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QuakeCon, one of the most prestigious Quake Live events in the world, has commenced from August 12th - 15th. As you might have seen or expected, Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone was there, attending in both the duel and CTF tournament.
To start of with the duel tournament, Stermy was placed in the upper part of the winners bracket. It contained 32 of the world's elite gamers, hailing from all over the world. In the first round, Alessandro was rewarded a free win due to his high seed, but after that the action kicked off. First off he had to face sparks, but the Canadian proved to be little trouble for Stermy, as he cruised through to the next round with 2:0 overall.
Up next however, the first real challenge awaited, DaHanG. The American number two player had already easily disposed whaz in the second round, after winning a BYE in the first. Again, Stermy won the match with 2:0.
Then the semi finals followed. SK Gaming's rapha had been playing strong so far, beating Flysher and dkt. But Stermy had already proven to be strong against the American, being one of the first in a while to beat him, this happened at ESWC. But this was a new tournament, so history did not matter. The first map was dm13, and Alessandro took it with the comfortable of 11:8. The next map was t7 and this was again rather easily won by Stermy, 7:4.
The victory over rapha brought Alessandro into the upper bracket final of QuakeCon. Here he would face arguably the current best Quaker of the world: Cypher. The Belarusian superstar had been on a role, defeating top favorites such as Spart1e and strenx without much trouble. But now he had to face Stermy.
Unfortunately enough, Stermy did not pull the longest straw and thus could not stop Cypher's incredible run. The first map, t7, was easily won by Cypher, with 11:2. However, Stermy proved to be no push over, beating Cypher with 14:3 on ztn. The final map, Aerowalk, had to decide it all; who would enter the final? As mentioned before, Cypher pulled the longest straw and won the final map with 13:7, pushing Alessandro down into the lower bracket.
In the lower bracket final Stermy had to face Cooller to secure a spot in the Grand Final versus Cypher. The Russian had fought his way through the lower bracket, defeating players such as strenx, rapha and Spart1e. In the match between the Italian and the Russian, Stermy started off strong. He took Aerowalk quite comfortably with 16:7. But in the end this was not enough. Cooller won the other two maps, dm13 and t7, with 17:4 and 4:2 respectively.
This was not the only silverware Alessandro won though, as he also participated in the CTF tournament with Team FnaticMSI. The Italian and the other Europeans were on a roll, beating Trill and Loaded to get to the Grand Final. Here they met Evil Geniuses, the team who knocked out FnaticMSI last year. Unfortunately enough for the Europeans, history repeated. Evil Geniuses won the match with 2:1 overall, placing Stermy's FnaticMSI on a second place.
Overall Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone showed a strong performance, grabbing silver and bronze. He has also uploaded some "goodies" for his fans. His latest config (here) and the QuakeCon demo's (here) are now available in the download section!
/Roald 'roychez' van Buuren
To start of with the duel tournament, Stermy was placed in the upper part of the winners bracket. It contained 32 of the world's elite gamers, hailing from all over the world. In the first round, Alessandro was rewarded a free win due to his high seed, but after that the action kicked off. First off he had to face sparks, but the Canadian proved to be little trouble for Stermy, as he cruised through to the next round with 2:0 overall.
Up next however, the first real challenge awaited, DaHanG. The American number two player had already easily disposed whaz in the second round, after winning a BYE in the first. Again, Stermy won the match with 2:0.
Then the semi finals followed. SK Gaming's rapha had been playing strong so far, beating Flysher and dkt. But Stermy had already proven to be strong against the American, being one of the first in a while to beat him, this happened at ESWC. But this was a new tournament, so history did not matter. The first map was dm13, and Alessandro took it with the comfortable of 11:8. The next map was t7 and this was again rather easily won by Stermy, 7:4.
The victory over rapha brought Alessandro into the upper bracket final of QuakeCon. Here he would face arguably the current best Quaker of the world: Cypher. The Belarusian superstar had been on a role, defeating top favorites such as Spart1e and strenx without much trouble. But now he had to face Stermy.
Unfortunately enough, Stermy did not pull the longest straw and thus could not stop Cypher's incredible run. The first map, t7, was easily won by Cypher, with 11:2. However, Stermy proved to be no push over, beating Cypher with 14:3 on ztn. The final map, Aerowalk, had to decide it all; who would enter the final? As mentioned before, Cypher pulled the longest straw and won the final map with 13:7, pushing Alessandro down into the lower bracket.
In the lower bracket final Stermy had to face Cooller to secure a spot in the Grand Final versus Cypher. The Russian had fought his way through the lower bracket, defeating players such as strenx, rapha and Spart1e. In the match between the Italian and the Russian, Stermy started off strong. He took Aerowalk quite comfortably with 16:7. But in the end this was not enough. Cooller won the other two maps, dm13 and t7, with 17:4 and 4:2 respectively.
This was not the only silverware Alessandro won though, as he also participated in the CTF tournament with Team FnaticMSI. The Italian and the other Europeans were on a roll, beating Trill and Loaded to get to the Grand Final. Here they met Evil Geniuses, the team who knocked out FnaticMSI last year. Unfortunately enough for the Europeans, history repeated. Evil Geniuses won the match with 2:1 overall, placing Stermy's FnaticMSI on a second place.
Overall Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone showed a strong performance, grabbing silver and bronze. He has also uploaded some "goodies" for his fans. His latest config (here) and the QuakeCon demo's (here) are now available in the download section!
/Roald 'roychez' van Buuren
Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone in cooperation with Solaris Productions is proud to present the trailer of a documentary about Alessandro's life as professional gamer, named "Stermy: Life on a Professional Gamer".
The trailer shows some memorable moments (and some to forget) about Stermy traveling around the globe to attend professional gaming events. In the trailer, you can see clips of Alessandro at Dreamhack Summer in Sweden and at the Electronic Sports World Cup in France. To check out the 19 minute trailer, head over to this page or check the video below!
Matteo Bettera, Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone his loyal cameraman and friend, has shot a video showing the last 15 seconds of Stermy playing fazz at the Dreamhack Summer 2010 groupstage match between the two. It was an important match to determine who would make it to the playoffs and who wouldn't.
The commentating is by James "2GD" Harding.
/Roald 'roychez' van Buuren
Hey guys,
Just wanted to post a quick message.
First of all I wanted to thank everybody for the support and the kind messages you sent me during the last two events, it means alot to me!
I`m sorry I havent been able to answer all the Question on the Shoutbox in time in the last two weeks but I was just really busy travelling and competing non-stop and I only got back home last night. I answered them all this morning though ;)!
So Check them out and I wish everybody an awesome week! I`m in Andora at the moment and will definately enjoy a few days of vacation with friends.
Take care!
Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone
Just wanted to post a quick message.
First of all I wanted to thank everybody for the support and the kind messages you sent me during the last two events, it means alot to me!
I`m sorry I havent been able to answer all the Question on the Shoutbox in time in the last two weeks but I was just really busy travelling and competing non-stop and I only got back home last night. I answered them all this morning though ;)!
So Check them out and I wish everybody an awesome week! I`m in Andora at the moment and will definately enjoy a few days of vacation with friends.
Take care!
Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone
Rakaka.se interviews stermy at ESWC 2010!
Stermy accepted his invitation to the Electronic Esport World Cup (www.eswc.com) and just arrived in Paris today.
He will be competing in the QuakeLive tournament with the very best in the World and we want to wish him good luck!
Groups:
Group A
rapha
noctis
k1llsen
CAREEM
Group B
Cooller
strenx
bodzo
Sl1p
Group C
Cypher
stermy
GaRpY
l1nkje
Group D
av3k
DaHanG
fazz
Schedule:
Thursday
Group Stage 1 - Group A
10:30 CEST: R1 - rapha vs CAREEM // noctis vs k1llsen
11:15 CEST: R2 - rapha vs k1llsen // noctis vs CAREEM
12:00 CEST: R3 - rapha vs noctis // k1llsen vs CAREEM
Group Stage 1 - Group B
12:30 CEST: R3 - Cooller vs strenx - On stage (Canceled!)
15:30 CEST: R1 - Cooller vs Sl1p // strenx vs bodzo
16:15 CEST: R2 - Cooller vs bodzo // strenx vs Sl1p
17:00 CEST: R3 - Cooller vs strenx // bodzo vs Sl1p
Friday
Group Stage 1 - Group C
10:30 CEST: R1 - Cypher vs l1nkje // stermy vs GaRpY
11:15 CEST: R2 - Cypher vs GaRpY // stermy vs l1nkje
12:00 CEST: R3 - Cypher vs stermy // GaRpY vs l1nkje
Group Stage 1 - Group D
15:30 CEST: R1 - DaHanG vs fazz
16:15 CEST: R2 - av3k vs fazz
17:00 CEST: R3 - av3k vs DaHanG
Saturday
Group Stage 2 - Group A
10:30 CEST: R1
11:15 CEST: R2
12:00 CEST: R3
Group Stage 2 - Group B
13:45 CEST: R1
14:30 CEST: R2
15:15 CEST: R3
17:00 CEST: Semi-final 1
18:00 CEST: Semi-final 2
19:30 CEST: Bronze final
Sunday
15:00 CEST: Final
He will be competing in the QuakeLive tournament with the very best in the World and we want to wish him good luck!
Groups:
Group A
rapha noctis k1llsen CAREEMGroup B
Cooller strenx bodzo Sl1pGroup C
Cypher stermy GaRpY l1nkjeGroup D
av3k DaHanG fazzSchedule:
Thursday
Group Stage 1 - Group A
10:30 CEST: R1 - rapha vs CAREEM // noctis vs k1llsen
11:15 CEST: R2 - rapha vs k1llsen // noctis vs CAREEM
12:00 CEST: R3 - rapha vs noctis // k1llsen vs CAREEM
Group Stage 1 - Group B
15:30 CEST: R1 - Cooller vs Sl1p // strenx vs bodzo
16:15 CEST: R2 - Cooller vs bodzo // strenx vs Sl1p
17:00 CEST: R3 - Cooller vs strenx // bodzo vs Sl1p
Friday
Group Stage 1 - Group C
10:30 CEST: R1 - Cypher vs l1nkje // stermy vs GaRpY
11:15 CEST: R2 - Cypher vs GaRpY // stermy vs l1nkje
12:00 CEST: R3 - Cypher vs stermy // GaRpY vs l1nkje
Group Stage 1 - Group D
15:30 CEST: R1 - DaHanG vs fazz
16:15 CEST: R2 - av3k vs fazz
17:00 CEST: R3 - av3k vs DaHanG
Saturday
Group Stage 2 - Group A
10:30 CEST: R1
11:15 CEST: R2
12:00 CEST: R3
Group Stage 2 - Group B
13:45 CEST: R1
14:30 CEST: R2
15:15 CEST: R3
17:00 CEST: Semi-final 1
18:00 CEST: Semi-final 2
19:30 CEST: Bronze final
Sunday
15:00 CEST: Final
PART 1:
PART 2:
PART 3:
PART 2:
PART 3:
02/06/2010
The Organizing Committee of ESWC announces the list of selected teams and players for the Electronic Sports World Cup Grand Final 2010.
"Today the Organizing Committee of ESWC announces the list of selected teams and players for the Electronic Sports World Cup Grand Final 2010. These invitations were decided to cover the lack of national preliminaries in a few countries. The invited teams and players were choosen from an impressive list of candidatures sent these three last weeks, and regarding their past achievement in previous international competitions:"
01 - Cypher - (ESWC 2008 champion)
02 - DaHanG
03 - k1llsen
04 - stermy
05 - noctis
06 - Sl1p
07 -
dem0n
08 - rapha - (ESWC Master of Greece champion)
09 - spart1e
10 - av3k
11 - strenx - (ESWC FRANCE 2010 champion)
12 - l1nkje
13 - Poland #1
14 - Cooller
15 - evil
16 - CAREEM
17 - Sweden #1
18 - Sweden #2
19 - Sweden #3
20 - United Kingdom #1
We wish stermy good luck!
The Organizing Committee of ESWC announces the list of selected teams and players for the Electronic Sports World Cup Grand Final 2010.
"Today the Organizing Committee of ESWC announces the list of selected teams and players for the Electronic Sports World Cup Grand Final 2010. These invitations were decided to cover the lack of national preliminaries in a few countries. The invited teams and players were choosen from an impressive list of candidatures sent these three last weeks, and regarding their past achievement in previous international competitions:"
01 -
Cypher - (ESWC 2008 champion)02 -
DaHanG03 -
k1llsen04 -
stermy05 -
noctis06 -
Sl1p07 -
dem0n08 -
rapha - (ESWC Master of Greece champion)09 -
spart1e10 -
av3k11 -
strenx - (ESWC FRANCE 2010 champion)12 -
l1nkje13 - Poland #1
14 -
Cooller15 -
evil16 -
CAREEM17 - Sweden #1
18 - Sweden #2
19 - Sweden #3
20 - United Kingdom #1
We wish stermy good luck!
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Earlier Today, Alessandro received a direct invite to play in the QuakeLive tournament at Dreamhack Summer, in Jonkoping - Sweden from the 19th to the 22th June.
"Stermy is no stranger to competition on the highest level and has been at DreamHack before, finishing on 4th at DreamHack Winter 2009 we are sure he is keen on revenge".
Stermy is looking forward to compete again at Dreamhack and we wish him good luck!
"Stermy is no stranger to competition on the highest level and has been at DreamHack before, finishing on 4th at DreamHack Winter 2009 we are sure he is keen on revenge".
Stermy is looking forward to compete again at Dreamhack and we wish him good luck!
Hello guys,
Checkout another Stermy interview that just got released over at MXQLive:
English Version: HERE
Spanish Version: HERE
Checkout another Stermy interview that just got released over at MXQLive:
English Version: HERE
Spanish Version: HERE
Stermy got interviewed recently by Fragster.de:
"Why did you decide to become an eSports player?
stermy: I didn't really decide to become a professional gamer. I loved gaming since the start and I found it awesome that you could compete at such a high level against other players around the world. Becoming a real professional gamer, back in 2001/2002 was just a dream for everybody and people that could really live out of gaming were a few. So I personally played and kept playing because I loved gaming and the competition, I wanted to be one of the best. The opportunities to be sponsored, to travel, compete, work with companies just came to me along with time. I'm grateful for that, I feel lucky for having this chance. When that time arrived, then I seriously started thinking that maybe I could become a professional gamer."
You can check the full interview HERE.
"Why did you decide to become an eSports player?
stermy: I didn't really decide to become a professional gamer. I loved gaming since the start and I found it awesome that you could compete at such a high level against other players around the world. Becoming a real professional gamer, back in 2001/2002 was just a dream for everybody and people that could really live out of gaming were a few. So I personally played and kept playing because I loved gaming and the competition, I wanted to be one of the best. The opportunities to be sponsored, to travel, compete, work with companies just came to me along with time. I'm grateful for that, I feel lucky for having this chance. When that time arrived, then I seriously started thinking that maybe I could become a professional gamer."
You can check the full interview HERE.
Expectations were high before the ESL Extreme Masters World Finals, but the results were not there. Alessandro "stermy" Avallone didn't get passed his group stage, so straight after the event I did an interview with him to ask him what went wrong. Unfortunately due to circumstances it could not get released sooner, but here it is.
Alex Do you feel like releasing a short statement about what happened at the World Finals?
Click to continue
Alex Do you feel like releasing a short statement about what happened at the World Finals?
Click to continue
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone has won the ESL GameOn Italy Finals and has now placed for the European Finals.
In the Italian Finals, he has managed to win every single match without dropping one map. His first two games started off with default wins, but after that the action kicked off. Alessandro managed to beat spartano in the upperbracket final without any problems, and then did the same in the grand final. You can find the bracket and results right here.
Now he has qualified for the European Finals. Here he will meet some of the best players, who are all looking to represent their country in the best possible manner. There will be two groups of five players. Of each group the top two will go into the playoffs, which are single elimination, with a best-of-five map system.
Stermy is placed in Group A, alongside fox (Sweden), Av3k (Poland), GaRpY (United Kingdom) and dunpeal (Turkey).
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
In the Italian Finals, he has managed to win every single match without dropping one map. His first two games started off with default wins, but after that the action kicked off. Alessandro managed to beat spartano in the upperbracket final without any problems, and then did the same in the grand final. You can find the bracket and results right here.
Now he has qualified for the European Finals. Here he will meet some of the best players, who are all looking to represent their country in the best possible manner. There will be two groups of five players. Of each group the top two will go into the playoffs, which are single elimination, with a best-of-five map system.
Stermy is placed in Group A, alongside fox (Sweden), Av3k (Poland), GaRpY (United Kingdom) and dunpeal (Turkey).
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
After a tough qualification stage, the ESL Extreme Masters World Finals are coming closer and closer. The event, held from the 2nd till 6th of March at CeBIT, holds the best four of the best American, six of the best European and the two best Asian players. These players will be spread into two groups of six.
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone has been placed in group A, alongside players such as Cooller, Av3k and rapha.
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone has been placed in group A, alongside players such as Cooller, Av3k and rapha.
| Group A | Group B |
| rapha | DaHanG |
| chance | Vo0 |
| Av3k | Cypher |
| Cooller | strenx |
| stermy | fox |
| Asian Qualifier | Asian Qualifier |
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone finds himself in the ESL Extreme Masters Game On National Playoffs! The Game On Cups are being held in ten different regions and with Italy being one of them, Alessandro is one of the hot favourites to make it to the European Finals, where ten of the best European players will be representing their country.
Now the groupstages are over, where stermy has beaten his country mates Rickmage, zip and lechung without dropping a map. He will now face DiMiTrI in his first playoff match, the upperbracket quarter finals. Other notable names in the Italian National Playoffs are cdv, spartano and exp.
For the playoff tree, head over to this page and for the groupstage results go here.
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
Now the groupstages are over, where stermy has beaten his country mates Rickmage, zip and lechung without dropping a map. He will now face DiMiTrI in his first playoff match, the upperbracket quarter finals. Other notable names in the Italian National Playoffs are cdv, spartano and exp.
For the playoff tree, head over to this page and for the groupstage results go here.
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
Missed all the action of the ESL Extreme Masters European Championship Finals? Do not worry, the ESL staff has recorded all matches that took place and have uploaded the VoDs to their website. All Alessandro "stermy" Avallone his matc
hes can be seen on ESL TV, so sit back and enjoy some great Quake with commentating by the always entertaining Joe Miller and James Harding.
Groupstage matches:
vs fox (2-1 win)
vs dem0n (2-0 win)
vs noctis (2-0 win)
Playoffstage matches:
vs strenx (3-0 loss)
vs calipt (3-0 win)
vs fox (3-2 loss)
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
Groupstage matches:
vs fox (2-1 win)
vs dem0n (2-0 win)
vs noctis (2-0 win)
Playoffstage matches:
vs strenx (3-0 loss)
vs calipt (3-0 win)
vs fox (3-2 loss)
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
The best of the best attended the ESL Extreme Masters European Championship Finals at Bruhl, Germany last weekend to qualify for a spot in the World Finals. Of course, Alessandro "stermy" Avallone was in attendance as he came first in the online qualifier.
Over the course of the weekend, many exciting matches took place and Alessandro was placed in the toughest group, which meant some amazing matches. He had to face Swedish legend and his former FPO team mate, fox as well as the second-place finisher at the GamesCom tournament, Noctis. The fourth person in his group was Belgian LowLandLions player, dem0n, who was looking to cause upsets.
In the end, stermy won all his matches and had only dropped one map versus fox. This meant he was through to the play-offs and thus he had a top eight place at least, while the top six placed for the World Finals. Alessandro had to face the young and talented strenx and eventually this match was not to be won by stermy and was knocked out of the tournament, only leaving him to fight for a top five spot maximum.
He first had to face calipt and easily won the match with three to zero in maps. Mission accomplished, top six was reached and thus a ticket to the World Finals was secured. He now had to face fox for the match for fifth place. Unfortunately enough, Alessandro was all out of energy and lost the match with two maps to three and placed sixth.
In the end, this sixth place was enough to qualify for the real deal and win 350$ pocket money! See you at CeBIT for the ESL Extreme Masters World Finals from the 2nd till the 6th of March.
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
Over the course of the weekend, many exciting matches took place and Alessandro was placed in the toughest group, which meant some amazing matches. He had to face Swedish legend and his former FPO team mate, fox as well as the second-place finisher at the GamesCom tournament, Noctis. The fourth person in his group was Belgian LowLandLions player, dem0n, who was looking to cause upsets.
In the end, stermy won all his matches and had only dropped one map versus fox. This meant he was through to the play-offs and thus he had a top eight place at least, while the top six placed for the World Finals. Alessandro had to face the young and talented strenx and eventually this match was not to be won by stermy and was knocked out of the tournament, only leaving him to fight for a top five spot maximum.
He first had to face calipt and easily won the match with three to zero in maps. Mission accomplished, top six was reached and thus a ticket to the World Finals was secured. He now had to face fox for the match for fifth place. Unfortunately enough, Alessandro was all out of energy and lost the match with two maps to three and placed sixth.
In the end, this sixth place was enough to qualify for the real deal and win 350$ pocket money! See you at CeBIT for the ESL Extreme Masters World Finals from the 2nd till the 6th of March.
//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren
Hey guys,
Sorry I haven`t been around much lately, I just had a pretty busy month.
I wanted to wish you all a Happy Christmas and Wonderful New Year! See you in 2010!
In the meanwhile, you can grab my latest cfg here: DOWNLOAD LINK
Sorry I haven`t been around much lately, I just had a pretty busy month.
I wanted to wish you all a Happy Christmas and Wonderful New Year! See you in 2010!
In the meanwhile, you can grab my latest cfg here: DOWNLOAD LINK