The Descent 3 50k Tournament...

[Nightshade]

The sound is crappy and so is the video (late '90s analog video), but...after nearly 17 years, footage has been found:

[youtube]tZ1mdJS_FKA[/youtube]

[Lothar]

oh man, my old friend "fo0" at the 8:32 mark... he's actually the reason I found the DescentBB. Met him at college orientation, found out we both played Descent, and I showed him KoolBear's level archive and spotted the DBB link.

[sigma]

There played another Vision, yes?

[Vander]

Anarchy

Game: Quarter Finals

Level: 1


[Rank] [Name] [Score] [Kills] [Deaths] [Suicides] [Time In Game]
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1) Nirvana 50[50] 50[50] 33[33] 0[0] 24:59 minutes
2) Vander 39[39] 40[40] 38[38] 1[1] 24:59 minutes
3) Diablo 34[34] 38[38] 35[35] 4[4] 24:59 minutes
4) sfuzzi 16[16] 19[19] 41[41] 3[3] 24:59 minutes
5) server1 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 24:59 minutes

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Anarchy

Game: Semi-Final Match

Level: 1


[Rank] [Name] [Score] [Kills] [Deaths] [Suicides] [Time In Game]
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1) Nirvana 52[52] 56[56] 32[32] 4[4] 24:59 minutes
2) FusionFart 38[38] 39[39] 38[38] 1[1] 24:59 minutes
3) Vander 38[38] 39[39] 39[39] 1[1] 24:59 minutes
4) JackIt 26[26] 29[29] 54[54] 3[3] 24:59 minutes
5) Server 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 24:59 minutes

(FusionFart = MehYam, JackIt = bash)

In my defense, I was using an tank in Apparition.

[Top Gun]

Damn you guys are old.

It forever blows my mind that Interplay once shelled out $50k for this tournament.

[Krom]

I was like 5 kills short of getting free plane tickets to the tournament proper...

[Spidey]

Did they make everyone use that controller configuration? That would have been a deal breaker for me, as everyone laughed me out of the building while I made a fool of myself trying to play with it.

[vision]

There played another Vision, yes?

Yes, that is another player. I have never played D3 multi-player (or D2, and only 20 min of D1 after Rebirth was released). I'm a single-player guy and my name is a generic one I've used in a few different games.

However, I do remember that tournament and wanted to play in it, but knew I would get my ass handed to me.

[sigma]

Actually, once again to go through Descent1-2-3 with 1-5 mates in a coop mode, it's quite fun and interesting

[Nightshade]

There played another Vision, yes?

Yes, that is another player. I have never played D3 multi-player (or D2, and only 20 min of D1 after Rebirth was released). I'm a single-player guy and my name is a generic one I've used in a few different games.

However, I do remember that tournament and wanted to play in it, but knew I would get my ass handed to me.

Ah. So you're a FAKE Vision. Ha!

[Nightshade]

I guess all of the old school players have left us.

[Sergeant Thorne]

I'm still here!

[Hunter]

After all these years holy smokes. I remember asking Fatal several years later if he'd blown through all that cash - He said he hadn't
Thinking back, D3 must've had a huge budget and on top of that: a 50k tourny.

[Alter-Fox]

I was; what? Ten years old then?
And I could only play the games on Trainee, and I'd played D1 for five years without beating the first boss?

I mean, I thought I was good at it... I was a little bit vain at that age.

[ReadyMan]

Lots of "old school" pilots around....just they are super good at lurking