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The Quake Live CTF LAN will take place 22–24th of March 2024. The venue will be the newest Skillzone LAN centre in Prague. Further details bellow:

Date: 22.-24.3.2024
Location: Prague, Czechia
Gamemode: 5v5 CTF & Duel
Format: CTF is Groupstage BO1, top4 BO3 single elimination bracket after. Duel double elimination bo3 bracket.
- CTF Map pool: spidercrossings, japanesecastles, ironworks, infinity, troubledwaters
- 1v1 Map pool: aerowalk, bloodrun, lost world, hektic, cure, t7
Prize pool: 800€ + many many product goodies.


Sponsors: Surfshark, Artisan, ASUS CZ, Starobrno Brewery, Zichovec family brewery, Dullik, Quake Pub
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/lanprague
Discord: https://discord.gg/P2BTtHyqxS

In the 354th episode of my "Reflections" series I interviewed Marco "vengeuR" Ragusa, 2021 Quake Pro League World Champion.

vengeuR discusses his ability to beat rapha, his strange friendship with RAISY who he doesn't practice with, what makes k1llsen's style and attitude so unique and how the Italian player almost lost a family member before he had to play the World Championship final!

In the 350th episode of my "Reflections" series I interviewed Adrián "RAISY" Birgány, five time Quake Pro League World Championship runner-up.

RAISY discusses his early days competing in CS:GO, breaking onto the Quake scene with wins at Dreamhack Denver and the Italian Open 2018, his countless runners-up finishes and the difficulty of battling rapha.

rem will be hosting a CPM duel cup this Saturday, January 27, starting at 12:00 EST! Featuring classic maps and a 200 USD prize pool, the event will be the first of the year. Everyone is encourage to register.

You can sign up by joining the #uscpmpickup Discord and registering on challonge.

The QW folks are doing it again!

QHLAN 2024 rages from 10th Jan to 13th 2024 inStockholm, Sweden (next to Tele2 Arena) with rougly 100 players.

First day is (was) warmup day, today (11th) 1on1 is running.
12th Jan will see 2on2 action, 4on4 + awards etc. will be on 13th.

Results
4on4
2on2
1on1

Streams:
Games: TastyspleenTV
Event: bps__
Discord
Schedule
Get QW

When: Jan 24 - Mar 17 (8 week event)
Where: Online (North America)
Who: QFL | Quake for Life CTF League
Total prize money : $500 + any community donations

Currently 56/60 confirmed participants as of this post. 4 spots remain. Must be present on QFL discord to participate.

NA CTF Pickup games will also occur in our Discord regularly throughout this event on our official Texas, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Virginia servers. We welcome and encourage new/returning players to join our CTF community.

Format: 4 week Swiss, 4-week Single Elim Bracket, completing in 8 weeks.

Playoff Map Pool: Ironworks, Infinity, Spider Crossings, Noir, Cold Cathode, Antacid, Gospel Crossings

Registration: https://www.quakectf.com/signup

Brackets / Results:
- Official website: https://www.quakectf.com/
- Discord: https://www.quakectf.com/discord
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/quakectf

UPDATE:I updated the links for 4k version. (youtube and mega)

osp/cpma/ql fragmovie, frags and edited by phorest (also know: harmless or SKZIPHZE)



Download:
https://mega.nz/file/nNI31BJD#U0UlLddDky14SiO...A32FmzJ2F8

I know, I know...you're here for the fame and fortune...

Well strap on your seat belt and get ready to battle!

North America Only (US + Canada)


https://www.prjctvelocity.com/

https://twitter.com/prjctvelocity

Signup here:
https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/cAZ7...2dev9pe2fq

Sessions Complete Season 3 is now available on YouTube!

Peep the 'Sessions' series finale right here!

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.

Links: website, discord

Valve officially released Counter-Strike 2, its sequel/free upgrade to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, today, Wednesday, September 27, 2023.

Counter-Strike was first released as a modification for Valve's Half-Life as a beta in 1999. Valve purchased the rights to Counter-Strike in 2000 and released a string of updates. CS 1.3, released in 2001, quickly became one of the most popular games in the world, and helped to pioneer and catapult competitive gaming to a larger international audience. In 2003, Valve released CS 1.6 exclusively on its then-new platform, Steam. One year later, in 2004, Counter-Strike: Source launched and fought for popularity against 1.6 for many years, until Counter-Strike Global Offensive was released in 2012. CS:GO has since dominated as one of Steam's most popular games; most often claiming the number 1 position in popularity.

Counter-Strike 2 iterates on the Global Offensive formula with significant updates to netcode, graphics, and gameplay. Official servers implement a new approach to backwards reconciliation with the introduction of subticks, a lay-explanation of which can be found in Valve's official Moving Beyond Tick Rate video. Valve attempted to cater to competitive and casual desires for scene clarity by meticulously refining visibility of models against the backgrounds of maps. An additional highlighted update to the gameplay is dynamic and reactive smoke grenade behavior, which sees smoke grenade volumes responding to environmental disturbances such as explosions and bullets and causally filling the surrounding environment geometry.

From the CS2 Steam store page: A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2 marks the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike’s history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.

In addition to the classic objective-focused gameplay that Counter-Strike pioneered in 1999, Counter-Strike 2 features:

• All-new CS Ratings with the updated Premier mode
• Global and Regional leaderboards
• Upgraded and overhauled maps
• Game-changing dynamic smoke grenades
• Tick-rate-independent gameplay
• Redesigned visual effects and audio
• All items from CS:GO moving forward to CS2

Source: Steam, Counter-Strike 2 homepage

When: August 10-11-12
Where: on LAN, at the Gaylord Texan, in Dallas, USA.
Start Time: 09:00 CDT, 10 August 2023
Total prize money : $150,000
Stream A: https://www.twitch.tv/quake or https://www.youtube.com/quake
Stream B: https://www.twitch.tv/quake2

Qualified players:
-> From the QPL : Vengeur, Rapha, K1llsen, Raisy, Zenaku, Maxter, Nosfa, Strongsage, Dramis, Av3k, Serious, Cha1n, Toxjq, Psygib, Sib, Xron.
-> From the challengers : Garpy, Cnz, Bukster, Keltz, Dandaking, Spart1e, Yup, Effortless.

Unfortunately, due to travel restrictions, Av3k, Serious, Xron and Yup won't be able to come.


Format : The challengers and bottom seeds from the QPL fight it out in a group stage. The best two from each group will be able to join the top 8 QPL seeds into a double elimination bracket.

Brackets / Results:
- Official page (click on "Quake World Championship")
- Liquipedia coverage

Day 1 schedule : here (local times).
Day 2 schedule : here (local times).
Day 3 schedule : here (local times).

PS: For those attending QuakeCon, don't hesitate to say hello to John Carmack, creator of the Quake series, who will be there as well after a long absence.

RESP ( Russian eSports Project) are happy to announce a Quake Live 1v1 Tournament - King of the Jungle. The tournament will take place on 06:00 CDT, 6 August 2023, eight invited players will compete for a total prize pool of 100,000 rubles (˜1090 $)

Broadcast starts at 06:00 CDT, 6 August 2023. Don't miss the exclusive broadcast only on VK Play Live!

Players:
cYpheR
AGENT
fog
swex
ash
pavel
cherrypuff
Jibo

Brackets

Map pool: Blood Run, Sinister, Furious Heights, Cure, Aerowalk

Prizepool:
1st place 50,000 rubles (547 $)
2nd place 30,000 rubles (328 $)
3rd place 20,000 rubles (219 $)

Hosts and commentators of the tournament: the legendary LEXER, BASE and POLOSATIY!

Tournament schedule:
06:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 1: cYpheR x cherrypuff (BO3)
06:40 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 2: swex x pavel (BO3)
07:20 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 3: AGENT x Jibo (BO3)
08:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 4: ash x fog (BO3)
08:40 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 5: Lower Bracket (BO1)
09:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 6: Lower Bracket (BO1)
09:20 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 7: Upper Bracket First Semi-Final (BO3)
10:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 8: Second Upper Bracket Semi-Final (BO3)
10:40 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 9: Lower Bracket (BO1)
11:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 10: Lower Bracket (BO1)
11:20 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 11: Lower Bracket (BO1)
11:40 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 12: Upper Bracket Final (BO3)
12:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 13: Lower Bracket Final (BO3)
13:00 CDT, 6 August 2023 Match 14: Grand Final (BO5)

Tournament trailer by ILY4:


Links: RESP VK Live, Brackets

New defrag movie by Nachos featuring demos from FPS Cup.