Submitted by Chemical Burn on Quake3World
I shouldn’t really need to post in this thread, but…I will. First, most of the things mentioned in this thread as “Q3W Moments”…aren’t. They are, by and large the minor passing of things that a few seem to think are actually important.
Newsflash. No. They’re not. So, what I’m going to do is compile the real list. Some of these go even beyond my time, that I’ve been told about from milla, raw, CyriC and Jody (CaliGirl for all you who weren’t around for her time here). So, if I miss anything in Year One, feel free to add old skoolers.
Q3W Moments: Year One
- Q3Test goes live. www.quake3world.com becomes a reality.
- (A large gap of time Ceebee does not have any information on. Donny, raw? Fill in any blanks here!)
- CWM makes it to 9999 posts, then leaves Q3W to start his own board, amid a great deal of controversy.
- Dark Viper, the original Q3W admin leaves with a position taken with Infogrames. CaliGirl becomes head admin, CyriC and then Turbie are brought on as Webmasters (basically co-admins).
- Paul Steed leaves id software in a rather heated controversy.
- Horka Thane begins his (maybe self-vaunted?) campaign of challenges against some of the board’s top players.
- Duhard starts putting the smack down on players here and elsewhere and at this time, is considered probably one of the board’s best players (something, like it or not, he still is).
- BDI is formed by Elk and Saturn.
- Legion becomes a mod of R&R after a stint as being a GD mod, losing that slot, and coming on again to take that position.
Q3W Moments: Year Two
- Around this time, WYD is formed by CyriC. (Khalsa might be around this time too, correct/add if I’m wrong).
- I post my first skin in General Discussion…a very hideous rendition of the Conni model called “Soul Catcher” that ends up being the start of “Bad Girls v1.0”. (I’m listing this not as a pat on the back, but because it eventually leads to me petitioning for the then, Bots forum to get re-worked into Bots, Models and Skinning. That’s important because it’s considered to be a good community resource).
- This is what I consider Q3W’s highpoint. CG is running a ton of really cool contests, CyriC is managing the web side of the site and keeping the content interesting, and Turb’s starting all the hacks that have made this place one of the best message boards out there.
- The coming of Geoff. While some of you consider this a great thing, it is largely considered a black letter day by anybody who actually contributes anything to this forum.
- BT gets banned for the first time, amid some controversy involving a ‘rumor’ that he hacked the boards.
- Playboy writer Gillian Bonner comes to Q3W to do some research for an article she writes. Some of the posters are quoted in this article (including myself and milla ) though, it comes down to an extremely heated debate.
- Quake 3 Team Arena is released.
- Duhard vs. the Nachos Chicks. Duhard and his team win by a sizable margin.
- Geoff vs. Duhard. Geoff wins.
- Geoff gets banned and keeps on trying to come back with a series of predictable alt-nicks.
- Horka Thane starts a huge hype campaign, about him entering the CPL tourney. It never happens. Horka pulls a fade.
- GSI buys out Mplayer and much of the control over the site the community had is hacked away at. This leads to CaliGirl leaving. Turb becomes admin, CyriC becomes co-admin/webmaster, and Astrocreep is brought on as another co-admin. CyriC also fights tooth and nail here to keep Q3W largely the way it was (something he doesn’t get a lot of credit for).
Q3W Moments: Year Three
- Geoff comes back again and is banned again within a week by CyriC.
- BT comes back for awhile, and gets banned again by Astrocreep.
- After a lockdown of R&R and a huge controversy, Astrocreep leaves Q3W and starts Mapcenter (considered to be one of the developer’s havens these days).
- milla is named Astrocreep’s replacement. Her work primarily focused on making the forums more amicable (esp. the TA forum) and getting Skin of the Week turned around to Skin of the Moment, which she maintained herself as well.
- An attempt to start a Q3W tourney starts, and falls flat on it’s ass.
- milla leaves as co-admin for her own reasons.
- The destruction of PicPie and the Sega Forums.
- CyriC leaves as webmaster and begins work on Phobos Lab.
- CyriC (in his last act as standing webmaster) and Turb nominate me as the new admin, so Turb can focus on doing more kickass hacks for the site.
- I bring back milla as an equal power admin to myself (rather than co-admin) share responsibilities. I focused mainly on straightening out the forums, and milla focused on the website.
- Wolf Test comes out.
- The coming of Eonix/Methyd. (Like him or hate him, E was a big personality here.)
- After a large pain in the ass trying to get prizes, I get the Christmas contest kicked off (little known fact: That was supposed to be a Halloween contest!)
- Turb begins Ye Great Diablo II Movement.
- The coming of sys0p. (Again, love him or hate him, he was a personality here, hence worth noting).
Q3W Moments: Year Four
- Methyd gets banned by yours truly for being a knucklehead to Turb.
- Mumblez leaves the TA forum as a moderator after the “Great ShoutCAST” controversy.
- korupt is banned and tries to sneak on with a great outpour of alt-nicks not of the likes this board has seen, since Dave and raw. All are banned.
- The Great -Replicant- spam controversy.
- The Movies forum is born.
- Lots of forum changes go on during this time, by the collective efforts of Turb, milla and I. New icon rules, some tightening of rules in R&R, and some loosening of others.
- The WDY controversy.
- GSI comes once again to tamper with Q3W. Milla leaves, I stay long enough to rally the community into a frenzy and to fight for as little change to the forums as possible (to this day, I’m really proud of you guys for having my back).
- I name raw as co-admin, knowing I’m planning on retiring my post.
- Eonix/Methyd gets unbanned, by yours truly.
- The Drama Queen controversy in R&R.
- Once everything got settled, I retire as admin to focus on my pursuit as a texture artist/skinner, mostly (contrary to popular belief, the GSI thing only had a small bit to do with that choice). raw becomes your admin (and a pretty kickass one at that).
- sys0p leaves Q3W to focus on learning programming.
- Methyd and Donny do the highly controversial Q3W Poster’s Choice Awards.
- A gaggle of folks leave Q3W, including Methyd, who ends up coming back…sort of.
- Paul Jaquays leaves id software and takes a position with Ensemble Studios.
- Sporadic Horka Thane sitings.
- The Q3W assault upon the Cliffy Cam billboard.
Q3W Moments: Year Five
I think that’s everything. Like I said, if any of the old skoolers can think of more, go on and add them, but really, these are the things that really should be considered moments in Q3W history, because they’ve shaped the way this site and these forums have gone, not some of these unimportant, backpatting things that most of the community could give a damn about.
Like it or not, that’s how it was.