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Hi everyone,
This autumn we are hosting a QuakeLive CTF 4v4 league, just as in the good old days. The main difference with lots of other CTF-related events is the format: it is not a draft but a team event: you must find an existing team to join or create one yourself. There are already about 40 people ready to play, and we already have three teams.
Region: Europe
Duration: depends on the number of teams and the pace, from one month.
Schedule: Flexible. The league starts on the first week of September. End date - TBD.
Format: Groups, then double elimination.
Prize pool: 1000+ euros
Divisions: Depending on the teams registered, by the agreement with the others, we will have either one division or two. The first division will consist of the best players based on the community knowledge and/or the House Of Quake ratings at the time before the league starts; the second will be of the teams, the players of which are less experienced and/or have lower ratings.
Team roster limit: Only five people are allowed in a team.
Maps: q3wcp9, japanesecatles, infinity, troubledwaters, ironworks.
Team limit: ~
Servers: Custom private servers.
Streamers: TBD
Sponsors: TBD
Rules: TBD
Discord: https://discord.gg/qd8Krx7kTk
If you want to participate, please join the discord.
In this discord, not only can you find other players to team up with, but you can also play pickups and stay up-to-date with this league and, possibly, future leagues.
Once you gather a team, contact the administrators in the #general channel: anyone with the "Custom Shop QL Team" role.
The non-full list of already registered teams (some preferred not to be mentioned):
SHREKTALIKA: dem0n headz Makie Mastermind yNAM
UnnamedTeam: ph0enx iceman jcb ion
Greetings,
House of Quake will hold a Capture the Flag League starting in early May. This is a new edition of a well-established competitive game mode and we would love as many hands on deck as we can!
Region: EU
Map pool: Spider crossings, Japanese Castles, The Dukes Garden, Ironworks, Troubled Waters, Infinity, Courtyard
Format: TBD
Teamsize: 5
For those who are interested, I would invite you to join the House of Quake discord server where there is an ongoing discussion in the CTF-league channel regarding the exact league format - forming the teams (self-initiating or draft), tournament format (Swiss format, Double round robin) and other possible settings.
There are ongoing negotiations with sponsors, but as of far, there is no prize pool.
On Thursday, 25th of April, there will be a final announcement of the league's format. Registration opens this Sunday and will close on the 28th of April. Until then, I invite you to join the discord and help us with the decision!
Links: House of Quake discord server, CTF-league channel
Don't take your girl to the cinema, better save money and check the tape:
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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.
CTF
1st:
- 300� provided by Surfshark + 1 year Surfshark subscriptions
- 3 Artisan pads of choice for each of the 5 players
2nd:
- 150� provided by Surfshark + 3 month Surfshark subscriptions
- 2 Artisan pads of choice for each of the 5 players
3rd:
- 50� for team provided by Surfshark
- 1 Artisan pad of choice for each of the 5 playersDUEL
1st:
- 3 Artisan pads of choice
- 150�
- ROG Harpe Ace Aim Lab Edition mouse & ROG Strix Scope II keyboard
2nd:
- 2 Artisan pads of choice
- 100�
3rd:
- 1 Artisan pad of choice
- 50�Additionally & to be defined:
- MVP CTF voted player and one raffle winner get: ROG Harpe Ace Aim Lab Edition mouse & ROG Strix Scope II keyboard
- + some yet to be announced surprises
CTF winners
https://challonge.com/CTFPragueLAN
1st FX, Pyton, Chet0, Manty, lolo4
2nd rashan, knz, re4, 10elo, nekvic
3rd Mastermind, Krysa, Brejk, Fizzy, rindo
DUEL winners
https://challonge.com/n8jzyjnx
1st iceman
2nd forsty
3rd typhoon
Sponsors: Surfshark, Artisan, ASUS CZ, Starobrno Brewery, Zichovec family brewery, Dullik, Quake Pub
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/lanprague
Discord: https://discord.gg/P2BTtHyqxS
Mastermind, jcb, iceman, Baldur, FX, lihensior, rasharn, frozik, Krysa, Dloobiq, PYTON, stripy, Headz, Knz, dehumanizeR, andy.damn3d, Brejk, re4, sno, zoza, Pettern, Chet0, Karby, 10eloguy, Fizzy, l0l04, tyfoon, Rindo, Nekvic, Forsty, kooki, Kyng, Manty, needy, Oskino, Wolf
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 Adri�n "RAISY" Birg�ny, 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.
Tournament start: 12:00 CDT
Tournament check in: 11:00 CDT
Mode: Duel (1V1)
Tournament Format: Double Elimination
Match Format: BO3, BO5 Grand Final
Selection: pick (1), pick (2), drop (1), drop (2)
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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.
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
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.
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 obj
ective-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.