Nice posts guys, they're totally going to want to do anything like this again. Especially when they get threats. Way to go!

Also Gillz chill dude, this isn't ESR...
I "would never ever be removed" since I played the entire two weeks (mostly in the beginning though), played all games properly and uploaded every screenshot, played against so many different people of which a large chunk were actual Destructoiders, and thought I was fairly nice ever asking to play with the ping advantage twice out of 45 games (and my loss came from returning the favor).

There really isn't anything dodgy unlike the people popping up last minute playing a ton of games of which many were against the same opponent over and over, and against players who seemed to just sign up to lose to one guy and not play any more. I don't have any deeper insight in that though and didn't complain, but it seems reasonable that players weren't just removed for fun.

The only thing me being an actual part of this community has to do with anything is playing from the beginning (which I wasn't alone in anyway). No idea why bias is being called anyway but there's no reason there would be any. I've been following this site for ages and love it to bits, but with 351 comments in years of being here I'm fairly anonymous and not exactly in a special position.

Finally yep, Weird (a top dueller) will of course beat me since he's been playing this game for so much longer and has an insane head start on me who didn't even come from Q3. I've played against him in duel and I've played with him in the same clan for team deathmatch, and I know all I can hope for is to put on a good show if this is going to be broadcast. I'm proud just to be here and objectively think it's cool that even one actual Destructoider (I hope I can call myself this) is in the finals otherwise filled with people who didn't give a damn about this site before, are talking crap about it everywhere else, and won't be here when it's over...

In retrospect I too think they should spend their time and money on other kinds of competition, but only because the current target audience isn't worth it. Complaining about a competition not being run the same way dedicated and experienced Quake tournaments are because there's prizes on the line, but being OK with raffles? Give me a break. This is just supposed to be fun and people can win stuff. Destructoid has given away expensive stuff in some pretty crazy - but FUN - competitions before... But you wouldn't know that, would you.

You sound like your entitled anything, and even robbed. That's where you're not doing a very good job here.

Meh. I know I'll lose. I'll still try though ;)
You guys are insanely talented compared to me and I can only pray to score once or twice against you.

Well... I was not even aware of what the destructoid community really was about, until I had run a search seeking more info with quake live developer interviews, and most amazing thing shows up, a QL tournament!

I see a few of the users are disagreeing with the outcome of the top 6, but like other tournaments it in the end is up to the people running it, and how they sort it all out, and the end formula they seem to have come up with. I can't say its always fair though, i've been banned from a local cybercafe *which recently shut down* after winning a COD4 tourney *back when it first came out*, and told to never come back, all because the other players claimed I was hacked (which was what all the people i played said i was doing, which made no sense since because its clearly a lan), and I never won the GPU and gift card they were claiming went to first place! So yeah I can understand the frustration :(

Though Torzelan is right about most of the people who joined up, I on the other hand, plan on staying in the community and getting more involved than i am now *being idle* maybe start writing a few blog post or two soon (I have some ideas), and its all because of what I have found through this tournament.

But in the end I thought it was really fun, and Torzelan and Hawtpawkithero (both being actual destructiod users to :) ) had good sportsmanship the entire 2 weeks, and everyone else, weird, dahang, and boots fellow u.s. players, were great competition to.

Just my 2 cents though.

Hi all,

Thanks for weighing in on the comments. I've update the post and FNF web site regarding some of the discrepancies regarding the removed players from the semi-finals. It pains me to adjust the leaderboard but there was some activity discovered that invalidaded some of the wins.

As for participation in comments versus skill on the site, there really shouldn't be a correlation or consideration there. Many of our regular readers and supporters don't comment often, just as many forum-goers or IRC goers won't be in FNF, and so on. It's a big site and we're happy if anyone is using any portion of it. Adding tournaments is both another way for us to bring more people in under the Dtoid family and a way for our sponsors to reach and invite our existing community to also play. I think these two different people can co-exist and have some fun; we're trying to add as much diversity and opportunity with raffles and random give aways to make sure nobody is excluded.

Anyhow, I hope everyone's happy with the way our first tournament went. I think we learned a few things and will be tweaking the software accordingly. Until then, thanks for playing and the support!