Slashdot Mirror

I recall something about a
Man dies after 86 hours gaming.

Actually NOONE stood a chance for the HL/CS team since it was handpicked by one of the team members (he's also one of the US coordinators for the WCG). There's a thread about it on ShackES, as well as some other places, but basically alot of people feel that "Madfragga" picked himself and a bunch of his friends to represent the US as opposed to using any sort of qualification rounds. It screamed of bias and was not well recieved in the competative CS scene...as is mentioned in the article there was another, better article, but it got deleted in a server switch.

As the subject says, a good commentary on the current state of Q3 competition by a site that is focused on competetive 3D gaming, ShackES

here's a snip:

That was a fun time, but now there is no next time. There's online leagues, and maybe another online tourney from Cache, but really, what's out there for a Quake 3 player? We like the game, and we'll keep playing the game, but what is there to look forward too. Where's the reason to practice hard?

As the subject says, a good commentary on the current state of Q3 competition by a site that is focused on competetive 3D gaming, ShackES

here's a snip:

That was a fun time, but now there is no next time. There's online leagues, and maybe another online tourney from Cache, but really, what's out there for a Quake 3 player? We like the game, and we'll keep playing the game, but what is there to look forward too. Where's the reason to practice hard?

thats not really a lot of details
thats not realy a big post!

For those interested:
http://www.shackes.com and http://www.linuxgames.com have more information.

I haven't seen much of this model but becuase it relys on the games being played over the internet it is destined to fail because of cheating. There are too many varibles. And there ARE people making a living off Quake3 these days and now Counterstike is getting big. Thanks to companies like CPL and Battletop. CPL is making a nice profit and has even helped jump start companies (such as Razer). For instance. John Wendel also know as cK-Fatlity (thats Fatality of Clan Kapitol) who made over a $100,000 in 2000 playing Quake3. And this year there is even more prize money to be had with a CPL $250,000 Q3 1v1 tourney. The Quake3 Team DM World Championship (Yes thats right teams from every country) Frag 4 was last year. Gamers.com (run by the ever famous Denis "Thresh" Fong) just bought the defunct PGL (Profesional Gamers League) from AMD recently. This is NOT a hobby to a fair but small amount of people. It's an international event with Gaming becoming one of the biggest entertainment industries celebrities will begin to pop up and it won't be the designers it will be the players.

It's better to look at Professional Gaming like the X-Games extreme sports that people never thought would make it big but are now respected and show on ESPN. Also ESPN just announced they will be covering a Tournament for a snowboarding game of thiers.

This is not a fad. It is not a hobby. This is life and it's growing fast. Now when you dream of playing games for money it doesn't have to mean being a play tester for some console gaming developer.

For those of you with greater interest heres some links:

CPL
Shack E-Sports