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Swedes Dominate Counter-Strike Championship
fluor2 writes "'Guys, somebody stepped on a switch. I'm not kidding; someone actually stepped on a switch and unplugged our network!'
These are not the words one would like to hear from one of the staff in the middle of Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Extreme World Championships $100,000 Counter-Strike finals. But it happened. Finally, after the game was restarted, Team Eyeballers (Sweden) is the new CPL CS Champion over Schroet Kommando (also Sweden), winning (7-5;6-0)." Update: 08/02 01:06 GMT by S : There's a more detailed report over at Gotfrag.
I've not followed the 'pro gaming' scene for quite some time, and it never ceases to amaze me how the same players dominate the leagues no matter what game is being played.
Are these guys being recruited by their governments to be counter terrorist forces?
After winning the competition, the members of Team Eyeballers were overheard saying "borkborkbork!"
Asked about the condition of the dedicated game server, another of the team members reportedly replied "b0rked!"
The Swedes won ?
= tournam ents
Did somebody forget to invite the South Koreans ?
On a more serious note.. what's with the link ? It points to a way too generic site.
http://www.thecpl.com/extreme/index2.php?p
That's where the actual event information is.
...all your base are belong to sweden
When it comes these championship caliber gamers, is there any particular areas in which these folks excel? Do they have extrordinary IQs? Uber fast reaction times? Xtreme mouse-eye coordination? Do they have better hardware, are they great mentalists, or do they just spend way too much time playing video games?
In the end I'm sure its probably a combination of more than one trait, but I'm curious if any of them are outstanding in other arenas as well. (i.e. can make a Big Mac like nobody's business)
Interesting. You imply cyberatheletes aren't real atheletes, yet in your .sig you think that third party Presidential candidates are real candidates.
Does anybody know if there's movies from the competition? I'm especially interested in in-game clips.
What a beginner's mistake: Allowing a physical attack to unplug the network.
They should have a Self defending network
Some interesting facts about the HLTV network used to broadcast the final. HLTV is what we in the HL community use to spectate games live much like GTV for quake.
There were 35000 spectators watching the finals. The HLTV network had over 180000 spectator slots spread over more than 700 proxies worldwide.
I just got back from watching the finals at the CPL, and team EYE was ahead 2 to 0, and they were showing off with some cool jump-on-top-of-each-other-to-get-to-higher-places moves, and then all the computers simultaneously crashed, on live TV and radio, into a "Net Packet Error."
A loud mixture of booing and laughter erupted from the crowd, and several anxious looking guys ran up to the computers to figure out what happened.
About five minutes later, the founder of the CPL gets on the PA system and says that the round will be restarted, and the scores will be reset to zero-zero. There was more booing, and some team EYE member made snide comments about the CPL over team-chat.
The founder then gets back on and says "the press is no longer aloud on the stage. The reason for the earlier crash was that a cameraman stepped on a router and actually unplugged it."
I'd hate to be that cameraman. Fortunately, team EYE won anyway (although the other team [team SK] scored 3 times before team EYE got back into their game.)
Hobby seems to fit more then an actual job; since only very few in the many thousands of players across the world actually sees any money from this stuff.
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For the love of god, stop them before they dominate Everquest too!
but then I looked at the title--"Extreme World Championships"?
I looked deep into myself, seeing my suburban American white-bred, khaki-pants wearing, '84 Subaru-driving middle class lifestyle, and realised, that no, I couldn't be a part of it all. I'm just not "extreme" enough.
Pity when you look at it.
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"[T]he single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom." -- Barry Goldwater
"...and in other news, a local cameraman was found dead today, killed by a single shot to the head from a high-powered rifle. A police spokesman stated that a possible suspect was seen jumping off of a wooden crate and hopping away at high speed. No arrests have been made."
k.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Since nobody answering has bothered to respond factually to the question, I'll do:
Every male is drafted around age 18, after high school but before college. However, not all are selected to actually do military service - I think the numbers are down to about 30-35% at this point.
And I have to disagree strongly as to whether it teaches a "sense a weaponry". It doesn't. It does, however, teach how to think creatively in a group to solve an immediate problem.
(The American military, by comparison, considers its chain of command as holy. The Scandinavian militaries rely a lot more on the intelligence of the individual soldier.)
/ CrystalFalcon
(15 months of geeking around with military-grade radio hardware ain't that bad)