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QuakeCon is a bring-your-own-computer (BYOC) computer gaming event with a competitive tournament held every year in Dallas, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, USA. The event, which is named after id Software

Id Software

Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...

's game Quake, sees thousands of gamers from all over the world attend every year to celebrate the company's gaming dynasty. It is North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

's largest LAN party

LAN party

A LAN party is a temporary, sometimes spontaneous, gathering of people with computers, between which they establish a local area network , primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer computer games. The size of these networks may vary from the very small to very large installations...

, the largest free LAN party in the world, and usually runs over a period of four days.

Now more than a multiplayer gaming event, QuakeCon is also a venue to showcase the newest games and hardware being developed by companies involved with id Software

Id Software

including booths selling clothing, computer peripherals, and software.

To be able to keep QuakeCon a free LAN party, it is highly dependent on volunteer work.
These volunteers, often described as the crew, cover most aspects of the organization of the party.
For this QuakeCon has gained a reputation as "Woodstock of gaming", and a week of "peace, love, and rockets!".

Origin

QuakeCon originally grew out of a group of people on the EFnet

EFnet

EFnet or Eris Free network is a major IRC network, with more than 35,000 users. It is the modern-day descendant of the original IRC network.- History :...

IRC

Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...

network, in channel #quake. As various regular visitors to the channel began expressing a desire to meet and game together in person, Jim Elson, a.k.a. "H2H", a gamer from the Dallas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, Texas

Texas

area with ties to the local Dallas-area gaming community, and Wikipedia editor Yossarian Holmberg, a.k.a "yossman", a computer consultant from Waterloo, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, came up with the idea of assembling at a hotel.
The original event name was actually '#quakecon', named after the IRC channel, though this quickly evolved into just 'QuakeCon'. Mr. Elson organized the bulk of the event for the first two years, until the number of people attending each year demanded a more organized approach. Volunteers grouped into teams to assist in the setup, troubleshooting, and tear down of the event's equipment and network.

1996

The first event, in August 1996, was held at the Best Western

Best Western

Best Western International, Inc. is the third largest hotel chain, with over 4,195 hotels in nearly 80 countries. The chain, with its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, operates more than 2,000 hotels in North America alone. Best Western has a marketing program involving placement of free...

hotel in Garland

Garland, Texas

-Climate:* The average warmest month is July.* The highest recorded temperature was in 2000.* On average, the coolest month is January.* The lowest recorded temperature was in 1989.* The maximum average precipitation occurs in May....

, Texas

Texas

, a mile or two away from the id Software

Id Software

company offices. Starting with just 30 people, by the end of the weekend the number of people had grown to 100, as news of the gathering began to spread on Internet chat networks. The Best Western has since been replaced by a La Quinta Inn

La Quinta Inn

La Quinta Inn is a chain of limited service hotels in the United States, Canada and Mexico. LQ Management LLC, the owner, has its headquarters in the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas, near Dallas....

.

Attendees who had brought their computers along to the event set up a small, impromptu network, in one of the hotel meeting rooms, playing mostly Quake I and Doom, testing deathmatching skills. A small tournament was held, with winners taking home T-Shirts as prizes.

The highlight of this first gathering came on the eve of the last day, when the entire id Software

Id Software

team showed up at the event in a surprise and most-welcome visit, stopping by to chat with the participants. John Carmack, lead programmer for Doom/Quake, participated in a 30–45 min. group chat with attendees on the porch of the hotel. Some ideas discussed during that chat eventually made it into Quake's future public releases. This "Carmack's Talk" has now grown into a yearly keynote speech.

Quake 1v1

1st Place: Remedy
2nd Place: BullyBoy
3rd Place: SwanSong

Doom 2 1v1

1st Place: PoLish
2nd Place: United States AceJas
3rd Place (tied): Indub
3rd Place (tied): Avatar

Reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20000816025343/www.quakecon.org/about.html

1997

QuakeCon 1997 brought an estimated 650 attendees to the Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a brand of hotels, formally a economy motel chain, forming part of the British InterContinental Hotels Group . It is one of the world's largest hotel chains with 238,440 bedrooms and 1,301 hotels globally. There are currently 5 hotels in the pipeline...

in Plano, Texas

Plano, Texas

Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...

. It was covered by numerous Internet and broadcast media outlets, and was sponsored in part by id Software and Activision.

During QuakeCon 1997, John Carmack met his future wife, Katherine Anna Kang
Katherine Anna Kang
Katherine Anna Kang is a video game industry figure, machinima film producer, designer, entrepreneur and business woman. In 2000, as founder and CEO of Fountainhead Entertainment she championed machinima and became known as one of machinima’s biggest supporters...

, when she visited id's offices.

Quake World 1v1

1st Place: Dan "RiX" Hammans
2nd Place: Forego
3rd Place: Grayson
4th Place: AceJas
5th Place: Walter
6th Place: Yossarian "Yossman" Holmberg
7th Place: Club
8th Place: Kornelia "Kornelia" Takacs
9th Place: Indubious
10th Place: Duke of Earl

1998

QuakeCon 1998 was held in conjunction with the Cyberathlete Professional League

Cyberathlete Professional League

The Cyberathlete Professional League , founded on June 27, 1997 by gaming entrepreneur Angel Munoz, is a professional sports tournament organization specializing in computer and console video game competitions....

. Due to poor planning and the lack of people who had helped make the first two events a success, QuakeCon 1998 is regarded by many as being only partially a QuakeCon event. However, it was instrumental in motivating a group of people to start planning QuakeCon 1999 early.

Total Attendance: 800
BYOC Size: 300
Location: Infomart
Infomart
The Infomart is one of the largest buildings in Dallas, Texas . It was the world’s first and only information processing marketing center.- History :...

, Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, USA

Quake 2 1v1

1st Place: Dan "RiX" Hammans - $5,000
2nd Place: Victor "Makaveli" Cuadra - $4,000
3rd Place: Kurt "Immortal" Shimada - $3,000
4th Place: Robert "Resonance" Dubois - $2,000
5th Place: Jason "Unholy" Carleton - $1,000
6th Place: Andy "Leprechaun" Vajda

1999

QuakeCon 1999 was the first event in which id Software

Id Software

played a major role in the organization. Recognizing that major sponsors were needed, David Miller a.k.a. "Wino" & Paul Horoky a.k.a "devilseye", both original QuakeCon 1996 people, contacted id Software

Id Software

and convinced them to become the main sponsor, and to help out with finding more sponsors. Together with Anna Kang (then id Software

Id Software

employee, now John Carmack's wife) and a team of volunteers, Mr. Miller & Mr. Horoky set out to build QuakeCon 1999, which became the template for later years.

Total Attendance: 1,100
BYOC Size: 500
Location: Mesquite Convention Center, Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite is a city located within the Dallas/Ft.Worth area of Texas. As of the 2010 US Census, the population was 139,824.-History:The city was founded May 22, 1873, by a Texas & Pacific Railway engineer who purchased land along the Texas & Pacific line outside of Dallas...

, USA
Highlights: A change of venue allowed the convention to grow larger than it had ever been before, and, this time, just down the street from id Software headquarters in Mesquite. id Software employees, including John Carmack, participated in various tournaments with attendees on-site as well. A large number of companies sponsored the event for the first time, including Activision
Activision
Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...

, AMD, Apple Computer
Apple Computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

, ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc. was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technologies Inc., the company was listed publicly in 1993 and was acquired by Advanced Micro...

, Logitech
Logitech
Logitech International S.A. is a global provider of personal peripherals for computers and other digital platforms headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland. The company develops and markets products like peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers...

, Linksys
Linksys
Linksys by Cisco, commonly known as Linksys, is a brand of home and small office networking products now produced by Cisco Systems, though once a separate company founded in 1995 before being acquired by Cisco in 2003...

, and Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies
Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., originally Lucent Technologies, Inc. is a French-owned technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs...

.
QuakeCon 1999 was the first time Quake 3 was used in competition as the game had not yet been released to the public.

First ever Quake 3 tournament

1st Place: George "DieharD" Myshlyayev
2nd Place: Tim "1134-Bane" Santaniello
3rd Place: Aaron "toxic" Clutter
4th Place: Tim "r1msh0t" Orsak
5th Place: United States Gordon "Gloucester" Luk
6th Place: United States Dan "RiX" Hammons
7th Place (tied): United States John "Screw" Horacek
7th Place (tied): United States Mark "Turmoil" Santaniello

2000

QuakeCon 2000

Total Attendance: 3,000
BYOC Size: 900
Location: Mesquite Convention Center
Announced: March 31, 2000
Date took place: August 3–6
Registration: May 5
Reference: web.archive.org

Quake 3 1v1

1st Place: John "ZeRo4" Hill
2nd Place: Terrel "Matador" Garret
3rd Place: Mark "Wombat" Larsen
4th Place: Tyler "ReVeNaNt" Bentz
5th Place: United States propolys
6th Place: United States Matt "Muiy" Huey

2001

QuakeCon 2001

Total Attendance: 3,000+
BYOC Size: 1,250
Location: Mesquite Convention Center
First year to have Cash Prize Tournaments
Announced: March 22, 2001
Registration: May 11, 2001
Took place: August 9–12
Reference: web.archive.org

Quake 3 1v1

1st Place: John "ZeRo4" Hill - $30,000
2nd Place: Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel - $10,000
3rd Place: Tyler "ReVeNaNt" Bentz - $5,000
4th Place: Jason "socrates" Sylka
5th Place: United States Paul "czm" Nelson
6th Place: United States Oleg "demonic" Zhovnir

2002

QuakeCon 2002

Total Attendance: 3,250+
BYOC Size: 1,305
Location: Mesquite Convention Center
Highlights: 2002 saw the retirement of John Carney, and Brian Davis assumed stewardship of the event as Executive Director. 2002 was also the first year id assumed a very active role in the pre-event activities, with the arrival of Marty Stratton
Marty Stratton
Marty Stratton is the Executive Producer for id Software.-Biography:Marty Stratton was employed previously as a member of Activision's Quality Assurance department in 1996, before becoming a Producer in 1998. In 2000, Stratton was taken on by id Software as their Director of Business Development...

a year earlier. Added Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It was made available on Steam on August 3, 2007. The single player game was developed by Gray Matter Interactive and Nerve Software...

to the tournament lineup in a Team-based tournament. First unofficial Ms. QuakeCon event, first appearance of Doom III theater, also the first appearance of The Sinus Show (then known as the Mister Sinus Theater), an Austin, Texas-based MST3K troupe, lambasting Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

' movie Crossroads
Crossroads (2002 film)
Crossroads is a 2002 comedy-drama road film directed by Tamra Davis and starring American recording artist Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning...

.
Date was announced February 19, 2002. (unconfirmed)
Announced: February 19, 2002
Registration: June 14, 2002
Took Place: August 15–18

QuakeCon 2002 final standings:

Quake 3 1v1

1st: Alex "LeXeR" Nesterov - $20,000
2nd: Sean "Daler" Price - $10,000
3rd: Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel - $5,000
4th: Sergiy "kuku" Rudy - $3,000
5th: Jared "cha0ticz" Cugno - $2,000
6th: Paul "czm" Nelson
7/8th: ]km[propolys / kuku
9/12th: ZeRo4 / K9-makaveli / FienD
12-16th: Habib / Sector / vernon kay / LoSt-CaUzE

Return To Castle Wolfenstein

1st: the Doctors - $25,000
2nd: Infensus - $12,500
3rd: clan Kapitol - $7,500
4th: Barons of Hell - $5,000
5th: Affliction - $3,000

Reference1: web.archive.org
Reference2: web.archive.org

2003

QuakeCon 2003

Total Attendance: 4,000+
BYOC Size: 2,000
Location: Adam's Mark Hotel
Sheraton Dallas Hotel
The Sheraton Dallas Hotel, formerly the Adam's Mark Hotel and originally the Southland Center, is a complex of international style skyscrapers located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas. The hotel is the tallest and largest hotel in Dallas and Texas with 1,840 guest rooms and ...

, Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, USA.
Highlights: First change in venue since the convention moved to Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite is a city located within the Dallas/Ft.Worth area of Texas. As of the 2010 US Census, the population was 139,824.-History:The city was founded May 22, 1873, by a Texas & Pacific Railway engineer who purchased land along the Texas & Pacific line outside of Dallas...

, USA, 4 years prior. Tapper continued to coordinate volunteer activity, while id assumed much more of the pre-event planning through the capable hands of Marty Stratton. Ms. QuakeCon evolved into a tournament-based event with a sponsor, id unveiled Doom 3
Doom 3
Doom 3 is a science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An example of the first-person shooter genre, Doom 3 was first released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported by Aspyr Media for Mac...

deathmatch. The first display of the award winning franchise called "Call of Duty" found its way into the exhibitor area.
First QuakeCon to include 2 team games: Quake 3 CTF and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Date was announced April 8, 2003.
The event dates: Aug. 15 - 17, 2003.
QuakeCon 2003 Final Standings:

Quake 3 1v1

1st Place: John "Zero4" Hill - $25,000
2nd Place: Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors - $12,000
3rd Place: Paul "czm" Nelson - $8,000
4th Place: Magnus "fox" Olsson - $6,000
5th Place: Jared "cha0ticz" Cugno

Quake 3 CTF

1st Place: Cloud9 - (yrim, FFSmasher, viju, cl0ck) - $10,000
2nd Place: clan519 - (ZeRo4, czm, Gator, Socrates) - $7,000
3rd Place: Gunzoids - (Farside, VeRTeX, Blokey, Derfel) - $5,000
4th Place: Against All Authority - (Appleseed, Raoul, Thefou, Penx) - $3,000

Return To Castle Wolfenstein

1st Place: Infensus - (civ, SoD!, Spear?, HomBRe, Summ3L, wizz)
2nd Place: gmpo - (Ramzi, zemme, Blaze, ZaF, Veracious, refuse)
3rd Place: Affliction - (hollywood, nail, decka, time-bomb, brian, illumina)
4th Place: 4 Kings Intel - (Creamy, Yilder, Explicit, HaRdNuT, Zommy, Ogdoad)
5th Place: [TAF]Gaming - (Royaljelly, wyt!, SpaRaT1k, al1en, parcher, Warmach1ne)
Reference: web.archive.org
Reference: http://www.cyberfight.org/site/coverage/46/

2004

QuakeCon 2004

Total Attendance: 5,000+
BYOC Size: 3,000
Location: Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel and Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine is a city in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States located within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census the city population was 46,334. The city's moniker is derived from the native grapes prevalent in the area. In recent years several wineries have...

, USA.
Highlights: Yet another change of venue brought QuakeCon into the record books as the largest LAN party in North America, with over 3000 BYOC attendees. Tournaments prizes totaled over $150,000 and saw the world's first Official Doom 3
Doom 3
Doom 3 is a science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An example of the first-person shooter genre, Doom 3 was first released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported by Aspyr Media for Mac...

Tournament, won by Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel
Johnathan Wendel
Johnathan Wendel , also known by the pseudonym Fatal1ty , is a professional electronic sports player, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Jonathan is considered the world's first prominent and accomplished professional gamer...

. The event also had a live performances by The Sinus Show, and Tweaker
Tweaker (music)
Tweaker is an American alternative rock collaboration founded by Chris Vrenna in the late 1990s. Tweaker's musical style incorporates synthpop, progressive rock, modern jazz and electronica genres, and is characterized by a generally melancholy and sombre sound with distinctive artwork to match.The...

, featuring Chris Vrenna, former Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

drummer. This year also saw another significant change in leadership, as a result of an injury to Brian Davis just weeks before the event. Aaron "Alric" Ferguson was appointed to fill in for Tapper at the last minute.
Date was announced March 15, 2004. (unconfirmed)
Date took place: August 12–15
QuakeCon Final Standings:

Quake 3 1v1

1st Place: Paul "czm" Nelson - $25,000
2nd Place: John "Zero4" Hill - $15,000
3rd Place: Anton "cooller" Singov - $10,000
4th Place: Sean "Daler" Price

Quake 3 CTF

1st Place: Against All Authority - (StGermain, Raoul, Thefou, Penx)
2nd Place: Cloud9 - (yrim, actionnewbs, viju, cl0ck)
3rd Place: Gunzoids - (Appleseed, Derfel, Deus, Blokey)
4th Place: clan519 - (ZeRo4, czm, Gator, Socrates)
5th Place (tied): Negative Influence - (Pangu, Shad, Alacrity, pirpacQ)
5th Place (tied): iCE cLIMBERS - (Gopher, Toxic, Fox, Tech)

Doom 3 1v1

1st Place: Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel - $17,000.35
2nd Place: Sean "Daler" Price
3rd Place: HS
4th Place: Mark "cl0ck" McGrail
5th Place: Alejandro "ve-elpajuo" Gonzales

Reference: Official Announcement
Reference: Tournament Results

2005

QuakeCon 2005

Total Attendance: 6,000+
BYOC Size: 3,200
Location: Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel and Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine is a city in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States located within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census the city population was 46,334. The city's moniker is derived from the native grapes prevalent in the area. In recent years several wineries have...

, USA.
Highlights: Another large event which saw the unveiling of Quake 4
Quake 4
Quake 4 is the fourth title in the series of Quake first-person shooter computer games. The game was developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. Raven Software has collaborated with id Software, the creators and historical developers of preceding Quake games...

multiplayer. Aaron Ferguson's first complete year as Executive Director.
First time at QuakeCon featuring an all girl gamer tournament with major cash prizes.
First year of Intel's sponsorship of QuakeCon, beating out AMD.
Date took place: August 11–14, 2005.
Date was announced March 22, 2005. (unconfirmed)
QuakeCon Final Standings:

Doom 3 1v1

1st Place: Fredrik "gopher" Quick
2nd Place: Yang "RocketBoy" Meng
3rd Place: Slain

Ms. QuakeCon Quake 3 1v1

1st Place: Jamie "g0d-Missy" Pereyda - $15,000
2nd Place: Alana "g0d-Ms.X" Reid - $10,000
3rd Place: Therese "g0d-Trito" Andersson - $5,000
4th Place: Ana "aNouC" Oliveras
5th Place: Livia "Liefje" Teernstra

Quake 2 Retro Tournament

1st Place: Mikael "Purri" Tarvainen - $10,000
2nd Place: Doze - $7,000
3rd Place: Chad "Rigg5" Dorsey - $3,000

Enemy Territory

1st Place: Check 6
2nd Place: United 5
3rd Place: idle.ee

Reference: Tournament Winners
Reference: Official Announcement

Alienware Performance Challenge

Single GPU - 1st Place: Mickey21
Dual GPU - 1st Place: Unknown

2006

QuakeCon 2006

Total Attendance: 4,000+
BYOC Size: 1,800
Location: Hilton Anatole
Hilton Anatole
The Hilton Anatole is a hotel located at 2201 Stemmons Freeway in the Market Center District near downtown Dallas, Texas . Featuring 1,606 guest rooms, it is one of the largest hotels in the Southwest and is a major convention and meeting facility...

, Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, USA.
Highlights: QuakeCon 2006 was the first time Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game, and is the follow-up to the 2005 title Quake 4. It is also the first game in the series to be rated T by the ESRB...

was playable by the general public. Longer than normal delays leading up to the official event announcement fueled Internet speculation that the event was actually canceled for the first time ever. It was also discussed publicly earlier in the year by id Software executives that the event had a possibility of not being held inside Texas, nearly breaking a 10-year tradition since the convention's start. The entire event was also announced, planned, and executed in little over a month, a much shorter timeline than prior years. The first QuakeCon to feature a Team Deathmatch tournament.
The first event to include the Nvidia Quickdraw tournaments, which pulled random people from the BYOC area to compete for 1,000 dollars.
Date took place: August 3–6, 2006.
Date was announced June 23, 2006.
QuakeCon Final Standings:

Quake 4 1v1

1st Place: Johan "toxjq" Quick - $15,000
2nd Place: Anton "cooller" Singov - $7,000
3rd Place: Alex "ztrider" Ingarv - $5,000
4th Place: Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski - $3,000
5th Place: Alexey "cypher" Yanushevsky - $2,000
6th Place: James "2GD" Harding - $1,500
7th Place (tied): Sabian "ClampOK" Hayblum - $750
7th Place (tied): Blue - $750

Quake 4 2v2 Team Deathmatch

1st Place: Britney ( Toxjq and Ztrider) - $13,000
2nd Place: fnatic ( 2GD and Blue) - $7,000
3rd Place: mouzsports ( Cooller and Jibo) - $5,000
4th Place: BlackDragons ( DaHang and Raistlin)
5th Place: Devistation,Inc ( cl0ck and destrukt)

Enemy Territory 5v5

1st Place: idle.ee
2nd Place: Crossfire.nu
3rd Place: KiH

Nvidia Quickdraw Winners

Rafik "LoSt-CauZe" Bryant
Sunchanan Charanyananda
Brian Dinsdale
Raul Enriquez
Billy Roadifer
Jeff Tank
Bryan Walker
Aaron "Kalngt" Cephers

Reference: Official Announcement
Tournament Reference: Tournament Results Announcement

2007

QuakeCon 2007

Total Attendance: 7,000+ (estimated)
BYOC Size: 2,700
Location: Hilton Anatole
Hilton Anatole
The Hilton Anatole is a hotel located at 2201 Stemmons Freeway in the Market Center District near downtown Dallas, Texas . Featuring 1,606 guest rooms, it is one of the largest hotels in the Southwest and is a major convention and meeting facility...

, Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, USA.
Highlights: Registration took place March 2, 2007 at 9:00pm EST. Aaron "Alric" Ferguson continued in the role of Executive Director for this event, which sported a 5x increase in vendor space (25,000 sq ft) over the 2006 event, 7000 sq ft (650.3 m²). total event space, and the return of the popular "Quick Draw" tournaments for all general attendees. The second public beta of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game, and is the follow-up to the 2005 title Quake 4. It is also the first game in the series to be rated T by the ESRB...

was released to BYOC attendees on the first day of the event. There were just two featured tournaments, both with $50,000 purses, and both sponsored by NVIDIA: ET:QW, and the new Quad Damage Tournament, which combined all four Quake games into one competition. The event was also highlighted by a slew of major announcements, including id Software
Id Software
Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...

's new intellectual property RAGE, a sneak peek at the "id Tech 5" engine, a 10-2-2007 release date for ET:QW, updates on the new Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It was made available on Steam on August 3, 2007. The single player game was developed by Gray Matter Interactive and Nerve Software...

game title and major motion picture, the revelation that old id Software titles were to be made available via Steam, the upcoming debuts of Quake Arena Arcade, Quake Zero (now officially named Quake Live), and Quake Arena DS, also—in an unprecedented move—the announcement of the dates and venue for the next QuakeCon before the current year's event was even finished.
Date took place: August 2–5, 2007
Date announced December 18, 2006.
QuakeCon Final Standings:

1st ever Quad Damage 1v1 Tournament

1st Place: Johan "toxjq" Quick - $20,000
2nd Place: Magnus "fojji" Olsson - $12,500
3rd Place: Tim "Dahang" Fogarty - $7,500
4th Place: Mikael "Purri" Tarvainen
5th Place: Tim "naymlis" Bowes
6th Place: Chance "chance" Lacina
7th Place: Rafik "LoSt-CaUzE" Bryant
8th Place: Tom "Griffin" Wall

1st Ever Enemy Territory:Quake Wars 6v6 Championship

1st Place: Team-Dignitas
2nd Place: Team-HOT
3rd Place: Check-Six
4th Place: Demise
5th Place: 20ID
6th Place: 50|CAL Gaming
Reference: Official Announcement
Reference: Tournament Announcement

2008

QuakeCon 2008

Total Attendance: 6,000+ (estimated)
Location: Hilton Anatole
Hilton Anatole
The Hilton Anatole is a hotel located at 2201 Stemmons Freeway in the Market Center District near downtown Dallas, Texas . Featuring 1,606 guest rooms, it is one of the largest hotels in the Southwest and is a major convention and meeting facility...

, Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, USA.
Date took place: July 31 - August 3, 2008
Date announced: August 3, 2007.
Highlights: QuakeCon 2008 marked the debut of the first-ever Quake Live
Quake Live
Quake Live is a first-person shooter video game by id Software designed to run on x86-based computers running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or Linux that is downloaded and launched via a web browser plugin. It is a variant of its predecessor, Quake III Arena .Quake Live is free to download and play...

1v1 and CTF tournaments. (sponsored by Intel) As well as the Activision Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Team Championships (featuring competitions on both PC and for the first time on Xbox 360), The Alienware Quick-Draw Challenge, and the QuakeCon Ultimate Power Up.
Reference: Official Announcement
QuakeCon Final Standings:

Intel Quake Live 1v1 Championship

1st Place: Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky - $5,000
2nd Place: John "ZeRo4" Hill - $3,000
3rd Place: Tom "Griffin" Wall - $1,500
4th Place: Shane "Rapha" Hendrixson

Intel Quake Live Capture The Flag Championship

1st Place: Billy Maze Dayz - (ZeRo4, 2, viju, cl0ck) - $8,000
2nd Place: Team Rage - (wn, kgb, shizem, icel0re) - $4,000
3rd Place: In It For The Money - (palarity, bLt, swooped, fox) - $2,000
4th Place: Team Johnson - (carnage, relic, Fiend, dkt)

The Activision Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Team Championships (PC)

1st Place: mamut.si - $15,000
2nd Place: Kompaniet - $10,000
3rd Place: H2O - $5,000
4th Place: Team Fate - $1,000

The Activision Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Team Championships (Xbox 360)

1st Place: The Green Team
2nd Place: CWell Fellas
3rd Place: SkullRiders
4th Place: Bouncing Blinking Blue Ba

2009

QuakeCon 2009

Total Attendance: 7000+
Location: Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel and Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine is a city in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States located within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census the city population was 46,334. The city's moniker is derived from the native grapes prevalent in the area. In recent years several wineries have...

, USA.
Date took place: August 13, 2009 - August 16, 2009
Date announced: 12/18/08
Highlights: Like the year before, Quakecon 2009 had both 1v1 and CTF tournaments for Quake Live
Quake Live
Quake Live is a first-person shooter video game by id Software designed to run on x86-based computers running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or Linux that is downloaded and launched via a web browser plugin. It is a variant of its predecessor, Quake III Arena .Quake Live is free to download and play...

. The notable difference with this years tournaments was two separate 1v1 competitions, one for only pro players, and the other was open to everyone else. This was a much appreciated feature from the community because there was no longer as many blow out games in the tournament. djWHEAT (one of the commentators for this years tournaments) also expressed his opinions to John Carmack
John Carmack
John D. Carmack II is an American game programmer and the co-founder of id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id computer games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels....

from the shout casting booth saying that the separation “alleviates any hesitation or frustration” for amateur players that want a chance to compete. Quakecon 2009 was also the first Quakecon to have the shoutcasters on stage during the grand finals.

Intel Quake Live Masters Championship

1st Place: Shane "rapha" Hendrixson - $14,000
2nd Place: Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira - $7,500
3rd Place: Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky - $4,000
4th Place: Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty
5th/6th Place (tied): Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
5th/6th Place (tied): Brian "dkt" Flander
7th/8th Place (tied): Tom "griffin" Wall
7th/8th Place (tied): Magnus "fox" Olsson

Intel Quake Live Open Championship

1st Place: Jeff "Flysher" Heakes - $1,500
2nd Place: Nelson "Hardup" Maxson - $750
3rd Place: Clifton "Cliffy" Houck - $250

Quake Live Capture the Flag Championship

1st Place: Evil Geniuses (DaHanG, viju, clampOK, id_) - $12,000
2nd Place: WhoRunIt (eisenkreuz, kgb, pyro, icel0re) - $6,000
3rd Place: Fnatic (stermy, link1n, spart1e, deus, fox) - $4,000
4th Place: Loaded (carnage, relic, walter, blt)

2010

QuakeCon 2010

Total Attendance: 8500+
Location: Hilton Anatole
Hilton Anatole
The Hilton Anatole is a hotel located at 2201 Stemmons Freeway in the Market Center District near downtown Dallas, Texas . Featuring 1,606 guest rooms, it is one of the largest hotels in the Southwest and is a major convention and meeting facility...

, Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, USA.
Date took place: August 12, 2010 - August 15, 2010
Date announced: March 5, 2010
Highlights: Rage
Rage (video game)
Rage is a first-person shooter video game by id Software which was released on October 4, 2011 in North America. It uses the company's new OpenGL based id Tech 5 engine. The game was first shown as a tech demo on June 11, 2007, at Apple's WWDC, and was officially announced on August 2, 2007, at...

, Ban on file sharing.

Intel Quake Live Masters Championship

1st Place: Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky - $14,000
2nd Place: Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov - $7,500
3rd Place: Alessandro "stermy" Avallone - $4,000
4th Place: Sebastian "fnatic.Spart1e" Siira
5th/6th Place (tied): Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson
5th/6th Place (tied): Tim "EG|Dahang" Fogarty
7th/8th Place (tied): Kévin "fnatic.strenx" Baéza
7th/8th Place (tied): Dan "DanDaKing" De Sousa

Intel Quake Live Open Championship

1st Place: Joshua "ziel" Remington - $1,500
2nd Place: Dalton "boots" DeMaria - $750
3rd Place: Andrew "EG|id_" Trulli - $250
4th Place: Rogelio "klaovhwN" Vela

Quake Live Capture the Flag Championship

1st Place: Evil Geniuses (DaHanG, viju, clampOK, id_) - $15,000
2nd Place: Fnatic (stermy, link1n, spart1e, deus,) - $6,000
3rd Place: QUAD (rapha, jones, Br1ck, sdahaghi) - $4,000
4th Place: Loaded (Flysher, kgb, whaz, sparks)

2011

QuakeCon 2011

Location: Hilton Anatole
Hilton Anatole
The Hilton Anatole is a hotel located at 2201 Stemmons Freeway in the Market Center District near downtown Dallas, Texas . Featuring 1,606 guest rooms, it is one of the largest hotels in the Southwest and is a major convention and meeting facility...

, Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, USA.
Took place: August 4, 2011 - August 7, 2011
Date announced: January 28, 2011
Available Internet Bandwidth provided by AT&T: 1Gb
Highlights: The first ever Quakecon to feature a 4v4 Quake TDM tournament.

Intel Quake Live Duel Invitational Masters

1st Place: Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson - $8,000
2nd Place: Kévin "fnatic.strenx" Baéza - $4,000
3rd Place: Anton "[M5]Cooller" Singov - $2,000
4th Place: Paul "EG.czm" Nelson

Intel Quake Live TDM Invitational Masters

1st Place: Salivating Monstahz (Krysa, noctis, avekkk, spart1e) - $16,000
2nd Place: iCE cLIMBERS (Stermy, fox, l1nkin, tox) - $8,000
3rd Place: BallerSsS (strenx, draven, Cypher, Cooller) - $4,000
4th Place: Ultra Frag-Xtreme (czm, cl0ck, DaHang, rapha)

Intel/Bethesda Brink Open Championship

1st Place: Looking for Sponsor (emong, hollywood, rob-wiz, tm, Michael3D) - $3,750, & 5 PNY XLR8 GTX 480 videocards
2nd Place: Blight (nard, Cinna, zoidbergenstein, sYnceD, blazen) - $1,250 & 5 PNY XLR8 GTX 480 videocards
3rd Place: Team Fate (Hardup, Pipboy, j4y, Cynix, Suckenstein) - 5 PNY XLR8 GTX 480 videocards

Statistics

For QuakeCon 2004, the following was current:

Over 200001 sq ft (18,580.7 m²) of BYOC, vendor, and convention floor space
BYOC utilized over 1,200 power strips
Network composed of over 80,000 feet (24 km) of Cat5/Cat5e cable
Table switching infrastructure: 144 Linksys managed switches
Core switching infrastructure: Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...

6509 switch with 7 × 48 port Gigabit ethernet blades, dual Supervisor 720 modules and dual 4000 watt power supplies
Setup of all components of the BYOC (network plant, servers, tournament, NOC, etc.) was completed with a staff of over 500 unpaid volunteers over a 2-day period. The vendor areas were set up by contractors.

Community

The QuakeCon community primarily organizes itself online, through IRC and the official and un-official forums. The main channel for everything related to the event is #quakecon on GameSurge

GameSurge

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.

As of July 2011, the QuakeCon Forums are no longer accessible. the official Bethesda Quakecon Forums were introduced. Also, at the same time an additional community run forums were launched, www.qconforums.org which are owned and operated by the community separate from Bethesda.

External links

QuakeCon.org — Official website
Bethesda Quakecon Forums — Official Bethesda Run Quakecon Forums
qconforums.org — Official Community Run Un-Official Forums
forums.quakecon.org — No longer active
Official QuakeCon Flickr gallery
Photos of the first QuakeCon (1996) (This link no longer works-7/15/2011)
QuakeConpics.com — A collection of photos from past QuakeCons
QuakeCon 2007 in Pictures — A large collection of photos from QuakeCon 2007
QuakeCon 2008 Experience Video

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