Just epic...

NOt first?

Oh yea and kick out Hektik and Toxicity, then the mappool is just perfect :>.

Blood Run \o/

32 players

Very nice.
Just make all play-offs matches bo5, and that will be great tournament.

P.S. 70000SEK = 7915.97EUR.

70 000 Swedish kronor = 7 854.3652 €

According to google calculator

too bad t4 in pool, could been fun to watch

only map thats bad in the pool is hektik :<

In my opinion they should take Vertical Vengeance and Hektik out, 5 maps is enough.

Well why remove two fast paced maps from the pool? The best ones to spec imo! :)

^
this

T4 is definitely good, hektik... meh! ;}

I was glad to see t4 in the map pool!

:D

we need a replacement for dm13

haha!

We don't? Best map in Quake so why replace it?

its as old as dm6/ ztn

and both those maps are fine

and both are out of mappol.

ztn isnt

its not as old as dm6/ztn, thats first thing...


and its one of the 2 "original" gameplay maps in mappool, with second being t4

sOOOOOOO looking forward to this.

TDM???

Pro-Ball

Sickkk, see you there everyone.

DE or SE?

Regarding map pool - T4 and hektik need to go (hi dem0n). DM6 and T9/Dismemberment plz? :D

Dm6? You make me cry...

dm6 best in game, ask strenx for confirmation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkDjsBiO58

p.s. you make me cry :'(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pnEyeQGIz4

me too :(

man this match analysis vid stil amazes after all this time. funny thing too is that Rapha's live duel actions completely matched his move-by-move analysis, i.e., no armchair quaterbacking it.

i like the old fashioned green telephone in front of carmacs desk. looks like putin is hold the line :D

dm6 is second most popular duel map in QL, people in general like it more than most of other maps in current map pool, so clearly your opinion about it is not universally shared by QL players.
And it's suitability for pro map pool is proven by 10 years of history with countless amount of incredibly interesting games. Players like cooller, av3k, rapha, strenx, cypher, etc, love dm6, so clearly if all those top players find it suitable for tournaments, then there aren't any serious problems with it.
The only people who whined about dm6 are players who personally are not good or consistent at playing it or mid-high level wannabe pro's who were getting raped by better players and made it look that the map is at fault, not their lesser skill. It just happened that some of those few whiners were kinda authoritative figures on ESR, and lots of ESR-sheep just blindly and mindlessly accepted their position without ability of making judgement of their own, so there was an illusion that quite a lot of people hated dm6.
But raw statistics from qlranks and a bunch of pro player interviews, which all can't be biased by herds of sheep, tell us simple facts:
1. Pro players love dm6
2. Casual players love dm6
Which, both combined, provides no basis for such negative attitude towards dm6 as you demonstrate. I think that you as a DH admin should not let your personal biases affect the choices that you make for other people.

Actually i have been collecting data and information from the pros the last 3 years, and dm6 is not that liked at all. So less qq more pew pew

This. Hekshit out-->dm6 in.

Wish I could plus you.

Besides t4 dm6 is the only duel map I neither can't stand to play nor to watch. T4 is just a matter of preference whereas imo dm6 is the most dull duel map, especially with the existing spawns and the new spawnsystem. I played it lately and I was like o_O when I killed my opponent at ra and he was spawning right before my eyes :D.

Hi@ ya spawn and strenx getting lg spawn. Hf +backing for at least 2 minutes ..

Btw. I don't know that much active duel players who play dm6 and I doubt every pro enjoys playing it. But we know that you like to throw in some made up facts of your own ;)

heh.. guess its kind of personal preference, for example dm6 is my favorite map and i like to watch it too. its proven good for competition, and i actually find it amusing that its out of the map pool for 1,5 years still there isnt a worthy successor. because hektik is the less liked, battleforged failed, dismemberment failed... so how about put an end to this misery and at least feature dm6 until there isnt a better map...

How do you know that hektik is the less liked map? You can't really compare both maps as one is a prem map. So qlranks stats become useless at least regarding the overall stats. Taking a more precisely look at the top players stats you hardly see any dm6 games. Out of the current top10 only rapha has played more dm6 than hektik.
Why do you see literally no games on high level on dm6. Thought it was so popular?

its proven good for competition

So is hektik or do you think all those close games in the past were boring?

dm6 not played cos it isnt in the competition... same with t2, t9, pro-t7 etc ok but waste of time maps... as for the least liked part if you look at the stats there is not much player who would actively play hektik or would it cover at least 5-10% of their total playtime, that gave me the impression as it seems rather a forced thing, same as t4 or battleforged for example.

but i think the best would be if they put up a vote, if viewers want hektik than it should be in the map pool.

I fucking miss dm6. Thats why we're gonna use it this Sunday in the gdstudio ql cup!

nice!

whos gonna play at this cup? :p

Announcement coming later today. Need to get our lazy ass gfx guy to work.

cool

dm6 is ql. It is a blasphemy that it has been removed. This map exists in many fps games, it's an integral part of the game itself.

Casual players loves it, so as the pros...

I honestly find all these new fast maps boring to watch.

I love hub for example, but it's super boring to see 3 fast maps in a row being played, last tournaments without ztn were just -_- to spec.

I'd love to see dm6 comeback, as replacement of ztn if you don't want much old maps, or just replacement of hektik/toxicity.

:(

Also: SE

Will the playoffs be Bo3? Please do NOT do this. We need Bo5.

no no, QL games take too much time, we need stage for LoL and BRINK

Hell yeah, t9 - the map that makes dm13 look like hub.

lol

dm13 have to be in mappool! It is only no rail map

T9 - House of Decay

actualy t9 and dm13 jest my favourite maps :) but blaze didnt write it in possible maps

I wouldn't mind having t9 in, I enjoy watching it a lot. It's just that it's not really played anymore. I think it mainly was played before because it was new, or something like that.

yep just cause it was new, not because it was good or anything.

dm13 >>>>> t9 etc.

dm13 is a pile of shit

its better than hektik, hektik isnt in any mappool lately..

How is a 10 minute tele spam game with 5 frags better than anything(besides maybe t2)?

its not hopeless when ur out of controll like hektik

Yeah, it's hopeless when you're down one frag regardless of control.

its not hopeless when ur out of controll like toxicity*

its not played becouse its not in map pool thats it.

Not true.. dm6 is not in the map pool, but it's played.

dm6 is dm6 and its most popular map in ca so i think that has a big influence

but ca isn't duel, so why would we even take that into consideration?

well sometimes ca players also plays duel so the only map they know is dm6 and same for public tdm in public tdm games dm6 is popular map.

I'm just going to say that I disagree, I get what you're saying and the point your making. But I don't think that's a valid argument to get the map into the pool. Could elaborate, but I'm too tired right now :)

Edit: If we were to make some kind of beginners tournament, "Start playing quake duel" then I'd for sure put it in the map list, but that's not what we're trying to do.

ok!

Yeam me too :[. Ban rail!

No please not t9, 4 minutes of teleport camp is awful to watch.

TDM? :(

ctf??

no TDM this time? :(

t4 and one of the fast maps (probably hektik, even though i like it a lot, most people don't, personally i'd drop hub) should really be dropped :<

Yes as I stated above remove those 2 maps, 5 maps is enough.

blaze \o/ <3

No online qualifiers?

I don't think it'll be needed. If there's a massive intresset and we have no real way to pick who to invite we'll probably rethink. But for now I think that 32 slots will be enough to let most people go.

HEKTIK - Buuuuuuuuu!

Respect for admins doing 32players.
32 players list will show, how duel community is realy active , everyone was bitching about open tourney, let's see if 32 spot will be filled with "quality" players.

are u going? :D

have no clan and 0 support :)

u have our support :p

guess he rather meant financial than moral =)

Go there guard and play!

tl 15 plz

Very nice, hoped for TDM as well but as long as theres QL I'm pleased!
The Italian Stallion can still fix our TDM needs \:D/

great! <3 DH

Just out of curiosity, will you have a spectatorfriendly screen this time? The only thing I missed @dhw11

Working on it!

what do you mean?

a screen where the stream is on so ppl can watch the games while beeing @ dh

ah yeah, allready requested that :)
Totally agree with you!

<3

<3

I want to see TDM!

Thanks for this! Want to see Dismemberment though

Love it ^^

IMO Aero, T7 and Toxicity has to stay. These are the maps where something crazy is going on always and they're extremely entertaining to watch.

time to learn t4 and ztn \:D/

u prolly expected this,

learn to not dodge lan events first

where is Dismemberment map ffs?

what's the deadline for signing up??

The sooner the better, I guess we will start to give out invites in a week or two.

bring back dm6 pls!

-open tournament: check
-120hz: check
-anouncement well in advance: check
-levelup guys to cast: check

-gladius happy: check

(would still be great to see some kind of team event though, but I'm not gonna whine about that for now =p)

on that last part, u failed

I would really like to see a multiple-modes tournament.

E.g., two teams with 4 players each playing like this:

- 1st round: A Bo5 duel between one player of each team.
- 2nd round: A Bo3 4v4 TDM match
- 3rd round: A Bo3 4v4 CTF match
- 4th round: A Bo5 duel between two different players
- 5th round: A Bo5 duel between two different players

First team to win 3 rounds is the winner.

That way, we could have teams with really different styles. Some could focus on having one strong duel player plus 3 really good CTF and TDM players. Others would have 3 really strong duel players and try to find someone who can supplement them for TDM and/or CTF.
Etc. ;)

This should also be an incentive for duel players to become good at team modes and for CTF/TDM players to become better duel players. The result is increased activity in all game modes. :D

I don't think it would be necessary that every team consists of players from only one nation; mixed teams would surely also work. :)

meh

Thanks for your constructive and relevant reply.

i was going to write a nice reply, but halfway tru it i went 'fuck it...cba'

sweet dreams are made of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJt1ySyjZhI

32 players? Nice.

Group stage bo3 ok?

Single elimination playoffs need to be BO5 for satisfaction. Seeing rapha vs cypher early on bo3 is GARBAGE, don't do it, at least if ur gonna SE, make it BO5.

When deciding who plays whom for quarter finals and above, do not use seeds, do random hat picks and shit so we can actually watch every match and not have fucking rapha vs cypher / strenx vs av3k same fucking time bullshit matches like usual.

I FUCKING HATE THIS. DO NOT DO IT. I WANNA SEE EVERY GOOD MATCH PLAY ONE AFTER THE OTHER.

DON'T LET THEM KNOW WHO THEY WILL PLAY IF THEY WIN/LOSE THE MATCH NEXT ROUND.


Don't follow past mistakes. Don't let a retard host or give interviews.

COME ON GUYS, TRY TO SURPASS DREAMHACK 2010 (best EVAR)

GOOGOGOGOGGOOG

We'll try our best! Me, slayzah and snelvovve are the admins this time. We've got the routine; LIKE A BUSS!

dont have the same guy doing stage host!

Done and done!

That's what she said.

-t4 -tox
Don't you dare to put dm6. Applying btw.

Now make it pick pick aswell so it's gonna be exciting!

FAZZ, WILL U ATTEND

of course, it's on his blood

totally fucking agree.

PICK PICK start, so we can actually see good games and not dm13/aerowalk/t7 finish bullshit

fu t4

.

'rape-rape'? How often do you see top player wining his pick? I'd say no more than 6-7 in 10 times. And how often do you see an easy win without shift of the control? All these players have enough map knowledge to win against equally skilled opponent. Even on ztn :)

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That 52-6 or whatever was when the map was rather new and Cooller barely knew it (he was always late in practicing new maps). Later hub games between the two were much closer.

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thats because cooller didnt know it was pick pick, thus he didnt practise it

Age of your example shows that there is no big threat of such situation. I can stand a one sided game once every 10 years.

Player's less favorite map - more likely to see generic and boring play without epic moments.
Just watch today's stream if you want to see eastern europeans losing ztn. It happens all the time.

what are you fucking stupid? china air make you dimdim in the brainbrain?

you wanna spec zero4 on dm13 instead of t4?
you wanna spec cypher on dismemberment and not ztn?
you wanna spec czm on battleforged instead of aerowalk?


I want to see the best players playing their BEST map.

.

So what? If it wasn't for pick pick - you'd have no arguments? That match is a history now, many people remember it. No one would remember it if it ended 20-15!

.

its interesting how a player can get so good at a map that he destroys all the competition. at least for me.

thats because cooller didnt know it was pick pick, thus he didnt practise it

CZM beat cooller harder than Z4muZ's brother in Q3

Hektik and t4 are most fun to watch!

=))))))))

T9 pls add t9

sweet, i encourage everyone to let the two sponsors know that we are grateful for their support, it helps.
@kingstontech and @TwitchTV

This is words one of top5 quakers: "Also a 7 map pool with pick pick is going to be more random and not as competition-worthy" :/

ok thanks poland

2gd and joe

do it
DO IT

ztn dm13 t7 areo tox

if bo7: +dism +dm6
=)

Hmm..........

IMO should be a lot more maps and a different pick system, for example: all games (duel) bo5, 3 maps picked randomly and one picked by players.
maps (much more):
Aerowalk, Almost Lost, Asylum, Battleforged, Bloodrun, Campgrounds, Dismemberment, Furious Heights, Hektik, House of Decay, Longest Yard, Lost World, Toxicity, Trinity, Vertical Vengeance.

Random maps are the first one to play, players picked maps last.

u ok ?

why cant ppl accept the fact that some like fast paced small packed maps.

What makes you think so? This map pool is perfect 50-50.

hes talking about the whine in this thread, not the map pool which has small/fast maps and larger/slower

hektik fucking delivers.

My only concern is t4 in the pool, but I dont care as long as hektik stays.

I'm with you on this one!

t9

check top players how much hektik they play. Ofcors t4 are not playing a lot more, but you can see it in zotac finals atleast.

dm6 !!! nigga

Im pleased QL has something.
But duel only? comon. We know this is why the game is dead.
This time im sorry but im worried 32players wont even be filled this time. Why? Players retired and cause of exams more players wont go cypher and strenx in finals and we already know it! :)

Look at what TDM had, more players in the event.
Look at the CTF LAN happening in .nl. 40players 9teams and ppl still working on lineups so can see maybe 1-2 teams more there.
AND, There were so much whine about the none 120hz montiors. Imagine for a sec what players, how many more players, how many favorite teams for #1 and what this event would accomplish.
Im getting all warm just thinking about this. So excited.
But now so sad.

tbh, at this point, fkn be happy that there's QL happening at all with a pretty good prize pool..

Somehow TDM supporters don't get that.

And about CTF, they are struggling to even get 8 teams to that event. That's simply way too risky if people still want to see QL at DH after what happened last year with TDM.

With no worthy prizes for the CTF LAN...but biggest reason people aint going there is because its a hell to even get to the place.
If the LAN would be located at some place where people could actually travel too it would be lots of more players coming....

No, It's a combination of things, mainly prizes and the 75hz monitors.

Yep, AND:
People wanted to go, but couldnt cuz they couldnt find a good way to travel....

I agree. So imagine how big CTF would be @ DH if there was this prizepool and 120hz.

"blaze
Agreed, at this point we have to start to support QL as a game instead of the different game modes. "

Your right. But supporting only 1 mod at every DH event not gonna make QL or the event interresting enough. Team games are alot more fun to play.
Got nothing to look forward for "play for", and might aswell quit this game cause i know there will be duel next year and year after that again. Duel can be interresting watching, not playing.
Anyway, good news from the sponsors supporting QL :>

check last DREAMHACK tdm tourney... 100000 super teams and super intresting games. LOOOOOOL.
1st DH tdm was intresting!

Team games are alot more fun to play.

Matter of preference, right?

Agreed, at this point we have to start to support QL as a game instead of the different game modes.

This. If you want tdm/ctf add it only as show matches with small price pool.

Well duel is just something that get viewers, look at last DH, if there wasnt duel the whole QL tourney would have failed with only TDM. Im massive fan of TDM so i hope there will be 2 tourneys with duel en TDM, if its announced early there will be enough teams going instead of DHW.

tbh 7 maps is to much .. u have to be training all 7 maps, to much to learn..

[+] Drop t4 and tox(!)/hektik

Good that there's a few months left then!

Please shedule the most important matches for the weekend. Some people actually work...!!!

The most of the group stage will be played on Saturday and Sunday morning. Playoffs sunday afternoon. from the quarterfinals and on we'll do one game at a time. I think it'll be good!

try to tighten the schedule a bit so all group stages matches are played on saturday.

This is assuming players will be there on Friday night, so everything is set up in advance.

Dreamhack doesn't open up until saturday morning, so no.

Thank you, but will when the quarterfinals and semis and the final be played? I hope on Sunday, too?

That's what has me scared, the bit about "16-19 June" in the opening post. But QL will be played on 16-17 if I understand you correctly.

The Quarter finals will be played on Sunday evening. Unfortunately the semi finals, bronze game and grand final will be played on monday. Hopefully I can delay the grand final until the evening so there's a bigger chance that everyone that's working can watch it aswell.

should be fun to watch, gl to anyone who plays

How about to make a poll?

Hektik
T9
DM6
Dismemberment


Map with the most vote stays.

See you there!

you are going? when did you start competing again?
go mojo!

Only 7 maps? Why not 15 or 21 ?

no TDM ? that sux :/

lol
when tdm got into dh, ppl were whining about "id rather see a 32 open duel than tdm"
now we have a 32 open duel "omg why no tdm"

..
:D
esr gonna esr

:DDDDDDddd

yes why are the same people whining!! oops no wait i see it

i guess thats because the "esr" you perceive is not a single entity but the vocal minority of people who comment. and people in general are far more likely to comment if they disagree with something, sad but true

I agree and I'm posting

i think the democratic society is to blame for that. people are under the illusion that they can change things by simply adressing their problems.

i can see why a german would find this "sad". after all, every german is just longing back to the 40's.

this,

also I didn't see much whine. Even if it was twice as much, it still would had been at a "healthy" level imo.

we want to see tdm so much...

BicH1tO

actually he told me he's looking forward to attending one DH this year and to 2013 quakecon as well.

Who knows if he's really going to though. He's just a troll who doesn't sign up for local tournaments but that somehow managed to play at quakecon, losing every single map in the easiest group ever. Rather see that slot used by someone else.

As far as I know he hasn't participated in a single QL duel tourney and he's not playing the current one, which is sponsored by Jeesports. $100 is quite a lot for an online tournament here so there's no excuse really, but he'll continue saying he's the best SA player ever (without competing) and that he'll rape rapha playing with a NES controller and with his monitor turned off.

I loled
Have a plus

Edit:for you limity

Next announcement, TDM please :D
then tony will come = 10000+ viewers

eh...no tdm,no ffa,no tony this dreamhack :(

well, at least that gives other players a realistic chance to get 1st.

You win not because you are better than all the other players but because Tony let you win.

this

nice. have a + blaze.

When I first read the topic title I thought "Cool a QL tournament in Jamaica!?" (I use Mushkin)

If you need a big prize pool to attend you should just give up quake now.

what this has to do with anything here?

Super pro-only tdm teams have destroyed competition on lan events.
So that's why no tdm.

Look how many awesome tdm matches we have online on any tournament (igl, clanbase, esl, nationcup ...) where the few top players are spread around different teams.

Callvote map tornado

i just love how players whine on dm13 and t4, just because you dont play it in the same way as most of the maps... srsly... so sad

The bullshit stuff is to have 7 maps in the map pool.. 7 MAPS? really? Play with 5, it's more than enough

seeing the empty half much?

lets just do duel in summer, tdm/ctf in winter
fixed!

How about, let the duelers have the shitty weather, and let us lot play in the summer so we have the nice sunny weather :O)

fine with me :D

Great to see QL at DreamHack again. Thanks DreamHack, Twitch TV and Kingston!

Thanks to Kingston for putting money in QL, you just won a priority spot in my memory selection/recommendations.

Mappool needs to be 5, and bring back dm6 ffs! :)))

Apart from that, goooo dreamhack!

brazilian flesh1 @ dreamhack now!

i send the mail but i dont have answer

You sent a mail where? Concerning what?