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Site summary for week ending 01 Aug (8 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 3 August 2008 - iMsg

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QuakeCon 2008 (419 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Nicky @ 02:36 CDT, 2 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

Scheduled: 11:00 CDT, 2 August 2008 to 00:00 CDT, 3 August 2008
Schedule: Passed

Matches are now over at QuakeCon. Results of the QUAKE LIVE 1v1 Championship and the QUAKE LIVE CTF Championship can be found below.

Demos are now available for the bracket matches HERE !!! ,the finals of 1v1 and CTF.

QuakeLive demo help:

Quakewars Demos

QUAKE Wars demo help:

Roger from QuakeUnity has begin to upload shoutcast videos
CTF rage_vs_inninitforthemoney (3 Maps)

QUAKE Wars final shoutcast video:

1v1 (complete)

Map List:

Players:

Prize Distribution:

Final Standing:

Results:

CTF (complete)

Map List:

Teams:

Prize Distribution:

Final Standing:

Results:

Galleries:
friday night until saturday
friday
thursday

SK Gaming QuakeCon Articles:

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QuakeCon so far (268 comments)

( Major News: ET:QW QL)

Posted by Badb0y @ 08:03 CDT, 1 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

Press conference from id Software & Keynote speech from John Carmack

Live Blog @ IGN
Summary @ Quake Unity
Key points @ SK Gaming

Shacknews: The highlights from press conference

id Details Rage Gameplay

Game Videos:
Wolfenstein extended trailer
Wolfenstein PCGames video Interview
Rage extended trailer

Articles
Carmack Video Interview' @ Gamevideos - John praises and bashes consoles
Which id Game Mosts Interests You? @ Voodoo Extreme - Poll with Rage, DOOM IV, Wolfenstein, Quake Live
id & EA Interview @ Gamasutra - they talk about their relationship on 5 pages
Quake Live Preview @ GameSpot
d Software's Tim Willits Talks Rage @ Gamespy

QuakeLive website with a redesign
Wiki description of QuakeCon

Some Coverage

EnemyTerritory.tv - Coverage of the ET:QW Tournaments, streaming video, event blogging
[ technical problems, they filming the matches from monitors, oh boy... ]

Picture gallery Wolfenstein booth babes @ Big Download

QuakeLive 1v1 Tournament

Top players in QuakeLive Tourney: Zero4, Carnage, Chance, Destrukt, Blt, Griffin, Cypher, Fiend, Cl0ck, Rapha, Vo0, Daler and Fox

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id Press Conference & Carmack Highlights (93 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by RogeR1 @ 23:02 CDT, 31 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

QuakeUnity.com has a write up on the id Software press conference and John Carmack keynote. A much smaller than usual crowd was on hand to listen to id Software's press conference followed by John Carmack's keynote here at QuakeCon 2008.

The main highlights of the press conference were the official DOOM4 announcement and the announcement of Wolfenstien RPG and Doom II RPG from id Mobile, the cell phone gaming division of the company. Very little new information was given about id's upcoming title Rage. Compared to last year's very exciting announcements of Quake Live and the Wolfenstein movie, this year was fairly uneventful.

I'll be working on getting the video up sometime tomorrow. Technical difficulties relating to being rushed to setup and not being able to properly test our equipment before are the reasons for the delay. :(

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ESWC 2008 Finals: Qualified players (126 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by xou @ 10:19 CDT, 31 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Here the list of the players who are already qualified/invited for the

ESWC 2008 Finals in

San Jose during the NVISION 08 event. For all we know, the Canadian Quake 3 qualifiers are still to be played (4-6th August).

From the National Qualifiers:

From the ESWC Masters Paris 2008:

World Defending Champion:

Sources: Official list -

esportsfrance.com

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Quake Live Debuts To Masses At QuakeCon (175 comments)

( Major News: Q3 QL)

Posted by Slasher @ 20:51 CDT, 30 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

QuakeUnity will be providing exclusive video coverage of QuakeCon 2008's tournaments, which will include the debut of public footage from id software's new project, Quake Live. Starting Thursday, July 31st, the QuakeUnity coverage team will be live on-site in Dallas, providing video-on-demand high definition video as well as live audio for the $12,500 Quake Live 1v1 and the $12,500 Quake Live 4v4 CTF tournaments. These tournaments will showcase the first public footage of id software's return to Quake. Footage will also be available of John Carmack's keynote as well as any other special presentations by id.

Former Radio iTG commentator

Stuart "Django" Ewen and Quake journalist

Rod "Slasher" Breslau will be broadcasting matches along with various special guests throughout the weekend. All videos will be produced on-site in 720p high definition and be made available for download and streaming via flash video very soon after they are shot. Multiple versions of each video will be available for download along with the option of choosing either a high quality h264 or a standard quality flash video stream.

Several of the best Quake 3 players in the world will be on-hand to play in the Quake Live tournaments and showcase their skills for the world. Legendary professional gaming multi-millionaire

Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel will be on hand to give his thoughts about the future of the Quake series. Currently the spokesman of the Championship Gaming Series, Wendel jump-started his gaming career and business franchise by winning Quake 3 tournaments nearly a decade ago. Wendel will be joined on-hand by his CPL World Tour rival Dutchman

Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager, American Quake 3 superstar

John "ZeRo4" Hill, and the ESWC Masters 2008 Q3 champion,

Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky.

Id Software's thoughts on Quake Live:

Id Software's John Carmack and Marty Stratton recently did a round of interviews with several major web publications about Quake Live and the future that the game holds.

Marty Stratton on Quake Live's userbase:

"When we started this, we were originally thinking it would be maybe a six-month project, to sort of wrap a website around Quake III, and get it out. And here we are almost a year later and it's just about to roll into a larger beta. On the other hand, when we first paced this thing out, there were really solid arguments that could be made that we would see 50,000 users, 500,000 users, or 5 million users. We really didn't know. There were at least two orders of magnitude of uncertainty as far as how many people would be interested in playing something like this. Some of that has at least been relieved now by the fact -- I was very happy to find over 100,000 people signed up for our beta with no promotion, no advertising, anything like that. Which in hindsight I suppose makes good sense, there are one to two thousand people usually playing Quake online when you sample, which means there's a community of many tens of thousands of active Quake III players still, nine years after the game was released."

John Carmack on the advertising that will support Quake Live's ability to be free:

"It's worth noting that I've never been a big supporter of in-game advertising in conventional games because I definitely do feel that if you're playing 50 to 60 bucks for a game, throwing advertising in on top of it is…there's a justifiable reason for some people to be upset about that. Quake Arena was always much more of a sporting arena combat sort of thing where integrating advertising directly into the game doesn't even feel like a tacky bolt-on. In fact what we've done with Quake Live is all of the original levels have been passed over and brought up to a modern level of polish where eight or nine years ago when Quake Arena would have been out, the state of the industry accepted a lot of things like mismatched texture seams and things that just weren't quite up to the level of attention to detail that we follow now. All the levels have had a pass through them bringing the attention to detail to modern standards without changing anything fundamentally in the graphics engine, just touching up all the data. They've also then been modified so that all the levels have billboard type things in them which are nicely integrated with spotlight lighting and so on in there where we can stream in-game ads as well as of course things that happen on the scoreboard and when you die and so on. It's a perfect fit for this type of thing because it's not a matter of taking some game we just happened to have around and throwing up ads that you can't skip in between every level or something like that, it fits well with the original tone of the game."

Marty Stratton on Quake Live's surprisingly graphical appeal:

"One nice thing, just to add to that, is that the game now basically runs automatically at whatever resolution your monitor is at. It just detects and does that automatically. Obviously it starts out in a web browser, you can play it at any point in a web browser interface with your friends list on one side, but just going full-screen, it automatically goes to the maximum your monitor will support. So if you've got a monitor that's over HD resolution, the game just looks ridiculous. It's amazingly crisp and sharp. Even compared to modern games, you lose a lot of the jagged edges, just because you can run at such a high resolution. Any system you've bought in the last three years, even at the highest resolution, is still going to run it at 120 frames per second

QuakeUnity will be conducting it's own lengthy interview with both John Carmack and Marty Stratton at QuakeCon. All things Quake Live will be discussed in addition to forthcoming titles Doom 4, Rage, Wolfenstein 2, and what's going on with the next Quake Arena game.

Sources:

ShackNews

1UP

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SK|rapha: ‘French food is bleh’ (283 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by nineX @ 13:43 CDT, 30 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Joe “nineX” Szymkowicz had a chance to sit down with

Shane “rapha” Hendrixson, of SK-Gaming, after his trip to the ESWC Masters Quake 3 competition. Exhausted from the combination of jet-lag and an intense field of competition, Rapha talked about his future in gaming and some topics swirling around the deathmatch community.

Excerpt From The Interview

Head on over to GGL-Wire for the complete interview and keep an eye out for more interviews from the ESWC players.

Quake 3 Map Statistics: October 2008 (38 comments)

( Major Article: Q3)

Posted by cYmoZz @ 13:24 CDT, 30 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

I made a little statistic how well the top players did on the different maps. I considered every player who attended at least two of the big Q3 events in 2008:

ESWC Masters Paris, GameGune,

ESWC Finals or

ESWC Masters Athen.

Top 5 on each map (min. 4 games on the specific map):

"player name" "number of wins" / "number of matches"

Top Players ZTN (170 times played)

Top Players HUB (101 times played)

Top Players DM6 (93 times played)

Top Players NODM9 (78 times played)

Top Players PT4 (59 times played)

ZTN is the only map which is not removed on a regular basis by all listed players.
Only a few players seem to feel comfortable on all maps.

Av3k

chance

Cooller

Cypher

czm

ddk

fox

griffin

Jibo

k1llsen

krysa

Link1n

Matr0x

noctis

rapha

Spart1e

Vo0

ZeRo4

Maps

There might be some errors, if you find one, please post it.

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ESWC Belgium: Results (39 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by xou @ 19:04 CDT, 29 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

With an exciting GameGune Q3 tournament this weekend, there wasn't much room for the coverage of the

ESWC 2008 Q3 Qualifiers. Here are the standings for the Quake 3 qualifiers:

1: LLL`impulse
2: sensa
3: DjHell
4: goX

As expected,

LLL`impulse managed to get his 3rd ticket for the ESWC Quake Finals.

Source: tek-9.org

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Quake4 WEEKEND Cup (71 comments)

( Major News: Q4)

Posted by mnemjc @ 15:50 CDT, 29 July 2008 - iMsg

Scheduled: 12:30 CDT, 16 August 2008 to 11:00 CDT, 17 August 2008
Schedule: Passed

I am very proud to announce my first

Quake4 1v1 Duel Cup. It will be played during the weekend (surprise, surprise). If you've signed up, please make sure you have the time to play. Drop outs are lame!

Please record demo's of every game you'll play, cause i want to create an well sorted demo archive of the whole Cup. Thanks!
You'll have to stay in #q4cup @ quakenet during the whole Cup.

Rules:
* Date: Saturday, 16.08.2008
* Time: 13:00 CDT (Check-in is at 12:30 CDT)
* Timelimit 15
* Best out of Three
* Single Elimination
* 3rd Map gets decided due to Elimination (Winner's first)

What do I need to take part?

You have to be registered at the Cupsite. You'll also need Quake4 1.4.2, Q4max 0.82 and an IRC client, as well as all the maps in the map pool.

Mappool: Monsoon, Placebo Effect, Torment, Phrantic (mp/q4cmp3), and Galang - PLEASE only use the newest Version !1.2!

At least, Have lots of fun! :)

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Challenges EU CPM 1v1 Open Cup (85 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by svr @ 18:39 CDT, 27 July 2008 - iMsg

We are proud to announce the CPM 1v1 Open Cup for July. We are planning on holding these once a month.

Information
Thursday July 31st at 12:30 CDT
CPMA 1.46
Challenge Promode (CPM) gameplay
Maplist: cpm1a, cpm3a, cpm15, cpm22 and cpm24
Best of three (bo3)
Single elimination
32 Players

Coverage will be provided by #DmRadio (video stream) and GTV will also be available.

Signing up and selection
To play in this cup you must register an account at www.promode.org/challenges/ and sign up.
The check-ins are in #play.cpm on QuakeNet at 12:00 CDT (that's 30 minutes before the cup starts).

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Site summary for week ending 25 Jul (1 comment)

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Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 27 July 2008 - iMsg

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GameGune 2008 - Coverage Hub (940 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Nukm @ 02:33 CDT, 24 July 2008 - iMsg

Between the 24th-27th of July Bilbao Exhibition Centre in Barakaldo will host another edition of the Spain's biggest LAN party GameGune with more than 4000 attendees. This year's LAN will feature two professional competitions for the games Quake III: Arena (CPMA vq3) and Counterstrike 1.6, which the total combined prizepot exceeding €25,000.

Everyone is invited to contribute to this News and help to keep it updated. Just post your information/links/whatever in the comments and it will be edited in.

Results

Final Standings

Playoffs

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group Standings

Information

Demos

Schedule

Groups

Player List

Tournament layout

Map Pool

€7000 Prize Money Distribution

Coverage Articles

Short interview with

noctis
ekgamers.com interview with

Akiles

SK-Gaming.com coverage (+ brackets)

ekgamers.com coverage - double brackets

d3porte.com coverage

arenazero.net coverage (+ brackets)

PGS-Gaming.pl coverage (+ brackets)

esports.pl coverage (+ brackets)
Plenty of GTV demos on derquaker

Broadcasting

IRC: #gamegune.q3 - Scorebots: #gamegune.q31 & #gamegune.q32

GTV:

217.76.183.74:27960 |

83.213.186.71:27970 |

gtv.takingbackesports.com:27970

What do I need for GTV?

Links
ESR Poll: Vote your top 3
Former ESR Threads: Gamegune needs 5 more players | GameGune 2008 with Quake 3 *UPDATED* | Community Invite Poll

Official Euskal website

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Jolt rustles up top prizes for gamers (23 comments)

( Major News: CoD)

Posted by bigfoot @ 18:22 CDT, 23 July 2008 - iMsg

Jolt Online Gaming has teamed up with Rustlers microwavable food to launch a series of online gaming tournaments set to feature the UK’s hottest and most tasty talent. And the competitors should be pretty good, too.

Two £1000 cash prize 5v5 knockout tournaments will be headlining the competition: one for Call of Duty 4 and one for Counter-Strike Source. Each member of the winning teams will also receive a Saitek gaming mouse and keyboard, Whirlpool Mini Microwave, LEC Mini Fridge and 6-months’ supply of Rustlers.

A further two Call of Duty 4 tournaments will cater to the individual gamer, with a £100 GAME voucher and 6-month supply of Rustlers going to the winners of both the free-for-all and 70 second (the time it takes to heat a Rustlers) limited-perk tournament.

The tournaments will be running throughout August, exclusively on Jolt’s high-speed, high powered gaming servers, with key matches to be made viewable online. Full details of all the tournaments, prizes, dates and rules can be found at gamesafe.jolt.co.uk - but please note this competition is open solely to players based in the UK.

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QuakeCon Coverage Plans: Live & VOD HD (59 comments)

( Major News: ET:QW Gaming QL)

Posted by RogeR1 @ 06:26 CDT, 23 July 2008 - iMsg

Event: QCON'08

Starting July 31st, the QuakeUnity.com coverage team will be live on-site in Dallas providing voideo-on-demand high definition video and live audio of selected QuakeLive and ETQW tournament matches along with videos of all the major events happening at QuakeCon.

Former Radio iTG commentator

Django will be casting the matches along with various guests including

Slasher. All videos will be produced on-site at QuakeCon in 720p high definition and be made available for download and streaming via flash video very soon after they are shot. To reach the widest audience, multiple versions of each video will be available for download along with the option of choosing either a high quality h264 or a standard quality flash video stream. You can check out a sample video page here. Suggestions, comments, and questions are welcome. More details will be announced as the event gets closer.

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