UKTerrorist
Posted by Hotshot at 10:12 21/1/2004.
Joe Hill, and the other co-organisers of CXG, have been busy these last few days; interviews for television and internet broadcasts a-plenty and now a rather brusque press release adorns the GotFrag site. The press release officially acknowledges the failings of the tournament at an organisational level but, once again, refuses to take any personal accountability, as highlighted in this brief snippet :
In addition to the attempts to correct the existing issues we do want to make it clear that certain competitive organizations, venues, and game publishers went out of their way to interfere with the operations of the Las Vegas event. We have numerous documents and statements available that will substantiate a direct attempt to sabotage the production of the Las Vegas event and we intend to pursue all available legal remedies in an attempt to disclose these efforts to the gaming community.
The full statement can be found over on gotFrag.
In response to the rather acromonious allegations, the CPL team have released a statement expressing their current stance on the whole situation:
The CPL did not "interfere with the operations of the Las Vegas event." The CPL does not have a "direct promotional partnership" with any game developer or game publisher; and beyond a licensing agreement for the tournament use of Counter-Strike, the CPL has absolutely no business relationship with Valve Software.
The CPL seem to have taken the statement somewhat personally and, with CXG's decision to drop Counter-Strike from their games list, you have to wonder how willing sponsors will be to put their trust in a competition now without its flagship game? Again, the full CPL quote is available on gotFrag.
Comments
10:27 21/1/2004
Alert
10:32 21/1/2004
Its probably a one-time cal admin who nicked a monitor or something :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
10:59 21/1/2004
ctx
11:13 21/1/2004
Collective
11:37 21/1/2004
Disturbed
11:50 21/1/2004
Game Dimension Online
11:56 21/1/2004
feo
12:25 21/1/2004
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12:56 21/1/2004
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UKTerrorist
13:52 21/1/2004
I think that says more about the 'nearing end' for CXG, rather than CS, especially if they keep this nonsense up. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Nocturne
14:01 21/1/2004
14:19 21/1/2004
Sniper's Alley
15:17 21/1/2004
16:23 21/1/2004
Alert
16:43 21/1/2004
Rush!
17:13 21/1/2004
18:49 21/1/2004
All this blaming of Valve and the CPL is a pathetic excuse to cover up for the shambles created by cXg for ALL events in the tournament. Not just CS. One patch wasn't responsible for all that, no way. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]