Games Domain Online Championships 2002

Posted by Fluke at 16:43 14/3/2002.

Guy Buss (Games Domain) has sent over the following press statement detailing their GD Online Championships 2002:

"In celebration of the full launch of BTopenworld’s Games Domain online games subscription service, Games Domain are throwing down the gauntlet to computer gamers across country to test their skills in the UK’s biggest ever games tournament - the ‘Games Domain Online Championships 2002’.
The championships are set to become the centrepiece of the UK online games calendar, with gamers competing against each other in three popular categories; football (Fifa 2002 published by Electronic Arts), first person shooters (‘Return to Castle Wolfenstein’ published by Activision and ‘Counter-Strike’ published by Vivendi Universal) and chess (Games Domain’s speed chess) for a total prize pot of over £20,000.
The competition kicks off online with heats running in May and June 2002 culminating in a LAN based final in July 2002 at a central London venue. The first 100 registrations will receive a free Games Domain t-shirt. Closing date for registration is May 3, 2002. The tournament will be organised and monitored by Games Domain’s community support team AlienPants."

For more information and registration details click, here.
The staff at Games Domain can be contacted through their website and on IRC Quakenet in #gamesdomain.

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	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 19:45 14/3/2002	anyone know an irc channel or name of the people that are running this?, as in, ppl the community actually know [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 19:49 14/3/2002	lol bt? :), what are the odds of an 8 v 8 tournament with full settings with the final on cs_militia? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ryano theb0g 20:23 14/3/2002	Good odds [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	robe 21:29 14/3/2002	I hear Ladbrokes are offering 2-1 :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 22:44 14/3/2002	Dont worry, Daishi will run it right [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DArtagnan Infinity-eSports 00:32 15/3/2002	Try 5v5 mr? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	decrepit Croydon 01:00 15/3/2002	dont be silly greg [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Daishi 19:08 15/3/2002	It'll be CO rules, there isn't enough time to fit on MR. I have to assume that a MR game will run to the maximum theoretical time, so there could be lots of evil delays. When you're doing all the games on one day, there's a pretty tight schedule that I think only CO can fill. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Marcus calibre 22:53 15/3/2002	No one plays CO. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PHB 11:27 16/3/2002	If you do run a CO tourney you will find a LOT of clans will not be attending or play as well as they could. Even though I like CO more I think you should definally reconsider that option and just use the CPL rules, and you wouldn't have to assume the max time that it would run at, you would be looking at roughly 2 min a round for the better clans and then a much much short round for other clans, CO just isn't played enough anymore and doing this would force the UK/IE community to practice these rules for a big tourney here thus forcing the difference in skill between top UK/IE clans and top EU clans even moreso making this tourney suck! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 13:05 16/3/2002	aye if teams are gonna get good and keep up with other top euro's then there needs to be consistency in the rules/scoring system. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Daishi 14:29 16/3/2002	The trouble is that if you only have one evening to play all the games (as we do), you hit massive scheduling problems. If we get, say, 128 clans signing up, that means 64 games in one evening. Assuming we had 16 servers to play on, we would need 4 hours to play CO assuming two halves of 20 minutes, or 6 hours to play MR assuming two halves of 12 3 minute rounds (factoring in getting people on the server and ready togo). There isn't enough time in a weekday evening to play for 6 hours - you have to assume the maximum time for the schedule because otherwise you can get badly burnt. The problem is not so much with the number of servers, but the number and time admins have to spend looking at games. Remember they are doing this 4 days of the week, and it is going to become pretty tiring pretty quickly to have to watch games for 6 hours a day, 4 days a week for a couple of months. I know that people use MR these days, but it was only 3 months ago that we were all screaming 'MR SUCKS' to the CPL. I just can't see a way to fit enough games in with MR. If I could just say 'well, on average it'll only last 40 minutes' I'd be doing alright, but I have to assume all the games will last the full 72 minutes plus p***ing about time. If I don't teams might end up playing at 1am instead of 10pm, which isn't ideal on a weekday. If anyone can come up with a sensible solution, please let me know. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Penn0r 17:38 16/3/2002	PHB has a damn good point..but yeh its a shame, you have to do all your games in one evening Maybe if you cut down on the number of clans for the first season ? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Idea 17:40 16/3/2002	Round time 2:30 ? 24 x 2:30 let u do the maths Also show me 1 single game MR game that has lasted over 45 mins, [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Daishi 18:51 16/3/2002	24 * 2.30 could work, but it'd still be 60 minutes plus 'censored swear word'-around time, which I like to put at at least 20 minutes. It's not a seasonal competition right now, it's a one off tournament. The idea is to get as many people as possible signing up, so placing a limit would be counter productive from a commerical point of view fo rus. As I said (a couple of times) it has to assume that the games are going to last the maxmum amount of time. When you are scheduling 3 or 4 games down the line, if one overruns it ruins the entire day. In theory, something like 20 * 2.30 would work, but that'd leave just 10 minutes for the clan to join the server and start. I don't know about any of you guys, but I've rarely seen this. We'd have to enforce the rules completely too, so people'd be kicked if they were late. The schedule is everything :[ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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