This is a letter from Angel Munoz of the CPL to the CPL Sponsors. Read it
and if you think that the CPL is misrepresenting Quakecon to their sponsors,
write an email to them. The contact information for all of the CPL Sponsors,
ID Software and The CPL is below the email.

 >-----Original Message-----
>From: Angel Munoz [mailto:angel@thecpl.com]
>Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:48 AM
>To: The CPL Sponsors
>Subject: QuakeCon vs CPL Comparison - [CPL Sponsors]
>
>
>A few of the CPL sponsors have asked us about QuakeCon and how they compare
>to a CPL Event. Instead of the CPL making that comparison, we will quote
>the press on a few subjects that seem to be sore points for that event:
>
>1. No power for six hours
>
>"It's about 5 pm cst here in Mesquite, Texas and we finally just got back
>online from a power outage that lasted about two hours. Everything was
>somewhat delayed, especially the tournament, which is just beginning with
>the early FFA stages now. The cause of the outage was a blown generator.."
>Terrell Garrett (ShackES)
>
>"It is now around 9 pm cst here in Mesquite. Everyone thought the one power
>outage would be the last and final one, but we were interrupted by two more
>that lasted for three more hours or so." Terrell Garrett (ShackES)
>
>"made it back alive from Quakecon tonight. I couldn't really give you an
>update from the event due to the power being out for somewhere around 6
>hours due to power generator problems." Sean (Stomped)
>
>"I'm very sorry that I'm late posting this, I'm at the worst LAN party ever
>called QuakeCon. The power is going out every hour or so, peoples computers
>are getting ruined, what else will happen. " Johnson (Domain of Games)
>
>
>2. Only cash prizes for three people
>
>"socrates: Had a great tournament, but if I were him I'd be feeling a little
>pissed right now. He was one win away from earning $5000. What did he get
>instead? A video card." Muiy (ShackES)
>
>"So, here are the final results:
>1 - Zero4 (30,000$)
>2 - Fatal1ty (10,000$)
>3 - Revenant (5,000$)
>4 - Socrates (applause)" Viper (CyberFight - Russia)
>
>
>3. Claims of misrepresentation
>
>"On a related note, only $45,000 was awarded in this "$50,000
>tournament"....apparently the rest of the cash prize is in merchandise
>prizes, which is.....well, misleading is really the only word for it. "
>Muiy (ShackES)
>
>
>4. Tournament Schedule and Seedings
>
>"It's 3am and the end of the ffa heats are still a couple hours away. A lot
>of people are still milling about the tourney area, as most are probably
>planning on staying up tonight to see who and when they're playing
>tomorrow." Muiy (ShackES)
>
>"Quakecon, with it's lack of seeding and ffa format, has always had an aura
>of unpredictability. Top players knock each other out early, and unknowns
>survive into the late rounds." Muiy (ShackES)
>
>"For the most part, seedings are kind of screwy (I myself am seeded 19th,
>which is nothing short of strange)" snagger ( ES America)
>
>"The duel tournament is getting off to an inauspicious start here at
>Quakecon, as forfeits and matches between two unknown players are the story
>of the day so far." Muiy (ShackES)
>
>
>5. Tournament Software bugs
>
>"There were actually some bugs in the ngstats this time" Muiy (ShackES)
>
>"For those of you looking at all the brackets and stats information from the
>netgames page, you may want to know this. It appears that the netgames
>software doesn't actually have a "forfeit" function/button/whatever built
>into it. This means that a lot of the stats posted that have one player
>forfeited and another advancing is incorrect/reversed. Also, it appears that
>none of the demo links actually work, not sure what the problem." ebola (ES
>America)
>
>"Unfortuneatly it doesn't appear that ZeRo4's POV from the final match
>actually uploaded using netstats. I'm not sure if he exited to fast or the
>netgames software screwed up." ebola (ES America)
>
>
>6. Internet connectivity too many people on a DSL line
>
>"There is however, a slight problem here at QuakeCon. The BYOC area has so
>many people in it that the internet connection is about as fast as a
>2400baud modem." ebola (ES America)
>
>
>7. No Vulgarity Control Enforced
>
>Listen to a recording made of a player during one of the matches:
>http://www.esports-america.com/php-bin/getfile2.inc/105701/quakecon-sounds1-
>Caiman.mp3
>
>
>8. Slight Oversight?
>
>It seems that no one wrote the names of the winners on the checks before
>taking pictures of them, as you can see in this picture:
>http://www.stomped.com/cgi-bin/stompedshot.cgi?image=/pics/qcon2k1/winners_p
>ose2.jpg&title=Quakecon+2001+Tourney+Winners
>
>
>Last comment:
>
>Here's the last general comment from ShackES
>
>"There's a depressing vibe in the Quakecon BYOC area right now. I went
>through all the 1v1 servers, hoping to play a few tight-but-friendly duels
>with other "good" players, but the only people duelling are newbies. Most
>good players just don't even seem to be around right now- they're somewhere
>not playing Quake. If you were at the Razer CPL and you stayed up really
>late playing games, you know that the action was intense all the way through
>the night. I remember staying up crazy late on Friday/Saturday night"


Contact Information for CPL Sponsors

Intel - Intel Feedback Form
Logitech - Logitech's Contact Us Page
Altec Lansing - Altec Lansing Press and Publicity Email or call 800-ALTEC-88
Visiontek - marketing@visiontek.com or call 800-726-9695
Bawls - bawls@bawls.com, Feedback Form or call 800-BAWLS-COM
Thrustmaster - Thrustmaster Public Relations Email
Viewsonic - Viewsonic Contact Us Form
Mad Catz - Public Relations Manager P. Bradshaw
Speakeasy.net - Director of Communications Kat Oaks
Netgear - Public Relations Email
Monster Cable - Public Relations Director D. Graham
Microsoft - Corporate Feedback Page


ID Software Contact Information - Be sure to tell them what
you thought about Quakecon

Marty Stratton - mstratton@idsoftware.com
Todd Hollenshead - toddh@idsoftware.com


CPL Contact Information - Be sure to tell Angel what
you thought about Quakecon and/or what you think about
this email

Angel Munoz - angel@thecpl.com