Championship Gaming Invitational (DirectTV)

[LAMBORGHINI FCUKER]

I was looking for something at 12:15am on TV to get me to sleep and out of randomness, I found this video game competition show.

It had a very simple structure for what I saw. Two games were being alternated: Counter-Strike and Project Gotham Racing 3.

PGR3 was a simple 3-lap race with 3 players and the finalist won $10,000 (2nd place gets $5,000). Covering the race was a little amusing: Only the more interesting players were being covered, even if they're battling it out for 2nd place just because they were shoving each other. Camera angles ranged from the angles available to players and the ones used presumably for spectator views. Also unusual was the announcer watching the race; he was the stereotypical guy with the monotonous voice you'd hear at horsetrack races.

Counter-Strike had 20 90-second rounds with terrorists vs. spies consisting of 5-players each. After the first 10 rounds, the teams switched roles. Frankly, that structure seemed very unusual. It would be better if the teams switched roles every round just to keep them on edge. :3 There was a decent overhead view and a spectator camera guided manually as if they had no clipping. Out on the show's stage, each guy had a coach of sorts, if you can believe that.


So anyway, there appears to be a short show-long tournament for some games (i.e. PGR3 and maybe even Dead or Alive 4 in a future show) and tournaments that span over a few episodes (Counter-Strike, Battlefield 2). I'm not sure if anyone's going to get into this thing but I could probably sit through it.

Since it's on DirectTV, not everyone will watch it either. And it'll be finalized as a series in 2007 as well.

[Akkaraju]

woah, i never heard of that show... but it reminds me of that other show that G4 was airing a while ago called Arena, only i dont know if you're implying that the people in the show you're talking about are actually professionals or not, becuase in that Arena show, im pretty sure as long as you had a team you can enter.
it had sorta the same setup i think, minus the coaches thing.

[DJLC]

I guess the play newer games unlike a lot of other game playing shows.

Was it CS:S or 1.6?

[LAMBORGHINI FCUKER]

I'm going to assume 1.6. The game did not look modern.

[Elixir]

Originally Posted by Reenee

Counter-Strike had 20 90-second rounds with terrorists vs. spies consisting of 5-players each. After the first 10 rounds, the teams switched roles. Frankly, that structure seemed very unusual. It would be better if the teams switched roles every round just to keep them on edge. :3 There was a decent overhead view and a spectator camera guided manually as if they had no clipping. Out on the show's stage, each guy had a coach of sorts, if you can believe that.

You mean counter-terrorists. They switch after 10 rounds to make everything balanced, since sometimes you can't win on a certain side; this is what's wrong with counter strike in the first place. Once you get yourself a stacked team, it's over.

It's a shame people take this game so seriously. And when they aren't taking it seriously, they're playing iceworld or fucking surfing maps. It doesn't make any sense to me.

[DJLC]

Originally Posted by Elixir

You mean counter-terrorists. They switch after 10 rounds to make everything balanced, since sometimes you can't win on a certain side; this is what's wrong with counter strike in the first place. Once you get yourself a stacked team, it's over.

It's a shame people take this game so seriously. And when they aren't taking it seriously, they're playing iceworld or fucking surfing maps. It doesn't make any sense to me.

I play CS:S to have a good time and nothing else. I have not seen a serious competition that was played on surfing maps. Iceworld however...

[Elixir]

Originally Posted by playa129

I have not seen a serious competition that was played on surfing maps.

I never said they did, read again. =[

[Syxx]

why doa 4 though, that game was dead in less than a year

also CS is still pretty popular, so I am not surprised it's on this show

[LAMBORGHINI FCUKER]

Is there really any other fighting game on the 360? The fights looked pretty damn good.

[moop]

dead or alive 4 and halo 2 are also featured at the invitational. my personal favorite out of the 4 actually...

[Syxx]

Originally Posted by Reenee

Is there really any other fighting game on the 360? The fights looked pretty damn good.

No, not as far as I know, but there are better and probably more popular games on other systems. While DOA 4 is still probably still popular at a scrub level the tournament level of the game died several months after the game came out, much like Soul Calibur 3.

[MC Malicious Gravy]

It's a show hosted by DirecTV on DirecTV which is a giant plug for the 360, plus some competition.


That's all I'm saying on this. Sorry, but if I have to choose Championship Gaming Invitational and anything on Food Network with Alton Brown, I'm choosing Alton Brown.

[butrosbomb]

Originally Posted by Syxx

why doa 4 though, that game was dead in less than a year

also CS is still pretty popular, so I am not surprised it's on this show

do you not have the internet? just asking

i mean on doa4 there's like upwards of probably 100+ people on at any given time, on the green servers, in california alone

for an xboxlive fighting game, thats pretty damn good

also lol dead or alive 4 competitions on that station will consist of these fighters;

kasumi
hayabusa
jann lee (although i use him myself non-scrubbily i know how bad he can be)

thats it

no one will use anything else i guarentee

except tengu

[sнυи]

Don't they play CS:Source for this tournament? I remember reading about it on either GotFrag or ESEA...

[LAMBORGHINI FCUKER]

It's 1.6.