Four years since QuakeWorld.US passed away
It is my firmest belief that the further existence of QuakeWorld get strengthened from having an American scene that not only would participate in the European leagues, but actually being able to host leagues and thrive on their own. The current state of the North American QuakeWorld scene is that it’s non-existant, but it has not always been like this.
It’s been almost exactly four years since the last American outpost in QuakeWorld, known as QuakeWorld.us, passed away because the administrator (Skelman) was most likely too tired of giving artificial breath to the fading community overseas.
The current state is something i believe the community over there could and should recover from with the right efforts put in place. There seem to be a dozen active players and a few others coming around from time to time, but they never have anything to gather around it seems. One good start would be a North American community website like QuakeWorld.US with a central IRC channel to gather around and a 1on1 tournament like Ownage arranged at least one time a year. Question is if anyone has the time, knowledge and dedication to do it?
Check out QuakeWorld.US just before it went down
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I wish something like this existed. I just started playing QW a couple months ago, also tried CPM but that community and game is shittier than QW, anyways there are literally no servers and few american players out there.
I like the fast-pacedness of the game and would like to get better but there literally is no way for me to do that because there’s no one to play with
Yeah i know, it’s a real problem in the states it seems – even the Brazilians seems much more alive on the QW front than the North Americans.
I guess what one could do though is to:
- Gather people in national channels on IRC (i know there are a few, but one big official one would probably help)
- Start a “North American thread” in the forum on Quakeworld.nu for example, announcing something like the channel above, or just use it to arrange the games.
By the way, sorry for not approving your comment on the website quicker. The spam bots really are a problem nowadays and this site is unfortunately not as alive as I’d like currently.