Cyber X Gaming Championships Degenerate To Disaster

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 12, 2004 @08:11AM from the litany-of-problems dept.

Thanks to gotFrag for their article summing up the problems at this weekend's Cyber X Gaming Championships in Las Vegas. The prize-festooned pro gaming event ended up degenerating into "an epic Greek tragedy", according to gotFrag, with "a lack of tournament preparation... no tournament schedule for every game except Warcraft III... and an understaffing at the event." Even after volunteers stepped in to ameliorate the chaos, the Counter-Strike tournament became uncompletable when "the limited amount of bandwidth at the event was unable to support the required number of Steam sessions." The tournament unceremoniously ended when "Power was turned off in all the outlets in the main area... [and] the entire event came to a screeching halt, including all ongoing games", and the majority of tournaments ended unfinished. Blue's News also has an article linking to several accounts of the problems.

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Steam's problems are the least of Valve's idiocy by IntergalacticWalrus · 2004-01-12 15:05 · Score: 1, Flamebait

As much as I liked the original Half-Life, I sure am not buying Half-Life 2 when it'll come out. Valve has proven themselves to be total dickheads over the past year, with that piece of shit Steam, their complete refusal of porting their games to Mac and Linux, and the fact that Gabe Newell got HL2's code leaked because he's too fucking stupid to use a more secure email client than outlook express. Valve, please get a clue.