Debunking some myths about the SA region (that will get me flamed on fb). The tl;dr version is Clan Arena killed southamerican quake, just look at the server browser, and servers are going down anyway.
Now the long version:
First of all it seems argentinian servers will not come back, provider is not willing to do it for free anymore, and chilean's are going down very soon, same as arg + understandably people not willing to pay for them separately anymore (like usd$2,000 a year. It was like that for about 3 years).
Argentinians now play on unofficial servers (qlop) just like BRs do, though they lately started using vpns to play on chile's officials, and as we know no official servers = 10% of players = immediately dies.
Secondly, competitive-wise chile was much, much more active than argentina (like 5x more) but this year it simply died:
- Lets start with argentina and brazil. Argentinians either play pub duel or pub ca, nothing more. Literally 0 tdm and 0 ctf, always been like that and always will be. Brazilians don't have an official server and rarely host nor join tournaments anyway (they literally have 1 clan and never sign up in other countries tournaments. Individually they rarely play on duel tournaments, flesh1 included).
Chilean admins always tried to host non-ca tournaments (for obvious reasons. CA is not quake) and here's what happened with tdm, ctf and duel:
- Public tdm is nonexistent. Literally 0 matches.
On the "competitive" side, the last tdm tournament was like a month ago and most matches ended in WO, including the final. As far as I remember there has not been a single semi decent tdm cup here, particularly 4v4 since it's so sad I don't bother signing up as it's obvious that will fail every time (think there were 2 tournaments in 4 years anyway). As for 2v2, tdm skill level is so bad here I, the worst quake player ever, won 2/2 tdm2v2 cups I participated rofl (think there was one more ever made and that's it, in 4 years).
With that said, the tdm frags featured on the movie must have been either internal matches or sporadic pubstomping. There are no friendly, pickup or comp matches here.
-ctf public play is sort of dead since ql started. It was played lots in q3 but somehow it completely died the minute ql started; probably map pool.
The last ctf tournament was some months ago, with 2 out of the top3 contenders losing by WO in group stages or something. The one before that one was also very lacklusting so it's safe to say ctf died here too (again to the point that I'm the "champion". That means the scene died way too much). It had a decent run between 2009 and 2010, but afterwards...
As for frags on the fragmovie, "gxl" does not play ctf nor does vodkax. The frags on the video have to be pubstomping from who knows when, but there's no way those come from friendlies or tourney matches.
- I have no idea why people didn't host more duel tournaments, particularly between chilean, argentinian and brazilian players. It had a lot of potential but I only know about 2 southamerican ql tournaments and all the rest were local. My guess is they cried about pings, as for most people here 30+ms=not playing, which is a shared issue with them not participating in "our" tournaments in all mods.
Another problem is that argentinian tournaments started not allowing chilean nor br players for some reason. I kind of understand them not playing in other countries but not allowing the rest to play with them is way too much.
- With QL for some reason people here completely left mods with items and tournaments as well, therefore there's no cohesion and it lead to an unavoidable death (what admin would want to waste time on keeping alive ca). Add to that the 0 region integration (and I mean 0) and the result is obvious.
Very few people started playing duel in ql as playing with the 20- local duel players was the sole viable alternative to ca, and that's what vodkax did.
edit: - Since I know this post will cause e-drama, Personally I only play ql sporadically (more like ca since those are the only public servers) but when I do I get addicted and play for hours lol. For some reason I find it more entertaining to do so on argentinian servers, which is why I don't really care about the "chilean scene" (for example i only play on tournaments if asked). Thing is for me and for most players playing quake dies the moment there are no official southamerican servers, which should be in a couple of days, whether because of not knowing the existence of unofficial servesr (most people) and I can't be bothered to play on them (the rest).