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Celebrating three decades of Quake in this special anniversary showdown, the Quakecon 30th Retro Classic took place over the weekend. It was the only event managed by Quakecon this year. The event was a double-elimination duel tournament where competitors battled through best-of-three matches across Quakeworld (ezquake with qcon ruleset), Quake II (q2pro with anticheat) and Quake Live (via steam) to crown the Retro Classic Champion.
Of the 32 competitors included makaveli, czm (first tournament since ~2012), fiend, dramis, Kev! among others
The official bracket for this year's main tournament, the $2,000.00 QuakeCon 30th Anniversary Retro Classic, was managed and tracked live on toornament.
The tournament concluded with a multi-generational group of players making it to the final stages.
Fnal Standings & Payouts:
🥇 1st Place:
Thump4 ($1,000.00)
🥈 2nd Place:
czm ($600.00)
🥉 3rd Place: Burner / Twitch ($400.00)
Of the 32 competitors included makaveli, czm (first tournament since ~2012), fiend, dramis, Kev! among others
The official bracket for this year's main tournament, the $2,000.00 QuakeCon 30th Anniversary Retro Classic, was managed and tracked live on toornament.
The tournament concluded with a multi-generational group of players making it to the final stages.
Fnal Standings & Payouts:
🥇 1st Place:
Thump4 ($1,000.00)🥈 2nd Place:
czm ($600.00)🥉 3rd Place:
Burner / Twitch ($400.00)
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His adaptability and flexibility was unlike anything players witnessed in over a decade. czm was and clearly still is the most natural, dynamic, unusually-thoughtful (i.e. mid-match), pound-for-pound skilled, and efficient-in-preparations quake player in history.
Facing him was a privilege. I got to feel just how good he still is, and how exponentially-good he must have been from 1998-2013, back in Quake's heyday. A thinking player unlike any other player. Playing against him required hyper defense beyond what I've exhibited before.. without it there would have been no chance.
Cheers to makaveli for his respectable performance, even almost 30 years since WCG, etc. He's a historic thresh-group player who still actually has the courage to plug in the mouse and keyboard.
Mad respect to dramis for signing in to play on the legacy quakes.
And great to be in the room with former Quakecon champions, RiX (admin) and Fatal1ty.
Also strong showings from pthy, Kev!, Flynn, Twitch. Pthy is still a crazy good, clutch player... extremely scary. When pthy decides it's time for him to make a comeback, it's almost impossible to arrest.