PHX: Called Off
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10 Aug 2011, 10:52
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News
Sign ups are now closed, we have had a total of 10 sign ups but unfortunately some teams have decided to drop out due to lack of interest as well as some other reasons. After contacting some of the teams in the remaining 6, it was made clear the the event itself would not be possible and has therefore been called off.
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It's do or die time for another ET LAN as the sign ups for PHX draw to a close. The current signups stand at seven with a furthur two teams that have since decided to drop out of the sign ups. Although this is enough for the event to take place a few of the teams in the list would be unlikely to attend with this amount of interest, namely Dignitas and NORDIC. Signing up is more simple now, and you can easily PM me here on crossfire to do so with the following details:
- Conctact Email:
- Contact Player:
- Team name:
- Team roster:
So, with two days remaining to sign up the ET scene has a short amount of time to determine if PHX will take place or not as it is in your hands. After many calls for more LAN events the response has been poor to what would be the third event this year. Sign up now, as once we reach the deadline I have to contact the LAN centre regarding a deposit - if we dont have enough teams interested I have to cancel the booking.
PHX-1 Updates
11/05/2011: Initial Announcement
11/06/2011: Latest Update
11/07/2011: Signups open
20/07/2011: Location Information & Pictures
02/08/2011: Signups Closing Soon
11/08/2011: Signups Close
18/08/2011: Payment Deadline
10 & 11/09/2011: PHX-1 Takes place
Event Details
Location: Crossfire LAN centre, Swansea, Wales
Date: 10th-11th September 2011
Format: 5on5, Groups and Double Elimination Bracket
Sign up per team: €300
Tournament Size: / / /
BYOC: No (this is a TUP event, PC's are already there)
Organisers:
Ethr & MerlinatoRIRC: #PHX
PHX Info: Link
OMG MY PREDICTION WAS GOOD.... FUCKING EXPECTED THO
It's perhaps not what ET LAN goers are use to, as Enschede is in the middle of nowhere with nothing around and has a bar in the middle of the lan centre - but this is not the norm ;)
If you won't even bother to travel to Swansea, don't even bother going to a LAN except for NL
If it would be in france germany belgium i couldve come, all im sayin.
It's not cause there is water between countries , that they aren't in the zone
I was takling about if it was a good place and then u came out of a corner saying i dont know its EU.
you said you'd go to every LAN in the EU, but not to UK
implying UK isn't EU
Every LAN in the UK will be shit for ET, because only some from nl will come and others are UK only, which means 20 players max. So dont get mad on me, bro.
And we shall see about the UK location thing, unless SAGE is doing another LAN I dont think ET will have another major event in NL for a couple of years.
And yeah,
Wtf you on about that pound to euro is atm cheap. There's still a month to go and with these riots everything can change.
And when you travel to UK nobody gives a shit about the pound, you still pay according the local airport system and ticket prices :D
I meant polish, french, german and dutch ppl who travel to LAN by car. and most ppl traveled to ET LANs by car.
And flying is more expensive compared to that.
French people can take a train, it's pretty fast as well or can also fly:
Marseille-London-Marseille 48.98 EUR
Eindhoven-London-Eindhoven 29.99 EUR
Düsseldorf-London-Düsseldorf 18.00 EUR
Bremen-London-Bremen 41.98 EUR
Berlin-London-Berlin 45.98 EUR
Krakow-London-Krakow around 88 EUR
Katowice-London-Katowice around 75 EUR
( plane, bus, underground )
ye u need to pay long time before the event, ye its better with our own car ( im in south of france atm, around 1500km to go there :p
Unfortunately the UK community are the ones letting the lan down. I can sympathise with most of them as the school period has just started back up and its a shame.
Anyway, I dont understand why you sit on here talking shit 24/7. You talk like you have achieved something in ET, like you have actually went to a Lan. From what i remember, you were some random faggot that made it to like oc 2nd division and had no ability to make it far in the game. You will probably reply like hohoho, i could if i want i just quit the game. Fact is you sit on crossfire 24/7 trolling and talking utter crap. Looks like you couldnt achieve anything in ET and it translated into RL. While you are at it, you should apply to join G5.
Say what you want about me being arrogant, ego, fat cunt. Fact is im sick of retards like you putting a negative effect on something that someone/some ppl have worked so hard on. The fact that you arent even contemplating going and even if you did you would probably get lost without your mum holding your hand means you should fuck off and try to do something useful with your life.
Best Regards,
Ross.
And what about POL/GER ppl? Still expensive for us.
Ps. I work and study and get money from parents. So for me it isnt a big deal.
You're talking shit about people you don't know. The arrogance and prejudice is dripping of you're comments and you're telling others to grow up.
People are entitled to their opinion. If you don't agree and want to convince someone of your opinion, come with arguments not with the shit above.
When you learn the difference between an opinionated debate and a retard dribbling false facts then reply back to me. Until then take ur retarded comments which you try and construct into something clever (off not of). I have no interest in ppl that sprout shit and contribute nothing.
Driving with car for germans/dutch/bel/french people to NL location is way cheaper than to fly out to London and get a train/bus to that sweanza.
So gtfo with your idiotic comments already.
Hint: Let the stupid ones alone, they won't learn a thing by getting insulted anyway.
And by the way, 80% of this community plays this game for fun only since there isn't any real reason to get to the top in this game, the money which is involved is small and even if you win some LAN event the money you get back won't cover a shit you had used during the tournament. I hope you are not really playing this game just to be on professional league and winning cups in hope of some money and e-fame.. if you are, you are playing wrong game. DX: (your seriousness makes you look like this kind of a guy, im deeply sorry if this statement was totally off the rails)
Fuck ET anyway, why waste time on some game which started dying on late 2005 and got it's the real finishing blow on 2009 when CB and ESL decided to be gods and make ET 5v5?
For fuck sake, this game won't get revived, splashDamage don't give a shit about this community so there won't be any new ET or RTCW, Wolfenstein was decent but it died before this community gave any real chances (I blame the leaked beta version mostly and stupid people who are waiting for another game which works by q3 engine). We saw it once again, Brink came out and it wasn't new ET so 'fuck brink its dead game already anyway + i can't strafe + i can't fucking do some things what i can do in ET'.
Anyway this community is pretty rubish and the 'love for ET and its community' sucks as well. That's not what keeps this game alive. This game really isn't alive, people here just don't know when to stop trying to heal/revive/get it to shine again.
I lost my point somewhere, I just started to type :( Well hopefully you enjoyed reading it, if you ever bothered to.
EDIT: 1v1 games (fighting games not quake) are real fun and pretty demanding games. I would recommend Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition or the soon coming Street Fighter 3rd Strike (remake to new consoles, avaible on PS3 netstore or xbox360's live game market place). BlazBlue Continuum Shift is pretty promising, I liked the BB calamity trigger also! But keep your hands far away from Tekken 6 thanks.
With regards to playing ET for money - hell no. I play the game because i enjoy it, but im a competitive person. Id rather play at the top and win tournaments whether money be involved or not and enjoy it with an awesome team like Anexis than play mixes every night.
and there arent local area prices in the UK, its national - again seem to be just ranting about something you dont have a clue about :D
Flight tickets are not involved with the pound dude :D
Like it's been said before, you have never travelled far for any LAN and perhaps never even been to one but somehow you think it's a lot cheaper for people to go to a LAN in NL, BE, DE or FR then it is to the UK. Utter bullshit. Going to the UK is cheaper. (and yes, if you've been to one of the lans in NL before you'd know that most of the players actually travel by plane)
It's not directed to you. We all appreciate what you do, just be realistic.
Euro has got stronger for the last year or so at least, its nearly exactly the same with the pound. This is why a lot of europeans are ordering things online from UK as the conversion is so nice for them (I think I saw urtier mentioning this about either components or games themselves)
The recent riots will, if anything, weaken to pound so only make it better for europeans.
And on his last comment, like has been mentioned - a 33cl coke bottle at enschede is €2 mainly because there are no local shops, you have to walk for 30+ minutes to get a proper bottle of drink from a super market on the university campus, here there are supermarkets (3 of them) within 5-10mins of the LAN centre as well as a high street with coffee shops (not the NL kind :D) and fast food spots.
So, like I said, his comments are based on nothing just spouting random infos that has come from nowhere which... makes no sense at all :)
My point is that the criticism is not directed towards you so you should not put the negative weight on people's information and opinions just because your's say otherwise.
You didnt read my comments at all, did you?
The flight isnt involved with the pound and I never said anything about the LAN center itself. I could be better than enschede but it still is more expensive for majority of this community than the NL LAN. You but 2 € coke and then you buy supermarket coke @ UK for like 1 €.
How many will you drink ? Let's say you drink 5 cokes, it's only 5 euro difference :D And again, people with cars would have no problem going to the supermarket, when they came with their own car.
Fuck you really wanted to be smart, but all you did were invalid arguments about the LAN center not about the UK location etc.
Hotels, Food, Beer, Drinks of any kind - everything. Does this compute?
your 'car' argument is kind of poor because only a low number of people went to SAGE by car and half of them are from the UK.
And with the drinks and hotels, nl would be cheaper than UK. And i dont only mean wzzrd center.
There was nowhere local to go in Enschede to get things cheap :( where as Swansea there is :)
I think you are talking about London, which is very different to Swansea and very different to pretty much the rest of the UK - in that things, if you do not know where to buy them are more expensive, but in general you can get things for sometimes cheaper then the rest of the country due to Supermarkets having cheap prices due to the amount of stock they purchase.
Just out of interest though, have you been to one of the LAN events in Enschede?
Stop talking like you know what you are going on about u dribble.
I must be so poor that I have never been out of my own little town and I wouldnt know anything about eating and managing on your own.
Oh wait...
so dont talk shit.
says enough
riot ":D"
pound?? money
le cup of tea
travel
lan place ( outside, looks like ugly )
not a lof of team ( max size i think, not talking about sign up )
lan place named crossfire lOl
low inch screen
expensive ( £ > € )
ps: of course location of the lan is 10 times better if its in your own country.
riot ":D" - Few kids throwing a hissy fit and will die down way before LAN.
pound?? money - Yes we use pounds, is that a problem?
le cup of tea - More on offer than just tea.
travel - Easier and cheaper as I have once said for the most part of europeans.
lan place ( outside, looks like ugly ) - sure it looks shit outside but inside is nice (good PCs aswell)
not a lof of team - Because people are unable to expand their minds from what they know.
lan place named crossfire - I don't think this is an issue.
low inch screen - wzzrd had shit screens as well.
expensive ( £ > € ) Conversion rate is good for euro's at the moment and has been for a few months. In holland you pay 5euros for a beer which works out to be around £4.60 and beer over here is abour £2.50-£3.10 so yet again is cheaper to drink.
Other things you might be forgetting. wzzrd is in the middle of no where. There are only a handful of hotels which cost twice as much as what you have to pay in swansea + a longer walk too. wzzrd has fuck all near by, no pubs, supermarkets, clubs and well everything else you would find useful or fun.
Overall the location is cheaper, easier to get to and has more around it. So please tell me why this location is bad?
played only french lans so :P
but ye i wanna play a
travel - Easier and cheaper as I have once said for the most part of europeans.
you are so wrong
So YOU are wrong.
so man, you are wrong.
travel - Easier and cheaper as I have once said for the most part of europeans.
in case you didn't notice what I had put I have made a few words bold to outline my point... again.
Haven't even spoken to unblind or razbo since I moved so don't know if they are going still.
Sorry :<
if not/or in case you are a topteam and in need of some financial help - qry me...maybe we can find a solution ;)
good job merlin!
great minds think alike Ali
*insert fuck yea picture*
havent seen new good map since enderberg (shame it only works well in 3v3) so im looking forward, just do couple of showmatches or sth
wait for it...
not dead :D ! et is alive and i hope this lan continues but lets face it... people dont want to go because im not going ^^
wait for it..
!!! :D !
hopefully see you at CiC8
You did good, Merl ;)
better luck next time Merlin, you still rock
thats the page to look at. and it says u can go with passport OR id
now
What about 6on6?!!
Guess the uk scene isnt as active as some people want to believe it is.
By the way what happend with your irc tried to catch you up numerous times.
Thanks for the effort tho, too bad it didnt happen :[
wanted to come spec this lan!! :/