digifest to finish online

23-3-2011 19:11

The digifest organisation has announced that the remainder of the Counter-Strike tournament will be played online.

The decision was reportedly made after one player from RESET started installing several programs in a row on his computer, which crashed as a result.

Due to the lack of spare computers and the fact that the foreign teams attending the event have to return home, the CS competition has been put on hold.

On the first day, technical issues caused the tournament to start several hours after the planned time, with the organisation surprisingly changing the Lower Bracket matches to Max Round 10 to try to gain some ground.

Power Gaming were already in the Grand Final after beating fellow countrymen Online Kingdom in the Upper Final.

There are still seven matches left to be played in the Lower Bracket before the second finalist can be found.

The tournament also faced criticism after failing to flip the order of the teams that come from the Upper Bracket into the Lower Bracket every two rounds, which is a common standard in every event.

sick :DD

2011-03-23 19:12

rofl

2011-03-23 19:12

2011-03-23 19:13

very good event, i recommend you all to attend next year! 0 minutes waiting and very good computers :)

2011-03-23 19:13

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ahah pure lame :D

2011-03-23 19:16

neeehhh

2011-03-23 19:13

best lan ever :D

2011-03-23 19:13

HAHAHAHAH

2011-03-23 19:13

ahahahaha, this tournament is very very slow

2011-03-23 19:14

gj MCZ

2011-03-23 19:14

Yes. Let's blame Lithuanian people now.

2011-03-23 19:15

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why shoulnt they be blamed? when we played against RESET yesterday we literally waited for 2 hours because one of their players "had" to change his monitor for at least six times :) i dunno what happened today, but i assume its even more serious shit.

2011-03-23 19:17

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Yeah i know. I was waiting too. But problem was with monitor, not with computer because of his configs or something. It's not his fault

2011-03-23 19:19

well playing without a monitor wouldnt be fair IMHO :)

2011-03-23 19:19

They can be blamed, at worst, for crashing one pc. How on earth should they be blamed for the total fiasco of the tournament? Matches where RESET played weren't the only ones with the delays, the entire tournament was a one big fucking delay. Few things to consider: 1. An event with such sponsors should have spare pcs. 2.I saw at least 4 teams competing at the same time, meaning there are at least 20 pcs so they could've finished this at LAN. 3. Why weren't "users" created so that players wouldn't be able to install software and mess up the comps?

2011-03-23 19:32

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i didnt mean to put the whole fiasco for RESET's fault, no way. but it seriously took like 1,5-2 hours because of that one player to get it ready (if i heard right, it was only because of some hz stuff). The main fail was ofc digifest's. And #23 he tried many monitors from different manufacturers so i doubt it was because of the monitors...

2011-03-23 19:46

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Thanks for the clarification :) Because when you responded "why shoulnt they be blamed" it sounded like all Lith teams were responsible for the failure of the tournament. And I'm sorry that you had to wait that long. I can imagine how frustrating this could be.

2011-03-23 19:57

2011-03-23 19:16

LOOOOOOOL :D

2011-03-23 19:16

epic LAN is epic. Admins blaming lithuanian players, LOL. It is admins fault, they can't setup PC's for the event, they can't follow schedule and they don't even have spare computers OMFG :D

2011-03-23 19:16

hahaha thats funny

2011-03-23 19:16

one pc crashed = DIGIFEST GG ? digifest sponsor tinyurl.com/4u94ovm what a shame.

2011-03-23 19:17

well at least u get booze

2011-03-23 19:18

=)))))))))

2011-03-23 19:18

digifest admins idiots ;) blaming all on Lithuanians haha. how sad.

2011-03-23 19:18

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when ltu cant set up their comp, they should be banished, which admins did not do, so it caused delay, which caused other problems.Thats why i agree about idiot admins

2011-03-23 20:52

So. from now on we won't see i guess a lan event in Baltic for some while :))) (no one will ever participate in digifest + last month it was last ASUS qualifier in Baltics, because of small participant list).

2011-03-23 19:19

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No wonder why people say CS is dead ;)

2011-03-23 19:24

big big big fail!!!

2011-03-23 19:19

Worst event ever, period.

2011-03-23 19:19

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2011-03-23 19:19

Now I thinks it's funny, stupid orgs. SHAME :(

2011-03-23 19:20

epic fail

2011-03-23 19:20

"The decision was reportedly made after one player from RESET started installing several programs in a row on his computer, which crashed as a result." ...What? What programs exactly? And why? What kind of a half-wit was this kid?

2011-03-23 19:20

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admins know they are fked up badly now, so they need someone to blame :)

2011-03-23 19:21

it was mouse drivers LOL

2011-03-23 19:22

fail. haha

2011-03-23 19:22

even worse than 4k lan. lol

2011-03-23 19:23

heavy metal !

2011-03-23 19:23

As far as I've understood, there were only 20 PC's available, meaning four teams (two matches) could be on at the same time. This meant that every time a match ended, the teams had to unplug and new teams got seated. With such a tight schedule, it really beats me how you as an organizer can think this would work. Everyone, who just has a little knowledge with CS, knows how many things you have to fix in order for your setup to work, but also how many things can go wrong. I feel sorry for the teams that went there and especially the teams who had to play the LB matches with MR10, never ever in my career have I seen such a bad call from the organizers. Hope they've learned from this and SHAME on you, who ever organized this tournament.

2011-03-23 19:24

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2011-03-23 19:26

2 replies

2011-03-23 19:38

1 reply

2011-03-23 19:43

2011-03-23 19:48

mocozi and jika AKA FATHER OF ESTONIAN POWERFUL GAMING JEJEJEJE (sorry, if it wasn't jika)

2011-03-23 22:37

N1 Viro

2011-03-23 19:25

:D:D:D

2011-03-23 19:25

sick :D

2011-03-23 19:27

winner got 2,5k € ?i dont think so :DD

2011-03-23 19:27

epic fail

2011-03-23 19:31

Digifest,one of the worst tournaments ive ever seen!

2011-03-23 19:31

Time to change the name of the org.

2011-03-23 19:35

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haha that's true

2011-03-23 19:38

omg,digifail :D:D

2011-03-23 19:35

GJ DF CREW :D biggest fail this year :(

2011-03-23 19:36

srsly you can't just blame the admins for the delays when we all know players are fucking slow to join servers and take breaks every fucking minute! and please tell me why the RESET player is installing loads of shit on the computers? Before you start flaming me I don't blame the Lithuanians in particular but almost every player at the lan(NOT EVERY PLAYER).

2011-03-23 19:37

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So why admins don't use different USERS on WINDOWS?:D PLAYERS and ADMINISTRATORS?:D Maybe it was TROJAN?:DD or SPYWARE?:DD whahahah. MOUSE HERZ crashed PC :DD lol

2011-03-23 19:38

Keep in mind that people should have necessary time to set up and configure their PC's (I know people take advantage of it, but CS isn't just Plug and Play). As I wrote in my comment, the problem was the amount of PC's, and apparently the quality

2011-03-23 19:41

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ofc, they should have some time to set up and configure but how long does it take? Im not a pro, nor do I play CS anymore but it doenst take a lot of time to install your mouse driver, mousefix etc so I don't really understand why it takes so long before they are ready. srsly you know when the match is starting and they have breaks before the end of the previous match and the upcoming match so why dont the teams use that break to set up? for me the amount of wasted time is one of the major reasons CS never gonna grow any bigger then it is and its also unfair to blame the admins every time there is a delay at an event.

2011-03-23 20:03

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I've seen teams be ready in 30mins, which includes setting up and warming up a bit. But you see, if a match started at 12, and the next is scheduled to 13, you simply need to have more PC's available, otherwise theres not a snowballs chance in hell you can make it in time. Simply, as a match can take up to 45mins (if we play all 30rounds and add freezetime), on top of that you can go to overtime. I completely agree with you that wasted time and delays play a huge factor at 9/10 events, but often it's problems with the equipment from the tournament side.

2011-03-23 20:25

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I understand what you are saying and I acknowledge that you know more then me when it comes to non-byoc events. I've always thought that they got 1xPC for every player that is registered for the event but I might be wrong. Still I mean its wrong to blame the admins every time like its done by the majority of the community here on HLTV.org, since you always see players joining late or going afk right before the start. I can even give you an example when BEV played against animus(might be wrong) today and the BEV players said ready 3 times before the last animus player said he was ready cuz he was cocking about with something else. I think that they should punish players/teams when they behave like that, ofc its simple for me to say so when I don't have all the facts but something should be done.

2011-03-23 20:52

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As I said, I agree, players take advantage of the liberty of "free" time. But really speaking of experience, usually delays are due to the tournament equipment or similar.

2011-03-23 20:57

I agree. There are delays in nearly every tournament due to the fact that it takes ages for players to join and people shouldn't blame organisers for that. But that idiot Meee has a point. Users should've been created so that players couldn't install software.

2011-03-23 19:49

EPIC FAIL:DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2011-03-23 19:37

expected =D

2011-03-23 19:39

2 weeks not enough to instal fuckin drivers. Close enough

2011-03-23 19:39

nicer dicer :D

2011-03-23 19:41

jeez..

2011-03-23 19:43

Two weeks ago I heard someone saying that this would be an epic event/LAN, now I get why :DDDD

2011-03-23 19:44

failfest make ESL organizers look godlike

2011-03-23 19:45

omg d;

2011-03-23 19:46

facepalm

2011-03-23 19:47

as far as i know, when event just started there was no cs installed at all.. so what we are talking about..

2011-03-23 19:47

wow fucking reinstalling/formating windows takes half and hour,i don't think mouse drivers or other drivers fuck up that much pc literally that it wouldn't work, shitteh admins

2011-03-23 19:48

ahahahahhahaa

2011-03-23 19:48

Sorry, but things like this can only happen on Baltic LAN events :DDD This is just one of the few epic tournaments in the past years :)

2011-03-23 19:49

"The decision was reportedly made after one player from RESET started installing several programs in a row on his computer, which crashed as a result." HAHAHA, how bad must the pc's be there to crash after several installed programs. My 10 year old pc could easily manage to do that, assuming it was mouse drivers or tweaking of the usb ports.

2011-03-23 19:49

HAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I think I'm gonna die laughing...I've never seen anything like it...well, there's first time for everything right? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

2011-03-23 19:50

What can one do except rofl all day long? GOD. DAMNIT. :D

2011-03-23 19:51

haha, wouldn't be surprised, if before final match organisation will announce something like: there will be no money prize, only devices from ROCCAT 'n shit :))) imo

2011-03-23 19:53

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:DDDD

2011-03-23 19:56

At least there were few good matches:D

2011-03-23 19:53

In addition to the utmost precise comment of Nixon I would only like to add that the fact that the organizers actually went this far as to blame a player for ruining the tournament is a blasphemy! Since, it would be no difference than to blame rat which gnawed the internet cable. If this fact points to anything then it must be the stupidity, incompetence and wickedness of the organizers.

2011-03-23 19:55

The prizes will probably be some t-shirts and chips, i really don't think those guys who organized this joke would pay out 2.5k Eur, I feel really bad for the players.

2011-03-23 19:57

wohoo !

2011-03-23 20:00

fck sick :|

2011-03-23 20:01

epic grand online lan final

2011-03-23 20:01

fail ;D

2011-03-23 20:04

FAIL LAN!

2011-03-23 20:04

In Lithuania we've been playing LAN's with 10 computers for years and there wasn't any delays like that. Computers are worse than in Digifest here. So then tell me, where is the problem? Why we can play tournament here with 10 computers with 1 hour delays and you can't?

2011-03-23 20:05

=DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2011-03-23 20:07

shit happens

2011-03-23 20:08

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2011-03-24 01:59

its Estonia ;/

2011-03-23 20:09

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It's stupid organisation not country.

2011-03-23 20:13

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2011-03-23 20:22

Best tournament ever :)

2011-03-23 20:18

hahahahhahaaaaa

2011-03-23 20:20

So finally when they get the full coverage, sponsors, impressive prizemoney, teams from 3 other countries they fuck up so hard i dont think there is a way to fuck up more than this

2011-03-23 20:32

What a newb organisation :) Really pathetic... Delete Digifest please or get some newb employees to fix this stuff.

2011-03-23 20:32

and u all blame germany for iem :/ anyway, it's a pitty that it didnt work that good. hopefully better next year!

2011-03-23 20:33

Its normal for Estonia

2011-03-23 20:38

- Sat Dec 11 17:29:58 2010 -( 17:53:00 )- <mocozi> btw -( 17:53:19 )- <mocozi> we're in talks to organize the next DH quals for baltics -( 17:57:38 )- <escalate|osi> when? -( 17:59:49 )- <mocozi> next march -( 18:00:58 )- <escalate|osi> it will be first digifest in 2010? -( 18:01:00 )- <escalate|osi> which city? -( 18:02:06 )- <mocozi> 2011 -( 18:02:07 )- <mocozi> in Tallinn -( 18:02:15 )- <mocozi> I'm thinking of Local Qualifiers -( 18:02:22 )- <mocozi> Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian -( 18:02:27 )- <mocozi> maybe even Finnish -( 18:02:37 )- <mocozi> to get more support from our headsponsor for the event -( 18:03:00 )- <mocozi> 5 best teams from every country will get the transportation to our main event -( 18:03:16 )- <mocozi> hostel for one night (2 day event) -( 18:03:25 )- <escalate|osi> plus 1 finnish team? -( 18:03:43 )- <mocozi> trip to DH and back (from their own country not from Tallinn) -( 18:03:44 )- <mocozi> yes -( 18:03:47 )- <mocozi> 1 finnish team -( 18:07:20 )- <mocozi> and ofcourse alot of free time in Tallinn -( 18:07:28 )- <mocozi> it will be a non-byoc LAN here in Tallinn -( 18:12:56 )- <escalate|osi> good -( 18:13:29 )- <mocozi> but we're thinking of 20-30 PC's for non-byoc -( 18:13:36 )- <mocozi> 16 teams - 2 days -( 18:13:45 )- <mocozi> so we can push some good visibility -( 18:13:57 )- <mocozi> HLTV's for outside world for sure -( 18:16:24 )- <mocozi> well we intend to do it in a very public place -( 18:16:32 )- <mocozi> so our sponsors will be pleased as well -( 18:16:36 )- <mocozi> other tournaments as well -( 18:16:42 )- <mocozi> 16 teams for 2 days -( 18:17:04 )- <mocozi> with really sticking-to-the-timetable -( 18:17:09 )- <mocozi> it's going to be more than ok Last two IRC chat lines made my day 3 months later!

2011-03-23 20:45

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haha lol

2011-03-24 00:45

noobish digifest organisation adminstrator ;/

2011-03-23 20:45

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+23532352

2011-03-23 21:09

Agree with Nix0n(#38), in addition i bet there will be no digifest from nowon. But what caused this all?Organizers wanted to get more profit. Moreover, there were no updates from event.You could only get some information from mirc, where estonians called organizers(their friends) to get information.Site updated 2 times : one was stream link and one was from first day end.THATS IT How can you organize a lan like this.However, i knew it's going to be happen. About MR 10.Mby they should only played knife round, so it could go quicker.Who cares. People spent money to get to Tallinn and stay in hotel and now wtf... I feel sad to LTU,LV,FI people.And Estonians. This will be recorded to history of CS forever as the WORST event. AND PLEASE DONT BLAME ALL ESTONIANS AS NATION.IT IS NOT THEIR F-ING FAULT THAT 2 GUYS F-ED EVERY SINGLE GAMER

2011-03-23 21:02

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"AND PLEASE DONT BLAME ALL ESTONIANS AS NATION.IT IS NOT THEIR F-ING FAULT THAT 2 GUYS F-ED EVERY SINGLE GAMER" I'm tired to repeat it for every stupid user :(

2011-03-23 21:06

trips were fully paid, aswell hotel 1 night with morning breakfest.+2 time dinner in "italian restoran imo :D" wich i really liked. but it sucked that everything delayd :(

2011-03-23 21:45

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it sucked that they could organize the gaming part

2011-03-23 22:03

Nah, they'll never make profit and so far, it's all going to pay off the debts accumulated from past events, or well, was supposed to, anyway. Instead, they decided they should get some random Estonian singer and build him a stage, spend well over half the actual budget and fuck themselves over six ways to Sunday. Will be cool to see how they'll pay the winners and send them to the "mysterious big event with everything paid for" (protip: DreamHack). The trip will most likely be cancelled and them saying "the prize money will be paid in 3 months, c'mon, every big event does that". After that, there's probably gonna be some fairytales on how the 2500€ was actually combined with prizes and the trip, some supporters failed them and how they'll compensate it next time (like free tickets to the event or something cool). That's all if the Tallinn University of Technology won't pay for the visionary's, mcz (da head organizer, da man) shit he created. As far as I know, rent for the Solaris rooms was next to nothing and they could have done 99x better (and maybe even succeed) if it weren't for the completely unrealistic plans for everything, as it has been every event so far. You don't expect to get 1,000€ from entry fees and then host a LAN that costs 15,000€. All in all, to everybody who's complaining about what Estonians are doing wrong, it's time to stop. It's just the great and mindless organizing by the head organizer and his complete self-deceit. And all that is the reason why I quit organizing that event after the one in October.

2011-03-24 09:51

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true

2011-03-24 11:10

The tournament was a fail indeed. After all the epic fail was Munkkas LAN performance. Kids come first time to foreign lans and get 4 rounds. Couldnt believe what I saw munkka do in train terrorist side pistol round. They ran the bomb into CT spawn and completely fakked their round. Not that they would have won that anyway, I really enjoyed seeing these teenagers dropping back to the ground. PG even lost the another pistol round and still manage to win 16-4. Status raped =SHAKY HANDS= THIS IS WHEN YOU DONT HAVE YOUR OWN TABLE/COMPUTER/SETTINGS AND MOM BRINGING COCA-COLA AND FOOD. LOL And ofc there is Online Kingdom, but let's not go there. ..lol Rocky road to cpl, how many years you still think you have to get there? With performance like this finnish CS is dead at the moment ruuit co. quits

2011-03-23 21:09

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There is not going to be any new top teams if you mean by that.

2011-03-23 21:14

wow, it was train? :D

2011-03-23 22:08

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Atleast I heard that munkka boys told PG that map wont do any difference when lurppis took the inferno off the maplist? couldnt recognize the same team from the play they showed in estonia.

2011-03-24 07:21

transport and hotell rooms were free for players who qualified

2011-03-23 21:16

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npe

2011-03-23 21:16

ONLINE KINGOM will win cuz it's online

2011-03-23 21:42

2 replies

lol :D

2011-03-23 22:06

It maybe isn't. Peliliiga is going to organize some kind of LAN for the grand final match :) But lets see if they really do that..

2011-03-23 22:56

online starz,gl ;o

2011-03-23 22:21

fail

2011-03-23 22:27

And all of you saying "hahhaas lol noobs estijos igaunija fails hahaxaxa" I would like to take part of the next LANparty at Lithuania or Latvia (which will be held as usually in some kind of concrete jungle's cellar with 9 and a half CPUs and delay would be only an hour)

2011-03-23 22:40

2 replies

If u cant do that kind of major LAN why u even try to do it?

2011-03-23 22:50

1 reply

i guess ppl always need a punch in their face to learn from it :D

2011-03-24 08:37

omg , digifest sucks. first tournament in 2010 was fucking fucky fuck . organisators failed AGAIN. but its i think is worst event ever . :D feel sorry about all teams. mr10 - okey they tried to save something , but online finals - its idiotism.

2011-03-23 22:51

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First digifest's tournament was in 2009, which was probably the best event in history of Baltics. So shut your clueless ass

2011-03-24 00:50

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first fucking fucky fuck digifest was in 2010 , so stfu and learn to read.

2011-03-24 01:00

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elik = best lans

2011-03-24 10:44

You need to learn to write properly you mong.

2011-03-24 12:47

RESF was 10 times better

2011-03-24 15:26

2 replies

Resf was 10 times better than df 09? You're a retard sir

2011-03-24 15:36

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i retard because i saying true? :)))))))) you really stupid estonian kid

2011-03-24 15:38

Bad event, Worse event, Worst event!

2011-03-23 23:00

Max Rounds 10.. really? Hope it was with some startmoney jesus...

2011-03-23 23:43

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start money 800 :Ddddddddddddd

2011-03-24 00:24

da best lan event ever gg

2011-03-24 00:36

The first time I read digifest, I thougth it was something about DIGIMON. :(

2011-03-24 01:06

2 replies

pokemon maybe ?

2011-03-24 11:31

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digimon ofc, they are cooler than pokemon

2011-03-24 13:09

digifest 50537

2011-03-24 01:52

Heh, it is hopeless to blame players for this tournament fail. Administrators are people who needs to supervise tournament/players and make sure that every problem would be solved. I have strange feeling that it would be more funny when first place would try to get their prize. :D

2011-03-24 07:00