Last night I recorded a 4on4 match - two maps worth - along with the players' tactical voice comms in mumble. I focused on a single team each map.

It is a really interesting look into how a 4on4 team-in-training operates and plays an entire game start to finish. If you're interested in quakeworld 4on4, check it out.

Watch the games here:
First map: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27fIGthvRQI
Second map: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dg70rZyw8k

The days of QH-Lan 2, 3, 4 seem like yesterday. Indeed, it is a a new day. The legends are gone. The new players are actually a level above and with a fresh style. (Of course none of it could have been possible without the legends! And to be fair, some legends remain active...)

The game has grown beyond all conceptions of its players, who deem it dead but still play it. So there's going to be a LAN for it and I'll be there :) With my photocamera!

After extensive selection, I have invited 16 teams to the the first ever 2on2 invitational (that I will host, anyway) I want to go over these teams, what I think about them, and what I think we might expect from them.

Remember: this is a best-of-5 2on2 tourney with the map pool: dm2, dm4, dm6, ztndm3, aerowalk, and the same map cannot be played more than once in a match. Late/unplayed matches will be punished immediately with disqualification!

Quake is dead. X is dead. We've all heard these type of sentiments, for pretty much everything. Insert anything in place of "X" and I'm sure you have heard it said, no matter how popular X is. Anyways, back to quake, it is probably a little more dead than other things, but I believe there is an alternative to quitting quake cold turkey, as some have done. First, we have to face some facts:

Pics here

Includes an interview with Nabbe and 24 hour worth of pics. I had a good time doing commentary with 2GD for the quakeworld final, which was held in a giant movie theatre/stage arena. Behind us on a very large screen you could see both players POV as well as their faces (LocKtar forever locked in his gameface)

We should have access to the commentary audio (Zalon recorded it from the stream) and we will release a demo-pack as well. I am just chilling here, touring the lan with XantoM and playing all the different games. Starcraft finals are under way now so I am rushing to get these pics up and go watch that event. Bra bjud!

Pics here

Semifinals are almost over. There were some surprises in the quarterfinals but in the finals we now have LocKtar vs nabbe. I am still drunk from yesterday and also suffering the effects of the not-very-theraputic chair sleep. So I didnt do much commentary or anything. Anyway nobody should really care too much except for the pics so go check them out

There are some interviews at the end also and Ill make more later ;D

Pics here

The weather is nice. A few sprinkles, but mostly bright although somewhat cloudy. Paradoks has missed his bus again (or whatever the excuse is this time) but everyone else is here, and Vo0 the cpma legend has replaced ParadokS. Group games are underway and scores will be posted on the front page. I am in zombie mode and playing some random games.

I'm at work putting in half a day (what else am I going to do? It is raining/fogged in NYC and all my stuff is packed in my backpack) while the very first people are already trickling into the LAN halfway across the world, which will officially begin powering up in about an hour or so. Finnish quake duo Medar and LuGia are already on location, and dronar is setting up QTV and other goodies to facilitate the tournament.

The groups actually begin about 23 hours from now. I have to wait 7 hours before my flying autobus takes off from the greater New York City metropolitan area, and another 7 hours before it touches down in Arlanda (where it is raining just as much, I hear). Then there's the good old express to Sthlm C where the Druidzmobile awaits (thanks LocKtar!) ... 2-3 hours later we are on the venue and just in time :)

A new dreamhack is upon us, and they are hosting yet another aweXXXome quakeworld tournament! I decided to go this time (I didn't go a number times in the past) too. I usually don't start the bla-la-la until the first day of a LAN, but it is friday and I want to write some stuff about it :)

The eagle has landed; I have returned from the alternate universe and am back in NYC. This QHLan was excellent. The network was flawless except for the internet connection which was supplied by Mдrsta and out of the LAN's hands. In the end, I skipped sleeping for the last 2 nights, (which maybe adversely affected the quality of the interviews but oh well) and had an absolute blast, and even met some new qwers and played a little quake :)