QuakeCon 2003 Registration Opens

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QuakeCon 2003 Registration Opens

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday June 9, 2003 @03:45AM from the campers-need-not-apply dept.

sYn pHrEAk writes "Monday, June 9th at 9:00pm EST has been announced as the opening date and time of registration for the world's best LAN party (is it a WAN party?). Last year's QuakeCon included over 1300 people and computers in the BYOC area and well over 3,000 attendees. This year there's $125,000 on the line through three official tournaments: Quake 3 1v1, Quake 3 CTF, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Frag ya there!"

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Ahh QuakeCon... Gonna miss ya this year... by Baron_911 · 2003-06-09 03:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Anybody remember in '97 when they duck taped Blue to a chair and brought in the stripper? The good old days :)

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Four Tournaments by Albert+Pussyjuice · 2003-06-09 04:16 · Score: 4, Informative

There are actually two separate tournaments involving RTCW. There's the RTCW: Team Tournament that will have 64 teams - six players per team. And there's the Wolfenstein Enemy Territory tournament that will let "128 lucky attendees" do battle for a $4,000 top prize!
Check out this pic from the gallery...are you getting pumped for Doom III yet? THE EVIL LIVES ON!

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1. Re:Four Tournaments by sYn+pHrEAk · 2003-06-09 05:03 · Score: 1
  
  -- Dork. I realized there were 4 tourneys after I submitted the news. Sorry. Thanks for letting everyone know.
To bad its not like it was by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 05:28 · Score: 0

This year is the latest registration has been announced and held. It's like a chicken with its head cut off, its running around but its dead. No longer held at the nostalgic Hampton in Mesquite... no no, the Adam's Mark downtown is where they sold out to... shame shame...

Maybe the onsite won't be as big of a mess as in the past, oh wait, the rest of this year has been worse than in years past... OH DRED!
1. Re:To bad its not like it was by Schnapple · 2003-06-09 05:31 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah. Damn them for changing something. Anything. Don't they know that all gamers are stauch conservatives who never want to change anything, ever?
  
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Shit by mrpuffypants · 2003-06-09 09:02 · Score: 1

As if the registration wasn't crowded and bogged down enough, now we have to put up with the slashdot crowd killing the server as well.

This year there are 2,000 spots avaliable in the BYOC for anybody that signs up. Also, the venue has been changed from a convention center in Mesquite to the Adam's Mark Hotel/Convention center right in the heart of Dallas, Texas.

For pictures of the events past and present check out http://www.shrocks.com/index2.html and clickon "QuakeCon 01 or 02" It's where me and my buddies store all of our pics from Quakecons gone by.