Quake

IEM World Championship at CeBIT in Hannover

by phate • 1 Mar 2010, 23:23 • News
image: IEMDrop all of your 'other plans' for this week, stock up with food and drinks ... and get ready for the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship Quake Live!

Expect mind-blowing Quake Live duel action brought to you by the charming ESL TV commentators United Kingdom James '2gd' Harding and United Kingdom Joseph 'Joe' Miller most likely alongside of great interviews by the head of the Intel Extreme Masters Poland Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz.
Can the probably strongest among the underdogs Sweden fox, surprisingly the only swede who made it to the event, or the long-time lone representative for italy in terms of quake Italy stermy, convince and make it out of their groups into the playoffs?
Will the eastern european star-players Poland av3k, Russia Cooller and Belarus Cypher along with the overseas competitors United States of America DaHanG and United States of Americarapha dominate as expected or will France strenx be able to exceed his performance at the European Championship Finals a couple of weeks ago?
Did China Jibo prepare at all this time and what about United States of America chance, United States of America dkt and Canada griffin, who are not to be underestimated?
Find all the answers and a lot more, this week!

Group A

Russia Cooller
Italy stermy
Poland av3k
United States of America rapha
United States of America Chance
China Jibo

Group B

United States of America DaHanG
Sweden fox
France strenx
Belarus cypher
United States of America dkt
Canada griffin

To keep track on all the action ahead, be sure to bookmark the following links during the course of the event:
pre-coverage:
other links:
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Sainted 1 Mar 2010, 23:24
Great post, I'll be there on saturday so I might be able to watch part of the grand final live :)
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kafux 1 Mar 2010, 23:29
i hope you have a free ticket. if not, pm me :)
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Sainted 1 Mar 2010, 23:41
thanks a lot for the offer, but yeah I'm kinda going for free already (through uni, I won't be representing crossfire in any form)
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kafux 1 Mar 2010, 23:54
ok, great.

i just asked because here in germany we get spammed with free tickets and i think it is not worth to pay 38€ for one day at cebit :)
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:44
ESL TV vods will prolly be up about 90 minutes after they've been recorded! :)
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twister 1 Mar 2010, 23:27
prolly gonna watch iem until cooller is out and switch to cc7 :)
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:42
shame on you! :>
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kafux 1 Mar 2010, 23:28
great tournament. really looking forward to cs and ql!
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G1s 1 Mar 2010, 23:28
griffins mom allowed him to play?
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:32
appearantly he even tried to denie the entire story (source: DaHanG on LO3) :D
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Seanza 1 Mar 2010, 23:29
QuoteDrop all of your 'other plans' for this week, stock up with food and drinks ... and get ready for the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship Quake Live!


No thanks, I'm going to CIC7.
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Krosan 1 Mar 2010, 23:30
well done phate, I knew you could do it :D
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:32
(: thanks!
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butchji 1 Mar 2010, 23:41
How many of each group go through?
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:43
I don't know actually, that's why I didn't write anything about it.
e: It seems that it's 4 out of each group:
http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season4/hannover/quakelive/playoffs/rankings/
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twister 1 Mar 2010, 23:51
i remember reading 3 go on
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:52
I kinda thought so, too but then I saw those playoffs brackets just now.
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sh1tty 1 Mar 2010, 23:54
No. First of the group goes automatically into the semifinal and the 2nd and the 3rd will battle it out for the other semifinal spots... so practically the top3 proceed to the elimination bracket.
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:56
thanks for clearing that up :)
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butchji 2 Mar 2010, 00:48
Then Cooller rapha av3k & strenx Cypher DaHang will go to playoffs imo ^_^
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phate 2 Mar 2010, 09:04
That is exactly my prediction too, would love to see fox go through tho :/
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duumed 2 Mar 2010, 16:07
fox and stermy instead of av3k and strenx $$$
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deactivated1023 3 Mar 2010, 14:35
imo stermy lacks spaming skills to get past avek :P
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Owzo 1 Mar 2010, 23:55
ITS GOING TO BE SICK!
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:57
THERE'LL BE SO MUCH STEAMIN' IN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Owzo 1 Mar 2010, 23:58
JAAAAWOOOHHHHHHL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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phate 1 Mar 2010, 23:59
vods for you then i suppose? :P
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Owzo 2 Mar 2010, 00:04
yea :(
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phate 2 Mar 2010, 09:05
:/ poor you!
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Owzo 2 Mar 2010, 11:06
Hopefully they might be able to get a good HD stream of it at LAN :O)
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phate 2 Mar 2010, 11:14
I hope so for you! :)
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Owzo 2 Mar 2010, 11:20
Man this shit is hard to do on the iPhone xD I just can't use the touch pad for shit :(
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phate 2 Mar 2010, 11:23
:D
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Owzo 2 Mar 2010, 11:27
Apart from me being a retard it's pretty amazin (this word correction is a bit shitty though!)
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phate 2 Mar 2010, 11:30
cba getting one yet :P
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Owzo 2 Mar 2010, 11:34
I was goin to get a blackberry :P but this was cheaper :o have you seen our ET group btw? Nice one tbh :D
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phate 2 Mar 2010, 11:36
nice indeed, haven't heard of any of those other teams :)
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Owzo 2 Mar 2010, 11:40
Haha :)
Will still be pretty hard I guess though :(
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phate 3 Mar 2010, 09:02
how many go through? top2?
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Spirea 2 Mar 2010, 00:14
will be exciting :)
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FiLuS 2 Mar 2010, 00:18
playing on lan or watching iem, thats the question...
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Boss 2 Mar 2010, 00:44
great stuff

nice we got some QL coverage on crossfire, tyvm!
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 10:20
http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=news&mode=item&id=5263 ?

:(
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Boss 2 Mar 2010, 12:39
ALS IN HET ALGEMEEN: GOED DA WA QL COVERAGE HEBBEN OP DEZE SITE[/caps]
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 12:40
^^

RAGE!
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Boss 2 Mar 2010, 12:42
U MAMA

warning points incoming
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 12:46
oeveel moede der ebben?
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Boss 2 Mar 2010, 14:29
69
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 14:39
voor welke reden?
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Boss 2 Mar 2010, 14:40
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
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Boss 2 Mar 2010, 14:44
tssssssssssssssssssssssssss FU
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VIRuz4 2 Mar 2010, 09:55
np4 stermy
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h8m3 2 Mar 2010, 09:58
he wont pass out of group imho ;d
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h8m3 2 Mar 2010, 09:57
i even got esl tv premium for this
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Domi 2 Mar 2010, 10:26
QuoteDrop all of your 'other plans' for this week, stock up with food and drinks
Already did that, but thats because of CiC7 =D
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kad 2 Mar 2010, 12:17
i thought vo0 got invited to this because he came 3rd at some American comp?
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WoMbat 2 Mar 2010, 12:44
griffin is the replacement for Vo0, he had school exams I believe.
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kiwi 2 Mar 2010, 13:16
fox will deliver!
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wubskis 2 Mar 2010, 14:52
did you guys know fifa 10 is out apparently they want you to know fifa 10 is out

e: lol ddos
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vimm 2 Mar 2010, 16:05
Poland Av3k vs United States of America DaHanG @ final.
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superior 2 Mar 2010, 21:42
avek will destroy
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h8m3 3 Mar 2010, 14:25
fail fail very much fail
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phate 3 Mar 2010, 14:35
if you want some drama, read the strenx and av3k interviews :)
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h8m3 3 Mar 2010, 16:46
coverage is the biggest drama
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deactivated1023 3 Mar 2010, 16:56
im raging at my keybord because of the coverage :XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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h8m3 3 Mar 2010, 17:01
i even got esl tv premium after perfect coverage at iem euro for better quality and what's this? wow & CS? no thx .. :/
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Yossarian 3 Mar 2010, 18:45
write a complaint email to them, seriously :D


like they advertise showing that, and show some wow maggotry
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phate 3 Mar 2010, 17:56
It's somewhat saddening, yes :*/
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vimm 3 Mar 2010, 17:21
Failure
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twister 3 Mar 2010, 17:40
great tournament so far
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nuggan 3 Mar 2010, 17:42
Horrible coverage, I blame the germans.
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Erajorma 3 Mar 2010, 18:18
Couldnt have been worse tbh. Atleast Germany Arkarius and United States of America Slasher managed to set up a stream, though players decided no more quake matches tonight...
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twister 4 Mar 2010, 18:48
COOLLER
OO_____
O_O____
L___L___
L____L__
E_____E_
R______R
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dEzIrE 4 Mar 2010, 20:09
where can i watch freaking replays +_+
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Glot 5 Mar 2010, 00:05
Cooller vs Rapha was freakin amazing game.
Woohoo!
in all three maps it was mostly opponents mistakes that made the winner. i wonder if both Cooller and Rapha dont make mistakes how long will the match last? :D
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Powdermonkey 5 Mar 2010, 07:49
am i the only one that thinks strenx is the biggest douchebag in the world after reading that interview? His hypocricy amazes me. And how cool he thinks he is because he goes to parties LOL
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duumed 5 Mar 2010, 12:28
you're not alone
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Powdermonkey 5 Mar 2010, 18:15
happy to hear :D
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dEzIrE 5 Mar 2010, 19:22
ye was kind of a '' fan " of him, but after that iview, what a moron x]
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