Correction:) $100k was the most given out in a 'Pro Gaming' tourney:)
linkage:
http://www.avault.com/razercpl/index.asp?p=tourn am ent
It was a quake3 1v1 tourney, which has been the game of pro gamers for the last year-year and half till Counter Strike Became the game of the CPL. I was thinking of $150k because the CPL announced last year that there would be a quake3 1v1 $150k tourney in december as their 'big thing' but around march they backed out of that statement and started the switch to CS.
I am a writer for Challenge-us.com a hardcore gamer site. Ive been gaming competetively for roughly 2 years now and yes $50k is nothing to sneeze at but it wasnt the most ever awarded. A $150k purse _WAS_ the most. (approx a year-year and half ago) This, however, was the first major Counter Strike Tourney so far and I am guessing many more to come. (None so far have matched up to this scale) While I am not a Counter Strike (CS) Player I have kept an open mind about it, even though I am a hard core quake3er and what I saw today on HLTV was amazing. The games were well played and I also like what control the spectator got in watching. Now step back and think of this... CS is a FREE MOD for HL. Yes FREE, and it gets this much attention and is this large, its just baffling that they don't have more problems then they already do.
On the net there are quite a few bots and hacks out that some of the filtering doesnt get. Its slowly being changed but from what I saw today as far as gaming and teamplay and fun I think I will be playing counter strike a bit more then I do already.
As for ESPN... their cameras WERE there and yes it will be airing sometime in a special I think. As for gaming TV... its already in the works/reality. G4 was announced by Comcast and should be available soon!!!! I will definately be ordering that channel when its available, should be interesting to see how much they cover. (Consoles to hardcore gaming I am assuming)
As 'the guy' writing ( or at least trying to write) the IDE driver I might as well respond. The reason for a driver, which is not just for speed is for cdrom support. So its two fold. I tried picking up where Jasper, the orginal writer left off (kernel 0.1.1). Kurt really hasnt had a need for an IDE driver since, unless im mistaken, he is running an all SCSI system. However even though i crashed, and lost the little progress I made I am gonna probally end up trying a different route.
Someone already has ported the ISO9660 filesytem and that gentlemen is also working on the IDE driver seperately when he has time. I havent had much time lately due to work to actually work on the driver but am starting up again, heck i might have alot of time since I might be joining the pink slip parties soon:)
I believe after the cdrom driver is released more 'normal' people will start trying this OS due to the ablity of a bootable cdrom and a nice install... by normal I mean 99% of the people reading this site on a daily basis. After that I have a feeling a large influx of developers are bound to come.
Joe Radkowski
JoeRadkowski@hotmail.com
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Correction :) $100k was the most given out in a 'Pro Gaming' tourney :)
n am ent
linkage:
http://www.avault.com/razercpl/index.asp?p=tour
It was a quake3 1v1 tourney, which has been the game of pro gamers for the last year-year and half till Counter Strike Became the game of the CPL. I was thinking of $150k because the CPL announced last year that there would be a quake3 1v1 $150k tourney in december as their 'big thing' but around march they backed out of that statement and started the switch to CS.
Joe
I am a writer for Challenge-us.com a hardcore gamer site. Ive been gaming competetively for roughly 2 years now and yes $50k is nothing to sneeze at but it wasnt the most ever awarded. A $150k purse _WAS_ the most. (approx a year-year and half ago) This, however, was the first major Counter Strike Tourney so far and I am guessing many more to come. (None so far have matched up to this scale) While I am not a Counter Strike (CS) Player I have kept an open mind about it, even though I am a hard core quake3er and what I saw today on HLTV was amazing. The games were well played and I also like what control the spectator got in watching. Now step back and think of this... CS is a FREE MOD for HL. Yes FREE, and it gets this much attention and is this large, its just baffling that they don't have more problems then they already do.
On the net there are quite a few bots and hacks out that some of the filtering doesnt get. Its slowly being changed but from what I saw today as far as gaming and teamplay and fun I think I will be playing counter strike a bit more then I do already.
As for ESPN... their cameras WERE there and yes it will be airing sometime in a special I think. As for gaming TV... its already in the works/reality. G4 was announced by Comcast and should be available soon!!!! I will definately be ordering that channel when its available, should be interesting to see how much they cover. (Consoles to hardcore gaming I am assuming)
Joe Radkowski
aka
D|S-Syn
As 'the guy' writing ( or at least trying to write) the IDE driver I might as well respond. The reason for a driver, which is not just for speed is for cdrom support. So its two fold. I tried picking up where Jasper, the orginal writer left off (kernel 0.1.1). Kurt really hasnt had a need for an IDE driver since, unless im mistaken, he is running an all SCSI system. However even though i crashed, and lost the little progress I made I am gonna probally end up trying a different route. Someone already has ported the ISO9660 filesytem and that gentlemen is also working on the IDE driver seperately when he has time. I havent had much time lately due to work to actually work on the driver but am starting up again, heck i might have alot of time since I might be joining the pink slip parties soon :)
I believe after the cdrom driver is released more 'normal' people will start trying this OS due to the ablity of a bootable cdrom and a nice install... by normal I mean 99% of the people reading this site on a daily basis. After that I have a feeling a large influx of developers are bound to come.
Joe Radkowski
JoeRadkowski@hotmail.com