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Play Quake At Work

by Maarten Goldstein, Apr 21, 2000 5:33am PDT
Related Topics – Quake 3 Arena

Paul Flanagan sent word of this news story on Gamespot UK, which talks about the iniative of an UK company called Cybernetic Productions who is organizing Quake3 CTF tournaments. While this may not seem like a big deal, after all, nothing really new, it's for companies. Instead of the oldschool paintball matches between companies, they're now turning to Quake3. They have even developed a program to teach people how to play. Winners of the upcoming tourney in London will be playing against teams from New York and Tokyo. The days of needing a "boss key" in games seem to be gone ;)


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    By: TargetBoy x
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    Here's something off topic, but friggin' funny:

    Was doing research on another post and found this link http://www.barrysworld.com/news/columns.asp?Author=8&Category=8 near the bottom was the following:

    What it is to be l33t....
    Wednesday, December 15, 1999, 22:51


    You gotta love irc...

    I once had so many blue "impressive" logos floating above my model that I crashed the server.
    Sometimes when i`m playing nightmare bots and I start to get those yellow "excellent" symbols above my head
    I get so many that the framerate drops to about 5 fps
    so I can no longer see what direction the bots are moving in
    But I still know where to shoot
    so I have to deliberately miss just to keep the framerate manageable.
    Tomorrow i`m due to play DC.Giant on q3tourney2
    I`m going to try to beat him using nothing but rotating on the spot
    If I time it right I can frighten him into the precipice
    Hope the final version comes out in uk soon
    I`m getting bored of playing 4 nightmare bots with me on 25 handicap and using nothing but buzz saw
    When you win maps on q3tourney2 against 6 people from clan [9] simply by constantly scaring everybody down the precipice near the armour&teleporter, you can`t help but be big-headed
    I never even pressed fire.,
    In fact I don`t even have fire bound to any key
    or movement
    I just jump at exactly the right time to scare them off
    Final score was 0 to me, and -6 to HAkeem, -7 to Nikodemus, -10 to xenon
    YES I HAVE PLAYED DR
    I PLAYED 5 OF THEM ON THE LONGEST YARD
    THRESH, MAKA, UNHOLY, D2B2, IMMORTAL AND FRICK
    I MADE HEAVY USE OF THE QUAD BUZZ SAW
    To bring home a comfortable victory
    yes - they claimed to be tired
    they said they were jetlagged after having had to walk from their sitting room to their bedrooms to get to their pc`s.
    Also, at one point in the game I deliberately (and unknown to them) engineered for them to be lined up in a line.
    At this point I railed them and got 5 kills and one near kill
    Whereupon the guy who I didn`t kill cratered 1 second later
    At one point I air-rox`ed thresh after he grabbed quad (I let him get it).
    He died and dropped the quad, It was falling off the level
    so I did an inverse rj, actually using the blast force to fall faster than the quad, Caught it
    then quad-rj`s off thresh`s falling body to get back up onto the level
    simultaneously grabbing the 100h and railing Unholy
    They said I was the best player they had ever played
    but said I couldn`t join Deathrow because I would take all the limelight
    So I put my handicap up from 25 to 50 and wooped them hardcore

    Just too fucking funny!
    Apr 21, 2000 10:31am PDT

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