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Alien Arena Tourney at Winter Dreamhack (5 comments)

( News: Q2)

Posted by Badb0y @ 00:59 CST, 28 November 2013 - iMsg

Happy Friar via earthquake:

The Quake 2 GPL powered indie game Alien Arena is going to be at Winter Dreamhack in Sweden, starting November 28th to December 1st. Dreamhack is the largest (?) gaming fistivle on the planet (25,000 visitors). COR is teaming up with Intel and will be at the Intel booth. The winner of the tournament will win a brand new Intel solid state hard drive. Nice! So if you happen to be going and want a drive, you have less the n24 hours to tweak those AA skills!

Source: earthquake

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Fraze and Camma on DHW'13 Groups (47 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by M05 @ 19:20 CST, 25 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

Now that that the groups have been announced and

Cameron "Camma" Hockley and Frazer "Fraze" Hockley have arrived in

Sweden for the upcoming Dreamhack Winter 2013, we get the boys thoughts on this weekends tournament. Please note this interview was conducted before

Cooller withdrew from the tournament. This is the 2nd interview.

Excerp

Read the full interviews.

Links: First Interview, Its Direct

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Cooller out and updated schedule for DHW (189 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 10:25 CST, 25 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

Due to the unfortunate reasons that forced

Cooller to drop out of the

DreamHack Winter 2013 Quake Live Tournament we felt that we were forced to make some changes to the groups. The solution we came up with was to upgrade a player from High seed to Top seed and have him replace Cooller in Group D. After a lot of internal discussion we ended up with 2 players who we considered moving to Top Seed. To remove our (possibly) biased opinions we chose to toss a coin to make the decision for us.

Spart1e came out on top and will be moved to Group D.

madix will be the replacement in group B.

Groups - Updated

Together with this we chose to move the schedule 2 hours on the first day. This is to lets the players have some more time to travel to DreamHack. Note that the times for Friday and Saturday will remain unchanged.

Updated Schedule

Update: I've confirmed with Cooller that the statement written by Nico is correct and he will be unable to attend DreamHack.

Links: Cooller's announcement

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COOLLER can't participate DHW13 (232 comments)

( News: QL)

Posted by Nico_QD @ 07:49 CST, 25 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

((

Anton "Cooller" Singov:
"I apologize to all quakelive community but unfortunately I won't be able to make it to DHW2013 due to work reasons. I'm very grateful for that enthusiasm you're guys giving to us which is still holding our professional scene on that high level. I really hope for understanding. I promise to keep playing that long as i can and i will be a part of the next tournaments so you guys will be able to see more cooller's stuff, if you want. Wish a good luck to all players. Can't wait DHW2013 started. Will try to get some streaming of games. See you."

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DreamHack Winter 2013 Coverage (85 comments)

( Coverage: QL)

Posted by xou @ 15:58 CST, 24 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

DreamHack Winter 2013 is hosting its Quakelive Duel tournament from Thursday 28th to Saturday 30th November in

J�nk�ping.

From this coverage page, you can have access to:

- Page 1 - Duel tournament details and schedule
- Page 2 - Group A results, demos and VODs
- Page 3 - Group B results, demos and VODs
- Page 4 - Group C results, demos and VODs
- Page 5 - Group D results, demos and VODs
- Page 6 - Playoff results, demos and VODs
- Page 7 - Rankings and Prize money
- Page 8 - Coverages, Interviews & Galleries links
- Page 9 - Streamings links & informations

Official links: DreamHack Winter 2013, Tournament website

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DHW'13 Group fixtures (45 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 15:57 CST, 24 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

With the schedule for the group matches of the DreamHack Winter 2013 Quakelive duel tournament finalized, it's time to have some bets!

Given the amount of games in the group stage (112), we preferred to cover the most interesting or closest matches. In total, 25 fixtures are available and will be opened at the following time / date: 13:00 CST, 25 November 2013.

Available fixtures

Also, the DHW'13 coverage post is ready. Feel free to post content links missing from it in the comments.

Update: After the recent update, some bets have been deleted, and some new were made. Also, the bets were adapted to new schedule!

Link: Open fixtures, DHW'13 coverage post

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DHW'13 Group A Preview (80 comments)

( Major Article: QL)

Posted by twister @ 21:54 CST, 22 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

Thanks to the assistance of Super Koziol and his sublime graphical skills I'm happy to present you a preview of the first DreamHack group. This first part of what is supposed to be a 4-part (but will probably end up being a 2-part) series gives a short introduction of the players and critically discusses their chances in the tournament.

The Group

I hope you enjoy reading and please don't take the graphics too seriously.

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DHW'13 Group Overview (163 comments)

( Major Article: QL)

Posted by FFT @ 09:48 CST, 21 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

Since the announcement of the seeds and the groups there has a been a lot of drama and excitement. I share a great deal of this excitement and spent some time looking at the groups and pondering what they will bring. It would have been an amazing tourney regardless but with the extra prize pool gathered by the community it might bring out some more hidden resources of players and even a more fierce competition.

Group A

toxjq
fazz
dem0n
Fraze
bpatela
sothis
zeun
brescia

Group A I think is right off the bat the best one to look at. With maybe not the very top of the top seeds toxjq & fazz and some of the stronger high seeds like dem0n, Fraze. With the top and high seeds being so close, unless you are ins, it will be very hard to tell the ordering of the top four. From toxjq & fazz we have nothing less to expect than highest quality games. dem0n and Fraze while they seem to share some mutual respect I think they might have developed a healthy rivalry during Fraze's last stay in Europe.

It doesn't end at the top four however. bpatela has played everywhere and all the time. Really solidifying as a household name in quake. I would say he is a very solid defensive player that can hold up to the very best, although in some games I have noticed some lack of decisive action, which is certainly needed to challenge the bigger names in the group.

sothis became the hot topic overnight after defeating strenx and making him forfeit the match and allegedly retire. Although the game was sub par by strenx and the retirement part probably mostly made up by the community. I bet sothis will still be most eager to attend the DHW as he was rather upset the last one didn't happen and we can be sure he is excited to play and hungry for some high profile player retirement money.

I'm sure that if it wasn't for zeun's lengthy absence from the quake scene we would have seen him most likely in the mid seed. First time zeun appeared on the radar he took the whole quake community by storm, when he defeated Cooller with plays and aim that lead to a widespread hackusations, no solid evidence was ever provided and it seemed it mostly stemmed from wild fanboys, I'm sure that zeun wants to put his skills beyond doubt on LAN. Will he cause any upsets as in the past?

Lastly we have brescia, a quake veteran but mostly a TDM player. His latest duel appearances were not highly impressive so I hope larslarslars can become a one man army in the spirit of a TDM'er and cause some havoc.

Group B

Cypher
DaHanG
k1llsen
Spart1e
kRoNic
Camma
uaLaskij
_gory

When the seeds were first announced and people saw k1llsen and Spart1e seeded as high, many pointed out that they would be group of death material. However, having them both in the same group makes it the group of death.... on the Death Star..... undergoing a black plague. As dramatic as it sounds the most excitement seems to be on predicting how the top four will divide the qualifying spots. I would say Cypher and Spart1e are sure to advance and both land somewhere in the top three spots.

I'm somewhat baffled by the DaHanG praise. He sure is good and with the prolonged periods rapha seems absent from the scene, he usually holds the undisputed 1st in USA, rarely dropping as much as a map. However, there are many, in this group alone, to challenge him and with his aura of invincibility shaken I am eager to see if he will be able to keep his A-game and what in general it might do to his confidence.

k1llsen is just starting his preparations. This zadrot ebaniy will just have to blow off some dust of his rail gun and he will be in top shape, don't worry about that. With k1llsen's game it always seems his performance is directly proportional to the accuracies he hits, he has just one gear and if that fails he is not doing so well. It will surely be enough to get him past the group stages but the chances that he will blunder once before taking the grand prize are high.

I feel somewhat sorry for both kRoNic and Camma, both are great talent but I am afraid that against such opposition they might not be able to show their full capabilities. As of late kRoNic has really stepped up his game and has shown better play and going further stages of competition. This will be the first big appearance of Camma in an international setting. His brother Fraze has always spoken very highly of Camma's ability but it will be his quake that will need to do the talking soon. I wish both the very best of luck as I fear they will need plenty of it to make out of the group.

Laskij is another player who has shown great growth over the last months, but he also has expressed mild disappointment over the latest map pool which as he says has hurt his motivation to practice. In all honesty _gory is someone who has been floating under my quake radar. Apart from a few appearances in early stages of Faceit cups he has not done much to raise attention. However, I am sure as being a replacement for some of the drop outs he will be eager to show that he is not simply a filler.

Group C

av3k
evil
STING
Detrony
gienon
etty
luukets
Aeol

With a lot of poles in the lineup it was inevitable that some will land in the same group but this really is quite something... I would have imagined that the Polish players would have attended Dreamhack as sort of a team. Practicing together, discussing the players etc but now that they are mostly in one group as rivals I am curious to see what dynamics it will bring to the tournament preparation.

av3k announced his retirement from LAN events last Dreamhack and after his increased participation in online cups lately it just makes it all the sweeter to see him back in DHW'13 as one of the most anticipated tournament ever.

STING has shown spectacular play as of late and has surpassed his brother matr0x. He is expected to go out of the group quite comfortably.

twister commented after the South African Showmatch that the players are of etty's skill level. Not sure of what to think of that but with the results etty is showing that can't be an insult. So I am looking forward to the Detrony and etty games to see how much truth that statement holds.

Finally we have gienon, luukets and Aeol. While gienon plays in a very entertaining way in both TDM and duel, I think he lacks some final quality to back his aggressive play style to show consistent results. For luukets and Aeol I think this will be just an amazing opportunity to take part in such an event. Especially Aeol being a community pillar, I'm sure he will bring lots of enthusiasm to his game having traveled so far to participate.

Oh right... There is also evil, not hard to forget him as he as disappeared like the devil himself. The story regarding evil is known to everyone. Veteran player who over the last two years has risen to the very elite of QuakeLive, taking last Dreamhack, placing second at QuakeCon and countless online events. He has enjoyed the most spotlight time of all players... and he has suffered from him. His demos must have been the most analyzed ones as an attempt to understand and combat his style. Recently we have not seen much of evil, but rumors are that he is practicing and aborting all his games to hide his preparations and his level of play. Cooller mentioned that he knows the 'key' to beating evil's style. Has he breached his vow of silenced and shared the knowledge or will evil just come back with a fresh lock and again dominate?

Group D

Cooller
rapha
Ph4ntom
twister
matr0x
plazmaistar
no_il
jewRo

Although I was happy with how the seeds were distributed there were some seeds that raised a few questions. Most of the players in question have landed in Group D. Which will bring a lot of interesting games and maybe some of the more unpredictable results, all with an icing of delicious ESR drama!

Cooller vs rapha. I am rather new to quake and I remember exactly how I got hooked on it. It was ESL Classics Video, where rapha analysed his game against Cooller on dm6 for the IEM World Championship. When I first saw that video with little to no experience to quake it felt like some one was trying to explain to me the Quantum Field theory of Coherent Path Integrals. Yet as I played more and revisited the video once in a while I seemed to grasp more and more of what he says and still I can sometimes see some deeper meaning in it even today. A timeless classic for me. It will be a delight to see them two go at each other again, their mutual knowledge of their play styles will bring a vibrant and dynamic match, no doubt!

Ph4ntom, twister, matr0x. These three will be interesting to watch. Mostly when paired up with Ph4ntom. We really don't know enough of the South African Players to comfortably seed them in either mid or high. So my guess would have been that they were seeded high optimistically and in hopes to utilize the rare opportunity and to see as much of them as possible. However, matr0x had other thoughts, he seemed in disagreement that some ZEF Side kids come up to our neighborhood and take our sweet sweet seeds. Plenty has been said and quoting Ph4ntom: let their quake do the talking in just over a week from now.

I'm sure plazmaistar will bring his rail and plenty of tape to record for his newest TAORITDH. Although he has shown that he has more than just his rail in his arsenal there is also a lot of inconsistency surrounding him.

With the last two being replacements for some recent drop out's as well I have not much faith in no_il and
jewRo, but it is good to see jewRo playing some more again, the little I have seen of him he seemed like a diamond in the rough.

If you read all this I am in awe if not - TL;DR- HYPE HYPE HYPE

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DaHang pre-DreamHack 2013 interview (70 comments)

( Major Article: ESR)

Posted by Demiurge @ 06:43 CST, 21 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

As part of the pre-coverage to the Winter DreamHack 2013 Winter event, we are introducing an interview with one of the top contenders,

Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty, conducted by QL dueler,

Nuttybr0. The interview explains his excitement to play at DreamHack and his sponsorship with Point Gaming thanks to

Jochs.

DreamHack Winter is coming up in less than 10 days, how do you feel going in?

DaHanG: I feel very good. I haven't played top tier players except rapha a few times but he's never that impressive until days before the events when it's crunch time and he gets back in shape. So it is hard to tell exactly where I'm at but I feel like I am in better shape than I was at QuakeCon earlier this year.

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Seeds and Group Drawings for DHW 2013 (767 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 06:39 CST, 18 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

Scheduled: 13:30 CST, 20 November 2013 to 14:30 CST, 20 November 2013
Schedule: Passed

The signup deadline for the

DreamHack Winter 2013 Quake Live Tournament passed about 2 weeks ago. There were some unfortunate drop outs from the tournament. Sadly

p0ni,

Sl1p,

fire_bot,

pavel and

strenx. We've found some great replacements though.

brescia,

luukets,

no_il and

_gory, where all of them (as far as I know) make their first international lan debut.

As you can see there's one spot missing in low seed and we're working hard on finding a replacement. We have a name under discussion but we haven't received confirmation on his part that he can make it. We'll announce it as soon as possible though!

Top Seed

High Seed

Mid Seed

Low Seed

Groups - Updated

On Wednesday 13:30 CST, 20 November 2013

Zoot and

Ins will host the group drawings live with a number of surprise guests! Tune in to ZootLive!

Update:

jewRo will be the last replacement, which means that the player list is complete once again.

Links: ZootLive, DreamHack.se

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Dreamhack Donations (531 comments)

( Major News: ESR QL)

Posted by Memento_Mori @ 03:15 CST, 14 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

I've been asked to handle donations for community prizes for the upcoming Dreamhack. Here is what I came up with. The subject is still getting in shape, so your opinion counts!

Relevant posts

How the donation will be used

This is an open subject, and we should reach a consensus among the community. The official prize distribution in USD is:



1st	7520.15

2nd	3760.08

3rd	2256.26

4th	1504.03

How to proceed from here is really up to us. We can take this distribution (more or less a geometric sequence with ratio 0.66) and extrapolate from that an ideal donation pot of 2900 USD that would behave like this:

The actual money players would get is from an even split among players at the same place. We could adapt this to whatever actual donation sum we get applying the same ratio.

For instance:
0 - 2000 USD: 5th to 8th get a prize
> 2000: 5th-16th get a prize according to the distribution above. For example:



Donations: 2000 USD

5th-8th:     407 USD each 

9th-16th:   46 USD each



Donations: 2900 USD

5th-8th:     591 USD each 

9th-16th:   66 USD each

Transactions fees

You can donate here. Feedback on prize distribution is welcome.

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DHW: DreamArena Campground (294 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 15:09 CST, 12 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

DreamHack is proud to present the broadcasting details and casters for the

DreamHack Winter 2013 Quake Live Tournament. In partnership with FACEIT we're also proud to introduce the DreamArena CampGrounds, where up to 300 fans can watch the matches live on-site.

In the auditorium of Rydbergssalen, just next to DreamArena Extreme we'll build DreamArena Campgrounds - a dedicated arena specifically for Quake Live with the capacity of 300 people. In the arena you will be able to view matches on stage with FACEIT providing professional production together with

zoot and

ddk who will cast the matches. zoot and ddk will provide the coverage of the tournament together with various guest casters. With players from all around the world you can expect great interviews as well!

DreamArena Campgrounds (Rydbergssalen, 300 seats)

All the highlighted group stage matches and important playoff matches will be broadcasted through Twitch.TV in 720p. The twitch channel can be found at twitch.tv/dreamhackql.

To view the games on site will be provided on a first come, first serve basis. Book your day pass or event pass through the booking site.

We're currently filling a few unfortunate drop outs from the tournament. Unfortunately

p0ni and

fire_bot can't make it to DreamHack and their spots will be replaced shortly.

Complete list of players

Links: DreamHack.se, Booking site, DreamHack Quake Live Twitch Channel

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Zoot and DDK to cast DHW 2013 (21 comments)

( News: ESR)

Posted by fnx-za @ 14:10 CST, 12 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

Official announcement that

Daniel �ddk� Kapadia and

Xavier �zoot� Dharma will be casting Quakelive at this years Dreamhack Winter 2013!

There will also be a dedicated area for spectators: "Highlighted matches and all the important Playoffs matches will be broadcasted from DreamArena Campgrounds"

source: http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw13/2013/11/12/quake-live-dreamarena-campgrounds-casters-and-spectator-info/

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Etty vs Laskij showmatch! IC Challenge! (8 comments)

( News: QL)

Posted by Laskiy @ 11:40 CST, 10 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

Etty and Laskij present - The ICECREAM CHALLENGE!

VODS/Demos

STREAM

Info And Rules

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Last 5 players to DreamHack Winter 2013 (640 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by blaze @ 03:23 CST, 4 November 2013 - iMsg

Event: DHW'13

It's time. The last sign up date have passed and we finally release the last 5 players for the

DreamHack Winter 2013 Quake Live Tournament. This means that the player list is finalized and won't receive any changes unless we get any drop outs. We're happy to announce

Av3k,

strenx,

DaHang,

tox and

Sothis as the last 5 players.

Complete list of players

Maplist

Tournament information

Important notice to all attending players: A confirmation email have been sent out to you. If you haven't replied to it yet, do it. It's very important that you reply and confirm your spot otherwise we will replace you.

Links: DreamHack.se

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