Gaming Tournament Documentary

Simon Bysshe writes "The third film in the "Intel Extreme Edition Challenge" series has just been released as this time the subject is the popular 1v1 game Painkiller. The film features an 8 player "Bloodline" Painkiller tournament with the prize to become a new member of the Four Kings UK squad and travel the world to compete at the CPL World Tour. The last two Intel Extreme Edition Challenge films were downloaded over 500,000 times. The intention of this film is to raise the profile of competitive computer gaming & present it in a way which could be seen by mainstream television audiences. The film is available for download already. (26minutes running time, wmv & divx formats available, 170mb filesize)"

Any torrents?

[Anonymous Coward]

Any torrents?

Re:painkiller sucks

[MetalliQaZ]

Man, I don't know why, but that post just made me laugh. The sweet simplicity, the obvious contradiction, the careless misspelling... I can't look at it without cracking a smile.

-d

Glorified press release

[hambonewilkins]

I'm not sure why we're scratching for news here, but this is obviously a glorified press release (esp. with the download stats). Further, I'm not even sure how this qualifies as "news."

But, kudos for mentioning "Intel Extreme Edition Challenge" not once but twice. Maybe next time you can go for THREE times.

Congratulations.

[Jason Scott]

Simon, congratulations on your third gaming documentary project. I have enjoyed your previous work, and look forward to this one as well.

I look forward to you moving on to DVDs and/or being asked to create documentaries that will go onto game disks as part of a bundle; the sky's the limit.

- Jason Scott

Alternative download on NGI

[zr-rifle]

mirror [www.ngi.it]

not too much actual game footage

[steesefactor]

Around the 16 minute mark is where they actually show the only match they cover. I have to respect the effort, but it seems that a traditional media approach to covering tournaments such as these is very lacking. The best part is where the players themselves discuss their match, go over tactics,etc. I'd be much more interested in getting the footage of entire matches, not an edited version with crappy announcers.

Reality TV

[Torgo's Pizza]

And yet somehow "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss" is more entertaining than this. Guess UPN could always show this...

advertisements

[grafyx]

is it me or this guy's movies contains more and more advertisements?

i'm only halfway into the feature and we got to see intel ads (as usual), lord of the rings and some keyboard and medal of honnor...

seems to me that someone is just using his popularity to push some ads... especially since it's posted on slashdot....

Hmm...

[camooT]

The first one was great, the second one was reassuring, and the third one was a sellout. Simon, I'm sure the pro gaming community appreciates what you're doing, but I'm concerned that you do not. You seemed to have completely lost your sense of pacing, or otherwise what might be called cohesive directing (and ethics) with this latest movie. I loved the first movie, even though I didn't play CS competitively, because it was exciting and felt like a real play-by-play breakdown like you'd see on ESPN. I was ho

Coverage

[obeythefist]

Let's keep it simple.

I'm interested in seeing if this can work as a spectator sport. Spectators aren't as interested in advertising as you might think, however. Quite the opposite, spectators hate ads, they're in it for the event.

So we need to see the following:

What's the game?
What's the course?
Who are the players?

And for each round - what happens, highlights, and at the end of the round, the score.
Analysis may help to explain complex issues but should be kept to a minimum at this stage.
Most important

This was a pretty cool video... despite horrid ads

[LincolnQ]

I enjoyed it. The advertising was painful, though. I could deal with either ridiculous product placement, OR the commercial breaks, but both?! How much money did they give these guys?

In any case, I had never seen Painkiller multiplayer before and it looks really fun. The description of the map was good of them to give, making me think about strategy on my own. I didn't think there was enough ingame footage -- but what they had was really interesting anyway.

I like comparing different games and how the pro

Terrible...

[schild]

...and terribly uninteresting. Truly a testament as to why competitive gaming should NEVER be on TV. Combined with the 2 hour abortion that was the Gaming Awards, as a gamer I'm slightly insulted. For the love of god, don't try to glorify us. It's about the blood, fun, and fragging. Not the branded 4 kings shirt and hat. Meh, maybe Intel and Dell made enough sales to make the entire thing worthwhile. I guess we'll find out when the next edition comes out.