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..)

After recent successes at Dreamhack and QHLAN, this dm4 elitist was just a must have in our interview seat. Read on to find out more about this player, his thoughts on QHLAN, NQR and QuakeWorld.

Hello Niclas Widewing, more likely known as Locust to the general public. So what’s going on in your QW career, did you join NQR?

Yo! Currently my career is dead due to some computer problems, but as soon as I get the new one I hope I can get started again. Nope, didn’t join NQR.

I think that you are probably one of the ‘pure’ duel-players out there, dag, interceptor, griffin, etc. all play 4on4 when they are active. Is there any particular reason why you don’t play 4on4?

Well not really, I actually started playing QW and 4on4 with Infanatica (!!) in late 2000, but we were like div90 so I got bored of it pretty soon and started playing 1on1 instead and never really got into 4on4 again. But I feel it’s time to evolve and start playing some - perhaps after the summer

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