Roundup on Brink's championship
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20 May 2011, 11:24
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News
At May 23rd ESL's Brink Championship will launch the first qualifier stages available for 11 countries and extended by an additional international qualifier. Currently a total amount of 85 teams are trying to compete for the top spot to have a chance to attend the finals at GamesCom 2011 in Cologne and of course to grab some of the 15.000€ prize money as reported earlier.
National Qualifiers
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Germany (News / Sign Up) -
United Kingdom (News / Sign Up) -
Spain (News / Sign Up) -
Poland (News / Sign Up) -
Sweden, 
Norway, 
Finland, 
Island and 
Denmark (News / Sign Up) -
Russia (News / Sign Up) -
France (News, Sign Up)
About The Rules
To attend one of the national qualifiers three players of your line up have to be from the country you attend. Furthermore, slots for the qualifiers will be distributed based on the amount of teams that signed up. Currently, Germany has the biggest qualifier with 31 teams already while others are quite equal and also far behind reaching 16 max. Every qualifier will be played in a double elimination bracket. The first match will start at Monday night, for most teams this will be 20.00 CEST.
Don't change the game (yet)
Currently, and herby I have to say way too early, ESL considers to include a massive amount of restrictions in the rules by releasing a test server configuration earlier this week. With that one heavily discussed at the ESL Forums at the moment the variation of classes and the amount of teams spread will be heavily limited. Of course the schedule is tight but limiting a new game without really knowing how it's meant to be played will only cause much trouble and disbelieve and the organisation's competitive interest.
The change onwards to a way more vanilla version (not mod wise but character wise) changes the game heavily into a go for the frag thing and run away earlier so you don't die game. Hopefully, the limits will be off and the admins actually go to think about a proper ruleset not denying everything but checking and understanding the changes they made.
As a former ET player I didn't understand some changes in the first place (like the no XP change) but in the 'early' days all of the game the change (after it was played for over two years already) were reasonable and proved themselves to be good changes. Anyway, as the game is just a week after it's release to Europe those changes will most likely prevent players from attending the game and the competition it brings as those limitations are hard to deal and hard to understand for now.
Further Details
ESL also launched an official website with all information on the ESL Brink Championship. Check this one out over here.
and i got no normal replies :(
still, count gamingPalace in (:
My greatest fears for this game is that some CoD scene outcasts release a crappy promod which turns Brink into CoD with parkour, and somehow manage to get it popular and mandatory in all ladders and competitions.
How about we all just play Brink ;)
Basically yes, they turn the game into CoD, which is what I dont want either, obviously :p
great players these cod guys.
Yeah, the iron sights are fairly useless, especially with the SMGs, but how's that a bad thing?
Brink is dead :(
EDIT: can you accept my team in the UK signups please :)
they should of given the game at least 1 or 2 months to unfold itself before starting this. but that might just be me and my gut feeling :p
The game is totally unplayable without a promod.
and of course there are random stupid noobs that think they can win the $15,000 or however much it is just by buying it and playing some publics and scrims actively :D
e: also I would assume splashdamage have given the $15,000 to make this tournament, also they probably requested that games like ET and others they have made (but aren't making money from) are removed from ESL competition in an attempt to kill the game!!!11 no competitions left in ET means a bigger chance that people will just quit and buy the new hit game, kinda funny that ESL dropped ET the same season that brink is released and also make a $15k tournament right? :P SD so devilish.
e2: not that this is abnormal/"bad" or anything, kinda regular. wouldn't be surprised if ESL removed CoD4 MW and added Blackops for the same reasons.
i've been an esl admin for dods and also hosted the ems tournament. our scene is in the same boat as the et one. the ems has always been one of the "professional leagues" in the esl that required special rulesets, such as statement duty, picture uploads, etc. however, it was also the only one that didnt require premium accounts from all participants (unlike iem, eps or enc). they changed that with the last season. in exchange for the premium accounts they offered significantly higher prizemoney.
i just guess the your et admins made the same call as we had to do (due to lacking intrest of the teams buying premium) with deciding that another season wouldnt be possible due to that restriction.
:|
Any reason why North American teams cant sign up for this tournament?
- Downed fire
- Comms hack
- The interrogation perk , forgot the name , which shows enemies on your radar for a couple of seconds !