At DICE 2017, London-based eSports organisers FaceIt are hosting their second annual QuakeWorld tournament. Assuming they get drawn together, Battleborn’s Randy Pitchford could finally have his chance to do what he’s probably wanted since May last year and kill Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan - even if only in Quake.
Here’s the full list of players:
- Jeffrey Kaplan - Blizzard
- Randy Pitchford - Gearbox
- Tim Willits - id Software
- Ted Price - Insomniac Games
- Sean Dunn - Sparkypants
- Feargus Urquhart - Obsidian
- Min Kim - Bonfire Studios
- Shekhar Dhupelia - Wargaming
- Leo Olebe - Facebook
- Matt Firor - ZeniMax
- David Wood - Bandai Namco
- Niccolo Maisto - FaceIt
- Sheloman Byrd - Tencent
- Kate Edwards - IGDA
- Patrick Hudson - Robot Entertainment
- Steve Ellmore - Disbelief
Each will compete in a series of 1v1 tournament matches in QuakeWorld, an update to id Software's seminal 1996 shooter, Quake. QuakeWorld enhanced Quake's multiplayer features, enabling it to take advantage of the first decent internet connections and positioning it as perhaps the first truly online shooter.
The tournament will kick off on DICE’s main stage with the opening rounds on Wednesday, February 22. A winner will be crowned on Thursday, with the semis and final scheduled to take place from 3pm Pacific (11pm UK time). You can watch the livestream on FaceIt’s Twitch channel
here.