The French Unreal site unreal.fr, has reported that a tournament organised by the UT3 clan 4Kings will be taking place at the UK Lan event 'PC Gamer Showdown' on the 27th & 28th of September. It also explains why, besides the lack of announcement and prize fund, that the I34 UT3 tourney was a non event. 'This tournament' was origonaly susposed to take place there but had been delayed:
http://www.unreal.fr/page.php?t=35518-Cup-4Kings-Masters
From Babelfish translation:
"The final will surely not be played has l' i34 like c' was envisaged, but in PCGamer ShowDown. This change is surely related to the delay of has l' a little wobbly organization of l' stage on line. Note qu' it n' there did not have d' yet; announces official, but Hypno (Player at 4-Kings) affirmed this information."
A_Spec also mentioned this in this recent Epic Forums post:
http://utforums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25484645&postcount=16
"Sadly enough, the UnrealTournament 3 competition at i34 was canceled due to a lack of interest. The fact that the 4Kings Masters tournament that was supposed to be taking place at the said venue has been delayed really doesn't help much either"
PC gamer Showdown:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/sites/pcgamer/showdown/
http://www.unreal.fr/page.php?t=35518-Cup-4Kings-Masters
From Babelfish translation:
"The final will surely not be played has l' i34 like c' was envisaged, but in PCGamer ShowDown. This change is surely related to the delay of has l' a little wobbly organization of l' stage on line. Note qu' it n' there did not have d' yet; announces official, but Hypno (Player at 4-Kings) affirmed this information."
A_Spec also mentioned this in this recent Epic Forums post:
http://utforums.epicgames.com/showpost.php?p=25484645&postcount=16
"Sadly enough, the UnrealTournament 3 competition at i34 was canceled due to a lack of interest. The fact that the 4Kings Masters tournament that was supposed to be taking place at the said venue has been delayed really doesn't help much either"
PC gamer Showdown:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/sites/pcgamer/showdown/