The main event of Dreamhack Summer 2010 comes down to the Kaspersky Quake Live Duel Tournament.

First we have the BYOC Duel tournament which fills up the remaining 3 slots of the main round, but what we all want to know from you is...

Vote below!

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Names are not alphabetically sorted, but by group, so per 4 of each group. This way you maybe can predict better who will come out on top of each group before voting!

Notice I included the BYOC-spots just in case any of you thinks that rapha or dahang or chance will pack their bags and drop down to Sweden for some good ol' QL action!

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Who will win Dreamhack Summer 2010 Quake Live?

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If only I were to actually play Quake Live instead of streaming the coolest games out there!
Since that's not the case, it may be fun to find out who the community rates as the best player on the ESL Intel Extreme Masters World Championships.

So who do you think will claim the title of World Champion at CeBIT 2010 in Hanover, Germany?
(From March 2nd to 6th, but unless you lived under a rock for the past few months, you already knew that )

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Who will win the IEM World Championships?

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So, who do you think will come out as victor at the IEM4 final rounds at Cologne? Vote away!

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Poll: who will win IEM4 at Cologne?

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The question simply is: what's your deal here?
Do you play inverted or not? Ever tried it?
Let us know!

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There was also the option "One time, at band camp, I played inverted, so I could hang out with the cool kids!", but I figured you'd all be voting this one so I didn't include that.

Vote away!

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Invert gaming: who does that?

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In a first step towards competition settings - in case you forgot, they are working on it - a small difference has been made public: a change in weapon spawn times on TDM servers. Players new to Quake Live know only the regular spawn settings, but Quake 3 spawn times originally were 30 seconds for a weapon. This lead to heavy competitive behavior and map control was crucial as without a gun, making a difference suddenly became very hard.

Quake Live introduced a shorter weapon spawn, which gave freshly spawned players a breath of air, but annoyed the opponent also because that same map control lost a significant part of it's importance. But now the longer weapon spawn time is back in town, and players have to review their gamestyle. However, Quake Live features another impact on teamplay that Quake 3 didn't have: drop weapon.

bind KEY "dropweapon; say_team Here, free juju for you!"

This particular command will definitely become very important for teamplay with the longer weapon spawn, as it eliminates the hiding for players and seeking a gun. I'm anxious to see games where teams successfully mix the longer weapon spawn with the drop weapon command.

And we're also curious to see your opinion regarding competitive play (cup/league/clangames), so start voting!
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Pro settings see the daylight!

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There is one downfall of going widescreen and that's browsing the web. Traditionally websites are made to scroll vertically, not horizontally due to logical structuring and perhaps even printer supportability. However, a gaming website is often not meant to be printed and the visitors prefer to have as much on their screen as possible without losing precious space on wallpapers on the side of the website's content.

This is why we're curious to see what resolution, and more important what width, that our visitors use on their desktop and to surf the web on their main computer!
Remember, we don't want ingame resolution, only desktop resolution. For example, I game at 1920*1200 but my desktop resolution is 1440*900 or the letters on my 15.4" notebook screen would become tiny! Therefor I vote 1440.
Vote away!

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Desktop resolution

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In the last few days we couldn't help but notice how clanbase has nearly 30 private Quake Live servers to their disposal to run CB competitions.

This made us curious if it would be reasonable for us to ask 1 or 2 private servers for #qlpickup.eu as well. Just for the sake of refiring some of that interest in those pickup games Quakers have come to love in the past few years.

[15:52] -echbot10-- 3weeks 159hours 4mins 33secs ago

Currently the last pickup game was played nearly 4 weeks ago. During the closed beta when servers were still 8 max, over 30 games were played on a weekly basis.

It's understandable these games have tremendously slowed down when you consider how difficult it now is to organize a pickup game. First of all you need to find an empty server. Then you need to guide all 10 (!) players on that one server before all other pub players find their way to the game. As you can imagine, this whole process is a pain if you're not able to lock a server.

So with this in mind, and the fact there are over 150 people idling #qlpickup.eu, all eager to play pickup games if it weren't so difficult, we are now asking you all in this new poll if it sounds reasonable for the #qlpickup.eu channel to ask id software developers for 2 private servers, just like Clanbase got. One server for TDM games and another for CTF games.

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Should #qlpickup.eu ask Quake Live devs for private servers?

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Today we're curious to know what type of maps all of you would prefer to see more of in Quake Live.

It was previously said that the creation of new maps in Quake Live would depend on the success of the game.

Seeing how Quake Live received more attention than id software had ever dared to hope upon launch, I can only guess they are taking this as a sign to start mapping even more!

Just to make it even more interesting I also added the qzTRAINING option, even though there's currently only one map like that and it's not at all sure id software will ever make more of these.

This poll allows you to select max 2 options and will probably run about 2 weeks.

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What type of maps would you like to see more of in Quake Live? [POLL]

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Today things have settled, the queue system has been removed and things are running smooth again.

Now that everybody has had the chance to test the game we were wondering what your first impression of Quake Live was, the very first time you played.

You can rate your first impression from a number from 0 to 5 and optionally share your thoughts in the comments.

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What’s your first impression of Quake Live? [POLL]

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Today we're going to continue the trend of having a regular poll. This time we're curious enough to ask you all how much time you spend every week playing Quake Live.

You can very easily check your play time for the last 7 days in the leaderboards by using the customize option.

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How often do you play Quake Live? [POLL]

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