Bad news for CSCentral / Joolz retires / CPL 2004 Information

Posted by Dev at 00:39 6/8/2003.

Some random newsbits for you at this early hour so sit back and enjoy.

Firstly CSCentral have suffered some major problems and as a result have lost all news items posted after June 2002. Quite harsh as I'm sure you agree so join me in wishing good luck to CSC in the future.
Secondly 'Joolz', the famous creator of cheats such as MetaCheat has decided to call it a day. In an open letter to the Half-Life community he states that although VAC is a good anti-cheat it has many flaws which are commonly known throughout the community. If you can't be bothered to read the whole letter I'll give you a teaser quote:
If VALVe had spoken to me, I would have helped them out. If United Admins had trusted me, I would have been able to contribute and help build effective anti-cheat mechanisms ... Although I'm leaving, other people will take up the baton and produce bigger and better cheats. That needs to be realised by all you people that just like to flame people saying how wrong they are to cheat etc... The community as a whole needs to grow up and realise that cheating is here to stay, it will never go away.
With Half-Life I can't help but thinking his words are true but hopefully with Half-Life 2 and games in the future cheating will be come less common.
Finally Angel Munoz announced some information about the CPL 2004 events. Firstly he stated that the prices will not be higher and that to mock the 'Gaylord Entertainment' name shows "crass immaturity". He also announced that in total the CPL will give away around $1,000,000 in prizes and cash next year, Also plans for CPL Asia are in the pipe line, more to be announced on that later.

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	silicon 00:45 6/8/2003	joolz is a knowledgeable man.. shame he couldn't have put that to a more productive use :\| [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ace0r 00:47 6/8/2003	Gaylord entertainment? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	St_George g30rg3h UKTerrorist 00:47 6/8/2003	loool immature or not, the name begs to have the p*** taken. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dev theb0g 00:50 6/8/2003	Ace0r, as of next year the summer CPL event will be held at the 'Gaylord Orpyland' hotel! Check www.thecpl.com for details. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ace0r 00:57 6/8/2003	yeh, thats asking for trouble. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dravicus 01:00 6/8/2003	he says its immature to take the p*** out of the hotel name, but he still manages to say "gaylord hotel" about 10 times in the same paragraph, that is just asking for it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	wishy 01:03 6/8/2003	1 million :o f*** e-Sports just give me it o/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Carzy 01:06 6/8/2003	im still at a loss to figure out why someone would call their hotel that, they MUST have known and i mean even if they didnt know what it meant one of their friends must have said...its just not true except it is. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dev theb0g 01:07 6/8/2003	It's not just that 1 hotel, there is 1 next to disney land. The parent company is called 'Gaylord Entertainment'. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	madmk 01:10 6/8/2003	whats url for this hotel or whatever, dosent say on thecpl.com :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dev theb0g 01:19 6/8/2003	http://www.ukterrorist.com/newsarchive/cpl_pree_release/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	madmk 01:24 6/8/2003	lol [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w00kie euthanasia 01:34 6/8/2003	that f***ing cheating statement nearly made me cry :(( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ShekkyBoy 01:39 6/8/2003	And him chucking out Recon is the pinnacle of maturity. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	[z]Fred zebras 01:40 6/8/2003	how the fu*k do you open .pdf !? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 01:50 6/8/2003	adobe acrobat reader [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SuperNick 01:58 6/8/2003	bit arrogant of that "joolz" chap. I mean come on ffs, look how buggy the HL engine is, and it's barely got any highly efficient working cheats as it is.. If you ask me, he kinda does make it sound like they're getting too much for him. I don't respect that lame piece of s*** one bit, I just pity him that he thinks he is some sort of hero. Will people make bigger and better cheats? No, not likely. Cheats now compared to a year ago are nothing, all I see is a decline in it. It's also pretty unlikely HL2 will face many cheats at all too. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Mango 02:02 6/8/2003	I can respect his programming ability, but I think he should have put it to better use and he should have been the one to approach UA if he really cared about the situation. What a stupid name for a company, unless they sell dildo's... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	FuSe 02:08 6/8/2003	he's allowed his view and the right to programme what he wants, but saying people need to grow up is wrong, cheating is unnacceptable - that isn't something that maturity will change [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DooMeh Lite 02:14 6/8/2003	if u hav a company name like that people remember it, therefore is it not good marketing? ;) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	FuSe 02:17 6/8/2003	i have more respect for him than sad b******s who cheat when playing competitively. Its not so much the cheat programmers making the cheats i have a problem with, its them making them available to the public and the people that use them. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Aimage Bleeding-edge 02:43 6/8/2003	that joolz chap seems decent enough. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Nazg0l fightclubclan 02:45 6/8/2003	theres an entire town called "Gaylord" on the border of Canada and the USA. near winnipeg i think. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ge0ff 03:23 6/8/2003	at least it aint being held here: http://lol.irc-rulez.de/austrian.jpg [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	N3M- endeffect 05:30 6/8/2003	Will people make bigger and better cheats? No, not likely. Cheats now compared to a year ago are nothing, all I see is a decline in it. any firewall can be broken, same way as any anti-cheat protection can be broken...i think thats what he meant by bigger cheats...just that theirs going to be more time put into them and a time will come when cheat coders find flaws in the design and they will create their cheats in such a way that its hard to stop it :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	nicklearse Missing In Action 08:19 6/8/2003	considering most poeple have a decent connex now we need one of those screenshot anti cheat things across all servers and when someones found cheating on a sv_secure sever they should face a penatly across all other secure servers [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Abysmal 08:37 6/8/2003	Tee hee, call me immaturely crass then :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ColdAsIce ImaGine 09:16 6/8/2003	If HL2 Anti cheat does the same as VAC and give the cheating offenders say a 1 year ban. Then the cheats are less likely to splash out the £35 for HL2. Which should reduce cheats atleast for a while. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Samje 09:26 6/8/2003	hehehe.... gaylord.... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ryano theb0g 15:39 6/8/2003	Thing is with the internet, there can't really be uncommon usage of cheats. There will either be none or lots, because the internet means widespread distribution is simple. If there is one cheat that works, then every cheater can easily get hold of it. The most effective way of stopping cheats would be a permanant ban of anyone caught with them, only problem with this is that when the system is introduced it is bound to have bugs and people who haven't used cheats will be banned. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	eXp 15:50 6/8/2003	i took a piccy of the Gaylord hotel in Florida ;] most amusing! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	BArra 16:16 6/8/2003	its like naming a global product something that means something retarded in another language, surely they shulda picked up on the name, fair f***s it might be some poor sods surname or something but come on, crazy yanks.. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	jammin 17:09 6/8/2003	Cheats really dont bother me now. I just ignore em and carry on playing cos they get bored easily and usually leave after one map. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Chris0 20:49 6/8/2003	They say $1m but i thought they were running a big $$ ut2k3 tournament? which would take a large chunk of that money, funny that Angel Munoz will be taking over Gaylord Entertainment facillites for CPL Summer, maybe he could stay there longer, and throw more people out. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NoToRiOuS 2 COOL 4 SKOOL UKTerrorist 20:54 6/8/2003	Enter the gaytrix anyone? www.liquidgeneration.com/poptoons/gaytrix_reloaded.asp if you havent seen this, watch it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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