Smackdown 187: Space 1999

[Creole Ned]

Smackdown 187: Space 1999
Date: Sunday, July 29th
Time: 6 p.m. PDT, 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. EDT
Game: Quake 3 demo (http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake3-arena/index.php?game_section=demo)
Gametype: Deathmatch
Map: The Longest Yard

Time for another demo. Free games, hooray! This time we're taking the Wayback Machine to the year 1999. People were fretting about the Y2K bug, gas cost a buck-something and id had the temerity to release a game with no single player story (just like the original Quake!)

The Quake 3 demo can be found at the above link or the usual sites. It contains four maps and the one we will be using may be familiar as it's been featured in remakes for a number of games. The Longest Yard inspires a love/hate relationship because it is easy to fall to your death, whether by your own hand or someone else's. But I find it's good silly fun.

Hope to see youse there!

[Falhawk]

i liked Q3

therefore I tentatively plan on perhaps downloading this at some point this week and will potentially make a decision sometime before sunday if I'll play or not

I'll try to remember to post here about it

[Falhawk]

doh, family in town until tuesday = no sd for me :(

[Tai]

Hrm, I don't know what time the plane lands, but I will attend if I can.

[armerius]

going on vacation. I'll miss the next 2 smackdowns at least.

[Circuit]

Well, you've missed like the last 5, too. :)

[Shadowrat]

it looks more and more likely that i will be participating.

[Creole Ned]

woot, I say.

I will be testing the server sometime before the usual SD warmup to make sure the dedicated server config file is working properly. I'll post a heads-up here so guinea pigs can volunteer to help out.

[samuelk]

I'll be there.

[Circuit]

I, for one, will not continue to tolerate all the cheating going on that causes me to lose. Also, I shouldn't be able to lose points by falling off the ledge into outerspace.

[Creole Ned]

Thanks to everyone for showing. There was some trouble with ping spikes partway through (check Shadowrat's in the screenshot) but they seemed to mostly go away after a few minutes.

I believe we all fell into space a combined 50 million times. :nod:

http://martiancartel.com/smackdown/scores/sd187_score.jpg