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| ppl have been talkin about leagues etc recently, and it looks like there is gonna be an irish qw ca league. not sure who is going to run it, but it's happening anyway, and a ca server is about to go up on ign. so you can provisionally sign up here, with your clan name and members. there are going to be other comments too, so if you are signing up a team, put signup - [clan name] as topic in ure comment, and list team members afterwards, i have a token example for our team under here. if you play qw and dont have a clan, sign up here.
update: devore has agreed to run the league, details up soon.
signed up teams : nd, fs, gt, hiv, ez, redux, wh2, ffwd, nqeu.tk
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a new quakeworld clan arena movie has been released called arena extreme (aex). the project has been in the making for nearly a year now, and is worth checking out.
here's a snipet from the site:
aex is a quakeworld clan arena movie, the idea for which was formed by tezz and myself (darff) at a lan meet in the summer of 2002. seeing how well received great quakeworld tdm / duel movies such as frags done extreme were, we felt the clan arena community should be represented in a similar way.
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a european mid-air quakeworld league is starting soon (9 days left of registration). basically you get points for shooting your opponent out of the air, the higher they are in the sky when you shoot them the more points you get, tis good fun.
check out the site here and get signed up.
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sassa from the qhlan crew posted a decent review of the lan here, check it out for a first person view of what happened at the lan.
"...1on1: the player that was most surprising was phantasy from the forsakens !
he played really good and went really far, in the end it was nabbe who won vs this guy from northern sweden..."
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just wanna thank everyone who contributed to koopa's excursion to stockholm. he did well, could have done better, could have done worse. wouldn't have happened if the readers of the site hadn't helped out. cheers.
on the quake front, things are only starting to roll again after the christmas lull, nd and 70 still playing in the gs.net league, (yes im too lazy to link it), on the bwdml end, q3p (featuring killy and space), are sitting nicely mid-table in div3a, nd pretty much the same in div2b thanks to me fucking off and leaving half our team without connections before christmas. in the bwctfl, fh are battling it out midtable in div2a, while jobos sit midtable in div3b. in the final rounds of the opencup, nd are in the semis of the 2nd league, a match to be played sometime next week against pzzfun. finally, nd have entered the clanbase 4v4 qw tdm league, maybe a few other irish teams should join up for a laugh, we're gonna get the shit kicked out of us.
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back in december (yea i know.. old news!), the finals of donkings challenges competition took place. if you want the nice low down on the finals, you can check out sky's column over on ch-uk. the final standings being as follows -
1. apheleon
2. rat
3. daler
4. zero4
you can grab all the demos here. anyway, the second season is about to kick off with alot of interest from players all over the world. with a limit of 128 players, its gonna be tight to get a spot. you can sign up here.
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tronus has set up a new clan arena league. its only getting off the ground, but it might be worth a look into. you can find details here.
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round 1 koopa takes on totslime, easy dm4 game, loses by 1 on dm2 and barely wins dm6.
round 2 easily beats virus. dm4 and dm6.
round 3 plays oldschooler phantasy who was looking pretty sharp, wins dm4 but loses dm2 and then makes a good few mistakes loosing dm6. goes down to loosers bracket.
loosers bracket beats timmi, beats case, then beats locktar on dm6, but looses to striker on dm6. koopa finishes joint 6th or 7th with sod! and didn't loose a tournament dm4 game.
overall he was weak on dm2 and dm6, but despite no lan practice and various other things he did pretty well, especially on dm4, which is what he was there for really. some pics can be found here.
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 who's that? oh it's nd, in the semi-finals of the opencup. yayyy.
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just catching up on this one.. as the title says, the new.. full version has been released. you can nab the 40 meg full version here (which includes the maps) or the upgrade, here.
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dag went on to beat griffin 2-0 in the overall 1v1 finals of qhlan. taking griffin down 8-2 on dm2 and 16-6 on dm6. no demos available just yet, but you could check the usual suspects like ch-tv and esr later. our koopa didn't do too bad in the overall stakes, getting knocked out of the winners bracked by phantasy in round 3 and beaten by striker in the loosers bracket in round 5. you can check out the match results here.
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sam heads off north to the bitter wastelands of stockholm to compete the worlds biggest qw lan - qhlan. tournaments break down as follows -
* quakeworld 2on2
starts: friday january 3 (yes, first day)
teams: 32
maps: dm2, dm4, dm6
* quakeworld 1on1
starts: saturday january 4
players: 128
maps: dm2, dm4, dm6
* quakeworld 4on4
starts: sunday january 5
teams: 16
maps: dm2, dm3, e1m2
g'luck sam.
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clanbase have now taken some interest back to qw and are starting a qw 4on4 dm cup. the sign-ups will start after the xmas period is over.
this is a good sign for qw'ers as it will hopefuly bring more attention back to the game and get more new people playing it.
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the finals will take place tonight (friday) at 7pm between against all authority (french) and eyeballers (scandinavian)
in the euro corner we have against all authority. they had a pretty tough groupstage: 2 losses and 3 victories made them finish 2nd of their group. but after a hard groupstage they conquered their place in the final fairly easy by beating pzz (3-1), pro (3-0) and dc (3-0) in the playoffs. and thus, with only 1 maploss in 3 playoff matches, aaa finally makes it to the final of the eurocup
in the scandi corner we have eyeballers. after a nice 2nd place in the open cup last season, the reformed eye returned to the eurocup. since they finished at a nice and clean (without losing a map) first place in their group, they only had to play 2 playoff matches to place themselves for the final. after quite an easy match vs wutai (3-0), eye had to play ic for a place in the final. and what a match it was, after 5 long maps vs ic, eye placed themselves for the final of the eurocup 6!
the channel to go to is #eurocup.q3, shoutcast will be provided by djwheat and there should be gtv.
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clanbase nations tdm and ctf is over this season, ireland avoid the wooden spoon in both competitions. in the ctf we finish tied on points with holland and belgium, and despite us beating holland, they finish above us thanks to a default win vs belgium. we finish above the belgians even though they beat us both maps when we met, they lost interest over the course of the season. in tdm, our win vs slovenia gave us 3rd place. here are the final standings in ireland's groups:
| ctf | tdm | 1. sweden
2. france
3. uk
4. holland
5. ireland
6. belgium | 1. uk
2. france
3. ireland
4. slovenia |
hopefully this means we'll have an invite into the next competition, when we're likely to have easier access to broadband and will be able to get some decent practice in 
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merry christmas and a happy and drunken new year!. if your reading this your sad! you should be in the pub getting pissed
p.s. remember the offys are shutting early tonight so you better get your carryouts in quick!
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over the past weekend, the intel masters tournament took place in the science museum, london. twenty-five grand in prizes, an imax screen, latest state-of-the-art machines from intel, unfortunatly it seems things didn't work out so well. large crowds turned up for the event but some of the gamers themselves experienced problems, machines failing, bad organisation, etc, etc. the irish counter-strike contigent, dnc, placed a respectable third at the event, with infinity esports taking £5000 and first place. dnc|dave said the problems weren't too great for them, but that the team were missing a few key players.
[pg]in.tillerman won the warcraft 3 competition and 4kings took first place in return to castle wolfenstein netting themselves six grand.
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bigfoot has posted his weekly tdm review over on quakenation. read it here.
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the cpl winter event is over and the two most important events have been decided. fatality easily took first place in the 1v1 ut2003 competition and a us team, 3d, won the counterstrike tournament.
cpl ut2k3 final results
1st - ck-fatal1ty (usa), $10000
2nd - {nbk}cpense (usa), $5000
3rd - k|infinite (usa), $3000
4th - esca (usa), $2000
5th - mtw.atn|solo (ger), $1750
6th - esu.mrfrost (ger), $1500
7th - k|47 (usa), $1250
8th - ck-imageomega (usa), $1000
ut2003 finals demo
final counter-strike results:
1st - 3d (usa), $30000
2nd - gameonline (sca), $20000
3rd - schroet kommando (swe), $12500
4th - team9 (swe), $7500
5th - weekend warriors (usa), $6000
6th - zex (usa), $4000
7th - riot squad (usa), $3000
8th - eolithic (nor), $2000
in russia, the ural cup quake3 1v1 has just finished, b100 death took the win, but apparantly asus|c58*unkind was too tired to play in the finals.
1 place - b100.death
2 place - asus|c58*unkind
3 place - b100.dracula
demos
finally, season 5 of the northern european smackdown qw league has come to a close. slackers only lost one map to beat lege artis over four games. unfortunatly lege artis were missing dag from their lineup.
slackers line-up: gamer, goljat, paradoks, xalibur
lege artis line-up: nabbe, riker, space, striker
dm3: 156:132 to sr
dm2: 178:139 to sr
e1m2: 185:180 to la
dm3: 161:135 to sr
final: 3-1 (675-591 frags)
mvd demos available on chtv
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'electronic sports world cup - lan arena 2003 trophy' championship of the universe will be held in france in the summer. last years lan arena was a big success, however this year they've pumped over 150,000 euros into the prize money. the main events will be cs 5v5 (maybe dnc could make it) ut32k35 1v1 and a warcraft 1v1 with a so called 'female' tourney and a q3 1v1 international challenge.
more interesting should be the 'open international golden mouse cup' to be held in moscow in march. no ut this time, but warcraft 1v1, cs 5x5 and most importantly a q3 1v1..finally a comp to sort out the best russians. prize money will be around $50,000 with about $5,000 of that going for q3 first place, not enough to encourage the americans to go over, but i'm sure some euros will make it.
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despite the generous "pledges" that amounted to nearly €800, a little over €200 was lodged to koopa's account, and time is running out. the ticket (which is costing over €300) has to be ordered, and then a visa paid for, which needs time to get, and that's before we even start trying to keep him alive there for the few days he's there.
can the guys who were sound enough to put their names down, please take the time out to hop into a bank and throw your 20 quid into the account, it's a small amount that if we dont get it at this stage, might stop the whole thing altogether.
and he's been practising, yeah, if he goes he's gonna bust some heads. make it go.
bank: allied irish bank (aib), dcu branch
sort code: 93-33-84
account number 86230180
name of account holder: samresh singh
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ive posted over on my column my years review of the irish quake scene and a few other little things. you can take a look here.
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smackdown semi-final bewteen lege artis (la) and clan malfunction (cmf) took place last night. lege artis with a 54-0 map record in smackdown and nqr won 3-1 dropping their first map of the season.you can see the report and get the demos from
href="http://www.challenge-smackdown.com/div_eu/onereport.php3?gam_code=1017">here.
its been considered the best qw 4v4 series since smackdown1 in 1999? where the greatest clan in qw ever flaming fist beat euthensia. there was commentry done on teamspeak by hangtime, sassa and def. they had interviews after where koopa was one of the hot topics during the qhlan discussion. it should be available for download soon.
this puts lege artis in the final against slackers, who beat tribe of tjernobyl in the other semi-final. the final should be great there's alot of tension bewteen the clans going back to 1998/99 as lege artis have dag/akke/pietro from flaming fist and slackers have paradoks/vana/goljat from euthensia.
btw qw >>>>>>>>>>x2 q3
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punkbuster killed the majority of quake 3 servers yesterday evening. it seems there was an issue in going from 1.004 and 1.005 versions of their absolutely
href="http://www.quake.ie/comments.asp?item=1469">watertight cheat detection and prevention software. professional! all the angry server admins talk to the team behind this tragedy
href="http://forum.evenbalance.com/forum/index.php?s=3f924744affbec7c3fa4b251d6725923&act=st&f=34&t=1443&st=0">here. it seems they've worked through the night and fixed it with a new trial version 1.006! hurrah! they sound like decent enough guys, just unlucky. but i think the vishnu q3 server is down for the weekend due to this until somebody can fix it.
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gameservers.net q3tdm cup groups have been announced. there are 2 irish clans involved, 70 and nd. because of the seeded cup format, all the groups are difficult. 70, in their first league, will face plenty of strong opposition, especially from the seeded teams eoe (from germany - one of the best ctf clans in europe), and swedish ninjas al. the other names i recognise are ql from uk - in bwdml div1, and fs a dutch clan in bwdml div2. as far as i know, the dutch clan rm are upper div3/lower div2 bw standard, but i can't say for sure since they're only on the waiting list in bwdml, and playing on home ground in holland they will have a significant ping advantage over 70. the remaining clans, rif and re are from russia and sweden respectively, so i wouldn't want to underestimate either of them.
nd's group i would guess is easier, but i don't know half of the clans there so its not fair to say. their seeded clans are a swedish clan n4sa and the dutch clan x4. i would say that these are the weakest of the seeded pairs, but then again, i've been out of touch with tdm for too long so i don't know x4 will have super low pings though. another dutch clan in the group is bms. tric from italy might have some connection troubles. storm is a benelux clan (with 1 french person). they have a few ex-ndc players and others from division 2, and are currently 3rd in bwdml div3b. the danish clan prey are still in the cb open cup second league scandanavian division, so they're no muppets either. and finally, ukntot i have never heard of, and are german.
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*edit* bleh, both games postponed
rus-swe has been moved to sun @ 7
more news when i get it
from esreality...
russia - sweden :o
france - ireland
mr. rixxkaukurd suxdenburgs was shafted by cooller_rus ...  p
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www.quakenet.org.
"quakenet hit a peak of more than 151,000 users tonight - that means an extra 50,000 users have joined quakenet in the past 3 months.
quakenet is now firmly established as the biggest irc network in the world, with an average of 139,091 users per day, compared with ircnet's 120,033 daily users."
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last friday ireland played france in cb nations ctf. unfortunately, we couldn't get myself, vin and 2fish onto broadband as we had expected, so had to change our team and tactics at the last minute, and had a new team of sno, anarchy, nex (on broadband), me (isdn) and dest (isdn). france lanned for the game and had nice pings of 30ish. nexus managed to play off the ul broadband for the game, but his ping changed from 20 to 60 just as the game was about to start, and it didn't go back. france won both maps, 1-0 on our map q3w2 and 3-0 on their map q3ctf2. theres a bit of a report here.
today we played slovenia in the q3 tdm clanbase nations cup. our team consisted of anarchy, beast, koopa and vincent. this time, koopa and vin were able to play from ul lan. we were a bit late for the first map (on dutch server) because of a problem getting around the firewall. ireland had a ping advantage, but still lost slovenia's home map pro-q3dm6. the game was very close until the last few minutes, with the lead changing hands regularly. the final score there was 131-147 to slovenia.
on ireland's map, dm7, we got a very bad start and slovenia took a 20ish frag lead in the first few minutes. ireland recovered though, and managed to regain control. near the end of the game, the ref kicked a slovenian player (drava) for spamming and being lame just about everytime he died (in the previous game also). he had been warned earlier by the ref that he would be kicked, and even his teammates didn't want him playing. the slovenian coach morgoth subbed in for the remainder of the game, but they couldn't stop ireland from extending the lead. final score was 168-143 to ireland.
this meant a deciding map was needed, but at that time a slovenian player, miso, had to go. slovenia had nobody to replace him with, since the other players they had available were in 666 and could not play since there is a maximum of 2 players from a clan allowed to play at once. slovenia would have forfeit the 3rd map, but zero said it was ok to play the 3rd game another time if clanbase allowed it. theres no date set for the decider yet.
update: dm7 demo from vin's pov is here.
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