will be nice to see czm's form.

8 man...

not sure if trolling me

Also, why the name "CSN Beta" ?

Cyber-sports.net Beta

yeah, why beta :)

maybe they all play on the leaked version of Crysis 2

or maybe they are on beta-blockers?

It seems like a short-notice event they decided to do at the last minute.

Nope. This has been in the works for a little while. All the top players were contacted over the last 2 weeks. If we had been able to secure more top players, the prize pool and scale of the tourney might have been a little different ;)

Don't worry though... stay tuned for much more from CSN in the near future

I know what CSN is doing anyway. I live with John, lol.

wow, 50.000 for 1st place. nice gesture.

Play the video game you'd be playing anyway for an evening and earn $50.00, what a waste of time right? :))

was just inviting to pretend it was 50.000 and go with the phantasy.

edit: uh, forgot, for you it's 50,000 what we call 50.000

Ah I see :)

uuuuh ZeRo4 and czm, with rapha und DaHanG not attending, this will look like in the old days i guess! :D

might as well just get rid of the others and do a z4 vs czm showmatch

There's still a chance that we could pull other top-tier players, working on securing dkt and griffin for the final two spots.

Get DKT and Chance so we can get some Zero4-dkt-chance drama.

50,000 should be enough to get those mofos out of their pitholes and get them going

I love opinions like these, good thing ziel hasn't been doing quite well against rapha lately or anything, or that kgb does cheat pretty well. Can't forget everkill or griffin either.

and yet the top 2 was exactly what everyone expected

"...in order to build hype for the IEM5 World Finals. rapha and DaHanG could not play in this tourney"

Talk about irony :)

We'll have them in zotac tho :p

*cough* czm *cough*

For the sake of hype, QLTV's FishStix is sponsoring $50 for the 1st place winner!

really nice and really sad at the same time

overall it's actually a nice direction where ql goes to. there are slightly more and more cups poping out and making the scene much more interesting. i really appreciate that. and i'm sure the prize-pools will get bigger if there is a nice response from the community, shown in well visited streams and stuff like that.

Archive.

I don't get it
someone there in the States is really short on money =/

nice to see clock playing!

(l)

$50?
Might as well be giving out trackball mice and ballpoint pens.

Pool was changed to $150 if you didn't know how to read. And it's coming from the admin's pockets, not CSN's. So unless you want to donate $100, quit your bitching.

- tyryl
- everkill
+ dkt
+ Chance

googog

-rey + vampire.

vamp and chance were invited, they can't play, chance can't get off work and vamp has been too busy to play lately. I called dkt but didn't hear back from him.

maybe he retired

How dare you call him retired! Some people are born retired and they can't help it!

/old thread

with such a low prizepool why not WTA?

Because too many tournaments are "Top Heavy" We wanted to spread it out.

GO KDAWG GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TYRYL CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha

no invite to dkt / chance ?

invite were sent a few weeks ago, no dice

go czm!

can we get this post bumped pl0x? event starts in ~4 hours :3

can we expect this to start right on time?
what will be the first matches? id watch but live in europe so please dont take offense just want to know if its worth to stay up?

I would say it's going to start about 15-30 minutes after the scheduled start time. After check-in's, figuring out servers and map choices, the action usually starts..

...especially curious about when will czm play? if possible tell me pls

hopefully griffin isn't grounded for this!!!

CZM
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zero4 got this

$200... now we are talking.

Hope all these faggots show up

Want to see Z4's form atm; was in really good shape a couple of months back.

If he's still there, he should be going to IEM world instead of czm imo :(

czm could have both arms amputated and he'd still win. he is my GOD.

EDIT: czm to be world #1 again you read it here first

Well, at least the czm fanboys are quieter and dont resort to 4chan-like posts to show their favoritism :)

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I think you just embarrassed yourself a bit more than you intended to originally...

well, I asked for that one X-)

Archive.

Agreed.

damn missed it. This better be VOD'ed :)

Ok so tyryl vs ZeRo4 just killed this tournament. tyryl was supposed to play with a ping disadvantage on both maps and rightfully refused. Subsequently got pulled off the tournament.

This tournament is a joke.

PS: Every time I hear you castfags say the word 'fans' I cringe. With two hundred viewers there are no fans, only Quakers. Get a grip.

drama drama drama

well this was a pathetic display. z4 had a 25 ping advantage and they refuse to split the servers, all the while the admin and shoutcasters take turns talking shit. z4 gets special treatment for being a washed up has-been? rofl

affirm, what a joke.

Archive.

yeah admins should've forced split instead of forcing tyryl to drop imo

kgb timing, wat

lol

Just a note from admin side, Zero4 was pinging about 55 and tyryl about 70. A difference of 15, we felt no need to split servers.

It was not going to be anything better than that since one lives in the west side and another in east side.

flame

On the cast it was 90 vs 50 pretty damn consistently. Split servers is the only fair solution.

That ping on the scoreboard isn't accurate.

Yet that is the only thing admins and players can base their decisions on. Not an excuse.

Yeah lulz'd when I read that comment. That's the only way to determine any kind of difference. If it's not accurate, it's not accurate for both players.

Nen dikke dooddoener ze.

actually, I had 75 ping and zero4 had 50, and for some reason you are lying to boot, because you clearly said several times that we should split servers yourself, as did incubus. it was only steve who said otherwise and "overruled" your own decision.

hey flame, I know you from way back and I am aware you are not a bad guy like these guys make you out to be, but in tyryl's defense (who the heck is that anyway? new guy? :D) there is a huge difference between 70 and 55 (even worse if it was like 75 vs 50). considerably worse then if it were 30 vs 45.

The reason for this is the unlagged netcode that bites the dust at around 70 ping, things are alot more harsh with 70+. if you ever get the chance try it out. you'll see how much easier it is to play with even 65 ping compared to 75, a mere 10 ping difference.

i agree

ping 50 is ok while 70+ is unplayable if u re not cypher

TYRYL is esreality infamous KDAWG

I know they're both much worse than him right now, but boy is it refreshing to see some aggressive play from czm and zero4 after watching agent play yesterday :p

yeah that wb-final was pure $$$. even though czm is still not in the shape to compete with zero4, he showed two amazing maps. great +forward american oldschoolstyle! :>

funny , because when I think of american in quake , +forward is the last thing that come to my mind

dont you remember those styles of zero4, czm, daler, socrates and so on back in like 2000-2003? :c

socrates was ultradefensive unless going mental with 20 rails in a row.

he will get in shape... when he start to +back :/.

look at his recent matches, he already took some maps from rapha. that has to be a good sign! :)

czm hasnt learned to be successful you have to only have +back binded.

hopefully there will be vods. its getting too late :F

nah its perfect, just got up and i can watch the final while having breakfast

what ugly day/night-rythms you have. :P

had an exam at 8:00 :(

goddamn zero4 is looking sharp

quake live tv: please continue to provide more analysis however you can. getting dahang or rapha on is genius - it ups your casters game and keeps them from slipping into snarky quips and general lack of focus. i think all casters playing in at least a tourney or two so that there is earned insight provided rather than spelling out what is happening before our eyes would be fantastic. maybe a caster show tourney? that could be pretty rad...

and before the whole 'we should appreciate' equivalent of put-up-or-shut-up angle is thrown out - the minute you put your voice over gameplay you are subject to criticism. i think every casting crew should consider what would happen if gtv was available for the next event. why would people want to tune in to your cast? that should always be on your mind, never that we should offer voiceless thanks or worse yet, just don't connect if we don't like it.

and no, i am not a better caster than anyone on your crew. not by a long shot. i would probably just say 'jeepers' at the worst times and hold down tab.

Hey simple_quaker. Thanks for the feedback. As the lead shoutcaster at QLTV, I very much agree with you.

While Jehar and I fanatically love the game and will continue to broadcast it as much as possible, we've always been aware of and open with the fact that we don't have the pro player background. Since our launch, I've hoped we'd bring a few top players onto the staff to offer analysis but I think with the sparse QL community in North America, most players that would enrich our broadcasts are usually playing in the tournaments we cover. (If I'm wrong about that and someone is available, please contact me.)

Having rapha stop by for a finals broadcast is always a pleasure and a huge win for the viewers. Lately, we've also been trying to pull in players as co-hosts for our CTF coverage, but it's difficult to find consistency.

At the end of the day, it tends to be me, Jehar, Fishstix, our new man, sLowbi, and a few others behind the scenes who are consistently putting in the time to make sure the coverage comes together. We'll keep hunting for top notch players who are willing to share their thoughts on the mic, though.

nice sets of games (although I only caught a few maps here and there) :>

Why the VOD won't allow me to ignore the first half of it and watch from the middle? I want to watch only the final. Dragging that round circle doesn't help, neither clicking in the middle of the line.

yeah, I want to fast forward to the final as well!

too bad czm is in shit form and not taken iem world seriously. my prediction now: he's gonna be a cannon fodder.

He and vo0 are pretty much the cannon fodder.
Demon gave him quite a beating on zotac last night.
Zero4 would have at least given the top players more of a fight based on current form. Shame he didn't choose to participate.

he did choose to participate but he couldnt get work off for the american finals if i remeber correctly

LOL

Lamericans.....

nice prizes :] but I guess fun counts ?

someone upload czm and zero4 demos!

It's a shame that Z4 missed IEM America.

What were final bo5 scores?

Loved czm vs z4 wb finals, even tho czm lost :o(

It's a shame about czm, for those who are oldschool you could still see the old czm there in some moments of inspiration, to simply follow with some really noob mistakes :<
I think life moved on for him and he's just playing for fun and will go to IEM to relive the LAN moments and stuff.
Still fun to see someone with the oldschool dodging and kind of aim but the lack of practice makes him easy and it's kinda sad to see such a great player doing like this, he will be rammed at IEM.

His style is still too OSPish and he's really rusty in duel mentality.

Anyways, GL crazyméééén.

That's what I think too. He's still playing Quake Live like Q3, the way he +forwards so aggressively and tries to rocket the heck out of people, the way he uses his LG in situations where rail is probably more appropriate.

If he tried he could probably pull off a cooller-like transition to QL but the difference is that cooller tried, czm hasn't.

So as far as IEM goes it doesn't appear he's going to do much. Definitely not beat spartie as was predicted by that web site.

He has no chance at all to beat spart1e, maybe dandaking.

I think he could progress even faster than cooller when cooller cameback because czm has a really stable aim style.
What he's lacking the most is that, the qlive positioning weapon choice and duel routines.
He was really lost sometimes when playing z4 in the grand final.
And unfortunatly for him he has a really hard group because he's playing the best control duelers like cooller and cypher, not good for him.
Just hope czm doesn't take 30 0 scores that would be bad :(

Are you really surprised that czm doesn't take QL seriously?

I've heard that after his studies (Princeton :o) he was trying to receive a doctor's degree (PhD), dunno if he's done that already but...

He is a mathematical genius with very bright future and Quake these days has a laughable amount of money to take it seriously. So I'm guessing he's playing only for fun and probably by participating in IEM he's trying to meet his old rivals and friends rather than treating it like a serious competition for which you should practise hard as fuck :-c He's got better things to do in his life I bet and it's only good for him.

This bout sums it up. Well said.

Yes i know that and i'm happy for him.
I was just making an opinion from a quaker and spectator's point of view.

someone must explain to you what "mathematical genius" means

watch that movie the brilliant mind :PPP , but you have to autistic i guess

They need 'most binds spammed' award. LOL!

really unfortunate zero4 wasn't able to attend IEM America...he is in much better shape than czm or voo

yea thats a shame indeed, he is the only one in NA right now, whom I have seen literally outplaying both rapha and dahang in practice matches. He is definitely up there in the same level as rapha or dahang right now.

yeah i watched him play rapha quite a few games the other day, i think he won 4 or 5 out of the 6 i watched

z4 is shitting on rapha now. I saw some games, his aim was unreal. Fucking not exactly like cypher combos or k1llsen rails, but something about it, the angles and way he attacks don't usually go together it makes people go 'wtf' instead of react

he must have gotten an adderall prescription. When I take that stuff, I go "WTF?!?" at the frags I pull off myself.

Anyone find out what mouse z4 recently switched to? (as per rapha's comment in the vod during the T4 game)

Greasedmonkey typed it in game after z4 won, but did not get an answer. Was there a post game interview?

No interview, but as of QCon 08 he was using a WMO, so I guess that mouse is ruled out.

prolly the abyssus i guess. it seems to be popular amongst the hardcores recently.

you've been extremely ultrafagged