Quake 2 Duel Tournament Announced at this years' Quakecon

[Barton]

Community competitions reach new heights at QuakeCon 2017!
By cwizardApril 12, 2017

As we teased in our first QuakeCon Update, we’re bringing a new focus to community competitions for our attendees this year with more than $50,000 in prizes!  Here’s a first-look at our competitions programming.
First, we have a strong line up from the id catalog:

    QUAKE II, 20th Anniversary Duel – $10,000
    QUAKE LIVE 4v4 CTF – $10,000
    Battle of the BYOC: DOOM 2v2 Clan Arena – $7,000
    The Elder Scrolls: Legends – $5,000
    QUAKE Duel – $5,000
    RAGE Road Rage FFA – $5,000

We’ll also have fun competitions in the latest entry of the QUAKE franchise to liven up Friday and Saturday night, and an esports qualifier that we’ll have more details on soon.

Source: http://www.quakecon.org/blog/2017/04/12/community-competitions-reach-new-heights-at-quakecon-2017/

Good news for the TDM community. Perhaps we have a reason to play some more again.

[adz1La]

Time for my return

[M1SERY]

Good stuff!

[Sgt. Dick]

2D has got this covered 

[haunted]

Yup. It's time.

[Barton]

Nice. Welcome back, guys. 

[Barton]

Jehar told me that if you didn't buy a BYOC pass you can't enter the tournament. Those passes sold out on the same night purchases were available to make. The dream is dead for us, I think.

[hops]

Quakelive 4v4 ctf, almost shot milk out my nose I laughed so hard.

[haunted]

Jehar told me that if you didn't buy a BYOC pass you can't enter the tournament. Those passes sold out on the same night purchases were available to make. The dream is dead for us, I think.

Haha really? Sounds about right. I was legitimately considering going. There's a handful of others as well that would place but I guess they wanted jehar vs dahang winners quarters finals.

[Barton]

Haha really? Sounds about right. I was legitimately considering going. There's a handful of others as well that would place but I guess they wanted jehar vs dahang winners quarters finals.

I got a response back. Apparently why the tournaments are BYOC is because there are going to be 8 tournaments ran in total, which is too many to be ran on sanctioned tournament computers. I understand this point however I don't see how some events like the duel tournaments couldn't be more accommodating so that more players could enter, such as having a few designated computers for players who couldn't bring their own PC, or have those same players play on another player's machine who's in their pool.

While I do appreciate IDsoftware showing us Q2 players some love, this tournament's structure is still disappointing. Even though it's a BYOC tournament and thus not true eSports, this tournament is still important to the Q2 community since we haven't had another Q2 LAN tournament since 11 years ago. Also with $10,000 on the line, I find it a bit ridiculous that the most competitive veteran players don't have a chance to compete for that prize, especially since we are the only players who have spent years and even decades playing duel while others only played it casually or moved onto Q3 and other games. That's why us vets really deserve spots to enter this tournament.

Anyway, I just hope a Q2 player wins it. I know that Jehar has a BYOC seat and others in clan BTF, so I hope those guys gatekeep for us.

[Reefer]

Good point Barton I used my twitter account (https://twitter.com/dondeq2) to reach out to @QuakeCon and @Jehar about your idea. Taking it a step farther, if they made a couple computers available for competitors outside the BYOC pool, I think the Q2 community could even organize a prelim tourney to earn those spots. That tourney could be broadcast on tastytv and other twitch channels and would be nothing but good buzz for Quake Champions. 

[haunted]

Don't even worry about it. My q2 days are over anyway

[M1SERY]

Haha really? Sounds about right. I was legitimately considering going. There's a handful of others as well that would place but I guess they wanted jehar vs dahang winners quarters finals.

I got a response back. Apparently why the tournaments are BYOC is because there are going to be 8 tournaments ran in total, which is too many to be ran on sanctioned tournament computers. I understand this point however I don't see how some events like the duel tournaments couldn't be more accommodating so that more players could enter, such as having a few designated computers for players who couldn't bring their own PC, or have those same players play on another player's machine who's in their pool.

While I do appreciate IDsoftware showing us Q2 players some love, this tournament's structure is still disappointing. Even though it's a BYOC tournament and thus not true eSports, this tournament is still important to the Q2 community since we haven't had another Q2 LAN tournament since 11 years ago. Also with $10,000 on the line, I find it a bit ridiculous that the most competitive veteran players don't have a chance to compete for that prize, especially since we are the only players who have spent years and even decades playing duel while others only played it casually or moved onto Q3 and other games. That's why us vets really deserve spots to enter this tournament.

Anyway, I just hope a Q2 player wins it. I know that Jehar has a BYOC seat and others in clan BTF, so I hope those guys gatekeep for us.

Will be donating my time to help in anyway for Jehar and Deadbeat.  I agree with what you said

[Barton]

Good point Barton I used my twitter account (https://twitter.com/dondeq2) to reach out to @QuakeCon and @Jehar about your idea. Taking it a step farther, if they made a couple computers available for competitors outside the BYOC pool, I think the Q2 community could even organize a prelim tourney to earn those spots. That tourney could be broadcast on tastytv and other twitch channels and would be nothing but good buzz for Quake Champions. 

Once I got a reply back, I got the impression the tournament structure is inflexible. Thanks though for the outreach.

Don't even worry about it. My q2 days are over anyway

I hear you. I have to agree that it feels like it's time to move on. Fuck though, this event resembles getting blue balls. 

Will be donating my time to help in anyway for Jehar and Deadbeat.  I agree with what you said

That's a great idea! I hope they benefit from your help.

[haunted]

No blue balls although I thought it'd be fun. It's not my loss if I don't enter. I got better things to do anyway.