What are your favorite matches to rewatch today?

[Terbo]

I started Quake 2 back in 1999 on Heat.net... I spent a lot of time watching demos during my career.

Here are a few of my favorites to rewatch.

Lord Vader vs. Makavel (2nd match) - For some reason I was really influenced watching Lord Vader's map item control.

QuakeCon2005 GrandFinal: Purri vs Doze - At the time Doze was big in the US scene at the time (which was pretty much dead due to Q3) so it was a shock to see the result of this match.

Shub vs. Makaveli - Makaveli had such great style.

Polosatiy vs E8/SiD - Love ztn2dm2 and Polosatiy has nice movement.


Which are yours?

[haunted]

Cool man, have you checked out our discord server? Stop by if you haven’t:

http://discord.tastyspleen.net/

Brad/doze actually wasn’t big in the scene in 05 at all—until quakecon 05 that is. I never saw him playing in 03/04 really. Purri flew to America before qcon and stayed with doze, he spent a few weeks with him, and they lanned together practicing right up to the event. Doze hadn’t played q2 in some time.

As great of a player doze was it wasn’t really a surprise that he lost to purri.

These demos come to mind. These matches were a big deal in our community when they happened.

DaHanG v. PURRI - QuakeCon 2007 - ztn2dm3


https://youtu.be/ryUE3DJ2kgo?is=p64UVbHcoyMo4wYB

DaHanG v. Damiah - NADL 2006 - ztn2dm2


https://youtu.be/Nmw4FMVQK-4?is=zWskgb7tV79mdxCL

DaHanG v. Damiah NADL 2006 - ztn2dm3


https://youtu.be/vCVSa5hq4jM?is=4d-yHrM2SGa-spqj


That’s from my YT channel. I tried to upload the more relevant matches available to me from the USA scene(primarily q2 players.org and tastyspleen communities).

[Dakotha]

Raskal was a machine.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7IeF7SlXRY

I also like some old Memento Mori (NOR) matches from '99 like:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnVRrI3QgqA

They felt like gods back then. They may look bad by today's standards but they played with low fps, ball mice, etc.

[XANA]

Speaking purely about 1v1 because I never got into teams that much; I don't really watch matches, but I think of individual games sometimes. I found myself gravitating towards players that had a very calm and relaxed playstyle but still managed to win. I really liked the idea of walking the entire game and winning. Those were always my favorite.

I watched isbjorn and Damiah a lot back then. There was and still is a really big fascination towards people with insanely fast and aggressive movement (I still play like that lole), and they were very passive by comparison, but were just as good. I really liked that at the time. Truthfully, I watched so many different demos from so many different players that they all kind of blended together. I had the most amount of demos from DaHanG, Damiah, isbjorn, Aone, zorre and blaizz though. They were just the best players that had the most amount of tournament demos at that point in time.

There was one game where Damiah joined up for a 4v1 as a joke and wound up steamrolling everyone, which was really funny. I can't seem to find the demo for it, which is unfortunate.

There are actually more games that I played personally that I think about, but it's hard to be objective about the quality of games that involve myself. I actually noticed a while back going through some of my older demos that I remember more games where something really funny or stupid happened, or where I hit some crazy insane shot than games where both me and my opponent play really well and are very close good games. That's kind of a shame but I imagine it's the same with most people.