no crosshair. like the video though :)

frazey<3

why the wh in video?

i see no wh. u cheater?

I had it on watching games. Then just forgot to turn it off when I rendered sorry about that :-(

SURE, YOU FUCKING CHEATER

paranoid

yep, sure... don't make excuses now, we know the truth

lmao@sombra

Hope you come back soon Fraze ^^

and try to play that alot OLOLOLO

will be interesting to see how well he does if he goes to qcon and stuff

i found the ending of the match quite funny ;)

oh and i found out that its possible to jump on to rail more easily now, not that i play duel often

Ya t'was awesome ending |]

since he didn't play zotacs...

+ in UK u can go out almost evrery night of the week and it doesn't have to be always Saturday.

+ last order at 11pm, awesome.

If his gf lives in UK, i am pretty sure that he'll get back

anyway

gg. well played.









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Why he looks like russian for me?

vs strenx..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB-DbqRQABg

1 of the 3 times they played on t7 and you pick the game he lost the most by? The other two times were 9-4 and 12-4 so I don't really see you're point except that you're an idiot troll ??

K1llsen could say the same about the game you picked.

I didn't make the video to spite K1llsen. Where as Dede did? So the reasons for making the video were completely different, thus making it an idiot troll. Besides i'm sure getting raped by the worlds number one online dueler is nothing to be ashamed of anyway (Strenx)

vs Sc00T..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHGQYst0gzw

don't really think I need to explain to you how the timeline of improvement works with practicing at a new level, do I?

the match is from 1 week ago and he's been in Europe for 3 months? :|

1 week, but 60 duels ago lol

None of these 60 duels includes a win against anyone really good, though. I'm not sure where you see a 'timeline of improvement' after the match(es) against Sc00t from 1 week ago. ;)

edit: To be fair, winning 50% of his matches against Sc00t and Garpy isn't bad by any means. Implying that he drastically improved since then is a bit optimistic though.

Have you seen him play? He's good, don't even understand the hate :O

He's not really hating he is just trying to figure out why I bothered putting any of this together in the first place..

scowl is like some kind of internet lawyer, everything you post must be 100% logical, factual and air-tight or he will argue with you out of principle

It's okay, I'm sure he's one of the many, many people on ESR who have been playing for twelve years and have never been anywhere near as good as any of the people they so often criticize.

It's just a game. Fraze is just a player. Pointing out that he is not as good at this game as other players is just an indication that you need to go the fuck outside.

The projectile trails on that video are so epic. I wish we could get that in the actual game.

MOAR like vs strenx..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_e...b-pcNSm1tU

Played him once a couple of times in the middle of the night and I got raped so hard :(. Amazing aim and dodging (or maybe I was just tired as fuck and didnt hit anything :D).

Wanted to see him in zotac because there he had the opportunity to play cypher, ash etc.

nice interview, to bad he did not play zotacs though.

Yeap, would have been extremely interesting to see :)

Fraze... What's a fraze? Sounds cute, I want one! And it has to be blue and expensive and and well mom and dad, I will tweet about your fucking cheapness otherwise! *hugs and kisses* /Melissa

Didnt even know he was here.
Good read tho :>

How can he has a such lovely girlfirend with this face :>

to be fair to me i look like a dick in all these pics cause mick05 is a noob at choosing, but also mostly what resides in my pants :P haha

Ahahahah :-)

Nice itw tought, keep going :)

mickzero5: "want me to try and see if fraze can play one game before he leaves?"
dem0n: "sure"
mickzero5: "hmm he says he has no time, has to pack stuff for flight :/"
dem0n: "alright :)"

5 minutes later, fraze playing strenx 7-8 duels in a row

:DD

this was what he said to me demon :(

Well I guess it's alright strenx is the best online player atm so it's only fair.

After reading the interview I must say I like the guy: hektik is his favorite map ? Damn right, me too.

Fuck zotac's mappool tbh, get hektik back in ASAP

haha i know i feel bad :< mick was like oh u can play demon, then i was like eh nah wanna pack and shit! then he said OH FUCK RIGHT NOW STRENX WANTS A GAME ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY HOLYSHIT FUCKBATMAN and i said ok! hah turned out i had more time than i thought :<

Np man as I said above I have no hard feelings for that. I enjoyed watching them duels though, but faggot strenx decided to stop playing when you left :(((

had a good trip back home I hope :)

as good as 4 flights in 30 hours can be haha :Dsorry again, will have to play another time for sure :<<

very good player and a nice guy, wondered were he disapeared too

"Dm13 is shit online, and overall is a boring map and has been played to death over the 900 years its been in the map pool. "

just admit it bro. you suck at dm13. stop abusing your position to change the map pool to suit your best maps.

don't fall for it guys. ZTN and Dm13 are holy maps. they should never disapear from competitive quake

To be honest as a spectator dm13 is boring as fuck

never denied im bad at dm13, still think its a bad map, also im ok at ztn.. still think its bad also!

so you think dm13 and ztn are bad maps? lol.. doubt anyone is gonna take you seriously.

? ;loads of people hate the maps, the only reason u like them is all u dop is +back so they suit u, so ur basically doing the same thing as me only they are shit maps, and the maps i like and am better at are fresher and are the way forward for quake live

first of all, accidentaly plussed you just now (just woke up and thought it was a reply button)

anyways. now you're changing your words again. I don't care if alot of people hate the maps. They're GOOD maps. if they were bad, like you suggested earlier, they wouldn't have been played for 10 years.

But I'm not suprised u only like maps with lowest brain involvement. pew pew

I totally agree about dm13 and ztn.
Just because a map is boring ( =not easily understandable ) to spectate, doesn't mean it's bad.
Maybe it's just too difficult to understand, but the more tactics a map allow, the better it is.
I don't care if someone wants a frag every 5 seconds: go watch COD and CS, then ( respect for cod and cs).

I don't care if someone wants a frag every 5 seconds: go watch COD and CS, then ( respect for cod and cs).

:DDD

well think, if there was only 1 map, obviously everryone would be good at it, then new maps came along, people would play that old map even if the others were better, and the same principal applies, people play the maps as they are good at them, if the maps were reversed and say tox and hektik were OLD AS FUCK maps, then people would cling onto them, regardless of how good it was compared to the new maps.

lol makes no sense. you claiming hektik and tox are as good as ztn and dm13?

also i never played q3, and started playing ql when furiousheights was released. so ZTN and DM13 were new to me. still I learned them cause they are awesome

he makes perfect sense. dm13, and ztn have become "so good" not because of design, but because people have played them for years so strategy has developed to this point.

2 noobs who are running around ztn having never played it before wont produce the same quality game as two pros who have played it for 10+ years. the maps themselves don't make the matches funner, more entertaining, or more interesting.

a good example of this is dm13 last year actually. the strategy around the map was to play very defensive, which resulted in long, ot filled, 2-1 or 1-0 games as evidenced by the games last year. this year, since the hitbox increase, people have figured out that you can be much more aggressive and we see higher scores more often than lower scores in competitive play.

if any of the old maps deserve to be in the modern pool its ztn, its a timeless classic, its the most played for a reason

here's 2gd's thought from pre dreamhack winter 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sulAHuaXBY&feature=youtu.be

yeah the reason being noone likes maps they are bad at :D also i am by no means a terrible ztn player i have over 2 thousand duels on the map (only map i played for first year of dueling) and also just cause 2gd says it doesnt mean anything, in that vid avekk said he didnt want the map pool to be changed, whether that means he likes ztn or not, he didnt want it in at the time (might have been just didnt want it changed) but either way

they wont get it, no matter how you phrase it. :|

the vast majority of the "quake community" is people who have chosen to only play duel on ztn and only play ca on dm6.

also: nostalgia

ztn is the most balanced map in the pool. dm13 is shit and boring.

nah most balanced map is t7 imo

t7? "furios heights"? as i remember, it is a map hitscan weapon dominated.
Exactly what people likes to watch, not the definition of a well design.

fos there is so many rocket fights around red and around the other rl if u are lacking in any of the 3 main weps u will be in trouble

Of course. You simply cant win, at high levels, if u can't/don't use the rocket launcher; but t7 is a map in wich more than in dm13 the hitscan aim is crucial; also in dm13 there are way more places for ambushes and way more moving tricks and rocketjumps possibility.
This allows the "brain players" to dominate in dm13 much more easily than in t7.

thats simply as there is no railgun ;P not because it definitively favours brain, imagine say t7 without rail, it would be more about camping and setting traps and hence u could say a more 'brain map'

.....for this reason, sure, and also for others: it is more "compact", with many different ways to escape from the different situations, and it has a lot of powerups, that allows a player more good to control the items to charge a player with a lot better lighting aim and still win.
Also, there are a lot of different locations from to shoot safely and run away, the rocket/plasma/ grenade spam fire is very useful, and last but not least the rocket jump technique is CRUCIAL in this map, like others skilled moving tricks, that allow to control the map even with a worst aim.

He's been using the spawn visualizations \o/

frazieer!

He is good, but a douchebag123

Hi, I'm a Croatian living in Croatia. Wanna do an interview with me? I haven't played any duels, or ever heard of frazey, but more then willing to go to lans.

i think this interview was just to show that fraze beated k1llsen

Probably, but this sorta thing is pretty interesting for us Aussies who respect the many top-tier Euro players but have very little contact with them.
There's not a lot happening in the Aussie QL scene, so anything slightly interesting, such as fraze having a close game with killsen, or Dandaking / Ventz going to Quakecon is a decent news day for us.
Franky, we're lucky we even have someone like Mick05 who can be bothered to proudly post this sorta stuff on ESR from time to time.

This interview was to raise awareness and funds for quakecon in Australia

Hope you like Europe

Its good to have new blood in the scene

I play test_bigbox every day.

All maps are good :3

http://qlranks.com/duel/player/aeol

So about the ztn and dm13 discussion..

I think that ztn is dispendable from a playing perspective or "oldschool" spec perspective.
The fact is the way the map is built and the amount of years it has been played.. every angle and tactics have been exploited in the map and it doesn't allow one to be very creative because of the map structure. So.. if your a solid player you will find it kinda boring since you can predict almost every move and every kill.
The only [+] is for the "newschool" player, since the map is so overplayed in pubs they enjoy watching it since they play it everyday and they don't have that insight to predict whats going to happen.

About dm13 and i personally like the map, i think it's a must in a mappool since we don't have any other strategic map like this.
If people or id created a similar gamestyle map but different (much more exciting) i would gladly love a change.. but the thing is there is none and we need balance.
I feel it's a really good map to have in a final where both players are really similar and they want to outthink the opponent in order to win a decision.
It's really nice map to spec imo (for high lvl players) since you can actually be surprised by the amount of skill and brains pro players have .. and i believe pro players like to play this kind of maps coz they are not random or you will hardly lose because of a bad initial spawn.
New school players might not enjoy this because in some games you only see 3 frags with 10 min overtimes =( .

It's just the way people want to see quake .. and my opinion is we need balance.
Too many "hektiks" will look like a ca fest.. too many "dm13s" will make the game so boring to watch people will go watch steven seagals movies.
So i believe we need both.. but .. ofcourse.. what we need is to maintain balance with a bunch of new and exciting maps.

So don't drop maps in order to put other style .. just create new!

Map pools should have like 2 fast paced maps, 2 slower maps and one in the middle like T7. Having said that players like rapha and cypher can still force a slow game on any map. :3

EDIT: look at the current pool. Aerowalk, Hektik, Toxicity, Lost World, Furious Heights. Theres 3 fast paced maps, 1 slow and 1 in the middle. No wonder cypher has been beating rapha recently :P