The CPL 2006 World Season will visit Sweden, The USA, Brazil, China and Italy and feature Quake 3 (Challenge ProMode Arena (CPMA) with VQ3) and Counter-Strike 1.6.
"Brazil is wrong country to CPL stop, why there? There is 10 man scene?"
Unfortunately I have to agree. From both a business and a fan standpoint it doesn't seem to make much sense. Since Europe and North America are where the interest is focused, why not focus the tournaments there, with maybe 1 Asian stop?
They used 2min overtimes instead of sudden teadth. Is this how it is supposed to be (watched the super final hub game 2x 2mins added there)?
Edit:
4.10e In the incident of a tie, a two minute overtime will be played. In case of additional tie, additional 2 minute overtimes will be played until a winner is determined.
so yeah, they are supposed to play with 2 min overtimes
"Brazil is wrong country to CPL stop, why there? There is 10 man scene?"
Unfortunately I have to agree. From both a business and a fan standpoint it doesn't seem to make much sense. Since Europe and North America are where the interest is focused, why not focus the tournaments there, with maybe 1 Asian stop?
1. R$4.000,00; travel expences to Dallas
it's a national tourney. Why does excluding huge countries with smaller then European scenes make so much sense to you?
It makes me sad to see this kind of reaction from you guys, but it is expected as nothing has been explained as of yet. There are far more than 10 players in our scene :P. In fact wasn't for met, ryu, imortal and agu, NONE of the other top players (at least other 10 in the same high level) attended the event.
The main problem wasn't lack of interest, it was lack of antecipation, divulgation and information (!) from the CPL Brazil organization. The "official" website had NOTHING but that pretty q3 logo image to show.. no dates.. no venue.. no hosting details.. nothing. People sent various e-mails but got no answers at all (including me, twice).
Then they suddenly (2 days before the event) announced some information, not in official website, but in community news websites, with the Q3 tourney to be played on THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.
Now, i don't know but i think they got way too used with the CS scene. Quake players (specially in Brazil) are people from 20-30 years old, who study and work and can't unschedule their appointments with only 2 days in antecipation.
In my case for example, despite the fact i knew it was going to be 15-19/November, i'm in the final year of medical school and i can't just skip classes or something :P i have responsabilities and i needed confirmation of DAYS some weeks prior so i could change shifts accordingly.
This has happened to a lot of good players. I'm not saying there would be 128 plaeyrs in the competition, but we could easily fill 32 places with average-good players.
Its a shame, yes =(. I keep thinking we brought this upon us as no one steped up to take place in the organization and let things be runned by people with no contact with the quake scene at all. At lease we had a tourney, with good prizes (for our standards), props for that..
This fact will degenerate the Brazilian scene image internationally, no doubt about it.. and it will hurt our chances of having a Brazilian stop for the next year's WT.
PS: I forgot to mention that ridiculous troll-flamming-like post the CPL organizers posted on the official site (now that they can do can't they?) saying their disappointment with the lack of "PROFISSIONALISM" from the quake comunity. Talk about it eh?
Exactly
me and others great players won´t play cause we work and study.The cpl organization don´t give a F*** about quake3 and don´t care at all to give us information about the tournament.
Only 2 days before the tourney starts they release some info.
and the tourney starts in the middle of the week, so we can´t stop our works and study to travel 4 hours to são paulo to play a game.