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Details have been released for the next iGames Center vs. Center 5k event. The $5,000 Counter-Strike 1.6 Open Tournament is a 2-day event held the weekend of May 5 & 6. Day one shall be a double elimination LAN tournament with a maximum of 8 teams at each of 8 participating centers (64 team maximum). The 8 winners from each center's LAN tournaments will advance to Day two, which is an online double elimination tournament against other LAN winners. The WAN portion of the tournament will be run in conjunction with CEVO. --------------------------------------- Prizes 1st - $1,500.00 2nd - $1,000.00 3rd - $600.00 4th - $500.00 5th - $400.00 6th - $400.00 7th - $300.00 8th - $300.00 --------------------------------------- National Centers Participating X3O Gaming Center (Rockville, MD) www.x3o-gaming.com/iz3d Euphnet Cyber Cafe (San Jose, CA) XPC Temecula (Temecula, CA) Gigabits LAN Center (Orlando, FL) New Media ArenA (Marietta, GA) FunKyLAN (Lexington, KY) Xtreme Gaming CyberCafe (San Antonio, TX) CyberHub (Levittown, PA) --------------------------------------- $150.00 Per Team. http://www.igames.org/Events.asp?Event=6805 to register at a center. |
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$150 a team is a common price for most LAN tournaments.
Regarding the pricing, it seems most tournaments are this much or more.
We will be running a lower cost tournament with a similar structure, but with less prizes soon.
Yet they win no money because you have to win your individual LAN center, no matter how good the field at yours might be and no matter how mediocre to downright awful the field at others might be, in order to have a chance at any prize money.
This is why most teams are critical of these sorts of tournaments.
"As part of the signup process, teams that prepaid for the LAN event would have a chance to win back their entries fees in a random drawing, all teams prepaid, and the selected winner is Devastation. It was a great tournament overall, and with a few adjustments and some extra CRTs, the next one will be better than ever. Hope to see you there!"
G_G.
Glad that gigantic email i sent iGames that was responded to really wasn't taken into account.
I feel bad for anyone attending NMA.
Lets list the reasons why this LAN is terrible:
-They can't even get 1.6 skins on the comps
-The comps don't get 100fps consistently....i can name about 2 comps that did...all the others fluctuated in the 90s or lower...some spiked to 20fps if u used a res higher than 800x600....so anyone using 1024x768 is screwed.
-The servers are hurrendous cuz they use their own comps to run them...o and they don't know the commands to make the servers run properly.
-The admins don't sit and watch the matches so if someone illegal flashes, u can't dispute cuz an admin won't catch it...man that was funny at that LAN when an admin asks me "Whats an illegal flash"...which also means updated maps won't be used.
- The admins allow people to access their console...so ur never 100% sure if someone is messing with their interp.
Lets hope all those problems are fixed.
Big way to fix the comps is to get some new power supply's...they claimed to have upgraded their comps yet they can't get 100 frames...u need more power to get the full advantage of the damn new hardware.
I experienced the same thing at FunKYLan in December, and haven't gone back since.
I whined and complained about the lack of CS tournies in Kentucky, then they finally had one and was estatic. I gathered up a pug to go have some fun, and it was kinda nice cuz the center was having a lock-in hte night prior. I called up and they allowed me to come in and reserve five adjacent seats for x hours during hte lockin, so when the team arrived we practiced (or so intended). However, the guy at the center (who was also responsible for running the tournament the next day) was clueless. He had no idea about how there were illegal console commands and about mousefix and 1.6 skins.
Luckily, for everyone else at the tourney, we were there for that lock-in and spent half our time getting the center to unlock the machines so we could get one machine that had the CEVO gui and 1.6 skins. Once that was done, they copied that steam over to the other tournament PCs.
However, for some stupid reason, the next morning they had some other admin at the center defragging, removing adware/spyware, and other maintennace stuff to prepare for the tournament. becuase of that, the tournament didn't get started until like 3pm, and lasted until the late late hours.
They also ran a round robin format with 4 teams, but the winner was the one w/ the most rounds, not wins. Kinda silly.
The last match was on nuke, which was played on their locally hosted computer (I assume wasn't boosted, they setup the server that morning [which is another reason things didn't get started until 3pm] and my team went to a different local LAN to practice) which didn't have the fixed maps, so one round involved a illegal flash and the two teams almost got into a fist fight over it. no HLTV and the admin didn't know what it was, and wasn't paying attention. I saw that it happened, but I wasn't about to get involved. actually, (since it was round based) my team would decide who would win the whole day 1 (we had to play both teams once more and they were tied in rounds,so whoever of those two won more rounds against), but we left (cuz it was 3am) and I wasn' t about to get involved in that mess.
there have been two more CS tournies at funKYlan since december's intel 5k event, but I have not even considered going. I did consider putting one together for the 2.5k Comcast they had cuz the other local lan center, Dink's, was involved (and that center has a great setup for competitve gaming [software wise] including intel dual-cores at all stations) but just didn't get five fielded in time.
I e-mailed and pm'd funKYlan on their forums offering FREE help to run future tournies, just so it would be suitable for a team to play at, but I never heard a response. Pretty lame.
Granted its not fair to charge you money at a center that does not know how to properly run a tournament; however if they did not run that event, they would never have learned. Each event they run from now on will be even better then the last, and hopefully soon you will have a center near you that can host tournaments reguarly that local gamers will want to attend.
Until then, I give a lot of credit to iGames for working so hard on supporting Counter-Strike 1.6 this year; and of course you are always welcome to attend these events at X3O.
I am sorry to insinuate that all iGames centers were bad. That was not intentional. Obviously, x3o is one of the few US lan centers catering to eSports (which I would love to visit if I'm ever in the area).
What I meant to point out is iGames flawed technique at these tournaments. There is no training or resource provided (or atleast required) for the game centers, and what happens is that you get excited cuz you have a national tourney in a close proximity only to find out that the admins running your tournament have never played a game outside a pub server in thier life. This is sad, and easily correctable by pooling the resources from the community (especially since these events are ran in conjunction with CEVO) to insure that the LAN portion isn't crap.
You say the event will be better than the last. I doubt it. Competitive gaming to pubbers is like calculus. If you have never seen calculus before, and you go take a test (and get paid to do it), you will fail the test. If you continue to get offers to get paid to take a calculus test, you'll go take it again. Will you do any better? Absolutely not - unless you went out and studied calculus on your free will (why would you do that? you get paid to take tests, even if you repeatedly fail). The test-givers don't require you to get better, so you won't. You'll just keep failing your calculus test.
Thanks for the constructive feedback. Though we have 500 LAN centers across North America, not many are like x30, etc. The objective of iGames and CEVO is to work with centers to bring up the level of quality of their tournaments and build an ongoing program for many gamers across the country to enjoy.
As we go continue to move forward, centers that are able to do a good job running tournaments will be included in the ongoing program. Tournaments are not going to be for every center.
I will make sure the comments from this thread is communicated through iGames, CEVO and the participating centers.
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