Stermy and his team manage to win the Dreamhack Winter 2011 QuakeLive Team Deathmatch tournament, taking home 35.000kr!

The all-star team lineup, formed in May 2011 and already Dreamhack Summer Champions, managed to top their group and win all their matches and the Grand Final against 300 without dropping a single map!

Team Lineup:

Johan "tox" Quick
Michael "winz" Bignet
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
Pierre-Emeric "l1nkin" Portier





CONFIGs + HUDs + SETTINGS: ( Stermy , tox , l1nkin and winz): CLICK HERE

DEMOS: HERE

After a thrilling final against Salivating Monstahz, Team iCE cLIMBERS formed by quake legends Stermy,Toxic, Fox and Linkin take 2nd place in the Team Deathmatch tournament at Quakecon 2011.

Intel Quake Live TDM Invitational Masters

1st Salivating Monstahz (Krysa, noctis, avekkk, spart1e) - $16,000

2nd iCE cLIMBERS (Stermy, fox, l1nkin, tox) - $8,000

3rd BallerSsS (strenx, draven, Cypher, Cooller) - $4,000

4th Ultra Frag-Xtreme (czm, cl0ck, DaHang, rapha)

Some interviews:

We are really happy to announce that our very own Stermy and his Team Ice Climbers will be sponsored by TheRealGround!
What`s the real ground? Are you a strong competitor and you believe you got what it takes? Then TheRealGround might be the right place for you in the near future.

For further information about TheRealGround and Quakecon coverage from Stermy and Team Ice Climbers visit www.therealground.com

Tune-in today at 23 CET to Support QUAKELIVE!
Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone, Rod "Slasher" Breslau , James "2GD" Harding will commentate two awesome showmatches between Toxic,  Av3k and Cypher!

Slasher wrote on Esreality.com:

"Join us today for a sneak preview of MLG Live as we knock Independence Day out of the park with ten straight hours of live streamed content featuring the best of the world of eSports/competitive gaming.

Many of you in the US will be out with friends and family for the evening, which is great! If you have some time throughout the day, check it out. If not, VOD's will provided shortly after. For everyone who can't get enough eSports, and those outside the US where it'll just be another Monday, this will be a treat.

It’s an extravaganza of gaming with all your favorite players, commentators, and community members - all streamed to you live in HD. Starcraft 2, Quake Live, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: Reach and maybe even some Mortal Kombat 9/SSF4AE.

Below is the tentative schedule of events for the day. Because matches are live, there is no knowing how long games will go, along with all other apects of running a live event such as this.

Slasher will be hosting with various pro's. 2GD's assistance has been requested.

After a long three day event, Stermy and his team manage to win the Dreamhack Summer 2011 QuakeLive Team Deathmatch tournament, taking home 25.000kr!

The all-star team lineup, formed only a month and half before the event took place, managed to top the hardest group of the event, beating Serious Gaming and Ultrafrag Extreme, then move forward to the quarter finals and win versus Team Russia, Dignitas and Reason Gaming in the Grand Final, dropping only 1 map during the entire tournament!

Team Lineup:

Johan "tox" Quick
Michael "winz" Bignet
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
Pierre-Emeric "l1nkin" Portier



CONFIGs + HUDs + SETTINGS: ( Stermy , tox , l1nkin and winz): CLICK HERE

DEMOS: HERE



VIDEO OF THE FINAL:


Watch live video from Official Dreamhack Stream on Justin.tv

INTERVIEWS:

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FOR LIVE CHAT AND FULL COVERAGE PRESS HERE..

     

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Il più famoso videogiocatore italiano alla conquista

 del Dreamhack 

Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone questa volta punta a conquistare il titolo nel torneo a squadre!

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Hello guys,
Like I promised, I have uploaded my new cfg (still in beta and changing things), hud + q4zoom and setup files!

Hope you like it!

LINK: DOWNLOAD HERE

Enjoy!

Ciao,
Stermy

What`s up guys!

I`m finally back - - I want to apologize for being so busy lately and not being able to answer alot of your messages!

Ultimate Gaming Championship went great, and I personally wanted to thank all the people involved in this project but also all the players partecipating and the people who supported and followed the event!

I am now finally back and already answered most of your Shoutbox questions -  I will be updating the website in the next weeks with some new stuff and hopefully some great news in the near future! Finger crossed!

Take care,
- Stermy

PRESS RELEASE

Ultimate Gaming Championship

   The most awaited event for Italian gamers!

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Hello guys,
I am currently in Jonkoping, Sweden, for Dreamhack Winter - - just wanted to let everybody know I have launched the first "Live 2.0" beta page for the community: www.stermy.com/Live/
Dreamhack Winter this week will be the first "test" event for my project and we will try to provide Live streaming video of players, behind the scene, Live tweeting/blogging, live interviews with the community, pictures and more.
The page is still in beta, it will still go under different changes, but please follow the event and let us know what you would like to see.
I am planning to do different live interviews with players and you will be the one asking the questions.

If there is anything interesting we should cover on the website, please let us know and we will try to make it happen. For Any request contact me on Twitter,Facebook or comment on this news.
Big thanks to Incubus!

Take care!

Alessandro "stermy" Avallone

Over the past weeks and month these 30 players from 13 nations survived several qualification stages to enter Intel Extreme Masters fifth season's European Championship, where $114,400 prize money is at stake.

Qualified Players from last night`s qualifier:

Philipp 'reload' Kotecki

Alessandro 'stermy' Avallone

Romain 'dem0n' Leclercq

Taken from www.dreamhack.se :

Rapha, stermy & Cypher

DreamHacks main tournament in Quake Live: Kaspersky Quake Live Championship is only getting better and better. Today we announce three more invited players, official map pool and also a streaming partner for our tournament.

First of all we add three more great players to 16-player main tournament. Reigning champion av3k, swedish fox, russian Cooller and american DaHang is already invited. Today we invite the italian top player stermy, the runner-up from DreamHack Summer 2010 Cypher from Belarus and one of the the best players in the world and no.1 according to the G7 world ranking – rapha from SK-Gaming.

We also announce the official map pool, consisting of five maps:

- ztn
- dm13
- t7
- aerowalk
- hektik

In next announcement we will announce more players, possible online- and international qualifications but also the official tournament schedule. Stay tuned.

Kaspersky Quake Live Championship:
1. av3k
2. fox
3. Cooller
4. DaHang
5. Rapha
6. Cypher
7. stermy
8. TBA
9. TBA
10. TBA
11. TBA
12. TBA
13. TBA
14. TBA
15. TBA
16. TBA

Quick facts:
Tournament: The Kaspersky Quake Live Championship
Dates: 25-28 november
Location: DreamHack Winter, Hall C, Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden
Format: 1on1, Groupstage, Double Elimination Bracket, Final at DreamArena Extreme
Platform: PC
Monitor: TBA
Controllers: Bring your own keyboard, mouse and headphones
Prize Purse: 70 000 SEK
Prize distribution:
1. 45 000 SEK
2. 15 000 SEK
3. 10 000 SEK
Schedule:
TBA
Registration:
TBA

... ;)

Hey guys,
I hope is all well. Thanks again for the great support and kind words before,during and after Quakecon, it meant alot to me!

I`m now in Los Angeles since a few days and will be back online in 10 days or so. Just wanted to let everybody know I wont have time to answer your questions in the shoutbox and emails until then. Also, if you are thinkin on booking a lesson, please do after the 20th September.

I wish everybody a great week!

Take care,
Stermy

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

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!

/Roald "roychez" van Buuren

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