Press release Stockholm August 6, 2008 for immediate release

Finland has a new 1on1 champion

Last weekend between 31/7 - 3/8 2008 Assembly summer with more than 5000 participants took place at Hartwall arena in Helsinki, Finland. For the second year in a row QTOUR Championship, the most prestigious 1on1 aim tournament in the world, was on location to crown the best Counter strike 1.6 aimer in Finland. This year as an integrated tournament in the WCG Finland finals.


Defending champion Samu "plastE" Aalto to the finals

The defending Qtour champion from 2007, Samu “plastE” Aalto came back this year to defend his titel. The tournament went pretty easy for plastE until he had to meat his Roccat team mate “naSu” in the quarter finals and won with smallest possible margin in a very intense fight. This was the second time “plastE” defeated “naSu” in Qtour.


A new Counter strike star is born! JiGetus.

On the other side of the bracket a new player in Qtour context, Jirka “JiGetus” Ryhti from team EGC made his way to the finals. “JiGetus” proved to be a skilled world class aimer. With the most famous Finnish shout caster “wabbit” commenting the finals in front of an excited audience “JiGetus” defeated “plastE” with 15 to 9 to become the WCG QTOUR 2008 Finland champion.

France is a great and beautiful country, the nature is charming, our language is superb, we have good food, nice wine, we drive on the right side of the road, and one day we will cross those borders and make all of you foreigners eat smelly cheese and speak French like us. And we also have the Gamers Assembly ! Nice clean, prestigious, awesome. In the eyes and in the heart of millions of people in smelly cheese country, this LAN is the best. Let's find out if this year the GA2K8 held it promises!

Last weekend between 19-23 March WCG QTOUR 1on1 Championship Norway took place at The Gathering in Norway, the second biggest lan party in the world with more than 5500 participants. It was the first time Call of Duty 4 and Counter Strike Source was a part of the QTOUR Championship format parallel with Counter-Strike 1.6

Next to the new games, the big question was if stingeR would defend his championship title from last year. Below you have the result from Norway:


***UPDATED WITH PICTURES FROM THE GATHERING***

This year for the 3rd time of his history after Arles in July 2006 and Chalon sur Saône in July 2005, the QTOUR Championship visits France invited by Futurolan for they yearly great gaming mass : the Gamers Assembly.

We are proud to anounce the QTOUR Championship featuring Miguel 'quick' Bonet godfathering the most prestigious one one tournament over CS 1.6 and for the very first time on Call of Duty 4. QPAD and GA are inviting the 14 best players for an exciting 1v1 challenge to make the audience thrill during those intense fights on the QPAD_AIM map.
Speed, accuracy, precision, who are the best aimers, who are the best individual talents of the French esports scene? That's what we are going to find out !

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Click Read More to view the names of the players invited and qualified.

The Danish talent Rasmus "vimo" Vibe playing for Copenhagen eSports has been crowned QTOUR Danish Champion and the best aimer in Denmark. The grand finals took place at the SLAP LIVE Copenhagen. vimo won after eliminating Timm "ArcadioN" Henriksen, Nicholaes "zitic" Petersson, Marc "nexiz" Woolrych, Christoffer "Sunde" Sunde in the grand finals.

FEAUTURES:
-Picture gallery
-Results
-Qualifier bracket
-Final bracket
-Ineye demos

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The Swedish talent Fabian "blomstar" Åkermark has been crowned as the champion of QTOUR Sweden and the best aimer in Sweden. After the Grand Finals took place at the Headspin LAN in Stockholm. blomstar won after eliminating Jimmy "allen" Allén, Anders "Rwa" Svensson, Johan “face” Klasson and in the finals Bjørn "threat" Pers.

FEAUTURES:
-Picture gallery
-Results
-Ineye demos

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Here are the pictures from Assembly Hartwall arena and QTOUR Championship Finland 2007.

We would like to thank INTEL, ASUS, Sennheiser Communication, Logitech, Samsung, Gamelio, Electronic arts, GameTV.fi, Pekka from Assembly, Johan and Henning from WCG Nordic for the support.

It was a great LAN one of the best with a great crew. We hope to see you next year.

Please enjoy the picture gallery.

The Logitech.fi player Samu "plastE" Aalto has won the title of the best aimer in Finland. The QTour Finnish Championships were held for the first time ever in Finland, at the Assembly Summer 2007 event.

The finals were commented by www.GameTV.fi and they really made the finals feel fantastic! They held the crowd in serious tension the whole match.

After a crazy match between plastE and naSu from 69n28e (2-0). Plaste took the win, just after loosing with logitech to 69n28e in the WCG Tournament.

Kookas, who became player number 16 from the qualifiers, beat contE in the bronze match and placed 3rd in the tournament.

We want to thank all the sponsors for a great event and all the players. And ofcourse the crowd which was totally fantastic. Hopefully we will see you all next year cheering for your favourite players.

Bracket:QTOUR Championship Finland bracket>>>

The best gaming festival in the world is over for us, but the feeling still remain in our hearts. The spirit of gaming is shining over Hamar, Norway. Here are the final pictures including the QTOUR Championship finals. We would like to thank The Gathering crew that were doing an extra ordinary good job. Over and out live from Hamar, Norway from MrMouse, Nox, Kinte, Zoid.

STREAMING FROM NRK:
Streaming QTOUR 1vs1 Championship >>>
Change the speed settings to 670kb/sek if you are outside of Norway.

ASUS, Sennheiser, Logitech, NextGenTel, Gamelio, Electronic Arts and Samsung are proud to present QTOUR 1 vs.1 Norwegian Championship winner. stingeR who won over KF3, former NiP player, in a tight and hard fight

Final bracket. >>>

It's the second biggest computer festival in the world and as usual, QTOUR is in the centre of all action. Here's the first pictures from the first QTOUR-stop in 2007 - The Gathering. Festival, Party and Gaming - Enjoy!

This last weekend 11-12 November QTOUR Championship was played on NetOnNet warehouse shop in Malmö. Sweden. QTOUR introduced a new level of Counter-strike competition and is hopefully from now, next to 5 vs 5 team play a genre in competitive Counter-Strike.

QTOUR XI is done : Blacko Dominates !

That PxL was a very good lan, not enough gamers believed it before it came, that's the only shadow on the picture. As u can guess the south of France was sunny, 67 Challengers signed in and everyone was convinced he would be the "Choosen" the one who would slap the Swedish Tall Guy ! But nobody did...quick was undefeated during that 11th stop.

After a 18 hour drive from Stockholm we finally ended up in Namur, Belgium for the Q-TOUR #10 on Starlan. The event turned out to be an thrill with some of the best players in Benelux attending. After 6 month passivity Quick started up real bad losing 4 matches in the first round. But found his normal status in the 3 last rounds.

As always playing against quick is just the qualifier and the players that ended up in the final was Achoe, tommeh, apollo and luce. After some great matches Luce from Digital Mind won quite convincing over Achoe with 10 - 3

Sennheiser, Intel, Logitech and QPAD wants to thank the Starlan Crew for a service above normal and a very proffesional event and to all the players attending Q-TOUR #10

You can find the results and pictures from the event here.

Another Q-Tour has been played and this time it was at the German LAN-event NorthCon and here we actually got to see a girl in the final match for the first time in Q-Tours history. Even though she didn’t win it all she got a nice second place after getting defeated by PnK in the final match. The top 3 players got to walk home with a whole bunch of prizes from QPAD, Sennheiser, Logitech, Intel and Shuttle worth a lot of money and of course the winner PnK also got a 500 Euro cash prize.

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Hi fellow gamers and freaks. The qpad crew just arrived back on the home turf in Stockholm after a fantastic weekend on Dreamhack. While i get a good nights sleep and a refreshing bath I invite you all to enjoy my pics. Have fun and c ya next time. Frag on wherever you are...


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The Swedish Q-Tour event at Dreamhack turned out to be an awesome event with a lot of very good Swedish players walking up on stage to get their asses kicked by quick. But as always facing quick is just the qualifier and the players that got the most frags against quick were qualified for the finals. After some great matches we got to see vilden from SK-Gaming win the event in a close final match against Insanez from mYm.Raptor. Of course everyone that got a frag in the tournament walked away with prizes but the final three is the players that walked home with the big prizes worth a lot of money from Q-Tours sponsors QPAD, Sennheiser, Intel, Logitech and also Shuttle that came in to the game at this event. You can find the scores and pictures from the event here.

Results and pictures ----->

Q-Tour in Stuttgart is now over and we are proud to present the winner... "r00n" aka Felix.

craZygirl was Q-Tour champion this time. craZygirL played 41 qualifying games without losing one.


Look at the results and our pictures >>>

Our Q-Tour in Denmark was a really fantastic event! In the end we had an awesome final between Drally and Paradox. The atmosphere was tense because of the final, which was really close. We haven’t seen such a such a tought fight before.

Q-Tour champion at Denmark after beating Paradox with 10-9 is Drally from Level.


>>>Here is the complete result list and pictures from SLKS#8

Today SLSK#8 opened. The tournament was planned to start at 19:00 but it was delayed due to a virus that was spread on the lan.
Instead of this the tournaments will start at 10:00 on Saturday. On the Q-Tour stage we had a fun tournament with Miss Hyper (Les Seules) as a guest player. She played 1 vs 1 against 10 challengers. Winner was Per Ola from Escape Gaming. Tomorrow the official Q-Tour starts at 14:00 with quick as a player.


>>>Here are some pictures from the first day