He was doomed to a purgatory of yearly Quake Live matches against the same tired competition he faced as a college kid. He had a brief affair with Ubisoft’s dead-on-arrival ShootMania, and he tried and failed to find his groove on the Team Liquid Overwatch team. He’s an incredible duelist who can track down railgun headshots with his eyes closed, but he hasn’t been able to find a game that fits his skillset since the Quake scene dried up during his prime.
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Rapha fits the bill of the long-suffering FPS pro perfectly. These Quake players would’ve gathered here anyway, but now, they get to be professionals again. The marketing here is transparent-at this point it’s harder to find a game company that’s not doubling-down into esports-but the circumstances are unique given the heritage that was already present.
Already, Bethesda has announced two Dreamhack Quake Champions tournaments before the end of the year, and both are paying out decent prize money. You could consider it a commencement ceremony for an esports initiative that aims to make Quake a crucial fixture in the scene again. The free-to-play Quake Champions is on the horizon, and the QuakeCon tournament, which previously focused on minor bounties in stale Quake Live brackets, now features a million-dollar Champions prizepool. For the first time in forever, QuakeCon is headlined by its namesake game. However, the mood is different this year. The world has passed them by, but they’re not leaving without a fight. Together, they represent the first generation of esports-the first men who dared to make a living playing video games. In his jersey and trademark gamer grimace, he doesn’t look much different from the man who famously lost to Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel in the grand finals of the 2005 Cyberathlete World Tour in what was then the biggest prize pool in the history of competitive gaming. I spot Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager sequestered away from the rest of the crowd, playing endless deathmatches to keep himself frosty. He’s entering this year’s show defending championships from both 20. The lithe Shane “Rapha” Hendrixson is here-since 2008 he’s traded titles in the 1v1 dueling bracket against Alexey “Cypher” Yanushevsky. Tim “DaHanG” Fogarty and Andrew “id_” Trulli are both in their late-20s and play for Team Liquid’s Overwatch squad-but they’ve each taken a respite from that game to form a (slightly impromptu) team for this year’s Quake Champions tournament. In recent years, fans of the mercurial Quake franchise haven’t had much reason to play outside of id Software’s yearly love letter to the franchise, but the upper echelon of the scene remains sturdy.
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