Huge International Quake Live tournament starting in 9 hours with 700kpbs live stream

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I know SB4 is this weekend but I've always talked about Quake and the game I grew up with, I urge you guys our this tournament and watch the stream. There will be a high 700kpbs stream provided for the tournament with EVERY SINGLE MATCH of the entire tournament streamed. It will feature a 16-man 1v1 invitational Quake Live tournament in Dubai for $6,500, part of the Gitex Shopper & Consumer Electronics Expo. The tournament is part of the Electronic Sports League which is now running the Intel Extreme Masters Season 4. Dubai is one of the many qualifiers along the route to the finals (includes LAN events and winners from North America, Europe, and Asia).

Matches are played in a best of three matchup, with five total maps, 10 minutes per game. Each player removes a map from the maplist, and then chooses their home map, and those three maps are played. In the bracket stage (the final eight), matches switch to a best of five.

An American by the name of Shane "rapha" Hendrixon has won the last two major tournaments in the past month, and is looking to make it his third straight victory. He faces stiff competition from all around the world, both legends of the game and newcomers.

Prizes:
1st place: $3,000
2nd place: $1,500
3rd place: $800
4th place: $400
5th to 8th place: $200

Here are the groups:

Group A
United States of America Shane "SK|rapha" Hendrixson
Sweden Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson
China Zhibo "RazerJibo" Fan
France Pierre-Emeric "fnatic\l1nkje" Portier

Group B
Austria Richard "vtL/noctis" Gansterer
Italy Alessandro "fnatic\stermy" Avallone
Sweden Pelle "xlo-fazz" Söderman
Germany Felix "mTw|smoke" Pafel

Group C
Sweden Sebastian "fnatic\spart1e" Siira
United States of America Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty
Russia Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov
United Arab Emirates Anas "spammah" Ilyas

Group D
Belarus Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky
France Kévin "fnatic\strenx" Baeza
United States of America Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina
Sweden Michael "xlo-madix" Hindersson

The tag before their handle is the team that they play for, SK (SK Gaming), EG (Evil Geniuses), Fnatic (Fnatic), xlo (Excello), mouz (Mousesports), mTw (mortal Teamwork), srs (Serious Gaming). Jibo from China is sponsored directly by Razer.

EVERY MATCH of the tournament will be streamed, here is the schedule: (ALL TIMES IN EASTERN):

Saturday:
- 08:30 AM EDT: Germany smoke vs Austria nocti
- 08:30 AM EDT: Italy stermy vs Sweden xlo-fazz
- 09:15 AM EDT: France strenx vs Sweden xlo-madix
- 09:15 AM EDT: Belarus cypher vs United States of America Chance
- 10:00 AM EDT: Sweden xlo-fazz vs Germany smoke
- 10:45 AM EDT: Austria noctis vs Italy stermy
- 11:30 AM EDT: United States of America Chance vs Sweden xlo-madix
- 11:30 AM EDT: Belarus cypher vs France strenx
- 12:15 PM EDT: Italy stermy vs Germany smoke
- 12:15 PM EDT: Austria noctis vs Sweden xlo-fazz
- 13:00 PM EDT: France strenx vs United States of America Chance
- 13:00 PM EDT: Belarus cypher vs Sweden xlo-madix

Sunday:
- 08:30 EDT: Sweden fox vs China Jibo
- 08:30 EDT: United States of America rapha vs France l1nkje
- 09:15 EDT: Sweden spart1e vs Russia Cooller
- 09:15 EDT: United States of America DaHanG vs United Arab Emirates spammah
- 10:00 EDT: China Jibo vs France l1nkje
- 10:45 EDT: United States of America rapha vs Sweden fox
- 11:30 EDT: Russia Cooller vs United Arab Emirates spammah
- 11:30 EDT: Sweden spart1e vs United States of America DaHanG
- 12:15 EDT: Sweden fox vs France l1nkje
- 12:15 EDT: United States of America rapha vs China Jibo
- 13:00 EDT: United States of America DaHanG vs Russia Cooller
- 13:00 EDT: Sweden spart1e vs United Arab Emirates spammah

Monday:
- 03:40 EDT: Quarter final #1
- 04:45 EDT: Quarter final #2
- 05:50 EDT: Quarter final #3
- 06:55 EDT: Quarter final #4

- 08:45 EDT: Semi final #1
- 09:50 EDT: Semi final #2

- 11:10 EDT: 3/4 Final
- 12:20 EDT: Final

Here is the link to the stream: http://tv.esl.eu/ OR http://tinyurl.com/ls83cy
Commentary will be done by British Quake players/commentators 2GD and Joe.
VOD's: http://tv.esl.eu/de/vod/
Home page: http://tv.esl.eu/de/vod/
Group Stage: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season4/dubai/ql_groupstage/
Brackets: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season4/dubai/quakelive/playoffs/rankings/
Quake's SRK (ESReality): http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1768504

[Monte]

i'll be sure to check this out, thanks for the info.

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i hope you guys will watch, can watch this in the morning and early afternoon and then switch to SB all day

[mIRC]

I'll definitely watch. I hope others do too to see what a good FPS is and how well streams can be run if you're willing.

[Monte]

Q3 used to be my shiz back in the day. was absolutely addicted to it. still play quake live occasionally but nothing compared to those days. been so many years and quake still hasn't been dethroned. I bet quakelive was the result of iD realizing they'd never make a better game than Q3. :rofl:

[Fuzzy_Snugs]

Do I see Cypher's name in there? Oh shit, Stermy. I'm going to try to watch this, if I'm not too busy.
Even though I've only been playing FFA matches.

[Legendary Hoamaru]

Def. try to catch a little of this, but I'll be busy as hell this weekend. I remember catching another QL stream recently, forgot what it was but they were playing CA and wheat was commenting.

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Def. try to catch a little of this, but I'll be busy as hell this weekend. I remember catching another QL stream recently, forgot what it was but they were playing CA and wheat was commenting.

Yeaah, Clan Arena is pretty awful to spectate, this will be sooooooo much better.

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things bit delayed but matches should be starting very shortly!

[alfaphlex]

things bit delayed but matches should be starting very shortly!

no wonder. I went to the page and the stream was dead. That I had the wrong time:sweat:

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stream is now LIVE. First match up is madix (Sweden) vs strenx (France)

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Madix > strenx 2-0, next match up on stream is Stermy (Italy) vs Fazz (Sweden)

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madix > strenx 2-0, stermy > fazz 2-0, next match up on stream is Chance (USA) vs Cypher (Belarus)

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Cypher > Chance 2-0, next match up is Stermy (Italy) vs noctis (Austria)

[Monte]

well I was going to check this out but the site wants me to install some player so I guess I'll wait for the VODs.

[Slashered]

install the octoshape plugin, it really doesnt take that long.

stermy > noctis 2-1 in a close match, up next is Cypher (Belarus) vs strenx (France)

[nGuman]

This can past the time while SB4 is getting ready, quake is super fun to watch :D

[King9999]

I want to watch this, but it's asking me to install a plugin and I'm at work. :(

[Eshmasesh]

Cypher is GDLK

[alfaphlex]

down 0-8 and Cypher ties then clutches it in the last 3 seconds. beast

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Cypher beats strenx 2-0 in two heart-stopping games. Chance (USA) vs Madix (Sweden) will be up next. Chance needs to win to still have a chance to advance through the group.

[King9999]

Damn it, this all sounds too good. Wish I was at home right now. :shake:

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Chance takes down Madix 2-1 and keeps his hopes alive. Noctis (Austria) will face Fazz (Sweden) next, winner advances to the brackets.

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Noctis takes out Fazz 2-1 to advance to the bracket stage, while Fazz has been eliminated. Chance (USA) vs strenx (France) up next, big match

[mIRC]

well I was going to check this out but the site wants me to install some player so I guess I'll wait for the VODs.
Octoshape is fine man, I'm absolutely sure it has no malware. It's a small install and well worth it once you see the quality of stream that results in using it.

The one problem with it, though many other programs do this, is that it will set itself to run on start up of your computer. You can disable that easily in msconfig though.

EDIT: You can disable it from the tasktray icon as well, heh.

[Aquashark]

if only the Seasons Beatings or most fighting games streams was this good.. :/

ustream is garbage.

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Stermy and noctis pass through Group B with the first two seeds, while Cypher and Madix advance from Group D. Madix advances through group D over Chance and strenx due to map wins. Matches will begin again tomorrow, Sunday, at 7:30 AM EST with some amaaaaaaaaaazing matches! :D

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any thoughts from today's games?

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Heading to sleep now, matches start in 7 hours - 8 AM EST. Today's matches will be better than yesterday's.

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matches are LIVE! Spart1e (Sweden) vs Cooller (Russia) is next. http://gouzouboudou.free.fr/ESL-TV.html

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Cooller > Spart1e 2-1 in his first game coming back to Quake. Good shit. Jibo (China/Russia) vs Link1n (France) NEXT.

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Big match next! Rapha (USA) vs Fox (Sweden)

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Fox takes out Rapha 2-1 in some great games. DaHanG (USA) takes on Spart1e (Sweden) now.

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DaHanG takes out Spart1e 2-1, with DaHanG getting 33 straight frags through the last two maps. Fox will play link1n next.

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link1n takes down Fox 2-1 to make the Group A very interesting. Last big match of Group C next, DaHanG (USA) vs Cooller (Russia).

[danomighty]

some1 link the youtube footage when it come outs thx.

[Fuzzy_Snugs]

Cooller beats DeHanG 2-1. A pretty nice comeback on I don't remember what map in the 2nd game I think.

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The four players to advance from today's games are Cooller (1st seed), DaHanG (2nd seed), Fox (1st seed) and Rapha (2nd seed). They will join Stermy (1st seed), noctis (2nd seed), Cypher (1st seed), and Madix (2nd seed) from yesterday's groups.

Starting in an hour and a half, 4 PM EST / 22:00 CET, Live On Three (w/ myself, djWHEAT and SirScoots) will air with special guests Carmac and 2GD, live from Dubai. They will be revealing the finals brackets to be played tomorrow by the final 8 competitors. We may even see Cooller show up to talk. We will also be talking about Season's Beating 4 and no Modern Warfare 2 PC support.

Tune in at http://www.djWHEAT.tv

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Matches start in 3 hours (3:540 AM EST). Here's the quarterfinal - final schedule:

Quarter finals
- 03:40 EDT QF#1: rapha vs madix
- 04:45 EDT QF#3: Stermy vs fox Sweden
- 05:50 EDT QF#2: Cooller vs noctis
- 06:55 EDT QF#4: Cypher vs DaHanG

Semi finals
- 08:45 EDT SF#1: QF#1 vs QF#2
- 09:50 EDT SF#2: QF#3 vs QF#4

Finals
- 11:10 EDT: 3/4 Final
- 12:20 EDT: Final

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Quake Live Dubai Championship Bracket is now LIVE! First Quarterfinal NEXT: Rapha (USA) vs Madix (Sweden) - AFTER: Fox (Sweden) vs Italy (Stermy) - LIVE STREAM: http://tv.esl.eu/de/esltv_stream/ OR http://gouzouboudou.free.fr/ESL-TV.html

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Rapha expectedly takes out Madix 3-0. Big match up next. Fox (Sweden) vs Stermy (Italy). After: Cooller (Russia) vs noctis (Austria)

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Fox takes out Stermy 3-1, dominating stermy on tourney7. Cooller (Russia) vs noctis (Austria) next, and DaHanG (USA) vs Cypher (Belarus) after.

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Noctis takes out Cooller 3-2, winning 7-6 in double overtime on the final map, dm6. Rapha will take on Noctis in the semifinals. The final Quarterfinal match is up next, DaHanG (USA) vs Cypher (Belarus).

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Cypher takes out DaHanG 3-2, hitting two consecutive UNBELIEVABLY RIDICULOUS air-rockets on the final map, dm6, while dahang was attempting his comeback. Rapha will take on Noctis in one semifinal, while Fox will take on Cypher. Matches start in 25 minutes.

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Rapha takes out noctis 3-0 rather easily, noctis seemed a bit uninspired. Rapha will now play the winner of Fox/Cypher, which is currently live.

Cypher's ridiculous double air-rocket DaHanG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyAfZxLRzgg

[Fuzzy_Snugs]

Cypher is too good.
Although, I feel sad that Stermy is out.