The 11th season of Nations Quake Rank reached its playoffs this week and therefore it is obviously time to take a look at the playoff match ups. Silver division group stage had it’s ups and downs, cheating accusations but most importantly it did bring us plenty of good games. The playoffs for Silver division seem to keep the same theme on as already in the first stage of it we have couple of thriller games to come. Read this article and you might get a little taste of what is about to happen.

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During an active QuakeWorld competition, Sunday night often happens to be the night when all the action takes place. This week’s Sunday is no exception as the quickly progressing Russians NoPasaran will take on the quite recently founded travel agengy, I mean QuakeWorld clan, Star Alliance. So far during this NQR season, NoPasaran have played six games and Star Alliance seven games. However these teams are separated by 7 points, which places NoPasaran on the 9th position while Star Alliance sits on 5th place.

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NA QW has seen a marginal revival with the introduction of the new IRC channel #na.qw.pickup.

The channel relies on a script that allows players to add themselves to a mode of play. Congrats to STEEK in this slight revival.

So, in response, I’ve decided to put some of my old PC’s components up for a tournament. It is a simple, single-elimination tournament that’s largely standard except that it features a custom map that is not played much, if at all.

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The past year is one that should go into the books as one of the best in the history of our twelve year old game. Ever since Quakeworld.nu went down and World of Warcraft came out during NQR8 the scene has had a lot of up and downs considering the activity and amount of players and clans. NQR used to have 80 to 100 clans signed up, ever since we are still blessed with 50 to 60 clans every season but it’s a lot less. (read more..)