Post by Eorl @ 12:38pm 03/04/14 | 29 Comments
The win has dubbed the team "Koala Duty" by the global eSports community, with Trident T1 Dotters having come out of nowhere to beat Faze - the top ranked team in their bracket of group play - before heading to the Championships. Further cementing Australia’s place in eSports, Trident were the only international team represented in the top six teams, with all other finalists from North America.
The local team surprised all at the championships by winning six matches total and losing only two matches to top ranked Teams EnvyUs and Optic Gaming who placed 2nd and 3rd respectively. The prize pool winning of $75,000 has marked the largest prize for any ANZ eSports team, and hopefully this means further eSports support for our local gaming scene.
You can check out more on the 2014 Call of Duty Championships including a recap of the weekend over on the official website.
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Posted 12:40pm 03/4/14
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Posted 10:31pm 03/4/14
beating out some of those asian countries, and other countries where getting the sponsors dollars are easier is a bloody fine effort
Posted 10:53pm 03/4/14
Posted 10:56pm 03/4/14
So here we have a bunch of Aussies who did well in a thing but because it's a thing you don't care about or understand, you ridicule them? They didn't just rock up and win because, you know, according to you that's how console works -- they worked hard. Instead of being d****, maybe just be supportive?
I thought Australia was about "giving a fair go"
Posted 10:57pm 03/4/14
Then I think about how if I played with them using a controller and me using a kb+mouse how the result would basically be reversed and everything is okay again.
Posted 11:01pm 03/4/14
Posted 11:06pm 03/4/14
why do you think this? genuinely curious. cause if they are totally into using a controller and have been practising for years what make the kb+mouse better?
surely it just comes back to reflexes and skill on either input device so they could be equally as good, or better, or worse than you no matter what input you use.
Posted 11:12pm 03/4/14
it's a video game tournament. i understand you're an important person in a gaming community and you're sick of your wife having to lie about what you do for work because society still views making your life revolve around video games as infantile, but you have to understand that these australians are getting accolades for calling other teenagers f*****s and n******. that is not worthy of respect.
Posted 11:31pm 03/4/14
Posted 11:33pm 03/4/14
In case it's not obvious, I am not deriding the skill level of these guys they must be awesome to win such high stake tournaments. Do you they really use racial and homophobic slurs like that during the tournaments though? I don't see how the sponsors would ever allow it.
Posted 11:40pm 03/4/14
Everything happens quicker on mouse+kb with world class players. You can only turn so fast (and be so accurate) on a controller. A mouse can do both jobs far better if in capable hands. Even if you handicapped one mouse+kb user by maxing their turn speed to match a console, they'd get smashed by someone with equal skill on mouse+kb without such a limitation.
Yes you can be awesome on a console, but only against other console users. Microsoft tried a cross platform years ago and it was all canned because of the disparities.
http://gizmodo.com/5593116/were-pc-gamers-too-good
Posted 11:46pm 03/4/14
lol
Posted 11:49pm 03/4/14
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Posted 12:39pm 04/4/14
also: lol consoles
Posted 12:51pm 04/4/14
Posted 01:10pm 04/4/14
no the correct response was to fail to recognise irony, react like an immature baby, delete the post and possibly wade in with the ban hammer. l2mod.
Posted 11:27pm 04/4/14
Posted 02:22pm 05/4/14
Going a little further back, good ol' MW2, which followed the late and great CoD4, with dedicated servers c-sectioned out of it. But hey, it's all good because it's a "seamless transition between hosts if the hosting peer should drop out", followed by "insanely frenetic gameplay and stunning visuals"(quote~S.Farrelly) because we wouldn't want potential players focusing too much on the game's negatives! Where's the money in that?!?
Deliberate sabotage of the PC as a platform which game journos SHOULD at least be following up on.
Consoles LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Posted 05:21pm 05/4/14
And then we have Roonee, the Faceman of the gaming side of this forum. do you two f*** or something?
Posted 08:01pm 05/4/14