AMD Loses QuakeCon To Intel

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 21, 2005 @02:43PM from the kind-of-like-the-chip-market dept.

The Inquirer has a report that AMD has lost sponsorship of the QuakeCon event to Intel. From the article: "As the official CPU and title sponsor of QuakeCon 2005, Intel will be providing its Extreme Edition tournament systems and servers to host the tournament and bring your own computer (BYOC) games. As AMD news site AMDzone.com says, with such close competition between Intel and AMD when it comes to high performance gaming, this could be bad news for AMD and tip the scales in Intel's favour. Intel is clearly trying to get a leg up on the eSports front, having sponsored other big events such as Bloodline and successful gaming team 4kings, it seems that Intel wants to have its name associated with all things e-Sports. "

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Ok, Let's stop this right now. by cjsnell · 2005-07-21 16:16 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Let's stop this right now. Video games are not sports. Or even e-Sports. Sports, by definition, require physical exertion. Call them gamers, for sure, but don't put them in the same class as people who actually pry their collective asses out of the chair to go raise their heart rates for a few hours. :P

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Re:Why can there only be ONE sponsor? by MBraynard · 2005-07-22 10:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You mean to say, on the SAME NASCAR cars.