IS pulls the "PluGG" on last years Girls vs.Guys gaming show down

[Jan]

I also read Team Bravado's report on the event and they (or at least the writer) seemed very positive afterward. I couldn't really find any mention of it on the PMS Clan or EG Clan's sites.

To be honest I didn't know about the 3G problems because there was no mention of it anywhere on the blagotubes that I could find.

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The root of the problem wasn't Arena77 choosing 3G over a cabled Internet connection (I won't call it broadband because it isn't -- even the UN says so). The root of the problem is Steam and Steamworks being used as DRM. If a connection to the Steam servers wasn't required just to launch the game then this tournament could have been hosted like a StarCraft or normal CS1.6 comp.

Steam blows and Gabe Newell is full of hot air. ... ... His statements regarding DRM are totally hypocritical given the fact that Steam was his brainchild.
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[wizdumb]

Don't be so quick to come down on this event.. I was there and it was actually pretty amazing at the amount of effort and work that had been put into the event.

The actual match itself was a huge stuff up because IS/PLuGG contracted local LAN organisers Arena77 to run the setup. Just like many times before, Arena77 totally screwed up things. The players keep dropping from Steam because the 3G connection couldn't handle the verification process Steam does for each of the player's game accounts. The PLuGG staff were furious about this as they couldn't do anything to solve the problem, and they vowed never to use Arena77 again.

With the bands playing, the bars, the setup with 12 40" LCD screens to view, the event was awesome, over a R1 million went into everything. Hopefully they do it again this year.

was there as well, the tech issues made a bit of a hash of the actual gaming, but all in all, it was a gr8 event and now they can only go bigger and better