as a dyed-in-the-wool cpmer, i find this result very embarrassing. i mean, that a second rate vq3 dueller like magnus olsson would, with a token amount of practise, make cpm his bitch. third rate vq3er walter outlaw did the same thing last week or so. on top of that, sander "cpm allah" kaasjager, whom i was expecting to win at least one of the recent vq3 tournaments, could not manage a single top 3 finish. his games versus that godless slav, anton "|]" singov, were especially infuriating. it's no fun watching your cpm hero get ass drilled at every turn by an out-of-shape ex-champ who, in all probability, has never experienced the joys of cpm.
Lol. i was just raging Koddy. When I played him and beat him he got all pissed off saying that he just needed to play more, it was funny. No need to get all uppity about it.
And I don't think that fox that I saw (the like 10 mins total if that) would beat dziku. Dziku is fucking sick man!
But seriously, vampire would beat him even now after not playing for forever. I'd bet money on that shit.
So your argument is that if fox practiced to become a good cpm dueler, he'd be a good cpm dueler? Cause that's what it seems like.
I'm not saying that fox doesn't have the ability to be good at cpm, that's just silly. My only point is that NOW, RIGHT NOW, fox isn't as good as most of the top cpm players I've seen/played against.
He also didn't play for a while before the tourney, so Maj is correct. Nothing away from pod1, as he's a class player/guy. I would like to see both of them play in form.
If fox stopped playing quake3 for like 4 weeks, and then came back, sure. Didn't you see the results where fox got raped at that vq3 lan? Greece was it?
not much of a chance, even if they had 3 months of practice and fox took one out.
I'll use Vo0 as an example a top CPM player (you'll probably dispute this in someway) who did pretty well in VQ3. Ask him how much effort he put into VQ3, you might like to believe it wasn't all that much but it was a lot of playtime (probably comparable to what fox has put into CPM) and he wasn't exactly unfamiliar with VQ3 at all as he could hold his own as it were. anyway:
he had three notable map wins (not games) that spring to mind:
vs Jibo who is the most inconsistent player ever
vs Nike who was playing absolute wank compared to what he could pull off in Russia and online
vs Spartie on hub
he got rolled by an out of shape cooller who is way past it let alone a top player like fox in a game where it was all on the line
not to knock Vo0 at all, he did stupid well and has crazy talent but just an example to show how deluded you are if you think a top CPM player could do what fox did but the other way round if fox didn't play for a month. That said I don't think many other VQ3 players could do what fox did either.
You're deluded if you think the skill of the CPM players there was on par with the skill of the VQ3 players at either of those two tournaments. Then again you're probably just trolling, so I doubt you'll try to make sense.
as for fox getting raped, what planet you living on? He won every game in Paris apart from the finals vs Cypher (probably dropped a map here or there, certainly wasn't to a CPM player and there were no rape games) won every match in Athens (stupid system meant he couldn't go through either way) and every map he dropped at gamegune wasn't a rape game.......
so you're either trolling and or really fucking deluded with no clue at all
1) The level of competition at this tourney was no where near the level of competition vo0 faced at ESWC. Do you agree with this statement?
2) Vo0 never got really raped HARD by the players he was playing against. Do you agree with this statement?
3) Fox played versus out of shape CPM players and won, do you agree with this statement?
4) If I played versus blue after him not playing for ages, I could probably beat him if I played for 3 weeks straight. Do you agree with this statement.
In conclusion, this tournament means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, because the CPM players who played barely played before the tournament, the level of skill was, tbh, not that high, and fox is actually a decent player.
Oh btw if you want a CPM player who was really good at VQ3 (I hope this doesn't make you look like a retard), see elpa. Now fuck off you twit.
i'm not sure if you're trolling here but there are a few parameters you are forgetting here
1) this is a tournament with people spectating your neck, a lot of pressure. i doubt anyone can handle that. that's most likely partly why fox won here.. also there is the sound arround you and not being at your table at home with your comfortable chair etc.
2) you remember other cpm "heroes" from the days better than they actually are. this was the case with team y in that tdm cup where they got mashed in their faces even tho the practised for weeks. people are often glorified in others memories.
3) this was played on TFTs. your "judging" is from people playing at CRTs at home i guess.
i agree with you that we are missing some of the good duellers in the scene. Personally i'd love to see some swedish mad aimers there to make a run for it. as usual in the CPM scene though, no one is bothered or is too young (sadly).
eh? You act as if I've never actually played this game before. I've played against the best americans on low ping, and the best euros on low ping. I think I have a fairly good idea of the skill level of both groups of people.
1) There are cpm players who have performed well on lan: rat, snap, vo0, gelleh, toxter (in qlan2), etc. It is true that the only players here who has been to a lan (afaik) are toxter and fox, and that probably had something to do with it.
2) See my initial point... I've actually played against all of thees people, not just watched them. So your point seems odd. As for your team y point, 2 weeks of practice doesn't make up for 2 years of not playing. That's just silly. Fox obviously had the most experience and play time going into the tournament, and that's a huge reason why he won. But you can't honestly tell me that if snappy showed up he wouldn't have had a great chance at winning. [edit] Not to throw anyone under the bus, but there are also great great duelers who have come back after ages of not playing and only been pretty good as opposed to their previous untouchable nature[\edit]
3) Just a repeat of 1.
Again, I'm not sure why people are surprised that Fox won this. He had the most experience and probably among the most playtime of any player there. That's who wins tournaments. My only point is that the cpm representatives, not to take anything away from pod1/toxter/lugia, weren't as strong as they could have been.
- there could be better cpm players there
- people didnt perform on top level because of tourney, tfts etc. it might have gone differently if everyone had played from home. not to take anything away from fox but i think hes more used to the tournament enviroment.
you cant really compare koddys games from when he is playing home on crt to fox when he is playing in a noisy environment, on an lcd-monitor he is not used to, etc etc. im sure fox plays twice as good from home
though to be fair, it's near impossible for any 'top' cpm player to even be active nowadays, especially someone like pod1. he appeared quite rusty to me at least!
I tried to watch the 2nd and third games, but holy shit they were awful. The skill level showed there was just.... bad. There's really nothing more to say than that.
I doubt it has anything to do with that. it's all about practice, as far as I'm concerned. to say these "weren't CPM's best" or "they were out of practice" and on and on is
pointless. fox is now CPM's best; when else have there been any LANs with this caliber of CPM players recently? whatever, though.. I don't care that much.
but what I do know is that the reason no one else from VQ3 showed up is simply because they haven't played CPM much. if they had, they could be just as competitive,
because it's all about practice. to say there's some innate qualities about fox or anyone else that allows them to win is silly. if, say, av3k, had entered the CPM tourney, he
would not have done very well. that's not because his "overall quake skill" isn't good, but because I don't think he's played very much CPM (I may be wrong; sorry if I am).
whether or not CPM has a higher "skill level" or not is irrelevant, because you still have to have some basic level of knowledge, and many of the VQ3 players don't, because
they spend all their time playing VQ3.
what I do think this demonstrates is that the level of competition in CPM in general can't be very high. to call these players hobbyists may be a stretch, though, because
they're the ONLY thing we have to compare against, and, so far, fox beats them or at least competes very well. and fox has played the maps much less overall, though he
may have practiced more in a shorter timeframe, which may be the important thing in becoming good at a game.
what I don't think this demonstrates is that the fact that the level of competition is low necessarily says anything about the game itself or the kind of people who're attracted to
the game. I'm not sure it's possible to draw any reasonable conclusions about such a thing. but currently I'd say it's obvious that the "skill" of VQ3 players is higher, because
more people play it on a professional level. (I don't care why that is; I wasn't concerning myself with that)
Fox did a similar thing last year by giving the very best qw'rs a run for their money in their own game for the short time he played competitively, the guy is exceptionally adaptable and naturally talented imo even amongst the q3 pros.
Would the average online vq3 champ dominate the game as much as fox has manged to after a month or so prac? no I don't think so.
I think fox is the man to beat in cpm now, not because the field was particularly strong (You would have expected voo/joanathon/walter etc. to beat pod1/toxter without problems also). but in the manner he won dominating everyone he played. I think even voo would have a hard time beating him now.
Here's hoping for a big cpm money lan tourney next year with fox, voo, the top americans, a few more of the top vq3'rs making the transition and most importantly a rat comeback :)
walter to beat them? based on what exactly? not that he wouldn't, but I mean... walter is fairly new to CPM compared to them, and we haven't seen him like we've seen fox, in a big tournament with pretty good players. we've just seen him online versus a few pretty good NA players.
that tourney was bad in the aspect that fox did not face any good players on cpm3a, the staple of cpm and a very good map, I play vq3 myself but really like the dynamics of cpm3a.
wow all of cpm is based one map? Daaaamn doesn't say much for cpmers than. Pretty shitty to only play one map all day. I guess I would play one map all day so if there ever was a lan I'd go to I can make an excuses about why I loss. It wasn't because my skill level of years and years playing one mode wasn't high enough, but because I'm retarded enough to only play one map.
Oh you mean 40 ping vs 120 ping? Good idea to compare skill there. Not to mention the fact that score with rat rarely meant anything.
Forgot to mention the z4 rage vs gelleh where he said he was going to "practice this shit so hard" to beat him, and then lost again in lb. Please shut up you have no idea what you're talking about.
my comment has nothing to do with CPM players being better than VQ3 players I think your love of CPM ego is being trod on or something. I seriously couldn't give a fuck, and in general you'll find they do very well in CPM for one simple reason. Skill will be where the money and competition is. Just before you mash something into that keyboard you stupid fuck just make sure you read what I actually just typed.
and nice rail whore comment considering matrox dropped off the map after he lost the precious fast switch didn't he? I could be wrong though.
Tbh I have no idea what you're talking about. Your ability to communicate with the English language is severely lacking. Please edit your post for readability and I will respond.
That's not really what's happening, but if it makes you feel good you can say that. Nobody has actually brought a point up that's worth mentioning tbh.
that so funny. now 90 % of the cpm`er say fox just won because no good cpm players were present. so what? why didnt your precious little vo0 turn up, he was with his gf in america instead of playin the tourney (playmorecpm*vo0 i lold), but he has the money to go there. and fox beat anyone present considering before the tournament everyone said pod1 will be first with toxter and lugia placing before fox.
and also dont forget that fox had to make the transition from vq3 to cpm troughout the whole tournament.
atleast you still feal like the superior scene, gz for that.