Cyber X Games

zAbbo

Anyone following whats going on at this big lan event in USA, quite a few prestige players/clans at it. Seems things are going pear shaped, they had cabling probs, wrong monitors for Quake3 players(CRT > TFT), massive security issues(ms worms) and now CS 1.6 has been fuxored.

More information
http://www.quake.ie/comments.asp?item=1797
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13552
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=590436
http://www.cyberxgaming.com/
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=347555

zAbbo

since the official tournie of CS is cancelled, they`re playing games for 10grand(nice)

http://www.cyberfight.org/site/news/21122/?PHPSESSID=acb5a0d411d7d3ad30cf5ba4ab62e26f

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Thats $10,000 a *map*, nice

Stephen

Could they possibly have picked a more lame name for the event?

TheSonOfBattles

Crazy as it sounds, it occurs to me that maybe, just maybe they named it "Cyber X Games' to associate it with the "Summer X Games" and "Winter X Games" i.ie. to give it more commercial appeal, and to make it more mainstream so that the average non LANer may actually try to find out about it and LANing and gaming in general.

Kold

X is for Xylophone...

Giblet

CS is now *officially* a clowns game for clown people.

Thorbar

Sad to see that Valve have no respect for their fans. This could come to bite them in the arse big time.

Caffine

bet valve got some very nice emails about that

zAbbo

This isnt mickey mouse stuff, there was 100 GRAND going in prizes for the CS comp, serious stuff. Clans made a lot of effort to get to Vegas for this tournie(4kings Intel from uk attended).

ShevY

Things kinda got worse. During one of the last Q3 games, GTV froze. Apparently, due to a security risk, servers were disconnected and physically removed from the building :[
No coverage of final games, which are being played using servers running on tourney pc's.

ShevY

Power to network got cut off with 2 players left apparently

zAbbo

I heard that a fair amount of the prizes were stolen, someone robbed those lovely 21" LCDs and leet gaming machines.

What a ****in disaster