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Coverage: IEM5
Spart1e - in need of a backup plan (7 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by frequency @ 08:53 CST, 21 January 2011 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
fnatic's Phil Rasmussen takes an in depth look at the IEM European Championship finals for Sweden Sebastian 'Spart1e' Siira. Looking at the highs of some amazing matches and comebacks, to the lows of a certain failure to make the top six of the tournament.

The intense games against strenx, Av3k and k1llsen are all reviewed with Spart1e sharing his thoughts on the day, which had a big impact on him.
There is a marginal difference between success and failure in QuakeLive. Sitting with his head buried in his hands, nobody was mistaking on what side of that fine line Sebastian 'spart1e' Siira ended yesterday.

Read the full article at fnatic3 fnatic.com
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IEM5 European Championship Finals - Day2 (1000 comments)
( Major News: CS QL SC2)
Posted by xou @ 14:52 CST, 19 January 2011 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Scheduled: 04:00 CST, 21 January 2011 to 14:00 CST, 21 January 2011
Schedule: Passed

The European Championship Finals of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 will take place at the CyberSport Arena in Ukraine Kiev from the 20th to the 23rd of January 2011.

ESL TV is proposing a premium stream special offer for 3.99€. United Kingdom Joe, Germany calipt (QL) and Netherlands RotterdaM (SC2) will be the commentators on the main ESL TV stream. There will also be a second stream covering SC2, as well Russian and Polish streams.

Also, Level Up TV with nVc, Slasher, Stermy, Fishstix, ischju and friends will cover most of the Quakelive matches! Join mIRC #lvl^ for the chat / flood during the matches. You can find more details about all the streams available on the schedule page.

On days 1 and 2, the first matches will start at 05:00 CDT. And a last word: It has been confirmed that United Kingdom zsx will not attend the competition and won't be replaced.


Groups: QuakeLive, StarCraft II / Brackets: QuakeLive, StarCraft II
Links: European Championship Finals, Schedule - YouTube Facebook Twitter
Coverage: Level Up TV, SK, Fnatic, TEK9, TL, ESFI, Razer, Germany Fragster, France FFF, Germany DerQuaker
Galleries: ESL, Fnatic, Reason, Fragster, vh
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IEM AU/NZ: Final Eight! (91 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by M05 @ 08:12 CST, 19 January 2011 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
UPDATE: VOD's of the finals are now online :) some very exciting games finished with a controversial ending

After a fairly quick group stage 7 out of an expected 8 qualified for the final Single Elimination stage in the Intel Extreme Masters Oceanic Championships. The upset ofcourse New Zealand's Jake "CHV" Hope defeating his rivaled counterpart New Zealand Nomey and team hero Australia wch. Another interesting result was young Australia David "ZenAkU" Addati defeating Australia Peter "Ventz" Kiddson three maps to one. Although a lot of finalists were expected now is time to separate the boys from the men, and the men from our Oceanic hero.


VODS: Quarter Final (part 1, part2), Semi Final, Grand Final
Links: Tournament page - mIRC Facebook
Edited by mickzerofive at 08:12 CST, 19 January 2011 - 35082 Hits
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SK-Gaming interviews Cypher (97 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by Cyn1c @ 13:08 CST, 18 January 2011 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
In January 2010 Belarus Alexei "Cypher" Yanushevsky won the IEM European Championship and it’s time again for Season 5 of IEM to kick off with the European Championship Finals in Kiev, Ukraine on 20th Jan 2011. Having beaten some of the most formidable opponents like Anton "Cooller"Singov at QuakeCon, the Belarusian talks to Stuart "SwitchbacK" Macdonald in this pre-IEM interview about the tournament, his current shape and motivation to win the World Championship and his favorite Quake Live match.
You practically owned the latter half of 2010. Is the whole of 2011 in your sights?
"Before the new year came, I aimed myself to win every single tournament in 2011."
The full interview can be read at: SK-Gaming and G4menation
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SK-Gaming interviews Spart1e (44 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by draven- @ 12:41 CST, 17 January 2011 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Professional Gaming team SK-Gaming interviewed one of the most entertaining players outside Quake. fnatic's player Sweden Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira. How will he do at Kiev? What are his toughs on his Group.

Little preview:
Would I be right in saying that it's been a while since I've seen a dominant Spart1e?
Yeah that is true. I didn't change much in my playingstyle, while everyone else changed a lot and got a lot better. I find it hard to learn new things and change what needs to be changed when I am always tired while practising. The times that I improve are when I can concentrate on Quake and only on Quake.
The interview can be found on sk-gaming.com.
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ESFIWorld.com interviews fazz (20 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by mki @ 07:40 CST, 15 January 2011 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
In a continuation of their IEM V Quake Live European Finals interview series, ESFIWorld.com have sat down with Sweden Pelle 'fazz' Soderman from Reason Gaming. Fazz talked about how he considers himself an e-sports nerd and how he thinks the third spot in his group is a wide open race.
Sweden fazz: "I think in my first game versus k1llsen, I played really well, except for my aim, which was horrible. I managed to only lose by 3 frags on both maps (or something like that), while just hitting 15% of my rail shots. After that, it kind of got under my skin and it was all downhill from there."
Check out the entire interview at ESFIWorld.com!
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GoHLinK interviewed prior IEM Europe (51 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by mki @ 11:04 CST, 10 January 2011 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Following their first interview with Dignitas player Sweden madix, ESFIWorld.com has published their interview with France Alexandre "GoHLinK" Fouchet. GoHLinK talks about his time in Unreal Tournament 3 and why he decided to switch to Quake Live. He also predicts who will do best in the tournament and who he'd most like to play.
France GoHLinK: "Sadly UT3 (Unreal Tournament 3) only had a few tournaments. When it died competitively, I still wanted to compete in tournaments, so I decided to try to switch to Quake Live which was going to be the biggest fast FPS at that time. I am glad Dignitas had faith in my skills and accepted me in their QL line-up even though I never played any Quake before."
Check out the full interview at ESFIWorld.com.
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Intel Extreme Masters AU/NZ Finals (61 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by M05 @ 20:36 CST, 8 January 2011 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Scheduled: 22:00 CST, 8 January 2011 to 07:00 CST, 9 January 2011
Schedule: Passed

In late 2010 Australia Australia and New Zealand New Zealand were blessed with the news from the Intel Extreme Masters that a spot would be given for the combined nations to participate in the 2011 Season 5 Intel Extreme Masters World Championships for Quake Live. In late December, 4Seasons Gaming ran qualifiers for the Aus/NZ Intel Extreme Masters to narrow the participants down to a final 16. These players would then compete in a week of finals stages of groups to single elimination knockout for the first place prize of paid flights and accomodation to the event. The Qualifiers ran fantastic and the matches were very exciting to say the least. It will be hard for many of you to be awake for the majority of our matches but we hope that some of you will enjoy the VOD's listed below :) and stay tuned on our tournament page. The group stages start from January 9th until January 15th, and a Schedule for now (until confirmed) will reside only our 4SG main page. However the finals day on January the 16th will be setup properly to accomodate our international spectator base.

Also big thanks to Tt eSports who will be lending a hand to sponsor the finalist over to Germany. Countdown timer has been added for this tournament


VODs: Qualifier #1 (Part 1, Part 2), Qualifier #2 (Full), Qualifier #3 (Full), Qualifier #4 (Full)
Links: mIRC Facebook - Live Stream, Facebook - Intel Extreme Masters
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Group drawings for the IEM5 Euro Final (155 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by T1E @ 14:12 CST, 17 December 2010 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Groups for the Quake Live finals in January have just been drawn:


Carmac: "top 50% deserve to go through"

Group winners will directly go to the semis, players who place 2nd and 3rd have to play a "quarterfinal". We know this mode from the previous Intel Extreme Masters Final in Cologne, 2010

Top 6 (excluding k1llsen who already secured a spot by winning the Global Challenge of Gamescom) will qualify for the Global Final later in 2011

Links: IEM V
Edited by xou at 23:38 CST, 17 December 2010 - 29648 Hits
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IEM5 Aus/NZ the Clash of the Titans VODS (88 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by M05 @ 23:43 CST, 15 December 2010 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Last Sunday was our first qualifier for the Australia Australian and New Zealand New Zealand in which our tuned-in viewers witnessed probably the greatest and most exciting games held within the Australian and New Zealand region since the introduction of Quake Live. Quake 3 Australian national representative Australia Andrew "python / Chacha" mixed it up with Quake Live Australian national representative Australia Daniel "dandaking" De Sousa and our usual high-end players Australia Peter "Ventz" Kidson, Australia Tim "zlr" Shey and Australia David "ZenAkU" Addati. The competition was double elimination with the "spoiler brackets" if you can't wait to watch the three hours worth of classy commentated games between these 5 players. Because of the length the VOD's were broken into two parts in-order of the games below. I would also like to take the time to mention that if you do enjoy our coverage we are still raising money to send the winner Germany for those of you with big hearts :)


VODs: Qualifier #1 (Part 1, Part 2), Qualifier #2 (Full)
Links: mIRC Facebook - Live Stream, Facebook - Intel Extreme Masters
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IEM5 Gamescom QL on Eurosport (211 comments)
( Major News: Gaming QL)
Posted by xou @ 14:00 CST, 9 December 2010 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Update: The VODs are now available on the IEM YouTube channel:

Episode 2: Part 1
Episode 2: Part 2
Episode 2: Part 3

The 2nd episode of the Intel Extreme Masters show on Eurosports will cover the IEM5 Global Challenge Gamescom 2010 and should be aired on November 11th on Eurosport 2 at 14:30 CDT. See the schedule as the broadcast hour might differ depending on the region.

This episode will last 25 minutes and will be focused on Quakelive, with Russia Cooller and United States of America rapha!

Link: Announcement
Edited by Slasher at 15:48 CST, 9 December 2010 - 82135 Hits
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IEM5 EC Group Stage - Late matches (135 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by xou @ 07:57 CST, 1 December 2010 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Due to the many problems with Quakelive in the past 2 weeks and the attendance at DreamHack Winter 2010 of several players, a few late matches of the IEM5 European Championship will be played tonight. The streams infos will be announced as soon as known!

Yesterday the ESL published a news about the removal of Russia Nitrino and Italy Stermy from the competition, because of the penalty points they accumulated.


PS: The EMS7 Playoff WB1 match between Europe METSU and Europe 4Kings (Details) will also be played at 15:00 CDT tonight! Stream @ Level Up TV 2.

Streams: Level Up TV
Links: IEM5 EC QL, Results, Groups, mIRC #masters.ql
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INTEL EXTREME MASTERS AUS & NZ QUALIFIER (15 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by M05 @ 09:43 CST, 25 November 2010 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Finally, the tournament our Australia Australian and New Zealand New Zealand followers have been waiting for has arrived. The Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 will debut an Oceanic blooded participant in Germany Germany, Hanover, next year for Quake Live. Thanks to our gracious and giving community, 4Seasons Gaming has successfully raised enough funds to fly over a representative to compete on behalf of Oceania. This will be Oceania's second debut at an International Quake Live event, the first being Quakecon 2010 in which we saw ArchaicMSI's Australia Daniel "Dandaking" De Sousa take out 7th/8th spot, defeating the likes of Netherlands Draven and United States of America dkt then losing out to some nice games against United States of America DaHang.


Links: mIRC Facebook - Tournament Page, Facebook - Intel Extreme Masters
Edited by mickzerofive at 09:43 CST, 25 November 2010 - 6330 Hits
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IEM5 EC Group Stage - Last matches (96 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by xou @ 10:30 CST, 22 November 2010 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
The last Playday of the IEM5 European Championship is starting tonight with two matches, as well as two other late games. Make sure you hang in mIRC #masters.ql to get the stream infos!

The last playday is the 24th of November. As the rules mention, it's not allowed to reschedule it to the next after, even with wildcard. The players going to DreamHack are highly encouraged to pre-pone their last match to an earlier date as soon as possible.

Update: As Quakelive still seems unstable tonight, no matches were played yet.


Streams: Russia Good Game, Russia CyberFight, Germany BW
Links: IEM5 EC QL, Results, Groups, mIRC #masters.ql
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IEM5 EC Group Stage - Playday 4, take 2 (354 comments)
( Major News: QL)
Posted by xou @ 11:29 CST, 18 November 2010 - iMsg
Event: IEM5
Updated: After the failed Wednesday, a bunch of good matches were rescheduled for tonight! A few matches have a stream planned, feel free to contact the admins if you can provide a stream for any match!

The last playday is the 24th of November. As the rules mention, it's not allowed to reschedule it to the next after, even with wildcard. The players going to DreamHack are highly encouraged to pre-pone their last match to an earlier date as soon as possible.


Streams: Level Up, Germany BW, Russia CyberFight, Russia GG.ru
Links: IEM5 EC QL, Results, Groups, mIRC #masters.ql
Edited by xou at 15:23 CST, 20 November 2010 - 75266 Hits
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