Cyber Slam
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Cyber Slam (also known as CyberSlam) is the Tournament and gamer division of CBN Media. Most of the action for Cyber Slam takes place on the Cyber Slam forums both during events and between them.
Cyber Slam's tournaments are run as a gaming democracy with players submitting their ideas and suggestions on how the events could best be run. The games community directs the event, plays in the event and submits feedback to the website managers for improving future events. Prizes are organised by Cyber Slam's managers to ensure the community is rewarded for their tournament support.
Cyber Slam came into the public eye by hosting the Australian Halo PC Tournament, which saw JoshH (then known as HoOh++) flying to the United States of America for the International Halo PC Finals (2004).
In May, 2004, Cyber Slam hosted the Australian Battlefield Vietnam Tournament for Electronic Arts. This Tournament was of significant importance for online gaming in Australia as it set the precedence for all large Australian events that followed. The first prize was $AU15,000 - the highest amount offered for any gaming event in Australia at the time - and was held completely online.
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[edit] Official Tournaments
[edit] Australian Halo PC
The Australian Halo PC Tournament took place towards the end 2003 with online rounds. The final was held in Sydney at a LAN Cafe called iStarZone. HoOh++ was victorious on the day and was flown to the USA in early to 2004 to represent Australia at the International Halo PC Finals.
[edit] Cyber Slam Halo Ladder
The Cyber Slam Halo Ladder was small tournament with a first prize of $AU100 per week, to be played over 20 weeks. This took place from April, 2004.
[edit] Australian Battlefield Vietnam Tournament
The Australian Battlefield Vietnam Tournament was held completely online. The event started in May, 2004. Originally the event was announced as a 5vs5. This was soon changed to a 10vs10. The prize money for the event was $AU15,000. The final was between 6pack and Lex Talions, with 6pack being victorious.
[edit] ACON5
In May 2005, Cyber Slam were official hosts of the Australian Regional Finals of ACON5, the annual global gaming tournament sponsored by Universal abit and other hardware vendors. The qualifiers of the online components of both Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne were flown to Sydney for the LAN grand final. F-Zer0 (Function Zero) beat XR (Xtreme Revolution) and YGS (You Got Served) in CS1.6, while Philbot dominated the Warcraft 3 event. F-Zer0 were flown to China for the Global Finals, however Philbot could not attend and fellow qualifer Paz was sent in his place.
[edit] Cyber Slam Battlefield 2 Tournament
From October to November 2005, Cyber Slam held a Battlefield 2 tournament with a first prize of $AU20,000. It was an online tournament which culminated in a grand final LAN event ("GameSphere") which was held at Sydney Gamers' League SGL on the 19th of November, 2005. Notably, for the two teams who made it to the grand final, aK^ and aK^^ (Anarchy Krew), it resulted in a substantial boost in their reputations as amongst Australia's best professional gamers. However, both sects of Anarchy Krew are highly competitive amongst themselves due to aK^^ consisting predominantly of former LAB (Little Aussie Battlers) members. LAB disbanded after the notoriety of its leader, "Booth", established the clan as the dirtiest players in competitive leagues - mainly due to dishonourable tactics. In the end, it was aK^ who took home the $AU20,000 (divided between 10 players).
[edit] Betrayal
aK^ had also recently won another Australian Battlefield 2 Tournament held by GameArena, which also had a first prize of $20,000. A stir was created when one of aK's players, whom the cheque was signed to, disappeared with the full amount (though some assert it was only half the amount). Allegedly, GameArena was powerless to help aK^ due to the Terms and Conditions of the tournament (which stipulated that the money could only be given to one member, and divided based on an agreement with other team members).
'ChAoS', the captain for the Clan for the GA tourney, stated on the 8th of July 2006 that in the future the remaining members will be paid the money they worked hard to win. It has also been stated that the player who betrayed his teammates knows he made a bad decision, which he was apparently sorry for but never returned the cash to the players...
[edit] Game servers
Cyber Slam hosts a number of game servers, which are mostly run by the players. These servers include:
[edit] References
- WILD - Coverage of the Cyber Slam Battlefield 2 Tournament on Australian Television, Channel 7, Saturday 31st Dec, 2005 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
- Australians on target at Cyber Games - By Louisa Hearn, Sydney Morning Hearld, November 18, 2005.
- GamersHell.com - Out of Hell Information about the BF2 Tournament, October 28, 2005.
- Blue's News Competition entry for the Cyber Slam Battlefield 2 event, October 28, 2005.
- GotFrag eSports - Information about ACON 5 event, (registration required).
- Acon5 Australia Editorial - Opinion by Mike 'azog' Longley, who later assisted in the running of the ACON5 Australian grand final.
- AusXbox - Information about the Australian Battlefield Vietnam Tournament.
- 3DAvenue - Information and write-up about Cyber Slam Halo event.
[edit] Related links
- CBN Media (parent company)
- Cyber Slam (main site)
- Cyber Slam Forums (direct link to forums)
- Cyber Shack (Radio show based on tech and video games)
