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ZeRo4 Wins; Quake: The Movie Released

Posted by michael on from the quaking-in-our-boots dept.

okotauri writes: "ZeRo4 took home his second consecutive Quakecon championship today, beating the rest of the world's top Quake 3 players in the process, and cementing his reputation as the best Q3 dueller in the world today. more info: Quakecon scoreboard." And Escape from the Bastille was also released at the Con - better have high-speed access if you want to download it.

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  1. Quake 3 DM is sport by ergo98 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone who has played Q3 (or any comparable game) knows that it isn't just "running around shooting people", but rather the game becomes incredibly finely tuned with extreme muscle control and mental reflexes needed to excel : Some of the best Quake 3 players are absolutely amazing when they're at the pinnacle of their game, and just as seeing a high jumper set a new record (pushing the human body further than ever before) is amazing, it's amazing seeing the reflexes/mind combination push these super-players.

    For anyone to brush off this as being just a "game" whereas throwing a pole or moving your legs is "sport" is silly. As long as all competitors are using equal hardware, etc., this is absolutely sport and it is enthralling to watch the best of the best playing.

    Sidenote -> The way, IMHO, that you can usually determine if something is truly a competitive sport or not is consistency: Do the same people generally come out near the top, with natural ascents up the ranks and down the ranks, or is it more of a hodge-podge random ordering at each event? In the former it is competitive sport, whereas in the latter it's just odds, yet it's amazing how many such "sports" exist as sanctioned.

  2. 100% offtopic by The+Abominous+Salad · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wouldn't it be really funny if the user "codetalker" was black, or Navajo? Racism is an ugly, ugly thing, no matter what form it takes, AC. Propagating it with a defensive posture isn't any better than an offensive one. I think it would be really groovy and mature of you if you apologized for your uncalled-for outburst.

  3. ZeRo4 wins QuakeCon by Spacelem · · Score: 2, Insightful
    All right, I watched the demos, especially all the ones at the end with Lakerman, Fatal1ty, Socrates, STX Reverend etc.

    ZeRo4 was utterly amazing, and he controlled the levels with such skill. He was a totally deserving winner. QuakeCon was a demostration of how Quake can really be played.

    I would advise anyone who hasn't done so already to go and download the demos here, and see for yourself.