Ho ho ho everyone! Christmas is upon us, and this year we got a gift early. The friendly Greenwood from the mapping community is kind enough to adapt a QW version of his Xmas Jam 2019 map, O Terrorbaum.

The second editon of the GetQuad! Draft is now over. Season 2 ended last night with the division 2 grand final and bronze final. Division 1 did their grand final on wedensday; we sum up the playoffs.

Well it's been a rocky rocky road but I am pleased to announce that season 2 of the Hammer Time Duel League is now officially open for business!

All division games have now been played and we are set for the playoffs: Semifinals, bronze finals and grand finals coming up. Best of 5 maps. Let the showdown commence.

In divison 1 we are now heading towards the final stretch in the hunt for those precious playoff spots. In division 2 that race is over after yesterday games.

We are half way into the new GetQuad! Draft season; 29 of the 56 group games have been played and some teams are already showing they are a hot ticket for the playoffs, while some others got more work to do, to get their team into the postseason. 8 of the 16 teams advance to the playoffs.

This weekend, The Keep is organizing a "CLASSIC ArenaFPS" charity event. During the weekend they will host a cooperative game of DOOM Survival and a King of the Hill type duel tournament in Warfork, both are open for donators to participate in.

For us QuakeWorld lovers, they will feature a QHLAN 2019 Duel Rematch between champion LocKtar and runner-up bps.

The event is raising funds for the Egyptian Cure Bank on behalf of Suplex, a young Egyptian Doom player stricken with leukemia.

Schedule:
Friday, 18th October
06:00 PM West/09:00 PM East/03:00 CEST (19th Oct)
Friday Night Survival w/ USQC (Doom)

Saturday, 19th October
10:30 AM West/1:30 PM East/19:30 CEST
Exhibition Match - LocKtar vs bps (QuakeWorld)

04:00 PM West/07:00 PM East/01:00 CEST (20th Oct)
King of the Hill (Warfork)

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Stream: InTheKeep

GetQuad! Season 2 kicked off this sunday with multiple matches. A couple of matches were played earlier in the week but it seems that sunday still is quakeworld day. Every team now got 1 game played.

We are pleased to announce the Thunderdome 12 "Dozen" Duel tournament is stared now!

52 players registered, 47 in Europe and 5 in America: 6 divisions in Europe and 1 in America, Double Elimination no more than 8 players each.
Brackets are here:

• Open Division
• Pro
• Regular High
• Regular Low
• Advanced Rookies
• Rookies
• America

The games starts from today, first deadline is 13th of October. This season is not supposed to be long and planned to finish by the 1st of December.

Find your opponents on Discord and on servers (here and here), don't forget to report your epic games and inform admins so we can have a chance (whenever is possible) to spectate and possibly stream the games.

Let the fight begin!

The freshly crowned QHLAN duel champion LocKtar was recently featured on the In The Keep podcast. Here he talked about his duel victory at QHLAN, the state of kenya maps in duel, his appetite for competitive QuakeWorld and finding his true love, prompting him to move into tVS country.

In The Keep is an ArenaFPS podcast hosted by TheMotherload.

Apart from the latest episode featuring LocKtar, the podcast has also had other notable QuakeWorld figures on.

(about, youtube, audio) In The Keep Podcast - #20 LocKtar
(about, youtube, audio) In The Keep Podcast - #10 BPS
(about, youtube, audio) In The Keep Podcast - #08 M3ssia
(about, youtube, audio) In The Keep Podcast - #07 LocKtar

For future episodes, it's possible to subscribe to the podcast via a bunch of modern services on the In The Keep website, with Spotify being one of them.