Since people here seem to like mini Q3 vids, I thought I'd post this. My buddy at shaoprod, Mdoo made this little movie about his clan and the fun they have playing CTF pickups with a little bit of co-ordination over Teamspeak.

It isn't about frags. It isn't about mind blowing content. There's no first person footage at all. It sure made me lol though.

See if you like it.

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Winner of the 5th ownage video editing contest.
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Creator: mg78
Game: Unreal Tournament 2004
Type: Contest Video
Length: 4m10s
Size: 172 Megs
Resolution: 1024x436
Codec: x264

The latest version of MAXBrowse is now available for download. For those who haven't tried MAXBrowse before, it is a server browser created with the aim to be as easy to use, and without adding unnecessary baggage. This version adds support for some Q3 engine games - Q3, ET, and Warsow, as well as the latest D3-engine game, ETQW.

There are also some requested feature additions, such as minimise to systray, improved accuracy of pings. For full details, check the changelog.

Note that the TV filter now works for those games which support TV servers (ETQW, ET, Warsow, Q3 and Q4), but that for Q3 and Warsow the TV's don't report to the master server so you have to add the IPs in manually.

Download links available at www.q4max.com

Last night rakaka.se and readmore.de reported the purchase of the CPL by Sasha Tsapaev, a Belarussian investor. Later on, the CPL itself confirmed the news.

At the AFI Film Festival in Dallas, SK Gaming's Michal "Carmac" Blicharz has managed to interview Sasha Tsapaev about his views on gaming and his plans regarding "the new CPL." View the interview below:

This video was submitted for the 5th Official own-age.com Video Editing Contest.

Hi people, as far as I know, this is the first real UT3 frag movie with real frags and well known high skilled players! I have to say, we had different plans with Rypel for this contest, but we couldn't make them real, so I bring you at least this vid.

Information:
Author: wIz4
Length: 05:13
Filesize: 221 MB
Resolution: 1280x720
FPS: 30
Video codec: XviD & x264
Audio codec: Lame MP3 - 160 kB/s, CBR

Music tracks:
1. Konami - Metal Gear Solid 3 Theme song
2. ATB - No Fate

What?: A mini tribute to Q3 made over the weekend.

Who?: Some really good players.

Why?: Bored.

Exactly 3 minutes long as I don't have time to do a longer vid at the moment (Sorry for the filesize as well). I also don't have time to do multiple 2 pass encodes unfortunately.
Hope you like it.

XViD not x264

A competitive gaming documentary titled "Frag", described as an "underbelly of corruption, money, partying, drugs, and even death", will makes it's premier at the AFI International Film Festival in Dallas, Texas this weekend. The first world premier screening will be held on April 1st, with a second showing on April 3rd.

Filmed by Cohesion Productions and directed by Mike Pasley, the documentary started out to cover the CPL but snowballed into a larger eSports theme.

The synopsis on the film's official site is as follows:

"Frag is the true story of professional video gaming. Almost everyone in the world has played a video game, but some kids do it for a living.

Frag sheds light on the struggles that kids face while trying to break into and maintain success in pro gaming. At a young age, they are faced with making adult decisions that impact the rest of their lives. Below the surface of a simple game is an underbelly of corruption, money, partying, drugs, and even death.

Exploited, abused, and abandoned, most gamers fail to reach the top, but like all sports, there are heroes. Frag pulls the curtain back on the biggest sport industry in the world, one that you know nothing about."

The film's main characters include CPL founder Angel Munoz, the legendary Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, co-founder of Id Software John Romero, and last year's breakthrough dueler, Rafik "LoSt-CaUzE" Bryant.

Others making appearances include myself, Rod "Slasher" Breslau, SK-Gaming's Michal "Carmac" Blicharz, GotFrag's Trevor "Midway" Schmidt, GGL's Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham, MLG's Mike Sepso, Pro Gam3r's Jarod "Streetrunner" Reisin, and even KISS' Gene Simmons. A full list of participants along with other information can be found at this location.

Scheduled: 06:00 CDT, 19 June 2008 to 14:00 CDT, 22 June 2008
Schedule: Passed

There is a new tournament on the horizon named The ScrewAttack's Iron-Man of Gaming 2008. This tournament is different, in this tournament you have to be good in all games, in all genres, on all console platforms and in every time era.

This championship will start from 19 June to 22 June in Grapevine Convention Center, Dallas, Texas, USA! All with of-course a cash prize of 10.000 usd for the number one and a nifty Iron-Man of Gaming championship belt.

So what games are we to expect? 5 classic, 4 current and 1 mystery game. Most of the games haven't been announced yet, how ever the first three titles are:


The four current games to be played at Iron-Man '08 will be "Gamer's Choice". YOU will have the opportunity to have your voice heard in the selection process of these games by voting on which game you would like to compete on. Voting will take place for seven days with all poll results being hidden until the game is announced.

The registrations are open, for a tournament gamer it will cost you 25 USD to signup but for a volunteer or normal attendee, It's completely free to be there!

Interested? Or you want to know more? Check it out at Ironmanofgaming.com or watch the promo here.

After the success of Lippu and kicked & removed, the upcomming star ahxnxa produces the goods once again with "it's pekka".
Short and sweet with ahxnxa® humour, this movie is sure to show you what playing cpm is about!

super special thx to bgs who made the last song <3

hhheehehe :P

Creator: ahxnxa
Game: Quake 3 Arena
Type: Fragmovie
Length: 8:39
Size: 285MB
Resolution: 720x576
Codec: XviD

Press Release

Games-Services and E-SPORTS SERVICES announced today the kick-off of the Electronic Sports World Cup US Qualifiers, which will be played online from April 7th to June 5th, 2008.

The winners of the qualifying tournaments will represent the USA at the 6th edition of the ESWC Grand Final 2008 taking place in the Official Host City of San Jose, California from August 25th to 27th. The Grand Final will gather 800 champions from over 50 countries with the support of NVIDIA, the Main and Worldwide Partner.

Tournament spots are limited and registration begins March 24th for all game disciplines. Matches will be played starting April 7th. More than 1,200 top-level video game players will battle during two months on secured servers for a chance to win a spot on Team USA.


Qualifying teams and players will receive a travel allowance to participate at the ESWC Grand Final from August 24-27. The City of San Jose, an Official Partner of the global operations, will provide four days of accommodations for the US and International champions at the best downtown hotels.

For registration information and rules, please visit eswc-usa.com

Registrations Opening: March 24th
Registrations Closing: April 4th
First Games: April 7th
National Final Four: June 2nd – June 5th

Electronic Sports World Cup :: Sign-up List

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A great film, showcasing an amazing Dutch Quake 3 Arena Player Mike "RazorX" Jeurissen.

After a few weeks of work zeroql officially released frag movie of the 2nd sexyest qcg player, bringing out the best from his last 3 years of gaming.

The Video is captured at 50fps and contains frags, quadrun, flag captures from DUEL, TDM and CTF on OSP and CPMA vQ3.

Creator: zeroql
Game: Quake 3 Arena
Type: Frag Highlights
Length: 7m25s
Size: 270 Megs
Resolution: 800x600
Codec: x264

"I prefer to keep first person pov actions, because I don't like cams and other matrix bullshit, and its much better to keep the in-game feeling. I had some problems with rendering so I apologize for issues with video quality.

I hope you will have fun watching the video, thanks for downloading. :*** (hugs and kisses) :D

I would like to thank sch4 for support and suggestions, pulz and auri for assisting me, exp for movie cfg, Joe Williamsen for credits (hunter's dance) and Krz, doz3r, Legie, Hawr1x, OHO, niko for being there for me."

Scheduled: 05:30 CDT, 15 March 2008 to 15:00 CDT, 16 March 2008
Schedule: Passed

The Finals are now over for the play.com UT3 National Championship at PLAY.com Live at Wembley Stadium in London.

16 duel players and 8 iCTF teams managed to qualify through the group stages to the finals where they fought it out for the first place prize of £20,000 for duel which 4K^hypno won and £30,000 for iCTF won by Soulreapers/pure.gaming.

In a heart warming gesture killu and hypno agreed that winner took 15k and 5k went to 2nd place.

UPDATE ::
The demos of the Finals are now available for download:
devotii (both finals)
Duel Finals
iCTF Finals

• The following files are needed to watch the demo:

NoRedeemer
DuelRemoveV2
ABTv1_2
UTComp3v2

Duel

5v5 iCTF

Source: 4Kings
Galleries: 4Kings dignitas
IRC: #ut3.coverage
Stream: (organised by #ut3.coverage)

LowLandLions have posted an interview with toxjq

How do you look back at what Quake 4 contributed to e-Sports? Why do you think the game did not have the longevity in e-Sports compared to its predecessor, said predecessor being Quake 3?

I think it's because the gap between good and not so good players was too large, in Quake3 even a lower skilled player could think it was fun to play because the game is so slow and you hear around the map and even if you are a lot better than your opponent you don't have the same advantage, because the game is too slow and you can't surprise in Quake 3, it's just about hitting all the rails and taking the armours. In Quake 4, it's more important to have map control and movement, if you look the wrong way once, it might cost you the game, and I like it when there is perfection to a game, if you make 1 bad call it should cost you the game.

Read the full interview

Press Release

Effective immediately, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) will cease operations. Therefore, all CPL events currently scheduled for 2008 are hereby cancelled.

The CPL was launched in June 1997 with the pioneering mission of promoting and sanctioning video game competitions as a professional sport. For ten years the CPL events experienced increased growth - commencing with a small LAN event in Dallas, Texas, and culminating in world-class competitions across five continents.

However, the current fragmentation of the sport, a crowded field of competing leagues, and the current economic climate have prompted the CPL to suspend its pro-tournament operations. The CPL regrets that this news will disappoint those that were planning on attending the summer and winter events this year.

Many thanks to all of the sponsors and partners that helped CPL establish the groundwork for professional video game competitions. Their vision and pioneering spirit should always be remembered.

Note: The CPL intends to continue to pay the World Tour prizes.

Source: CPL