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Lyn interviewed on GosuGamers

June “Lyn” Park has recently moved away from SK Gaming’s Warcraft 3 team to join the legendary Korean eSports organization, WeMade FOX. GosuGamers saw this as a good reason to interview Park and so they did. Questions vary from his new team member, Moon and to his 2009 achievements.

Here is a small and quite funny snippet from the interview:

How’s your dorminory life with Moon?
- Moon is an incommunicative person, but a common joke also can make him laugh out for a while. It didn’t take me a long time to become intimate with him. So allow me to change him, until some day he can dance in public! (laughs)

Read the full interview on GosuGamers.

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Meet Your Makers signs CHIEFTEC

The German based gaming team, Meet Your Makers (MYM) has signed with computer case manufacturer, CHIEFTEC.

MYM is on a sponsor signing streak, as it was only last week when the organization signed with gaming gear manufacturer, RAZER. With this, MYM has a total of three sponsors (Puma, CHIEFTEC and RAZER) and thus are finally ready to establish themselves among the worlds greatest.

Statement by Khaled Naim, Marketing Manager for MYM on their site:
“For 20 years, CHIEFTEC has been manufacturing computer cases which has earned them a worldwide reputation for high quality and standard. One of CHIEFTEC’s main advantages is having an exclusive understanding of today’s market coupled with the demand to effectively anticipate and service customers needs promptly. There is a vastly extensive product array, in which all of them meet the customers need for reliability, performance and quality. More over, each CHIEFTEC product offers the correct power supply component solution, making especially resource-saving. A wide range of useful products rounds of the spectrum of CHIEFTEC, with many instrumental accessories from external hard disk housing and discrete cooling fans. CHIEFTEC in this case, you can trust!”

I wish them the best of luck. Whether or not they will be signing more sponsors or even new teams soon, I do not know, but I will keep you updated as always.

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MCA.Tweak signs two new sponsors

MCA.Tweak has recently been hitting the scene with two of the best Dutch teams in Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4. The organization has also been picking up some sponsors in the meanwhile, by taking in ZOWIE Gear first, then Tweak as head sponsor.

Now the organization has signed GamersUniform, known from designing the shirts of FnaticMSI, H2k Gaming and more, who will be designing their shirts. The other sponsor is Just Eat!, a company where you can order food. The last one hasn’t been officially announced on the MCA.Tweak website, but Arno Gerritsen, Founder and Owner of MCA.Tweak, has twittered about it.

We are really excited about the development of MCA.Tweak and hope they will keep bringing exciting news and keep developing Dutch eSports.

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Returned!

Hi guys,

So I’ve abandoned this blog for some time now and sorry for that (as if there were many readers , but I will be active on this again. Obviously, my main site is and stays Fnatic.com, but that restrains me at some points (such as sponsor news from other sites). I will be posting about every happening around the major gaming teams in any game.

Keep yourself up-to-date with all eSports news, keep reading my blog! Also, follow me on twitter on either @roaldvanbuuren or @fnatic!

Tags: blog, returned

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ESL announces Intel Extreme Masters Season 4 – QL plays supporting role

ESL has announced its fourth season of the Intel Extreme Masters. Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft will receive the main attention and will have 500.000$ spread over six events, spread over the year. The opening will be at GamesCom at August 19-23.

At the same event, Quake Live will have some sort of side event, called the QuakeLive Intel Extreme Masters Pro/Am Challenge. People from the crowd can participate this and the winner will take home 1.000$.

“I know the game, I value the game… we are working very hard to make the season happen with QuakeLive”, Michal “carmac” Blicharz explained. “The fact that I just want it in does not instantly get it in, but I am doing everything in my power to make sure it is.”

I am personally quite disappointed and hoped for a bigger part for Quake Live. Unfortunately this is not true, but let’s hope for more ESL events to come!

Source: ESL-World.net

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ESL QL Inv Tournament: noctis wins

Tomorrow evening, we will see the four winners of the playdays of the ESL TV Quake Live Invitational Cup play in the Finals! Spart1e, noctis, fox and k1llsen all came out on top and will now face each other. Full coverage will be ran through Fnatic.com (click here), over there you can check out the stream and the brackets of the playdays as well as the final bracket.

The final matches are:
Semi Finals:
noctis 2:0 Spart1e (19:00CET)
fox 2:0 k1llsen (19:30CET)

Grand Final:
noctis 2:1 fox (20:00CET)

Times aren’t accurate.

Tags: cup, esl, finals, fox, k1llsen, killsen, noctis, spart1e, spartie, tv

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Fnatic PLAY QL Duel Cup

Coming Sunday, August 9th, Fnatic has announced its next PLAY cup to be a Quake Live duel one. A maximum of 128 players will be allowed and it will be BO1 until the Quarter Finals, where a BO3 system will be handled. The Grand Final will be BO5.

The cup only allows European players and will have Quake-Live.tv covering a lot of matches. The event will start at 13:30CET and has a prizepot of 250$ which can be doubled up by using the BestPoker.com system, more on that here.
- 1st: 100$
- 2nd: 75$
- 3rd: 50$
- 4th: 25$

Map pool:
- qzca2 – Trinity
- qztourney4 – Vertical Vengeance II
- qztourney7 – Furious Heights
- qztourney9 – The House of Decay
- qzdm6 – Campgrounds Redux
- qzdm13 – Lost World
- ztntourney1 – Blood Run

More info is on the official Fnatic PLAY page.

Source: Fnatic.com

Tags: cup, duel, fnatic, money, play, prize

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QuakeCon 2009 Attendance List

German eSports website, Fragster.de have made a list of the known attendees of QuakeCon 2009.

QuakeCon, Quake’s largest event out there at the moment with a prize pot of 50.000$. The event got interest of organizations, who decided to sign players to get their chance on this huge amount of money.

The full list of attendees is yet to be announced, but Fragster.de has made a list of players (that are notable) who are 100% of attending QuakeCon in Dallas, USA.

Europeans:
Sebastian “Spart1e” Siira
Michael “madix” Hindersson (Team Excello)
Pelle “fazz” Söderman (Team Excello)
Magnus “fox” Olsson (LowLandLions)
Gareth “GaRpY” Marshall (Team Dignitas)
A aron-Anton John “HELL” Jones (Team Dignitas)
Maciej “av3k” Krzykowski (Serious Gaming)
Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone (AMD)
Alexey “Cypher” Yanushevsky (Serious Gaming)

North Americans:
Tom “griffin” Wall (Evil Geniuses)
Tim “DaHang” Fogarty (Evil Geniuses)
Chance “Chance” Lacina (Evil Geniuses)
Brian “dkt” Flander (Gravitas Gaming)
Shane “rapha” Hendrixson (SK Gaming)

The list will be kept up-to-date, so please check back later!

Source: Fnatic.com

Tags: 50.000$, attendance, attendees, quakecon

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Spart1e wins ClanBase Duel Cup

This evening Sebastian “Spart1e” Siira from Sweden faced SK Gaming’s Bogdan “bodzo” Mazur in the Grand Final of ClanBase’s Duel Cup. Both players are considered as top players within the scene and a exciting final was expected.

The first map, however, did not prove to be that exciting. dm13 was taken by Spart1e with 9-1 and bodzo looked to be without a chance. But the Polish player didn’t drop his pants and started to pick up his game on map two, ztn. The Pole started off strong taking a 6-2 lead. Then Spart1e came back. He gained control and tied it up to 6-6 and it staid like that until the very first seconds of the overtime. Spart1e took the 7-6 and won map number two.

As the Grand Final was BO5, a third map had to be played, tourney7. Again, the Swede was too strong and won t7 with 7-4 and took home the gold.

Related:
Cup page

Tags: bodzo, clanbase, spart1e, spartie

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Quake Live

I’ve decided to dedicate this page to Quake Live. All Quake Live news I find will go onto this blog, after being posted on Fnatic.com. So if you’re a Quake fan, keep your eyes on this page as it will be stuffed with Quake Live news.

Quake Live news you can expect:
- team changes
- upcoming events
- event coverage
- Quake Live developments
- and much, much more!

Tags: coverage, live, news, Quake, scene

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