zkyp took up the effort to organise another Warsow NL LAN in Den Haag, the Netherlands. What we have so far is a location (some hackerspace in Den Haag). What we’re waiting for is a proper attendance list of all Warsowians who want to come. We decided on a date for the LAN late november.

Some additional information can be found in the forums. And for the heck of it, here’s what zkyp said:

As I said before, the idea was to be more of a hang-out, chillax get-together while playing some warsow. Our idea was to get a few pc’s to play on and share them with the rest. Since this is kinda a low-budget (read: no-budget ), community-powered, hippy party, we’re going to have to make the most of it. So, I’ll need some questions answered.

- How many PC’s do you think we’ll need for 20 people?
- When? End Nov sounded good for most, let’s pick some dates. 20-21 or 27-28? Another date? Comment!
- Questions, remarks, trolling? Now is the time!

This post is intended to gather an attendance list of people who want to come. So please register an account if you haven’t already, and RSVP to our event.

DATE: 27-28 NOVEMBER 2010

After the great succes of my bomb pickup cup last Sunday, I am putting up the vote for the new one. I will announce the date as soon as I know it myself. I hope this pickup cup will be as great a succes as the last one! See you soon.

Even better, zEvon told this extremely reliable source that during his year of absence, he’s learnt alot of new stuff! So…

Warsowians: get freestylin’ & prepare for sending in demos!
zEvon: TRAILER WHEN?!

1. The LAN’s name
2. Attending People
3. Final Standing
4. Media
5. Lan Party ÅšlÄ…sk 2
6. Warsow.NL LAN
7. CDC3 (Crossfire Devotii Challenge 3)
8. CDC4 (Crossfire Devotii Challenge 4)
9. Warcho.net meeting
10. Dash4Cash

5.1 Lan Party ÅšlÄ…sk 2
5.2 Attending People
Jon4thaN,vicek, b4rt, much4, v3rb, er0n, um8,Crb,marlboro, ar1el, maQ, JC and some other people.
5.3 Final Standings
1. Jon4thaN (Creative X-Fi card)
2. b4rt (money)
3. vicek
5.4 Media

6.1 Warsow.NL LAN
6.2 Attending People
Scoobzor, h1o, ETR, marrk, proud, bakbees, oLLipop, zkyp, AgamemnonZ, T-B0N3, Jannis, Silky, Cervix, Sigmar, dezje, Bengi and lokirulez.
6.3 Final Standings
1. Scoobz0r
2. h1o
3. AgamemnonZ
6.4 Media
Warsow.NL LAN gallery (esreality)

7.1 CDC3 (Crossfire Devotii Challenge 3)
7.2 Attending People
Scoobz0r, h1o, ETR, marrk, Rikku, Jannis, Xhep, JazZ, blaze, hangy, lokirulez, BoBel, zerox, KoFFie, nip, Trib, Panzerfaust,  BRUNS, Tenzer and komodochas.
7.3 Final Standings
1. BoBel (600 Euro)
2. h1o (400 Euro)
3. BRUNS (200 Euro)
4. komodochas
7.4 Media
The micropage has everything on it that happend at CDC3 and more galleries.
CDC3 gallery (esreality)
CDC3: Micropage (warsownews)
CDC3: Warsow invites announced (warsownews)
CDC3: 16 players fighting for 1200 bucks (warsownews)
CDC3: What the players have to say (warsownews)

8.1 CDC4 (Crossfire Devotii Challenge 4)
8.2 Attending People
Scoobz0r, h1o, ETR,marrk,Rikku,zkyp, Jannis and pillz.
8.3 Final Standings
1. Scoobz0r (200 Euro)
2. h1o (100 Euro)
3. Jannis (40 Euro)
4. pillz
8.4 Media
CDC4 the ETR report (lovesow)
marrk’s gallery (marrk)

9.1 Warcho.net meeting
9.2 Attending People
Ahrzou,zoka,BlancheNeige,Rigolus,Gero, Pierre, Soda, Dark,Apo, mRk and Zyfo.
9.3 Final Standings
1. Ahrzou
2. zoka
3. BlancheNeige
4. Rigolus
9.4 Media
The topic on warsow.net shows the results of all played games.
Warsow.net Warcho meeting (warsow)
Warcho.net meeting gallery (squareoranges)

10.1 Dash4Cash
10.2 Attending People
Klice, Rigolus, mRk, BlancheNeige, Pierre, Sady, ahrzou, TazVoice, zoka, GoHLink, Jerms, cougne, tracks, reload, FrooP,sic_munky, KILLME,loxer, Scoobz0r, h1o, Falconer,GoReY,daxio, mRk and Quilyan.
10.3 Final Standings
1. reload (100 Euro and a gaming mouse)
2. GoHLinK (60 Euro and a mousemat)
3. h1o (40 Euro and a mousemat)
4. sic_mUnky
10.4 Media
Everything about the games played at D4C is in my other lovesow post check it out!
h1o’s Dash4Cash coverage (lovesow)
h1o’s gallery (picasa)
Sady’s gallery (picasa)
FrooP’s gallery (some strange website)

Hello Warsownians,

I will try to give you the best possible coverage of the Dash4Cash duel tournament and any other interesting things happening at the Milk LAN center in Paris! This is my first time working with Word Press and first time writing on www.lovesow.net so wish me luck.

1. Dash4Cash General information
2. Group Stage
3. Playoffs
4. Final Standings
5. Gallery
6. Dash4Cash Demo Pack

1. Dash4Cash General information

Dash4Cash is a Warsow LAN in Paris, France. It is hosted by 3 French Warsow players: Klice, BlancheNeige and Sady with help from various other people from the Warsow community. It evolved from a French Warsow meeting to an international LAN, after more and more people outside off France started to show interest in paying a visit to Paris.

The main tournament for the LAN will be duel. With a nice chunk of the donation money up for grabs, a dozen of very skilled Warsow players going all ready to fight for a place in the top 3. They will be joined by true Warsownians who might not be as good in duel as them, but they sure have the same amount of love for the game.

A legion of foreigners will land in the Milk LAN center. With players representing 6 different countries. From Germany  reload, loxer and sic_mUnky will be the players to watch. Sadly enough BoBel could no longer manage to come and try to claim an other Warsow title. We also see three strong Polacks, namely  Daxio, s4nd and psychoum8 they all have a completely different playing style from each other and can definitely cause an upset. Coming from the Netherlands is Warsow oldschooler  Scoobz0r and myself h1o. From the North two vikings will land in France the infamous GoReY and one of Warsow most loved players  Falconer! GoReY is someone every player needs to look out for in the playoffs. Last but not least we have the home team:  Sady, GoHLinK and QuakeLive star Link1n. Although we lost Sady to QL she can still hit a rocket or two, being seductive as she is, she managed to pursued Link1n to come and try Warsow! What can you say about GoHLinK? He has insane aim, experience on LAN and is good in more than 1 game, a definite candidate for top3 or maybe even the title.

The tournament maps are: acidwdm2, wdm2, wdm3, wdm5 and wdm14.

WarsowTV ip: connect fuckingfrogs.fr:44440
2. Group Stage
Group A win-draw-loss
h1o: 3 – 0 – 0
Falconer: 2 - 0 – 1
 ahrzou: 1 – 0 – 2
Pierre: 0 – 0 – 3

Group B win-draw-loss
daxio: 3 – 0 – 0
 Taz’s Voice: 2 – 0 – 1
 Rigolus: 1 – 0 – 2
 mRk: 0 – 0 – 3

Group C win-draw-loss
GoHLinK: 3 – 0 – 0
 loxer: 2 – 0 – 1
 cougne: 1 – 0 – 2
 Jerms: 0 – 0 – 3

Group D win-draw-loss
reload: 3 – 0 – 0
 Sady: 2 – 0 – 1
KILLME: 1 – 0 – 2
 Quilyan: 0 – 0 – 3

Group E win-draw-loss
Scoobz0r: 3 – 0 – 0
 sic_mUnky: 2 – 0 – 1
 Klice: 1 – 0 – 2
 FrooP: 0 – 0 – 3

Group F win-draw-loss
GoReY: 3 – 0 – 0
 Soulmate: 2 - 0 – 1
 zoka: 1 – 0 – 2
tracks: 0 – 0 – 3

3. Playoffs

Grand Final
reload [01:02] GoHLinK
reload [02:00]  GoHLinK

Winner Bracket Final
reload [02:00]  GoHLinK

Semi Final
h1o [01:02] reload
GoHLinK [02:01]  daxio

Quarter Finals
h1o [02:00]  zoka
Scoobz0r [00:02] reload
GoHLinK [02:00]  GoReY
 Klice [00:02]  daxio

WB Round 2
h1o [02:00]  cougne
zoka [02:00]  FrooP
Scoobz0r [02:00]  Soulmate
 loxer [00:02] reload
 GoHLinK [02:00]  Sady
 sic_mUnky [01:02] GoReY
tracks [00:02] Klice
Falconer [00:02] daxio

Winner Bracket Round 1
h1o [02:00]  Quilyan
cougne [02:00]  Taz’s Voice
loxer [02:00]  Rigolus
Pierre [00:02] reload
GoHLinK [02:00]  mRk
 Ahrzou [01:02] Sady
Falconer [02:00] KILLME
 Jerms [00:02]  daxio

Loser Bracket Round 1
 Quilyan [00:02] mRk
 Taz’s Voice [00:02] ahrzou
Rigolus [02:00]  KILLME
Pierre [02:00] Jerms

LB Round 2
cougne [02:00] mRk
 FrooP [00:02] ahrzou
tracks [00:02] Rigolus
Falconer [02:00] Pierre

LB Round 3
cougne [02:00] ahrzou
 Soulmate [00:02] loxer
 Sady [00:02] sic_mUnky
 Rigolus [00:02] Falconer

LB Round 4
 zoka [00:02] cougne
Scoobz0r [02:00]  loxer
 GoReY [00:02] sic_mUnky
 Klice [00:02] Falconer

LB Round 5
 cougne [00:02] Scoobz0r
sic_mUnky [02:00]   Falconer

LB Round 6
h1o [02:00] Scoobz0r
 daxio [01:02] sic_mUnky

Loser Bracket Final
h1o [02:01] sic_mUnky

Consolation Final
h1o [01:02] GoHLinK

4. Final Standings

Duel Tournament
1st. reload
2nd. GoHLinK
3rd. h1o
4th. sic_mUnky
5/6th. Scoobz0r
5/6th. daxio
7/8th. cougne
7/8th. Falconer
9/12th. zoka
9/12th. loxer
9/12th. GoReY
9/12th. Klice
13-16th. ahrzou
13-16th. Soulmate
13-16th. Sady
13-16th. Rigolus

5. Gallery

h1o’s gallery (picasa)
Sady’s gallery (picasa)
FrooP’s gallery (some strange site)
Daxio’s gallery (picasa)
Falconer’s gallery (picasa)

6. Dash4Cash Demo pack

Full Demo pack (contains ALL demos, including amphi games, warmups etc): here (thanks Pierre!)

Clean Demo pack (contains only the match demos, properly organized in folders): here(thanks Inanecats!)

Now in short; the AGP Tour is intended to ‘revive’ the deathmatch scene, specifically the 1v1/duel scene. The concept is trying to treat the duel fps games as real sports as much as possible (the comparison between FPS and Tennis has been brought up multiple times). This means an emphasis on (individual) players, extensive coverage on-site (meaning ‘produced’ shoutcasted video streams over ‘open’ coverage like demos and gtv), and even altering the game to support the understandability (word is Quake maps get a visual makeover to give a sporty feel and a consistent, recognizable style).

Deathmatch to the masses

We all know 1v1 dm games are fun, but getting that knowledge across has been proven very hard. Trying to explain the game’s functioning to your parents, girlfriend, real life no nerd buddies is the closest you’ll get to realizing what’s important and how to explain. Previous attempts in bringing ‘our game’ to the masses have proven painful and hilarious at the same time (let’s hope best-buy isn’t involved with AGP ). See the YouTube video why:

The ideas of the AGP Tour are very comparable to Warsow’s ideas; in the end we too try to make DM gaming accessible, fun, understandable and show it’s competitive potential. That’s why I feel Warsow fits in perfectly.

The point of much discussion is the fact of having multiple games in the same competition. On one hand you might say how much difference there is between the games; weapons, movement, visual style, etc. But in the end the game mechanics are exactly the same over every game – resource control and good aim count in any game. For the players it’s a huge difference, but for the people you try to explain the game to, it’ll be very much alike.

Warsow in AGP Tour

On to Warsow’s specific case: First of all, when checking the list, note that Warsow is sitting in between Quake 3, Quake 4, and UT3! Our little free-time project, our ideals about FPS gaming, our low-tech cartoon shooter is sitting in between huge-budget giants! Top-down games along with our bottom-up Warsow!
In the end, whatever happens to the AGP Tour, it’s always good to get some exposure, and AGP is helping us with that. It’s their effort and their cause which benefits Warsow as well. Sounds cheap, but any press-release mentioning Warsow is a nice freebie.
Next to that, the interest from top gamers will benefit Warsow. Even if they are ‘forced’ to play Warsow for the competition, it will raise awareness, and the competition level hopefully!

There is nothing to lose, with having Warsow in this competition.

Read more

Jarod interviewed on SK Gaming (link)
AGP Announced on ESR (link)
AGP Press Release (link)

Starting out on Friday, I sadly couldn’t make it on time. Shamefully having emailed all participants to be present at around 11 am, I managed to show up at 7.10 pm! Unfortunately, I didn’t miss much at all, because there were no PC’s available for Warsow! Can you imagine, people taking their fridays off, leaving their girlfriends sick at home, only to show up on the other side of Holland, at the border of the end of the world, to find out there was no possibility of actually playing matches! Sad times.

Anyway! I met up with the usual suspects (tourneys are beginning to feel like reunions, in a good way); h1o, marrk, scoobz, jannis, A_Spec and Rikku, with special-guest star, all the way from Germany – mister pillz – also known as pielz, pillemann, pillzemann, or anything in between. Potatoes and Poki are his best friends, more on that later.

We did nothing at all except for hanging around a bit this first day (poor h1o had been there since Thursday night, the others came fashionably late like myself too). We realized djevil wasn’t going to come (no hard feelings) so the right thing to do would be to call up zkyp and bug him to no end to let him play the next day (he was visiting on Saturday). And so we did. After initially not having succeeded, we gave ollipop a ring (zkyp’s roommate who was coming along too), only to have zkyp answering his phone too, at which point we had no choice but to force him to play. He gave in. I forced him to come around 1 pm on Saturday, to be able to start on time.

Hanging around always comes to an end in the evening, and having arranged nothing for sleeping places at all, we had to resort to marrk’s creative mastermind. Marrk’s creative mastermind came up with a plan of squatting the house of our parents (for the record; me and marrk are brothaz from tha same motha. And fatha), because they were in France. Seemed like a cool plan, with scoobz’ car, Rikku living near wzzrd, and h1o having a place to sleep and make love with all fellow pudgy porky cod4 players (no disrespect here). 5 Warsowians, 1 house, what could possibly be wrong about that!?

So! Time to sleep was upon us, and doing a quick round of maths, we’d figured it’d be best if we’d split up the group for maximum comfort, meaning me and jannis took the train home, and scoobz, pillz and marrk went to our parents place by car.

I don’t exactly recall at what time we arrived, we were all pretty tired, but having played nothing at all, we brought down one pc and played some duels with scoobz’ laptop. Twas fun. After that, we divided the beds and went to sleep. The inseparable duo Pillz und Poki took the living room, jannis and scoobz went upstairs, and marrk and me squatted our own rooms after beating the PiC boys in a game of foosball.

Day 2

And so comes the next day, having set the alarm at around 11 am (if I recall correctly) we were all pretty much up and about around 1 pm (gamer lifestyle) for the ride to wzzrd. Sadly due to poor scheduling, we were forced to our daily mcdonalds break. These mcdonalds breaks have made a lasting impression on me, and have awaken a deep fear of German cuisine in me. We all were having a hard time eating at mcdonalds after waking up, but Pillz tops it off by ordering 3 large portions of fried potatoes, throwing them in one bag, and actually taking around half an hour to eat them all, while dipping them in barbecue sauce and sucking/chewing on them for a couple of minutes. Jannis and me were forced to rock-paper-scissors for the one who had to sit next to our German friend. Jannis lost.

And ofcourse we came in way too late at wzzrd! Thank god we could compensate our lazy lateness by bringing in our own CRT monitors. That’s right! There were only TFT’s this time around, but Warsowians aren’t forced to new technology that easily! We stuffed 5 people and 2 monitors into scoobz’ petite car. Scoobz had a 19″ screen on his lap. I was covered under a pile of bags and backpacks, and the 2nd monitor was in the back of the car. Properly overweighted, we had the most uncomfortable drive ever.

Then we finally got into wzzrd around 3 or 4 pm, met up with zkyp, ollipop and Raida (UT player), set up our pc’s, and basically started out gaming right away. We were one-and-a-half-day behind schedule, so we had better get some games played. Then suddenly I fell into a hole-in-time, and when I managed to climb out of the hole it was 3 am. By that time it seemed we had finished all of our games of the day, having left the loserbracket final and the grand final for Sunday. Happy times. Beer drinking times. We stayed to chill a bit, and then left for the Warsow Bros. Parents Place again. We got home at around 4.30am, and being true and shameless geeks in a gathering, we watched some Quadv streams together (God…), Pillz introduced us to Poki, and then hit the sack. End of day 2!

Day 3

Hitting the sack late, getting up early (11ish) resulted in another difficult journey to the east, with another potatoe-in-car-session by Pillz. We came in pretty late (finals were scheduled for 3 pm, we got there around 2.30 pm, with the loserbracket to be played). Luckily our experience allowed us to not care so much, as ‘schedules’ are very dynamic anyway, Friday being it’s best proof.

We let jannis and h1o warm up for the game, and managed to get the loserbracket final played. With alot of communication back-and-forth about finals and casts, we managed to squeeze in the Warsow finals after some qw, cod, or et game (who knows? ;D). Sadly the match didn’t get casted in the bar,

but on the 2^nd stream (meaning A_Spec up in the Quadv lounge by himself ). Anyway, you should all know, the games were very intense and nice to watch. Words and whine being thrown back and forth between the players only livelied up the games.

Sadly the server-admin on the scene was the stereotypical serveradmin type, the overweight one, black-shirt and jeans wearing social handicapped virgin, stuck in a windowless room for 3 days straight. So after some ‘rigid’ cooperation througout the tourney (I actually got him to raise his voice to me), we didn’t get the serverdemo’s. We were all tired after the finals, and there were alot of other games scheduled, so we decided to bail out on the prize ceremony. After greeting and thanking A_Spec for his part of the job, we headed home.

ANYWAY!

All in all it really was a great event. The tourney didn’t went smooth at all, the organisation from crossfire was far from well settled, communication was difficult… But with the cooperation and willingness of all the Warsow players (come on, we even got zkyp to play) we managed to enjoy ourselves, with our own game, CRTs and people.

The sleepover party and roadtrip style-travelling was real nice too, and I’m happy we made it again. Big thanks to all warsowians participating, A_Spec for his superb work, Cash for helping out every now and then, ollipop for battling mc’s, Raida for having once owned me in UT2k4 TAM, and so on. I’m gonna post some movies I made with my phone later (introducing Pillz’ buddy Poki to the masses). CU@Next LAN (UK anyone? ).

Links:

Crossfire Gallery
marrk’s Gallery
QuadV VODS
Demos (MVD!)