ut and pro gaming

[jenny?]

well, from what i hear battletop nyc was a disaster, some people got screwed out of even playing, and otherwise it wasn't done very well. after going to the canadian battletop tourney last week i'm starting to wonder what the future holds for ut in the sense of professional gaming.

for those who weren't aware of the canadian tourney.. i went to it about a week ago, in toronto. mostly quakers (very loud and obnoxious) and the ut schedules got switched around more than they should have, even causing one player to miss them altogether after the time was changed without notifying him. still, i did enjoy my short stay there and props go out to the xeno clan for working on the event and the opportunity to meet a few fellow ut'ers.. although i get the feeling that it was more like a q3 event with ut being squished in where it fit.

here's a thread detailing what went down in nyc today. i feel especially badly for overtoad, who spent a few hundred bucks for a plane ticket from texas to new york only to find out that he wouldn't even be able to play.

http://board.unreality.dk/ubb/Forum21/HTML/000508.html

hopefully as the tourneys continue, the organization of such events will improve and ut players won't be herded in alongside the q3 people like we're second class or something.

this kind of stuff shouldn't happen in a professional setting, and i think everybody should be aware of this (whether you have aspirations of going pro or not) and let it be known that it can't be tolerated.

 

[DragonAsh]

Yeah, that whole thing sucked major @ss.

I was there from 10 am - 6pm
Only played 2 games. BOTH ON THE SAME LEVEL.
Everyone was complaining about the cheasy why rthe server dragged and no one liked how the controls were.

The first cheesy match was a FFA. Poor Cobra lost and instead of letting him hang, they kicked him. (I would have raised some hell) But he didnt miss much.

I advanced, but they didnt add my name. (I "politely" brought this to their attention) Then showed them the screenshot ;p

When I was at my match, it was Tempest...again! We played that for the FFA. It was pathetic. I was losing by 4..then started to come back when they kick us off the server in the middle of the game!! Mind you I figured out the guys pattern and started to pimp the map. I had all weapons and he had none. So they say, we will start you both off with 5 min left and the prior score will combine with the new one.
So during the 5 min, I was winning 3-1. Then the kid started to hide. The remaining score combined with the first game we played was 6-5 him. (i know i was robbed of one kill too. I killed him when they reset the game, and they said it didnt count)

And as for OverToad, hell, I would have stopped that whole match if they said i couldnt play cause "they messed up"
UT is popular, itsj ust that the people who lead the LAN parties are stupid. (Well, most of them)

 

[GunnerX]

WHAT???!!!! YOU CAME TO TORONTO AND THERE WAS A TOURNEY HERE AND I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT???? DOH!!!!!

THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[~Cobra~]

well... i dunno bout the other tournies but UT was screwed to hell... first they say.. with 32 people we should be able to start 1on1s... then they start late.. then they have to make the FFA's the qualifying tourney... it's a 1on1 tourney fer chrissakes... i'd understand for seeding purposes... but personally i haven't played an ffa for months and wasn't expecting to play one at this tourney.. i wind up missing quals by 2or3 frags and i know i woulda won a game or two if it went to 1on1... ugh... this is outta frustration don't mind me... but if UT was ever going to be a serious pro game.. the tournies gotta be better run..

but i remember that i dint go to actually win anything.. it was fun.. got to meet DA .. and a host of other great players... actually everything was great up until we started playing =T

/rant over

 

[Temporary Account]

BattleTop Sux Ass

This isn't the first time they've done this. Me and Blatanizer went the the previous round in the BattleTop tourney here in California, and they pulled a similar load of bull**** on us. We both mailed in before the event, but neither one of our names were on the list. When we got there, they were taking a limited number of at the door registrations, and me and Blatant JUST made it on there, but were WERE signed up.

Then, when the time came for the tourney, which turned out to be FFA, they filled up the board with 16 names, and me and Blatant weren't on it. I said...**** this! So I went and talked to the guy who was up where the players where supposed to meet. He said who ever is standing in front of him, go play. Then we had to play OUTSIDE!!! With the glare of the SUN!!! Then they added another group of 9 players. The whole thing was SO disorganized, and SUCH a piece of crap.

But the Quake side of it ran just fine. The bastards. UT was obviously treated as second rate. It sucks to see that this happened again. It especially sux that OverToad flew all the way out there, only to be shut out by the Tourney, but it doesn't surprise me in the least, coming from BattleTop. They can take their tourney and shove it up their ass.

Fortunately, I didn't got to my tourney to win either, I went to meet Blatanizer.

 

[Wolf Blackstar]

Sounds to me like what went on was a class-A clusterfück.

When money's at stake, messed up rules and constant changing around doesn't cut it. Sorry to hear about our guys getting screwed over.

-

]LoL[Wolf|PuF

-]LoL[ Counter-Sniper and Shock-Ho

 

[DragonAsh]

Yeah, it was total BS.
I mean, cmon, the all star games were more organized!!
And this was all done on the internet!!!!

Battletop sucks ass and im sorry it had to be my first experience

 

[jenny?]

hehe gunner you didn't miss out on much, i can't honestly say i was impressed with the quakers (who made up the vast majority of people there)

i have never heard the words f*ck, homo, and fag used so many times in one day in my entire life.

although i was definitely amused by people shouting across the room to call each other llamas.

hmm the only ut'ers i met there were as follows: voyd (well duh, i went with him hehe), psycho[r], |evx|diefleder, gitago, {die}darkstar, {die}sinnah, and {die}govertigo, um.. and some xeno guys who just started playing ut but i didn't talk to them (except for brainfire who organized it, he's a very cool guy. i didn't talk to the {die} guys very much either, just gitago and psycho pretty much. fleder left early and unfortunately got screwed out of even competing (poor scheduling, sigh). i was the only girl there who was actually playing (i saw a few people who i'm pretty sure were just girlfriends wandering around squealing at the in-game blood or something). naw seriously i did see a few other girls but not one touched a keyboard or mouse as far as i saw. talk about feeling like a minority. we got gawked at big-time for using the pantherxl.. most of the people there had never even seen one before. hehe

i played a million botmatches because i could never find any ut players who were up for a 1v1 (on a lan for chrissakes).

so i guess my first lan experience was um.. interesting to say the least. i want an all-ut one on the east coast damnit.

 

[Wolf Blackstar]

Eeeeeeeewwww, Quakers......

 

[hal]

Wow, sounds like fun and suckage all rolled into one. Well, if Quake was the featured game there, then it isn't surprising. The only way it will get better is if it is sponsored by UT'ers. Remember, the Quakers have been at it for years. They didn't start out with massive organized LAN parties. It's gonna take Epic making one or two more games that are of the quality of UT to make people take them seriously.

 

[_UE_Hunter]

Hmm, two words come to mind:
Completely Gay

Epic should run some badass Unreal Tournament tournaments (hehehe) where everything doesn't suck.

 

[DD]

Well everybody who has been screwed can go loudly complain at the battltop site. I would suggest you email the president/CEO, the sponsors, leave irate messages on their forum and tell how much better the CPL events are run. Go here http://207.110.54.120/

 

[Boom]

So Cobra did all that 1on1 practicing for this event to get thrown into an FFA? That really sucks.

And it sounds like DA got majorly hosed too. They stopped the game in the freaking middle of it?!?!?!

I also heard they had weird reflective mousepads there so noone could use their optical mice. And it wouldn't have been so hard to set up one darn machine so that Overtoad's Panther would work. They told him beforehand he could use it (from what I heard) otherwise he never would have bought the ticket. Damn, I would have paid just to see him play.

I mean, cmon, the all star games were more organized!!

I couldn't agree more Everyone send a bunch of money to me and Troll and we will organized a big lan Tourney for whatever amount of prizemoney we collect.

Or we will just take the money and head off to Costa Rica.

 

[Canidae_PuF]

Okay.. I know this is off-subject.. so shame on me.. but i just have to....

Hi Jenny!!! Long time!

I'm done now. Pardons

 

[Boom]

Shame on you.

BTW, Hi Jenny.

 

[jenny?]

hey canidae!! how are ya?

and..

HI BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Boom]

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

I'm ok Jenny. I was gonna quit my career and become a full time gamer, but it looks like the pro scene isn't ready yet.

and I still play like poop.

Other than that I am rocking and rollin.

 

[Canidae_PuF]

I'm doing well Jenny. Haven't been here or played UT in ages though. Maybe I will take it up again.. heh

 

[LordKhaine]

If my memory serves me correctly,

Canidae + Rocket Laucher = lotsa death =/

 

[Canidae_PuF]

LOL! Yeah.. lots if my own death! Ha