High hopes and aspirations for potentially one of the best tournaments of our time were floating in the air of a small apartment in Boston, Massachusetts where I and cha0ticz prepared for the Cyber X-Games.

How wrong we were…

Game after game we played, practicing hard, playing the maps we haven’t played in so long with admiration to soar to the top of the event we were about to attend. Our games were on; we were playing really good, close games on all maps with full strategic knowledge banks.

But would this help us any at CXG? Nope, infact we should have been practicing playing on 3-4 hours sleep at 8am in the morning rather then the maps themselves.

Read on to see how the days progressed.

Coverage from the Cyber X Games 2004, taking place from January 8-12th in the Convention Centre, Las Vegas. With prizes totalling over $600,000 and featuring Call of Duty, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Warcraft 3, Counter-Strike and of course Quake 3 this is set to be one of the biggest tournaments of the year. We'll do our best to keep you updated with all the major developments and results on the following pages. You can also join #esreality on Quakenet and follow the event with other readers.

Page 1: Event Introduction

Page 2: Prize Pool

Page 3: Quake 3

Page 4: Counter Strike

Page 5: Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Page 6: Warcraft 3

Page 7: Unreal Tournament 2003

Page 8: Live coverage links

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