Today, I have released a book that I have been working on for over a year on helping promote shoutcasting. The book is around 20 pages in length and although it doesnt cover absolutely every aspect of shoutcasting, it goes a long way to having something written down for the first time on the subject.

You can read the entire book, free of charge on my own dedicated site.

There will also be a PDF version made for downloading shortly, so if you want to get in to shoutcasting or have always wondered what on earth goes in to being a shoutcaster that attends tons of lan events and works on TV, you now have the chance to read about it.

http://www.theshoutcaster.co.uk/site/?page_id=11

After some hard work by our technical crew, we now have pleasure in announcing that almost all of our videos are now up in the QuadV On Demand section of the site.

You can now relive those incredible games from all of the WCG Grand Finals including the epic maps between Again and fnatic in the CS 1.6 Grand Final and yes, I did say BOTH maps. You wont find the second map anywhere else either as the game had to be moved on to a different stage to complete it after map 1 took too long to complete.

It is also a landmark day for QuadV. Almost exactly 1 year ago, we took a new site and decided to open it up for the first time and allow people to register and enjoy the interaction. Today we can announce that we have surpassed the 50,000 registered user mark and we would like to thank each and every one of you for your support since our launch in early 2007 and throughout 2009 in what has been a challenging financial year.

We hope you enjoyed our coverage and enjoy reliving it through the VOD's.

The bad news is that WCG 2009 is over for another year, but the good news is that you will soon be able to watch it all again, lag free on our video on demand section!

Over the next few days, we will be adding all of the finals and the CS games we covered during the 1.6 tournament.

We are also looking for feedback on the streams. We know they werent great and although you have to appreciate the issues with streaming from so far away in China, we do want to hear how you got on with them, particularly the main stage stream we offered via our Partner Justin.TV.

Well done to everyone who attended and special mention for our tech crew who were life savers all week and allowed us to stream even if KLM Cargo didnt!

QuadV's live coverage from the World Cyber Games 2009 Grand Final, here in Chengdu, China, is ready to begin again for the fourth day, with some cracking matches coming in from all tournaments!

First up we see two Counter-Strike 1.6 games, on channels TV1 and TV5, with TV1 continuing to show matches from the main stage all day - the TV5 schedule is not yet fully confirmed.

Here is the current schedule for the day!

Counter-Strike 1.6 - wNv.cn vs k23 04:00 CET (TV1)

Counter-Strike 1.6 - Team EG vs mTw 04:00 CET (TV5)

Dungeon and Fighter (Final)- Korea vs Japan 06:00 CET (TV1)

Starcraft (Semi-Final) - ??? vs ??? 06:30 CET (TV1)

Carom3D (Final) - ??? vs ??? 07:30 CET (TV1)

Warcraft 3 (Semi-Final) - ??? vs ??? 08:30 CET (TV1)

Starcraft (3rd/4th place) - ??? vs ??? 10:00 CET (TV1)

AMD Mass Game Campaign (D&F) (Final) - ??? vs ??? 11:00 CET (TV1)

Company of Heroes Online - Canada vs China 12:00 CET (TV1)

So that concludes another fantastic day of games here in Chengdu, China, at the World Cyber Games Grand Final 2009.

You may have noticed that our schedule for tomorrow (aka Saturday aka Day Four) is not yet on our site - because of the nature of the stage we are at now (elimination brackets), we are unable to schedule games until later tonight.

Do not fear, however, we are still here, and, with our newly arrived equipment (which was delayed in shipping by five days!), we'll be even better than before!

Tune in from 11am local time, that's 4am CET, for Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3, Starcraft and much, much more!

Yesterday saw the first full day of coverage from the World Cyber Games 2009 Grand Final event here in Chengdu, with some absolutely fantastic games taking place.

Today's schedule follows the same pattern as yesterday's, with all remaining group games scheduled to be finished, ready for elimination stages tomorrow.

Here is the full schedule for Friday!

Warcraft 3 - Moon vs TankLiew 05:30 CET

Warcraft 3 - Sky vs Majic(M 06:00 CET

Starcraft - Bisu vs Bruce 06:30 CET

Starcraft - PJ vs DIMAGA 07:00 CET

Counter-Strike 1.6 - k23 vs esq.Wind 07:30 CET

Fifa - Kr0ne vs Xaxotun 08:30 CET

Warcraft - Lyn vs Maniac- 09:00 CET

Warcraft - Moon vs S.o.K.o.L 09:30 CET

Starcraft - White-Ra vs IdrA 10:00 CET

Starcraft - Bisu vs PJ 10:30 CET

Red Stone - ComeonBaby vs HAPPY_SWEETS 11:00 CET

Trackmania - Grand Final 11:30 CET

Yesterday we saw a superbe opening ceremony here at the World Cyber Games Final 2009, in Chengdu, China, featuring traditional chinese performances, as well as WCG's Beyond The Game anthem being performed live by the band that first recorded it.

The very first match was then watched by several thousand keen spectators at the main stage, and streamed to many more watching from home, in which Marc "yAws" Forster of Germany beat Xiaofeng "WE-SKY" Li in an intense battle on Turtle Rock.

Today we have plenty more coverage from the main stage on TV1, as well as a number of Counter-Strike 1.6 matches brought to you exclusively on QuadV TV5 - the full schedule can be found below!

WarCraft 3 - Fly100% vs Ciara 05:30 CET (TV1)

WarCraft 3 - Infi vs LongWalk 06:00 CET (TV1)

Starcraft - Stork vs Fengzi 06:30 CET (TV1)

Starcraft - Jaedong vs Draco 07:00 CET (TV1)

Counter-Strike 1.6 - Fnatic vs wNv.cn 07:30 CET (TV1)

Fifa 2009 - Cookie vs Reulreusyu 08:30 CET (TV1)

WarCraft 3 - Grubby vs TeRRoR 09:00 CET (TV1)

Counter-Strike 1.6 - Virtus.pro vs mTw 09:00 CET (TV5)

WarCraft 3 - Grubby vs WhO 09:30 CET (TV1)

Starcraft - BRAT_OK vs Stork 10:00 CET (TV1)

Counter-Strike 1.6 - PowerGaming vs mTw 10:00 CET (TV5)

Starcraft - Jaedong vs Toodming 10:30 CET (TV1)

Crossfire - tba vs tba 11:00 CET (TV1)

Counter-Strike 1.6 - Fnatic vs Firegamers 11:00 CET (TV5)

Today will see our entire crew, both commentators and producers and technicians heading off to Chengdu in China in order to prepare for live coverage from the World Cyber Games 2009 Grand Finals next week. You can follow live updates of QuadV's journey by following the various Twitter accounts being used:

quadv, quadvtech, paulchaloner, iaincole, corincole, cabe_bedlam

We will also be trying to do as many "Behind the Scenes" video blogs as possible so keep an eye on our YouTube Channel for updates.

You have 5 days of coverage to look forward to, starting on Wednesday with the opening ceremony and the first match from the tournament for Warcraft 3 where Sky will be in action.

From then on, we will be giving you not one, but two streams of live coverage from the finals. On stream one, you will find all of the matches played on the main stage, including all of the finals for all games. On the second stream we will be providing you with live coverage of CS 1.6 throughout the 4 days of the tournament with a sprinkling of Starcraft when time allows ;)

The full line up of commentators is as follows:

Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner
Stuart "TosspoT" Saw
Matt "A_Spec" Hoving
Jonas "bsl" Vikan
Kevin "Rotterdam" Van Der Kooi
Nick "Tasteless" Plott
Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski

These fine people will be supported by our tech crew of Gregg "Cabe" Bond, Iain "Iain" Cole and Corin "Corin" Cole as well as support from our technical director back at base Oliver Aldridge.

Full coverage schedules will be placed on the site on Tuesday evening (uk time) with a breakdown of what you can expect on both streams.

For now, wish our crew a safe trip to Chengdu and hang out in the IRC channel on quakenet #quadv for updates as and when they happen.