Amazing competition!!

Win a free Novint Falcon in contest pitting the Falcon vs the mouse!

The Novint's CEO is running a competition where you can win a free Novint Falcon if you beat someone with a Novint Falcon in a 1 V 1 match.

These are the rules

-- It will be a contest in Team Fortress 2, where people using the mouse can play against a Novint employee, John T, using the Falcon.

-- We'll be hosting the contest on Edge Gamer servers (http://www.edgegamers.org) - they're a very cool group with lots of members playing online games. They will host the servers and moderate the contest. You probably will recognize them from their servers which have the "=(eGO)=" name.

-- If you can beat John, we will send you a Falcon/pistol grip for free, if you cover shipping costs. Even if John loses every game, there's no limit to how many Falcon's we'll send in the contest.

-- It will be 1 v 1 matches. I know that TF2 is a team based game and a lot of the fun and skill is in how teams match up and how the classes are so balanced, but the point of the contest is to test controller skills.

-- The class will be the same for both players to keep it fair, and it will be chosen at random for each match of each game. Everyone has a favorite class, and even if John were using a mouse, it would be a big disadvantage for everyone to have their favorite class against John needing to match. Clearly we can't eliminate TF2 skill vs mouse skill - and given we don't have a local professional player we'll try to focus on mouse/Falcon skill vs TF2 skill as much as possible. Keep in mind John's in the same situation - he doesn't get to pick his favorite either.

-- It will be an arena map, with a control point that opens up after a set time to keep things moving (for spy vs spy matches, etc). The overall game will be best 2 of 3 matches. We'll verify with Edge Gamers on server settings before the match (crits and damage spread disabled, etc).

-- we reserve the right to modify how we're running the contest. We haven't done it before, so we might need to make changes as we get into it.

This is how you sign up to the competition:

We'll announce match times shortly. We'll let people post to this thread after I post that we've started accepting people into the queue (keep an eye out for that post if you want to be in the contest), in order to join the contest. At that point you'll simply post that you're in. You'll then go into the queue, and we'll send a PM telling you about when you'll be able to play. Assuming you're ready and available, we'll get you into the match, and you can have your shot at John We'll keep moving through the queue during the match times.

This sounds epic and you might as well give it a shot, I am!

The guy you have to go against I bet is going to be very very good but you could win you never know?

This is a link to the thread on the steam forums

Just about to post this, lol

i will fail, but worth a shot

Wow, I wonder if this guy who we'll be playing is up to the standard of a pro team like Dignitas etc.

I'm going to enter anyway :D.

Totally giving this a shot. I bounce classes a lot, so I have a decent chance :P

I'm on holiday so i'll miss it. Good luck to anybody who participates though.

This is what the CEO has said about John T the guy you will go against:

John T's not a pro, but he is decent. People will be able to beat him, but he'll show that you can be competitive with the Falcon. He's better with the Falcon now than with the mouse, and it will be good for people to see that skill level using a Falcon, even if he loses.

I can picture them giving away a hell of a lot
Random classes will be interesting, like heavy on heavy wont make a jack shit of difference what kind of mouse your using!

Some one correct the title please, its bugging me :p

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Originally Posted by Trigger

Some one correct the title please, its bugging me :p

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Lol, woops, sorry about that, how can I change it?

Fixed :). Signups begin today I think!

Thanks. Well the sign ups start in the afternoon but that’s American time so I don't know what time it’s for us. Also the server you have to play on is an American one so ping could be an issue.

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Originally Posted by Zealous

Thanks. Well the sign ups start in the afternoon but that’s American time so I don't know what time it’s for us. Also the server you have to play on is an American one so ping could be an issue.

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Yeah, I checked the server list for the ego servers and I had an estimated ping of 224. YAY!

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Originally Posted by Mr.Magic

Yeah, I checked the server list for the ego servers and I had an estimated ping of 224. YAY!

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I just checked and I have a ping of 400 lol :mad:. Also they are going to show the matches live on their website and record them.

Double post!

This is the steam profile of John T! LINK

Just hope you don't get demo when you go against him.

IT'S OPEN! I am 148th in the queue! Go go go!

I'm now in the queue on page 17, join it here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...=novint+falcon

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Originally Posted by Chalex4

I'm now in the queue on page 17, join it here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...=novint+falcon

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I'm on page 10, woot! It might be too late now to join but still do it just in case.