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| i don't think many of you play this, but when i was in the us in march nearly every freeze server was full.
it's much more fun than standard quake or osp and is a good laugh at the worst of times.
i suggest that a server running this be put up over here. it might help bring a bit more back to the quake community.
check out freeze on planet quake here
check out the newest addition ultrafreeze here.
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savage ctf league is just about over, just a few postponed games left to be played. in div2, as expected ts are top of the table, despite their less than half effort, never fielding their strongest team and even conceding a default. if lkff win then their postponed game vs inf then they will move to first, but ts will still be promoted to div1 i think.
this time last season, tortured souls won division 4, and fh are following in their footsteps  we somehow managed to finish 1st after a dodgy season missing key players for most of our games because of the early match time. luckily our challengers conceded a default each, but i won't say we didn't deserve the title since there were two occasions when we could have defaulted but stuck with it and managed to salvage a point which gave us the title.
division 1 looks like it will go to gzd.ctf - the team that was promoted there ahead of ts, despite finishing runner-up to them in division 4 in the previous season, having lost the clash between the sides. expect a season review by taylor or fruitbat (or both) at some stage.
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40 degrees-californians shiver uncontrollably. - irishmen sunbathe.
35 degrees-italian cars won't start. - irishmen drive with the windows down.
20 degrees-floridians wear coats, gloves, and wool hats. - irishmen throw on a t-shirt.
15 degrees-californians begin to evacuate the state.- irishmen go swimming.
zero degrees-new york landlords finally turn up the heating. - irishmen have the last bbq before it gets cold.
10 degrees below zero-people in miami cease to exist.- irishmen lick flagpoles.
20 degrees below zero - californians fly away to mexico - irishmen throw on a light jacket.
80 degrees below zero-polar bears begin to evacuate the artic. - irish boy scouts postpone "winter survival" classes until it gets cold enough.
100 degrees below zero-santa claus abandons the north pole. - irishmen pull down their ear-flaps.
173 degrees below zero-ethyl alcohol freezes. - irishmen get frustrated when they can't thaw their guinness.
297 degrees below zero-microbial life start to disappear. - irish cows complain of farmers with cold hands.
460 degrees below zero-all atomic motion stops. - irishmen start saying "is it just me or is there a nip in the air?"
500 degrees below zero-hell freezes over. - irishmen support england in the world cup!!!!! gwan brazil!!!
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gzd (gunzoids, that used to have sponsorship with irish net cafe dnc) win the
href=http://www.clanbase.com>clanbase opencup premier league over eye (eyeballers) of sweden. gzd have won a place in the clanbase eurocup 6. cb match report is here.
ospdm5: gzd 137 - 105 eye
cpm4: gzd 145 - 121 eye
ospdm6: gzd 138 - 130 eye
the swedes were not used to their 50 ping apparently. the two clans will meet up again at la7 - because schroet kommando have quit q3 tdm - see
href=http://www.schroet.de/news.php3?nid=772>here, leaving space for gzd in la7. this gives scope for a rematch between eye and gzd on a more level playing field.
rp< (reverse psychology, another uk side) also won the second league over 8mm - more
href=http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php?mid=7678&lid=518>here.
finally over on
href=http://www.cached.net/?go=main/newsarticle/single/4505>cached i saw that notorious cs player "fatal1ty" is signed up for q3 at quakecon, having quit his cs clan 3d and that game.
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as with all the pro-q3 players who are afraid they'll get beaten, fatality joined the other gimps in a move to fulltime counter-strike. xsr have an interview with the monkey himself here.
mr vicious himself, panicore, has rejoined iceclimbers. their impressive lineout now looks something like panicore, belth (jesus), toxic, gopher....need i say more??
i have added a 17meg avi in the files section of triumph the dog taking the serious piss out of a bunch of nerds in a queue for attack of the clones. it's absolutely class, recommend you download it.
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i'm pissed off at this... 1 week before it is due to take place and i have to cancelled it...
yesterday got word that there was a problem with security so i pulled a sicky to sort that out then to find that was just the tip of the ice-burg.
room bookings getting screwed up among other things.
but it appears it has to be cancelled i know it's really short notice but i don't want to risk running any longer and canceling the day before it is supposed to be on.
i'm really sorry to everybody who took time off to come and who were looking forward to it. it promised to be great with a good turn out and some descent games too.
i'm really sorry again, with the low turn out at the last ones... maybe it's an omen.
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who's coming to the ul lan? lots of quake3/qw/sc/whatever with doses of beer afterwards, dont be a pussy, go over to www.room101.org and sign up now!
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well i'm off on a half-day to watch the match and get plenty of beer in. cmon ireland !!!
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lsd productions has released a program called udpbouncer, in the version 1.01. it basically is, as the name says, a program to forward udp packets from your host, through a bouncer/server, to another server, and vice versa.
the program can be used for what purpose ever, but it was mainly created for gaming. it has been tested with q3a, but should work with every game that uses the udp protocol. for people with access to a computer/server with better routing than their own inet, it's an easy way to get better pings to certain servers.
the program comes with a server program and a configuration client. get further information from the readme file.
check out our files area for the programme. ripped from xsr.
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new reports from fifa have indicated that yes, the referee in the ireland-germany game was indeed biased towards the germans. 
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ecal iii is set to start soon - only one irish clan this time around, thats clan gauntlet. there are plenty of familiar names in other teamlists though. there are 12 teams entered, including a good few newly formed ca clans, suggesting that the qw ca scene is still thriving.. although thats easily known from the activity on the servers. its very hard to tell who the title contenders will be, but i expect fast forward will be very hard to beat, featuring a number of former eazy and gt players including swing, koopa, joi and honky. ecal site is here hosted by ukgamer.
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lordkhan has organised another ul lan for 21st for june. details can be found here also i plan on running a quake3 2v2 competition, details in my column. please post a reply if you are interested.
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this means that unr qualify for the
href=http://www.clanbase.com>clanbase ec5 lan finals in rotterdam, and that shuuk are now autoberthed for la7. from my poor german, i understand that zyz and neok are trying to bring back(?) unmatched for ut2003.
it's a pity to see the likes of zyz and neok go inactive from q3 tdm.
click
href=http://www.mortalteamwork.de>here for the announcement. (in german)
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taylor has posted a review of the savage q3ctf season so far. ts are top of division 2 as expected, comfortably beating gm in week 1 and inf in week 2 before an understrength team suffered from terrible connection problems (mindphuck and aly pinging like modemers) resulting in them dropping a map to lkff. the fact that they remain first without performing anywhere near as well as they're capable confirms that ts are a div 1 team, out of place here. taylor mentions in his review that they will be losing some of their janetters during the summer.. i don't know how badly this will affect their team but a win over rv this weekend would keep them nicely on course for the title.
theres a similar story in div3, where fh are somehow top of the table despite giving minimal attention to the league so far, with exams and other commitments forcing us to play an understrength team each week. a comfortable win over 3p in week 1 led onto a defensive game vs sec, where our attackers were unavailable thanks to work, holidays and er.. lightning. that resulted in a narrow loss for fh, which we made up for in week 3 with a big win over mia leaving us joint 1st, top on cap difference. according to taylor we'll need 9 points from 12 in our next few games if we're to remain on top.
the league has been well run and very enjoyable so far, the rest of the season should be interesting with some unfamiliar maps, q3wcp1 and ctctf3, still to be played.
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some guy at e3 filmed the doom 3 demo that they played on the screen. looks pretty impressive, altho someone commenting on it on the clanbase site said that the vid doesn't do it justice, that it was way better.
decide for yourself. it's not zipped, the zipping only cut a meg off it.
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lan-arena 7 is an international event of video games tournaments. it will take place in paris france, at the great hall of villette on friday 5th, saturday 6th and sunday 7th july 2002. (robbed from http://www.lanarena.com)
it's promising to be the best quake3 lan ever, with many of the biggest names in quake3 tdm attending, including forze who recently won the cpl in cologne and the two top teams from america - although most of the clans need to raise money for travel and will have to drop if they don't get it.
unfortunately there's no irish representation, but in the unlikely event that 8 teams drop out, bio will fly the irish flag there. even without bio attending it should be an even bigger spectacle than the cpl.
list of teams to attend is
href="http://www.lan-arena.com/eng/?act=q3teams">here.
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spotted this nice little interview with id software over on shack . discussing the antisapated release of doom iii. heres a snipet of the interview;
graeme devine: the goals are to make it as if you're in full control of a horror movie. it really should be on that scale, that you feel you're in full control at all times, i'm doing everything as the player, and i'm experiencing the background story, which is going along, and it's really beginning to talk to me, and get to me…
we want to give it that style of background in your head, so even when you're not playing the game, you're still thinking about the game.
heres the rest of the interview . enjoy.
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the iqool was 'paused' midway due to a number of reasons, and we have decided to finish it off now, rather than let it die off. i acknowledge that some people who may have been doing well are not around for the summer/various other reasons, but we'll finish it off as best we can.
news up in a few days time.
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for those who like to trawl through the past, the news archive is now up'n running. check it out.
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bigfoot has posted his review of the full season of the bwctf league. some very
interesting point of views from the various clan leaders and a well thought out set of
articles. interesting enough, from the stats, fh happened to come 2nd in the top
cappers with 157 caps and bio coming 1st in the lowest cappers with 16 caps. heh?
whats that all about eh?. anyway, head on over to
href="http://www.quakenation.com/">quakenation for a read.
part i
- introduction, stats, divisions 1, 2a & 2b
part ii
- divisions 3a, 3b & 3c
part iii
- division 4
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congrats to the han solo (manc, forever, deya, blunt, martel, vin) team who beat
chewbacca (explicit, ql-sid, ritch, ayreon, detwisj, firestorm) in the finals. what
a great day. shame about some of the 'bangers', but that couldnt have helped with
some of the players not showing, we know who you are, booo hisss!. thanks to
everyone who did turn up and i'm sure you had a great laugh. next time, i will be
more vigilant with teams and their players and make it a little more even sided.
anyhooows.. till next time [more]
the teams for the quake.ie ctf cup are now up. we tried to be as fair as possible by
randomly choosing who goes on what team just by the order that people signed up on and
then re-allocating some of the players to even it out. we made it into 12 teams, with most
teams having 6 players. the reason behind this is because there will be players who don't
show and teams who will be sort players will get the extra ones floating around. last year
we two entire teams due to people not showing. this time, it should cover that event.
remember, if you don't have the ctf map packs, you will need to get them (see below).
don't wait till 5 minutes before the game to check, people will get very p1ssed at you if
you do. were gonna be tight for time. do the decent thing, you have a whole week to get
them, sooo.. get them!
please note the starting time is next sunday (the 26th) at 1pm, its a little early.. its
so we can try and complete it in time.
here is the teams as they currently stand.
the light side |
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skywalker |
wij, the_stranger, sd, m1ke, 2fish |
0,2,2,0,2, - 6 |
solo |
manc, forever, deya, blunt, martel, vin |
2,2,2,0,2, - 8 (27 caps) |
chewbacca |
kotr|explicit, ql-sid, ritch, ayreon, detwisj, firestorm |
2,0,2,2,2, - 8 (21 caps) |
leia |
pabz, nexus, arclight, renegade, 4k^dynamic, sp1r1t |
0,0,0,2,0, - 2 |
yoda |
acidbeard, gerry, kyro, cascade, slinks, rapier |
0,0,0,0,0, - 0 |
obiwan |
eri, caraway, deadlynun, buff0x, morphy, anakin |
2,2,0,2,0, - 6 |
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players |
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vader |
aly, thrax, dr_gonzo, riot, spaceman, juz |
2,2,0,2,2, - 8 (17 caps) |
tarkin |
odee, sai, larma, [lola], bender, ^dark^ |
0,2,2,0,2, - 6 |
fett |
tom, griff, bourn3, h3ll, dutch |
2,0,2,2,0, - 6 |
palpatine |
no team, the players were spread out over the other teams. |
0,0,0,0,0, - 0 |
maul |
sifer, global, crusader, guesseyder, bunny, zero |
2,0,2,2,2, - 8 (21 caps) |
jabba |
sky, seccy, vast, dead, rev hellfire, crys |
0,2,0,0,0, - 2 |
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team |
time |
server |
map |
score |
skywalker |
solo |
1:00 |
1 |
q3ctf2 |
2-4 |
chewbacca |
leia |
1:00 |
2 |
q3ctf2 |
4-1 |
yoda |
obiwan |
1:00 |
3 |
q3ctf2 |
1-2 |
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skywalker |
chewbacca |
2:00 |
1 |
q3w2 |
4-1 |
yoda |
solo |
2:00 |
2 |
q3w2 |
1-8 |
obiwan |
leia |
2:00 |
3 |
q3w2 |
4-1 |
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skywalker |
yoda |
2:30 |
1 |
q3w5 |
8-1 |
obiwan |
chewbacca |
2:30 |
2 |
q3w5 |
3-4 |
leia |
solo |
2:30 |
3 |
q3w5 |
5-7 |
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skywalker |
obiwan |
3:00 |
1 |
q3wcp11 |
4-10 |
leia |
yoda |
3:00 |
2 |
q3wcp11 |
8-4 |
solo |
chewbacca |
3:00 |
3 |
q3wcp11 |
3-4 |
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skywalker |
leia |
3:30 |
1 |
q3wcp9 |
5-0 |
solo |
obiwan |
3:30 |
2 |
q3wcp9 |
4-2 |
chewbacca |
yoda |
3:30 |
3 |
q3wcp9 |
8-4 |
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team |
time |
server |
map |
score |
vader |
tarkin |
1:00 |
4 |
q3ctf2 |
3-2 |
fett |
palpatine |
1:00 |
5 |
q3ctf2 |
5-0 |
maul |
jabba |
1:00 |
6 |
q3ctf2 |
5-0 |
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vader |
fett |
2:00 |
4 |
q3w2 |
2-1 |
maul |
tarkin |
2:00 |
5 |
q3w2 |
3-4 |
jabba |
palpatine |
2:00 |
6 |
q3w2 |
5-0 |
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vader |
maul |
2:30 |
4 |
q3w5 |
3-4 |
jabba |
fett |
2:30 |
5 |
q3w5 |
3-5 |
palpatine |
tarkin |
2:30 |
6 |
q3w5 |
0-5 |
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vader |
jabba |
3:00 |
4 |
q3wcp11 |
4-3 |
palpatine |
maul |
3:00 |
5 |
q3wcp11 |
0-5 |
tarkin |
fett |
3:00 |
6 |
q3wcp11 |
2-5 |
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vader |
palpatine |
3:30 |
4 |
q3wcp9 |
5-0 |
tarkin |
jabba |
3:30 |
5 |
q3wcp9 |
8-1 |
fett |
maul |
3:30 |
6 |
q3wcp9 |
1-3 |
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server |
map |
score |
solo |
vader |
4:00 |
1 |
q3wcp5 |
7-3 |
maul |
chewbacca |
4:00 |
2 |
q3wcp5 |
0-3 |
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time |
server |
map |
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solo |
chewbacca |
5:00 |
1 |
q3w3 |
3-1 |
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it's cpl weekend and boy are forze kicking ass in quake 3. winners of the winners bracket and looking awesome for them is mikes.
my own favourite individual demo of all time is here
also, thestranger has provided some coverage over on quakenation which you can read here.
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bigfoot sends me word on his review of the entire season of the bwdm league. its a very long, but extremely good review and worth a look. check out the various parts -
part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.
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sick of having nobody to play offline exept stupid unrealistic bots? well over at art of war they have been working on a new bot modification for quake 3 called brainworks that apparently makes the bots operate in a more human-like manner.
brainworks
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ok q3 great game, osp great mod, but cpma is kicking the shit outta them both, i mean the diversity of the different gamemodes, the power of the lg, the quality of the netcode and now they come up and tell us 8 player multi-view-demos!!!! i mean that's just taking the piss
the latest version of cpma is 0.99w5
then get the mvd-capable upgrade.
i had a look at one of the mvd demos and they're amazing, you can check the score at any time, switch to the 8 different players, slowmotion, fast forward, anyway....
download an mvd demo here to see this magnificent mod in all it's glory.
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with all the exams nearly over, were gearing up for a new competition, simply called
the quake.ie cup. we ran one this time last year and it was a great success. you
dont need to be in a clan and even if you are, it won't matter. each player will be
seeded based upon their skill level and randomly assigned to a team. rated, 1-4,
each team will have a skill level 1 player who will be the team leader. every player
will get a game and will have a bit of fun doing it. the idea of the cup is to have
fun. it will be ran over one day with the finals held that same night.
this cup is an on-line competition and is open to everyone from ireland, the uk and
mainland europe. what we need to know is who is interested in competing. were
hoping to run the cup on sunday, may the 26th. so sign up now and add a comment so we can
get this on the road in a week or so time. it'll be good craik, you know it!
edit - btw, last year we ran a theme, which was transformers, where each team had the name of a transformer, like, megatron, etc. this time, the theme will be starwars (just to be with the current season of movies). so prepare for the likes of hansolo vs vader and princess leia v queen amidala. ta to the_stranger for helping me decide which theme to do. next time we'll do your idea - '80s pop bands )
update: the cup will be q3ctf in the interests of getting the most fun out of things, afterall, if you're not the hottest shot on the block you can still defend in ctf, whereas in tdm you just die lots.
the maps that are going to be used will be provided individually for download so people can get them without having to grab the entire mappacks.
oh, and i corrected mp's spelling of queen armadillo.
crusader
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for those of you who didnt watch the euroctf finals on sunday (i missed it!), switzerland beat germany over 5 maps, taking the title. the scores were 2-2 (w3) 0-1 (ctf2) 3-0 (cp5) 9-0 (cp9) and 3-0 (w2). you can nab the demos, courtesy of barrysworld from here.
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a new irish clan has been formed called playful destruction. formed on the quake boards by a number of interested clanless players and headed by thrax, they have their site up already and everything.
this is the first clan in a long time to be made in such a way, but hopefully with thrax's experience, he'll hold them together and get some practises in. welcome aboard lads.
when i actually bothered to read to the bottom of the thread, i found that kyro and his mates have also set up a clan called ico (ice cream orange). no site yet, but hopefully they will also get organised soon. nice1, we need more irish players.
note from mp : pd's new web site is now hosted on quake.ie, you can have a gawk here
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found something which may be of interest to you code monkeys out there, it's a quake2 based engine that can load quake3 data files, like maps, models and sounds. hells kitchen have created a quake iii arena-like engine, usable for free open-source games, films, demos, etc.
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pretty impressive considering that no other q3 map renderer provides support for modding and network gaming
i had a look at the l33t engine and had a spot of bother getting it going, if anyone tries this and gets it working let me know
you will need both q2 and q3 to run as well as the l33t engine.
visit the hells kitchen website for downloads, screenshots and more info.
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