from slashdot: it's confirmed that the 9th annual quakecon 2004 video game festival and tournament at the gaylord texan resort & convention center in grapevine, texas on august 12-15 will host the first doom 3 deathmatch championship ever. be there to game, hang out with 5,000 of your closest friends, and compete for $150,000 in cash and prizes in the nvidia quakecon 2004 championship tournaments. online registration for quakecon 2004 has begun at www.quakecon.org, and the event is free to all attendees."

to paraphrase carmack, "it's done". hehehe, good for them to kickstart the shit-talk by hosting it somewhere called "gaylord".

update by illkillya: its worth mentioning that theres a $40,000 q3 ctf tourney planned for qcon as well, according to that link. enough to entice most european clans, that should breathe new life into the upper divisions and hopefully see a return to strength by fading teams like 32nd and gzd. theres also the usual q3 1v1 tourney with $50,000 on the line.