The "Close Quarter Combat" PvP tournament announced for 2016 (with total price money of 100 k$) has been officially cancelled.
Reason - some needed features have not been implemented yet.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/272215-CQC-tournament-updateFrontier is replacing it with another, somewhat less ambitious in game PVP tournament called "The Icarus Cup". Sorry, no real life prize money, folks.
There is a bit of grumbling amongst pilots that trained hard for the CQC tournament and its planned qualifying bouts (source - GameStar magazine:
http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/elite-dangerous/news/elite_dangerous,45128,3275666.html )
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Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
That's rather embarrassing. But then again, missing deadlines is nothing new at SC, lol
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-11-frontier-cans-its-own-usd100-000-elite-dangerous-tournament
"Many players including myself have spent numerous hours playing the CQC Arena mode, leveling up, unlocking the ship modules and weapons and practising to be able to participate in the qualifying heats and get an opportunity to be in the live final."
"However, after all this hard work preparing for the tournament, it's time arrived and the company not only did not announce further promised details about it, it also did not answer any player questions, concerns and requests for tournament status information, maintaining a tournament communication blackout ever since."
And i too was one of those Arena Players. So... I am not exactly pleased.
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