Cyber X Gaming Championships Degenerate To Disaster

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.

Comments

The first time I read this:

[Anonymous Coward]

an epic GEEK tragedy

Pong

[AtariAmarok]

Same goes if you all played Pong. You would not have these problems with that game, either.

Re:Yup

[waaka!]

The Q3 tournament at CXG was cancelled too, you know. (The only tournament that actually finished besides WC3 was Unreal Tournament 2K3.)

Re:The *real reason*

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Everything in gaming is now blamed on steam.
my fps is bad, steam sucks.
my ping is high, steam sucks.
my aim is bad, steam sucks.
my arm hurts, steam sucks.