Arena 77 Quake 3 Tournament

[Guardien]

Arena 77, in conjunction with Intel, Sapphire and ATI will be hosting a Quake 3 tournament at rAge. Prizes worth over R100,000 are up for grabs, with winners up to 15th place being eligible for part of the prize pot. The tournament will take place on the stage and will be played on high-end sponsored PC?s.

Tournament Format: Random draw 1v1 single elimination tournament
Registration: www.langames.co.za

For more information go to Arena 77 (http://www.arena77.co.za/articledisp.php?type=main&page=0&art=425)

[Guardien]

An update to this announcement has been made - the article below is copied from Do Gaming (http://gaming.do.co.za/articles/localnews/arena_77_announce_dreamhack_for_quake_3_competitio n.htm) ...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009, 4:41 pm
by Rob Clegg, Do Gaming Journalist

Len Nery, Arena77 former MD, has announced that Arena 77 will be sending the winner of their Quake 3 competition at rAge to this year’s Summer Dreamhack in Sweden.

The winner will be sent to play in the Quake Live Competition at Summer Dreamhack at the end of November. AVG will be sponsoring the winner’s flight as well as accommodation and entry into the competition.

Earlier this month, Arena77 announced they would be holding a Quake 3 Competition at rAge with over R100 000 in hardware prizes in addition to the newly announced Dreamhack prize.

Nery then said the original plan was to host a competition for Counter Strike Source (CS:S) and link it with Kode 5, which is a 1.6 Counter Strike competition, where the winning CS:S team would play CS 1.6 at Kode 5. Read more on that story here

The tournament will be a 1 vs 1 Single Elimination Tournament, however will no longer be a random draw competition, as announced previously by Arena 77. Seeds are being decided in consultation with the community in order to ensure a fair tournament.

According to LanGames, the competition will be free of charge, as long as each entrant has either a rAge visitor’s pass or an Open LAN ticket.

The competition is not a BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) event and will be played on sponsored machines. Players are also allowed to bring their own mouse, keyboard, mousepad and headphones in order to compete.

Arena77 are keeping their Quake 3 settings at rAge as close to those of Quake Live in order for their winner to stand a good chance overseas. There will be a mix of Dreamhack maps and standard maps which will be up on the Arena77 website (http://www.arena77.co.za).

[Mercury]

Might have been told absolute **** here , but i heard arena 77 died , is it back or was it never gone?

[Angel6969]

Is this open for any 1 to take part ? or not

[Cranzy]

yes it is ... as long as you have a rage ticket or open lan ticket ... you don't need a pc ... they sponsor the pcs ... Register at langames

[Mayhem11]

what day? what time?

[Cranzy]

Goto the website and read all the details ... it starts Saturday at 12

[Angel6969]

Thanks Guys, this should be Fun