Welcome to TEK9's coverage hub for the $4,000 Intel Extreme Masters Asian Quake Live Championships. The tournament sees Asia's best duellers go head to head to compete for two coveted spots at the Global Finals in CeBIT in March. Next to tournament favorite Zhibo "Jibo" Fan and Japan's best-known Quake player, Tahara "uNleashed" Naonobu, two European players will be making their appearance at the event: Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani from Sweden and Joe "Fenda" Fender from the United Kingdom, who both currently reside in Japan.
The action kicks off tomorrow at 03:00 CET in the morning with live games from the group stages broadcasted by Quake-Live.tv. On day 2, James "2GD" Harding and Joe Miller of ESL TV take over with a low quality stream available for free or a high quality version available for ESL TV subscribers (details here).
Maplist DM6 - Campgrounds Redux DM13 - Lost World Tourney7 - Furious Heights Tourney9 - House of Decay Ztntourney1 - Blood run
Schedule Day 1 - Friday 03:00 CET - Gosia vs. Razer Jibo 04:10 CET - Fenda vs. Utal1ty 04:50 CET - MUSTAINE vs. uNleashed
Day 3 - Sunday 03:30 CET - Semi-Final #2 04:30 CET - 3rd/4th Place Decider 04:30 CET - IEM Asia Grand Final
Day 2 - Saturday 03:30 CET - Fenda vs. Razer Jibo 04:10 CET - Gosia vs. Utal1ty 04:10 CET - proZaC vs. nitroN 04:50 CET - proZaC vs. uNleashed 05:30 CET - nitroN vs. MUSTAINE 06:10 CET - Razer Jibo vs. Utal1ty 06:10 CET - Gosia vs. Fenda 06:10 CET - MUSTAINE vs. proZaC 06:10 CET - uNleashed vs. nitroN 09:00 CET - Semi-Final #1
"In the Quake Live competition, Gosia is not able to attend the event due to his broken leg. He will be replaced by a Japanese player, who is a friend of proZaC and Fenda, who this will be is yet to be announced. " - fnatic.com
$1,750
$800
$550
edited 2010-02-04 15:15:10
p_quake/
I hope you don't mind linking this :S
I'll watch this for sure :3
Edit: Meh, thanks Chrisw0w that advanced links are disabled now -.-
edited 2010-02-04 17:33:23
edited 2010-02-04 17:56:36
It was the same with v00 at NA finals? he leaves there so he can play its a no-brainer
edited 2010-02-05 11:42:15
The skill gap between some players is HUGE; for example here: www.esl-world.net/masters/season4/taipei/quakelive/groupstage/match/17226569
:S
however, IEM World Championship is gonna be so awesome :D
soz4???