In the following week the top 4 will be played with a BO5 for the grand finals. The entire tournament is single elimination.

7) Prizes are distributed as followed:

1st: $300
2nd: $150
3rd: $50
4th: a pat on the back (to be redeemed upon visiting South Korea).

Stamina rules:

`70; Stamina is open to any player outside of Korea.
`70; Final tournament maps will be Destination 1.1, Medusa 1.1, Colosseum II, and Shin Chupung-Ryeong. Any maps may be played during the ladder stage.
`70; No smurfing allowed. You must use the ID which you are most known by. If you break this rule you will be banned from the event.
`70; All games must use the Anti Hack launcher.
`70; All replays must be saved. Keep the Auto Replay function on. Any replays requested by admins must be sent promptly.
`70; The account you join the ICCup ladder team with must be D rank with 0 games played. After requesting to join, you may start playing immediately (as long as the ladder stage has already started); you don¡¯t have to wait to be accepted.
`70; You may play anyone on ICCup. You are not limited to playing other players participating in Stamina.
`70; You may not transfer stats or play in ICCup tournaments or you will be kicked.
`70; Sharing accounts will result in ban.
`70; Hacking/cheating/abusing is strictly forbidden. If you participate unfairly in any way you will be banned from Stamina. Abuse includes but is not limited to:
- Win trading
- Complaint stacking
- Spam botting
- Disconnecting
- Mass winning the same opponent
- Playing your friends with an off-race

Don¡¯t do anything that could be seen as abuse at all. Admins have the right to ban or reset you at any time.

`70; It is your responsibility to have a stable and fast internet connection. If you are the cause of lag against your opponent, you can be disqualified from the event at the administrators discretion.
`70; You must promptly respond to any announcements, instructions, or requests which are messaged to you or posted about on SCForAll.com.
`70; If you have any questions/comments/complaints/suggestions please contact ArtosisSTAMINA on the ICCup website or ask in this thread.
`70; Rules are subject to change based upon user feedback and unforseen events.[/hide] [hide=List of the top 32 players] [avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=CN]Fnatic.F91
[avatar=SC_Terran][flag=CN]Fnatic.Never
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=CN]Fnatic.JayStar
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=CN]Fnatic.lbh
[avatar=SC_Terran][flag=CN]Fnatic.Phoenix
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=PL]MYM.Yayba
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=CL]MYM.Dinot
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=PL]MYM.Dreiven
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=CA]MYM.Iefnaij
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=CA]ToT)Xiaozi(
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=SE]ToT)Naugrim(
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=NL]ToT)ret(
[avatar=SC_Terran][flag=PE]LG)Handy
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=PE]Castro
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=SE]datoby
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=CA]BW-Tidy
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=SK]Maix
[avatar=SC_Terran][flag=PE]Smacker
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=RU]fusion.Rondo
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=IT]ClouD
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=US]Machine[Light]
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=MK]NrG)OctZerg
[avatar=SC_Terran][flag=SE]NaW-merz
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=SE]Get.Shauni
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=CA]Target
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=PL]LogNetMed.Mana
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=DE]Power.Goody.GO
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=US]LzGamer
[avatar=SC_Zerg][flag=US]Chosen
[avatar=SC_Terran][flag=US]AccordV6
[avatar=SC_Terran][flag=DE]mTw.HoRRoR
[avatar=SC_Protoss][flag=PE]Fenix[/hide] [hide=Brackets]You can view the brackets by going here and clicking the Schedule (there's a drop down menu for groups A, B, and top 16)[/hide] [hide=Replacement player list] MYM.Arew
TagoMago
AyGj.cn
KawaiiRice
ToT)SquaLL(
Oystein
Ahzz
Stalife
mTw.aCe
NaW-tOsKy
[7x]narayan
LRM)Sawyer
LeviyNick
GoGnA
Eucerin
DakkoN
Undergrounder
Enivid[/hide] [hide=Times and dates of the first 3 rounds] January 11th @ 17 CET
January 11th @ 11 EST
January 12th @ 1 KST[/hide] [hide=Maps and location]ICCUP server in channel Stamina1
Maps are Destination, Medusa, and Colosseum 2[/hide] [hide=Prize distribution]1st - $300
2nd - $150
3rd - $50[/hide] [hide=Country distribution] China - 5
Sweden - 4
USA - 4
Canada - 4
Peru - 4
Poland - 3
Germany - 2
Chile - 1
Russia - 1
Italy - 1
Macedonia - 1
Slovakia - 1
Netherlands - 1[/hide] [hide=Race distribution]Terran – 6
Zerg – 13
Protoss - 13[/hide] [hide=Team distribution] Fnatic - 5
MYM. - 4
ToT) – 3 [/hide]

There’s a “Guess the top 3” contest that goes along with this event, all you need to do is go here and post who you think will place in the top 3 spots and in what order. When the tournament is finished, the winner will receive $50 for guessing correctly. If there are multiple people with the same predictions, there will be a small tournament for those people, the winner will receive the money.

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FD Interview Chance, DKT and Rapha! (18 comments)
( Major News: Gaming Q3 QL)
Posted by Levi215 @ 12:33 CST, 6 January 2009 - iMsg
Over at Frag Dominant they have conducted some extensive interviews with some of the participants of their upcoming 2v2 Quake 3 cup, with more on the way! The players share their thoughts on the tournament and their lives both inside and outside of gaming. Obviously Q3 and Quake Live feature extensively in these articles!

Tournament Information

United States of America Brian 'DKT' Flander
United States of America Chance 'chance' Lacina
United States of America Shane 'Rapha' Hendrixson
Quake Nations Cup Q3 TDM - Week 1 (29 comments)
( Major News: ESR)
Posted by xou @ 10:53 CST, 6 January 2009 - iMsg
Event: QNC'09
The Quake Nations Cup Q3 TDM is about to kick off tomorrow with its first match. With 4 groups of 5 teams, you can then expect 8 matches per week during 6 weeks. Here is the schedule for the first (note that dates are subject to change):
- Wednesday 15:00 CDT - Germany Germany / Iceland Iceland & Ukraine Ukraine / Croatia Croatia
- Thursday 14:00 CDT - Russia Russia / Austria Austria
- Sunday 14:00 CDT - Netherlands Netherlands / Spain Spain (forced) & Belarus Belarussia / Slovenia Slovenia (forced)
- Sunday 15:00 CDT - Denmark Denmark / Czech Republic Czech Rep
- Sunday 15:30 CDT - Hungary Hungary / Slovakia Slovakia
Belgium Belgium already used wildcard for their first match againt Serbia Serbia. About Poland Poland, Sweden Sweden, France France and United Kingdom United Kingdom, they will play their first match during Week 2 since the groups are made of 5 teams each.

GTV: 147.32.30.24:27970 or 193.19.177.35:27970 - #quakequickcup - #qqc.scores (scorebot channel)
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Tribes 2 revived! (17 comments)
( Major News: Gaming)
Posted by LoCK @ 17:01 CST, 5 January 2009 - iMsg
Tribes 2, the last game from Dynamix and an incredibly fun multiplayer game had it's master server shut down in november of 2008.

Now we may rejoice again as a fan based master server has been set up where you don't even need a cd-key to play.

So if you're up for some Tribes 2 action, go here for the download and start the skiing and disc shooting ASAP!


Source: tribesnext.com
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Site summary for week ending 02 Jan (2 comments)
( Major News: ESR)
Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 4 January 2009 - iMsg
meet the legend Magnus "fox" Olsson - Q3 (23 comments)
( Major News: Q3)
Posted by Bocerbo @ 16:07 CST, 4 January 2009 - iMsg
After last week's initial post, today the second part of the interview has been posted and deals with Sweden Magnus "fox" Olsson and his time in Quake III, his biggest victories and most disappointing let downs.

One of the following prizes can still be won if you enter in the competition, each week we ask a question and after five 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

Last week's question was "how tall is Magnus "fox" Olsson (in cm)?" and be sure to check this week's edition to see the next question.

The interview as well as the full details concerning the competition can be found on the following link: LowLandLions.com
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#CPM.NATIONS Captains made official (68 comments)
( Major News: Q3)
Posted by blaze @ 08:28 CST, 4 January 2009 - iMsg
THE CPM TDM NATIONSCUP IS OFFICIALLY FULL. TEAM SIGNING UP NOW WILL BE USED AS RESERVES.
I know of at atleast 1 team that might drop out.
Reserve teams will be told 1 week before the actual cup starts if they're playing or not.

LINEUPS NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE FRIDAY 23/1.
Lineups can now include 7 players. The coach doesn't need to be on the linup. Anyone from the own nation can coach the team. Hope this is easier to understand now, sorry for the inconvenience.

#CPM.Nations are proud to present this year's captains of the CPM TDM Nationscup. This list will be updated with the lineups when they are available. So without any more hassle here they are:


Reserve teams:

The teams who haven't already made their channel and lineup public should send a mail with it to cpmnations@gmail.com or sending a message to me on IRC (blze) as soon as possible!
I know there are nations that haven't signed up out there, so bring out some players and play!
Previous Post
*Added Turkey*
*Added France*
*Denmark and Iceland joined forces, since both teams struggled to get players. Poland team b accepted into the tournament*
*The Netherlands withdrew from the tournament, unable to find enough players*
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TITTY SAMBO Quarter Finals Day 1 (54 comments)
( Major News: SC)
Posted by KekS @ 05:08 CST, 4 January 2009 - iMsg
Event: TG Sambo Classic
Scheduled: 03:00 CST, 4 January 2009 to 06:00 CST, 4 January 2009
Schedule: Passed

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

Tournament Tree

SC_Terran Skyhigh (#112) -vs- SC_Protoss BeSt (#4) Map 1 Map 2 Map 3
SC_Terran Flash (#2) cup_silver -vs- SC_Protoss Bisu (#3) cup_bronze Map 1 Map 2 Map 3

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LLL QuakeLive Duel Cup *Results* (62 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by xou @ 12:00 CST, 3 January 2009 - iMsg
Scheduled: 12:00 CST, 3 January 2009 to 16:00 CST, 3 January 2009
Schedule: Passed

Once again LowLandLions decided to run a duel cup with the help of Belgium Yannick "LLL`impulse" Bovy. This time it will be a one-day event for 16 players on Quakelive rewarded with a Toughpower QFan 650W from Thermaltake. The cup will use a single elimination bracket with seeds.

Results:
1st - Poland bodzo
2nd - Sweden spart1e
3/4th - United Kingdom GaRpY / Sweden doj
Maplist: qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney2, qztourney4, qztourney6, qztourney7
Channel: #LLL.quakecup
Brackets: SE Brackets
Demos: Final

More informations on lowlandlions.com
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ClanBase NationsCup XII - Players Vote (17 comments)
( Major News: Q3)
Posted by _erazor_ @ 10:20 CST, 3 January 2009 - iMsg
The captain application stage is over since January the 1st, and now stage 2 of the ClanBase NationsCup XII is running: the players vote.

Looking at Quake 3, the most followed NationsCup will probably be the good old ClanBase NationsCup Q3 OSP CTF.


With ClanBase's new NationsCup system, the process of nations to get their teamcaptains has been split up into 3 stages: captain applications stage, players vote stage and final stage (captain announcement, team building).

We are in stage 2 now, meaning that anyone logged in to ClanBase can vote for the favourite captain of his nation. For some nations that's an easy thing because only 1 captain applied, but for other nations a lot of captains applied - so head over to the ClanBase NationsCup Q3 OSP CTF cupsite to vote for your favourite teamcaptain.


Go ahead to the ClanBase NationsCup Q3 OSP CTF to vote for your preferred teamcaptain. Voting is possible until January the 8th.
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Site summary for week ending 26 Dec (No comments)
( Major News: ESR)
Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 28 December 2008 - iMsg
meet the legend: Magnus "fox" Olsson (171 comments)
( Major News: Q3)
Posted by Bocerbo @ 16:11 CST, 28 December 2008 - iMsg
Magnus "fox" Olsson is a household name in the competitive Quake community and for that reason I chose to ask him the most extensive interview he has ever done, due to its size we had to split it up in five parts. Of those five, the first one (dealing with his personal life and his roots in Quake 3 TDM) has been released just now on the LowLandLions website.

To make it more interesting for all of you, we chose to link some interesting prizes to the interview series as well. Each week we release a new part as well as a new question about Magnus Olsson. Those that know him best (and subsequently did the best when answering those five questions) will be rewarded with one of the following prizes:
1. Radeon HD 4850 (RV770PRO)
2. GeIL Evo One DDR2 (4GB)
3. Sennheiser HD515 Headphones
The interview as well as the full details concerning the competition can be found on the aforementioned link.
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