Liquid rapha wins $150,000 Quake World Championship \u2013 Final placements ESL[jwplayer Dx2HDtD8]Team Liquid\u2019s Shane \u2018rapha\u2019 Hendrixson once again proved he\u2019s one of, if not the greatest Quake players of all time after claiming his sixth QuakeCon Championship, and the 2019\/2020 Pro League MVP award. Rapha entered his first Quake tournament all the way back in 2002, finishing 65-128th at that year\u2019s QuakeCon tournament, and since 2008 has been a feature at the top of the Quake scene, and been remarkably dominant in Quake Live with 21 first-place finishes since the game\u2019s release in 2017. After coming through a year filled with personal tragedy after the passing of his fianc\u00e9 in June, rapha dominated his opposition to take home the 2020 World Championship, and unsurprisingly found himself named as the tournament\u2019s Most Valuable Player. After receiving a bye in the first round of the North American portion of the bracket, rapha swept past Australian ZenAku and American dooi without dropping a single game, and then quickly took down Estonian player cnz with a comfortable 3-0 win in the semi-finals. VengeurR proved to be the only player who could take a game away from the 31-year-old, but couldn\u2019t stop the Team Liquid star from putting on another Quake clinic, before moving into the grand-finals to win four unanswered games against Adri\u00e1n \u2018RAISY\u2019 Birg\u00e1ny to seal his place at the top of Quake esports once again. An emotional rapha spoke to Marcus \u2018DjWheat\u2019 Graham at the conclusion of his victory, admitting that his win was \u201cbittersweet,\u201d but wanted to thank Bethesda for giving him the opportunity to play \u201cthe best FPS game ever,\u201d and for giving him the chance to compete, and succeed, at the game\u2019s highest level. Despite his tragic loss in June, rapha showed no signs of considering retirement, thanking the Quake community, his family, and friends for all the support he has received over the past few months, and stated his intention to keep doing what he\u2019s doing, and hopes to keep the success rolling, summing up his plan for the future with the phrase: \u201cAll gas, no brake.\u201d While Bethesda didn\u2019t reveal how the $150,000 prize pool would be split among the competitors, you can expect that rapha will be taking home a healthy chunk of the cash, alongside the title of being the world\u2019s greatest Quake player once again. You can view the tournament\u2019s final placements below. 2020 Quake World Championship Final Placements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Liquid rapha wins $150,000 Quake World Championship \u2013 Final placements ESL[jwplayer Dx2HDtD8]Team Liquid\u2019s Shane \u2018rapha\u2019 Hendrixson once again proved he\u2019s one of, if not the greatest Quake players of all time after claiming his sixth QuakeCon Championship, and the 2019\/2020 Pro League MVP award. Rapha entered his first Quake tournament all the way back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}