GAMER LIVE 2010: How It Was

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    The festival for gamers is something new for Russia. Exhibitions, premieres and the like are held regularly, but this is all a formal setting, and communication between the players is not implied there. But to collect gamers for several days inside a simple recreation center, where the main entertainment is not technology, but sport - is this possible?

    From August 6 to 8, the GAMER LIVE 2010 festival was held at the Vympel recreation center near Moscow , and the answer is yes! On Habré the announcement of this event dedicated to the birthday of GAMER.ru has already been published , and now there is a story about how this happened, and photos. And yes, the girls were there, too, of their own free will!

    The grand opening of the festival took place on Friday evening, August 6th . In Moscow, participants were given packages with gifts from the organizers, as well as a badge with a name and nickname. From the stuffy and veiled smog of Moscow, we hit the road on a comfortable bus to the music, of course, from the games.

    [There are a lot of photos under the cut] The

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    main goal of the first day is to get comfortable in a new place and get to know the clan members, shoulder to shoulder with whom we will fight for victory in the next 48 hours. Despite the general friendly attitude, GAMER LIVE- This is also a team competition, and the first task for the clans was to come up with a name and effectively show themselves at the evening performance. Upon arrival, everyone ran into the gazebos, and for about an hour there was a creative process:

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    And finally, the representation of the clans on the stage of the local recreation center :

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    The rest of the evening was spent in acquaintances, conversations and board games.

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    The second day was devoted to rest from computers and a sedentary lifestyle. After morning exercises in the open air, it was time for the quest from the Fogame company in the best traditions of MMORPG. The entire territory of the base was involved, on which the teams were looking for the right people and took the following task from them. In the best traditions - because instead of the grind of mobs, players solved intellectual problems, put puzzles at speed, and at the same time demonstrated strength, dexterity and endurance.

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    The texts of the tasks are worthy of special mention:

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    Having run into plenty, we went to the pool. The pool turned out to be surprisingly cool for the forests near Moscow: large, deep, with a five-meter tower. But the main thing is with cool water in the forty-degree heat!

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    After lunch, a paintball tournament from Kraken Games took place. Although many people took up real rifles for the first time, the action turned out to be very interesting and spectacular - at short distances and among the trees tactics were more important than accuracy, and gamers had no problems with this.

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    Then there was a rest in the form of presentation of NVIDIA novelties : GTX 460 video cards and 3D Vision Surround. Everyone could appreciate the 3D- picture on three monitors at once.

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    After the presentation, there was a story by Daniel “Graver” Katznelson about the life of e-sportsmen and his career in Counter-Strike .

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    And at the end of the day - an open-air show program: contests for gaming erudition and acting, mini-tournament for DJ Heroand many, many prizes. For example, players had to recall quotes from WarCraft and StarCraft, portray dead terrorists and drag the Ring of Power into the fire without leaving the stage.

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    On the third day in the morning, a game zone was opened where a full set of Guitar Hero stood with two guitars, a drum kit and a microphone. And of course, many groups immediately appeared who wanted to try out the outlandish thing. Later, a tournament was held between the clans for the title of the best rock band, where not only the accuracy of getting into the notes, but also the entertainment of the performance as a whole was evaluated.

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    After lunch, the time came for the main event of the third day - the tournament for the legendary StarCraft (the first part). Not everyone wanted to get distracted by Guitar Hero, so the games were held in parallel. Participants fought on USN Level 516 WCG gaming PCs , which became the official gaming platform of the tenth World Cyber ​​Games championship . The tournament was held with the support of the IT menu menu and became the final part of the main quest of the summer. The winners of GAMER LIVE 2010 were determined at the summing-up ceremony : the brave Witchers clan came first , followed by Good Trolls , and the Compot and Clear Sky clans shared the third place . [Many more photos can be found on the festival blog

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    Finally, I want to bring a conversation with the barmaid of the recreation center:

    - Who are you guys? A lot of you ...
    - We are gamers, uh ... we are those who play computer games
    - Do you have to kill it all the time?
    - Sometimes it happens, yes
    - Oh, and I read, those who play - they are crazy, torn from life, they are afraid to go out into the street, cut each other ...
    - Well look at us, are we like that?
    - I wouldn’t say ... Normal guys, funny! Gamers, speak?


    So the first GAMER LIVE festival performs its main task perfectly: it destroys stereotypes. Gamers, in fact, are also people =)

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    Social network GAMER.ruparticularly thanks to the general partner of the festival - entertainment portal "Fogeym" , companies Kraken Games is , the NVIDIA , Snowball Studios , "1C-Softklab», Playstation, Electronic Arts, Information partner - TV channel "First Game" and the portal Goodgame.ru for help in organizing and holding an event.

    See you at GAMER LIVE 2011!

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