this just in.

nobody cares

about your comment.

Registration open to any SC2 player

Fake acc

neato

"1 month Premium Subscription to QuakeLive"
"CSN would like to thank ID Software for donating these prizes"
what a generosity...full month of premium membership :x

1 month?

A whole month?, just think about the possibilities! Mind=blown:D

Nice, 42 players signed up already.

it should be 1 month for every participant and 6/12 months for the winners

TWO DOLLAR PRIZE SO FUCKING GENEROUS SINKERROR

Christmas time!!

(seriously must be a mistake and they meant 1 year)

TWENTY FOUR DOLLAR PRIZE SO FUCKING GENEROUS SINKERROR

1 month premium wtf lol

I like how random people from another game get id software prizes yet people who have stuck with quakelive for years taking part in online cups ect get nothing. lol.

omg id is giving 6$ to sc2 players

omg id is giving $h17 to quake players.

We received the ability to pay for reheated version of things what we had for 10+ years, and we were even worked hard to make it happen in the early days of the closed beta alpha.

Don't be greedy! We already got more than what anybody could ask for:D

I'm sure that this wasn't something that id was seeking out, but rather a request from some of the QL fanboys on TL. You could probably get the same thing, if you ran your own tournament.

OMG, how stupid you all are. It's 1 month because it's rare and exclusive. How many of you have exactly one month membership? Every noob can buy 1 year, but how about 1 month? It actually cannot be bought for any money, so it's really very special and valuable prize. And I'm jealous and even a little bit angry that id offers such precious reward for SC2 players, but give only some oversized checks for quakers at QCons.

I sense a little sarcasm in your reply.

Anyhow, I think vedic hit the nail on the head here. I'm sure they would give these out on a regular basis if tournament organisers simply asked for them. OK so its only a month, but it's something.

And one month is enough time to decide weather you would actually like to purchase a full premium/pro account or not. It's pointless giving out one year subscription to sc2 players who won't ever use it. It makes sense when you actually give it some thought.

Give them a month to see if they like it or not. If not, fu.

But I do think a one year pro subsriptions should be considered as prizes for some tournaments. But that's upto tournament admins / #quakelive to arrange.

couldn't make it pro, hu? regardless, go ffa fans (:

i see my gameicon has become world famous

na server for both ql and sc2 i assume?

ye this is NA one.

yes but anyone is free to join

1 month, hehe funny

better then no months :>

wait until ray the noob give his statement to this :>

They did give me some one year one's but this first cup was sort of a test. If all goes well I'll put up the big one's for the next cup.

nice initiative !

I wanted to see what kind of turnout we'd get for this first. It's way more than I anticipated. But, it's bringing a whole new set of players into QL. I think that's a great thing.

Its a really great idea. I like it and hope it works out well.

I kind of want to play in both tournament :(

The Quakelive prize is frankly, pathetic.

cool idea, should be fun to watch :D

SC 2 player placement in QL: Bronze League.






































Just kidding. QL will never be a quarter of the game SC2 is.

id software will never be a quarter of the company blizzard is

This tournament sounds soo dumb ! :D

A bridge between the communities, I love the initiative.

hope it's not gonna be boring games there and there ^^ but good call!

QL matches in this Cup shall be boring by definition.

Ah, so we're playing the 'whoever writes a positive comment gets +'d' game...

So here's my attempt: Wow, amazing! The best thing since sliced ketchup! Brb, changing my pants...

Fail.

im going to be seriously pissed if QL gets active because of riding on SC2 coattails, they'll begin to think what theyve been doing is okay

what's wrong with sc2 players getting into QL? That would be a good thing. What they're doing IS okay.

I don't know shit about sc2 except it takes alot of skill and strategy to play, and I should think alot of sc2 players feel the same about quake...

yep thats it. if we get like 10% of the sc2-fans to regularly watch out for ql tourneys/streams, that's a big deal for any sponsor. i'm really hoping for this thing to be a big sucess! :)

Most will drop out after realizing that they need to practice 2 years to get on a decent level in quake (as a rts player with some brains and talent).

Not necessarily. Dedication and consistent practice can make one above average, and then some, in a matter of months. I don't know why anyone would suffer that path now.

I don't think that you can get 1200+ elo in duel within a few months if starting from scratch. Would be interesting to know what the average elo of active players is atm though.

u can get it in just ur first duel :p ... but then it will start dropping

You have nothing to worry about.

Any date for this?

January 2nd 7pm est. with Mr. Rance Costa casting aka djRome

Check in Mon 1/2/12 6:05pm EST - 6:55pm
Matches Mon 1/2/12 7:05pm EST - 10:40pm

edit: steve beat me

:)

Cool thing! Is also a tournament planned, where QL players compete in an amateur SC2 cup?

Something we could consider.

if it happens, i'll win it! :>>

awesome ;)

1 month is a perfect prize, it gives them just enough time to either become familiar with the maps/games and buy a year sub, or enough time to let them know its not for them. there's no use in giving a 1 year for someone who's not going to enjoy the game after a few weeks.

good initiative, i hope this goes well

there we go, this is quake nowadays, thx for the amazing help ID !!!

So, how did it go?

i believe it went quite well. least from what the csn admins told me.

I should post the winners. My bad.

Bracket - http://cyber-sports.net/brackets/15622

1st - to0l
2nd - FrZnSquid
3rd - zionsc

If you look at the bracket those were the top 8 that made it out of the QL FFA rounds and into the sc2 bracket.

They received premium tokens and it went great and we plan on running another one.


CSN-steve

Cool, I hope that the next time a news post will be made about this tournament!