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IEM GC Gamescom 2010 - Day 1 Mix (No comments)

( Gallery: QL)

Posted by Nukm @ 05:07 CDT, 19 August 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

This is a mix of pictures from different sites, focusing on QL. For more and SC2 related pics, make sure to check out the full galleries at:

- esl-world.net
- fnatic.com
- fragster.de
- cyberfight.ru

First Image >>

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IEM5 Gamescom Last 2 players and Maplist (40 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 03:17 CDT, 13 August 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The ESL announced yesterday the two last participants for the IEM5 Global Challenge Gamescom after the online qualifier took place:

bodzo and

Sl1p. The french player winz who made it to the top2 declined his slot.

Also, the Quakelive maplist for the competition is now finally known and will be as same as the on-going QuakeCon 2010: Aerowalk, Battleforged, Blood Run, Furious Heights and Lost World.

Updated QL Groups

Don't forget you can still win 1 out of 5 ESL TV Premium keys to watch the games. On that topic, the main ESL TV stream schedule was already released. There should be an additional stream running during the event which would cover the ENC QL Final.

ESL TV Program

Update: GaRpY and GUard are failing, matr0x and his brother STING will replace them at Gamescom.
Update 2: mAdix won't attend and proZaC will replace him!

Links: Announcement 1, Announcement 2, Pretty stage!

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Gamescom Groups & 5 ESL TV keys to win (130 comments)

( Major News: QL SC2)

Posted by xou @ 14:30 CDT, 11 August 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The Quakelive and Starcraft 2 groups of the IEM5 Global Challenge Gamescom has just been announced today. Both disciplines will feature 16 players divided in 4 groups of 4.

QL Groups

SC2 Groups

Also the ESL is offering a few ESL TV Premium keys for community websites such as ours and 5 ESR users will be able to win one of these. We won't run any trivia or raffle, but instead we will hand the codes to the 5 people who will get the most [+] with a single comment in this post.

Captioned pictures, captions from our galleries (post the link), wall papers or even pictures of the ESR logo in some interesting places, are all welcome as long as the main theme remains competitive gaming (Quakelive or even SC2 if you dare). The main rule is to be CREATIVE, because reposts are boring.

The deadline is set for Friday midnight (CEST)! The keys will be given as soon as I sober up on Saturday.

Update: Since the thread wasn't really popular, we'll award 1 user from this post (gratz .syL) and 4 from the "a lot more active" QuakeCon 2010 post!

Update 2: The 4 other winners are Trance, p4r4, ZeritoN and donka!

Links: Groups announcement, Global Challenge Gamescom

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IEM5 GC Gamescom QL Qualifier (81 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:19 CDT, 10 August 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The IEM5 Global Challenge Gamescom held in

Cologne from the 18th to 22nd of August will see two Quakelive players qualified through an online tournament.

Qualifier details

Qualifier map pool

Final rankings:

1st. bodzo
2nd. winz
3rd. Sl1p
4th. matr0x

Links: Sign-up, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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Rapha takes Big Bang 2010 (164 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 01:06 CDT, 8 August 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 18:00 CDT, 6 August 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 7 August 2010
Schedule: Passed

Update: Final standings:

1. Shane "rapha" Hendrixson - $800
2. Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty - $500 + Qualified for AC Playoff
3. Chance "chance" Lacina - $300
4. Brian "destrukt" Flander - $200

The Big Bang 2010 will take place in

Ottumwa (Iowa) during the 5-8th August 2010. This LAN will feature a Quakelive LAN server in order to warm up before QuakeCon. The event also features the ESL America Regular Cup IV to qualify for IEM5 American Championship Playoffs.

Results

VODs: djWHEAT + blip
Links: Tournaments portal, ESL America
IRC:

#esl.quakelive or #ivghof

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IEM5 Gamescom participants and qualifier (116 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by SpUt @ 11:32 CDT, 4 August 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

ESL has announced the 14 selected players for the Extreme Masters Global Challenge, held at gamescom from the 18th to 22nd of August.

Invited players

The remaining 2 slots will be filled by the top2 of a qualifier cup to be run on Sunday.

Qualifier details:

Date: Sunday, 8th of August 2010
Time: 11:00 CDT
Layout: Single Elimination, best-of-3 maps
Restrictions: Sign-up requires an ESL account and entered QL player name

Links: Announcement, Qualifier Sign-up

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National ESL Open Cup #4 (24 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 17:10 CDT, 29 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 29 July 2010 to 23:00 CDT, 29 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The National ESL Open Cup #4 is taking place tonight at 19:00 CDT and will grant the last points for the July rankings. After that, the player with most points will be rewarded with $400. The three cups were won by

Chance so far!

Here are the rankings of the previous Open Cups:

Open Cup #1

Open Cup #2

Open Cup #3

And the rankings for July 2010:

July Rankings

Update: The cup is over and the rankings are as following:

1st. ZeRo4
2nd. rey
3rd. demex / Chance

Stream:

Quake-Live TV
Links: Sign-up, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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QL IEM5 - NA Regular Season Cup #3 (29 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 15:30 CDT, 26 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 26 July 2010 to 00:30 CDT, 27 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The National ESL Regular Season Cup III is taking place Monday evening at 19:00 CDT and will grant three more slots for the North American Championships Playoffs. The guys from Quake-Live TV will most definitely be streaming the cup once again!

List of the qualified player

Update: The cup is now over and here are the rankings:

1st. Griffin
2nd. rey
3rd. sparks
4th. ZeRo4

Stream: Quake-Live TV
Links: Sign-up, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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National ESL Open Cup #3 (22 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 18:02 CDT, 22 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 22 July 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 22 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The National ESL Open Cup #3 is taking place tonight at 19:00 CDT and will grant more points for the July rankings. At the end of the month, the player with most points will be rewarded with $400. The second cup was won by

Chance, again!

Here are the rankings of the previous Open Cups:

Open Cup #1

Open Cup #2

And from the IEM5 NA Qualifiers:

Regular Season Cup #1

Regular Season Cup #2

Update: The cup is now over and here are the rankings:

1st. Chance
2nd. dkt
3rd. kmrey
4th. gellehsak

Stream: Quake-Live TV
Links: Sign-up, Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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Global Challenge Gamescom with Quakelive (59 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 13:04 CDT, 21 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The ESL just announced the first tournament of the 2nd Global Challenge of the Intel Extreme Masters Season V:

"Gamescom, the largest trade fair and event highlight for interactive games, has officially been announced as the host for the second Global Challenge of the fifth Intel Extreme Masters season. 16 of the world's best Quake Live players will battle it out in Cologne, Germany, from August 18th to 22nd, for a total of $10,000!"

Some online qualifier should be organized very soon and will feature 2 slots for the events. The remaining 14 slots will be granted on invitation and you can apply by sending an email to masters.application[at]esl[dot]eu.

Prize money

Links: Announcement, Global Challenge Gamescom'10

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Regular Season Cup #2 (41 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by QuakeLiveTV @ 17:58 CDT, 19 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 19 July 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 19 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

This week, QuakeLive.TV returns to bring you coverage of the National ESL Regular Season Cup II (19:00 CDT, 19 July 2010) and Open Cup 3 (19:00 CDT, 22 July 2010). We are proud to present such consistent and high-quality tournaments to the North American scene!

There are only 3 more Regular Season cups in which North American players can qualify for the playoffs in September, leading up to the New York LAN Finals in October, so don't miss this week's action!

Update: The cup is finished and the top3 players who qualified are as following:

1st. rapha
2nd. everkill
3rd. gellehsak
4th. FienD

Links: Stream,

@QuakeLive_TV, National ESL Home, Regular Season Cup I Results, Open Cup 2 Results.

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National ESL Open Cup #2 (25 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 10:32 CDT, 15 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 19:00 CDT, 15 July 2010 to 22:00 CDT, 15 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The National ESL Open Cup #2 is taking place tonight at 19:00 CDT and will grant more points for the July rankings. At the end of the month, the player with most points will be rewarded with $400. The first cup was won by

Chance.

Chance was also the winner of the first Regular Season Cup on last Monday evening. He is now qualified for the IEM5 American Playoffs along with

dkt (2nd) and

Flysher (3rd).

Stream: Quake-Live TV
Links: Open Cup #2 Sign-up, Open Cup #1 Brackets, Regular Season Cup #1 Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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IEM5 AC - Open Cup #1 Rankings (1 comment)

( News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 07:18 CDT, 8 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 20:00 CDT, 8 July 2010 to 23:00 CDT, 8 July 2010
Schedule: Passed

The first online cup of the IEM American Championship Regular Season will take place tonight starting at 20:00 CDT. It's still not very clear what prizes the Open Cup #1 will feature, or what influence it will have for the qualification process to the Playoffs. However, Quake-Live.tv will be around to stream some games!

Details

Rankings

1. Chance
2. dCoy
3. ziel
4. mortar

Links: Brackets,

#esl.quakelive

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ESL Classics: rapha vs. Cooller (148 comments)

( Major Column: QL)

Posted by Carmac @ 13:18 CDT, 7 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

There will be another season of QUAKE LIVE in the Intel Extreme Masters. I thought I should point that out before going on to other things, since no one really bothered to post about it on ESReality for almost a week.

What does that mean? It means that the game you guys love to follow so much is back in one of the world's coolest PC gaming leagues. And that your favourite porn star or your girlfriend, for that matter, won't be the only reason you'll be spraying in the following months. Hopefully at more content than just the live matches themselves.

QUAKE LIVE has stayed in the Intel Extreme Masters because it delivers fun that's very universal in the hardcore esports world and beyond. The World Championship final between

rapha and

Cooller has really managed to captivate a capacity crowd at CeBIT (see this VOD to get an idea, of here on YouTube). It produced one of those feelings where you could say that you've experienced something special.

All along my plan in the Intel Extreme Masters was to make the show more enjoyable for you, for the fans of other games and for the people that just happened to stumble upon QUAKE LIVE in the depths of the Internet or at a trade show hall somewhere. The game is very easy to follow and it's not difficult to convince people that the depths of skill needed to master it make winning at it very manly.

In order to help explain the manliness of QL, I revisited the idea which today I call the ESL Classics (around 2006 actually). We sit down with a top gamer in the ESL TV studio, we show one of the great matches that he has played in the ESL and we find out from him what went on through his head during that match.

Seeing as

rapha happened to be practicing in Cologne for the ESWC, we've managed to make him our first target - he was kind enough to oblige. We grabbed him and the demo of the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship grand final and boom! We've got a pilot:

Pardon the config and all the other imperfections, but this was really only a sput-of-the moment thing. Please test it on your friends, ask them what they didn't really understand and what they liked particularly. Drop a few hints on how to properly configure the game to display good information (scoreplums in player demos?) as well, and none of the ugly stuff (like "connection interrupted").

Off the top of my head, we need a short introduction of the rules, of the map layout and the basic map strategy on how to control it. This needs to be enjoyable for you, but for players of all other games as well.

What's good, what's great, where can we improve? In short: WE NEED YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM!

If you guys enjoyed this show, then make sure to support it by "liking it" on Facebook (Facebook.com/IEMtv). Oh, and one more thing. The "second pilot" of this show will feature

Cooller explaining the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship DM13 game from the final against

rapha.

Sweet?

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IEM5 American Championship announced (70 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 08:33 CDT, 6 July 2010 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

A few days after the ESL announced the National ESL league for North America, more informations were released about the main Quakelive event brought by ESL to the new world: the IEM5 American Championships.

The Regular Season will be played through 4 online qualifiers cups and The Big Bang 2010 LAN event. Also, 7 Online ESL Open Cups will be run for additional points and prizes. After that,

DaHanG, the current American champion, and 15 qualified players will participate to the Playoffs during 4-5th September. And Finally, the Finals will be played with the best 8 players from the Playoffs in October in

New York City.

Hopefully, something clearer will be published about the qualifiers and how exactly the slots will be given. Until then, here is a detailed schedule of the coming cups, qualifiers and events.

IEM American Championship schedule

Links: Announcement,

#esl.quakelive

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