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| the irish ctf team opted not to enter clanbase nations cup this season, because of our lack of broadband, and the fact that having to drive a long distance for dsl was too much to ask of the players if we weren't able to put up a decent challenge (which would be the case without regular prac, but theres no point praccying on isdn because we'd have to alter our tactics and team etc etc). but now some of our players have, and are getting dsl, just as a new nations ctf is starting up. this is a fun orientated 5v5 ctf cup, being run by exiled clanbase nations admin d3xt3r. uk is split up into england, wales, scotland, ni. for a change, canada and usa are competing, i can't decide whether this is a good thing or not, but fair servers will have to be chosen, the head admin insists that pings will be fair between american and western european countries on an icelandic server.
rep. of ireland find themselves in a group with england, northern ireland, ireland, slovenia, belgium, holland, and switzerland. england, belgium and switzerland have always been considered top ctf nations, although its hard to say how it will shape up this season, in the last ctf nations, belgium started well but ended up dropping out of the competition. the netherlands consistently produces competent ctf clans, and has a very active ctf scene. they lost to ireland last season, but appear to have improved since then, with some good results in clanbse nations this season. northern ireland is back with a brand new line-up, some of the old names like vicnbob and sar no longer there. i don't know anything about slovenian ctf :o
the ni team is having an exhibition match this weekend vs team usa, saturday at 9pm gmt. they have already announced their squad, featuring a lot of familiar names, sno, mocha, |- , flavor, sonar, seh, z3on, and daunk (jaymz = mascot).
the roi squad isn't decided yet - if you weren't in the squad last season and would like to participate this time then talk to me (fh|killy) on irc in #team.ie. the cup is starting around june 9th, which is a fraction sooner than i had hoped, since a couple of us are ordering dsl this week, i don't know if we would have it in time. (and theres a chance that via dsl might suck).
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came to an end last night, as both firing squad and clan malfunction battled it off in an exciting 4 map final. fs won the final 3-1, after some impressive play but cmf also showed who's boss as they destroyed fs on 2nd map, dm2.  e1m2 was possibly the best map out of all, demo is _definately_ worth downloading, get the demos here:
fs & cmf: dm3
fs & cmf: dm2
fs & cmf: e1m2
fs & cmf: dm2
if you're gonna download any demo of the above, i highly recommend the e1m2, such a tight game :d
on an another note, nqr finals are coming up very soon, after cmf beat disorder and slackers beat firing squad. more on that soon!
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after bob recently interviewed koopa, melachi came running to me (bobs agent) asking for an interview to boost his ego. i agreed for a wholesome fee of half his pro-gamer earnings. at least now it wont circulate back into rich already, sweden. here is mel's story.
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for those of you any way associated with qw, nations quake rank came to an end last night, with over 300 played games in 6 weeks. playoff's are still to come some time shortly. demo's etc are available at the site!
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i recently took it upon myself to interview irelands most predominant quake player ever. he opens his mind to me after i slipped the blue pill into in his phoneline. enjoy or cry, whichever. http://www.quake.ie/comments.asp?item=1634
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rev is hosting an osp server on games2 again. be sure to say thanks to him on irc.
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after what has seemed an age, the boyos who created rocket arena have upgraded their mod to ver 1.6.
you can grab the upgrade here or get the full install here.
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one of my favourite esports sites, shackes is to close. muiy explains that the energy is just gone out of him and he no longer has the time to put into the site that he would like. ahh well. i think its another gaming site dedicated to pro-gaming which has dwindled away.. just like pro-gaming is.
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there are currently signups being taken for the european dope league, this is a 2v2 quakeworld league and theres already been alot of interest in it with 63 teams signed up so far. this will be alot of fun and i suggest you go and signup now!
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for those of you not going to megalan there will be plenty of great games to see on gtv over the weekend.
various previews/predictions have been written : one at esreality and another at cached.
gtv info and scorebots (i expect) can be found at #qlan.se .
a timetable is also up at http://www.fragtown.nu/qlan/en/schema.html.
here's hoping gtv delays will be minimal 
*updates*
#qlan.1on1 for 1v1 details.
#qlan.tdm for tdm details.
gtv2.simnet.is:30000
64.81.111.135:27970
games1.online.no:10000
games-2.clanbase.com:40000
games.clanbase.com:40000
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are you going to miss it ?
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i know there have been a lot of developments on the availability of broadband in ireland lately, and there have been some good value packages too for the first time in history. for gamers, esat has been the most promising, but is not very widely available. now all of a sudden, iol, using esat broadband are promising low ping, affordable dsl... widely available.
if you check http://register.iol.ie/broadband/signup.html put in your phone number, and theres a good chance that it will say you are eligible for broadband in mid may. lots of people who had been told that there were no plans to upgrade their exchange by esat are now being told that they can get broadband. a 5gb download cap per month, which is a lot better than eircom's miserable allowance, and theres a good chance it will give the low ping that esat 512k and residential 256k dsl gives.
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challenge promode went 1.1 gold
yesterday. for those fans out there, you can nab the upgrade pack
href="http://www.quake.ie/comments.asp?item=1608">here, the full 1.00 version
href="http://www.quake.ie/comments.asp?item=1607">here and map pack 5
href="http://www.quake.ie/comments.asp?item=1605">here. of course you can nab
all the map packs from the ftp
servah. and if your like me and just love a good kick around, go get the qw
remake of amphi for q3 and have
some fun with some mid air rockets.
the finals of challenges
2 ended yesterday. there was some nice exhibition matches and some really good
games with apheleon and fiend, with apheleon taking the title. he beat fiend 2-0 on
cpm3 and cpm1a. also, to kick off
target="_blank">wansanity, the stickmen took on team abuse in a very close game.
you can nab
href="http://www.challenge-tv.com/index.php?mode=demodetail&demo=18985&dl=2"
target="_blank">the demo here.
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i saw this over on gamespy and thought it was worth a read - the top ten reasons why pro gaming sucks! my personal fav would be no: 2. check it out.
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the challenges ii 1v1 finals is almost upon us. the final between apheleon and fiend, is scheduled for sunday, april the 13th at 9pm (est) and it will include some exhibition matches -
apheleon vs djwheat
gellehsak vs lsv
a|cujo vs a|qancer
tsn|trillian vs tsn|blankz
arqon vs a|rhea
xil-dracostian vs ]km[warri0r
donking vs a|citizenstickmen vs abuse
i would suggest you make sure you have the latest version of cpm and the maps, which you can slurp from promode.org.
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bigfoot and with some help from iggy have posted their preview of the season 11 of the
coming barrysworld q3ctf league.
you can check out the two different parts as follows -
part i
- divisions 1, 2a & 2b
part ii
- divisions 3a, 3b, 3c and 4
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last night, slackers took on firing squad in the nqr custom map tournament finals, slackers proving too much for the dutch lads, winning the final an impressive 3-0. more info at the site.
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for those of you that didn't know about the biggest lan this year, (and in ireland for that matter), megalan, kicks off this coming easter weekend.
hosting 150 players only, it should be one kick ass of a lan. this will be the first yearly event, which will be held in the rds. heres the quick blurb -
venue: rds
date: 19th april - 21st april
cost: €60
seats: 150 byoc
registration: 11am - 1pm 19th april
schedule: 19th april: 11am - midnight
20th april: 10am - midnight
21st april: 10am - 6pm.
if you havn't already signed up, most people have, head on over to their webby and get cracking!
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bwctfl announced its divisions this week, and fixtures are up on the webpage now. bigfoot is finishing off his preview, which will be up on quakenation once hes got all the interviews done (will probably be a few days). i've taken a quick, biased, and completely inaccurate look at the divisions in which the quake.ie clans find themselves this season. it was too big to fit on the main page, so i stuck it in my column.
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paradoks, sassa, apollyon, zalon and eter have gotten the new quakeworld.nu site up, and it's looking quite impressive with already 100 user's have signed up on the first day; to use the various facilites. check it out
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due to a pending lawsuit against quakenet by a german internet company providing bnc's and shells to it's customers, quakenet staff has been forced to choose between closing down the network or suspend all of it's active staff pending the outcome of the lawsuit. if the lawsuit doesnt work in quakenets favour, the servers go down!
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lan europa, to be held in france, has announced $200,000 in prizes for its competitions including q3 ra3, 1v1, and tdm. what makes this competition so appealing to me is the list of clans signed up so far... familiar names from all over europe, including some interesting lan prospects such as 666, aaa, hf, masterblasters, qud, and xeno (the portuguese/euro clan). some of the clans signed up have bad connections normally, and have only been division 2 level online, but if they put a lot of preperation into it there could be some upsets on lan.
it will be interesting to see who else signs up over the next couple of weeks, with space for 2500 players, this could be a great lan. might even be worth sending an irish team over
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a big swedish lan is planned for the 18th of april. nearly all the top swedish q3 clans and players (cept mel) are going along with c58, iron and pzz who got invites. big day for the duellers also, with swedes like fox and z4muz getting their shot at the russians on lan. prize pot is 8,000 euro - dunno how it breaks down.
cooller, polos, nobap, b100.death(unconfirmed) and lexer(won a russian comp recently) are supposedly attending. it should be well worth watching on the promised gtv, especially after the 27 - -1 number fox did on cooller during the esreality tourney. other names to look out for would be fazz, prozac, if22 and allpact. e4-reef the brazillian fatal1ty beater is unconfirmed but could make an upsetting appearance. q3dm13 fanboys should be pleased to see it added to the usual maplist. oh yeah, if any of you are interested in q2 duels, purri is taking on polosatiy in an exhibition match.
looks pretty good!
fair balls to mp for getting quake.ie back up :>
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okay what happened?
because we give free web and ftp space to gamers, we gave some free space to a gamer who decided to run some untested .asp script, this resulted in the server basically crashing.
apologies for any inconvenience caused.
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from all the staff here at quake.ie and all the people in the world who somehow mysteriously are suddenly irish, (it might be 'cos you drank a guiness or saw a leprechaun once)... heres to a happy paddys weekend!. go drown that shamrock!
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bigfoot sends word about the up and coming seasons for both the
href="http://leagues.barrysworld.net/bwq3ctfl/">q3ctf &
href="http://leagues.barrysworld.net/bwq3dml/">q3dm leagues. my clan ts are signed for the ctf league and nd withdrawn from the tdm league. fh are undecided if they are playing in either. also, the decision to pay to play has not yet been taken which might have an effect on the clans that are signed up. if you want you clan in either of the leagues, i suggest you head over to the relevant league sites.
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is there any one on these boards apart from the regular qw'ers, that would start playing qw or maybe go back to it ? donking's post made me wonder if there's gonna be any new life in this classic old game. as far as i know, you only need the shareware version, then with fuhquake, u can play any where, any time. give it a go.
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its that time again and clanbase have posted requests for anyone who wishes to be the captains of either the tdm team or the ctf team to let them know.
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