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SG Duel cup Invites and Dates (12 comments)
Posted by sev1_ @ 15:36 CST, 11 February 2010 - iMsg
Once again, we are pleased to announce the newest gaming league in Quake Live, Silent Gamers. Our first season will be mainly to establish our name as a league and to bring awareness of those who are deaf and hard of hearing. With this said, we'd like to state who the sixteen invited competitors are:

(in no particular order)

United States of AmericaDkt
Netherlandsvo0
United States of Americawalter
United States of Americadahang
United States of Americachance
United States of Americazero4
Canadatehnewbz
Canadasparks
Canadagellehsak
United States of Americakgb
United States of Americapl4uge
United States of Americakmrey
United States of Americavamp1re
United States of Americawhaz
United States of Americacarnage
United States of Americarapha


In addition, the time when this dueling tournament will take place has been set from February 20th to February 21st starting at 2pm EST. Without a doubt, the invited experienced duelers will mold our competition into a serious, entertaining event that will definitely help us achieve our goal as a league.

Reminder: Sign-ups will commence at 10 p.m. EST tonight! (9/2/2009)
For questions, comments, and concerns, contact SG|sev1 or SG|ack|dM in mIRC

Link: Silent Gamers mIRC#SilentGamers
Intel GameOn Finals (43 comments)
Posted by Rondrian @ 02:28 CST, 9 February 2010 - iMsg
After several weeks full with cups and exciting matches the Intel GameOn Finals will kick off. The winner earns a Alienware m17x notebook, a trip to Cebit, Hannover, Germany and 150€ pocket money. Cebit the winner can follow the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship. Within the next few days ten players from ten different countries will face off to find out who is the best. Also find out which players won which countries and won nice prizes.

Germany Austria Switzerland DACH Region
cup_gold Austria noctis (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition)
cup_silver Germany k1llsen (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_bronze Germany calipt (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)

France France
cup_gold France strenx (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition)
cup_silver France GoHLink (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_bronze France FooX (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)

United Arab Emirates Algeria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Egypt Middle East Region
cup_gold United Arab Emirates spammah (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_silver United Arab Emirates GunmaN (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)
cup_bronze Algeria YNH (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)

Sweden Iceland Norway Denmark Finland Nordic Region
cup_gold Sweden Fox (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition)
cup_silver Iceland linkoo (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_bronze Iceland qrebo (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)

Poland Poland
cup_gold Poland Av3k (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_silver Iceland linkoo (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)
cup_bronze Iceland qrebo (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)

Russia Belarus Ukraine Russian Region
cup_gold Belarus Cypher (Eee PC 1003HAG)
cup_silver Russia Cooller (IEee PC 1003HAG)
cup_bronze Ukraine stalker (Eee PC 1003HAG)

Spain Spain
cup_gold Spain AllteR (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_silver Spain geo (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_bronze Spain p0ni (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)

Turkey Turkey
cup_gold Turkey dunpeal (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_silver Turkey Raistlin (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor)
cup_bronze Turkey enginator (Intel® Core™ i5 Processor)

United Kingdom United Kingdom
cup_gold United Kingdom GaRpY (IDell XPS 730X with Intel® Core™i7 Processor Extreme Edition)
cup_silver United Kingdom pulseh (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition)
cup_bronze United Kingdom zsx (Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition)
Group A

United Kingdom GaRpY
Turkey dunpeal
Poland Av3k
Sweden Fox
Italy stermy

Group B

Belarus Cypher
Austria noctis
France strenx
Spain AllteR
United Arab Emirates spammah

The group stage will be played best of three and the top two of each group will advance to single elimination playoffs, which will be best of five.

Links: Schedule & Results - GameOn Cup Site
QuakeNight QLive 2v2 Season 2 Invites (20 comments)
Posted by xfoo @ 21:19 CST, 8 February 2010 - iMsg
Once again, we asked the NA QuakeLive community if they wanted a TDM 2v2 Season 2, and the response was solid. I want to thank all the teams who signed up. As stated previously, we are trying something a little different for Season 2. For obvious reasons, we are using two separate competition levels: Pro and a Pro-2B.


The teams invited are those who have demonstrated to date a high commitment level to "show up and play." Mix in a sprinkle of skill and a hint of talent and what we have is a great line up of teams.

We will continue to post news and information as needed before and during the start of Season 2. So, without further adieu, the team invites are (in random order):

Pro:

Q2 - Dahang, Scooby
cOK - ClampOK, Gillz
Blight Gaming - bLT, sparks
DaFoneMen - kgb, pyro, flysher
IAM* - Blatrix, SemaJWD
K9 - Exodus, Surp, Meta
Paramedics - w0nk0, Mesta
ddr - cfebns, Artanis_

Pro-2B:

Martyrs - theinr1ch, mack_, wormed
FITH - chief_, xanthar, specie
Darkside - Syn, reflux
Defiance - d1sh, RamXlr8
NOTE - higgs, davjs
x_o - Adrenal1ne, nirv
mainLine Gaming - Valiantly, weejaishere, Tilter
LMF - klaovhwN, Frenzy49

* Matches will begin Monday night starting 7-10 pm CST - on 02.22.10.
* At least 1 match from each level will be casted every Monday by QL.TV or GameFire.
* Private servers will be made available for competing teams to scrim/practice and play their matches.
* Any questions are to be directed to the head admin sirdark at mIRC irc.gamesurge.net #quakenight.

Head to quakenight.com to view the Week 1 matches. Good luck to all teams and as always, play, record demos, ggs, and have fun.
IEM Asian Championship VODs & babes (34 comments)
Posted by Carmac @ 21:03 CST, 8 February 2010 - iMsg
The Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship is over and all that's left of it are Jibo's face is all over the Quake Live website, VODs of the matches and videos.

Three galleries from the event can be found right here. Moreover, This news item has got all the VODs rounded up. The most interesting matches are directly linked here:

Sweden proZaC vs. Japan uNleashed
China Jibo vs. Japan uNleashed
Sweden proZaC vs. China Jibo

We have interviewed Sweden proZaC and Japan uNleashed at the event - those can be found right here. Most importantly, we have shot a booth babe video with Sweden the p1mp - you won't regret watching:



photo: ESL
Silent Gamers QL Duel Cup (57 comments)
Posted by sev1_ @ 17:05 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg
We would like to announce the newest addition to Quake Live gaming leagues, Silent Gamers. Silent Gamers is a tournament that not only satisfies the gaming needs of the Quake Live deaf and hard of hearing community, but also Quake Live in general. Currently, we are hosting a 32 man QL dueling tournament where 16 of the competitors will be invited and the other 16 competitors will be randomly chosen. In addition, we are offering a cash prize of $200 to the first place winner of our competition. The tournament will be organized in the following manner:

*It will be double elimination
*All duels leading up to the final will be a series of three games, best two out of three
*The way to choose maps is TBA
*The final will be a series of five games, best three out of five
*The competition will be played over the time frame of two days.

For those that have not heard of us and want to support us,
we can be found on mIRC #SilentGamers @ gamesurge.net. We appreciate all your support!
Site summary for week ending 05 Feb (No comments)
Posted by ESReality @ 17:00 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg
Highest rated demos:
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cooller -vs- cypher (7.2 rating)
noctis -vs- k1llsen (-1 rating)
Finland -vs- Slovakia (-1 rating)
Most downloaded demos:
Sweden -vs- Ukraine (422 downloads)
Iceland -vs- Russia (213 downloads)
cooller -vs- cypher (212 downloads)
noctis -vs- k1llsen (167 downloads)
Finland -vs- Slovakia (32 downloads)
Most read threads:
IEM World Championships (8031 hits)
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ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #19 coming up! (1 comment)
Posted by shorrty @ 12:18 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 14 February 2010 to 12:00 CST, 14 February 2010
Begins In:

The 19th edition of the weekly ZOTAC QL Duel Cup is set up for your registration, it will be played on 07:00 CST, 14 February 2010.

Once again the cup format will consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.

Mode: Duel
Date: every Sunday
Time: check in 06:00 CST, start 07:00 CST
Prize: 100€ for 1st place
Mappool: dm6, ztn, dm13, t7, t9

Links: Tourney page - mIRC #zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame
QuakeLive TDM NationsCup 2010 - Update (47 comments)
Posted by blaze @ 10:48 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg
The third playweek follows with todays matches, that should be all interesting. At 21:00 United Kingdom United Kingdom will clash Slovenia Slovenia, Netherlands Netherlands vs Ukraine Ukraine after that and at 22:00 Czech RepublicCzech Republic vs Spain Spain and United Kingdom United Kingdom vs Iceland Iceland.
One of the most interesting fights for tonight is United Kingdom vs Iceland, with the winner becoming leader of group B



07.02.2010 @ 21:00: United Kingdom United Kingdom - Slovenia Slovenia
07.02.2010 @ 21:00: Netherlands Netherlands - Ukraine Ukraine
07.02.2010 @ 22:00: United Kingdom United Kingdom - Iceland Iceland
07.02.2010 @ 22:00: Czech Republic Czech Republic - Spain Spain
08.02.2010 @ 22:00: Italy Italy - Spain Spain
TBA: Poland Poland - Hungary Hungary


Netherlands Netherlands 2:0 Slovakia Slovakia - report
France France - Germany Germany - report
Sweden Sweden - Ukraine Ukraine - report
Russia Russia - Iceland Iceland - report


More info: QQC - Twitter - mIRC #quakequickcup
Lo3 #40 CSPromod w/ Alex Garfield (27 comments)
Posted by Slasher @ 10:47 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg
The VOD has now been posted online - http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4545061

After one week of public release for CSProMod, including reactions from pro-players in both the 1.6 community and Source community, as well as the media's differing opinions, Head of Development United States of America Alex Garfield will be a guest on Live On three this Sunday at 4 PM EST/22:00 CET. We will be talking about how the release has gone thus far and if things have gone as expected, better, or worse, his reactions to the player and media statements, more information and hopefully a general release date for 1.05, and what the plan is for CSProMod for the future of the Counter-Strike community.

Former SK Gaming Editor-in-Chief and current Replays.net editor United Kingdom Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips has written an article detailing the death of Warcraft 3 in Europe, Korean players growing dislike for European organizations, and the move into Starcraft II in the near future. Malystryx will be coming on the show to talk more about his thoughts , and the possible imminent death of Warcraft 3.

Tune into Live On Three this Sunday at 15:00 CST on djWHEAT.tv


Other news topics to be discussed include:

- ESL's Intel Extreme Masters Asia Championships wind down, with the Chinese legend China Fan "Jibo" Zhibo winning, and Swedish pimp Sweden Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani also qualifying for the Quake Live Global Finals, while CS 1.6 and WoW continue
- SK Editor-in-Chief Duncan "Thorin" Shields has written an article "In search of the greatest team of all time", taking a look back at four possible contendors to greatest team of all time: SK.swe (2003-2004), mTw.dk (2008-2009), fnatic (2008-2009), and AGAiN (2006-2009)
- A man by the name of Arbalet keeps pumping money into the Counter-Strike 1.6 scene; Announcing a $10,000 Cup in February, A $32,000 Cup for press only, and launches 'World Electronic Sports', an online league, starting with $3,500.
- Major League Gaming announces details of their first Combine event, which will be amateurs only; AOL Games President Ralph Rivera leaves AOL to be MLG's new President
- GGL gets bought by PrismOne, wants to be the "Facebook of gamers"
- The TeamLiquid StarLeague heads into the Round of 16 with action continuing to heat up
- Marvel vs Capcom 2 gets added to Evolution 2010, sells $4.2 Million on Xbox Live Arcade
ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #18 is over! (49 comments)
Posted by shorrty @ 03:45 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 7 February 2010 to 12:00 CST, 3 March 2010
Ends In:

The 18th edition of the weekly ZOTAC QL Duel Cup is set up for your registration, it will be played on 07:00 CST, 7 February 2010.

Once again the cup format will consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.

Mode: Duel
Date: every Sunday
Time: check in 06:00 CST, start 07:00 CST
Prize: 100€ for 1st place
Mappool: dm6, ztn, dm13, t7, t9

Update: ZOTAC #18 is running with players like Belarus srs\Cypher, Poland srs\Av3k, Ukraine Drz. uaReaper, Poland BVG|tox1c, United Kingdom 4K*pulseh, Austria SIRUS and many more.

Final standings:
1. Poland srs\Av3k - 100€
2. Belarus srs\Cypher
3./4. Russia agentJkezooR / Russia evil_
Links: Tourney page - Tourney Brackets - mIRC #zotac.qlive - Hall of Fame
IEM QL4 Asian Ch. Finals (410 comments)
Posted by Rondrian @ 03:38 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 20:30 CST, 4 February 2010 to 22:30 CST, 6 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The Intel Extreme Masters Season 4 will see it's Asian Championship Finals played at the 2010 Taipei Game Show in Taipei, Taiwan. The Quake Live tournament will start at 20:30 CST, 4 February 2010 with first group matches. The first day of group matches will be broadcasted by Quake Live.tv, from day two on the games will be casted on ESL TV with United Kingdom 2GD and United Kingdom Joe.

Group A:

- China Zhibo 'Jibo' Fan
- United Kingdom Joe 'fenda' Fender
- Korea (Republic of) Lee 'Gosia' Byungwook
- Japan Utaro 'Utal1ty' Ohno

Group B:

- Sweden Cyrus 'proZaC' Malekani
- Taiwan Sung-Lin 'Mustaine' Tsai
- Malaysia Kong-Chian 'n1troN' Lian
- Japan Naonobu 'uNleashed' Tahara
Friday:

Round 1 (Start: 20:30 CST, 4 February 2010):
- Japan Fenda [2:0] Japan Utal1ty
- Taiwan Mustaine [0:2] Japan uNleashed

Saturday:

Round 1 (Start: 20:30 CST, 5 February 2010):
- Sweden proZaC [2:0] Malaysia n1troN

Round 2:
- China Jibo [2:0] Japan Fenda
- Sweden proZaC [2:0] Japan uNleashed
- Taiwan Mustaine [2:1] Malaysia n1troN

Round 3:
- China Jibo [2:0] Japan Utal1ty
- Taiwan Mustaine [0:2] Sweden proZaC
- Malaysia n1tron [0:2] Japan uNleashed
Schedule

02:00 CST, 6 February 2010 - Semi Final 1: China Jibo [3:0] Japan uNleashed
20:30 CST, 6 February 2010 - Semi Final 2: Sweden proZaC [3:0] Japan Fenda
21:30 CST, 6 February 2010 - Game for 3rd Place: Japan Fenda [0:3] Japan uNleashed
21:30 CST, 6 February 2010 - Final: China Jibo [3:0] Sweden proZaC
ql Quakelive - $4,000 / 8 players
cs Counter-Strike 1.6 - $25,000 / 8 teams
WoW World of Warcraft - $20,000 / 8 teams
cup_gold 1. China Jibo - $1.750 and a slot on the World Championships
cup_silver 2. Sweden proZaC - $800 and a slot on the World Championships
cup_bronze 3. Japan uNleashed - $550
4. United Kingdom Fenda - $300

Streaming: ESL TV Free (Alternative host) - ESL TV Premium - Quake-Live.tv
Coverage: ESL, Germany Fragster.de (with live scores: groups, playoffs)
Links: Group stage, Brackets, mIRC #masters.live
Galleries / Videos: ESL pics, IEM on YouTube, Fragster: Friday gallery, Saturday gallery, Return of the p1mp
Interviews: proZaC: "There can only be one true p1mp"
Quake America Duel Cup #2 Results! (10 comments)
Posted by Amp @ 01:59 CST, 7 February 2010 - iMsg
After a night filled with great frags, amazing comebacks, coverage provided by QuakeLive.tv, and what could very well be the setting of an amazing new precedent, the final results for the Quake America Duel Cup #2 are in:

cup_gold Walter Outlaw
cup_silver Eddie T. "km Rey" J.
cup_bronze Alex "km Karabas" Kravchenko
Contratulations to all our champions tonight, and look forward to Cup #3 happening soon.

Links: Quake America, Tournament Rules - mIRC #quakeamerica
G Data QL Cup #12 comming up! (4 comments)
Posted by shorrty @ 11:26 CST, 6 February 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 13 February 2010 to 11:00 CST, 13 February 2010
Begins In:

Once again the cup format will consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.

Mode: Duel
Date: every Saturday
Time: check in 06:00 CST, start 07:00 CST
Prize: 100€ for 1st place
Mappool: dm6, ztn, dm13, t7, t9

Links: Tournament page - Hall of Fame - mIRC #gdata.qlive
G Data QL Cup #11 is over! (16 comments)
Posted by vash_ @ 07:30 CST, 6 February 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:00 CST, 6 February 2010 to 11:20 CST, 6 February 2010
Schedule: Passed

The next edition of the G Data QL Cup is played at the moment 07:00 CST, 6 February 2010.

Once again the cup format will consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize consists of 100€ for the first place as well as AGP ranking points for the top8 players.

Mode: Duel
Date: every Saturday
Time: check in 06:00 CST, start 07:00 CST
Prize: 100€ for 1st place
Mappool: dm6, ztn, dm13, t7, t9

Update: The Cup is running with players like Belarus srs\cypher, Germany k1llsen, Ukraine uaReaper, United Kingdom dignitas\GarpY and many more.

Final standings:
1. Belarus srs\Cypher - 100€
2. Lithuania BVG|Guard
3./4. United Kingdom dignitas\GaRpY / Germany k1llsen
Links: Tournament page - Tourney Bracket - Hall of Fame - mIRC #gdata.qlive
Tek9: AMD movie contest entries overview (33 comments)
Posted by Hell5pawn @ 18:59 CST, 5 February 2010 - iMsg
Finally, all video from the Tek9 AMD movie contest have been released. Among over 9000 CS and COD movies there are four quake movies.

Q3 Quake III Arena:
OMG by Russia DisSidenT

ql QuakeLive:
seventeen by Poland Hell5pawn
Aftershock by Poland Kripp
Crash & Doom 2 by Sweden warchild

Visit tek-9.org for a full movie list and support the Quake videos by rating them.
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