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ESH Sapphire EC: QL Qualifier #3 (4 comments)
Posted by PerpetualWar @ 16:02 CDT, 1 September 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 4 September 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 4 September 2010
Begins In:

Third qualifier for Sapphire Euro Challenge: Quake Live cup is under way, at Saturday 07:00 CDT, 4 September 2010. Check-ins start one hour earlier at 06:00 CDT.

For those not familiar with this cup:

There are 4 qualifiers to be played with 4 players advancing from each qualifier to the 16-slot brackets playoffs that will be played at Saturday 18th September 2010. In the playoffs players will fight for the first 3 spots as each of them will be rewarded with money prizes. Important to mention is that format of the qualifiers will be single elimination Bo1 until quarterfinals and then Bo3 till then end, while playoffs will be double elimination Bo3.

Qualifier #3 is starting next Saturday 07:00 CDT, 4 September 2010. Cup will have 128-slot brackets and will be played as a single elimination Bo1 until quarterfinals when it`s played Bo3 until finals. Signups already accepted.


Important
1. All players should double check if their PlayerId/GUID is entered for Quake Live (which is your QL nick in-game) under the Edit profile>PlayerIds. Failure to have it updated will result in not being approved for the cup !
2. Premium/Pro account is required for this cup.

If help is needed contact admins on #esh.ql @ quakenet.

Prizes
1st place: 250 pounds
2nd place: 150 pounds
3rd place: 100 pounds

Schedule
Qualifier #1: Saturday 21 August 2010 at 14:00 cest - Cup page
Qualifier #2: Saturday 28 August 2010 at 14:00 cest - Cup page
Qualifier #3: Saturday 04 September 2010 at 14:00 cest - Cup page
Qualifier #4: Saturday 11 September 2010 at 14:00 cest
Finals : 18 September 2010

(Second week in August will be skipped due to Quakecon being in that week.)

Tournament Details
Gametype: Duel
Maximum players: 128
Check-in: Saturday 04 September 2010 at 13:00 cest
Start: Saturday 04 September 2010 at 14:00 cest
Schedule: see below.
Requirements: Premium/Pro accounts
Format: Single elimination Bo1 until quarterfinals, then Bo3 till the end
Admins: Mactox

Schedule
Saturday 04 September 2010:

Round 1 - 14:00 cest
Round 2 - 14:20 cest
Round 3 - 14:40 cest
Round 4 - 15:00 cest
Quarterfinals - 15:20 cest
Semifinal #1 - 16:00 cest
Semifinal #2 - 16:40 cest
Finals - 17:20 cest
Qualifier #1
1. Belgium dem0n
2. Sweden madix
3. Iceland xrebzy / Russia agentJkezoor
Qualifier #2
1. Germany k1llsen
2. Spain GEOW
3. United Kingdom GaRpY / Denmark GEKKO
Qualifier #3
1. TBA
2. TBA
3. TBA
Qualifier #4
1. TBA
2. TBA
3. TBA


Streams: TBA
Links: Qualifier #3, Sign up, Rules, Brackets, Players, mIRC #esh.ql, Twitter Cup updates
k1llsen: so focused I forgot about frags (26 comments)
Posted by Thorin @ 12:50 CDT, 1 September 2010 - iMsg
IEM V Gamescom champion Germany Marcel 'k1llsen' Paul has been interviewed by SK Gaming about his triumph in Cologne. He discusses the finals series against United States of America rapha, what impact playing on home soil had and explains why he doesn't have a favourite map in the current pool.

Asked what impact Belarus Cypher's absence had on Gamescom the German answers:
I really missed Cypher there because it could have been a whole different story. And also I would have preferred to play Cypher in the final, or at least Cooller than rapha, since Cypher & Cooller reached another level at the Qcon final and I would really like to face that in a final.
The interview can be read in full at SK Gaming.
GomTV GSL without free Streams (91 comments)
Posted by Nukm @ 07:16 CDT, 1 September 2010 - iMsg
The Global Starcraft II League (GSL) was announced last month. The GSL will take place each month, with a prize pool of $170,000 per tournament. At the same time, the league will server as a qualifier for the GSL2011 main season.

During the last days the Ro64 was determined, including the foreigners Germanysc2_terranTheLittleOne, United States of Americasc2_zergIdrA, United States of Americasc2_zergArtosis and United States of Americasc2_terranTorcH. Brackets are available on TL.net.

GomTV now announced some details concerning the international Stream with United States of America Artosis and United States of America Tasteless. There will be no free Stream, but several premium offers:
Season LIVE Ticket - $19.95, 1 day LIVE Ticket - $1.95 and special mobile offers that are to be announce.
The VODs will also be released behinda paywall, requiring their very own Season VOD ticket - $29.95.
Source: GomTV.net vis teamliquid.net
QuakeLive Update August 31, 2010 (119 comments)
Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 22:22 CDT, 31 August 2010 - iMsg
Today's update is most notably to address the request and concerns of players who have expressed interest in playing with specific team sizes in team gametypes, such as the ability to play 2v2 Clan Arena, 2v2 Team Deathmatch or 4v4 CTF. Now, up to 16 players may join any game server and the active teamsize will determine how many of those players may participate in the match. This allows you, the players, to decide what you like to play (and more room for spectators to fill in the gaps when players drop)!

While everyone is having fun trying out the new teamsize options, you'll notice that we now display a teammate's health and armor status when you hover your crosshair over them so that you may easily identify which teammates need additional health, armor, or assistance. So no more excuses! Be sure to leave that armor for your team's flag carrier who so badly needs it!


* Added 'teamsize' options in team gametypes. Players can now 'callvote teamsize #' to adjust the size of teams in team gametypes (TDM, CA, CTF, FT). Issuing 'callvote teamsize 4' will result in a 4 available player slots per team, team sizes are now shown on the scoreboard.
* Added cg_drawCrosshairTeamHealth (Default 1, min 0, max 1) Displays a teammates health and armor below their name when you hover your crosshair over them.
* Added cg_drawCrosshairNames 2 (Default 1, min 0, max 2) The new '2' option allows you to draw crosshairnames only for your teammates, enemy names will not pop-up. This option is available in the in-game menu under HUD Options->Target Names.
* Added cg_drawCrosshairNamesOpacity (Default 0.75, min 0, max 1) Controls the opacity of the player names displayed when using cg_drawCrosshairNames 1 or 2.
* Added cg_playerLean (Default 1, min 0, max 1) Scales or disables the player lean effected caused by high velocities.
* Added 'gamepad' configuration control section & basic Microsoft XBOX 360 Controller support.
o In the console set 'in_joystick 1' to enable gamepad support.
o If you experience that you are unable to move, set 'in_joyballscale 1'.
* Added Discover card support for every region that uses USD. (We know, we know, PayPal support work is underway!)
* Fixed a problem causing standard Linux users to sometimes crash on startup.
* Fixed missing weapon icon on teamoverlay.
* Players removed from clans will no longer still bear the clan tag previously associated with them.
* Fixes for clantags from not getting properly cleared when a player leaves the server.
* Fixed some problems that would occasionally cause the browser-side error detection to cuase client performance problems.
* Fixed reported switch/quit match stat errors. Changes have been made to the backend to better handle team switches and quits; additionally players that rejoin after having dropped from the server should now show up on the scoreboard instead of on the quit list. Oddities may persist in Freeze Tag and will be addressed in the near future.
* Fixed missing Vertical Vengeance & Industrial Accident reports. Changes have been made to the backend to ensure that matches occurring on these two maps will now report match stats.
* Updated IEM5 Map tags to reflect the recent Intel Extreme Masters 5 map pool changes.
* PRO: Fixed 'Start a Match' map cycles. A bug was preventing user spawned servers from cycling past the first map; map cycles now work as expected.
* PRO: Freeze Tag matches started with Instagib mode will now run without spawn armor, and with thaw time set to 1 second.
* PRO: An arena will be selected by default for each gametype in the Start a Match interface.
* PRO: You can now choose the number of players allowed per team when starting a team game.

Next week we plan on having another small update with additional fixes and features, followed soon after by our first major Premium content update in mid-September.

Source: quakelive.com
Play of the Year - Entries Open! (56 comments)
Posted by mickzerofive @ 22:00 CDT, 31 August 2010 - iMsg
Hello and welcome fellow gamers and gamerettes. Australia Michael 'mickzerofive' Jenkins here from Aus/NZ Quake Live community 4Seasons Gaming.

This September dawns a new partnership for ourselves and well known gaming brand Logitech. Through-out all the struggle and the efforts of my own and my teams we are extremely glad to see everything starting to pay off for us.

In Celebration! And of our love for games of all types we have chosen to run a Play of the Year competition to spruce things up amongst the global communities and therefor will be running video entries via the well known medium, YouTube.

Entries Open: September the 1st.
Entries Close: September the 30th.

What to include
* Your Gamer Nickname/Alias
* Your Country of birth and/or residencey
* Your bad ass Play
Optional: First/Last name

Important things to remember
* "Play" does not just mean Frag, my Panel range from experience in all game types and ofcourse all situations, cluthes, team downs, flag caps so give us something special to watch
* No Frag Reels/Movies/Production pieces, let's keep things real and short guys/girls one play per video
* You don't have to include fancy slow mo or different angles, but you can
* You don't have to include dramatic or interesting sound tracks, but you can (just remember to credit original artists or youtube might remove your video)
* Keep your video under 5 minutes

Gaming Panel Voting Commences: October
** note: there will no longer be public voting due to smart cookies attacking polls easily. Instead the Gaming Panel will pick the final 10 and then pick 3 from that**
Australia Stewart "Ej" Brumm. CEO Gamestah
Australia valk from ozfortress.com
New Zealand Dan Cheer from Gameplanet.co.nz
Australia Michael Woodz Writer and studio host Woodztown
United States of America Rod "Slasher" Breslau from Live on 3
Australia Craig "Pandan" Warren from ArchaicMSI
Germany Oleg "d1ablo" Kogut from own3D.tv
Australia Richard "Talnoy" Lawes from CyberGamer
Germany Konstantin "swine" Bös from Fragster.de
Germany Matthias "losemann" Beyer
Australia Michael "mickzerofive" Jenkins from 4seasonsgaming

Prize Arrival: Before December (so an ideal Christmas present for yourself)

On behalf of myself, Logitech and the 4Seasons Gaming team, Goodluck to all those who enter
OCEANIC FINALS WEEK (25 comments)
Posted by mickzerofive @ 18:53 CDT, 31 August 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 06:00 CDT, 31 August 2010 to 08:00 CDT, 31 August 2010
Schedule: Passed

This week starts the finals of our reasonably large duel competition feautring four seperate divisions based on skill level. This season we are set for another epic finals series between our Division 1 Australian and New Zealand players

Tonights (06:00 CDT, 31 August 2010) game features possibly the biggest rivarly since macintosh and windows, Australia Michal "rep Czechowski versus Australia Shannon "zpnq" Hall.

So strap in, buckle down for an epic best of five show between these two anti's.

Links: Brackets, Stream
Dandaking: dkt dm13, dkt bf, Qcon Demos, Post-Tourney Interview
ESL North America Qualifier #5 is over! (186 comments)
Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 18:27 CDT, 30 August 2010 - iMsg
Tonight at 19:00 CDT, QuakeLive.TV presents the National ESL Qualifying Cup #5, in which the top two players will qualify for the group stages (16 players) leading up the the Grand Final being held at this year's New York ComicCon.

Among tonight's talents are literal Quake legends United States of America ZeRo4, United States of America czm, United States of America LoSt_CaUzE, and Netherlands vo0. Additionally, up and coming players United States of America raul_, United States of America dCoy, and United States of America Ziel will be battling to earn the final spot in the sweet 16 by acquiring cup points.

QuakeLive.TV's United States of America GreasedScotsman, United States of America Jehar, and United States of America FishStix will be on the airwaves bringing you live commentary.

ZeRo4 and Vo0 took cup_gold and cup_silver, qualifying them for the ESL sweet 16 group stages. Ziel was also able to qualify by edging out dCoy and raul_ in total cup points. To the suprise of many, czm was taken out in the quarter finals by Ziel, this year's QuakeCon Open Duel Champion, while LoSt_CaUzE was defeated in an extremely tight quarter final with Vo0.
DaHanG, chance, dkt, Flysher, rapha, everkill, gelleshak, griffin, kmrey, sparks, Zeil, FienD, chaoticz, vampire, Vo0, ZeRo4

VoDs are usually released in about 1 week - to stay connected with QLTV, follow us on twitter.com Twitter.

Links: Stream, Regular Season Cup 5, Cup Points (Standings), Brackets
DaHanG 2010 - Quake Live Movie (167 comments)
Posted by justin_ @ 15:02 CDT, 29 August 2010 - iMsg



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Rating: 8.1 (173 votes)
DaHanG 2010 by Justin 'justin' White

Length: 4:59
Resolution: 1280x720
Framerate: 240 to 30 (60 in HQ download)
Bitrate: 10000
Filesize: 359mb

Music: A Dream Within A Dream by The Glitch Mob

Programs Used:
Quake Live
Audacity
Sony Vegas
After Effects
VirtualDub
ffmpeg
ZOTAC QL Duel Cup #47 (88 comments)
Posted by vash_ @ 04:52 CDT, 29 August 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 29 August 2010 to 11:00 CDT, 29 August 2010
Schedule: Passed

The 47th ZOTAC QL Duel Cup will be played this Sunday. As usual it will consist of SE brackets using the bo1 format until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the exception of the Final being played as bo5. The prize still is 100€ for 1st place!

ZOTAC QL Cup participants need at least Quake Live Premium memberships to participate as the mappool has been changed to the following: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights, Lost World.

Mode: Duel
Date: every Sunday
Time: check in 06:00 CDT, start 07:00 CDT
Prize: 100€ for 1st place
Mappool: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights, Lost World

Streams: PinG TV, GG.ru, Holysh1t TV
Links: Tournament page, Brackets, mIRC #zotac.qlive // Demos, own3D VODs, PinG VODs, Hall of Fame
Interview with DonKing of Challenge-TV (30 comments)
Posted by Terbo @ 00:04 CDT, 29 August 2010 - iMsg
Challenge-TV.com has been a big part of the Quake scene for a long time and has been the go-to place for Quake demos. Check out this three part interview with DonKing presented by quakeworld.nu.

Part 1: DonKing on the Past of CHTV
Part 2: dK: CHTV may be a waste of time
Part 3: DonKing wants a CHTV for everyone

Lets talk vision, dreams and wishes. Whats your vision for CHTV right now and where do you see it in 5-10 years?

My vision is for CHTV to continue hosting Quakeworld and CPMa demos but also many other game demos, even consoles. To convert a lot of the classic demos into videos so that these great games and players are never forgotten. To have a site that navigates well, where everything you want is right there at the push of a button and to get all of my ideas coded into the site.


Other References:
CHTV saying Goodbye?
CHTV DVD and Donations
ASUS Summer 2010 (360 comments)
Posted by xou @ 22:12 CDT, 28 August 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 18:00 CST, 31 December 1969
Schedule: Passed

LIVE now on LeveL Up TV (EN + RU) w/ commentary by United Kingdom 2GD and Germany calipt, featuring United States of America Rapha, Russia Cooller & Belarus Cypher

The ASUS Summer Cup 2010 will take place at the Cybersport Arena of Ukraine Kiev on the 28-29th of August.

ASUS Summer Cup 2010 game disciplines
- cs Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters (32 teams) - 600 000 RUR ($1,9750) + hardware
- cs Counter-Strike Source 5v5 Open (32 teams) - 100 000 RUR ($3,300) + hardware
- dota-allstars DOTA 5v5 Open (32 teams) - 100 000 RUR ($3,300) + hardware
- ql QuakeLive 1v1 Open (32 players) - 100 000 RUR ($3,300) + hardware

Total: 1 000 000 RUR ($33,000) + hardware from sponsors (valued approximately at 200 000 RUR)
QuakeLive 1v1 - Prize money breakdown:
cup_gold 1st. 50 000 rubles (~$1,652)
cup_silver 2nd. 30 000 rubles (~$991)
cup_bronze 3rd. 15 000 rubles (~$495)
4th. 5 000 rubles (~$165)
5-8th. Hardware from sponsors
VODS: LeveL Up TV (EN + RU)
Source: Cyberfight.ru
MLG Raleigh Starcraft 2 Debut Event (129 comments)
Posted by Slasher @ 22:11 CDT, 28 August 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 18:00 CST, 31 December 1969
Schedule: Passed

Stream is now LIVE on MLG's site.

Starcraft 2 will be making it's circuit debut at Major League Gaming's 50th live event in Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend.

All of North America's best players will be in attendance with the exception of United States of Americasc2_zergIdrA and United States of Americasc2_zergArtosis who both live in South Korea and will be attending the GSL qualifiers. Notable names include United States of Americasc2_protossTL.Tyler (NonY), Canadasc2_terrancoL.silver, United States of Americasc2_zergEG.Machine, Canadasc2_protossM.HuK, Canadasc2_protossroot.KiWiKaKi, United States of Americasc2_terranroot.qxc, United States of Americasc2_terranEG.LzGaMeR, Canada sc2_protossfnatic.TTOne and Canadasc2_zergSLush. Europeans Swedensc2_terrand.SjoW and Germanysc2_protossSocke will also be in attendance to try and dash the American and Canadian hopes.

All matches will be casted by United States of America Day9, United States of America JP, United States of America Husky and United States of America HD, rotating out with different pairings. The live stream can be found on the front page of http://www.MLGPro.com all weekend. Brackets have not been released yet.

Schedule is below, with the finals taking place Saturday night.


Friday:
16:00 CDT - 16:30 CDT Pregame Show (Day9, JP, HD/Husky, Vhell and Vansilli)
16:30 CDT - 18:30 CDT Winners Round 1
18:30 CDT - 19:30 CDT Losers Round 1
19:30 CDT - 20:30 CDT Winners Round 2
20:30 CDT - 21:30 CDT PM Losers Round 2
21:30 CDT - 22:30 CDT PM Winners Round 3 / Losers Round 3
22:30 CDT - 22:45 CDT PM Post wrap show

Saturday:
08:30 CDT - 09:00 CDT Saturday Pre-Game Show
09:00 CDT - 10:00 CDT10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Losers Round 4
10:00 CDT - 11:00 CDT11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Winners Round 4 / Losers Round 5
11:00 CDT - 12:00 CDT12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Losers Round 6
12:00 CDT - 13:00 CDT1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Winners Round 5 / Losers Round 7
13:00 CDT - 14:00 CDT2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Losers Round 8
14:00 CDT - 15:00 CDT3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Winners Finals / Losers Round 9
15:00 CDT - 16:30 CDT4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Losers Finals
16:30 CDT - 18:00 CDT5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Finals
18:00 CDT - 18:15 CDT7:00 PM - 7:15 PM Post wrap show
ZOTAC SC2 Cup #20 (No comments)
Posted by KekS @ 08:28 CDT, 28 August 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:15 CDT, 29 August 2010 to 13:30 CDT, 29 August 2010
Schedule: Passed

Germany GameSports.de & Hong Kong ZOTAC bring you the weekly Europe ZOTAC StarCraft II Cup #20, starting on Sunday 07:15 CDT, 29 August 2010, checkins will as per usual open at 06:00 CDT. There's 100 € price money up for grabs and we'll be running with 1024 signups and 512 players in the actual cup. We wish you good luck and hopefully a lot of fun.

Beta Cup #1: Ukrainesc2_zerg RoX.KIS.DIMAGA 3-0 Belgiumsc2_zerg LLL.orly
Beta Cup #2: Belgiumsc2_zerg LLL.orly 3-2 Swedensc2_terran morrow
Beta Cup #3: Ukrainesc2_zerg RoX.KIS.DIMAGA 3-1 United Kingdomsc2_terran MYM]DeMusliM
Beta Cup #4: United Kingdomsc2_terran MYM]DeMusliM 3-1 Ukrainesc2_zerg RoX.KIS.DIMAGA Replays
Beta Cup #5: Swedensc2_zerg HayprO 3-2 Polandsc2_protoss RogaloS Replays
Beta Cup #6: Germanysc2_protoss GoOdy 3-0 Ukrainesc2_terran Insolent No Replays since it was really onesided
Beta Cup #7: Polandsc2_protoss mouz.MaNa 3-2 Netherlandssc2_protoss Liquid'Nazgul Replays
Beta Cup #8: Swedensc2_zerg ZpuX 3-0 Swedensc2_protoss Bischu Replays
Beta Cup #9: Swedensc2_protoss mTw|Nani 3-2 Francesc2_zerg MoMaN Replays
Beta Cup #10: Swedensc2_protoss mTw|NaNi 3-1 Ukrainesc2_zerg RoX.KIS.DIMAGA Replays
Beta Cup #11: Swedensc2_protoss mTw|NaNi 3-0 Swedensc2_terran Jinro (aka Frozen Arbiter) Replays
Beta Cup #12: Germanysc2_random Liquid'TheLittleOne 3-0 Russiasc2_terran RoX.KIS.Brat_OK Replays
Beta Cup #13: Finlandsc2_terran Satiini 3-1 Ukrainesc2_zerg RoX.KIS.DIMAGA (replays see additional info)
Beta Cup #14: Russiasc2_terran RoX.KIS.Brat_OK 3-0 Denmarksc2_terran Drafter Replays
Beta Cup #15: Swedensc2_terran mouz.Morrow 3-2 Germanysc2_protoss attax|Socke Replays
Beta Cup #16: United Kingdomsc2_terran mTw.DeMusliM 3-1 Swedensc2_terran Jimpo Replays of Quarter/Semi & Final
Cup #17: Swedensc2_terran SjoW 3-2 Germanysc2_protoss Sockeh Replays of Quarter/Semi & Final
Cup #18: Swedensc2_terran mouz.MorroW 3-0 Spainsc2_terran LucifroN Replays of Quarter/Semi & Final
Cup #19: Swedensc2_terran SjoW 3-0 Swedensc2_terran jimpo Replays of Quarter/Semi & Final
Cup #20: Ukrainesc2_terran pokeroff.kas 3-0 Germanysc2_zerg lalush Replays of Quarter/Semi & Final
Cup: ZOTAC StarCraft II Beta Cup #20
Mode: 1v1
Format: Single Elimination, Best-of-1; Quarter- & Semifinals: bo3, Final: bo5
Prize Money: 100€
Signup-Slots: 1024
Slots: 512
Check-In Start: 06:00 CDT, 29 August 2010
Cupstart: 07:15 CDT
Mappool *UPDATED*: Blistering Sands, Steppes of War, Scrap Station, Lost Temple, Metalopolis, Kulas Ravine, Desert Oasis, Xel'Naga Caverns, Delta Quadrant

Please note that we've added Xel'Naga Caverns & Delta Quadrant to the mappool.

Final:
Germanysc2_zerg lalush 0:3 Ukrainesc2_terran pokeroff.kas Replays of Quarter/Semi & Final

Streams: Germany GameSports, France Millenium, Russia sc2tv.ru, United Kingdom glhf.tv
Links: Info, Playerlist, Replaypacks of all Zotac SC2 cups, mIRC #zotac.sc2
ESH Sapphire EC: QL Qualifier #2 (11 comments)
Posted by PerpetualWar @ 01:07 CDT, 28 August 2010 - iMsg
Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 28 August 2010 to 12:00 CDT, 28 August 2010
Schedule: Passed

After first qualifier where Belgium dem0n managed to take one of the 4 top seeded spots for the Sapphire Euro Challenge: Quake Live cup, we are ready for the second one that will take place at Saturday 07:00 CDT, 28 August 2010.

For those not familiar with this cup:

There are 4 qualifiers to be played with 4 players advancing from each qualifier to the 16-slot brackets playoffs that will be played at Saturday 18th September 2010. In the playoffs players will fight for the first 3 spots as each of them will be rewarded with money prizes. Important to mention is that format of the qualifiers will be single elimination Bo1 until quarterfinals and then Bo3 till then end, while playoffs will be double elimination Bo3.

Qualifier #2 is starting next Saturday 07:00 CDT, 28 August 2010. Cup will have 128-slot brackets and will be played as a single elimination Bo1 until quarterfinals when it`s played Bo3 until finals. Signups already accepted.

Update: Final standings of the second qualifier for the Sapphire Euro Challenge: Quake Live are known:
1. Germany k1llsen
2. Spain geow
3. United Kingdom GaRpY / Denmark GEKKO
Expect third qualifier next Saturday 07:00 CDT, 4 September 2010.


Important
1. All players should double check if their PlayerId/GUID is entered for Quake Live (which is your QL nick in-game) under the Edit profile>PlayerIds. Failure to have it updated will result in not being approved for the cup !
2. Premium/Pro account is required for this cup.

If help is needed contact admins on #esh.ql @ quakenet.

Prizes
1st place: 250 pounds
2nd place: 150 pounds
3rd place: 100 pounds

Schedule
Qualifier #1: Saturday 21 August 2010 at 14:00 cest - Cup page
Qualifier #2: Saturday 28 August 2010 at 14:00 cest - Cup page
Qualifier #3: Saturday 04 September 2010 at 14:00 cest
Qualifier #4: Saturday 11 September 2010 at 14:00 cest
Finals : 18 September 2010

(Second week in August will be skipped due to Quakecon being in that week.)

Tournament Details
Gametype: Duel
Maximum players: 128
Check-in: Saturday 28 August 2010 at 13:00 cest
Start: Saturday 28 August 2010 at 14:00 cest
Schedule: see below.
Requirements: Premium/Pro accounts
Format: Single elimination Bo1 until quarterfinals, then Bo3 till the end
Admins: PerpetualWar, Mactox

Schedule
Saturday 28 August 2010:

Round 1 - 14:00 cest
Round 2 - 14:20 cest
Round 3 - 14:40 cest
Round 4 - 15:00 cest
Quarterfinals - 15:20 cest
Semifinal #1 - 16:00 cest
Semifinal #2 - 16:40 cest
Finals - 17:20 cest


Streams: TBA
Links: Qualifier #2, Sign up, Rules, Brackets, Players, mIRC #esh.ql, Twitter Cup updates
The Afterspray - a quakelive movie (211 comments)
Posted by Hell5pawn @ 08:46 CDT, 25 August 2010 - iMsg



0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Rating: 8.2 (176 votes)
Short title: Afterspray
Full, long ass title: Afterspray - a quakelive ESL IEM4 European and World Finals frag highlights movie
Codec: x264
Frame rate: 40
Length: 5:36
Resolution: 1280x720


This movie is a result of almost 6 months of on and off work, with "on most of the time" when vacations began. About 80% of that time was spent on going through over 550mb's of demos, yet - it was worth it. I couldn't just sit and look as some of these frags go to waste. I tried to keep it as serious as possible, but yeah how serious can it be if it's called 'afterspray' :), anyway I have to say I'm quite happy about the result, I hope you'll enjoy it as much. =)

Featured players: Av3k, Calipt, Chance, Cooller, Cypher, DaHanG, dkt, fox, griffin, k1llsen, l1nkje, noctis, Rapha, Spart1e, Stermy, Strenx, Z4muz, zsx
Music: Plaid - Brothers Chase
Thanks to: m4dpr0 - for helping me with the intro mini scene (also fz, coki and Dact3vids)
Shoutouts: BrakO aka zOrX, cityy, m4dpr0, Maverick, Phantazm11 and everyone else that supported me.

Visit my blog at hell5pawn.blogspot.com for additional content.
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