today sees the quake.ie iqool kick off. 24 players, 4 groups, 6 maps. check it out here, and if you are entered, get playing!!
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sk have said they will compete in the upcoming q3 eurocup 5 competition, heres what stelam had to say:
due to the recent changes to the clanbase eurocup v map pool and because of obviously a lot of people wanting us to compete in ec5, we want to revise our decision and will participate in the upcoming eurocup season.
we will once more do our best to represent the german quake3 scene as well as possible. and how can we do it better than by defending our title?
as usual teams will be initially split into two large conferences, then broken down into smaller groups, here are the competing teams from each conference;
scandinavian conference (the matches are going to be played on norwegian, swedish, finnish and dannish servers)
cyberfight (russia)
deluxe (finland)
dunno (sweden)
evolution (sweden)
forze (russia)
ice climbers (sweden)
north stars (sweden)
p1mps (sweden)
quad peoples org (sweden)
vikings (denmark)
violence solves everything (norway)
wargasm (denmark)
arca (sweden) vs. eyeballers (sweden)
clan armageddon (norway) vs. rectum intruders (norway)
legacy of the mob (sweden) vs. meton (sweden)
nocturne commando (norway) vs. weird science project (norway)
european conference (the matches are going to be played on uk, belgian, french and german servers)
against all authority (france)
deegroller (netherlands)
dreams and magic (spain)
marauders squad (italy)
mortal team work (germany)
murk (iceland)
ping of death (germany)
schroet kommando (germany) - !
shuuk (germany)
tulls (italy)
unreal (uk)
xplicit 4 (netherlands)
four kings (uk) vs. gunzoids (uk)
gemini (belgium) vs. majestic 5 (belgium)
iron fist (uk) vs. mortal retribution (uk)
suck my rocket (germany) vs. radium (germany)
games will begin on feb 18th.
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they fixed most of the 1.0 bugs, so, its what osp1.0 should have been. you can download the full version locally here or nab the 9mb 1.1 upgrade here.
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there's a poll up on the wcg site about what games people want played at the next wcg. surprisingly enough, out of over 21000 internet votes so far, counter-strike isn't in the top 5. quake3 is coming in at a close second. take it cs.
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after tonight, we are setting about organising groups/maps etc for the iqool, so if you havent signed up for it, sign up now. you know you want to.
also, we are deciding on certain maps for the iqool, some of which are going to include the new osp maps. not sure which ones are the best, so have a quick vote here on boards.ie as to which maps you think should be included. we are going to pick four out of the mentioned seven, (as well as some of the regular maps, each week will have a different map set).
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quakenation have a great article up reviewing the bwctfl season. it is a very good read and requires a cup of tea. also you can't miss the interview with yours truly  very informative and a great insight into the league itself, 5 star article
of most interest to people here would be the section :
part i - introduction, stats & divisions 1 & 2a
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for those of you whose fps will never be high enough, heres the first pics of the geforce 4:
geforce 4
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barrysworld is now peered directly to eircom via the london internet exchange. i've done a few tests and the hops have been cut from 13 to 8, very impressive indeed and only 2 hops off slosh.ign.ie so very playable. i also didn't experience any of the packetloss or lag spikes of last week. thanks go to bigfoot at barrysworld for sorting us all out. bring on the euroctf
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have a look in the features section, we are running a duel competition. how hard are you?
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i've added a review of last nights action in the euro ctf competition to my column which you can read here.
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there have been loads of articles lately detailing the best mice on the market at the moment. the ms intellimouse explorer 3.0 and the logitech mouseman duel optical in particular have been subject to much scrutiny lately, and i know a lot of irish players have been using the former with mixed reactions.
heres the first review i've read that does not recommend the explorer 3.0 for gaming, instead it rates the common logitech pilot wheelmouse usb as the best for q3, the one with the ball innit... my mouse :d (altho i think i have an older version). the allegedly skippy logitech mouseman dual optical comes in second place. its written by a guy with small hands called stony on xsreality (which has been churning out a lot of well researched news-worthy articles lately).
anyway, after reading this, i'm thinking of sticking with the mouse i have atm, so read the article and tell me if stony knows what hes talking about.
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clanbase have announced the next eurocup5. there will a good number of cups which are of interest to us gamers being played. only the q3 dm will be a lan cup final tho.
* quake 2: dm, ctf, insta dm
* quake 3: dm, ctf, ra3, urban terror
* return to castle wolfenstein
now, heres a thought. the bio or nd lads could be up for the dm. i donno if we could enter team.ie into the ctf cup, but hey, it would be well cool.
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theres a new irish isp supporting 128k isdn, called elive free. its a local number, same type of thing as ocean. its giving great ping for modemers. the isdn seems ok, its definitely worth keeping in mind when all the other isp's go bad (which is happening a lot lately).
you can find your local number on the elive site. no signup necessary... does anyone know about this dialup? is it unison with a different name or what? thanks to saik for pointing it out anyway.
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sorry, i meant to post this earlier, but bigfoot, from quakenation has done it up. mind if i copy'n paste ?
this weeks games in the euroctf cup are as follows :
tonight - sweden v russia at 7.00pm & austria v germany at 8.00pm
tomorrow - portugal v spain at 10.00pm
thursday - iceland v russia at 6.00pm, holland v greece at 8.00pm, england v n. ireland at 9.00pm
friday - wales v ireland at 9.00pm
sunday - belgium v france at 8.00pm & sweden v norway at 8.00pm
so, once again,a big thanks to quakenation, for letting me rip off some quakenation stuff, 'cos quakenation are cool!.
for more info, you could always look up quakenation.
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the bwctfl concluded this week. tonight saw bio draw with iced meaning bio wins division 2a and gains promotion to division 1 next season.
ts had a group of good results today beating iced and ea to come within just one point of bio leaving them in 2nd place which also earns them promotion to division 1 next season.
so any updates next season will be focusing on division 1 which will be kewl. for anyone that doesn't know it already neo have won the bwctfl with iqs coming 2nd and kr coming 3rd.
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in div1a, a lagged bio drew with il, winning dm14 easy enough by 78-53 before losing dm6, 100-130. there should be a report on the bio website. tonight, they play mr in what promises to be the most interesting div1 fixture of the season imo. currently, bio are 5th and have a good chance at making the playoffs (top 3 go through). unr and m5 are in automatically. the remaining place will go to the winner of bio vs mr, unless dc manage an upset vs unr. a draw is all bio needs to finish joint on points with dc, but since bio won their game with dc, they will finish higher up. i'll update tonight on the result of that.
hat did well in beating the french clan lkff in div2a. lkff have struggled this season, but are a decent team who have done very well in the past. the scores were 59-109 on dm14 and 100-105 on dm6. thats all their games over, meaning they finish very respectably in midtable, either 5th or 6th depending on how poq do in their remaining game.
bio.r had no trouble with t-u in div3b, taking dm14 by 105-35, and dm6 by 109-70. t-u will consider themselves unfortunate to have met bio this late in this season, since the bio.r team has come a long way since the start of the league, and this result means they get promoted and not t-u. all games are finished in this div. expect a colourful report by arexes at some stage on their website.
fh had a disappointing game in div3d, with a draw against the bottom placed udfc who hadn't got any points over active clans until then. despite us holding ra for most of the games, and getting most battlesuits, it was impossible to attack quad without our connections flooding, so it finished 51-54 to udfc. dm6 was very different, good performances by lorcan and cascade gave us the win, with a scoreline of 99-81. we have one fairly meaningless game left vs fight club uk, most likely to be played next week although the fixture hasn't been announced yet.
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last (was it the first?) season of the bwcmpml was a 2v2 league, but now they've taken the step up to 4v4 that we've all be waiting for.
drex issues a health warning that "your clan could get seriously owned", but sure whats new eh? i know there hasn't been much cpm played in ireland, but given our strong qw background (apart from me and also the q2eers) it could give us the edge over a lot of q3 only clans given decent connections. i'd enter fh but with the lag in fights we've been getting in tdm recently theres no point.. does anyone know if this problem occurs to the same degree in cpm? they're taking signups on the site now... the league is being run by drexciyian and empedocles, both admins on quake.ie so they should be able to give u a few more details. league starts feb 14th.
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later today, the latest cpma v99w will be released. i'll post links etc to it when it comes available. what i found interesting in this one, besides some cool features, is that cpma will no longer support vanilla q3. intesting to see that occur. more news on the promode site.
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a new patch for return to castle wolfenstien is out. the 1.1 release is a mere 1.5 mb and fixes various minor issues. you can nab it off here. i saw this on xsr.
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quiff is looking for teams to enter the university tdm cup hes organising. theres a few uk teams that are looking very strong, but there will be a lot of teams in it just for fun, so it would be nice to see ireland represented by at least one team (ul? tcd? dcu?) i'd put in a ucc team but i'd doubt we could even field four cs players. you can find him in #nottsq3 on quakenet.
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the last trials were a bit of a mess, so we've decided to re-run them due to the messing about that took place. mostly my fault as i had to bugger off just before they started and it went downhill from there. im sorry about that.
so, heres whats going to happen.
stick your name down here (or www.boards.ie - same news posted), if your interested in taking part. you must be of irish origin. you are not irish if you drank a guiness once.
format for trials.
date - sunday 20th of jan
time - 8pm sharp - no delays
maps - dm3, e1m2
teams - 4v4 (picked based on who-ever signs here)
demos - will be recorded in mvd format from the servers.
the only clients allowed are qw2.30 and morequake. players must be using qismo. f_modified must not report errors. anyone without these setup and working correctly will be asked to leave the server.
there will be no delays accepted because of -
a) qizmo /client reporting errors (get it fixed before hand)
b) connection problems - (get it fixed before hand)
c) no bitching/bl33ting/moaning on the servers.
d) ready up when told!
sorry if this sounds draconian. we, as a team don't have the luxory of time on our hands if we wish to participate in the euro qw cup.
cyahs sunday.
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the barrysworld
euroctf cup kicks off this tuesday night with a cool set of games lined up.
ireland won't be playing till next week due to the isle of man squad dropping out
recently. team.ie's first
game will be versus the welsh squad and will prove to be a hard game for the irish lads.
we'll give 'em hell no doubt. anyway, you can watch all the matches via gtv with scorebots all in #euroctf.
tuesday
holland vs belgium 7pm
wednesday
germany vs hungary 8pm
austria vs croatia 8pm
thursday
iceland vs denmark 6pm
france vs portugal 8.30pm
scotland vs n.ireland 9pm
spain vs greece 10pm
friday 18th
russia vs sweden 6pm
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ok no reference to quake here but this is very funny stuff. some of you may have spotted a link on boards, if you have take another look anyways.
skangers
*zero - token news update
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ec4 kicks off today at 11am gmt. there should be some really excellent games being played and well worth a look into. #eurocup on quakenet.
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ahh, the new team.ie bind!
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with the league almost coming to a conclusion here's a quick update on the goings on in week 8.
in division 1a bio v gs was a draw - 98 v 115 to bio on milktdm and on q3dm12tmp 86 v 77 to gs. in the scheduled fixture bio v unr, unr went onto win 120-57 on milktdm, bio however put up a much better performance on dm14tmp but still loosing 110-90. this puts bio in 3rd place with 2 matches in hand, in a good position to challenge for a place in the bwdml finals.
div2a saw hat take all 3 points vs f - f 71-126 on milktdm and a default 0-75 on dm12tmp. this leaves hat in a nice position mid table, with 2 matches left in hand, promotion looks just a little too far out of reach.
div3b sees bio.r move up into 3rd place with a crucial win vs lsr last night, 78-82 74-97 respectively. bio.r are in a good position now to challenge for promotion if they can win next weeks big fixture vs t-u who are just below them in the table.
div3d has fh in 6th place picking up a default win vs cn this week. they've two matches in hand and are to face udfc next week in a match they should expect to win.
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i noticed over on iggy's column on quakenation about a little proggie that you download and apparently it works like seti@home except it's for cancer research. if, like me, you have a computer with a free net connect i would suggest you take it down and run it, as we all know someone who has suffered or is suffering from cancer. being someone who has been trying on and off for the last two years to give up smoking, cancer is something that puts the fear of god in me, as i'm sure it does for all you smoking quaker nerds, so if you have nothing to do, download the programme here and when you are on an intensive care machine in the bed beside me, maybe there'll be someone who can save us due to our little effort.
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this league has been going on for sum time now but has only just opened its doors to the rest of europe. any clan can enter, but would be best if you ping good to foreign servers.
the first season starts next tuesday (jan 15th) and will carry on untill march 15th after that the top 16 teams will go through to the playoffs.
its going to use the clanbase points system and is explained in the rules like this:
when a new season starts each team is given 1000 points to start off with. when winning a game you will be given 10% of the enemy clan's points. note that you can't lose any points by losing a game.
if a clan is ranked pretty high in the ranking and beats a clan with low points it will not gain them much points, that should incourage the better clans not to mash the 'smaller' clans for easy points.
more information can be found on the nqr website.
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a bit of a shock to the system this one. i heard today that the the playing fields has closed their doors for the last time. it's what i call a historicly bad day for gaming.
i met most of the people there, edward watson. ed is a down to earth nice guy and genuinely has his heart in the right place. he was very passionate about tpf and i'm sure the closing of the tpf is a blow to all who worked there.
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