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Esports tournament operator FaceIT will be hosting the first Quake Pro League, featuring weekly broadcasts from the FaceIT studio in Earlsfield, London, every Sunday.
The new league will run for a year starting at QuakeCon 2019 (which takes place in London in July) until QuakeCon 2020.
The first league games on FaceIT will start in August and air on twitch.tv/quake.
The Quake Pro League will see 20 pre-selected players face off in a year-long linear tournament structure, with ‘multiple opportunities for champions to rise and rivalries to form’.
10 players will be from NA/SA and 10 will be from EU/CIS. A new competitive mode, Timelimit Duel, has been tailor-made for the Quake Pro League, allowing ‘for a wider margin of control and the chance for fan-favorite comebacks’.
Offline Major and Minor events will also occur during November 2019, February 2020, May 2020 and conclude at Quakecon 2020.
While the Quake Pro League will showcase the current best players in the world, hungry challengers will have their chance to unseat the pros in the Quake Challengers. These weekly online competitions will run in parallel to the Quake Pro League and are open to all players in NA, SA, EU, and CIS.
“Competitive Quake birthed one of the very first online esports communities, and we’re thrilled to be a part of this groundbreaking new league and to help shape the future of this iconic esport.”
Michele Attisani, FaceIT
The top four highest-ranked Challengers (two from NA/SA and two from EU/CIS) in a stage will also be flown to offline events. These Challengers will receive guaranteed prizing and have the opportunity to unseat the lowest-ranked Quake Pros in regulation matches, thus taking their Pro League seat in the next stage.
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Michele Attisani, co-founder and CBO of FaceIT, commented: “Quake is part of the bedrock of FACEIT. All founders of the company were heavily involved in the Quake III competitive scene, and it’s the title that first ignited our passion for esports.
“Competitive Quake birthed one of the very first online esports communities, and we’re thrilled to be a part of this groundbreaking new league and to help shape the future of this iconic esport.
“We have huge plans for the broadcast from our innovative studio in London and we can’t wait to bring fans around the world a whole year of exhilarating Quake competition.”
It’s not the first time FaceIT has got involved with Quake. The platform previously created the FaceIT Sunday Cups which were broadcast live each week to help reinvigorate the Quake esports scene.
FaceIT also ran activity at QuakeCon 2013 and 2014 and hosted the FaceIT: Legends Cup on the platform, which invited eight legendary Quake players to compete.
D.I.C.E 2016 and 2017 also featured the FaceIT QuakeWorld Tournament, which saw prominent games industry personalities compete in a 1v1 tournament.
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
