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3wave have come up with the goods again in the form of 8 reworked versions of popular ctf maps for quake3. grab them from a mirror near you now! threewave 's homepage has the list.
update : you can also grab them here, on the quake.ie ftp site.
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with the challenge smackdown2 league nearing its final stages, i saw that 4k were beaten by favourites, flaming fist on tuesday night. ff have only ever lost 3 wars in their entire clan history, one of those loses was against 4k. two years later, they get their revenge. shame, i kinda liked the thoughts of 4k whooping them!
you can catch the full report of the games over on the north europe sd2 page. the league itself is into its quarter final stages, myself or bunny will keep you updated.
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im sure you have already read the news about the
href="http://www.worldcybergames.com" target="_blank">world cyber games championships
around many web pages. it is to be held on the 5th-9th of december 2001. while
its good news to hear that the wcgc have announced their dates for their tourney, it also
happens to be on the same weekend as the
href="http://www.thecpl.com/index.asp?p=events" target="_blank">cpl event.
i am sure this will be a blow to the cpl as most european teams/countries
will go to korea for the wcgo and get their expenses paid for by the wcgo to go to their
championships. something which the cpl does not do. imagine being left with
the delimma of, 'urm, paid trip or get sponsorship for my trip'. i hope one of the
events change dates so there will be no clash. it's just a matter of who.
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the new maps to be included in the next point release have been leaked early. download them here and have a peek.
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with two weeks remaining in the
href="http://leagues.barrysworld.com/bwq3l/dm/default.shtm" target="_blank">barrysworld
team deathmatch league, we are starting to see who is going to get promoted and
relegated from their divisions. heres how this weeks matches on cpm4 and dm8 went :
bio v v : 42:128
68:116
hat v pr : 108:81 149:42
fh v frag : 84:80 117:75
hatb v cwc : 45:88 88:49
lsd v sxr : 75:0
75:0
bio - 8th place - div 1a
hat - 3rd place - div 2a
fh - 5th place - div 3b
hatb - 5th place - div 3c
lsd - 10th place - div 3c
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50squiff from clan nemesis has put together an amazing avi of mid air shots, mad rails and some pretty cool stuff. it's a whooping 12mb download, but its definately worth the look. grab the movie here.
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the cpl have just announced that they are going to cancel the
href="http://quake.xsreality.com/?action=features&feature_id=119&category_id=1&page=4">frag
5 event and the counterstrike tournament in october and august of this year.
there will however be two large events per year with appox $150,000 in prize money.
'this revised approach to competitive gaming in the united states promises to yield
stronger growth for the cpl through consolidated efforts..'. more details on the
href="http://www.thecpl.com">the cpl web site.
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i just noticed over on mindphuck's column he has a lenghty review of his weekend at the cpl which goes into some of the things they got up to over there.
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the ecal ii is starting next wednesday. there are three irish clans involved, and some stiff competition from elsewhere in europe. i put together a bit of a preview which you can read here.
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one of the russian players death has beaten lakerman twice to win the european cpl. vicious aim and aggressive play kept lakerman at bay in 2 very exciting games
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was reading the russian site http://cyberfight.ru, they have cpl updates up there, my russian isn't what it used to be but it looks like the following results for the irish boys:
ser beat gadget 21 to 5 and went through
beast lost to b100.death - 3:35 on ztn3tourney1
gman lost to james.mask - 1:0
sujoy beat dev - 16:13 (this our dev? gg if it is)
thefanj lost to trixter - 1:0 (this our fanj?)
in the following round, kane beat ser - 24:1
this might all be totally wrong, but i hardly look like i care.
played lads.
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decent coverage of the event is hard to find, with most of the sites down, but dr_gonzo on quakenation has been posting the results as they come in. unfortunately, all irish players are out of the competition. in round 1, rising star, thefanj, seems to have given a default win to trixter. beast lost 3-35 against b100.death on ztn, while ser got a good win 21-5 over gadget. he was lucky enough to meet kane in round 2... and that finished 1-24.
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mindphuck is in holland, so i thought i'd update the bwdml results for this week. theres not much to report on, since it was a very quiet week for irish clans. bio got a draw with the belgian clan hsb - winning mexx1 by 69-65, and losing dm14tmp 64-81.
in div3c, hat-b also drew, losing 82-112 against ax on q3mexx1, but winning 109-96 on dm14.
hat and fh got default wins, while acid defaulted against kudos.
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well, we got here. were currently helping setup the network and having wonderfull fun and games with crc errors and norton ghost! beer is good, women are amazing.. *cough*.
oh, and ser and beast both forgot to sign up.. nice one. more later.
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more details have been released concerning the upcoming cpl event in dallas, texas (june 28th) in order to go you'll need to register which will cost you $20 which is nothing compared to the crazy prices i have seen for aer lingus flights (2 hops) not mentioning the hotel accomodation for the 4 days. the good news is that the quakeworld competition has a prize purse of $15000 ($4000 for 1st...down to $200 for 16th place) and there will be savage computers provided. there will also be counter-strike, unreal tournament and doom2 tourneys. some irish players have shown interest, but as of yet there are no definites mainly due to the huge cost of actually getting there. but that huge cost also means that most top european players would not be able to go which would greatly increase our chances...a bit of a catch22 situation. i will talk to our players, lookout for sponsorship and keep an eye on who's going for now.
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i just noticed over on the cpl holland event page, that the q3 seedings were posted. what i find amazingly bizzare is that there is no mention what-so-ever of our two irish players, ser and beast. surely this a mistake?
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thorin has wrote an article over on esports america, explaining the current situation with teams having all the top players in them, thus eliminating the competition. its worth a read into and would be rather interesting to see what the cpl are going to do.
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with only a couple of days to go to the cpl holland event things are starting to get a little busy around here in the background.
the two irish qualifiers, sponsored by nethouse, were ser and beast. both of these players are vets in the game and have huge experience in playing in various tourney's. with some determination, they should do well.
as for the rest of the irish contingency, myself, sonic, guinessman, overlord, shadow, plant, kharn and van are all going over. we were invited by the cpl to head over a day before hand and setup the actual and help run the actual event. most of the well known players that will be there know us for the craik and drinking to be done at these kind of events, so, with a light heart, i say : bah, must i drink so much this time ? 
anyway, i and the others are really looking forward to a few days out in amsterdam to look at the views like, errm, cheese, daffodils 'n stuff. *cough*
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clan x have scooped the barrysworld ra3l cup by defeating french clan
bordeaux yesterday evening in the final 22-10 over 2 maps. this victory
for x follows on from them winning the first season of the league
competition and therefore makes them hot favourites for the 2nd season of
league which is planned to start in 2 weeks time, featuring 60 of the best
uk & european ra3 clans battling it out over an 11 week campaign.
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i spotted this via our pals on quakenation about the new point release for q3 due out in the next few days hopefully. the new release has nice features like an auto-update, better netcode for low (whoo!), some cheat fixes and a slew of new maps.
also, sujoy from xsr has done a complete review of the new maps and the fixes to the existing ones which is worth a read.
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well, the last games in our group happened tonight with northern ireland. the results
see us drop off the end of our group. the final scores were :
ie v ni
q3ctfw2 3-2
ie v ni
q3ctf2 2-2
ie v ni
q3ctfw3 1-2
(demos are of mindphuck's pov)
very close games, the most exciting of the league for us, i think. (apart from that
game on w1 with scotland when thay capped after the 20 mins  i would like to say
thanks to the ctf squad (mike, simo, skelt, mindphuck, m1rv, koopa overlord, jedi,
vamp and sky) for playing the games.
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over on the
href="http://www.caleague.com/?display=news&sc=1&ctype=league&leaguetype=q3a&x=17&y=9">caleague
website, the long awaited threewave compilation map pack for quake3 has is going to be
released on may 17th. this is excellent news and will bring new heights to ctf gaming.
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of the barrysworld tdm leagues went off smoothly. with no gtv's tho, it was scorebot city for the results. here is how they panned out on cpm4 and dm6tmp.
bio v dc - 126:53 | 115:69
hat v k2k - 106:45 | 149:69
fh v eoa - 75:0 | 75:0
hatb v dmn - 83:74 | 100:127
lsd v da - unplayed
with the league nearing is halfway mark, here is where the relevant teams rank in their divisions -
bio - div 1b : 6th place with 7 points.
hat - div 2a : 4th place with 10 points.
fh - div 3b : 5th place with 8 points.
hatb - div 3c : 2nd place with 11 points.
lsd - div 3c : 5th place with 9 points
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the guys over on challenge-world have just released their latest version of the cpm-arena mod. the .99t version sure does look like an seriously good mod with some excellent features. i'll try and get our pal overlord to throw up a version on the local servers later so we can give it a whirl. for the moment, download it here.
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thursday @ 8pm we play northern ireland on q3wctf2, q3ctf2, q3wctf3.
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just seen this over at chde
cpl europe announced today that the upcoming event in holland will be sponsored by intel as event sponsor and will be named "pentium® 4 processor cpl holland". for more details on the event visit http://www.intel-holland-cpl.com.
the pentium 4 processor is intel's latest and fastest processor delivering performance where users will experience and appreciate it most. for consumers, the pentium 4 processor delivers high performance for processing video and audio, exploiting the latest internet technologies, and displaying 3-d graphics. as they connect entertainment and productivity devices to their home pcs, users get even more value from their high-performance pentium 4 processor-based systems.
they have even changed the name of the event from this new deal. ummm?
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well this isn't exactly about quake, but it is about john carmack and rockets; amateur rocketry. makes for an interesting read, i suppose all of his work on recreating the physics of an artificial world has got him interested in the real one. hope he remembers the spf 25, i don't imagine someone like him gets out very often... "john carmack of id software fame has gotten deep into serious amateur rocketry. his armadillo aerospace web site gives regular status reports on the efforts of his team of mostly volunteers in building very low cost vtvl (vertical takeoff, vertical landing) hydrogen peroxide rocket vehicles. last week he gave an impressive presentation at the space access society meeting with a description of the progress made in their incremental development of remotely controlled vehicles that will eventually lead to a manned (suborbital) version."
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dr_gonzo sends word that the winner of the uk cpl qualifier was interviewed earlier today over on quakenation. interesting interview view there!
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the cpl uk qualifier which took place today at the playing fields is over. with hell (yes mr.original name) taking 1st place. i think hell has surprised many people being seed #8 and winning the qualifier. top 4 finisher's go like this:
1st hell
2nd logan
3rd sujoy
4th mozilla
hell picks up £200 plus free flights, accomodation for the cpl holland event which takes place in 2 weeks time, which myself and other's will be attending.
i think luke's terrible performance was unexpected to many also, coming in 5th-6th.
ill try and get some interview's with the players later.
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