The eXperience lan drops CoD2 from the tournament

Much to the discontent of some CoD2 clans, the-eXperience LAN removes its major CoD2 tournaments.

With the amount of lans this summer increasing very rapidly, the-eXperience LAN have removed their CoD2 tournament. This will come as a bit of an annoyance to CoD2 teams wanting to go, but luckily, the number of CoD2 tournaments in the summer is still pretty high.

This is the official press statement from the-eXperience:

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When we started the planning of the-eXperience 2007 more than a year ago, the entire calendar was open through August 2007. We announced the date at an early stage this year to enable teams to schedule and to let other event arrangers have time to plan their events accordingly.

However first Wonderbase moved their event to the beginning of September. This was no problem for us, as this was one month after our event. Then Dataparty squeezed in their event to August 17th-19th between Wonderbase and the-eXperience 2007, putting pressure on the schedule. With 2 weeks between each event, this was going to be a hectic, but realistic Call of Duty 2 month.

A few hours ago, TEK9 then announced their summer event “Outpost on Fire 2” for July 27th-29th 2007, knowing how well booked the event calendar was for the Call of Duty 2 community in August. For some of the major teams, it would still be possible to attend all events, but for some they can’t. With one extra Call of Duty 2 it is our belief that the Call of Duty 2 event bubble has burst.

In Roskilde eSport we work for promoting eSport and having 4-5 Call of Duty 2 events within one month is in our opinion simply too unrealistic. We do not want to battle for gamers or work against other event arrangers, as we all have one goal – to boost eSport. At this stage it is our strong belief that Call of Duty 2 will be the big loser in this ongoing game between event arrangers of August 2007.

To avoid this prophecy, we sadly have to announce that we are removing Call of Duty 2 entirely from the-eXperience 2007 – hopefully once again making it possible for gamers to attend all the Call of Duty 2 events throughout the late summer of 2007. We wish the Call of Duty 2 community the best of luck and we hope to be back with the Call of Duty series in the future.

We have had a tremendously high sign-up rate for the QPAD: Counter-Strike:Source tournament, as well as so much publicity from various Counter-Strike:Source teams and news sites, which we are honoured to see. This development has placed us in a positive dilemma. We have really wanted to boost the tournament within Counter-Strike:Source, but never compromising on the quality of the event. We are planning the event of the year that teams will remember and we want to keep it this way. the-eXperience 2007 is made by gamers for gamers.

As an old saying stated: “a loss is someone else's gain”, and this is also true in regards of this decision.

To make up for this, the-eXperience have increased the number of CS:S signups by 8 increasing it to a 32-team competition; they have also increased the prize fund to a grand total of 10,000 Euros. This will come as good news to the CS:S community, but not so for the CoD2 community.

Source: ClanBase