Promod Tour 01

by Strifemare
published by TPK 02nd November 2009





For casual gamers looking to get into a competitive FPS scene, Sunway Rock Cafe was the place to be last Friday and Saturday. The Promod Tour 01 organized by ESPGL took off with a bang, giving gamers a chance to play Call of Duty 4 the "professional" way (As evidenced by SWL*'s Promod4Pros mod folder title :P).

For a RM5 fee, participants were able to play at least 3 matches of mixed scrims, learning the tricks of the trade from veteran players who acted as team Commanders, giving out strategies, map specific information, and other tactics for optimizing gameplay (such as naming conventions and nomenclature regarding the geography of the maps). Also taught was how to set up and host a Promod server.


Beginners who had either never touched CoD4 or Promod before only played amongst themselves, in order to keep the playing field balanced, while those with more experience were allowed to challenge the current CoD4 champs in Malaysia, Team SWL*. Needless to say, most of us got pwned, although we did get in a few kills. In fact my own team managed to break our "egg" score, before succumbing to the might of SWL*.

At the closing of the event came the lucky draw. As the event was classified as a casual event, there were no prizes for highest frags or anything of the sort, but rather a standard lucky draw featuring prizes such as Radeon 4670 GPUs, Razer Boomslang and Krait mice, Razer gaming surfaces such as the Spex, Mantis, and Goliathus, the Razer Arctosa keyboard, and also RM30 Gaming Hours Credit @ Sunway Rock Cafe. Many were the happy faces exiting the cafe with prizes clutched to their chests :P

All in all a good effort by ESPGL for introducing an avenue for gamers to touch base with the competitive Call of Duty scene. Although next time try to keep the pro's from pwning the newbies too badly kay :P

Here are some pictures we managed to get from the event:-