The 6th edition of the ESWC. In order to attend to the final in California, all champions will have to qualify through ESWC national selections from January to June 2008.
Again DM6 really came down to both playing almost perfectly and hitting clutch shots, but the spectators (as you can see) really noticed K1llsen over-doing his rockets. People felt that Cypher was shaft whoring, but thats what Quake 3 is for the most part. Had K1llsen equally shafted and/or counter-shafted more successfully, than he may have won DM6 in overtime. DM6 was excellent.
yeah more LG and he could won dm6 for sure.. , you see killsen practised with not so good players, so he dont even thought that someone can have such LG in these situations and more it was lan..
killsen could have took ztn if hed not have thrown it away at 11 min mark. stacked, RJs from low shards to GL to cut off cypher, but then proceeds to completely miss 3 rockets =)
No, the monitors on stage were of much better quality. A LOT less input delay then the crap monitors used in the normal tournament area.
That is why all the stage matches were so much better then the rest of the games.
And on a sidenote: this is probably also why Cypher beat Rapha on stage and lost in the group stage because that first game was played in the tournament area.
Just because 2 players have the same utter shit monitors doesn't mean they can both play lets say 50% of their normal skill because different play styles don't work the same if a part of your game suddenly becomes limited.
A player that has a game that consists 70% of timing/tactics and only 30% of aiming is probably having an easier time with those monitors than a player that has a more aim heavy game style.
So basically aim heavy players are having a hard time, its maybe nicer to watch for people but is it fair? No.
it'll never cease to amaze me how these players can wait each other out so much and be right nearly all the time
the point on dm6 when cypher was creeping towards RL and killsen had it pinned with the RG from the mid. there was nothing stopping cypher creeping back and coming back round on killsen. The second either player slightly looks away or hesitates they just know and take advantage.
that's why I love VQ3 over CPM, the slower pace and dominant weapons and sheer importance of positioning just creates some of the most amazing moments.
+'d for being correct. And I love how rapha caught jibo at the end of the DM6. He made a LOT of fake moves just to push jibo into falling where he wanted near the shards then the last frag was really sweet too.
Also dm9 was really surprisingly fun to spec. A LOT of really tense and smart play on that map. Quakelive needs to fix items for their version asap.
good you mentioned Jibo because he's fucking amazing at it. His avek and czm games spring to mind. He can't hear or see the enemy yet on instinct alone manages to predict every time.
I love to hate jibo and his boring defensive style. If he only suspects that he's a few hp's lower than his opponent he flees and shoots grenades everywhere. And when he gets a frag with his grenades in defensive mode my blood boils. I still watch his games and i dont know the dude personally but his style is boring to watch. sometimes the score is like 3 - 1. 7 minutes into the game.
yet all you fucking idiots who bitch and moan about VQ3 (hello CPM fanboys) are always present on GTV and download every VQ3 demo.
i never watch TDM or CPM demos because I dislike them, so why the fuck do people do it with VQ3? they're either all fucking stupid or full of shit. likely both.
people who claim for a fact that cpm > vq3 or vq3 > cpm are stupid (i'm not saying you are). everyone has different tastes and we are blessed by the fact that we have two great modes to choose from! can't we all just get along? ;/
I'm not stating one is better than the other, there are things I like in both and things that annoy me no end.
I couldn't care less about what people prefer but I just find it amusing how people can state serious dislike for something yet have no gripes sitting on GTV for 10 hours straight watching as much as they can =[
- because vQ3 and Q3cpm aren't so different
- because cpm doesn't have big money tourneys and hence lacks the same high level of competition, so this is the next best thing for cpm fans
I don't think CPM "fanboys" are like that. Mostly on these forums you hear the more outspoken CPMers talk and it probably is serious fanboyism. But the majority, I would bet, of CPMers enjoys VQ3 as well. VQ3 and CPM both have their moments.
VQ3 -- more finesse
CPM -- more intensity (although Cypher, I think, shows quite a bit of intensity in his style of play which makes him, for me, extremely entertaining to spectate)
It's more of a continuum and you'll only find the radicals who either only enjoy VQ3 or only enjoy CPM.
And there you go - you can see why people always complain about the strong shaft, k1llsen was down from 100/200 to smth like 60/60 just while switching the weapons :o And we can't say Cypher hit 100% in that shaft battle.
these games were just awesome. killsen was so close on ztn until that one rocketjump that went bad (and after losing in that way, he still says wp to cypher, respect for that, i'd be throwing chairs or something.)
dm6 ended in a very anticlimactic way though (especially since there won't be any third map.) you just can't argue with lg.
only watched dm6, and oh my, what a beauty that was. From 11:54 onwards the game becomes simply amazing, with fucking hot shots by both (mostly killsen tho). The one where he was flicked into the air by a rocket from cypher and then still manages to rail him... oh me oh my... And then the airrocket from cypher when killsen goes up RL, that saved his ass for sure. The last frag was clearly a bad weapon decision from the german, who probably would've won that shaft battle if he only would've taken the bloody damn LG.
GG from both, it's not often you see such a game in the finals! I knew killsen had the potential to do very good!
I have to say, i was not expecting Killsen to perform so good. Say what you want, but he was genuinely kicking ass, and i think he really deserved to take dm6, at least.
At any rate, well done both. This is really a match to remember.
and he was actually the only one who was able to win ztn against cypher_in_form (im not counting the first game, as cypher's aim was totally off). One mistake at the GL platform cost him that map I think
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