/vr/ - Retro Games

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Mini-rant but, Odamex killed competitive. World Doom League is what you'd call a former shell of what competitive Doom used to be. There hasn't been a major tournament in two years now and historically there used to be yearly tournaments and usually even more often than that. What ended all momentum of competitive thriving and keeping us multiplayer-competitive fags satiated really was the forced usage of Odamex by a very specific group of people.

World Doom League used to be known as the "International Doom League" or IDL. As far as competitive doom is concerned, this was the peak experience by far. IDL had the biggest turnout of any online doom event probably ever in 2011 and that would sadly be the last year it was ran. I'm talking like over 130 people signed up to play on a blacklisted server in Zdaemon of all places. All kinds of people from all walks of "doom life" were coming out of the woodworks to play in the IDL. I'm talking like speedrunners, duelists, deathmatchers, etc. There were so many people they had to straight up do a "B-tier" tournament from just the volume.

These IDL events were ran by the UD clan and their leader is permanently banned from Zdaemon. The tl;dr is that he had a hissyfit with the owner of Zdaemon and tried to get him into legal trouble out of spite (their automatic wad downloader was able to crawl through the web and get doom2.wad). So with him being a security threat, he was permanently banned from Zdaemon. What he could still do was run private servers on Zdaemon that didn't interact with the main pool of players so he ran competitive events with his clan and anyone that wanted a "serious" experience would just play in those private servers.