Drawing a line from recent posts after the Dreamhack Winter tournaments, I was wondering a few things.
Taking out the lack of support given by ID software towards Quake Live LAN abilities and mode improvements, I am curious to know if there would be a Quake Live event in Europe featuring maybe duel, TDM and CTF together, would people show up for that?
I've checked out several LAN's still active near my location, so mainly Dutch and Belgium ones. There are some, although rare, that still organize relatively big events (500 to 1500 people) with tournaments like Starcraft 2, CS 1.6, LoL and CoD.
Some of these used to feature Quake 3 (I miss Drome and Netgamez though :( ) in some way or another. Not much prize money, usually hardware from sponsors.
But let's take this situation as example:
There will be a LAN featuring Quake Live in duel, TDM and CTF game modes held in the Netherlands/Belgium. Accessible for 32 duelers and 16 teams in both modes.
Pros
* Tournaments are well organized and the schedule allows for every one to play their games, without having to drop certain modes due to schedule clashes.
* High competitive value due to a lot of players attending.
* Location is in Europe (Netherlands/Belgium) and attending/traveling will be ~100-150 euro per player.
* Everything is announced 3 to 4 months in advanced.
* Held from Friday till Sunday.
* People can bring their own sleeping bags/stuff to accommodate sleeping at the event's location w/o needing hotel (the LAN way :p).
Cons
* Prize money is low, hardware prizes are available as compensation (sponsors).
* Players have to spend the 100/150 euro's to get there, but have a big chance of not winning anything.
* Players/teams have to be organized to get to the event, they need to know how to book cheap tickets, especially international teams.
Problems
* Finding an organization (existing LAN event) to pick up the game.
* Finding sponsors to support the event and provide hardware for use and prizes for the tournaments.
* Location might be a problem, but I've seen most LAN events have a set expo hall they rent every time.
* Lack of PC's on location to accommodate all players to play their matches.
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There is probably more Pros/Cons/Problems, but I think existing events could take away a lot of the Problems. I've searched around a bit and there are still organizations active holding events, just with other games than Quake Live.
If I take Stermy's UGC for example, it looks really complicated and he really tried hard to set up his own event with pulling his strings, but it wasn't without flaws.
But just say if it was possible to hold an event with Quake Live in there, would people show up in a situation where it is mainly for fun/competition and not to drag in a 5k euro prize cheque. If it adapted the 'old' definition of LAN and not something similar to Intel Extreme Masters.
I think all in all is, do people care about the game enough to show up at a decent organized event BUT don't expect to make money out of it, rather spend it for the experience?
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