Hi all,
As you may have noticed my team (Vox Eminor) have received an
invite to the EMS-ONE finals in Katowice Poland.
I will hope to write a series of blogs about our preparations
and experiences in Poland. The first part of this blog is
planning.
When we first got the news (a few days ago, but we werent
allowed to tell anyone) we started planning our trip. Because
we live so far away flights are very expensive and none of
them are really ideal (all like 30hours). Currently the best
looking flight (stopovers vs cost) is this:
12hour flight to Dubei then 6 hours to Munich. Alternatively,
we can go 6 hours to Singapore, then 12 hours to Munich.
Once in Munich its a few hours on a train to the event.
Ideally we are wanting to prac at least a week or more before the event. This is where you guys come in.
Does anyone know of any good LAN centres in either Munich or
Katowice/Krakow. When i say good, i mean new PC's with
120hertz monitors.
Alternatively, how good would the internet be if we played
from a hotel in Katowice (like a 4star/5star). We will most
likely have high-end gaming laptops with us, so that could be
an option as well. We would be praccing teams from
Sweden,Germany,Russia,etc
If anyone has experience with Katowice or Munich please speak up.
Inside the minds of some of Australias top e-sporters
Monday, 3 February 2014
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Managing the masses - Talnoy
Hello there, as one of the managers for Vox Eminor i thought why not take the time out to let you in behind the scenes of an esports organisation so you can see what happens around here.
First of all as a manager my job is conflict resolution, as with all teams you have those moments when someone makes someone else angry and then the team starts fighting. Naturally its about petty childish things most the time so i step in and take the involved aside and go okay what did you say to him and then basically tell the other guy to harden up!! No really, thats what it takes most of the time because most disputes are usually from players geeing eachother up and then you get that point where someone randomly decides today its not a joke and takes offense. So i work towards diffusing the situation tell the boys to get over it and its business as usual!
The next thing i do, and this is probably the hardest bit when you have a number of gamers under your banner is monitoring them. That doesnt mean check a website to see what games are coming up, this is a daily effort which involves going in to watch the teams practice or asking them whats happening. This is a critical process in managing a team because its about getting in with your players and showing them that hey im not just bringing you in for results, I really am interested in what you do and where the team is at. On a good week i can watch 20 prac sessions but naturally this on the prac schedules for my teams. When you mix in matches that are live streamed or i spectate its a substantial time commitment that no person should commit to unless they are willing to consistantly spend time with your teams.
Aside from that i have to liase with our sponsors, this part is one I love doing because a big rewarding part of having a team is seeing your sponsors post on your facebook page or liking posts. This is a measure of how well your doing your job is the fact that your sponsors are taking time out of their day to check in with you and stay involved with your team. There is also the promo process where you come up with promo ideas for the brands who support you to help them get their name out there. Its an important process to learn and master for any team manager as its those companies that help your gamers get to events and your support and dedication to support of those sponsors that makes it all happen.
Logistics is the next one and im not gonna lie its the bane of my existence, this involves posting out products to fans or hardware to players. We spend alot of money sending gear around the country and its a really time consuming process so you often find your lunchbreak heading down to the post office to ship something off to someone. Next on the list on the logistics part is coordinating player movements. You have events coming up close to today and further down the track and a key component is preparation. Scott is the catalyst of this where he keeps me on track so we have our players flights and accommodation booked in good time so our players do nothing but focus on the upcoming games.
Finally the next part is production, this involves collecting downloading uploading editing and formatting digital media for your team. This could be articles, reviews, or video blogs for the team. Its an integral component of the team as ideally you are working to get your team out there in the community and a big part of it is providing meaningful and sometimes just general video and written content to help the community learn about what we are doing at Vox Eminor. This takes massive amounts of time and effort, it involves hours of editing videos and written articles to ensure they are presentable but also maintain the character of the people who are involved. You dont want your written or video content to be too formal, you leave bits in that may look wrong or worded strangely but its important to leave it there because its how your player sees things. Getting the players out there in the community and sharing inside looks into how we operate and what we get up to is a big part of making our team what it is.
So thats all for me on this installment but ill keep writing these so i can share my processes when it comes to operating a major gaming team. Hope this helps some of you newcomers out there and i hope to present an article about sponsorships in the future.
Richard Lawes.
First of all as a manager my job is conflict resolution, as with all teams you have those moments when someone makes someone else angry and then the team starts fighting. Naturally its about petty childish things most the time so i step in and take the involved aside and go okay what did you say to him and then basically tell the other guy to harden up!! No really, thats what it takes most of the time because most disputes are usually from players geeing eachother up and then you get that point where someone randomly decides today its not a joke and takes offense. So i work towards diffusing the situation tell the boys to get over it and its business as usual!
The next thing i do, and this is probably the hardest bit when you have a number of gamers under your banner is monitoring them. That doesnt mean check a website to see what games are coming up, this is a daily effort which involves going in to watch the teams practice or asking them whats happening. This is a critical process in managing a team because its about getting in with your players and showing them that hey im not just bringing you in for results, I really am interested in what you do and where the team is at. On a good week i can watch 20 prac sessions but naturally this on the prac schedules for my teams. When you mix in matches that are live streamed or i spectate its a substantial time commitment that no person should commit to unless they are willing to consistantly spend time with your teams.
Aside from that i have to liase with our sponsors, this part is one I love doing because a big rewarding part of having a team is seeing your sponsors post on your facebook page or liking posts. This is a measure of how well your doing your job is the fact that your sponsors are taking time out of their day to check in with you and stay involved with your team. There is also the promo process where you come up with promo ideas for the brands who support you to help them get their name out there. Its an important process to learn and master for any team manager as its those companies that help your gamers get to events and your support and dedication to support of those sponsors that makes it all happen.
Logistics is the next one and im not gonna lie its the bane of my existence, this involves posting out products to fans or hardware to players. We spend alot of money sending gear around the country and its a really time consuming process so you often find your lunchbreak heading down to the post office to ship something off to someone. Next on the list on the logistics part is coordinating player movements. You have events coming up close to today and further down the track and a key component is preparation. Scott is the catalyst of this where he keeps me on track so we have our players flights and accommodation booked in good time so our players do nothing but focus on the upcoming games.
Finally the next part is production, this involves collecting downloading uploading editing and formatting digital media for your team. This could be articles, reviews, or video blogs for the team. Its an integral component of the team as ideally you are working to get your team out there in the community and a big part of it is providing meaningful and sometimes just general video and written content to help the community learn about what we are doing at Vox Eminor. This takes massive amounts of time and effort, it involves hours of editing videos and written articles to ensure they are presentable but also maintain the character of the people who are involved. You dont want your written or video content to be too formal, you leave bits in that may look wrong or worded strangely but its important to leave it there because its how your player sees things. Getting the players out there in the community and sharing inside looks into how we operate and what we get up to is a big part of making our team what it is.
So thats all for me on this installment but ill keep writing these so i can share my processes when it comes to operating a major gaming team. Hope this helps some of you newcomers out there and i hope to present an article about sponsorships in the future.
Richard Lawes.
XBOX COD Team Update - Unleash
Howdy all!
Basically just letting everyone know where our XBOX360 COD team is at! Currently we have been playing MW3 turbo matches and getting used to the maps, weapons, and trying to gain as much knowledge as possible from the new COD heading into ACL Gold Coast LAN. We have played 2 matches so far and both games we were victorious winning 16-3 and 16-1, although everyone is new at the game it gave us an insight into how S&D / 4v4's works on MW3. We are hoping to continue our form going against the more profound team's and to be as dominant as we were on Black Ops.
As for our league games, we are still awaiting our WaW match against Mind Freak and are just working out what time suits both teams. The COD4 final we are waiting for a few more games to be played to determine who we vs in the grand final, but so far its looking like either Mind Freak or Malice. We are definitely going to go into these games with more of a drive to win and try to make up for our disappointing loss in the CGi Black Ops Season 2 Grand Final after being undefeated during the whole season then losing the grand final 3-1.
We've also got a ODC ( One Day Comp ) for 4v4's and we're playing CTF ( Capture the Flag ) there is a $40 entry fee for those who wish to participate and we're hoping to do pretty well in it. If we do come out victorious it would be a major confidence boost heading to ACL Gold Coast in which we hope to win or place in the top 3.
Anyway that's about it for now if any of the matches get streamed, ill be sure to post the links up on the Vox Eminor facebook page.
Unleash Out!
Basically just letting everyone know where our XBOX360 COD team is at! Currently we have been playing MW3 turbo matches and getting used to the maps, weapons, and trying to gain as much knowledge as possible from the new COD heading into ACL Gold Coast LAN. We have played 2 matches so far and both games we were victorious winning 16-3 and 16-1, although everyone is new at the game it gave us an insight into how S&D / 4v4's works on MW3. We are hoping to continue our form going against the more profound team's and to be as dominant as we were on Black Ops.
As for our league games, we are still awaiting our WaW match against Mind Freak and are just working out what time suits both teams. The COD4 final we are waiting for a few more games to be played to determine who we vs in the grand final, but so far its looking like either Mind Freak or Malice. We are definitely going to go into these games with more of a drive to win and try to make up for our disappointing loss in the CGi Black Ops Season 2 Grand Final after being undefeated during the whole season then losing the grand final 3-1.
We've also got a ODC ( One Day Comp ) for 4v4's and we're playing CTF ( Capture the Flag ) there is a $40 entry fee for those who wish to participate and we're hoping to do pretty well in it. If we do come out victorious it would be a major confidence boost heading to ACL Gold Coast in which we hope to win or place in the top 3.
Anyway that's about it for now if any of the matches get streamed, ill be sure to post the links up on the Vox Eminor facebook page.
Unleash Out!
Why this article appealed to me - Talnoy
Our quakelive dueler ZLR linked me to this article, ill include the link at the bottom of the blog here but i thought instead of just linking it on facebook id give a bit of history. Its just a bit of a ramble about where i started in gaming and why i started in gaming and how i got to the position i am in today.
Okay so back in 1996 i was fresh out of high school and looking at what to do with my life. I had always wanted to be a carpenter or cabinetmaker but as im sure my teachers would attest i was literally the WORST at woodworking. It was something of a blow to me as i really wanted to do that but fate had other adventures for me.
I grew up on a little hobby farm literally in the middle of nowhere, i had ventured with my dad to an army disposals store and dug up something i wanted to tinker with. We had only just started using computers in schools back then and while i didnt have much money i managed to buy an appleIII for $20. This machine was a bit of a token gesture in the PC world, in fact it seemed so rare that to get any games on it i had to find someone in the US who even had one.
So this was abandoned and instead i spent my time trying to recode this without much success. This lead into my high school days where computers still didnt excite me much either, i was a bit of a know it all and i found the classes on how to type word documents boring and easy. The irony was that i failed computers, not because i didnt know how i just didnt do the work that was asked of me, i was too busy making midi sound clips while everyone else was writing word documents. I was still determined to be a carpenter at this stage but as i came to the close of my high school days things were about to change.
I walked into safeway and talked to the store manager and within about 10 minutes i was offered a job. I worked pretty hard and did some pretty epic overtime so i was bringing in a decent wage for back in those days. It was for some unknown reason i decided to get a computer, i went down to melbourne in my car and $3000 later i had a pentium 166. It was at this stage that i started to notice that computers didnt really challenge me, i would take the case off pull it apart and put it back together and it wasnt difficult. I didnt worry i would break it because there is something about computers where i look at them and they just made sense.
I was soon on the internet with my 33.6 modem and when i joined the local internet provider which was run by the local paper i got to know the network admin who ran the service. Back then an ISP was powered by 4 64k ISDN internet connections, real powerful stuff. So i soon learned that the network admin from that newspaper played this game called quake. I soon went out and bought that and i started playing, one of the first things i learned was +mlook it was revolutionary to me as a guy who played wolfenstein and duke nukem that i would run around aiming with my mouse, it wasnt moving me around the screen it was moving my crosshair.
From there i spent hours playing each night against other local users, i graduated to 56k v2 modem technology and i felt like a "lpb" or low ping bastard as they were called in the day. I was getting a 90 ping on my ISP's server which was very rare back then and i really was starting to take the game serious dueling other people. My most memorable moment was dueling a quake player called reload, this guy was meant to be the king of dueling, although i think history may say differently now as i havent heard the name since. He thrashed me 22-2 and i got a glimpse at the world of proper comp gaming.
I progressed through till i heard about some mod called team fortress, this was my golden day where i spent years playing that game in matches on "ozemail" who dont even exist anymore and was well before gamearena. So i found the first true FPS and the first strategy based team game in quake and i think like most in the world who played those games we were starting to see esports emerge as a word. It was in those days that rocketjumping was born, bunnny hopping and strafe jumping was born and many other strats that you almost see now in modern FPS games the only difference being the maps and games played. Split strats or hard strats they all existed back then and i wish for the most part that the younger generation had got to experience that.
So thats how i connected to this article and for you old timers i think you will also completely understand. From there i progressed after a long exodus from gaming, to return to a bit of counterstrike, day of defeat, then on to battlefield 2. I dont play comp games anymore short of the odd scrim with my fellow team mates but this article took me right back 15 years to those days when 150 ping was good and everyone were mates.
Have a read of this and learn a bit more about the true history of esports and the emergence of FPS games.
Article here: Why Quake Changed Games Forever
Okay so back in 1996 i was fresh out of high school and looking at what to do with my life. I had always wanted to be a carpenter or cabinetmaker but as im sure my teachers would attest i was literally the WORST at woodworking. It was something of a blow to me as i really wanted to do that but fate had other adventures for me.
I grew up on a little hobby farm literally in the middle of nowhere, i had ventured with my dad to an army disposals store and dug up something i wanted to tinker with. We had only just started using computers in schools back then and while i didnt have much money i managed to buy an appleIII for $20. This machine was a bit of a token gesture in the PC world, in fact it seemed so rare that to get any games on it i had to find someone in the US who even had one.
So this was abandoned and instead i spent my time trying to recode this without much success. This lead into my high school days where computers still didnt excite me much either, i was a bit of a know it all and i found the classes on how to type word documents boring and easy. The irony was that i failed computers, not because i didnt know how i just didnt do the work that was asked of me, i was too busy making midi sound clips while everyone else was writing word documents. I was still determined to be a carpenter at this stage but as i came to the close of my high school days things were about to change.
I walked into safeway and talked to the store manager and within about 10 minutes i was offered a job. I worked pretty hard and did some pretty epic overtime so i was bringing in a decent wage for back in those days. It was for some unknown reason i decided to get a computer, i went down to melbourne in my car and $3000 later i had a pentium 166. It was at this stage that i started to notice that computers didnt really challenge me, i would take the case off pull it apart and put it back together and it wasnt difficult. I didnt worry i would break it because there is something about computers where i look at them and they just made sense.
I was soon on the internet with my 33.6 modem and when i joined the local internet provider which was run by the local paper i got to know the network admin who ran the service. Back then an ISP was powered by 4 64k ISDN internet connections, real powerful stuff. So i soon learned that the network admin from that newspaper played this game called quake. I soon went out and bought that and i started playing, one of the first things i learned was +mlook it was revolutionary to me as a guy who played wolfenstein and duke nukem that i would run around aiming with my mouse, it wasnt moving me around the screen it was moving my crosshair.
From there i spent hours playing each night against other local users, i graduated to 56k v2 modem technology and i felt like a "lpb" or low ping bastard as they were called in the day. I was getting a 90 ping on my ISP's server which was very rare back then and i really was starting to take the game serious dueling other people. My most memorable moment was dueling a quake player called reload, this guy was meant to be the king of dueling, although i think history may say differently now as i havent heard the name since. He thrashed me 22-2 and i got a glimpse at the world of proper comp gaming.
I progressed through till i heard about some mod called team fortress, this was my golden day where i spent years playing that game in matches on "ozemail" who dont even exist anymore and was well before gamearena. So i found the first true FPS and the first strategy based team game in quake and i think like most in the world who played those games we were starting to see esports emerge as a word. It was in those days that rocketjumping was born, bunnny hopping and strafe jumping was born and many other strats that you almost see now in modern FPS games the only difference being the maps and games played. Split strats or hard strats they all existed back then and i wish for the most part that the younger generation had got to experience that.
So thats how i connected to this article and for you old timers i think you will also completely understand. From there i progressed after a long exodus from gaming, to return to a bit of counterstrike, day of defeat, then on to battlefield 2. I dont play comp games anymore short of the odd scrim with my fellow team mates but this article took me right back 15 years to those days when 150 ping was good and everyone were mates.
Have a read of this and learn a bit more about the true history of esports and the emergence of FPS games.
Article here: Why Quake Changed Games Forever
EBEXPO 2011 - Boomser
EB Expo was on this weekend for the public but on friday for vendors, EB staff, gaming reps, marketers and a few pro-gamers like myself it was a day to explore and the expo with a much smaller crowd. Nick and I headed out to the EB Expo on Friday afternoon with a swarm of EB staff who get a chance to get freebies and learn about their vendors booths for products and the latest games that are on offer. Thanks to Razer we were given exclusive passes to be a part of the experience and walk around without having to worry about a que or mass public traffic. I managed to speak to and visit the Vox Eminor sponsor's booths (CM Storm, Cooler Master, Western Digital, and Razer) to get an insight into what products they had to offer for the general public.
Other than visiting the Vox Eminor sponsor's booths I wasn't really interested in visiting all the other booths during the weekend due to the fact that it was only PS3 and Xbox that were on showcase for the games that are coming out. The PC world was non-existent at the event and if you wanted to test any of the new up-coming titles you had to do so on a controller. Other than visiting the booths to use the odd pc on there, it really had nothing for us PC Gamers to get involved with so it was basically just looking which goes for the Booth babes as well I guess =P .
I must say I saw all sorts of different people at this event as you had couples, geeks, kids, adults, cosplay, parents, dad's, mother's, models, and gamers I have known for ages it definately was an experience to be a part of for a gamer. It just goes to show that gaming is really breaking out of stereotypes and becoming more of the norm as I saw at EB Expo this year. What I took out of the EB expo was that Vendors and game developers really want to listen to the public and pretty much care about what they have to say about their product, they were all there to impress and interact with the gamers.
Battlefield 3 pretty much took most of the limelight and was set right in a perfect spot for all to see with their bright shiny massive enclosed BOOTH! There was constantly a 30-60 min wait just to get inside it. As for MW3 I think if you looked hard enough at the back corner you might be able to see a small line as they were only taking in booked sessions to be able to play the game. No gamers or visitors were able to see the game behind the curtains unless you booked a 10 min time slot which basically got filled for the 2 days within the first 3 hours of the venue opening its doors on Saturday.
During each session of the day the coolest thing would have to be the Crusty Demons performing live inside the venue at the EB Arena, it was fantastic. I am looking forward to hopefully being at another EB expo next year and being able to see the interaction of gamers and vendors.
Oh did I forget? There was WCG there I think with a small crowd of gamers desperately waiting for their games to be played near the corner of the venue. I don't know the results and to be quite honest I don't think many people do with the outcome of this year's WCG. I saw no information and no coverage of WCG and I think that is about as much recognition it should get because of it. I must say congratulations to the teams that did win and wish them the best of luck overseas!
I would like to thank Razer again for the passes for myself, Nick and Jaydee who visited on the weekend and also a shout out to the people we got a chance to meet!
Check out the ebexpo gallery and 3 video blogs the team submitted from the expo under the media section.
Other than visiting the Vox Eminor sponsor's booths I wasn't really interested in visiting all the other booths during the weekend due to the fact that it was only PS3 and Xbox that were on showcase for the games that are coming out. The PC world was non-existent at the event and if you wanted to test any of the new up-coming titles you had to do so on a controller. Other than visiting the booths to use the odd pc on there, it really had nothing for us PC Gamers to get involved with so it was basically just looking which goes for the Booth babes as well I guess =P .
I must say I saw all sorts of different people at this event as you had couples, geeks, kids, adults, cosplay, parents, dad's, mother's, models, and gamers I have known for ages it definately was an experience to be a part of for a gamer. It just goes to show that gaming is really breaking out of stereotypes and becoming more of the norm as I saw at EB Expo this year. What I took out of the EB expo was that Vendors and game developers really want to listen to the public and pretty much care about what they have to say about their product, they were all there to impress and interact with the gamers.
Battlefield 3 pretty much took most of the limelight and was set right in a perfect spot for all to see with their bright shiny massive enclosed BOOTH! There was constantly a 30-60 min wait just to get inside it. As for MW3 I think if you looked hard enough at the back corner you might be able to see a small line as they were only taking in booked sessions to be able to play the game. No gamers or visitors were able to see the game behind the curtains unless you booked a 10 min time slot which basically got filled for the 2 days within the first 3 hours of the venue opening its doors on Saturday.
During each session of the day the coolest thing would have to be the Crusty Demons performing live inside the venue at the EB Arena, it was fantastic. I am looking forward to hopefully being at another EB expo next year and being able to see the interaction of gamers and vendors.
Oh did I forget? There was WCG there I think with a small crowd of gamers desperately waiting for their games to be played near the corner of the venue. I don't know the results and to be quite honest I don't think many people do with the outcome of this year's WCG. I saw no information and no coverage of WCG and I think that is about as much recognition it should get because of it. I must say congratulations to the teams that did win and wish them the best of luck overseas!
I would like to thank Razer again for the passes for myself, Nick and Jaydee who visited on the weekend and also a shout out to the people we got a chance to meet!
Check out the ebexpo gallery and 3 video blogs the team submitted from the expo under the media section.
Good Lan, Bad LAN RCG Brisbane - Boomser
Good Lan / Bad Lan !
The Long Long Long............Long day of the brisbane RCG Brisbane qualifer is over and after spending time filming and supporting my Voxe members i had the pleasure of spending 12 hours in total at the event and decided i might try and give you a highlight of the days play.
This is the sole opinion of myself and not by the COD or Voxe organisation as i give what i thought were the highlights , the good , the bad , ups and the downs of the event.
Haymo (Thumbs Up)
Have to start off giving the TLS repersentitive a shoutout for his fantastic work at the event. There is alot of things i did not agree with for the event but as i whinge about being there for 12 hours he wouldve been the first one there and last one to leave. His tireless efforts all day made it possible to always talk to an admin and get the event rolling and sorted. Every moment of the day we knew what was happening and always ask the players/teams for advice on the tournament. So thanks Haymo!
Ian (thumbs up)
By far the best dress at the event i think he was the only that one that got the memo about the fancy dress at the Lan. In all seriousness he invited the voxe boys over for beer and abit of kick of the footy at his place which only lasted one kick due to Nicks first attempt at a drop punt. This isnt the only reason i gave him the thumps up , its because players like these turn up to lans and make a team for the sole purpose of playing the game and getting numbers at the tournaments. So good work ian! ta 4 the beers
Bo3 Double elimnation Finals (Thumbs Down)
First time i have heard of a tournament being ran like this but apparently it was something players were interested in having due to most of the teams at the event were Interstate teams and nothing is worst then traveling all this way to play 3-4 games. Still this caused massive delays and the 3 times 3 triple over times we saw Exile5 face didnt help the time schedual on the day. After Voxe's 3-4 hours wait for the lower bracket games to finish fray would of had to win 4 maps against voxe just to take the 1st place spot after Semi Finals went to Vox Way. Only advice for future is to delay the winner bracket final when all the Lower Bracket games are done.
GameStah B-Ray! (Thumbs Up)
Being a pass caster i know whats its like to Solo cast a match , this guy did it for 12 straight hours with over 10 games with a smile on his face. Never Whinged once and was always keen to talk to the players at the event. Thumbs up mate and gamestah!
Brisbane Weather (Thumbs Down)
Well the weather was fantastic but not perfect gaming conditions at the lan event where they seem to have trouble keeping a cool tempature at Elysium. It sucked staying in that event for most of the day with 50 other gamers.
Exile5 vs Voxe (Thumbs Down)
Was a shame that the game never seem to take place. I know personally the boys were keen to play the X5 lineup at the event due to their recent Draft Competition matches which saw the teams both finish extremely close to each other with voxe finishing the game off 16-14. Thought Exile5 lost to Fray 3-1 and voxe defeating fray4-1 it was a shame to see what the difference could of been in the event enviroment. Wouldve made for an intense encounter
Brisbane Players (Thumbs Up)
The cod4 scene for brisbane seems to be going strong with a total of 9 teams showing up on the day. Compared to the other events getting a showing of 4 teams max it goes to show that COD4 is strong in Brisbane. Another note it seems like the lan community is alot stronger in means of sportsmanship and general knowledge of the players as i saw many having strong bonds even after some friendly banter in matches this will be mostly due to events like GGF lan for the scene here. COD4 lacks alot of lan time
Managers/Supporters (Thumbs Up)
Being one of these at the event i saw most teams bring friends or managers who sat behind their respected teams taking photos and footage all day.Its great to see at any event and As being one of them expect to see some Vlogs and Photos of the Voxe's progress over the weekend on our page!
Omen (Thumbs Up) (Thumbs Down) ( i dunno LOL)
I thought i should just give him a mention, After being the loudest player in his matches or even the room it was hard not to notice the intensity and his passion for the game. Althought after all this we saw many handshakes and hugs come from the man regardless of his results which just shows you its a Game that we all enjoy and nothing is wrong with abit of Friendly banter as long as that is all it is....Harmless Friendly banter
Fray (Thumbs Up)
I dont know much about cod4 and i havnt followed it for long but i am positive if these same 5 players stay together with their proven lan expirence i have no doubt they are going to be surpising alot of teams with results especally on LAN.
mr12 (Thumbs Down)
Dont rate the mr12 i think we should be moving forward and using the same game format for everything rather then randomly changing in scrims/matches/events. I think mr15 is a more universial Game format and makes for fair gameplay for possible comebacks. As we had serval overtimes i wonder how many of them wouldve been if it was mr15
Summary -
The brisbane community and its players made this lan great, Regardless of the event and its PC's everybody had to play on the same conditions and it was worth wild because players got something out of it. Plenty of games to play and spectate with quality teams turning up and playing. This is something COD4 has been lacking and i think this gives abit of hope for the TLS event in Sydney. I also think COD4 CG-I teams are closing the gaps and i think we will probably end up having 4-5 teams contending for the title or challenging those going for it. Shout outs to everybody i met and thanks for making the time more enjoyable because at the end of the day Lan is better when you can actually socialize and see how teams perform under certain circumstances.
Stay tune in the coming days for the Vlogs and pictures that were taken at the event. Congratulations to my boys and badluck to fray it was differnently an intense game to watch.
The Long Long Long............Long day of the brisbane RCG Brisbane qualifer is over and after spending time filming and supporting my Voxe members i had the pleasure of spending 12 hours in total at the event and decided i might try and give you a highlight of the days play.
This is the sole opinion of myself and not by the COD or Voxe organisation as i give what i thought were the highlights , the good , the bad , ups and the downs of the event.
Haymo (Thumbs Up)
Have to start off giving the TLS repersentitive a shoutout for his fantastic work at the event. There is alot of things i did not agree with for the event but as i whinge about being there for 12 hours he wouldve been the first one there and last one to leave. His tireless efforts all day made it possible to always talk to an admin and get the event rolling and sorted. Every moment of the day we knew what was happening and always ask the players/teams for advice on the tournament. So thanks Haymo!
Ian (thumbs up)
By far the best dress at the event i think he was the only that one that got the memo about the fancy dress at the Lan. In all seriousness he invited the voxe boys over for beer and abit of kick of the footy at his place which only lasted one kick due to Nicks first attempt at a drop punt. This isnt the only reason i gave him the thumps up , its because players like these turn up to lans and make a team for the sole purpose of playing the game and getting numbers at the tournaments. So good work ian! ta 4 the beers
Bo3 Double elimnation Finals (Thumbs Down)
First time i have heard of a tournament being ran like this but apparently it was something players were interested in having due to most of the teams at the event were Interstate teams and nothing is worst then traveling all this way to play 3-4 games. Still this caused massive delays and the 3 times 3 triple over times we saw Exile5 face didnt help the time schedual on the day. After Voxe's 3-4 hours wait for the lower bracket games to finish fray would of had to win 4 maps against voxe just to take the 1st place spot after Semi Finals went to Vox Way. Only advice for future is to delay the winner bracket final when all the Lower Bracket games are done.
GameStah B-Ray! (Thumbs Up)
Being a pass caster i know whats its like to Solo cast a match , this guy did it for 12 straight hours with over 10 games with a smile on his face. Never Whinged once and was always keen to talk to the players at the event. Thumbs up mate and gamestah!
Brisbane Weather (Thumbs Down)
Well the weather was fantastic but not perfect gaming conditions at the lan event where they seem to have trouble keeping a cool tempature at Elysium. It sucked staying in that event for most of the day with 50 other gamers.
Exile5 vs Voxe (Thumbs Down)
Was a shame that the game never seem to take place. I know personally the boys were keen to play the X5 lineup at the event due to their recent Draft Competition matches which saw the teams both finish extremely close to each other with voxe finishing the game off 16-14. Thought Exile5 lost to Fray 3-1 and voxe defeating fray4-1 it was a shame to see what the difference could of been in the event enviroment. Wouldve made for an intense encounter
Brisbane Players (Thumbs Up)
The cod4 scene for brisbane seems to be going strong with a total of 9 teams showing up on the day. Compared to the other events getting a showing of 4 teams max it goes to show that COD4 is strong in Brisbane. Another note it seems like the lan community is alot stronger in means of sportsmanship and general knowledge of the players as i saw many having strong bonds even after some friendly banter in matches this will be mostly due to events like GGF lan for the scene here. COD4 lacks alot of lan time
Managers/Supporters (Thumbs Up)
Being one of these at the event i saw most teams bring friends or managers who sat behind their respected teams taking photos and footage all day.Its great to see at any event and As being one of them expect to see some Vlogs and Photos of the Voxe's progress over the weekend on our page!
Omen (Thumbs Up) (Thumbs Down) ( i dunno LOL)
I thought i should just give him a mention, After being the loudest player in his matches or even the room it was hard not to notice the intensity and his passion for the game. Althought after all this we saw many handshakes and hugs come from the man regardless of his results which just shows you its a Game that we all enjoy and nothing is wrong with abit of Friendly banter as long as that is all it is....Harmless Friendly banter
Fray (Thumbs Up)
I dont know much about cod4 and i havnt followed it for long but i am positive if these same 5 players stay together with their proven lan expirence i have no doubt they are going to be surpising alot of teams with results especally on LAN.
mr12 (Thumbs Down)
Dont rate the mr12 i think we should be moving forward and using the same game format for everything rather then randomly changing in scrims/matches/events. I think mr15 is a more universial Game format and makes for fair gameplay for possible comebacks. As we had serval overtimes i wonder how many of them wouldve been if it was mr15
Summary -
The brisbane community and its players made this lan great, Regardless of the event and its PC's everybody had to play on the same conditions and it was worth wild because players got something out of it. Plenty of games to play and spectate with quality teams turning up and playing. This is something COD4 has been lacking and i think this gives abit of hope for the TLS event in Sydney. I also think COD4 CG-I teams are closing the gaps and i think we will probably end up having 4-5 teams contending for the title or challenging those going for it. Shout outs to everybody i met and thanks for making the time more enjoyable because at the end of the day Lan is better when you can actually socialize and see how teams perform under certain circumstances.
Stay tune in the coming days for the Vlogs and pictures that were taken at the event. Congratulations to my boys and badluck to fray it was differnently an intense game to watch.
First two days in Dallas - zlr
Firstly I just want to say this is the first time I've been out of Australia so it's something I've never experienced before. My initial thoughts were that I wouldn't sleep at all on any of the flights, which did turn to be right, and I'd spend the next two days recovering from my sleepless journey.
I went with V Australia from Brisbane > Sydney > LA > Dallas. Total flying time for all the flights was about 18-19 hours if I remember correctly. For some reason I just couldn't make myself sleep sitting on those chairs, even after I'd been up a lot past the 24 hour mark. I left the Dallas airport feeling like a zombie and arrived at the hotel where Ventz and Rigz had a room booked for the 3 of us. The front desk actually gave me the wrong room number and key, and I ended up walking into a room full of about 15-20 bags of shoes,makeup, jewellery and women's clothes. In my sleep deprived state it took me a minute or so to come to the conclusion I was given the wrong room number. I was standing in the doorway trying to think of why Ventz and Rigz would buy all that stuff before I went back to the front desk and said I was given the wrong room.
The internet in the hotel doesn't function very well. It's mostly unplayable, with 5 or 10 minutes of playable time available here and there. Ventz and I both have our laptops which we've been using to have a few games. I managed to get a game of CA and a few duels this morning between 5-6am. No one else in the hotel must have been up to lag me! After 6am it started to lag really bad and I had to stop though.
It's not the best experience playing duels on a laptop, especially with 60hz refresh rates. But at least it gives the opportunity to have a few games and generally practice a bit of timing/item control and see how the Americans play. I haven't had the opportunity to play any of the 24 players invited to Quakecon yet.
There is supposed to be an open area in the Quakecon venue which has LAN functionality for use after 4pm this afternoon (Wednesday). So Ventz and I will be trying to get in there and have some decent practice before we have to play in the tournament tomorrow afternoon.
It's currently 10am here on Wednesday 3rd August, and I haven't had much sleep so I'm going to try and get some rest before heading into the Quakecon venue this afternoon. I will try and do another blog tomorrow night detailing how the tournament actually went.
Thanks for reading.
I went with V Australia from Brisbane > Sydney > LA > Dallas. Total flying time for all the flights was about 18-19 hours if I remember correctly. For some reason I just couldn't make myself sleep sitting on those chairs, even after I'd been up a lot past the 24 hour mark. I left the Dallas airport feeling like a zombie and arrived at the hotel where Ventz and Rigz had a room booked for the 3 of us. The front desk actually gave me the wrong room number and key, and I ended up walking into a room full of about 15-20 bags of shoes,makeup, jewellery and women's clothes. In my sleep deprived state it took me a minute or so to come to the conclusion I was given the wrong room number. I was standing in the doorway trying to think of why Ventz and Rigz would buy all that stuff before I went back to the front desk and said I was given the wrong room.
The internet in the hotel doesn't function very well. It's mostly unplayable, with 5 or 10 minutes of playable time available here and there. Ventz and I both have our laptops which we've been using to have a few games. I managed to get a game of CA and a few duels this morning between 5-6am. No one else in the hotel must have been up to lag me! After 6am it started to lag really bad and I had to stop though.
It's not the best experience playing duels on a laptop, especially with 60hz refresh rates. But at least it gives the opportunity to have a few games and generally practice a bit of timing/item control and see how the Americans play. I haven't had the opportunity to play any of the 24 players invited to Quakecon yet.
There is supposed to be an open area in the Quakecon venue which has LAN functionality for use after 4pm this afternoon (Wednesday). So Ventz and I will be trying to get in there and have some decent practice before we have to play in the tournament tomorrow afternoon.
It's currently 10am here on Wednesday 3rd August, and I haven't had much sleep so I'm going to try and get some rest before heading into the Quakecon venue this afternoon. I will try and do another blog tomorrow night detailing how the tournament actually went.
Thanks for reading.
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