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Interweb and cellular provider Verizon is sponsoring a Half Life 2: Death Match tournament to promote FiOS, their new fiber optic internet service:
Register now and get a key to activate Half Life 2: Deathmatch for free to play during the tournament! And just for registering you'll also get Half Life 2: Lost Coast to try out while you compete. The tournament begins 6/15 and ends 7/29. The top 8 players will be brought to Los Angeles to compete in the finals over a live FiOS connection where one gamer will get $100,000.
This tournament has the worst slogan since McDonald's launched their sneering "i'm lovin' it" campaign: "Speed wins. Win with speed." Hurrrrrr.
So $100k if you win; free HL2 time if you don't. Not too shabby. The tournament's lower levels will be played online, which I imagine will allow some cheaters into the finals. The big deal is that the finals will be played over a FiOS connection. If any Kotaku readers make it that far, I'll expect a full report on what the latency is like on this newfangled veeblefetzer.
Details here. [FiOS Grand]
