Shase Competes in Quake Live at Dreamhack

Travis “Shase” Weedon finished third in Group A of the Dreamhack Winter 2009 event, although he did manage to take a map at the competition.

His group consisted of favourites Alexander “Z4muZ” Ihrfos from Sweden, the American, Tim “DaHanG” Fogarty and middle seeded Reynir “Reynir” Thorsteinsson from Iceland.

The competition at the Dreamhack Winter 2009 event is tough and features the best players from all over the world. Weedon said just before he left that “the group could have been better for me, but could also have been a lot worse.” Also read an inteview with Shase here.

Weedon went up against Ihrfos in his first round on the maps ZTN Blood Run and DM6 Campgrounds Redux and lost both 0-20 and 3-17 respectively.

His following group match was against Fogarty. The first round was on the map T9 House of Decay and Fogarty bested Weedon 22-0. The second round was again on ZTN Blood Run and Fogarty managed to win 16-1.

Weedon’s final game was against Thorsteinsson, but regardless of what transpired here, Weedon would still be out the competition. Thorsteinsson beat Weedon in the first map on T9 House of Decay by 13-2. The second map was on DM6 Campground Redux and Weedon managed to win his first map 17-10. The decider was on the map DM13 Lost World and unfortunately Weedon went down 13-0. Fogarty and Ihrfos will be progressing through to the top 16.

Earlier at the rAge Expo in October this year, Stephen “Ph4ntom” Cloete beat Weedon for the chance to compete at the Quake Live – Dreamhack Winter 2009 event. Weedon ended up going to the event in place of Cloete because of passport problems.

Weedon is the second South African to be overseas this month. Like Weedon, Mark “DarthPenguin” Dennison, has also just competed overseas, but in the World Cyber Games in Guitar Hero: World Tour. Dennison too struggled with the level of competition overseas, but more on that story here.