Not so much of an announcement or a recent release, but more of a reminder that there is actually a lively community playing the game that invented Overwatch. It is, of course, Team Fortress mod from the oldest instalment of Quake, now available as a standalone game that requires you do nothing but slap the download link.
Most notable features of the modernised game client are multi platform support (Win, Linux) and support for potat pcs that is bound to make our friends behind the modern day Iron Curtain happy (they even got #russia on discord!). Other than that, it's all down to the community which is hosting 2v2 & 4v4 TF leagues, ladders and overall keeps the game alive either through constant development or daily pickup games.
If you're interested in pugging, first step would be to hop on to the website and grab the client and optional files. Next up, sign in to the website via discord and grab your token. Run the game client and paste the line in to console. Congrats, you're ready to play! Hop on to the discord server and sign yourself up for a few games. And in true quaker fashion, don't watch the tutorials on how to play (because you're the best player!) and simply annoy the rest of your team mates for the day.
As the state of the game dwindles and the player base decreases, it seems that the money cows and power hungry admins have ditched all ethics regarding fair competition. With the recent base drama, where admins said that proven players can cheat*, behind us everyone thought and hoped that it will be the last of such kind in our scene. Unfortunately, a new scandal is unraveling behind the scenes of GT Quake Live Duel Cups. Current situation shows that professional players and community favourites have gained privileges compared to their competitors.
The matter at hand is lordsoth, admin of GT QL Duel Cups pressuring brescia/lars to replay his game against yet another community favorite, Spart1e. The cup in question was played on Sep 13th, 2016. After 7 hours of exhausting games, both lars and Spart1e had the same amount of wins. Seeing how lars beat Spart1e over 3 maps he got ranked by challonge** to 5th, while Spart1e ended up 6th. Mathemathics here is simple, both players have exact same W/L (3/4) and only thing separating them was match wins against each other. That statistic was in favor of lars and you'd think everything was clear. And it was for almost a whole week. With recent development and one of top4 ranked players possibly dropping, out trouble arose for lars. Lordsoth all of a sudden decided to ignore all common sense and official rankings and started acting on his personal preference. Two players who had no chance in participating in the prize pool distribution are suddenly within a reaching distance of whooping $50 and potential shot at playoffs vs agent. Something not to be ignored in these dark days for a Quaker. So what does lordsoth do? He gets this wild idea that lars and Spart1e should play again to determine who's 5th, even though they already played, even though lars already won and even though lars is ranked above Spart1e on the official brackets** of GT QL Duel Cup. Lordsoth likes Spart1e. We all do. Spart1e is a bigger name. We all know. Does Spart1e need money more than lars? Perhaps. But does it make it right? No. Not by a long shot.
What does this even mean for anyone else? Play in our cups and if you're lucky we let you keep the ranking you've earned? That's hardly motivating or fun for anyone invested in the cups, from players to spectators. Are we really turning from this pure form of e-sports that our community has preserved in to WWE where every basement admin thinks he's Vince McMahon? It certainly seems that way. If we as a community allow these basement admins like Nico & lordsoth to tell us that it's ok if you cheat as long as you're popular* or that you won't be ranked as high as you earned because you're less popular**, then we might as well pull the plug on all the servers and go play Overwatch since popularity is only thing that matters there, just ask winz***. It only means that not only did we fail as a community, we've lost our essence, our pure esport soul as well for a dozen of views more.
Posted by esdf @ 12:41 CST, 27 January 2019 - iMsg
Welcome to the first edition of Let Them Eat Quake awards. The awards have been established in order to honor the people who entertained us casual folk the most over the span of last year with their undying fakethusiasm and never ending shilling for Quake Champions. Some of them got paid to do it, others just did it out of their love for everything Quake related (i.e. zealots).
So how does this work? There are 4 nominees which go heads up against each other in a single elimination bracket. Your votes decide who qualifies to grand finals and eventually gets to take home the Tim Willits Trophy along with the title of the champion. Each nominee is represented by a quote of their ultimate shill moment which earned them the nomination. If you feel some quotes are left out undeservedly, please post them in comments. We can always update them for 3rd place & Grand Finals showdown.
Please, make sure you base your vote on how much the quotes entertained you and not on how much you like/dislike the person in question.
About: Zoot started casting Quake with Quake Live as a part of levelup crew but was infamously kicked from the crew due to unprofessional behavior. Since then he was dabbling on his own, started his Zlive stream and was basically the only caster in the community. As a sole guy providing coverage of Quake events he earned the undying gratitude of folks over at id software (people that would like us to think they're developing a Quake game) which in turn earned him free trips to QuakeCons. Unfortunately, when QC arrived, all these free trips started having a price. In order to maintain free flights across the Atlantic he had to sacrifice his integrity which came naturally to him. Fortunately for everyone else, this spawned a number of quotes to entertain us.
THE QUOTE: Next Quake patch scheduled for March is going to be all about polish and refinement. This is EXACTLY what I wanted to hear, really delighted about this.
Context: Game just witnessed the release of it's worst patch ever in December. Game breaking performance, buggy-beyond-belief CTF mode which was supposed to save Quake and it all reflected on player base dwindling down to the lowest point in months. The game screams for patch, but not zoot. He got paid and everything is gucci in Xav-ville.
About: A long time Quake player, played Q3 in Britain's top team - unr`. With arrival of QL he slowly started rotating towards a management role, he was too good to keep on playing anyway. Be that as it may, he soon became a community manager and still occupies that role. For free. Tim Willits' promises of a paid position at id keeps the fire burning in him that he needs to constantly come up with creative ways to not just zealously defend Quake Champions, but to degrade Quake Live as well.
THE QUOTE: I go back to QL and just remember how much I can't stand how much worse the game of "guess where the hitbox of this player's ping" is in Quake Live. And on top of that for a laggy opponent the answer is nowhere.
Context: Not much to be said here, QC netcode might be shit but oh boy QL one is at least 10x worse. Can you imagine - in QL the rockets EXPLODE on contact with enemy as opposed to just going through the enemy model like in QC. I mean, what the fuck?
About: In his own words (twitch bio), a shitty hasbeen. Biggest achievements of his pro career were practicing with voO for CPL tournaments. Banked it all on QC being a success to try and get a whiff of that twitch pussy, but as things stand now to no avail. Emotionally invested in to Quake to the point of saying some ridiculous shit.
THE QUOTE: If I closed my eyes and if I go back to 1998 when I first started playing Quake 1 and Quake 2 (...) and you would tell that 13yo kid that 20 years later like you would give that kid a vision of Quake 20 years later and you'd show me this that's exactly what I want. It really fuckin is.
Context: Pretty self explanatory. If he closed his eyes and was high on mescaline, Quake Champions would be the perfect Quake game. Even in 1998.
About: Not much is known about JKap pre-QC. He appeared during IEM Italy 2017 from Overwatch scene and apparently is here to stay because free trips and pocket money. Casted multiple Quake events, was equally clueless on each of them and shows no signs of improvement or stopping to this day. When he's not casting about how great Quake is, he's tweeting about it. It seems like the main prerequisite for becoming a caster in QC scene is the lack of integrity, bonus points if it runs in the family.
THE QUOTE: Wow this new Quake update makes me really want to grind a ton of Quake! Battlepass idea seems to have changed the game for the better.
Context: In the sea of cash store related patches this was the latest, id threw out loot boxes and introduced battle passes as means to acquire gear. No other changes were done, even if the patch log said they fixed stuff - they didn't as per usual. So the game's broken, leaking players left and right, only somewhat played team mode (2v2) got thrown out of the window, but Kaplan is excited because cash shop items are generally known to revolutionise not only the game in question, but whole genres even!
Seed: #4
And this is the beautiful trophy our competitors will be fighting for. Credits for designing this beauty go entirely to Calderone.
Posted by esdf @ 09:57 CST, 18 December 2018 - iMsg
I've witnessed a stream or two filled with qc cultists and shit that's being said there is surreal.
so apparently, qc having 1,3k avg players is not bad because "we're aware that quake won't be a mainstream game, we don't want it to be mainstream, these are good numbers for a quake game".
also when confronted with tech issues qc has the common reply is "oh so you think you can do it better? why don't you get a job there then? why don't you fix it for them?".
and probably my favorite "you crying about qc cause your pussy cant handle being fucked by big black dick".
Posted by esdf @ 13:24 CST, 1 December 2018 - iMsg
Rapha and DaHang of Team Liquid reign supreme on DreamHack Winter! They've overcome team AMD featuring Cooller and Toxjq with superior teamplay, aim, insanely poor tactics by AMD during last 5 minutes of 2nd map and heavy Eisen turret bug abuse across all the maps.
Even though intentional abuse of bugs is forbidden by DreamHack rules, they blocked the shit out of item and powerup pickups for team AMD each time they could.
In the end, the best team won.
GGs!
Edited by esdf at 13:10 CST, 2 December 2018 - 13069 Hits
Over and over again, the TeamLiquid duo, rapha and DaHang remind us of how superior the North American gene pool is compared to the one of continent that discovered them, Canada excluded.
*) spinning logo
1) 3k viewers
2) coked out paki & soyboy cosplay caster
2.5) 4k viewers
3) boring games
3.5) casters talkin bout how good qc is
4) annoying midget girl out of mordor caster
5) boring games
5.5) 5k viewers
6) boring games
7) guy with a big fucking beard saying vengeur living the dream cuz he got to play wiht a legend like base during c58 vs play to improve
8) c58 vs play2improve really close games cuz both teams have a cheater on roster, suspense is immense
8.5) casters talkin bout how good qc is
9) boring games
*) logged in to qc to get the qcon skin
*) skin looks like shit
feel free to add your impressions, I will update the main post so we can have best possible coverage of all time.
Edited by esdf at 15:41 CDT, 10 August 2018 - 13198 Hits
so i'm liek watchin qc tournaments yesterday and shit and previous days and basically im like wooo europe u got urself a proscene full of ex-cheaters wotafak men?? so today im liek tuning in cuz NORTH MURICA and ya kno they b kinda good at quake even without cheats so im liek nice finally quake holiday and so i turn on my litly pc i go to m y fave internet address which is ofcourse twitch.tv/quake abd i see my favorite faces zott &nvc and im hear them say north america and im liek just in time bitches finally pure quake and the game starts and my eyez pop out as i see GNiK so my question is rly is there more then 4 teams that dont have ex or current cheaters on their roster cuz this is too lol even for lolipop?
so i liek tuned in to twitch/quake to hear stuffs abouts quake ctf and apparently its not normal ctf but some mix of ca, ctfs and hentai tentacle porn.
so im watchin twitch and levelupyourgame shows recommended. was like naisu, dis & vor. so i open up the stream, no dis cam, just this mug which i suppose belongs to vor. feel free to correct me if im wong.
Edited by esdf at 04:22 CDT, 24 April 2018 - 19756 Hits
Posted by esdf @ 05:42 CST, 7 February 2018 - iMsg
So, recently I was thinking "hey, maybe I dismissed QC too early" since I'm seeing all these people having fun in game, and streaming and what not.
Now for all of you who know me, you know I'm a ctf god and played maybe 50 duels and 100 tdms over my 8-9 years of playing quake. So when you take that in to account, on the first look qc doesn't have much to offer.
but then, I watched some duels, and couldn't stop watching. there's a lot of good players I watched, clawz, xron, spart1e, rapha, dahang, etc, but one guy stood out. it's baSe. I've always known him as a great player (winning 125fps etc), a legit player ( never no controversies ) and a guy with a great sense of humour (the preparing for 125 fps cup videos).
So I've watched more and more, I've soaked up the knowledge and I felt blown away by this feeling of massive skill that is building up in me. I felt compelled to share this knowledge to the world. Unfortunately, someone compiled some of his gretest and brainest moves way before me, but I haven't seen it posted anywhere yet, so here it is.
How to play quake, by baSe:
edit: oops misclick on html tag :|
Edited by esdf at 13:46 CST, 7 February 2018 - 63806 Hits
After last week's Sacrifice draft, the Quake Battles guys are doing yet another draft. The mode for the upcoming draft will be TDM and the draft will take place on Sunday, June 25th with games starting at 16:00 CET.
First of all, take a look at the following trailer. Take a good look.
What is wrong you say? There's a girl, there's asians, there's whites... But where are African Americans? First of all, we're all from Africa. Second of all, black lives matter. It is beyond me that id would ignore a whole race like this.
What kind of a message does this send to African American communities? Does id see them only as drug dealers and crack fiends? There's not even a black champion in the game!!!
Afro American community provided us with numerous great players and this is a direct insult to them. Think of Lost_cause, he's probably still in Africa (mostly due to his team not paying for his flight back), imagine how he feels now that he got ignored by the game he dedicated a lot of his life to.
Think of br1ck, the QuakeCon champion. Pretty sure he feels like shit now that id released a video in which a black man is reduced to gangbanging and drive-bys, since apparently they're not capable of wielding a mouse and keyboard instead of Mag-7 and uzi.
The Quake Champions pickup, Quake Battles, organised their first draft cup this Sunday.
The mode being played is Sacrifice, the e-sports mode in Quake Champions. It's a smaller sized draft, mostly due to beta still not being persistently online so it could've easily happened for the draft to not finish if it had a bigger size.
There are 4 teams participating and most notable signups are carnage, syndrom and SHUGH. The lack of spectator mode means you'll have to be happy with one pov per stream.
With Quake Champions NDA being lifted for good, I figure this is the right time to announce that a Discord pickup community has been created.
The pickup is featuring both team modes currently in the game, Sacrifice and TDM along with the 1v1 mode, Duel. I can confirm the games were pretty much frequent throughout the closed beta tests and there's players of all skill levels there, from one of the worst to one of the best ones in the game so far.
The pickup is mostly Euro-dominated, but there is also an NA channel available for Murica to have fun in.
* ?eu / ?us - selecting a region is the first thing you should do
* .j / .join <mode> - adds you to a pickup game *
* .leave <mode> - removes you from a pickup
* .nomic - set this if you can't talk
* .lva - leaves all joined pickups
* modes are SAC for Sacrifice, Duel for duel and TDM for team deathmatch
The teams are made based on picking players as there are no publicly available stats. The captains will invite everyone to correct party in the QC client.
Since there are no custom lobbies available in QC so far, the trick is for captains of both parties to start looking for a match in QC at the same moment. In 9/10 cases you get matched up with your pickup team.
Make sure to join voice, it's preferable to at least listen to your team mates.
So now that you know pretty much everything, only thing left to do is to join the server and start adding. For all other questions you might have, feel free to pm the admins.
long story short, rektangle.org & rekt.rocks are the websites. you can find configs, demos, shitposts and what not there.
rekt yt is rekt yt channel, slap follow/subscribe button hard. demos from clan wars uploaded regularly (thanks to maverick's igmdb). vods as well. even live stream is there for each war. also some random demos get uploaded here and there just because.
enjoy.
ps. this is in quake champions forums cause obviously we're quake champions.
After a long hiatus from the Quake scene, the community sweetheart Axel "Draxen" Masson returns to his roots. The french widowmaker was a force to be reckoned with in Overwatch scene, demolishing all competition with his team unKnights and earning $56 in the process. The hype is real and everyone is impatient to see if playing Overwatch left a dent in Draxen's Quake skill. Only 4 more days to go until we find out!
In the meantime, you can check out the trailer where Draxen is seen stomping 1200 elo CA servers without breaking a sweat.
The last day of Afreeca Starleague Season 2 Ro8 is ahead of us. The semifinalists so far are BeSt, sea and Flash. The last couple to decide who's completing the semis is Jaedong vs Stork.
What can be said about Stork and Jaedong that hasn't been written at least hundreds of times now? It's a rivalry that started way back, in 2007, during EVER Starleague and kept going till this very day. Jaedong walked the royal road during that starleague and it was Stork who faced him in the finals. Dong took the starleague and Stork started his very own Kong line.
What can we expect ten years later? Both of these guys are playing good Brood War, Stork being surprisingly good while JD's zvP ain't quite there yet. All there's left for us to do is to tune in @ 04:30 CST, 10 January 2017 and hope for good games. Who knows, maybe we'll get to see another Lee-Ssang Rok in the semis.
Posted by esdf @ 14:51 CST, 16 November 2016 - iMsg
It's safe to say that SC2 ain't doing that well in Korea after almost every player in the scene (aside from JAGW ones) got teamless. On the other hand, the game that got killed so SC2 could grow roots (ty Blizzard) is thriving once again.
The headline of the month is "TYRANT IS BACK". With Jaedong back, the 4 pillars of Starcraft (Flash, Bisu, Jaedong, Stork) are back in the game that made them. With that in mind, it's only appropriate to have a tournament where those player go at each other and that's what this tournament's all about.
Without further ado, the TaekBangLeeSsang tournament is taking place on November 19th @ 04:00 CDT.
Posted by esdf @ 19:06 CDT, 9 September 2016 - iMsg
Who would've thought that sharp vs shuttle would be grand finals of a Starleague in a competition featuring Flash, sea, Last, zero... But here we are, the unexpected finish to what has been a great Starleague.
Without further ado, the games start today at 7:30 CEST. Tune in on Afreeca twitch if you're awake, if not watch the vods on the same channel.
P.S. You'll be able to watch two consecutive finals in both Starcraft games as the GSL finals will also be held on the same channel at 10:30 CET.
Another weekend and another round of Afreeca Starleague is here. Unfortunately, I forgot to post about sharp vs sea game that was going on early this morning (6 am QQ) so you'll just have to make do with vods. If you're just interested in the result, check the spoiler below.
Second semifinal is Shuttle vs Last. Last is coming off of last week's trashing of Flash in his best matchup and is expected to repeat the same thing against Shuttle tomorrow. It should be an upset even if Shuttle manages to take more than 1 map off of him. The games are scheduled for Monday, Aug 29th, 12:00 CEST and will be casted by Tasteless and Artosis over at Afreeca twitch channel.
Having had a lengthy summer vacation, I wasn't able to update y'all about 2016 Afreeca Starleague. Time to rectify that then.
Let's start off with quick recap of scores of the RO8 games played so far. sSak faced off against sharp and sea went head to head with hero. Presuming you haven't watched the games yet, you can watch the vod of both sSak vs sharp and sea vs hero. Unfortunately, The Casting Archon wasn't casting any of the games (Wolf & RAPiD were the casters). For spoilers check below.
Today's game will be Eyewater (Shuttle) vs Jaehoon and it starts at 23:00 CDT. The real treat however is the game on Monday. In what seems to be the hottest game of the season, Flash goes up against Last in a BO5. Their game starts at 05:00 CDT, 22 August 2024.
Normally that'd be it, but seeing how there's El Classico of e-sports going on on the same days as ASL RO8 I just HAVE TO announce that as well. SK Telecom vs KT Rolster is happening today at 11:00 CEST and on Monday @ 12:00 CEST.
Against all odds, Brood War is still standing strong. Matter of fact, it's almost like SC2 never got released (one can dream). Another testimony to longevity of Korean BW is Afreeca Starleague 2016. The qualifiers are over and all of the 16 participating players are known. Starleague starts tomorrow, 05:30 CDT, 17 July 2024 and lasts until September 4th.
The Starleague is loaded with good players, most notable ones being Flash and EffOrt. Total prizepool is cca ~ USD $21000. All games will be streamed on Afreeca's twitch channel. The English commentary will be provided by Tasteless & Artosis.
Posted by esdf @ 13:02 CST, 13 November 2015 - iMsg
Since it's got pretty late last friday with draft being only halfway through, we've decided to postpone the rest of the cup for this friday. Therefore tonight, in 1 hour, Nov 11, 2015 @ 21:00 CET, the draft continues from WB semis and R3 LB. It's possible that we will need some subs so if you want to play, join #qldrafts and pm esdf.
The mousepad is still in play and by unanymous decision we've decided to award fny with a 1 month QL pro token for his immeasurable contribution to the last draft which made him an undisputed mvp.
Posted by esdf @ 11:28 CST, 6 November 2015 - iMsg
Holas a todos! Here's a quick announcement for y'all. Tonight, October 6th, 2015 @ 21:00 CET a quick 5x5 ctf draft cup will be held. We've already reached minimum of 4 teams needed to run this cup, so now we'd like to extend invitation for everyone else.
Rules are fairly simple, so simple that they fit in this simple little link: rules. As far as map pool goes, it's still being voted on. If you want to play then make sure you vote for your favorite maps as well. You can vote here.
In case you wondered, yes, there are also prizes. Gohann decided to donate a brand new QCK mousepad to the winning team. We still have no idea how the winning team will split the prize, perhaps 20% of cloth to each member? In this sea of ridiculously good prizes there's one that tops them all. The MVP of the cup will win a 1 month Quake Live PRO token!
All you need to do to participate is go to #qldrafts @ irc.quakenet.org and pm one of the admins with your Steam / QL nick. The sign ups are open until 20:30 CET and picking phase starts the moment sign ups close.
Update: Due to a lot of people PM-ing me on irc, the picking starts at 17:00 CEST and games start as soon as picking is over.
Now that the league has finished it is time yet again for some CTF action. This time around it's a one day cup instead of a month long league.
The signups are already open and you can register yourself for the cup until Sunday, 14th @ 16:00 CEST. It is also mandatory to idle in #qldrafts channel on QuakeNet. Whoever's not there when picking starts (16:00 CEST) will be removed from the cup.
Another important thing to mention is that if there is not at least 32 signups (8 teams) the cup will be canceled.
* Format: Double elim
* Start: 16:00 CEST picking, 17:00 CEST games
* Map pool: Infinity, Ironworks, Japanese Castles, Pillbox, Spider Crossings
* Full rules and signups: http://qld.znur.re
Update: The game was interrupted on 2nd map by a QuakeLive update and will be continued on Thursday, 21:30 CEST. The current score is 1-0 for Team PYTON.
The two teams facing off tonight are Team PYTON and Team Fragmaster. The teams are both equal on points and along with Team SPART1E make the leading trio in the league. The game starts at 22:00 CEST and will be played on Japanese Castles, Spider Crossings and IronWorks.
trading $100 in digital ocean credit for d3:ros, divinity original sin(gog @ discount), age of wonders3 (gog@discount), humble origin bundle (purchase above average) & mortal kombat komplete (steam)
tl;dr u get $100 for €50-60 if you do it while games are on discount :D
Week 2 has started and some games have been already played. Tonight it's Team unity against Team PYTON. The games start in a few moments and will be streamed by aka03. The maps they will play on are Troubled Waters, Pillbox and IronWorks.
This time around the two teams facing each other are Team Mastermind and Team Makie. Maps they will play on are Ironworks, Japanese Castles and Courtyard. The game starts tonight (Sat 4th) @ 21:30 CEST.
Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 30 March 2015 to 13:30 CDT, 30 March 2015 Schedule: Passed
The draft kicks off today with a day 1 game between Team Silencep and Team Unity at 19:00 CET. The teams will fight on the following maps: IronWorks, Japanese Castles and Courtyard.
I'm happy to announce that after a long time of preparation the league is finally here. Here's a quick overview on where to sign up and what's expected of you. In addition to this, please read the FULL document that explains in detail what's expected of players along with standard crime & punishment part.
* whoever signs up after the end date will be put on the substitutes list.
** 2 games per week so the league doesn't get drawn out.
*** map pool might be expanded if id software releases some interesting new maps.
Posted by esdf @ 06:52 CST, 26 February 2015 - iMsg
So, I've recently gone back to linux, this time a Fedora instead of arch.
First thing I've noticed is, of course, youtube not working due to no flash and being forced to use the crappy html5 container in firefox or install chrome if I want to watch videos.
So, for a few days I've used the html5 player and it's horrible. or beyond horrible, can't decide yet..
Long story short, finally set up my firefox more or less how I want to, so here's my config.
The extension I'm using is Open With (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/). I'm using this not only for youtube, but for anything with a video running in a flash container. Basically, go about:openwith once you install it and add
/usr/bin/mpv --force-window --ytdl
To make this work you will obviously need mpv and youtube-dl on your system. Set the options to display as menu item on view menu, main context menu and main context menu (links). You can now right-click youtube, twitch, etc links and open them directly in mpv. You can also browse to a twitch channel or youtube page or whatever ytdl supports and just click the mpv icon and it'll load the video.
Now on to embedding mpv instead of flash/html5 container. To do this I needed to install mozplugger and modify it a bit to use mpv instead of mplayer which is the default. think this is the only thing that needs to be changed:
Next thing you need to embed your player of choice in firefox is to grab ViewTube (http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en). Note that you'll need greasemonkey for that. While viewtube is great it unfortunately doesn't support videos embeded on external sites, like ESR for example. That left me a bit disappointed, but I kept looking and seems the same author made the LinkTube extension which replaces all the embeded content on external sites with a link to the video. Unfortunately it makes for an ugly link, so I had to "trim" that script a bit. Here's the trimmed script which only displays the link and no other crap: http://pastie.org/9984555
This is where openwith extension comes in handy again, you can just right-click it and open in mpv and continue to browse with no hassle.
Anyway, hope you find it useful.
Edited by esdf at 04:18 CST, 1 March 2015 - 29196 Hits
Posted by esdf @ 13:34 CST, 20 February 2015 - iMsg
Story One
So, I got this problem. My friends always tell me I'm a hipster. At first I was like 'lol u guys funny', but now it's going on for quite some time (read: months) and it's starting to annoy me. Real friends shouldn't say mean things to each other, right? Is it time for me to break off some friendships or should I stick to that old saying, keep your friends close and enemies even closer? I normally wouldn't care about these "trolls", but I recently lost a lot of weight and even though I got a confidence boost, I still don't feel comfortable (comparison pic).
What's worse, people that pass me by on the street sometimes give me that disgusted look so now I'm starting to feel insecure. Maybe it really is my clothes and looks? Anyway, I will provide some pictures so you can form a good opinion and tell me what you really think.
Here's what I think. I like to dress nice, I like to take care of my looks, does that really make me a hipster? Do people that mock me deserve to be called my friends? Should I give them another chance and pass off their trolling for what it is or break off all contact?
As promised, below are some pics so you can make a good comment.
So, I got this problem. My friends always tell me I'm a hipster. At first I was like 'lol u guys funny', but now it's going on for quite some time (read: months) and it's starting to annoy me. Real friends shouldn't say mean things to each other, right? Is it time for me to break off some friendships or should I stick to that old saying, keep your friends close and enemies even closer? I normally wouldn't care about these "trolls", but I recently lost a lot of weight and even though I got a confidence boost, I still don't feel comfortable (comparison pic).
What's worse, people that pass me by on the street sometimes give me that disgusted look so now I'm starting to feel insecure. Maybe it really is my clothes and looks? Anyway, I will provide some pictures so you can form a good opinion and tell me what you really think.
Here's what I think. I like to dress nice, I like to take care of my looks, does that really make me a hipster? Do people that mock me deserve to be called my friends? Should I give them another chance and pass off their trolling for what it is or break off all contact?
As promised, below are some pics so you can make a good comment.
Posted by esdf @ 15:45 CST, 11 February 2015 - iMsg
so basically, already ran an intern poll and results were more than positive. still, i'd like this to be a public thing for a change so i'm interested in what the rest of you have to say.
question at hands is, would you play a ctf draft league? i'd do the biweekly schedules to avoid it lasting over a month and at the start/middle of march when my uni classes end. anyway, cast your votes here please: http://strawpoll.me/3619002
and yeah, i kind of gave up on the idea of duel draft league since duel's still the only active thing in ql in terms of events + the last 2 ctf drafts were successful so why not try.
edit: oh yeah, whoever voted in that #p-s poll, please don't vote here again since your votes are noted already. and please DON'T vote yes if you have no intention of actually playing.
UPDATE: so combining results with this poll, http://strawpoll.me/3545232/r the total amount of yes votes is 62. Let's say ~20 people voted on both polls, that's still leaves us with over 40 (8 teams with 5 players each). In the next few days I'll announce everything regarding signups, etc.
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Posted by esdf @ 12:42 CST, 5 February 2015 - iMsg
So, yesterday I got a beta invite from Blizzard and was fairly excited about the game. I watched some YT videos of it and it seemed fun, didn't give much attention to the details back then.
Fast forward to today, after playing 5 matches, I'm deeply disturbed about this game. I've no idea who the fuck it was made for, perhaps people that have only 1 hand? Wheelchair gamers?
The goal is the same as in Dota or LoL, get the ancient/core and you win. A lot of people think of LoL as Dota for retards. Well, imo, this is LoL for retards. In addition to no denying, there is no last hitting whatsoever. You kill creeps yet you gain nothing aside from xp. I guess the only reason creep exists is to push the lanes. Speaking of xp, apparently you level up at the same speed as your team. My team went like 30-6 in kills and barely got a level ahead of enemy team so I'm not totally sure how it works but I'm quite sure it's a crap system.
There are no game phases, aside from random skirmishes across the map from the start. There's these mini "events" during the game, such as load up the pirate ship with money and significantly increase your chances of victory thanks to npcs. Same goes for that golem event, even tho it's not as big of a boost as the pirate ship is since each team gets a golem while the ship is only one and basically a team who gets the gold to the chest first gets the control of it for 12 shots.
There are no items you could use like in Dota or LoL. There's basically just you and 4 of the active skills you have leveled up along with a number of passives. There's nothing to do in the game aside from right click the shit out of your mouse. Skills do seem fun, but the combat is quite stale and boring. You just click to no effect until someone of your team fucks up and that turns the tide of the fight. I had the feeling that we could scrim 5x5 for 20 minutes at same spot and still be at a stalemate.
As id software implemented map rotation, Blizzard's HotS has heroes rotation. Basically there's 5-6 free heroes you can play at any time per week. Rest of the heroes you have to buy either with in game gold or real money. Apparently that's the same approach LoL has which speaks for itself and the target audience of retard kids with big allowances. As far as the gold goes, you get some miserable amount of gold per game. You also get a lump sum of gold for reaching certain levels. E.g. you get 1k for levels 2 and 4, and 2k for levels 6 and 8 (level numbers not necessarily correct), which does help you get the heroes, but it's a time consuming investment. There's also daily quests which give out some amount of gold.
Even if you have all the heroes unlocked, it's still a MISERABLE amount of choice on what to play since there's currently really not much of them. Well, it's still a closed beta so hopefully blizz adds a ton more. The more you play a certain hero the more xp he gains after game and subsequently levels up along with you. Hero level ups unlock some skins etc, but what's more important - they unlock skills you can use. So basically, you're not on the same playing field as rest of the pack and can only get there by investing some significant amount of time in the game to level everything up again. Shouldn't be a problem right now with a sad choice of heroes to pick from, but when blizz adds more it sure will be one. TL;DR PAIN IN THE ASS.
Might've forgot to add something, but seeing how I'm overly negative about this game it wouldn't be no positive impressions for sure. Go play Dota instead.
Posted by esdf @ 07:05 CST, 10 December 2014 - iMsg
This isn’t going to be one of those post-acquisition blogs in which the fact that there’s money involved in the transaction is conveniently glossed over. There’s no doubt that being bought by Twitch means all of our employees will be taken care of very well. But at the same time, we’re talking about a group of people who’ve dedicated most - if not all - of their adult lives to esports and to growing this industry. It’s a deserving bunch. On top of that, we’ve reserved a portion of the transaction for a player pool, which means that every player currently contracted with GoodGame will receive a small portion of the company’s sale. And as an Amazon subsidiary, we’ll also be able to offer our players other additional benefits to which they didn’t previously have access.
TL;DR - it’s a good deal for everyone involved. And while I’d be lying to you guys if I said that the level of support didn’t factor into my decision, I’d be lying just as much if I told you that the support alone would’ve been enough. Don’t get me wrong, the financial security doesn’t hurt. But I didn’t put ten years of my life into this company - and this industry - only to sell my soul in public for a couple of bucks.
No word-mincing. No bullshit. That’s not what this is.
Posted by esdf @ 14:38 CST, 3 December 2014 - iMsg
so, anyone playing old guild wars? i've recently just dusted off my dvd boxes and recovered my account. even tho I somehow seem to be lacking the prophecies campaign, i'd really love to play some again. i'm posting here because i'm getting completely wrecked on hard mode and have absolutely 0 builds saved so I unfortunately need some company :D if someone's up for it, pm.
I've been thinking of making a duel league next year with a proleague format. That would basically mean teams of duelers with each player playing 1 map per bo5 match. Maps would be fixed for each play week. In case of tiebreaker map, a player that already played could play again.
That's the general idea. I need some feedback/opinions on this format, suggestions and similar stuff. Duel scene is pretty big and active (compared to other QL scenes) so it could work in theory.
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Posted by esdf @ 10:59 CST, 25 February 2014 - iMsg
First of all, I don't agree with /kill bringing anything to the table regarding balance as some players would want you to think regardless of the mode being played 5v5 or 4v4.
Why I do think /kill is a necessity in ctf is due to powerup dropping being simply a bad option. Let me explain this on two most popular in ctf: japan & spider crossings. On japan it's a common thing for defs to hog the quad and extend it's duration by almost half the original one due to drop powerup availability. That simply kills the game flow when you have a quad def you need to attack against. As far as p9 goes there's a different issue. Teams often delay their home pu more than necessary due to negligence but suffer no penalty because once again you can drop the powerup and have it dropped for as long as 10s before it disappears which allows them to make up for their bad play in just two drops.
Those are the two biggest issues I have with drop powerup, but certainly not the only ones.
My suggestion is the following: disable drop powerups in competitive ctf and instead force kill as a default. It would be nice if an admin made a poll out of this so everyone can vote.
The offline part of the 9th Sonic Starleague kicks off today, at 05:00 CDT, with it's sponsor for this season being Fix. First on the schedule of this RO32 is group A, Killer vs Mong, immediately followed by Britney vs zerO. Matches 1 and 2 are BO3m winner and loser matches are BO1 and final match is BO3 as well. BO3 map order is as follows: Mist, Neo Electric Circuit, Fighting Spirit while the only map that will be played for BO1 is Circuit Breaker.
No, it's not SK Planet Proleague just adding an event, it's the first ever Brood War Proleague finals after the switch back in 2012, starting today at 07:00 CDT. Sponsored by SBENU and Sonic, the Proleague features all of your favorite teams, from Jaedong Hwaseung Oz to MBC Game. Keep in mind that this is just a form of pre-season and that the actual SBEN Proleague season has yet to start.
I'm pretty sure that you're wondering why do the teams have old names? Well, Sonic made sure that old teammates are gathered under same banner as they have been during Brood War. Unfortunately, the sponsors haven't returned along with the players, so that means KT, STX, etc are not actually sponsoring the teams. The two teams that have qualified to finals are MBC Game and STX Soul and are both filled with good players, so tune in and enjoy the games!
Posted by esdf @ 15:08 CST, 29 December 2013 - iMsg
With Day 1 over, Day 2 of the first week of SPL is just around the corner. Action resumes tomorrow, on Monday 30th at 05:00 CDT. First game of the day is Samsung Galaxy KHAN vs Jin Air Green Wings (ex KeSPA Team 8).
Solar < Bel'Shir Vestige LE > sOs Stork < Outboxer > Maru Trend < Frost LE > Rogue (CliMax,Savage) eMotion < Yeonsu LE > Terminator
Ace: Star Station TE
With KHAN losing it's ace JangBi and coach January it seems that only dilemma about this matchup is how hard will they lose. Fielding slumping Stork and 3 rookies against Jin Air's star-studded lineup in Maru (ex Prime) and sOs (ex Woongjin Stars) looks like a trainwreck waiting to happen.
Next and last matchup of the day is probably the best matchup of the week with KT Rolster and CJ Entus going head to head. Both teams are championship contenders, specially after SPL format got changed from BO7 to BO5 which means Flash can once again carry the whole team alone to the finals (and put the F in KT once again). Only thing Flash needs is for one of his teammates to win a game and force it to acematch and Zest, Stats and TY are well capable of that. On the other hand, with coach Park joining CJ ranks their players seem to have rediscovered themselves and are stomping everyone, mostly falling out of individual leagues due to team kills. One thing is sure, this match can go both ways and will be a great match to watch.
First thing to grab the attention in this season's Proleague was the venue. The venue is amazing, well suited even for GSL/OSL finals (needs more seating capacity tho). SPOTV's touch to the Proleague comes in addition of Ace booths. The two booths are elevated above the regular booths and covered in a curtain so the viewers can't see the ace players of each team until the curtains drop. A touch that certainly adds to the suspension of waiting for the ace match.
Venue aside, the opening game of the season saw Team MVP obliterated (stomped, any adjective you want that describes ultra rape is fitting) by SK Telecom T1. There isn't much to write about, my only regret is that we didn't get to see Soulkey play. However, second game of the day was a real joy to watch, even going to the ace match.
Everyone expected IM to stomp Prime, perhaps not in the manner in which SKT T1 stomped MVP, but still - stomp was inevitable in everyones minds. The game kicked off as expected with Squirtle not having much trouble dispatching a CJ rookie, TerrOr. Even though Terror didn't play bad, he just couldn't cope with Squirtle's play, doing some really rookie mistakes (like forgetting to cancel 2 dead hatcheries). Next up was HerO against Jila and everyone expected an easy win for HerO, mostly because Jila (formerly known as GoJila in SC2 and Kal in BW) just recently got out of military. What happened was HerO losing his Mothership Core to a Phoenx and two Stalkers and that was pretty much all she wrote for HerO. Jila went on to 3Gate Stargate all-in and HerO typing GG in 8th minute of the game and Prime was back in this game. Even though HerO's PvP ain't really good, no one expected a build order loss against a guy who just got out of army. Next up was another PvP starring Creator vs YongHwa. What happened was another shock, not so much in YongHwa losing, but more in Creator cheesing. You could always count on Creator to play a straight up game. You could, at least. Early in to the game YongHwa found his base filled with cannons and abandoned the main and transfered the probes to his just completed Nexus on natural. Next up was YongHwa's turn to do something and possibly salvage the game, with Creator not having much units and MSC with no energy it looked as a possibility. Things were looking good for YongHwa, as he tried to snipe the MSC before it charge. Unfortunately for him, he sniped it too late. Creator pulled a clutch move, the milisecond before YongHwa sniped the MSC it charged and he successfuly threw down a nexus cannon to secure the map lead for Prime. IM sent out ByuL against yet another Prime protoss, Remember (aka Chance) in hopes to get the game to ace match. ByuL handled Remember easily with a really creative use of burrowed roaches and finished him off with hydralisks to get the game to ace match. Ace featured ByuL for IM and Creator once again for Prime. And once again Creator cheesed, this time unsuccessfuly as his 2gate proxy got scouted on time and handled easily by ByuL. Few moments later, the Prime protoss had no option but to gg out and lose the game for his team. Overall, Prime performed above expectations and showed that they're not here just to give free wins, like EG-TL once was.
Posted by esdf @ 08:54 CST, 28 December 2013 - iMsg
The Proleague is finally here. New season kicks off tomorrow, on Sunday 29th at 05:00 CDT. MVP will go against SK Telecom T1 in what is to be the opening match of SPL 2014, followed by Incredible Miracle against Prime.
There is one more Proleague starting along with SPL, the FPL (Fantasy Proleague) which is hosted by Team Liquid. Only thing you need to do to earn some e-fame and e-dollars is to create your own team within the next 20 hours. There is only one rule regarding FPL that you need to know: Roro destroys your anti team.
Squirtle < Star Station TE > TerrOr HerO (Liquid`HerO) < Frost LE > Jila (aka GooJila,Kal) YongHwa < Yeonsu LE > Creator ByuL < Sejong Science Base > Remember (aka Beyond,Chance)
Ace < Bel'Shir Vestige LE > Ace
Posted by esdf @ 16:58 CST, 22 December 2013 - iMsg
As this calendar year is coming to an end, a new SC2 SK Proleague season is closing in with each day passing. December 29th marks the start of a new season. A lot has changed since the last season. One of the big changes is that OGN will no longer broadcast PL and it will be broadcasted exclusively on SPOTV Games and SPOTV2.
The top 2 teams, STX Soul and Woongjin Stars have been disbanded with it's players finding new homes among other KeSPA and ESF teams. The most notable names that won't participate in the next Proleague are ex STX Innovation (now Acer) and Dear (now Mousesports), KHAN's JangBi (retired), T1's Bisu (retired) and EG's Jaedong as EG-TL have decided to not compete. The 3 teams that dropped out have been replaced by Incredible Miracle, Prime and Team MVP. Samsung KHAN has been renamed to Samsung Galaxy KHAN and KeSPA Team 8 finally found a sponsor and is now called Jin Air Greenwings.
Format has also been changed. This season will have four rounds and each round will be played in round robin BO5 Proleague format. Each round will also have it's own playoffs where top four teams will fight for the title of round winner. The round winner gets 40 extra points and USD ~$15,000 while the second best team gets awarder with 10 extra points and USD ~$5,000. The round playoffs will be in BO7 all-kill format. Top 4 teams in regular part of the season will qualify for post-season playoffs which will be played as best BO3 of BO7 matches with the formats alternating between Proleague, all-kill and Proleague again. Playoffs format has changed to single elimination bracket with the #1 team playing vs #4, and #2 vs #3. The grand finals are played as a single BO7 match. The winners are awarded with USD ~$50,000 while runner-up gets USD ~$20,000.
There's a new caster lineup as well, SuperNovaManiac and Whiplash duo got replaced by Wolf and Brendan Valdes. You will be able to watch the streams on Naver, Twitch.TV and YouTUBE.
* Sponsor: SK Telecom * Teams: SK Telecom T1, KT Rolster, CJ Entus, Jin Air Green Wings, Incredible Miracle, Prime, Team MVP, Samsung Galaxy Khan * Casters: Wolf Schröder and Brendan Valdes * Streams: Naver, Twitch.TV, YouTUBE * Game days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday from 05:00 CDT * Point distribution: 1st: 81 / 2nd: 71 / 3rd: 61 / 4th: 51 / 5th: 45 / 6th: 40 / 7th: 35 / 8th: 30 * Map pool: Bel'Shir Vestige, Frost, Outboxer, Sejong Science Base, Star Station, Yeonsu * Round format: round robin, BO5 Proleague * Round playoff format: BO7 all-kill * Season playoff format: single elimination, best BO3 of BO5, alternating between Proleague, all-kill and Proleague format (game 1: Proleague, game 2: all-kill, tiebreaker: Proleague) * Grand finals format: single match, BO7 Proleague * Prizes per round: USD ~$15,000 for round winner, USD ~$5,000 for round runner-up * Prize for grand finals: USD ~$50,000 for Proleague winner, USD ~$20,000 for Proleague runner-up * Individual prizes: USD ~$5,000 to player with most wins, USD ~$3,000 to finals MVP, USD ~$2,000 to rookie of the year, USD ~$1,000 to head coach of the year
* Sunday, December 29th (05:00 CDT): SKT T1 vs MVP followed by IM vs Prime * Monday, December 30th (05:00 CDT): Samsung Galaxy KHAN vs Jin Air Greenwings followed by KT Rolster vs CJ Entus * Tuesday, December 31st (05:00 CDT): MVP vs IM followed by SKT T1 vs Prime
Posted by esdf @ 08:08 CST, 19 December 2013 - iMsg
I've finally decided to post about a project of mine. Took me only death of teamleagues for quake live and being unable to play QL anymore to do it. You can check out the preview on esdf.in/suck-less.
What is "Suck Less"?
It's a design for a league site worked on by myself (layout, css and overall idea) and super_koziol (gfx). The idea is to have a tournament system that sucks less than (now dead) clan base, hoq, wga, etc. From the feedback I've got so far, the site's design is quite good, it's not a total clusterfuck and you don't need a map & a compass to get around it.
Features so far:
* First thing you'll notice is that the site doesn't have any news items and similar shit attached to it. There's 3 columns per row which represent the currently announced / ongoing tournaments and offer you only thing you need from a tournament site: to participate or watch. News should be on sites dedicated to news, e.g. ESR.
* Registration will be as painless as possible, requiring only username & password. I'm thinking of adding email verification just for the sake of preventing spam.
* You can also check out the dashboard, which is clean, simple & intuitive. I've included only profile settings I think that matter - username, nickname, password & contact.
* If you're a clan/team owner you'll get to edit all the stuff that's in there, if not you can just preview. If you want to make a team, only thing you need to input is team name, contact & password. Once the team is created you got a few more options to customize it, but nothing extra.
* The team overview section will also show what leagues your team is currently competing in, your upcoming clanwars, new challenges and results awaiting your confirmation. Oh yeah, the roster is there as well with simple options to kick someone out. Once someone enters your team password, he's automatically in - no need to confirm stuff by clan owner.
* The cup/league info page shows some general cup info, rules, participants, brackets & results. Speaking of brackets, they're missing, I'm struggling hard to design something nice when it comes to brackets and will probably use some default embed crap (unless I get an epiphany). The page is also missing a signup button for now. That's about it, all relevant info on one place.
* Team profile page includes contact info, roster overview and achievements. It's currently missing a join form, but will get added.
* All the pages mentioned here are linked somewhere on the site. Since it's not properly linked yet and I don't think that you should crawl through the tabs just to find 1 link, here they are: main page, cup info, login, team profile, dashboard.
What needs to be done:
* Design of the admin panel, footer, personal profile page and add missing details to existing pages
* Actual code to make the site work. So far I've talked to PYTON and he said he could do it, but it'd take him time since he doesn't have time to work just on this, so if any of you want to contribute feel free to reply here, pm me here or join #suckless on irc. Skillset needed: php/mysql/jquery.
* My knowledge in those areas is lacking and with id killing off linux support my interest for QL and related stuff got totally deflated. That being said, I will finish the design on this mainly because I don't want to see all the progress so far go to waste. And I do hope there's guys out there willing to help out with actual code so we make the best tournament site out there.
NOTE!!! The site is not functional, this is only a design overview and how things are intended to work. No actual code has been written yet and this thread is more of a feedback thread. If you have any ideas on what to add, improve, remove, etc please reply here so we can take it in consideration before it's too late (i.e. before the work on actual code starts).
Posted by esdf @ 06:16 CDT, 20 October 2013 - iMsg
The #ctfpickup team is inviting everybody for the today's special CTF day. Each game today is played in 5on5 format.
This has different reasons. First of all we'd like to see whether 5on5 is working for Quake Live or not. CTF has always been played 5on5 back in Quake 3 and we'd like to look back on that. Another reason is, that we'd like to bring a bit more variety to CTF. We may have a few more special events for the upcoming Sundays.
so while browsing esr i'm noticing that there's actually nothing to read or do on site, unless it's flaming on zhu threads.
it'd be nice if some people stepped up and did some regular coverage of at least one of the duel tournaments that we have going on, and maybe make some sort of power rank on the duelers (like team liquid have), etc...
just a suggestion for people willing to do stuff, i'm not one of them. i prefer to just complain and whine.
edit: i meant for power ranks to be written by people who watch duels and actually know about duelers.. i don't know shit aside from that there's evil & 2-3 more names :D specially bout how they fare on each map etc...
and as tournament coverage, just someone to recap how the action went throughout the tournament, similar like how there used to be an occasional lan coverage.
Let's start off with the most obvious. It's called a DRAFT, but it isn't one. One would think that taking part in draft means playing with a random team against other random teams similar in skill level. On the other hand this draft lets you register and play in a premade team which is no different then other cups & leagues. What is wrong with that is the fact that you can stack your team and defeat the whole purpose of the draft. Next point I'd like to make that this particular cup had skill limitation imposed on participants, basically - you had to be a shit/average player to take part. The initial level requirement was level 6 PER PLAYER, then 1-2 days before the cup it was changed to level 6 PER TEAM AVERAGE. This opened the door to 2-3 top players picking up 1-2 baddies just to drop their team level average. While talking about levels, it's important to say that level requirement to play in a CTF tournament is based off of duel & clan arena stats/match history. Pretty brilliant system, isn't it? :)
So, what happened? A couple of stacked teams signed up just because they had 1 bad player in their team that dropped the average level to 6 and plowed through the teams this cup was made for. When actual draft or low skilled teams played each other, it kind of produced fun games (score-wise, e.g. z1s vs CZA). I wouldn't want to blame it too much on the players tho, they obeyed all the cup rules and it's pretty obvious who is the real reason why this draft got fucked up.
How to make it better? First of all, if your website is not ready to host a tournament for a certain game mode, then don't host it. Learned that on ESA (that had real tech issues tho). Trying to skill restrict a CTF cup based on DUEL/CA stats, that's just a sad and halfassed effort. When you announce a DRAFT cup then make it draft, not a regular cup. I'm aware that making it a real draft might have required admins to do some actual job, like seeding the players and manually making the teams, but it had to be done. If nothing else, you could've asked some of the ops on #ctfpickup and I'm pretty sure they'd help you out. No excuses for being lazy just cause the site can't do it for you at the moment. Also, the rules. Once you make the rules - stick with 'em. It was supposed to be a lowskilled CTF draft and level 6 PER PLAYER fit in to that whereas level 6 PER TEAM AVERAGE totally broke it. Last and not the least - the casters. While ins and ddk work good together on duel/tdm, they're horrid on ctf and have no clue on how to cover the game mode. I've no idea why one of them wasn't paired up by zoot, at least the guy casted a ton of ctf before and still plays ctf. Ddk and ins are not ctf players, and don't even casually play it (aside from 2-3 pickups a month by ins). Can't expect them to contribute anything relevant to the tournament.
In the recent wake of events (i.e. Dota2 cup), where the site literally broke down under the load and with some bugs preventing people to actually sign up or check in for the cup, we at ESA have decided to postpone the cup.
The new date will be announced as soon as the site is fixed and bug free (at least from all the bugs that ruined the Dota2 tournament). Please stay tuned for the new date, everything will be announced here and on ESAGamer.
Sincere apologies on behalf of whole ESA team.
Edited by esdf at 05:34 CDT, 30 June 2013 - 1259 Hits
Last time you heard from us, we announced the site going live. This time around we're happy to announce the TDM Open Cup #1 which is filled with prizes. Top 16 teams all get a part of the £1250 prize pool and thanks to our newest sponsors, Ozone Gaming, the best team gets awesome Ozone Blade keyboards as well.
The cup kicks off at 09:00 CDT on June 30th and features a double elimination bracket. The sign-ups are already open so feel free to start registering for the tournament. The check-in begins 1 hour before the tournament start. You can get all the information about the tournament (rules, schedule...) on the tournament page. Stream information will be added during the next few days. Also, please hop by our irc channel if you have any additional questions.
Last, but not the least, seeing how there was a lot of misunderstanding on what "free" means when it comes to ESA tournaments and how subscriptions are going to work, please check out the extensive interview that HolySh1t guys did with Didge (ESA director). You will find all the answers to your questions there.
Rojo Gavlin, eSports Manager at Ozone Gaming comments “At Ozone we’re always supporting the gaming scene. Now we’re glad to start this partnership with ESA as we believe in this new service, which has a great platform to host tournaments with an attractive and fresh prize distribution system. Ozone looks forward to the future of continuing to support tournaments, live events and teams through partnership with ESA.”
Last time you heard from us, we announced the site going live. This time around we're happy to announce the TDM Open Cup #1 which is filled with prizes. Top 16 teams all get a part of the £1250 prize pool and thanks to our newest sponsors, Ozone Gaming, the best team gets awesome Ozone Blade keyboards as well.
The cup kicks off at 09:00 CDT on June 30th and features a double elimination bracket. The sign-ups are already open so feel free to start registering for the tournament. The check-in begins 1 hour before the tournament start. You can get all the information about the tournament (rules, schedule...) on the tournament page. Stream information will be added during the next few days. Also, please hop by our irc channel if you have any additional questions.
Last, but not the least, seeing how there was a lot of misunderstanding on what "free" means when it comes to ESA tournaments and how subscriptions are going to work, please check out the extensive interview that HolySh1t guys did with Didge (ESA director). You will find all the answers to your questions there.
Rojo Gavlin, eSports Manager at Ozone Gaming comments “At Ozone we’re always supporting the gaming scene. Now we’re glad to start this partnership with ESA as we believe in this new service, which has a great platform to host tournaments with an attractive and fresh prize distribution system. Ozone looks forward to the future of continuing to support tournaments, live events and teams through partnership with ESA.”
ELECTRONIC SPORTS ASSOCIATION (ESA) is starting it's operations today. To make things more interesting, one of the games it will feature is Quake Live.
EDIT: Due to accidentally having published the tournament before everything was sorted out (including map pool, schedules, etc), I'd just like to confirm that the game mode will be TDM. A more detailed post on the first tournament will greet you on Monday/Tuesday here on ESR, along with possibility to sign your teams up for it, etc. Sorry for the confusion!
Why Quake? Well, seeing how our dearest Q is the granddaddy of e-sports it just wouldn't be fair to leave it out. You'll get the chance to compete for points, cash and prestige in ESA's tournaments and to participate you only need to sign up on ESA's homepage.
During next week there will be extensive information about our first cup posted here, so watch out! It's time to start signing up because the cups start as early as July and you don't want to be doing everything on the last day now, do you? :P
Check out the links below for more info on what ESA is about and more details on it's tournaments. Also, you're welcome to idle/perform in #esa @ quakenet.
the ctf guide is not really finished, latest update being may 10th, but it's 3/4 done, so I'm comfortable with posting here. The front page will get a redesign some time this year, depends when I get the time.
guide is basically all me until may 10th version, when it got heavily populated with raist's contributions (so I've just put the guy as co-author). i suggest you download the pdf or html, as the on-site version got quite bulky (wall-of-text bulky). might give that l2p page a redesign as well.
as far as fragvids go, uploaded a ton, mostly didn't check with authors if it's ok, so if for some reason you find your video being mirrored by me on site and youtube and don't like it, query on irc or leave a comment here, i'll remove it.
in the end, thanks to everyone who uploaded their demos, configs, etc. if there's more people interested in contributing in such a way, leave a comment here or query on irc.
EpicRewind is PC software which provides "instant-replay" or DVR like video capture functionality to PC games. When running, your gameplay video is continuously buffered in fast System RAM, the contents of this buffer can be saved to a file with the press of a hotkey. Instead of pre-planning a gaming video you can selectively save the highlight moments after they happen. Ideal for MMOs and Multiplayer games where 99% of the gameplay isn't worth sharing and the interesting stuff can happen at unexpected times.
Awesome Performance
EpicRewind is different than other capture software you might be familiar with, video isn't being encoded and written to disk continuously. Instead, EpicRewind simply copies raw video frames into a rolling buffer in system RAM, writing to disk and encoding is deferred until you choose to save a video. This keeps your average system load to an absolute minimum and helps minimize the impact on your gameplay experience.
also, on linux version
from Zugdud sent 23 hours ago
Greetings! We would like to do Mac OSX and Linux ports eventually but first we are focusing on making the Windows version really solid/awesome. Would love to get that done eventually though
Posted by esdf @ 08:28 CST, 29 November 2012 - iMsg
ShadyAK & esdf take turns at talking about the recently finished Dreamhack Winter tournament and two of the biggest stories that happened there - Evil winning and Av3k retiring, as well as production values and what may have gone on behind the scenes. The topics also covered were the upcoming online ZOWIE sponsored tournament that is going to be hosted by Excello and of course, the inevitable ranking of the countries according to Quake skill and retardation level.
Posted by esdf @ 06:50 CST, 20 November 2012 - iMsg
Pilot podcast orientated for Deathmatch/Arena-based FPS players touching on in-depth competitive FPS issues. A quick glance into Quake as a competitive title by two Veterans (?), with emphasis on telling it how it really is!
esdf goes balls deep into DreamHack: Winter 2012 QL predictions and his analysis on cooller & the technicalities of high-level CTF casting.
ShadyAK talks about the exciting concepts in-store for the future of HouseofQuake.com and the professionalism of the guys at the helm of it, his experience of adminning QL and Q3 events in the past year.
On top of that, Neo-Nazi cocksmokers, the Queen of Croatia, Star-Craft:BroodWar, piss poor audio editing and much, much more!
Special thanks to GeeRecordsOfficial for the intro song! Very talented and creative music producer! Don't be afraid to message her despite the million+ video views, she's always fast and friendly with responses! You can find her channel by following this link.
With Kuh3liga finishing tomorrow (Aug 15th) the first draft of the CA, CTF and TDM rankings per divisions is now available, so here is a quick summary. If you want to see how the league went in greater detail, visit their site on kuh3liga.eu.
Update: The Summer 2012 Kuh3liga is now finished and the results are final. Update: Not all matches were played as the league will effectively be finished on Wednesday, August 15th.
Legend:Bold = promoted, italic = relegated, strikethrough = dropped, Blank spot = not ranked / not played Links:Kuh3liga
Edited by esdf at 09:50 CDT, 15 August 2012 - 7721 Hits
Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 4 August 2012 to 07:30 CDT, 4 August 2012 Schedule: Passed
This is it. The end of over a decade long professional eSports in Korea as we know it. With first OGN Starcraft 2 Starleague right behind the corner, we are left with one last look at professional Brood War at it's best.
This year's finals is a reprisal of last year's in which JangBi completed Legend of the Fall against Fantasy to seal his first ever OSL title which left Fantasy in the Kong Line.
Starting tomorrow from 04:00 CDT we will find out if JangBi becomes only protoss alongside Garimto to win two OSL titles and repeats a feat only matched by BoxeR and Jaedong - to win a back-to-back OSL title. Also, this is the last chance for Fantasy to break his Kong curse and become immortalized as the last Brood War OSL champion ever.
Update: JangBi takes home the last Brood War OSL ever in what proved to be a complete rape of Fantasy! Well done \o/ GG NO RE. Fantasy remains King of Kong.
With all the OSL prelims over, and GSL groups already announced, the KeSPA groups are here too. The players have been divided in three groups over two play days, and only players missing from KeSPA are Fantasy and JangBi, but don't worry, they are seeded directly in to the tournament due to reaching the finals of tving OSL 2012, the last Brood War OSL ever.
Six players will move on (top two from each group) and form the Round of 16 along with the 8 GSL players (OZ, MVP, Nestea, PartinG, DRG, San, MC, MarineKing) and 2 more seeded KeSPA players (the aforementioned Fantasy and JangBi).
i'd even drop spiders tbh, think it's time to let the old maps finally die and possibly bring back c10 (courtyard). seeing how it was completely reworked and is nothing like the old bunk-in-base fest, maybe it should also be given a shot and have a pool of something like this:
p1, siberia/reflux, infinity, c7, c10.
i'd only keep p1 cause atm it's the only map in ql that most teams can evenly play on.
as far as my reflux vote, now that the map has been fixed and is free of fps drops, and with ra spawning every 60 seconds, i think that bs runner can't be ridiculously stacked anymore and that it's worth a try.
opinions?
edit: i'm aware that this forum is mostly filled with osptards, and that reasonable people are in minority, but look at where all this 3w crap got us, 12 years later, same maps, ctf totally dead.
Edited by esdf at 06:48 CDT, 25 July 2012 - 11541 Hits
hey guys, since I really don't feel like spamming the irc in hopes of someone getting the message in between qnet glining me for abuse, I've decided to post here.
Basically, we at CSN are planning to do something tdm starting from september, and we'd need a couple of people from tdm scene to come and help us organise/admin things for the tdm crowd.
I would like to add that this post is intended only for EU. our hq is on quakenet, channel #csn.ql, so you can come there and talk to me (esdf) or any other CSN admins (steve, pyton, etc). if that's too much of a bother, you can always leave me an imsg here on esr.
people we're interested in should be motivated and enthusiastic about quake. it'd also be nice if you have some experience with admining in the past.
Edited by esdf at 09:56 CDT, 22 July 2012 - 1536 Hits
Dear Quake fans and those that just love to game, the Cyber Sports Network is proud announce that we will be running events and raffles during QuakeCon 2012 BYOC. Much like last year, CSN will host tournaments, raffles, giveaways and show matches and hand out over $20,000 in cash and prizes. Along with plenty of BYOC Quake Live action of various mods, including PQL, FFA and Domination, CSN will host various events for some of the top RTS, MOBA and FPS game titles.
For this to all happen, CSN will need your help. For the last 2 years, CSN has been proud to be only major gaming organization to continue to support Quake and other FPS game titles in North America and the QuakeCon BYOC is the mecca of FPS LAN parties.
The Cyber Sports Network has started a kickstarter fundraising program to help organize this experience. All donations to this program will go directly to the BYOC! Even a single donation of $1 will help. For CSN to cover the cost of this experience, the entire project must be funded. CSN is asking for all of those Quakers that appreciate the contribution made to the community consider donating.
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brescia/lars to replay his game against yet another community favorite, 
syndrom and 
SHUGH. The lack of spectator mode means you'll have to be happy with one pov per stream.
BeSt, 
sea and 
Jaedong vs 
fny with a 1 month QL pro token for his immeasurable contribution to the last draft which made him an undisputed mvp.
Gohann decided to donate a brand new QCK mousepad to the winning team. We still have no idea how the winning team will split the prize, perhaps 20% of cloth to each member? In this sea of ridiculously good prizes there's one that tops them all. The MVP of the cup will win a 1 month Quake Live PRO token!
sno
Fragmaster
lokario
intronaut
unity
Mastermind
Lun4tic
Makie
03
khan
scorp1on_7
- feeling emotional
Sonic & Kim Carrier
STX Soul and 
Woongjin Stars have been disbanded with it's players finding new homes among other KeSPA and ESF teams. The most notable names that won't participate in the next Proleague are ex STX 
Unknown are the EC XXVII champions!
noctis
gerppa
ShadyAK talks about the exciting concepts in-store for the future of HouseofQuake.com and the professionalism of the guys at the helm of it, his experience of adminning QL and Q3 events in the past year.
