First!

FUCK YEA TDM

fox + tox.

F1

Also: how many teams from EU can afford to go, 1? :c

ic
reason
4k
russia
srs

u r dreamin bro

fox+tox promised to go!
reason should be able to afford it
dignitas too?
srs?
the russian gang?
metsu under the flag of fnatic this time?

you do realise that flights cost more than 1000 euro by now, those are some very unrealistic predictions you have there :)

1000000€ O_O

:p

hahah, ...yeah

whoops :P

costs a lot to fly all the way from Australia

might even be cheaper than from austria tbh

lucky bastard!

so reason wont sponser u ?

they might be able to help a little but they aren't able to pay 5-6k euro

Well i dont wanna mention LoL game about this. But ive readed smewhere that Riot sponsored fnatic with fly tickets and hotels id should do the same for good teams. But ofc id might have economycal issues

flights seem to be around 1000-1100 Euro per person, not like many months ago it would be much cheaper anyway :O

http://www.edreams.de/engine/ItinerarySearch/...buyPath=31

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/fx/publi...ype=LOWEST

How did you find these prices?
London - Dallas - London is less then 800€

edit: Berlin - Dallas - Berlin is 670€ at expedia :O)

vienna - dallas

take a train to berlin!

team RU said that they will go

ice climbers gogogo

tdm!

on the other hand, i enjoyed ctf alot :(

edit: noctis is dancing atm

woot

You should totally attend this :(

F O X
O
X

Go Mange!

OH MY DOG!!!

took the liberty to resize the 3264*2448 pic before i plussed you ;)

he posted a 3264*2448 black square?

some people call it art

haha, oh noes the esr resize script fucked it up, shame on my it was very [+] worthy

and it still is. nice dog <3

Look at my dog, my dog is amazing.

its not my dog, its fox's dog

Oh, there's no DOG! OOOHHHHHHHHH

your dog is amazing! :)

oh your dog... is awesome

what breed is it?

shiba inu

dog lover :<

<3

brink tourney lulz. Dead game is dead.

I don't personally like the game, maybe the matches will be somewhat interesting though, I'll give it a chance.

Never gonna happen :)

Gonna be a repeat of the ET:QW qcon tourney.

http://i.imgur.com/Qc6ZP.png

nearly as many people playing supreme commander 2 demo o.0

gogo railworks tournament !

looking for a team !

are u drunked?

;D

this is a secret message, why can i read it?!

vote for pedro

Fuck this, i wanna see how many t-shirts they hand out this time.

Great news \:D/

Hopefully the CTF fanbase won't be too mad.

rofl, inb4 blad3's rage post at this years quakecon!

:P

It wouldn't have mattered anymore. If they announced it 3 months in advanced when costs were still reasonable to travel there w/o sponsors or some sort of 50/50 deal ye. Now it's just stupid to go there for 6k euro in a single elim tournament where you need to come first to get your initial investment back.

So I'll keep my rage for next fail regarding Quake Live! :]

loltf

Dronar! Are you droning? :D

nah, starcraft is for noobs...

TDM <3

fuck u quakecon

tdm fuck yeah.

now just move quakecon to europe

also i hope id does something for tdm spec hud, team overlays with quick switching between players for better spectator experience

you can hope what you want, but reality is cruel as u know :)))

lets hope at least a few european teams manage to go there, otherwise this would be meaningless. Though i kinda doubt we will see more than 2-3 teams make the trip

if 3 teams go, i would be happy, hasnt happened in ctf before as far as i know

if 3 teams go they probably take top3 for themselves :>

uuuuuh FUCK YEAH!!!!!

i hope we'll get to see some more close matches then on dreamhack...

Invintational? So someone wants to play in the biggest Quake LAN, and you will say suck my cock motherfucker and get the fuck out its only for 17 elite pros?

yeah - I dont participate, but a open duel tournament like last year would be nice....

but no, there need to be a bug... brink tournament

this is because some americanz from the neighbourhood can take spots from european elite tdm players. dont worry, this is gonna be a blast!

kewl :)

TDM NICE!

Lets hope everything goes without major delays.

funny you. It's QuakeCon, delays are guaranteed!

lets hope for spinning logo, power failure, and stage on fire also internet problems.

and drunk Karmak talking about robots and shit.

that's actually interesting i really his keynotes :>

brink? you got to be fucking kidding me haha... that's the game that died as a competitive multiplayer 1st or 2nd week after release :D

You have been extremely Ultra Fragged.

and i thought it's called "you'll get extremely ultrafragged!"

You have been Xtremely Ultrafragged

I expect a shitton of practicing sir, even though I won't be there.

I want tdm though :<

hahaha, awesoooooooooome!!!! <3 <3 <3

im searching a sponsor for qcon,somebody of u interested for pay me everything? ill dress ur t-shirt/hat

Tony I'll see what I can do on my front. we will try and get u there qcon won't be nearly as fun if not! you can stay with me for free in Texas if you'd like.

What kind of sexual favours does he has to do?

All the dirty ones I imagine. Youtube it!!

tony just has to be present, it's like in that song

"i jizz right in my pants every time you're next to me
and when we're holding hands it's like having sex to me"

Thx for volunteering my room, haha

QuakeCon needs FFA!
And we need FFA on QuakeCon!

If everyone on ESR donates a little i'm sure we can get you there :D.

you get your butt shipped to every lan just to play some ffa and be awesome there
you have no idea how jelly i am.

I wanna see:

Ice climbers (fox/tox/gopher/prozac)
colwn (stermy/linkin/winz/strenx)
metsu (juvenile/zeroql/bab/vium)
russia (cooller/jibo/mikes/evil)
srs (av3k/silencep/v3rb/zik)
reason (fazz/noctis/deus/zyv)
ufx (rapha/clock/czm/dahang)
random duelers (cypher/spartie/k1llsen/madix)


extras that probably wont go:
4k (dibbe/jocko/krysa/dk)
dignitas (draven/garpy/zsx/gerppa)

Could it happen?

im going, and zsx is too, but other 2 prolly wont

we should be happy if we get 25% of the teams you named :)

vote for pedro

-strenx +anyone PLEASE

unity!

won't happen =p

sad panda :<

winz + strenx in the same team? are you kidding? :DDDD

Hey ! why not !? :)

maybe because they hate each others with passion? just maybe?

<@kekkie> but like iC, is all aim what you need?
<fnatic\strenx> IC sucks dude
<fnatic\strenx> they didnt even beat us in purgatory
<fnatic\strenx> with our
<fnatic\strenx> less powerful
<fnatic\strenx> lineup
<fnatic\strenx> whining and stuff liek stermy didnt knwo the map
<fnatic\strenx> this is why
<fnatic\strenx> im fucking saying
<fnatic\strenx> that we will make top 2 mini

colwn'ed

8)

n1 <3

he is/was so optimistic.

after the last LAN disappointment, IF they make it to QC they might have a top 3 chance since there will most likely be less high end competition.

how old is it?

It was maybe 2/3 weeks before the dreamhack when he had just joined metsu for the event.

I hate
how strenx always
write so much
and write three to
four words each row.

i like
it means yr cool

Attention
span

its just like
how yuka typed
i guess its something
to do with cheating

idd lol

doubt gopher or prozac will return

fox/tox/stermy/linkin i'd bet

fox/tox/stermy/linkin ... ? are u fucking insane? Just send them their first place prize money now, no need to show up.

:)

8=D

wtf is this invitational shit...

Unless this invitation comes with travel expenses, their invitations better not be too exclusive. They'll be lucky to get 5 teams.

Some good news :))

while it's great that we will have TDM, but no quakelive ctf at the quakecon, but brink? o_O

There has been a long QuakeCon tradition of including other id (now id & ZeniMax) properties in addition to Quake:

2002: Return to Castle Wolfenstein
2003: Return to Castle Wolfenstein
2004: Doom 3
2005: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
2006: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
2007: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
2008: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

2011: BRINK

quakecon should try militia.

et was entertaining, brink is not

i like how you separted brink from the others

who's in charge of qcon streaming shit? Make sure they don't fuck it up. + get ladders for quakelive already, shit.

Honest question, why you waste money on dead games that no one plays, like ETQW and now BRINK? W:ET right has bigger community than both of these games.

Seriously why bother?

Better spend that money in QL development or something.


And please promote QL event, and add stream on QL main page from event, don't fuck this shit up.

Also, RTCW is gonna be 10 years old in a bit... Could have made a tournament for that just to celebrate the occasion. Obviously, no real teams would show up, just mixes, but it still would be 10 times better than brink.

Thanks for the answer.

Yes I know about the "tradition", I watch Quakecon every year, and I also understand that id/Zenimax won't let pass such a great opportunity to advertise / promote a recently released, but already struggling to survive title.

I'm just sad because I like ctf, and imho it's deserves a few games at the celebration of the quake series, since it's developed a deep and worthy meta-game basis in the last 10+ years.:(

How does that QL feels like Q3 baseq3 1999 compared to OSP, a mod released ages ago?

When is QL going to be worth paying premium for?

Do you realize that not allowing LAN support has totally killed the opportunity of small local LAN tournaments happening, ie the best a game has to offer: Gathering with real people playing small nice tournaments. Now the only way to play QL is being an antisocial playing in your house. Owners of locals would support QL and add it to their games because it's free, but you guys killed the possibility having this by ignoring the community demands.

yea man, also miss bounce bug

tdm with flags (c) czm

no!

great news. altho sad that i cant go :/

Might be a mistake making it invite only. Make it an open tournament, 16 or 32 teams total and reserve 8 spots.

tdm?
awesome news :)

I'll be dissapointed if its invite only. Me and a few friends are going and want to play but we suck.

oh I so wanna see the old "ic" back...

no CTF no care - id is so braindead it hurts me. QuakeLive = fail, QuakeCon = fail. Easy win for the Euro's.

no u r

Hey, Mr Anon, you want to go just to lose to EG for, what, the 5th year in a row?

he's actually a mad EG member. they mad cuz they got no shot at winning anything anymore.

Good news !

nice

QC needs lvl^ !

I wish!

I'd also love to see tosspot and djwheat jump on the quakecon train again too!

pff, wheat killed ql! ;>

no wheat please, he's a retard, and hopefully off to sc2 and ssf4 for good.

D J W H E A T
J
W
H
E
A
T

best commentator ever, i dont care if he doesn't know shit about quake

do you also not care the he doesn't know anything about sc2.. and any other game really?

i dont care about sc2 or any other game... so no

Fox + tox + cooller + mikes

stelam - kane - prozac - fatality

paracyde, polosatiy, blokey, litzter

Q50 - Vorv - Mist - Gun/Anarchy

REAL 4 KINGS LINE UP

vorvavoo needs the original dm7 to switch into ownage mode :>

i like how everybody gets all excited about quakecon because its coverage has been so extremely good for the last 10 years that we probably see one or two entire maps before the stream goes down every day :>

oh btw, is prozac still banned ? :D

It's because tox n fox pretty much promised they'd go!

cooller - jibo

Who want to team up with me?!?! I am down to go....

To bring back a term from the 80s, really showing my age here.....

SIKE!!!

Have fun though to those who are attending, I am sure it will be a blast. I will have to make it to one again one of these years.

would actually be great to see you in action again! you still play every now & then?

those chairs won't throw themselves!

get burn, spezzer and usurper, canine reloaded :>

Me
Answering makaveli From fukin iphone

Only if they give us a big cardboard check saying we got last place and earned $0.

I still want the giant check! lol

maka do you play anything now? wow I remember playing a quick q2 duel with you when you were a tech on sega's heat.net! Just warmup for some dudes named azukre&ck8652. I know too long ago to remember :)

omg tdm

:( im sad. CTf was so fun to watch. TDM is boring after 5 min. Seeing player fraggin others is not entertaining imo. + A lot of ctf match from previous quakecon were exciting. In tdm the skill gap is so big between teams there wont be any real close game.

TDM is far from boring and there are uberclose games all the time, and I remember last year that all the DUEL fans were whining on IRC about the "boring" CTF games (they were pretty far from boring tbh). So it's just a matter of preference.

On the other hand, I agree about CTF is fun to watch, and even if they don't do a tourney, they could just do some random scrims for entertainment purposes only.

wondering, are they gonna officially announce they pull the plug during the event or will I have to wait another year or two until people get REALLY fed up with paying 50bucks upfront for nothing ?

good news with bad timing :( Prices will be extremely high for any euro teams willing to attend.

no they just want to increase their chances of having a USA team winning the tdm tourney :D

you mean the USA team

haha,yes

yeah i wonder if they will get enough top teams to attend on such short notice

would love to see some more clans pick up tdm teams but it prolly wont happen until tdm lans are a regular occurance

I feel someone from ID team, want to kill QL. I am sure it's sabotage. Don't know who wants that and why, but I am sure I am talking truth.
They are not doing what players ask, what to develop, what to add / edit in game.
They don't advertising it , as they could.
They fucking up with tourneys so often: qcon anouncment so late, often server problems then some tourney are going and so on.
I am sure Sync`s hands are bonded.

invitational only? no open duel? how will this work? anyone know how I could have myself considered for an invite?

Try not being a hopeless newb

ok now what?

Hahahah, nice troll!

how's that

none of the past qcon events were amazingly awesome.

even if this one will suprise, you dont have a decent coverage crew its worth nothing.

whos gonna live stream and shoutcast the games?

cooller vs cypher on aero begs to differ (wasent it qcon? :))

It was.

niceeee TDM...this is very good

yay another 3 days of spinning qcon logo

FUN-tastic!!!

Anyone want to share a room? I don't mind the couch.

make sure to say hello to walter

Why would I?

for the drama

What drama?

there must be drama if u sleeping on the couch

Now I just need a ride, not driving by myself :`(
Anyone swing through central IL?

this is the earliest I think I've ever seen a quakecon tournament announced...

\:D/ for tdm!

wish there was a side 2v2 tourney, would be fun to watch at top level of play.

no it wouldnt


ask zyv and noctis :Pp

with fox+tox? :P

ye thats a toin coss :)

toin coss, haha

that might be the most careless announcement ever

the mlg one tries hard aswell

Due to the fact that this is only the teaser announcement. The full announcement will be made next week and will include more details. Doing a teaser before the weekend allowed us to get the basic information out to the competitors who had so direly/patiently been awaiting information.

Replacing ql open with brink open is a terrible idea

Can you tell us who is responsible for Quakecon organization? For example, timing of the announcements, who decides that it will be announced 3/4 weeks before the event and not 3/4 months, for example?
There are no contacts whatsoever at QCon website, we never hear of any names or anything, but certainly QCon isn't running itself, someone must be managing it?

but certainly QCon isn't running itself, someone must be managing it?

Looking back at past qcon events, I'm not even sure if someone is managing it.

Bring back ql open duel and get rid of brink.
This is why...

That's still more than Quakelive even at peak hours, so what's your point?

QuakeLive is a free to play game that is so poorly promoted I could do a better job on a year's worth of their PR by glueing a giant Quake sign to my ass and streaking through my local town centre

Great idea. Let's get everyone on ESR to do it and start a facebook page!

give us a quad cup again too :o

not everyones a twitter fag =)

cmon eyeballers. i wanna see you on qc11 ;)

Was hoping for some sort of Quakeworld tournament.
DDDDDDDDDDD:

i hope the tdm tournament is going to be double elim

Why in the fuck is it brink open instead of ql duel open? I guess I got trolled hard by id... wp.

All old US teams need to reform! Clan kapitol, k9, 519, stickmen, ichorville, klan knightmare etc etc (yeah I forget the rest)

....

yeah sure, all they need to do is put they jobs and kids aside and practice practice pratice.

Or play for fun? You know... like the good old days.

doubt there are many people who'd team up to get demolished during their first ( and probably only ) match.

kfc, xband, fith, abuse, deathrow, clan 9 us, flatline, r3volution, darkside, black dragons, omniscient, kOz, negative burn, trt (lol), 5am (lolx2), silent service (lolx8), cccp, .....

Quite a few good ones there that I'd forgot all about.

Flatline haha... Lasted all of 1 day!

lolx9 @ ss

u forgot two classic west coast clans, mob and clan exile

yeah xil was a pretty big deal..r3v was so leet though damn..

you forgot snb :(

yea I can keep going. DigA, nex (was this actually a real clan? pi also maybe), hkc, eyeballers-us (not sure if that was a real thing either)?
I'm forgetting another fairly big one. oh, nova.

wake up, dude.

These teams are still around, just the competition in America is dead.

cK, ]km[, stx are still around and play on Gamesurge..

http://i.imgur.com/xcFJe.png

That's still more than Quakelive even at peak hours, so what's your point?

no it's not

tdm = fucking fail. GL to the 3 teams that show up.

too short notice





fail....

So.. since Nx is the only other team in North America that plays TDM aside from UFX, does that mean we get invited? ;p

maybe ID can use the money they were willing to pay for getting QL in IEM to the TDM teams for travel expenses.

or better yet, on developing ql so in the future orgas might be interested in sponsoring teams themselves

why couldnt this have happened 10 years ago?? it's like stephen king's IT and shit. "remember that golden time when snicker bars were huge, and quake was fun?"

You mean it being awesome but at the end make you cry of rage

i was hoping for ctf:(
anyway we should be happy with every minute of ql:p

So disappointing. All those teams at DH which swayed their decision will not attend so you'll get UFX and then 1-3 euro teams and then the rest will just be cannon fodder.

Would have preferred CTF where you would still only get 1-2 teams but they would go up against 5-8 good US teams too

Like last year's quakecon? There was only 3 good us teams, EG, quad gaming and loaded, one good euro team in fnatic and the rest were teams thrown together.

1-3 euro teams and UFX is better than eg and fnatic

lol which world do u live in? ctf has never had more than 3 or 4 teams that genuinely had a chance at winning. and thats including the euros. i love how skewed everyones vision of qcons team tournament is.

its more entertaining to watch though...its more interesting to watch a team win 6-0 in ctf than 200-60 in TDM

even if it was EG/fnatic only fighting for the title (which i doubt) its better than tdm where only ic will fight for 1st place

YOU find it more entertaining to watch. dont generalize. personally im bored of watching ctf. especially the way its played in ql in america (same for qcon). its boringly defensive. and the ctf maps are terrible. ironworks is the only good map in ctf right now. everything else is shit.

next time, annouce it after the lan !

I hope there's another tony FFA special. Something for everyone to play and have fun....screw brink

yeah,we talked about it,id want that somebody else sponsor a prize for that tournament,so,no tony ffa special :(
i would like to go quakecon,its the dream of every true quaker,but its too much expensive

Aussie putting in a TDM team aswell? Dandaking, Zlr, Ventz + euro/american player??

+noctis

Make it happen!!

way to kill ctf...

how can you kill something that is not alive?

i dont know man, but id is pretty good at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu16eUQwCWU

ctf is very much alive in the US, idk how you euros are, but over here we have 1-2 ctf pug servers going every night for hours on end, and we will have maybe 1 tdm pug every week

nobody scrims or organizes into teams because nobody hosts tournaments anymore so its pointless

tdm is dead in NA. It never was alive. I hope the 8 US players have fun getting stomped by euros on our own turf.

And the fact that brink was announced is just laughable.

In fact the last real tdm pug took over an hour to get started then ended 4 minutes in with clock going afk cause his team couldnt carry him

are there ctf tournaments?

there are NO tournaments. Last tourney we had in NA was a CA draft tourney about a month ago.

well then you can risk putting tdm in, maybe it 'booms' like in europe :>

you dont live here, we have repelled tdm like the plague ever since id started releasing premium tdm maps.

We can argue tdm vs ctf all day, both require skill, but the fact is america does not like tdm.Part of the reason ufx got destroyed at DH was they had nobody to practice with over here. We have 2 teams, ufx and Nx. About 10 or 12 players total. In ctf we have enough active players for 2 pickup servers running at the same time.

A lot of players got better this year at ctf and teams emerged that have the talent to take a team like EG down. Everyone watched as EG nearly lost to a euro team whose lowest ping was 90. The argument that 'we can all go watch EG win their 5th in a row' is just silly. There are enough players in the pool to make 5-6 teams with most of them having the skill level enough to beat EG. Especially with kgb's LAN lg. :)

So they nearly lost to the euro team that beat all the other american teams to get to the final...your point?

did you even read his post?

tdm > ctf.
umadbro?

im sorry what are these mysterious teams that are capable of taking down eg again? afaik theres ONE team. which btw was formed 2 months ago, which had one major player drop out to be replaced by someone else.

and lets not start with numbers here. u say tdm only has 15 active players. true. but then again ctf only has about 30 active players in america. ctf has been at qcon for the last what 3 years? and yet the north american community has never formed more than 3 or 4 active clans at any given time. even those dont stick together. 2 months before qcon everyone just randomizes and joins some pickup team. so you could easily make the argument that ctf has had its chance, if inspite of qcon having it nobody forms teams, then fuck it. we might as well have a change and try something else instead. cos it sure as hell doesnt matter one whit to the "community".

so please. lets stop with the, omg qcon having tdm killed the north american ctf community. there was no community to begin with. and stop blaming the lack of tournaments. nothings stopping you from running your own.

are you claiming that there is a tdm community to kill in NA?

.

wonko are you talking about the ctf or tdm community in your post?

At least ctf gets played, neither mod has many organized teams, i mentioned the reasons for that in my original post (nobody has tournies anymore). But ctf has more active players, and its gets played nightly. Even clock himself hasnt played any tdm since dreamhack.

About 5 months ago when there were regular CTF tournies there was EG, dfm, #beam, 8X, xUx, filp, dark, and c9. When have we ever had more than 3 tdm teams? The most i've seen was c9 (ufx), Nx, and wYz.

Are you suggesting that the NA community has had its shot at beating EG and we cant do it so we should switch to TDM, where any euro team could come over and walk all over the NA team because there are no teams or players with enough interest in TDM to even field a team let alone practice against one.

I dont understand the argument you are making in your post, its like youre saying 'ya ctf has more players, but they only organize into teams for the sole tourney every year so tdm, and their two NA teams, should get a shot'

Are you gonna be at quakecon this year?

im not arguing about whether its better to have tdm or ctf at qcon. im just saying that claiming qcon announcing tdm is somehow going to kill the ctf community is a fallacy. there is no ctf community. about the teams u posted, other than 8x and beam none of the others were very stable or active. most of them had like a roster of 10 players most of whom wouldnt show up more than once a month anyway. and other than dfm none of them had a decent chance of getting to taking down the then EG. and i dont think c9 was even around 5 months ago?

also jebus learn to read? what i said was that i COULD argue that the ctf community itself has had its shot. if qcon was that important then i could argue that the fact that community hasnt really developed inspite of ctf being at qcon consistently - as in formed clans and run tournies on their own, is an indication that ctf is dead. so we might as well try something different. (ps: quite a lot of the top ctf players were also quite good at tdm. the only reason they didnt play tdm was cos they assumed qcon would have ctf. so the argument that theres a pool or approx 50 players who could all form decent teams applies to tdm just as much as ctf).

either way i dont think it matters that much. its just one tournament. its neither going to kill nor rejuvenate any communities. its all just in ur mind. coming from the cpm community which had practically no lans, i just find it hilarious that a bunch of players who only seem to play so they can go to qcon suddenly talk about "community". (and no this is not about you personally). if people only play for qcon rather than cos they like the game, we are fucked anyway.

pps: hmm seems to me like my posts were replies to two separate posts, so i guess i understand why you were confused now. just to clarify ur base argument that ctf wouldve had more teams is i think valid, altho in terms of competitive teams (as in teams that wouldve had a chance to place top 3), it would i think be the same for tdm as it was for ctf - pretty much 3 or 4 teams. i think its incredibly stupid that they announced it so late eliminating many good euro teams from coming over. but o well its qcon what else can u expect? its going to be interesting what players like kgb do now tho. i think quite a few of the ctf players will form tdm teams. if u think about it, yes colwn might come over and clean it up but that still leaves a chance for a decent team to take a top 3 spot.

\end rant.

and to answer your question, i wouldve been at qcon this year regardless of whether it was ctf or tdm. but i somehow ended up with a chance this summer to go home to india for a month, something i hadnt thought would be possible. and family > qcon.

yup.

HI, I just wanted to congratulate all of you for ruining CTF.

thanks, maybe this will teach you to play proper modes

tdm should be an open tournament imo, hoping that only the duel is invitational

how many tdm do you expect? might aswell invite those 8

im sure there would be at least another 8 teams fielded from random NA players

^

Why are people surprised to see BRINK at qcon?
Did everyone forget that Bethesda and id are combined into one, captain planet style.

I hope there is still an open duel tournament, its nice to see upcoming talent get some LAN play. Also, still way too late to be announcing the tourneys, how the hell are any euro teams supposed to plan with such short notice?!

There is no way we will see more than 2 euro teams I dont think. Reason probly won't go as zyv and fazz don't have the money to spend.

I have a wedding to go to around that time aswell and my girlfriend is off work on the same dates so I'd rather be at home with her.

Everything has just been left so late from id and we don't even know if the prize pool would even cover our costs if we make top 3 so we couldn't even book now if we were going.

And even if we were gonna try find a sponsor its far to late for them to give us 6k dollas.

Its a shame but I hope more euros can make the trip over.

sad to hear but very understandable. its a shame indeed

imagine if quakecon had announced a tdm tournament the same time dreamhack did. that would have made a great impact but like this, its really just a matter of who is lucky enough to have the time and money to afford to go

this sure is shaping up to be the last quakecon ever due to epic fails

what to do next :<

Brinkcon next.

thats sad :(

ragecon?

Basically... run quakecon in europe. gg

noooo this will kill NAs ql scene!

oh, wait...

yep, no reason at qcon :/

makes sense

couldn't help it, sorry

:/

let's help out the environment and just send the check to colwn/ic

What's Cooller saying about the TDM tournament?
http://cooller.org/novosti_ru/voskresnyiy-turnir-i-planyi-na-leto

Tried translator, but didnt make sense.

He says he will prepare hard for QCon duel tournament, but isn't sure yet about participating in TDM.

I'm really intrigued to why they decided to choose TDM knowing it's way too late for any European team to attend and the fact that TDM is non existent in America.

If Ice Climbers attend, it'll be the most LOL tournament in the history of Quakecon.

May as well send them the prize money now to fund the flights and hotel costs :D

There will be some teams, especially if the euro duelers going there decide to make two or three teams and beside of that some sort of ice climbers lineup plus the Russians if it is true that they are going.

So you will end up with four to five euro teams and if some American teams form, two to three there.

Still you will be missing a lot of prestige due to the key players that make up the European tdm scene, not being there.

So that's all in all not really bad. However still not worth it for a Single Elimination tournament, but the duel players have some more advantage with the tdm decision in comparison to ctf. Good for them :]

yeah, this will probably be a random mix of duelers forming teams at quakecon, along with iC and ufx. unless the russians decides to go but i kind of doubt that

Good. Another pussy move by id. If your game is dying you need to make a tough decision or two, not fuck about doing nothing of importance.

It's simple id: tourney is in NA. Announcement coming very late, might not be possible to get enough players. The only team mode anyone plays in NA is Clan Arena. So you know what you do? You host a CA tourney*. It's really that simple. You'd get lots of teams, you'd get NA viewers, and guess what, you'd get to disregard the community's wishes like you always do.

*Disclaimer: CA is fun to play. I have never watched a CA tourney. I have never played CA competitively. I don't know how shitty it is or is not as a competitive team mode. But, I guarantee you its better than a TDM tourney with 5 pug teams.

As a (sigh) mostly CA player, I can't even stand watching CA tourneys. Meet in a room, last man standing wins. They might as well make a 1-room map for CA so no one has to bother running to the same room to shoot for 10 seconds a round.

Good news everyone: Kevin "Strenx" Baeza on facebook.

It seems that fnatic doesn't send me to Quakecon, so Quake is over for me since there is no events anymore, sorry guys.

Kevin "Strenx" Baeza
It seems that fnatic doesn't send me to Quakecon, so Quake is over for me since there is no events anymore, sorry guys.
about an hour ago

yarr
well fu ischju

With the tempo it goes, soon we all will play lol. GG id, WP

fucking communist at beshit studios and id. seriously showing u dont know jack shit bout the scene. who the fuck plays tdm?

i like tdm but noone plays it. u announce the shit like 2 days before quakecon. what euros gonna show up? oh not many. what do americans play the most? oh CA and CTF. even ffa would have been a better option then tdm u cum guzzlin seaman demons.



id can suck a fat one. i hope an asstroid hits that place.

you could have just said "i wish they picked ctf because it is more active". stop being such dramatic dicks, it's getting tired. tdm is going to be plenty wonderful.

tdm got boring at dreamhack.

not to mention we will see less than half the talent at qcon. so in turn we get to watch scrubs play tdm

thanks stunt, the only one with logic on this thread. +

tdm is highly popular on ql so this should be great success
http://comedymeltdown.com/wp-content/uploads/...50x337.jpg

also:
http://twitter.com/#!/QuakeCon

first news item

Was there ever another e-sports tourney with only one team participating?

Come on, there'll be at least enough to fill the podium.

Actually a good incentive for some noob teams to sign up, maybe we will actually have like shitloads of amateur teams fighting for 2-3 places

In addition to the keynote and other special events (more on that soon), this year’s event will give you a chance to see some great presentations on our upcoming titles, including Todd Howard’s first public presentation of Skyrim!!

nice

"The full announcement will be made next week and will include more details." - syncerr

The week has come and gone and no announcement. What a surprise!

id is run by a bunch of bums.

<@SyncError|work> oh wait, nobody told you ? Quakecon is cancelled. Press statement coming around mid august. Stay tuned guys.

Stay tuned for more QuakeCon tournament information!
Friday at 8:32pm

Seems like syncerror got his homework in on time, but it's incomplete, C-