NinEyez emailed to tell us about an amazing first-person shooter duel he witnessed at CES. Over at the Creative Booth the marketers had set up a Try to Beat Fatal1ty event that was set to run throughout the day. NinEyez hung around for awhile to watch the pro-gamer hand the masses their asses in lopsided fragfests.

The first two bouts he watched ended in scores of roughly 23 to 2. As NinEyez put it, it was like watching a starving dog maul a t-bone. Then the people running the show drew out another contestant (the gamers were all picked randomly) and Nordic walked to the stage. Nordic has placed in the top ten in CPL, so NinEyez stuck around to see how things would shake down.

He describes what he witnessed as one of the most evenly matched shooter show-downs he s ever seen and called it a match of beautiful intensity. Instead of the mayhem, carnage and ultra-fast kills of previous matches, the game turned into a thing of almost pure strategy. The showdown eventually came down to sudden death overtime and Nordic won.

Final score
Nordic: 5
Fatal1ty: 4

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