CallofDuty.se and Qpad are proud to present the 6th installment of the Call of Duty Qpad Cup, the CODQCUP July edition. Last season well known teams such as Team Dignitas, Insignia Cadre, Team Logitech.fi and Serious Gaming competed, however the June edition was surprisingly won by Evolve Gaming (now Infused Gaming).

In the upcoming days the prizepool and the participating teams in the CODQCUP will be announced, at the moment strong teams such as The Last Resort, Team Logitech.fi defuseKids and Reason Gaming have already announced to participate in this months CODQCUP. This seasons CODQCUP might possibly serve as a prequel to the TeK-9 Outpost on Fire LAN #2 at the end of this month, with the strongest teams of Europe most likely competing in both.

It has been said that the CODQCUP July edition might be the last online tournament organised by CallofDuty.se for now, concentrating on the Dataparty and Wonderbase events later this year. Also with Call of Duty 4 coming out arround the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008 the need for a large open online competition such as the CODQCUP might not be needed anymore (Wonderbase with their slogan "The last large LAN before CoD4. Death comes to Borås, Sweden in August" reveals the expected).

CODQCUP website
Call of Duty.se

One of the biggest events to ever hit Call of Duty will has landed in grapevine texas and some of the worlds best Call of Duty teams are in attendance. The WSVG Dallas stop is in association with live earth, a global warming concert. The tournament is shaping up as follows:

[bUpper Bracket Round 1 - Played Friday[/b]]
(top half)
BYE 0-13 eximus (1)
yex 13-10 empath
TFS 13-10 Frag`do
BYE 0-13 flow (5)
.50 13-2 bnb
DB 2-13 20ID
exploit 13-11 drt
BYE 0-13 Dignitas (4)
(bottom half)
BYE 0-13 TeK-9 (3)
onfyre 9-13 iso
syops 3-13 pure
BYE 0-13 Speedlink (6)
Intense 1-13 Check.Six
gs 13-6 drt2
ENE 13-10 n2p
BYE 0-13 Pandemic (2)

[bUpper Bracket Round 2 - Played Saturday[/b]]
yeX 13-6 eximus
TFS 2-13 20ID
.50 13-10 flow
exploit 1-13 Dignitas

TeK-9 13-5 iso
pure 7-13 Speedlink
check6 13-6 gs
ENE 13-4 Pandemic
[bUpper Bracket Round 3 - Played Saturday[/b]]
eximus 8-13 20ID
Dignitas 13-9 .50
check6 7-13 Pandemic
Speedlink 3-13 TeK-9
[bUpper Bracket Round 4 - Played Saturday[/b]]

20ID 13-10 dignitas
Pandemic 9-13 TeK-9
Upper Bracket Final - Result

20ID 4-13 TeK-9

[bLoser Bracket Round 2 - Played Saturday[/b]]

empath 13-11 ene
frag`do 15-19 gs
bnb 2-13 pure
drt 4-13 .iso
onfyre 7-13 exploit
syops 4-13 flow
drt2 16-14 TFS
n2p 13-7 yeX
[bLoser Bracket Round 3 - Played Saturday[/b]]

empath 9-13 gS
pure 13-11 .iso
exploit 14-16 flow
drt2 9-13 n2p
[bLoser Bracket Round 4 - Played Saturday[/b]]

.50 10-13 GS
Pure 8-13 Eximus
Flow 4-13 check6
N2P 5-13 speedlink
[bLoser Bracket Round 5 - Played Saturday[/b]]

GS vs Eximus
speedlink vs check6
[bLoser Bracket Round 6 - Played Saturday[/b]]

Eximus 5-13 Pandemi
Speedlink 13-10 dignitas
[bLoser Bracket Round 7 - Played Saturday[/b]]

Speedlink 11-13 Pandemi

Loser Bracket Final

Pandemic 13-10 20ID

Grand Final Complete

TeK-9 6-13 Pandemic
TeK-9 13-10 Pandemic

Winner : TeK-9

Day 2 came with no major surprises for European fans, Dignitas looked fantastic whilst picking up their victory and TeK-9 were equally dominant. However TeK-9's next opponents, Speedlink dropped 7 rounds on their way to victory over Pure, who credit to them were a tougher opponent than the other two europeans had. As mentioned that sets up the first all European tie between Speedlink and TeK-9 on Carentan. Digntias take on .50 who defeated highseeded canadians, flow gaming. Flow had a very bad day infact coming close to elimination in the loser bracket, needing overtime to save them.

Gotfrag's crow actually had this to say:
This has been a great weekend for Call of Duty 2 and, in my opinion, the North American and European CoD2 communities are the real winners, as cheesy as that sounds! Full credit to Tek-9 though, the difficulty of going to a foreign continent and having to perform cannot be overstated. The whole team - and Steven too of course - really deserve this. They have taken some slack lately but I think the pressure is definitely now on Logitech and Serious to show they are still on the same level.

Related:
:: Full Seedings
:: Event Preview
:: Gotfrag CoD
:: ESReality Quake Coverage
:: Video Stream (No CoD)

Ten months after the first myLegend Enemy Territory team captained by Sheep officially closed, and the behemoth multi-gaming organisation is set to re-enter the Wolfenstein domain. Tonight the team can officially announce the addition of Enemy Territory to their portfolio, which already includes Quake 4, Counter Strike and Trackmania. With the forthcoming CPC3 and other LAN events on the horizon, the team includes a lineup with realistic credentials to succeed.

Snuble (ex. Auxilia)
Danone (ex.one4one,vib)
aeq (ex.cdap pi)
kris (ex.cdap pi)
fobje (ex.cdap Pi)
potter (ex.zp)
Mashed (manager / coach / delivering motivational "yo's")

The seedings, brackets and schedule have been posted for the upcoming WSVG Dallas event. Please note that based on community feedback after Louisville, the huge registration rush in the last week, and our interest to still run the competitions on time, group play has been eliminated, and moving forward with a double elimination structure for World of Warcraft, Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2.

The following are the top 10 seeds of the Call of Duty 2 event:

Call of Duty Top 10 Seeds:

1. Eximius
2. Pandemic
3. TeK-9
4. Team Dignitas
5. Flow Gaming
6. Team Speed-LINK
7. Check-Six
8. 20ID
9. 50cal
10. Pure Gaming

The full 32-team bracket can be found at this location. All matches with their schedule info with days and times can be found at this location.

Information scorebots should come shortly.

Seedings, brackets and schedules for Quake 4 and World of Warcraft can found on thewsvg.com.

For the past few months Team Logitech.fi has kept a strong presence in the Call of Duty 2 scene, most of the time only the Dutch players of Serious Gaming have been able to stop the Finnish force from gaining the first place in any competition. Tonight the Finnish powerhouses will face a Dutch team in the ClanBase EuroCup XV Winners bracket, however we're not talking about Serious but the second strong team The Netherlands has to offer.. H2k.Qpad, which has been performing very well recently by tossing the favorites for a top 3 position TeK-9 into the losers bracket.

The match will also be broadcasted by TGBF (video + audio stream).

Online registration for the World Series of Video Games, Presented by Intel, Dallas circuit stop will be closing on Tuesday, July 3rd at 9pm ET (July 4th, 03:00 CET). Those interested in competing after Tuesday will have register on site as competition spots may or may not become available. Individuals who seek to participate in Fight Night Round 3 and the Guitar Hero II Open will also have to sign up on site. Top teams confirmed for the Call of Duty 2 event are as follows:

Team Pandemic
Team SPEED-LINK
TeK-9
Check-Six
Flow Gaming
Team Dignitas
20ID
Eximius Sports

Those wanting to register may do so at www.thewsvg.com.
A full list of top competitors for all games including Quake 4 and World of Warcraft can be found at this locaton.

In an irc question and answer session, SplashDamage Lead Game Designer Paul "Locki" Wedgwood dropped a bomb shell tonight. He just confirmed that a second beta client will be available that will not only include certain bug fixes which can't be solved with a simple patch to the current beta, but will also include a new map!

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After the Programmers have completed their testing of new things like the anti-lag code in updates (along with Bots), we'll be releasing a brand new build called Beta 2. This 'Beta 2' will feature a new map.

At the moment we think that Valley will be the best choice, as it features additional vehicles (such as the Anansi Hovercopter, and the MCP objective). To give you a sense of how much performance has improved, I've been playing Valley today against bots on a 7-series NVIDIA in 1600 x 900 with all graphics settings maxed out. It looked amazing and I got really good frame-rates.

We don't have a timeline to announce yet for beta 2

Valley will replace the current map Sewers.

Great news for all you Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Public Beta testers, as the client update is rolling out as you read this. The update adds bots and fixes several issues. To grab the update, simply start up your beta client and the in-game updater will do the rest.

:: Bots
The most significant addition is that the bots are now activated. Server administrators will be able to populate their servers with computer-controlled bots to fill up empty player slots. id Software’s John “Maleficus” Dean has been working on these for quite some time and we’re very excited to be able to roll them out now for our beta testers to see them in action. There’s actually a great interview with John on IGN talking in-depth about the bots, so check that out if you want to learn more about them.
:: Improved Prediction
One of the most talked about items on the beta forums is that aiming is quite difficult at times due to the way player and latency prediction are handled in this particular revision of the beta. You’re seeing this because our antilag features haven’t been added to the public beta yet, but our latency wonder twins Tristan “FeaRog” Williams and Gordon “digibob” Biggans have been working tirelessly on them in recent weeks and several improvements are forthcoming there. The first is going into this update and you should find it a bit easier to hit targets now. We continue to toil away on antilag and we’ll have a bit more information on what’s going on here in a future blog update.
:: Server Browser Fixes
We’ve got two pretty significant server browser fixes in this update, courtesy of our resident user interface commando Jared “jRAD” Hefty. The first fixes the pesky “Server is full.” bug that sometimes occurs when multiple server instances are run on the same box. Essentially, the information sent back from the server would sometimes get confused about which instance was being queried and send the wrong information back to the browser.

The second fix concerns our all-seeing ETQW master server, which happily dropped full servers off the list sent back to the in-game browser. These servers would reappear once they were no longer full, but only if the New List button was being pressed. With this fix, they won’t disappear in the first place, so you will always have the full server roster available for client-side filtering.
:: Sever Memory Leaks
We’ve plugged a number of memory leaks in the server code, much to the delight of our GSP partners. You should see improved server performance now and we will continue to optimize the ETQW server code in order to make this thing as stable and efficient as possible.

Tonight at 21:00 CET you can front your questions to the developers in #etqwbeta

http://community.enemyterritory.com/?q=node/72

Aside: you may have missed Xylos's journal earlier, here's a working minimizer.

From now on you can sign your clan up for the SummerCup 2007 if you're the clanleader, a trustee or a wararranger. Just keep an eye on the Main Page of the Cup and you'll find the link (after 12.00 CET).

More information about the Cup
- Format will ofcourse be 6v6.
- Several leagues according to skill. Each league will consist out of an equal number of divisions with 4 clans.
- We will use the latest CB6v6 config.

Maplist
- Bremen_b1
- Supply
- Goldrush
- Radar
- TBA
- TBA

You also know about the Poll for the 2 remaining maps which you can help decide by voting in the poll, and after 1 week of voting it seems that Oasis and Braundorf are the clear favourites ! And unless something drastic happens, you better start praccing the maps! Place your vote here.

For more info visit the Cup Page:
SummerCup Webpage
#summercup

With little over a month till the tournament, Quakecon have announced that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Quake will be the games for this summers event.

Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars; and the first ever “Quad Damage” tournament spanning all four QUAKE games. The tournaments will take place during the 12th annual QuakeCon which is being held at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas from August 2-5. More than 6,000 gamers from around the world are expected to attend the four-day event. The total QuakeCon Championship Tournament purse will be $100,000, courtesy of title sponsor NVIDIA

Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars

Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars makes its tournament debut at QuakeCon 2007. 32 teams will compete in the incredible battles between Earth’s Global Defense Force (GDF) and the invading alien Strogg. Each 6-person team will battle it out in a double-elimination bracket-style tournament, with each team having the opportunity to both attack and defend. With a focus on objective and class-based gameplay, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars will test each team’s ability to combine skill, strategy, and teamwork in tournament play like never before.

QUAKE Quad-Damage Tournament

This year brings a new twist to QuakeCon's classic 1 vs. 1 competition with the inaugural Quad Damage Tournament. Spanning all four QUAKE games, this year's champion will need to be a master of a variety of weapons, maps, and play-styles - from QUAKE’s lightening fast action and dominating rocket launcher, to the more strategic gameplay and precision weapons found in the later QUAKE games. 256 contestants will be divided into 4 man groups with each player battling the others in a set of round-robin 1 vs 1 matches. Two phases of round robin play will reduce the competition down to the top 32 players, who will then battle it out in a single-elimination, best of 3 bracket to determine who is truly the QUAKE Master.

http://quakecon.org/