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Quake Quick Cup #13 (13 comments)
Posted by SyXz @ 13:57 CDT, 15 May 2008 - iMsg
Successful online tourney Quake Quick Cup organised by Czech Republic Legie and Czech Republic eJo is back. Instead of classic 1v1, 13th edition will feature 2v2 tourney for 32 teams.

Registration is opened from yesterday and ends on Sunday, 18.5.2008.

The registration process has changed, you can now sign in directly at the web page instead of irc or emails. To add a team, log in and create your team "by clicking here". The player who creates the team becomes a captain. If you want to join an existing team, you must send a request, which can be confirmed only by the team captain. You can also leave and join teams during the registration.

Tourney starts next week, on Tuesday, 20.5.2008 at 19:00 CET.

More information about rules, maps and signed players can be found at official site quakequickcup.com.
Site summary for week ending 09 May (9 comments)
Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 11 May 2008 - iMsg
Highest rated demos:
zik -vs- GUArd (8.5 rating)
PlaymateZ -vs- qah (8.5 rating)
Sweden -vs- United Kingdom (8.5 rating)
[PGS]zik -vs- dvo/draven (8.2 rating)
dkt -vs- pyro (8.2 rating)
Most downloaded demos:
walter -vs- ZeRo4 (378 downloads)
Sweden -vs- United Kingdom (352 downloads)
zik -vs- GUArd (277 downloads)
dkt -vs- pyro (272 downloads)
[PGS]zik -vs- dvo/draven (166 downloads)
Most read threads:
id Software announces Doom 4 (10506 hits)
ESWC Masters attendees (6554 hits)
ZeRo4 and rapha joins SK Gaming (5381 hits)
walter -vs- ZeRo4 (3643 hits)
ESWC USA Qualifiers Underway (3203 hits)
Most commented threads:
id Software announces Doom 4 (350 comments) by mahmoodsdotjpg
ESWC Masters attendees (241 comments) by SyXz
walter -vs- ZeRo4 (199 comments) by walter
ZeRo4 and rapha joins SK Gaming (177 comments) by SyXz
I fucked up. (166 comments) by walter

Most Popular Users:
Liam (98% popular)
ix (91% popular)
walter (87% popular)
mefaJpe^ (87% popular)
Aaron (86% popular)
Most Popular Threads:
id Software announces Doom 4 (47% popular) by mahmoodsdotjpg
E-Sports Professional Gaming (20% popular) by THaSHagSTa
ESWC Masters attendees (14% popular) by SyXz
ZeRo4 and rapha joins SK Gaming (14% popular) by SyXz
McDonald's from hell. (14% popular) by Jamerio
Most Popular Comments:
Re: id Software announces Doom 4 (73% popular) by hemosaek
Re: DOOM 4 (47% popular) by SyncError
Re: ESWC Masters attendees (43% popular) by RocketBoy
Re: ESWC USA Qualifiers Underway (32% popular) by mohawkmike
Re: id Software announces Doom 4 (31% popular) by Larvi
Popularity Climbers:
Liam (55 +'s)
hemosaek (45 +'s)
ix (34 +'s)
SyncError (29 +'s)
mahmoodsdotjpg (27 +'s)

Betting leader:
exp! (E$111,705)
dmnk (E$79,555)
noctis (E$73,530)
Xsi (E$68,492)
magnum_ (E$35,777)
Highest Climbers:
erok (E$10,131 won this week)
Nodis (E$9,922 won this week)
zeroql (E$865 won this week)
2slow2show (E$458 won this week)
Saharak (E$430 won this week)
Biggest single bets:
E$10,131 won by erok (zik - vs - Guard)
E$9,922 won by Nodis (zik - vs - Guard)
E$9,782 won by Xsi (zik - vs - draven)
E$9,440 won by dmnk (Question - vs - forever)
E$7,360 won by dmnk (zik - vs - draven)
Most lost:
E$5,000 lost by AHXNXA
E$5,000 lost by exp!
E$5,000 lost by Weird
E$5,000 lost by noctis
E$3,000 lost by Nukm

06 May: E-Sports Professional Gaming by THaSHagSTa

ESWC Poland: Matr0x wins (82 comments)
Posted by mefaJpe^ @ 05:50 CDT, 11 May 2008 - iMsg
The eswc ESWC National Finals for Poland Poland takes place this weekend, Saturday 10th through Sunday 11th May. The event is held in Poznan city, at the Miedzynarodowe Targi Poznanskie, Poland.

Eight Q3 Quake 3 players (from which 3 were directly invited) fight for two spots for the Grand Finals in the United States of America USA and stuff prizes sponsored by MSI. Double Elimination and Best-of-three system is being used.


Poland matr0x
Poland zik
Poland v3rbalizah!
Poland wEst (didn't show up)
Poland rutt
Poland avenger
Poland tox1c
Poland aniolek

Note: Poland prox, one of the favorites to win the whole event couldn't go due to high-school exams.
Note#2: Trip expenses are fully covered by ESWC staff only for the first place


-pro-q3dm6
-hub3aeroq3
-pro-q3tourney4
-ztn3tourney1
-pro-nodm9


-= UPPER BRACKET =-

WB Round 1

Poland tox1c [ 2:0 ] wEst Poland (w/o)

Poland zik [ 2:1 ] avenger Poland

Poland matr0x [ 2:0 ] aniolek Poland

Poland v3rbalizah [ 2:0 ] rutt Poland

WB Round 2

Poland zik [ 2:0 ] tox1c Poland

Poland matr0x [ 2:1 ] v3rbalizah! Poland

WB Final Round

Poland matr0x [ 0:2 ] zik Poland
-proq3dm6 [ 8:24 ]
-pro-nodm9 [ 12:13 ]


-= LOWER BRACKET =-

LB Round 1

Poland avenger [ 2:0 ] wEst Poland (w/o)

Poland aniolek [ 2:1 ] rutt Poland

LB Round 2

Poland avenger [ 0:2 ] v3rbalizah! Poland

Poland aniolek [ 2:1 ] tox1c Poland

LB Round 3

Poland v3rbalizah! [ 2:0 ] aniolek Poland

LB Final Round

Poland matr0x [ 2:0 ] v3rbalizah! Poland

-GTV: 193.23.51.4:27020
-Brackets


Grand Final (bo5)

Poland zik [ 2:3 ] matr0x Poland
-1:0 coming from the winners bracket
-pro-nodm9: 1:14
-pro-q3dm6: 6:5
-ztn3tourney1 7:16
-hub3aeroq3: 22:30
PICKUPOPATHE 4 by crv (70 comments)
Posted by Mdoo @ 06:56 CDT, 9 May 2008 - iMsg



0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Rating: 6.4 (68 votes)
Movie made by crv, with Mdoo's help for 50 fps. All frags are pickup, maybe not, music are Foofighters and Trivium:
- 10min40
- Xvid
- X264 MQ & HQ
Thanks to Mdoo, L1nkin and Kirua.
Enjoy
ESWC USA Qualifiers Underway (133 comments)
Posted by Torbull @ 14:08 CDT, 8 May 2008 - iMsg
This year's eswc ESWC USA Qualifier got off to an exciting start! Quake III Arena is back with both old & new school players competing to represent the United States of America U.S.
The ESWC 2008 Grand Finals will be held in San Jose, California, from August 25-27, 2008.

ESWC USA QUAKE 3 2008
Location: National Final, Internet
Dates : April 21 - May 29, 2008
Size : 23 Players

To qualify, participants must make it through the initial single-elimination bracket. The Top 4 remaining players will compete in a double-elimination bracket.

Recent Q3 Q3A Results from the Single-Elimination Bracket:

DKT > pyro (53-15)
PLague > guts (48-17)
Allmental > Bio (45-34)

The next round of the single elimination bracket is TONIGHT (9PM EST). . .
Visit eswc-usa.com for updates on Q3A and all of the other qualifiers for ESWC this year!
Quake4ever Registration Open! (71 comments)
Posted by Dronar @ 06:10 CDT, 8 May 2008 - iMsg
It's official! Quake4ever returns with the brother Quake 2 for the Dreamhack tournament.
The mails we've gotten has almost forced us to run all of these three tournaments.


qwcz QuakeWorld
Open Tournament
Slots: 32
Layout: 8x4 Groups -> Single Elimination
Prizes: 15.000 SEK cash + 10.000 SEK worth of products

q2cz Quake 2
Open Tournament
Slots: 16
Layout: 4x4 Groups -> Single Elimination
Prizes: 15.000 SEK cash + 10.000 SEK worth of products

q3cz Quake III Arena (ESWC)
Only Swedish Players
Slots: 16
Layout: 4x4 Groups -> Single Elimination
Prizes: 1:st and 2:nd place get a spot in the ESWC Finals in San José, USA.


Mail the following information to quake4ever <at> dreamhack <dot> se

- Game
- Given Name
- Nickname (Alias)
- Surname
- City
- Country
- E-Mail
- Phone number (Cellular)
- Birth date

Note: The number of slots have been decided from the number of interest reports. There's still a small chance of change if the numbers of signups radically change.
If you have any questions, please contact one of the admins in #DreamHack.Quake
id Software announces Doom 4 (363 comments)
Posted by mahmoodsdotjpg @ 12:56 CDT, 7 May 2008 - iMsg
United States of America id Software has just announced Doom 4, in time for a potential debut at QuakeCon, July 31.

“Doom is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth,” said id CEO United States of America Todd Hollenshead.

Platform details are scant, but id's new engine (which is also being used for the post-apocalyptic Rage) runs at 60hz on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

This brings the list of non-mobile titles being created by id to three (Doom 4, Quake LIVE, and Rage--four if you count Quake 5). While Doom 3 wasn't exactly well-received by the ESR community, it did have a few multiplayer tournaments and (depending on who you ask) engaging single-player portion.

Source: Shacknews

id Software also shipped GGL Wire this exclusive screenshot:



ESWC Masters attendees (248 comments)
Posted by SyXz @ 09:24 CDT, 6 May 2008 - iMsg
The eswc ESWC organisation committee revealed today the prelist of candidate players for Q3 Quake 3 tournament of ESWC Masters of Paris.

The ESWC Masters of Paris will gather French champions and selected international champions in thrilling showcased tournaments that will reward their winners with prize money of US $65,000 and autoberths for the ESWC Grand Final 2008 of San Jose, USA. The event will take place from 4 to 6 of July 2008 in Paris Bercy, France.

International candidate applications will open until May 13th at eswc.com/masters/paris2008 (date has been updated).


Austria noctis
Canada griffin
Canada wild
Canada 4 Glory
China RazerJ
China RocketBoy
Germany k1llsen
Spain Sl1p
Spain SombrA
Spain AllteR
Singapore Doppp
Korea (Republic of) DONGJ1N
Korea (Republic of) MaveN|Shiva
Netherlands if-22
Netherlands Lan-Di
Netherlands draven
Netherlands dvotiongeo
Poland av3k
Sweden proZaC
Sweden fox
United Kingdom [R]dozo
United Kingdom Dignitas-HELL
United Kingdom ddk
United States of America chance
United States of America cha0ticz
United States of America SK.ZeRo4
United States of America SK.rapha


The ESWC Organizing Committee has decided to remove the value restriction on three game settings in Quake 3 Regulation.

The ESWC Organizing Committee has decided to remove three restrictions regarding the client settings.
The following commands are now not enforced with a default value anymore: cg_xerclients, cg_laghax, cg_nudge (except in LAN for this last one).

These changes have been decided to come closer to the desired LAN gameplay particularly for online play. No specific values have been forced because of the inability to technically or humanly proceed to a reliable enforcement. However, by not enforcing any value, we leave the flexibility to the players to choose the most appropriate values for the desired LAN gameplay.

The game settings value are now as followed:

- Cl_maxpackets must be set at 125 (only on LAN)
- Rate must be set at 25000 (only on LAN)
- Snaps must be set at 30 (only on LAN)
- R_lodcurveerror must remain at 250
- Cl_timenudge must remain at 0 (only on LAN)
- Cg_nudge must remain at 0 (only on LAN)
- Cg_optimiseBW must remain at 0
- Ch_thirdperson must remain at default
- Handicap must remain at 100
- Pmoved_fixed must remain at default (0)
- R_picmip equal or inferior to 5

Source: ESWC Regulations
xerpclients "1" is allowed.

The Final list will be published on May 20th, 2008 as registrations are still open.
ZeRo4 and rapha joins SK Gaming (199 comments)
Posted by SyXz @ 07:21 CDT, 6 May 2008 - iMsg
Famous German based multigaming organisation Germany SK Gaming announced today their return to the Quake 3 scene.

Their ranks joins one of the most accomplished Quake 3 player of all time, American United States of America John "ZeRo4" Hill and one of the most promising new school players United States of America Shane "rapha" Hendrixson.

"I feel proud to see one of the first World Cyber Games champions to become a part of the SK Gaming legacy," says SK Gaming Managing Director, Germany Alexander "TheSlaSH" Mueller. "ZeRo4 is a player with the potential to influence how a game is played for years to come and one of the most accomplished in Quake 3's history.

We believe in nurturing talent, which is why we also set our sights on a rough diamond like rapha. I think that a Quake 3 legend like ZeRo4 could help rapha realise his full potential as a player."

Both players will attend as many Quake 3 events as they can in 2008, hopefully starting with the ESWC Masters of Paris.
Site summary for week ending 02 May (6 comments)
Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 4 May 2008 - iMsg
Highest rated demos:
mmori.guard -vs- Kirua (8.7 rating)
xlo^Spart1e -vs- LaMz|k1llmas (8.5 rating)
Finland -vs- Sweden (7.5 rating)
Nike -vs- Frozen (6.5 rating)
Nike -vs- Frozen (6.3 rating)
Most downloaded demos:
ArKtiK -vs- pyro (452 downloads)
xlo^Spart1e -vs- LaMz|k1llmas (435 downloads)
fnatic.Cypher -vs- stalker (331 downloads)
xlo^Spart1e -vs- serious/Av3k (290 downloads)
mmori.guard -vs- Kirua (259 downloads)
Most read threads:
CPMA 1.46 and CNQ3 1.42 released (6655 hits)
xlo^Spart1e -vs- LaMz|k1llmas (3230 hits)
Interview with djWHEAT: Quake and Beyond (3066 hits)
ArKtiK -vs- pyro (2539 hits)
Free TF2 play on Weekend (2075 hits)
Most commented threads:
CPMA 1.46 and CNQ3 1.42 released (187 comments) by ix
Interview with djWHEAT: Quake and Beyond (150 comments) by deotrip
osp/vq3 differences (102 comments) by wreckk
agardenchair's enigma adventure (85 comments) by agardenchair
xlo^Spart1e -vs- LaMz|k1llmas (85 comments) by SyXz

Most Popular Users:
Liam (96% popular)
ix (87% popular)
[mash] (81% popular)
mefaJpe^ (81% popular)
arQon (77% popular)
Most Popular Threads:
CPMA 1.46 and CNQ3 1.42 released (46% popular) by ix
European Duel League - Predictions (29% popular) by Nukm
ezQuake 1.9 Stable Released! (15% popular) by Drugs-Bunny
Interview with djWHEAT: Quake and Beyond (12% popular) by deotrip
phrantic for vq3 (9% popular) by extone
Most Popular Comments:
Re: xlo^Spart1e -vs- LaMz|k1llmas (38% popular) by ini
Re: GTA IV stabbing (36% popular) by sock
Re: GTA IV stabbing (35% popular) by becks
Re: phrantic for vq3 (30% popular) by Swelt
Re: RTCW-Cup 6on6 results (25% popular) by saboya
Popularity Climbers:
Liam (36 +'s)
ix (32 +'s)
walter (23 +'s)
Aquashark (19 +'s)
Nukm (17 +'s)

Betting leader:
exp! (E$108,251)
noctis (E$67,263)
Xsi (E$56,726)
dmnk (E$56,561)
Lo (E$34,471)
Biggest single bets:
E$14,198 won by _agu (Spart1e - vs - k1llmaster)
E$13,696 won by Nodis (av3k - vs - Spart1e)
E$11,660 won by noctis (Spart1e - vs - k1llmaster)
E$11,254 won by Weird (av3k - vs - Spart1e)
E$10,611 won by exp! (av3k - vs - Spart1e)
Most lost:
E$14,711 lost by AHXNXA
E$10,000 lost by Cybo
E$10,000 lost by Nodis
E$10,000 lost by erok
E$6,729 lost by rockz

29 Apr: European Duel League - Predictions by Nukm

PC Gamer Showdown set for September (36 comments)
Posted by Boffbowsh @ 04:57 CDT, 2 May 2008 - iMsg
pcg PC Gamer have announced that their Showdown LAN Party is all systems go for September 2008 at Stoneleigh Park.

500 Gamers will be able to come along to the BYOC side of the event, which is being run by mpuk Multiplay, and participate in the prize tournaments for CSS Counter-Strike: Source, TF2 Team Fortress 2, CoD4 Call of Duty 4, WiC World in Conflict and more.

Details are scarce at the moment but the gaps will be being filled in by PC Gamer over the coming weeks, in the meantime be sure to register on their event site to be kept in the loop via e-mail alerts.

Source: mpuk Multiplay
CoD4 @ CGS UK/EU (16 comments)
Posted by Nicky @ 01:33 CDT, 2 May 2008 - iMsg
With CGS UK/EU coming up very shortly on May 17th and 18th it has been announced that a CoD4 Call of Duty 4 tournament will also be held as a side-line event. The CoD4 tournament boasts a prize pot of £10,000 (~$20,000).


1st: cup_gold £2,500
2nd: cup_silver £1,500
3rd: cup_bronze £1,250
4th: £1,150
5th: £1,100
6th: £1,000
7th: £750
8th: £750
Total: £10,000

For more information and to register for the event please visit thecgs.com.
Free TF2 play on Weekend (74 comments)
Posted by Badb0y @ 15:06 CDT, 30 April 2008 - iMsg
Valve has released major updates to TF2 Team Fortress 2 as promised, introducing a new game type called Payload along with maps and gameplay improvements, plus a new map entitled Goldrush.

Gamers who still haven't tried Team Fortress 2 and would like to, now is your chance. You can download the full game and play it for free from the 2nd until the 4th May. More information and how-to pre-load can be found here.
Have Fun!

More information about the changes, the map Goldrush and the improved medic is shown in a video on Clanbase.
Interview with djWHEAT: Quake and Beyond (160 comments)
Posted by deotrip @ 13:02 CDT, 29 April 2008 - iMsg
This is the second part of the United States of America djWHEAT interview posted on the CGS website. This time it's all about Quake!

Extract:
Your favorite to cast… also your favorite game to play?

Well, you know, I love playing Quake 3, but there’s a lot. I love to play any sort of fighting games. I love to get really competitive in fighting games, whether that’s Tekken or Street Fighter or Soul Caliber or DOA. You know, I’ll pick up any good deathmatch. I enjoy Warsow, CPMA (Ed.’s Note: Quake 3’s pro-mod). I’ve even been known to be found pubbing it up in Counter-Strike servers once in a while.

I just like those competitive games, but yeah, Quake 3 is sort of near and dear to my heart. It’s also just because my start was because of that game. That game not only made me appreciate the concept of commentating for gaming, but actually made me appreciate all the other games more, because I realized if I wanted to do something with gaming in this role I had to know, love, understand, and be able to translate games like Counter-Strike, Warcraft, Dead or Alive, FIFA, you know?
Read the rest of the interview here.
CPM Duel Cup "juts anoethr mapool #2" (45 comments)
Posted by toy @ 08:57 CDT, 29 April 2008 - iMsg
Russian Promode Community will organize Challenge Promode duel cup with some unusual mappool :>.

Information:
Date: 10:00 CDT, 3 May 2008
Game: Challenge Promode 1.46
Rules: Double Elimination, best of three, random seed
Mappool:
astronomybeta, akumacpm1a, eizdm4-b15, pukka3tourney2, pukka3tourney4
Admins: toy, lisk
IRC channel: #jam.cup on Quakenet
Signup Limit: 32 Players

Bracket will be available here


NetByNet.ru:
212.1.224.9:27966
212.1.224.9:27967
212.1.224.9:27968
212.1.224.9:27970

q3.nakama.ru:
80.251.112.151:27960;password jamcup
80.251.112.151:27962;password jamcup
80.251.112.151:27961;password jamcup
80.251.112.151:27963;password jamcup

hell1.de:
213.160.3.158:27963;password pickup

DS-Gaming.nl:
213.239.188.9:31900;password rj359ang2

okidoki.uk:
88.208.246.71:27960
88.208.246.71:27970

okidoki.nl:
84.244.189.150:27960
84.244.189.150:27970
84.244.189.150:27980

BiG Size.se:
83.226.140.145:27961

noobs anonymous.nl:
213.239.188.13:33500;password ak47
213.239.188.28:27200;password ak47

quake.progamers.cz:
195.122.217.19:27966

The signups are open from 29 April till 3 May 10:00 CDT and be sure you are in the irc channel #jam.cup. You can signup here

Final standings & demos
1. Russia sshl
2. Latvia lisk
3. Lithuania death
4. Sweden rokky
5-6. United Kingdom ddk & Germany tubo

demos are available @ www.challenge-tv.com
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