Quakecon Games Announced
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27 Jun 2007, 01:14
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News
With little over a month till the tournament, Quakecon have announced that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Quake will be the games for this summers event.Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars; and the first ever “Quad Damage” tournament spanning all four QUAKE games. The tournaments will take place during the 12th annual QuakeCon which is being held at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas from August 2-5. More than 6,000 gamers from around the world are expected to attend the four-day event. The total QuakeCon Championship Tournament purse will be $100,000, courtesy of title sponsor NVIDIA
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars makes its tournament debut at QuakeCon 2007. 32 teams will compete in the incredible battles between Earth’s Global Defense Force (GDF) and the invading alien Strogg. Each 6-person team will battle it out in a double-elimination bracket-style tournament, with each team having the opportunity to both attack and defend. With a focus on objective and class-based gameplay, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars will test each team’s ability to combine skill, strategy, and teamwork in tournament play like never before.
QUAKE Quad-Damage Tournament
This year brings a new twist to QuakeCon's classic 1 vs. 1 competition with the inaugural Quad Damage Tournament. Spanning all four QUAKE games, this year's champion will need to be a master of a variety of weapons, maps, and play-styles - from QUAKE’s lightening fast action and dominating rocket launcher, to the more strategic gameplay and precision weapons found in the later QUAKE games. 256 contestants will be divided into 4 man groups with each player battling the others in a set of round-robin 1 vs 1 matches. Two phases of round robin play will reduce the competition down to the top 32 players, who will then battle it out in a single-elimination, best of 3 bracket to determine who is truly the QUAKE Master.
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RIP ET, noone trying to keep the competition side of it alive anymore since this beta. Sucks.
the beta is for testing the game.
/sry for my bad english skills
and even if the game is released you'll have to count on demos because afaik there's no ET:QW-Tv.
there is.
ET for one more year would of been the better choice
Anyway, Qcon = August & Qwars atm = shit so... GL!
† ET 2003 - 2007
Apart from only me, I dont think the number of viewers will be especially high.
they could also play it for 1337 years
uZi will always 0wN
We know for sure that CPC 3 is going to cover ET, so it wouldn't surprise me that ET survives Quakecon.
:D
bb ET
SUCK STUPID BF2 NOOBZORZzZ
who will sponsor a new EU qw team that dont have archievements and who is only playing open beta????? i think there will be no european players this years quakeqon only a few who pay for themself but i dont care its anyway nup vs nup and to watching this on a stream or anywhere else is waisting my time so gl to the qw USA teams
ET:QW for quakecon xDDDDDD LOLLLLL!!! xDD
idd tetris > et:qw xD
i just <3 this guys who placed this game to quakecon xDDDD
bb ET =[ :'(
I quess "we" werent passionate enough :D
And besides, WHO THE FUCK SAYS ET:QW IS POPULAR? I think 60% of this community doesn't even like the fckin game. :\
you are saying it has just been released.
USE YOUR BRAINS
rip et. I always thought this sudden LAN attention was just a preparation to make qw popular. GG
But i wouldn't play/pay (for) this ET:QW shit anyway.
Because i have seen few pics and it really looks like some starwars or smth like that.
Gonna wait RTCW 2
A lottery except for those teams who had and will have a chance to test the full version in the last and upcoming months. I'm very sure about some big multigaming clans will attend the event from Europe too, and I'm sure there will be at least one old ET squad there too, and also in a situation like this I hope at least that one will win.
CPL showed a possible way in eSports, with events where only a few players and teams take part, even if I travel there without playing the game and I finish 8th in some random games (where 7 players were playing) I win more that is needed for travelling, so really funny. Also supporting games that aren't realeased in addition. So, in some words, I hope NOT this way will be selected in the future, because this is not eSports. I'm happy, because at least there are a few events which don't select this easy way of getting money, rather decreasing the prizemoney. It's ok and needed to use some new games in tournaments like this, but not before releasing a game, and not when games are just realeased.
By the way as a first impression it seems for me ET:QW has a very good chance to be a competitive game, it consist everything that is needed, and in addition it consists a lot of fun too, so it's really perfect. I'm sure it will have a huge community.
what is eSports?
For example I'm playing ET for 3.5 years, I think I'm around mid-high overall, but that doesn't count anyways. If I define eSports as competitive video gaming than it seems I was an eSports player because I played competitively on the highest level of a video game that is enough competitive. But what about these facts:
- I did not have a team that supported me
- I did not enter any LAN events
- I wasn't payed for gaming, gaming wasn't (one of) my job(s)
Talking for example about Team-Dignitas.ET, Impact-Gaming or other top teams entering several international LAN events where it is competition is a different question. Maybe they are not payed, but they get a lot of support and they play a game that is in the borders of eSports, a game that has, had and will have some international LAN events, a game that is played by thousands for years, so a game where skill is needed to be the best.
It's a different question that the ET tournament on QuakeCon wasn't competitive in the last years, after we checked the signup list we already knew the final results. But in the last one year we saw an sHgOpen, a PGA LAN and the most competitive LAN in the history of ET (CPC2). Todays ET is uncalculable, it matches all the criterias that is needed for eSports and as I said the CPC2 LAN is the perfect example of eSports in Enemy Territory.
But what about the Quake Wars Championship, how are they planning it? Using the beta version to play, what about the maps? The event will be in a month, who will play there?
For me an eSports event means a competition that is attended by (almost) all the best teams / players. What about a competition in a new game? Do you think all of those 32 teams who qualify will travel to Dallas? In games like Counter-Strike, Wacraft, FIFA and the others those 32 teams are supported by well known multigaming clans, and the best players could be there on every events. In those games it's an earful if somebody cannot attend an important event, but in this upcoming Quake Wars tournament it will be a news if somebody can attend. I think you see the difference.
Also about testing the game... Testing is very important for a game that is planned to be eligible for competitive gaming. I'm sure there were a few teams who tested the game because of this. So, those teams will almost surely able to qualify and will surely attend the event because they will have the biggest chance to win it (with an unfair advantage). I don't wanna tell names but I have some predictions. So, from this time I think we cannot talk about an eSports event, because several criterias are unfulfilled. It's better to call it as an Opening or Promo Championship.
But what am I talking about, nobody called it as an eSports event... anyways I'm always looking what is eSports winning and losing. It lost a CPL World Tour again, also it lost a QuakeCon team tournament too, at least last years ET tournament was closer to eSports than this one.
In the end I need to tell, that I like racing and fps games, so Quake Wars is the best choice for me. I played it a lot since I got the key, and I like it like hell. It's hard to say but it gives me more fun as ET, maybe because it's something new. I just wanted to say with this that my opinion is not the opinion of an anti-QW player.
And even if no ET:QW clans turned up, they've several thousand gamers in the BYOC area to call upon. There's no chance this tourney won't be over-subscribed - a lot more so than ET would. That's why this is isn't a gamble, unlike the CPL & wic.
Dignitas WiC team have won every CPL event as far as I know, that's still in development as well.
About the another game (FEAR) of this years CPL World Tour, as I see totally 7 players attended CPL Italy, 8th was a BYE so if I would have attended without even seeing the game, I just would have to turn on the pc, connecting to the server, sitting back in the chair, wait in the spawn till the opponent kills me to drop out as fast as possible. Finally, I finish 8th while getting 500 Euro for that great result.
et > all
or should it be 8on8?
UNEXPECTED
most of the players hate this qw so whats the point of just /quit to ET on quakecon and /sign et:qw ?
I didn't even say that's my opinion, I was just trying to show you their point of view. :)
Starcraft was originally a singleplayer game which also could be played in multiplayer mode. CS started as a mod for halflife made by some random guy.
Its sad how all games are taking the same lane: add zillion features to hide the fact that the basic gameplay sucks and is unbalanced. The only way to make the game 'balanced' again is by making the possibilities and features almost endlessly so instead of balancing your game you just make an insane amount of rules so there's always something you can do to counter your opponent. Its not a matter of skill, just a matter of taking the right tank or using the right button pushing weapon. Even the biggest noob gets his kill: pop-gaming.
5o5 notnx
ETQW notnx
I think a great competetive game should be simple and complicated at the same time. One should be able to understand the limited set of gamerules which allow both noob and pro to have fun. One can start out as a fops giving ammo in spawn, or be a second winghaven trickjumping and spamming his way trough the map.
can this be coincidence?
they just ignore ET, wtf man :/
But why not the good old ET anymore? :(:(
QW:ET wants to get bought.
you say your community is dieing with 200 teams...that was our peak...consider yourself very lucky to have such a big community.
and with no major lans for ET in europe, its impossible to get any kind of...seriousness, in lack of a better word, +stupid stupid leagues+even more stupid league admins and too many kiddies
should move quakecon to Europe, its basically a EU show atm isnt it? top 3 Q4 was
2 swedes + a russian right?
pretty much the same with ET,
why cant you send some teams to compete :/, for such high prizesums dont understand why people dont treat it like a real competition
so many teams travel across Europe to take part in the CPC lans for ET+COD
dunno how many teams that went last time, must have been atleast 10 or more
I think the only reason there was ET at Quakecon was just to hype up ET:Quakewars, which will probably make a lot of money for ID.
ID would have no reason to send the LAN out to Europe. Think of it from a business perspective.
edit: kinda of what CS4f1 said
With all the quake things too, it'd be nice to see something like that will all rtcw/et games.
QW is so new and unfinished, there wont be competitive scene or anything close to it when the tournament begins. Not even sure if the game will be ready....no competitive mod....nothing...