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Date: December 2nd 2000 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
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1st
Prize: $1000 - 1st:
Syn - 2nd: ZuG
- 3rd: [BA]
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Monday December 5th 2000
By: Red Leader - gavinmacrae@home.com
© FRAGtopia.com 2000
Hello everyone, this is a review I though I would do
on a Tournament in Toronto last weekend. Below is the
events that took place this weekend. Dopper came down
and picked my up at my place late Friday night. We stopped
at McDonald's to eat and we got to Gaming Arena at about
10:30 PM. I immediately started creating the tournament
ladders templates while Dopper chatted up his old Quake
2 buddies from .ki. that were playing a match at Gaming
Arena. My team ( ZuG ) was supposed to be coming down
from Montreal to compete with me and they were running
a little late. It was expected though, they used Mapquest.com
and Mapquest is known to be wrong :). They arrived at
Gaming Arena at about 12:30am, and were immediately
headed out to get some rest at my Dad's place. When
I took the directions from my Dad they were a little
muffled and I didn't get them all down correctly. So
we ended up driving off all around Mississauga and Toronto
looking for his damn street. First of all we went the
wrong way on the Danforth, then we went the right way
and missed out turnoff and it was all a big disaster
( Completely Dopper's fault :). So to make a long story
short we arrived at my Dad's place at about 3:30 AM.
The drive was supposed to be around 30 minutes, and
it had taken us 3 hours. I had to be up and ready to
direct a Tournament at 8:30AM and I was overly enthusiastic
about it all :{. All the ZuG's were asleep when I woke
at 7:30, except for Dopper. It seems that Dopper was
right under a large window that stayed open the entire
night and he was freezing to death. Dopper couldn't
sleep because of the cold so he came with me to Gaming
Arena. We got there at about 9:30 and started setting
up the server configs. I posted the tourney times and
our first two teams arrived a little late. This was
expected though. The first matchup was against [xeno]
and .syn, two very good teams. It was an intense
match and the first round finished very but there were
some problems. There was 36 seconds left in the game,
the score was 6 to 5 for .syn and [xeno] had just planted
the bomb. Syn realized this and rushed the bomb point
but [xeno] held them off long enough for the bomb to
explode ( or so we though ). The game ended and the
machines locked ( that is what half-life does before
a map change ). So I went to check the score on one
of the .syn machines, and it read 5 - 6. I went to over
to a [xeno] machine and it said 6 - 6. They were reading
different scores! This had never happened to me before
so I was left to make a decision. Just as this happened,
the [xeno]'s jumped up out of there chairs and so did
.syn players and they started screaming at each other
It looked like they were going to brawl. Lucky Dopper
and I were there to "straighten" them all
out, hehe.. I checked the player log's and the scores
were still 5 - 6 and 6 - 6. I ruled it a draw, and said
that they would have to play one more game and which
ever team won that game would win the match. The teams
played and .syn came out on top. ( Surprising that [xeno]
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So the teams played on into night. Finally at about
11:00 PM Tourney got intense when there were 3 teams
left. ZuG, .Syn and [BA]. How I did the final three
is we tallied up all the scores from the games that
these three teams had played, subtracted the wins
from the losses and whoever had the highest ratio
would be passed onto the final round. .Syn took that
freebie, so it was [BA] vs ZuG. [BA] came out strong
but we were a little more stronger and took the win.
Good game Beef Assassins. The last match was ZuG versus
.Syn. We agreed on the map de_nuke, and took our spots.
The match started and It was intense. To make a long
story short, .Syn won the match and took home the
$1000. Congrats to them. They were very good, and
I hope we will have a rematch later on in the year
( Maybe in Texas for the CPL ). Well all the teams
were good sports and I thank them all for coming out
and supporting our tourney. I wish I had some camera's
so I could of taken a few shots of the place and the
players, but I didn't :( We will probably do it again
soon. Super Super thanks go out to Eddy of Gaming
Arena and the people that helped promote the tourney.
Special thanks go out to Dopper for his help. It couldn't
of worked without the Dopper. Thanks Joe, you r00l
you r33t h4x0r!
Stay tuned for more tournament information, if
there is any!
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