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yeah, it is about steam, and about counterstrike players, and bad attitudes. if this was korea, and we had 100mb pipes it would be great, but the reality is steam sucks up so much bandwidth you can not have several hundred people on it. it wil do things like take down wayport like it did last summer for us, and steam will decide it needs to update a game twice, or say your tickets are expired, or say you don't have access to a game you do own. i've seen it all. or a server will die that is an auth server, no one will know till hours later when it gets reported, and you have 1 guy on a cs team that can't join. ffa hl2 is much more managable, and hopefully will not be trouble, although i was up till 5 in the morning finishing our hl2 ffa dm tourney because it kept kicking players mid match. yeah, steam as a distribution system is fine for those on broadband. steam as an authentication system for a large lan is not acceptable. there should be a server we can run on our lan that gives out steam updates, and takes authentification information and transmits it to valve. that is the way it should be done. it should not be 500 computers doing that at once, it should be one server doing that. unless you can get a huge fat pipe, which 99.9% of the time will not be available, and the .1% will not be affordable, it is not plausible to do a large tourney with steam. we had a big update the night before the lan. we had to update 43 tourney boxes over a crappy SBC dsl connection. it took all night long. then players showed up that had not updated. imagine the pain in the ass that will become? it delays everything. unless you have 10's of thousands of dollars to throw away on cs, which we don't, you probably are not going to run a cs tourney. unless of course you hack it, which we refuse to do. some events do that, but can you blame them? it is hard to. so give us a server we can use to auth and update, that is what we need. till then? bring on battlefield 2 and quake 4! anyway, this is why in Houston tomorrow and at our big lan here in Austin April 22nd-24th we will not be doing CS. HL2 we will try, but even then, it will probably have to be offline mode only. Of course I guess we could do Xbox CS. :)

yeah, it is about steam, and about counterstrike players, and bad attitudes. if this was korea, and we had 100mb pipes it would be great, but the reality is steam sucks up so much bandwidth you can not have several hundred people on it. it wil do things like take down wayport like it did last summer for us, and steam will decide it needs to update a game twice, or say your tickets are expired, or say you don't have access to a game you do own. i've seen it all. or a server will die that is an auth server, no one will know till hours later when it gets reported, and you have 1 guy on a cs team that can't join. ffa hl2 is much more managable, and hopefully will not be trouble, although i was up till 5 in the morning finishing our hl2 ffa dm tourney because it kept kicking players mid match. yeah, steam as a distribution system is fine for those on broadband. steam as an authentication system for a large lan is not acceptable. there should be a server we can run on our lan that gives out steam updates, and takes authentification information and transmits it to valve. that is the way it should be done. it should not be 500 computers doing that at once, it should be one server doing that. unless you can get a huge fat pipe, which 99.9% of the time will not be available, and the .1% will not be affordable, it is not plausible to do a large tourney with steam. we had a big update the night before the lan. we had to update 43 tourney boxes over a crappy SBC dsl connection. it took all night long. then players showed up that had not updated. imagine the pain in the ass that will become? it delays everything. unless you have 10's of thousands of dollars to throw away on cs, which we don't, you probably are not going to run a cs tourney. unless of course you hack it, which we refuse to do. some events do that, but can you blame them? it is hard to. so give us a server we can use to auth and update, that is what we need. till then? bring on battlefield 2 and quake 4! anyway, this is why in Houston tomorrow and at our big lan here in Austin April 22nd-24th we will not be doing CS. HL2 we will try, but even then, it will probably have to be offline mode only. Of course I guess we could do Xbox CS. :)

and they are doing it again next month before the showing of of the season 2 DVD of Redvsblue. I've often thought of doing something similar. I'd have our Texas Gaming Festival at Drafthouse, but the tables are not big enough for a computer. Console works though, and it is more fun seeing Mr. Sinus at Drafthouse where they belong instead of at a makeshift venue during Quakecon.

This first Doom 3 tourney will be held in Dallas August 7th-8th. See you there.

I seem to remember a bunch of non believers trying to insult me when I said the 3rd of August was the date. I said come on, I run the Texas Gaming Festival, I go to E3 every year for AMDZone, and my brother writes for Voodoo. Perhaps you should listen to what I had said. You guys didn't. I'm awaiting your apologies. Anyway, this opens us up to have our Doom III tourney as we had planned at TXGF Summer 2004 Dallas the weekend before Quakecon. Sweet.

I seem to remember a bunch of non believers trying to insult me when I said the 3rd of August was the date. I said come on, I run the Texas Gaming Festival, I go to E3 every year for AMDZone, and my brother writes for Voodoo. Perhaps you should listen to what I had said. You guys didn't. I'm awaiting your apologies. Anyway, this opens us up to have our Doom III tourney as we had planned at TXGF Summer 2004 Dallas the weekend before Quakecon. Sweet.

Sorry, it isn't. did you go to E3? I did. I do every year, and I just happen to run the Texas Gaming Festival. And oh, my brother just happens to write for Voodooextreme. So yeah, I probably don't know what I'm talking about. I mean come on, living in Austin, there are no game developers here on anything. You are on fire!

Yeah, don't move here, but do come to the Texas Gaming Festival here July 23rd-25th for a CPL and Quakecon warmpup. Then you can go to Dallas for TXGF where they will have Doom 3 deathmatch August 7th-8th just before Quakecon.