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We excited we're finally playing StarCraft 2 (in some form); it's very good so far! We talk about the World Finals of the IEM Quake Live tour, the incredible amount of whine from the recent strenx interview, who we look forward to seeing in the tournament, and a bit about this past year of open beta Quake Live. Also, next show we will be having a special announcement about a huge LAN event taking place in the US that will actually be using Quake 3 in its deathmatch tournament.

Stay tuned.

This week, we are honored to have an extremely special guest, DJWheat joining us. We talk about the news of Quakelive at the Devastation event, a little about QuakeLive TDM Nations Cup and TDM in general and then about what 2010 holds in store for each of us. Wheat and aph get nostalgic about tournaments of the "old days". Will TDM ever make it back as the primary team-play mode in Quake? Kick back and enjoy.

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After an amazing weekend of IEM AC action, we finally found the time sit down and record. In this episode we talk briefly about QuakeLive across the world and the resurgence of events (thanks to the ESL), why Streetrunner's lack of discussion and transparency is actually hurting the AGP, Starcraft and random other bits. We've already got the next show planned and we'll try to get back on our schedule of one show a week.

Enjoy.

Yeah it's been a while and I still haven't quite perfected the audio settings for the podcasts, but WE'RE BACK. It's been a busy month; went to QuakeCon, new apartment, aph got a job, we've been busy. So we're just catching up a bit and you're meeting us all over again for the first time. Yes, the quality is eh, but it will be better next cast. Hope you like the shorter shows, and we'll be back again soon to discuss more of the topics we mention.

Yes, muhu does say this is Episode 8 when it is actually Episode 9; I don't care.

Soooooo I found out today that I'm going to be in Dallas during QuakeCon on a business trip and my boss gave me the OK to head over to the event after our work is done. HORRAY! So I rounded up ceppy and icel0re to talk about the upcoming event and the recent update that hit QuakeLive. We also hope and pray that QuakeCon is run properly this year (ie not making your championship players wait 2 hours on stage before their game).

In advance, I apologize for the quality of the stream. It was done pretty hastily and I just built a new computer and was using onboard sound card at the time. It's a pretty rough listen but for anyone that forges all the way through, there is cake at the end :D

As you could've guessed from the title, I'm joined by ESWC Champion and dear friend Shane "rapha" Hendrixson of Team SK. We talk about his recent win in the Alienware tournament, his preparation to for the QuakeCon LAN in August, his continued sponsorship by SK and other stuff going on in his life. We get his thoughts on the progression of QuakeLive and what he thinks needs to be done to make it better. Check out this video of Shane beating SPARTiE to win ESWC Athens.

We're trying to shorten the the episode length so all you ADD kids can listen to entire shows without bitching.

So finally we got the original cast back together to have a little bit of a rant-fest about everything and anything, mostly a bitch about how Quake Live will never be as good as Quake 3, mostly due to id's lack of interest in quality and competitive gameplay. We also talk about the land grab that was the name-space war of Facebook (Joe.Szymkowicz and DBastedo), our lust for Starcraft 2 and how we're scared of console-fighting-gamers for fear of getting raped in an alley. Are consoles the reason for the lack of interest in PC gaming? Are developers to blame for not making quality games?

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Sorry it's been a bit since the last cast. Everyone's been busy and such with their own ventures. Still waiting on Slasher to produce this podcast hub he told everyone he was going to build on LO3. Next week we'll try to bring gellehsak back from the depths of fatherhood to discuss his latest transition to QL and his thoughts on that as well as other topics going on around the community.

This week I brought in the experts to give their opinions on the situation with LAN events, not only in the US, but worldwide and what the gamers can do to help bring the good ole' LAN event back. Back to help us out is ceppy, who helped run QuakeCon and ESWC 08. Also joining us is Dave "killdashnine" Derington the organizer of Warfactory, whose also worked for CPL, ESWC and MLG.

A fairly long and extensive discussion of the state of LANs across the world, and what the gamers need to remedy the problem.

So we finally got some time to sit down for a quick podcast, unfortunately without LSV, to catch up on some things going on in the community. This episode we talk about some of the news on ESR, share a heartwarming story about Luis, discuss aph's continuing unemployment, and the US - Canada Quake Live match (*sigh*).

Check back in throughout the week as I hope to get and interview or two with some of the world's top duelers in Quake Live. "Who?" you may ask; you'll just have to find out.

Sorry about the lateness of this one; it's been a busy weekend and I just never got around to encoding this until now. Also, sorry about the background noise on the cast, icel0re's mic picked up a lot of background. Good discussion nonetheless.

This episode, I spoke with Dave 'icel0re' Ritson and Neil "ceppy" D'Benedetto about the recenetly announced plans for Quake Live including private servers and enhanced gameplay features. In addition we cover the possibilities of Quake Live rejuvenating professional deathmatch and the release of the top 100 list of duelers in Quake Live.

So after a great week of rave reviews and nearly a million downloads of our first podcast, apheleon and nineX sit down with guest host, ceppy, to talk about some of the pressing issues in deathmatch gaming today. From the exclusive announcement of the exhibition Quakelive Nations Cup match between USA and Canada to why ceppy was kicked off the QuakeCon staff; all this and more in this week's episode.

Next week, we plan on having a round table with some of the prominent international players to discuss how they see the future of Quake and other deathmatch games, as well as just some general catchup with each.

Remember to catch ceppy playing tonight at Nerdfit.com.

Our first podcast. This week we talk about the 2v2 CPM Nations Cup, the numerous 1v1 Quakelive tournaments, Duke Nukem Forever news, Streetrunner's suggestions for Quakelive, Gillz, and aph's lack of employment. Enjoy.



Next week, we'll have a special guest, better recording quality, more topics and hopefully be more intoxicated.