Remember QuakeCon99? Well if the Shack QuakeCon Picturebook wasnt enough for you then you should check out the pictures the Ritualistic guys took. Also the Lilith & Eve show will be showing some footage from the event on tonight's show. Lastly Blue pointed out that Cowboy Carnage Radio has a wrap-up as well.

A bit of late QuakeCon99 coverage for you guys to check out. If that Shack picturebook of QuakeCon99 just wasnt enough for you then you should have a look at what Sujoy has to say about the event after coming home. (Sujoy was the closest match for DieharD-r3v in the tourney) Then head over to the Violent Femmes picturebook as well. Lastly have a look at BostonChick's QuakeCon Diary.

Thanks Blue. The New York Times has put up a nice article here about QuakeCon and how people were generally nice and normal. Very refreshing, since I was afraid the mainstream press would find some way to put a bad spin on it. Here's a great quote from the article:

Only rarely did the Colorado killings come up in conversation, and the general sentiment was summed up by one older player who said, "Playing Quake no more turns kids into killers than wearing Goth clothes turns them into vampires."

Not to be left out, the GameCenter guys have posted a QuakeCon99 wrap-up which is a pretty good read. They of course talk about all of the sponsors involved as well as talk about the event possibly foreshadowing future professional gaming events. The Engineering room along with Team Abuse have updates as well.. Also check out the QuakeCon99 Picture Book Huntsman put together.

With all the talk about gaming being eventually seen as a "true" sporting event, it was interesting to witness the end of a three-day tournament. The view on each player's screen was put on two pairs of monitors in order for as many spectators as possible to witness the game. In addition, fixed "cams" were put on the two largest areas of the level to view the action. The responses of the crowd to various in-game activities (escaping a close death, a particularly excellent shot, and the like) were exactly like the reactions one would expect at a "true" sporting event; with this type of audience reaction, professional gaming can't be that far away.

Lastly, the QuakeCity guys attended the talk Paul Jaquays of id Software gave while at QuakeCon99 this year talking about the curved surfaces that I'm sure you guys have probably noticed show up in Quake3.

Well during QuakeCon99 Huntsman was the man with a camera for a lot of the event and busted out taking a bunch of pictures for you guys and even took the time to describe every single one of them for you guys. Took him a couple of hours to do all that so I recommend you take a look. Or at least have a look at the pictures with the hooters chicks. If I may quote Austin Powers, "Nice rack!"

Got a couple of write-ups of the John Carmack talk from QuakeCon99 for you guys to check out. Most of the time John spent talking about current technology and not a whole lot about what he has planned for the future. He spoke for close to 90 minutes I believe. Have a look at what our man Avatar had to say about, and when you're done with that take a look at the PlanetQuake write-up. Don't forget to check out the Ra2io write-up of the QuakeCon event. Here is a bit of Carmack's bit on timescale:

The client constantly reports to the server what it has done, so that the server can move the player around in the same way the client sees it happen. Since the you don't always get a constant stream of packets in an internet game, the client also reports the current milliseconds since it last sent a packet (AHHhh..). What timescale was doing was allowing players to change the % of the ms being sent back to the server. Basically the client was saying "oh no I didn't move 2 feet in 50 ms, I moved 2 feet in FIVE ms!", causing the client to zip around the map.

Just about to get a haircut when I refresh the NetGames QuakeCon 1on1 page to find that Diehard (George Myshlyayev of Clan r3v) has won the tourney 18-5!!!!

Update from Clay: DieharD-r3v gave us all a scare and went down 4-0, but then proceeded to open up the extra can of whupass he was hiding in his backpack and just went off to defeat an extremely skilled 1134-Bane. There are demos and screenshots of the game that show off the cool acorbatics with the lightguns. We'll get these up as soon as possible. Oh yeah, Bane wants all of you to know that 1134 put the "34" in ph34r. Good game, guys.

The kids over at AnandTech try to blend-in, down at QuakeCon...but end up talking about hardware stuffs (which is what they do best anyway :)

Surprisingly enough, the Athlon (running on a non-production motherboard) combined with the Rage Fury Pro (a beta product in itself) did turn out to be a very stable setup. Kudos to AMD and ATI for putting all that together for such a smoothly run operation at this year's Quakecon, although there were a few hiccups, overall the hardware had no problem making these gamers happy. For those of you that are more interested in the video card, the response from a few of the gamers that tried out the Athlon systems was generally positive, and a few users even thought that the video cards used in the machines were TNT2s. If you're judging solely on 32-bit color image quality, telling the difference between the Rage 128 Pro and the TNT2 is next to impossible.

Update: It's DieharD-r3v and Bane in the finals.
K9-Gloucester defeated rix-r3v in the run off for 5th place.

These are the 4 finalists and who they defeated in parentheses:

DieharD-r3v (K9-Gloucester)
vs.
a|r1msh0t (screw)


toxic (rix-r3v)
vs.
1134-Bane (1134-Turmoil)

We'll keep you guys updated.

Wassup. I'm mooching off one of the administrator's computers for this update. For live wire stuff, check out the QuakeCon 99 News Page. As far as I can tell, they are in Batch 3 of Round 2. Things seem to be running smoothly, and Paul Steed brought Booth Babes. I grabbed a picture of sTeve copping feels on all four of them at once. Impressive, eh? We'll have some cool stuff up later, but they are eyeing me like I'm not supposed to be on here.

Something that should be cool later tonight is the Girls vs. Guys Tournament. The girls have a few people including TankGirl, Anna Kang, and my buddy BostonChick. The guys have a bunch, including Paul Steed, Redwood and myself. We expect to get slaughtered.

Well, I wish I had watched more closely to the FFA rounds of the QuakeCon tournament so I could give you guys better info on what is going down. I can however tell you that I heard through the grapevine that the NetGames stats page should be up and running Saturday evening some time. That should give you more information than you could possibly need. There havent been any real upsets that I've seen so far. Basically the expected players. Here are a few of the names I know for certain are heading into the next round which people are buzzing about: Leprechaun, Avatar, Rix-r3v, DieharD-r3v, a|Toxic, Sujoy, Batch, Kulprit, and vitamins. You can also have a look at the PlanetQuake or Frag.com coverage. Also check out Cowboy Carnage Radio which is broadcating from the event, I'll probably pop in on the show a bit tomorrow.

A bit more QuakeCon action for you guys. Check out the Frag.com QuakeCon coverage page which opens up with a H2H interview. Also word over on the Shoutcast.com page is that there will be a big broadcast going out from the event. I'll be participating in that side of the things a bit so I'll dig up a few more details for you guys tomorrow.

Speaking of QuakeCon, people seem to be quite bent out of shape on the Quake3 messageboard about the tournament rules for QuakeCon99. People have also seem to have forgotten that they arent even paying for the event.

NetGamesUSA has opened up their QuakeCon99 coverage page which doesnt have a whole lot there just yet, but I highly recommend keeping your eye on that page when the event gets underway. The NGUSA guys are gonna rock your world when you see all the information and stats they will be posting from the event. Not to mention the PlanetQuake QuakeCon preview. Also, it looks like a few people have already dug up the official QuakeCon messageboard which id Software requested I host for the event. Feel free to hit the board and post any concerns you guys have there or just make fun

The Road To QuakeCon has been updated again with some chit-chat with Anna Kang of id Software. If you are interested in attending the event you should read that .plan update from Todd Hollenshead on the subject about getting in.

Todd Hollenshead, captain CEO man over at id Software has a lengthy .plan update talking about QuakeCon99 which fires up later this week. Speaking of QuakeCon I'm sure you guys will be dissapointed to hear that I will in fact be MC at the event bustin phat rhymes on the mic for a couple of days.