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<strong>Cyber Sports Network presents "Everyone Must Die" $2200 TDM/Duel event! </strong>

North American TDM is back! Team Deathmatch has taken a back seat to Duel recently, but the Cyber Sports Network is set to make some changes with the Everyone Must Die $2,200 Duel and TDM Cup series!

Classic 4v4 Team Deathmatch is back with a bang, boasting a total prize pool of $1,000 USD. The prize pool will hopefully ensure the participation of America's best - who knows which classic players may dust off their mouse mats and mount a TDM comeback! If TDM’s not your thing, there’s even more personal glory (and cash!) to win in the Everyone Must Die $1,200 USD Duel event. rapha has been cleaning up the duel competitions as of late, but ZeRo4 and CZM have been quickly regaining their old form, and up-and-comer ziel poses a larger threat with each cup.

The prize pools are larger than any North American event in recent memory; will this be enough to bring back other top-NA duel talent such as DaHanG, Vo0, chance, dkt, and griffin? What teams will form to compete in TDM? We hope this event will spotlight the very best players in the QuakeLive scene!

Prizes:

Duel

1st. $500 2nd. $250 3rd. $175 4th. $125 5th. $100 6th. $50

Team Deathmatch

1st. $500 2nd. $300 3rd. $200

Map Pool:

Duel • Aerowalk • Bloodrun • Lost World • Vertical Vengeance • Furious Heights • Hektik • Toxicity

Team Deathmatch • Hidden fortress • Deep Inside • Intervention • Realm of Steel Rats • Grim Dungeons • Purgatory • Dreadful Place

Event Format:

Duel: 4 qualifying cups. The 4 top finishers of each cup are seeded into a 16 man group stage. The top 2 finishers from each group are entered into a single elimination bracket to determine the winner.

Team Deathmatch: Best-of-3 group stages into single elimination Playoffs to determine the champion. Playoffs will be Bo5.

Schedule:

Duel Qualifier #1: 02:00 BST, 9 May 2011

Duel Qualifier #2: 02:00 BST, 12 May 2011

Duel Qualifier #3: 02:00 BST, 19 May 2011

1 Round of TDM: 02:00 BST, 20 May 2011

Duel Qualifier #4: 02:00 BST, 22 May 2011

2 Rounds of TDM: 02:00 BST, 27 May 2011

Duel Group Stage: 00:00 BST, 30 May 2011

2 Rounds of TDM: 02:00 BST, 3 June 2011

Duel Playoffs: 00:00 BST, 6 June 2011

Duel Playoffs (if needed): 02:00 BST, 7 June 2011

TDM Playoffs: 01:00 BST, 13 June 2011

Register:

Duel Qualifier #1 - <a href='http://cyber-sports.net/event/everyo...el-qualifier-1' class='inlineurl'>LINK</a>

Team Deathmach: <a href='http://cyber-sports.net/node/9424' class='inlineurl'>LINK</a>

If these events prove successful, CSN will continue to support Quake Live for the foreseeable future. We hope the Everyone Must Die series can reignite QL in North America!

If you have any questions feel free to message a CSN admin via irc #CSN on gamesurge or via our website forums, thanks!

Quake Live TDM Teams formed!

Rumor has it that 4Kings Polish members have split off to create a TDM team with Av3kkk for this year's DH- TRUE. Serious Gaming has recruited Av3kkk, wEst, v3rb, & zik.

RG-Esport is bringing a team as usual, with no real changes- bab, Juvenile, V1UM, s7ry, ZeroQL.

From the Tundra, we've got the Russians bringing in a team, and they've been taking it very seriously from what I understand, spending much time training. Their lineup is as follows: Cooller, Jibo, Mikes, Frozen.

And arguably the best TDM team ever iCE cLIMBERS is BACK in the hunt fielding the lineup of: toxjq, GOPHER, l1nkin & stermy, fresh from Fnatic after they dropped their team sponsorship.

DreamHack 2011 starts in Jönköping, Sweden from June 18th, 2011 until June 21st, 2011, and with months still to go it is expected that Reason Gaming (fazz, noctis, zyv, deus, ddk), xentorium & others will show up with a team as well.

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Speaking of fazz, congrats to him for his Jeesports Quake Live Open Cup #1 victory! Keep an eye out for more Jeesports cups- their plans are to hold regular events on par with the weekly Zotac cups!

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This week, on ESR:

Chronicles of czm: Check these out for some inside information about the man, the myth, the legend- czm, who has been making a comeback in the last few months. A series taking on different subjects every week (or so). IIRC, its a 6-parter.

Nation's Cup going on, well, uh, yesterday. NOt sure if it still is- hopefully another neab can enlighten me on this!

Cypher won the Empire Quake Live Challenge Final vs. ash_, collecting 4000 rubles.

Other drama from around the leagues & arena!

GLHF neabs, ttyl!

Here's an overview of the update for 3/15/11:

Premium Maps Added:

Toxicity (Duel): Created by Alexander Mader, Toxicity is an enclosed Duel map with a distinctive look. Twisting halls and teleporters provide ample escape, as long as you watch out for the namesake pools of toxic acid in the main rooms of this arena. Own the world, or at least your opponent, and spread disorder by knocking them around with some rockets. Bounce them well, and you can treat yourself to a Red Armor, while they suffer some unfortunate burns.

Distant Screams (Large CTF): Formerly known as the perennial favorite Silent Night, we've torn down the Christmas decorations as to not look like that weird house down the street lit up well into March. Thankfully, it hasn't warmed up enough to melt the ice that covers vast swathes of the level, allowing massive acceleration throughout the frozen tundra terrain. Everything else is still mostly as you remember it, from the grenade traps to the secret button that dispenses health. Wait, that's supposed to be a secret... Game Changes:

Kill Beep for Premium players: Enabling cg_killBeep will play a distinct sound when you score a kill in any mode. Increased size of hit cylinders: Increased hittable region of players by 10% to more closely mimic the area of the old cuboid region. Improved arena download system: Download size for Standard players reduced by about 50% by not downloading premium content until the player joins a server running the arena. This also means these maps will be unavailable in Practice mode for Standard users. Premium and Pro users will still download all content as they did before. Increased damage of Shotgun in Team Deathmatch: Increased damage of Shotgun back to 100 to match the Shotgun in other modes after determining that the spread and damage change made in other gametypes was a sufficient adjustment. Web Changes:

Facebook Screenshot uploading: Visit Social Settings under the Settings menu to link your Facebook account with QUAKE LIVE. After binding a key from Social Settings, or manually binding a key to /socialScreenshot, you will be able to take an upload a screenshot directly to Facebook. Added tier display to player profiles: All players can now view what tiers they are in by clicking the Statistics tab on their profile. Added Change Country Flag to Account Settings: All players can change what country appears on their profile and in the in-game Premium scoreboards.

Well, if you haven't heard already you have been under a rock apparently- Cooller is the IEM EU Champ! Check out Esreality.com for more information including 2 interviews, one done by Live On Three, djWHEAT & Slasher!

and yet I say again

O.M.F.G. COOLLER!

That is all.

In this week's nNN, well not much.

Doesn't seem like there's much going on out there in Quake-land, nor in neab-land either. Christmas has come and gone, up next: New Year's! (Get this, I have a backhanded gift: Off New Year's Eve, but have to work NY Day- some shit huh. No big partying for me- gotta get up at 4am to come to work).

NA CA Team- hasn't been much going on. In the past week or so I haven't been that active, so I can only guess how active everyone else has been. Non one's posted anything so I figure not much.

No tournaments at this time, next one was IEM 5 EU championships in January, iirc (thanks Po0dle). I don't have any info on that so your best bet would be to head to <a href='www.esreality.com' class='inlineurl'>LINK</a>, the home for all news Quake.

So I hope everyone's christmas turned out well, mine did. Glad everyone is safe through the holiday season, with the weather and all, not to mention the insanity of normal people during these crazy times.

No news yet on a neabCAST, hopefully soon?

Thanks for reading neabs. Keep up the good work!