Despite their late start the UK team have been storming through the inaugral Q4TDM NationsCup with victories over Portugal, on sunday, and Austria, last night. France are still leading the group, having similarly defeated Portugal and Austria, followed by Hungary, which secured the French a playoff spot. The UK faces France this Sunday, then Hungary the week after.

Group B has been lagging, with just the one game played so far, while in Group C Ireland have been suffering, with defeats by Belgium and The Netherlands. Belgium are solidly in first place with further victories over Estonia and Spain, and face the Netherlands themselves this weekend. Finally, Germany dominate Group D, with victories over Finland, The Czech Republic and Denmark, with this week's match seeing them up against the other main contender in the group, Italy.

In the Q3 TDM Cup, the Hammy's UK heros have rebounded from a dodgy start with a victory over Estonia in Group A. The losses against Poland and France have hurt the UK in the running for the playoffs, as even if Poland slip up against Estonia, and the UK defeat the Slovakian squad, they would be tied on 2 victories each. In Group B Sweden have been taking on all comers, with a victory, aided by ping, over Russia sealing their playoff position.

Read More and View Comments (0 )

sCa won the last two, so there are 15 slots open for someone to beat them to it this time. The game is Q4TDM with Q4Max, and you'll need the map clean and simple if you don't already have it.

Like the last time you can register by telling me your teamname and ALL playernames at IRC (name qubism_shady or shady`afk). But there is a change, the registration will be open fom now on and it closes tomorrow at 21:30cet and then the brackets will be drawn live at our channel #qubism.

Read More and View Comments (0 )

Sir Foot has posted the divisions for the upcoming season of the the Jolt Q3CTF league. He's plumped for four divisions of six clans, meaning just four of the new entrants made it into the league, with eleven left on the waiting list, including the mighty GRAND. The debate is still open on the 4v4/5v5 issue though, and competiting clans are welcome to weigh in. The start date is currently set to be the 19th of this month.

I'm sorry so the ten or so teams that have missed out but given our experiences of last season I really do not want to go to 32 clans only to be let down by numerous sides and have a default-heavy campaign. If spaces open up then we will look for replacements and to help in this any side that cannot make their Week 1 match will be immediately removed from the competition.

Read More and View Comments (1 )

I haven't paid enough attention to the Clanbase Opencups this season, and now they're quickly coming to an end. The inaugral Q4CTF Cup finished on monday, with a victory for FOE over SCA giving them the trophy, though one of the three maps in the final, Q4CTF1, went just 1:0 in the Swedes' favour. Another german clan, sd, took third place, with the highest placing UK entrant being ACK, who took 4th place in the second division.

In the Q4TDM Cup we've still to see alien vs biber fighting it out for the top place, along with all the other divisions' winner and 3rd place games. Levi still have a shot at the bronze in the 3rd division, while the gundamz and ACK are both in contention in the 5th division, for 3rd and 1st respectively.

The Q4 1v1 Cup the group stages are over, and the trees are up for the playoffs, the first round of which should be played this week. All sorts of names are in contention, including Vorv and Appleseed in the premiere divison, with vast and dozo in the second division, and renrut, who I don't know, in the 3rd division. Dozo in fact has jumped the gun and is already through to the next round.

Proving CTFers do it quicker, the Q3CTF Cup is done and dusted, with MobacH again confirming themselves the dominant clan in Q3CTF, though affe stretched them to a five map final. Souls were similiary pushed by xQ, but eventually secured third place.

Finally, despite the relatively low turnout in the Q3TDM Cup, there was plenty of controversy, with both clans in the second division final reprimanded for breaking the rules. Still, the premier group final between dollz and miel produced some close games, though dollz proved too strong and took all three maps, and the cup.

Read More and View Comments (0 )

GotFrag have interviewed the man, nay the legend, some know as TooGoood. Apart from pimpin' his interweb extravaganza, jay talks about tournaments, dignitas, soundcards, monitors, and even offers up some tips for budding duellers (cooller plz stop reading these are secrets thx).

Try to utilize your time in front of the pc so you train but still have time for exercise and social life :) In addition, you must want to learn when you play, practice isn’t about winning, so see past the scores and try to train an aspect of the game

Read More and View Comments (1 )

Thresh, of winning-a-ferrari and firingsquad.com fame (among other things) talks to ESR in a rather good interview about what he thinks of Q4, his opinions on the current crop of players, what he's doing now, and what happened to the ferarri. Worth a look.

Read More and View Comments (0 )

As promised, though slightly later than expected, VIACGA have released the map packs from their recent competition. There are two versions, a small pack with just the top 3, and the full pack with the top 12 entries, which were:

• Monsoon by Lukin
• Mash-Up Streets by Method
• Evalia by Dade
• Kats Cradle by Kat
• Superiority Complex by Ruckus
• Rusted by StormShadow
• Systematic Lockdown by Phantazm11
• Times Up by Shank
• Obi-Wan's DM 01 by Obi-Wan
• New Memories by Requiem
• Rusted Oblivion by Quazilin
• Rusted Time by Bucket

All in all looks like a decent download. If the links above aren't to your liking, however, try:

• Small Pack (Levi)
• Full Pack (Levi)
• Full Pack (Jolt)

Read More and View Comments (0 )

The VIA/Doom3World mapping competition that has been running over the past couple of months has finished, with Lukin taking first place for his map Monsoon, which has been receiving a bit of backlash on ESR. Second place went to Mash-Up Streets by Method, and 3rd place to Evalia by Dade. There's a map pack coming that should bundle them all up in one convenient download, probably to be released tomorrow.

In other mapping news, inquake.de have an interview up with hubster. He makes some good points about Quake 4, in particular how not having a q4test is in part responsible for Q4's rocky start.

Read More and View Comments (2 )

Shady has announced the second Qubism Wednesday cup will be next week, with 16 clans, X-Battle, and the finals/3rd place being best of three maps.

Like the last time you can register by telling me your teamname and ALL playernames at IRC (name qubism_shady or shady`afk). But there is a change, the registration will be open fom now on and it closes tomorrow at 21:30cet and then the brackets will be drawn live at our channel #qubism

Read More and View Comments (0 )

Games are already being played in the third round of the Duelmania tournament, and the second round of the losers bracket. The bracket shows the 32 third round players, with notables like reppie already through to the fourth. The deadline in the losers bracket is thursday, as they step it up to two rounds a week.

Read More and View Comments (0 )