San Jose, CA - Only four competitors remain as tournament favourites fall by the wayside, and the format now shifts to a single-elimination 4-player bracket.

UPDATE: Cypher has claimed gold!

Final Standings

1. Belarus

Alexei "Cypher" Yanushevsky - $12,000
2. Germany

Marcel "k1llsen" Paul - $7,000
3. United States

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson - $4,000
4. China

Zhibo "RazerJ" Fan

ESWC 2008 Q3 Grand Final

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Alexey "Cypher" Y...	1	1	-	2
Marcel "k1llsen" ...	-	-	-	-
ztn3tourney1: k1llsen [7:19] Cypher pro-q3dm6: k1llsen [11:12] Cypher

ESWC 2008 Q3 Consolation Final

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Shane "rapha" Hen...	1	-	1	2
Zhibo "RazerJ" Fan	-	1	-	1
pro-q3dm6: rapha [9:8] RazerJ ztn3tourney1: rapha [1:10] RazerJ q3dm13: rapha [9:4] RazerJ

ESWC 2008 Q3 Semi-Final

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Zhibo "RazerJ" Fan	1	-	1	2
Marcel "k1llsen" ...	-	1	-	1
ztn3tourney1: RazerJ [1:7] k1llsen pro-q3tourney4: RazerJ [11:1] k1llsen hubareoq3: RazerJ [2:10] k1llsen

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Alexey "Cypher" Y...	1	1	-	2
Shane "rapha" Hen...	-	-	-	-
ztn3tourney1: Cypher [11:4] rapha q3dm13: Cypher [7:6] rapha

Upper Bracket

Round 1		Round 2		Winner
Best of Three		Best of Three
.	.	.	.	.
RazerJ	T	.	.	.
2 - 1	M	Cypher	T	.
k1llsen	B	.	\|	.
.	.	2 - 0	M	Cypher
rapha	T	.	\|	.
2 - 0	M	k1llsen	B	.
Cypher	B	.	.	.

Lower Bracket

Round 1		Winner
Best of Three
.	.	.
RazerJ	T	.
2 - 1	M	rapha
rapha	B	.
.	.	.
.	.	.

User Comments

First and foremost thank you Mr. Wells for posting all the groups scores (I know how time consuming that is).

Wow at Cypher. Who could have called that? Now the final is up in the air I LOVE IT!

finally gotfrag decided to cover quake 3 ? god thank

NICE! Gotfrag is seriously doing an amazing job. Go Cypher!

GL to chance and czm. I would love to get the demos of the matches its been a while since Ive seen some quality Quake action.

If you can read this, I can slam on my brakes and sue you!

as an old timer, and complete non-follower of the scene for the last couple years, this really interests me... how did they gather so many legends of the game from so many countries? absolutely wonderful to see. when I last followed it, fox (fojji) and TOXIC were on top of the q3 scene, good to see at least one of 'em still around. plus so many of the earlier heroes and up-and-comers like cooller, ZeRo4, cypher, etc... czm especially, he's been such a good player for so long now... just too bad (or is it, since they probably retired...) there's no Lexer, Daler, Z4muz, fatal1ty, cha0ticz, etc. I'm going with past results and calling for a czm win :)

This comment was edited at 08/26/2008 12:18 AM

It's sort of saying, don't be chucking stuff about if you're surrounded by glass and what have you.

Are there any streams?

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

Wow didn't expect to see this here. I thought GotFrag banned Quake or something.

Nah, the old Quake/TF2-head (nineX) left for GameRiot.com. which has now dropped all non-Blizzard content - GG. There just hasn't been anyone interested in taking his place here (I took over TF2), and considering the scene hasn't had much action since WSVG's death.. *shrug*. But I agree, it's nice to see some Quakers playing again - lol, it was especially nice to see VoO not even get out of group phase :D

#5: I believe ESWC is running a stream of whatever gets on the main stage - http://www.eswc.com

#3: As far as demos go, I'll ask the guys onsite and get back to you, but don't hold your breath :)

#1: Thanks - would have added map scores too, but there's too much going on right now for the guys in SJ to pass along that stuff, too - oh well :)

This comment was edited at 08/26/2008 9:32 AM

GotFrag TF2 Head

ok is this for real? Quake news on gotfrag?? What happen ?

INSANE !

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Quake noob question; wheres av3k?

He couldnt come due to VISA problems.

#9 - av3k is not playing due to visa issues (www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1599420)

#4 - at the rate this year has been going Cypher looks to be unstopable with a flawless showing at ESWC masters droping no maps and winning Quakecon 2008 defeating Zero4 with ease. My moneys on the Bella Russian ( as carmac would say "go Lindsay Lohan").

rk- After the start of the WSVG 2007 I joined up with Joe (ninex) on the Gotfrag coverage team. He showed me how to make all the score tables and that so I really do KNOW how rough that can get.

I was cursing our backend the entire time :) hehe

Ooo men rapha is goin to be playing Cypher :( NOT COOL!

I hope Cypher wins the Upper bracket and rapha wins the lower bracket and then defeats Cypher restoring some american pride that is very needed in this tournament!

1.Cypher
2.k1llsen
3.rapha
4.Jibo

what is happening with the quake scene, it is rather quiet lately

Ganbatte yo!

Where are the demos and/or streams with commentary?

Whattttt CZM didn't make it!!

gj cypher

jg4i - just go for it

#7 HA, more like, graduated college with a degree and got a real job making real $$$. BTW, how's it going covering covering 2 of the most inactive games in the planet?

Easy buddy, GG was in reference to GameRiot.com not you - though I can see now how that got mixed up. That was the last I'd heard of you, so I answered the question best I could. And I'm enjoying myself quite fine, thanks.

Thanks for the coverage, much appreciated!

Too bad Vo0 didn't make it out of the groups :(

This comment was edited at 11/20/2008 2:15 AM

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