CVC: Haters Gonna Hate - Setting the Scene

Posted by Matt wargasm Hazell on 2011-09-23 17:47:57

 
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Setting the Scene

For those of you who have had your heads in the proverbial sands over the last few days, you might be interested to know that Corsair, foremost proprietors of PC Cooling equipment, RAM, PSUs and now gaming peripherals have announced a $10,000 Call of Duty 4 cup. No, that is the correct number of zeros. Ten THOUSAND dollars have been put up for grabs in the Corsair Vengeance cup, celebrating the release of their new Vengeance peripheral line.

Corsair Vengeance Cup: Prize Breakdown:

$6,000
$3,000
$1,000

It goes practically without saying that this is one of the biggest opportunities this game has had in quite some time. Add this to a string of promising announcements such as Epic LAN picking up CoD4 and more events from the team behind the Adroits CoD Masters and you will notice that CoD4 is really on the rise. But this announcement, surely to be received in adulation has instead been met with no small amount of criticism. In this article I want to address some of that criticism and assuage the community's collective conscience concerning the event. Man I'm good at alliteration.

 

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37 comments

9 months ago
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I'm hating.
9 months ago
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I'm too
9 months ago
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pretty MUCH YE D: :)
9 months ago
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Good read :DDDDD
Hope cod4 will be better and better ;D
9 months ago
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sup ukesa lmao hahahhaha
9 months ago
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better this than online finals tbfh :D
9 months ago
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Shit me Matt you can type..

Good read, totally agree with everything you spoke about, even though it is a shame that thee is no LAN envolved
9 months ago
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One thing that has repeatedly come up in discussions concerning the cup is the possibility of a LAN for the final stages of the competition


Cu germans
9 months ago
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ono said:



sup ukesa lmao hahahhaha



Is that a closet, or an unused storage room in a restaurant?

edited 2011-09-23 21:09:22
9 months ago
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op is a phaggot, but a phaggot with nice thoughts
9 months ago
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Go through the teams and report the cheaters, teams/players can be removed before it starts
pm me if you want to and actually will watch demos of the matches
use tzac at all times
do not play or affiliate with cheaters
etc
9 months ago
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add xf; scoponee

i got a few
9 months ago
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5000 $ was a great amount aswell and they could use the other 5000 $ for the lan finals with 4 or 8 team like the Eurocup and EPS always did/do. But maybe thats just something for the next edition.

Good read anyway
9 months ago
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5k to run tourament, teams who do not have sponsorship may make it this far, they pay to go to lan and win nothing. cba, (just so were clear im not talking about me or my team) but online is just so much easier and if it goes well they may well put on a lan in future.
9 months ago
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AEF#2 had 52 teams who didnt win anything?
9 months ago
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I read all of that in a Morgan Freeman voice.

God it was good.
9 months ago
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hatin :)
9 months ago
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Nice fuckin' read! :D
9 months ago
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all eastern teams will have skillboosts soon :D
9 months ago
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racist. ban,
9 months ago
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didnt know eastern ppl was a race tbh
9 months ago
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haha idd remember when that russian kid antwan hacked in a prize cup? :D
9 months ago
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hahahahhaa
9 months ago
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lmfao
9 months ago
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wargasm , imo we should wait till CoDTV will be released, will be much easier to cast\watch demos and so on!
9 months ago
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Lauren said money change situation,Big said increase the prize pot for competition, Kane said don't play I ain't the one ,but Chuck said that wallhack weights a motherfucking ton.

edited 2011-09-23 20:38:43
9 months ago
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then only allow the well known teams to participate, worse teams can't get in the top3 anyways.
9 months ago
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u being serious?
9 months ago
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you really thought that 1 through didnt you
9 months ago
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Cool
9 months ago
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great blog wargasm, all of what we're receiving now as a CoD4 community is a result of the hardwork of the scene in maintaining itself, let's not ruin what we've achieved. be grateful, be respectful and play fair.
9 months ago
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Great read Matt. Appreciate the mention.

9 months ago
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Interesting. Regarding the cheater busting, an actual code on how to check a demo someone flagged as being suspicious seems absent; the people in charge of this task do it and do so quietly, which is hardly transparent. There is a difference in watching a demo with light grid on for the first time, checking timestamps someone provided, a difference to not watching a demo without light grid and no timestamps provided for the first time. Hopefully a demo is watched several times by diffrerent people independently and without preconceptions. To me, everything else would leave too much room for mayhem.
While I do not really see any use in Facebook, companies seem to think differently. There was no direct link in the original post to the Corsair Facebook page, so here it is: http://www.facebook.com/Corsair?sk=wall
9 months ago
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cu =)
9 months ago
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When we got 500 Likes at Facebook


1 of of these will be randomly picked and get a SteelSeries SteelKeys 7G Keyboard. Sponsored by::: Goingeweb.se

www.facebook.com/regret.esports

6 months ago
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All the 7G is is a 6GV2 snapped into a fat wrist rest.
9 months ago
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Good read. I could help with viewing demos being a GGC Anti-Cheat staff member.
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