Enjoying my vacation, I was surprised, just arrived tonight from new year's celebration, and opened my quake. I've joined our servers and noticed a lot of people playing and have fun like the old days... with a nice number of spectators.
linking to that, I was googling the br qw-scene and found 2 websites that you guys can check and see what is going on.
for now, only portuguese, but i'll try to contact the webmasters and ask them to translate it!
http://www.quakebrasil.com.br/
http://www.quakeworld.com.br/