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

PluGG is pleased with the results of the campaign
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Ummm this just sounded like a bit of dodginess to me, viral emailers? And here i thought IS was better than Telkom :(

Voicy, Kick them in the panty :mad:
 
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I heard that it was terrible as they apparently made them play over the internet and not LAN or something whack like that? Talk about stupid...
 
Well they still can't host a proper match. Not only were they supposed to play over the internet but do so using 3G. And they should have played 3 maps, only played two. It was in all honesty a **k event.
 
I dunno, I think it was kinda cool (not the event, i wasnt there).

A little bit manipulative, but then not necessarily more so than regular add campaigns.

Not viral as in viruses, it just means that it spread from person to person. Its a guerrilla marketing term.

At least they came out and told everybody afterwards. And besides, their campaign did only good things for the gaming community in the end.
 
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.
 
lilDeath said:
I found this all very funny. I mean really?
Girl gamers better than males? That's just silly! :D
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I know man. I know. First they discovered the internets, now they found games. Next thing you know they'll be on our forums.

Haha, okay enough with the sexist comments -- only thing is, there would be so much necessity for a male team to win vs. females in an event to decide which gender makes better gamers that there is absolutely no way the male team would win without committing mass suicide afterwards.
 
Tarvos said:
I know man. I know. First they discovered the internets, now they found games. Next thing you know they'll be on our forums.

Haha, okay enough with the sexist comments -- only thing is, there would be so much necessity for a male team to win vs. females in an event to decide which gender makes better gamers that there is absolutely no way the male team would win without committing mass suicide afterwards.
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Ag, just admit it, you can't wait for the girl gamers to join the forum! :D
 
I was there too. It was an awesome event. Yes there were network problems but the atmosphere was amazing. It was all very well put together. The band and the dj's and the food and well it was all very professional and well done. I'm sure they learned from the network problems. The whole problem was with a 3G connection.

The girls were all friendly and they may have lost in the end but wow they were good players.

I enjoyed the evening a lot. :)
 
Steam sucks, end of story

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. ... :D;):rolleyes::D ... His statements regarding DRM are totally hypocritical given the fact that Steam was his brainchild.
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roskii said:
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.
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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
 
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