GPG press release: $5,000 in prize money for newly announced tournaments
Fresh off the press, here is a GPG press release announcing new tournaments with good prize money. Expert players, start your engines!
REDMOND, WA (July 11, 2007): Chris Taylor’s Gas Powered Games, Corp., a leading developer of multi-platform interactive entertainment, today announced a series of Supreme Commander tournaments that will be played via the GPGnet online gaming service. The first tournament is scheduled for July 28th and 29th and will have a $5,000 prize fund. In addition to the prize money, players will also compete for the “UEF Cup”.
“Gas Powered Games has made a strong and long-term commitment to Supreme Commander’s online multiplayer audience”, said Kent McNall, Producer of GPGnet. “Tournaments have been very popular with our players, and participation in them has grown steadily with players across all experience and skill levels. With four great tournaments and a significant prize fund, we continue that commitment to our Supreme Commander community.”
There will be four tournaments as part of the “Supreme Commander Faction Tournament Cycle”, with the tournaments running at roughly three month intervals. The first tournament will feature the three current factions in Supreme Commander–UEF, Aeon and Cybran–and later tournaments will include a fourth faction, the Seraphim. The Seraphim will be introduced in the forthcoming Supreme Commander standalone expansion, Forged Alliance, which is slated for release later in 2007.
“The $5,000 prize fund will be distributed across all skill levels of our players,” explained McNall. “We’ve got a broad base of community members that participate in tournaments on GPGnet. As with most games, the elite players represent a small fraction of our tournament community, so our prize fund, while generous to the top players, is also generous to other skill levels, as well. Everyone has a chance to win.”
The tournaments will be played on GPG’s exclusive GPGnet online gaming service, and players who have Supreme Commander can register for the tournament directly through GPGnet.
“It’s a great time for new players to discover Supreme Commander,” said McNall. “We not only have a ground-breaking RTS game, but a great community of players as well.”
For more information, see tournaments.gaspowered.com.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
the correct link is http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/tournaments/
and i cant wait… gotta work it out with the wife so im child free that weekend….
also i should mention
wonder how many pplz will be looseing match after match to drop points to get into a lower class and get a easier match!!!
P.S. its almost worth buying a second copy just to get into a lower ranked matching to hopefully win :D
July 11th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
forget it… first rule in the conditions of entry
The Tournaments are open only to individuals who at the time of entry: (a) are legal residents of the United States (excluding residents of Florida, New York, and Rhode Island), Canada (excluding residents of Quebec), Mexico, or the following member states of the European Union (Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden);
SO BASICLY if ur in australia or NZ u cant enter and ur cant win… forgetting all the asian states and the other countrys that cant enter
let me just say GPG U SUCK BALLS!!!
thx again for fking over australia and New Zealand
July 11th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
SoS has said that they will not allow smurf accounts to play in tournaments if the player’s main account is in a different tournament rating range, and I would assume they would enforce this further if there is prize money involved. He claims that they know who has a smurf account by tracking IP.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Meddish- This may not apply here, but most of the time that residents of a country are excluded from contests like this is because of the laws of their own government and not just an arbitrary decision of the person running the contest.
On the topic of cheating: Anyone with a dynamic IP address or a small amount of computer knowledge could easily get around IP logging. I fear introducing cash prizes to the community may bring out the ugly in a lot of people (doesn’t it always?). I am sadly certain that right now there are alott of people making their $50 investment in a second copy of SupCom.
I am afraid what we will see is someone winning the low-rank tourney with a three day old account, and a 1,500 ms ping due to the lag caused by the Tor server he is routed through.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Meddish: Best not get too upset over this, it has nothing to do with GPG and everything to do with the difficulty of running international contests with rewards. Frankly, I’m impressed they managed to get as many countries as they did. Usually it’s just the United States.
Total_Inhalation: To be eligible to play in this tournament, your account must have been created yesterday or earlier. That solves the problem of someone trying to create a new smurf account now.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Oh, forgot to mention. The person who does it may get caught anyway if GPG is smart. Because chances are that the cheater won’t bother to disguise his IP address before the tourney starts. Meaning that if the ip is logged for his previous games with the smerfed account it can still be matched up with his original account.
Another problem would be the possibility of false positives. If more than one player happen to use the same proxy service (for legitimate reasons) they could seem to be smerfs created by the same person. Also if more than one player have the same ISP with dynamic IP addresses, the IP assigned to one player may end up assigned to another player at a different time, again making it look like they were smerfing when they actually weren’t (however this second scenario is very, very unlikely due to the large number of IP addresses which could be assigned relative to the number of people who play SupCom)
July 11th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Oh. Ok.
Sorry about that, reposted before i saw your reply :\
July 12th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Money ey. Why not offer something cool, like a beta in forged alliance. You know something that can be received no matter what country you reside in. oh yeah, they’ll probably insist any beta testers are US citz anyway. damn internet, its really tearing these geographical barriers down.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:29 am
i was a beta tester for the original Beta and im in australia
i would of just liked some sort of note like if ur not in these countrys u will recive a beta key for FA and recive a direct2drive copy of FA when its released (about $50 US so @ least u get something)
least then its recived as a gift and not as cash sould fix any problems there might be between countrys/goverments
as for problems with cash rewards between countreys i dont know of any problems with rewards coming into australia i think its just a case of more paperwork/research to do it for very little reward (fewer players in these outer countrys)
July 12th, 2007 at 3:23 am
hey money tournaments rule! stop whining meddish… its not GPGs fault, and yes it sure would be a good idea that u guys that cant win the money atleast could win a free copy of forged alliance :) Im gonna talk to SoS about it
July 12th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
@Total_Inhalation:
I sincerely doubt they could use IP addresses to do any disqualifications. Some college dorm rooms and apartment buildings use NAT and an internal network, meaning everyone on the same floor or in the same building could have the exact same public IP address. In the small school district in my town (not that any people play SupCom at public school), every last computer in the district has the same public IP address, that being the address of the gateway. Not to mention two roommates may both play SupCom, and the situations you described with dynamic IP’s. It’s HIGHLY unlikely they could justify disqualifying you based on IP address evidence alone. Additionally, I don’t think people who really were after the prize money would risk playing a game through a TOR node.
July 12th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Aw man. I was screwed either way, I used to live in FL, but am now living in Colombia, South America. Darn it. :P
July 12th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
What would be cool would be a televised match between the different armed services representitives. Go Navy!
I am in Australia too – we have lots of rules and regs on competitions and permits and stuff – it is no surprise we cant get in on the US based comp. But we did get thr Transformers movie released a week ahead of the USA. So there.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I think people in those states and countries that are ineligible should still be able to compete, and if they win, just refuse the prize money. I guess that would suck for them though. And Trahma, I don’t care if you get every mediocre and crappy movie a week before us! Just kidding, I love Australia–but not kidding about Transformers.
July 12th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Trasformers movie was GREAT!!! (turned the wife on :) can not complain about that!!!
and it was a good movie 2 :D
July 13th, 2007 at 4:10 am
What kind of an ACU turns into a truck anyway?
July 13th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Reminds me of Guild Wars…..
July 25th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
MADNESS, THIS IS NOT A MERE GAME