Team Event Horizon

Well it’s been a long journey but everything is finally ready to release and what better day to release all this new stuff than on Christmas morning.

New Site

Right off the bat you see that the site has a new look. There isn’t much explaining to do about the new look other than that the design of the site should better suit what we do and how we deliver our content to you all.

There is now an iPhone/iPod/Android/Storm/Pre mobile version of the site to make things a bit easier when browsing from your phone.

A Re-branding

Event Horizon never had much of a logo, we just had a concept logo that was thrown together and somehow it just became what we based off of when creating graphical elements in the Event Horizon movies. This new logo and you might say the first official logo was created to better explain what this team is about. Event Horizon was chosen for the team name, not as an astronomical term or the movie but to explain that this team is always bringing new things, and going beyond the regular boundaries to show things never done before. When the sun comes up over the horizon it is the shining representation of a new day and new ideas. Our new logo makes a play off of this with light coming over the horizon and the brighter part of the light is coming off of the name “Team Event Horizon”. These are very subtle elements but it should represent the team’s image better.

We’ve also got a new avatar that we will be using for our public profiles and on various graphical pieces that you will see on products we will put out. This image is a play off of our in game tag “-O-” which is supposed to look like the sun coming up on the horizon. We’ve taken some of the official logo and tossed it in the mix with our tag and this is the result.

Getting social:

While I know that people tend to think us gamers are not social creatures it’s just not true. So today we are also launching our new Facebook fan page and Twitter profile. The idea behind the Facebook page is to give fans and community to follow what we do and have some of it delivered right to your social networking experience. The fan page has all of our video releases, a photo gallery, discussion area and it will be used to keep in touch with you all.

Much like Facebook our Twitter profile will let fans and community follow what we do and discuss with us. We aren’t just going to be talking to you all, we will be engaging in conversations and sharing gaming news and anything else we find interesting so follow us up!

We love answering your questions and talking with you all, our Youtube comments are proof of that, and we hope you all will fan us up and follow us and don’t hesitate to drop us a line on Facebook or Twitter.

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Something is coming. . .

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Well it is that time of year again, that we at Team Event Horizon pack up our PCs and head to Quakecon! This year Fleshwelder, Kid, Nebula and me (Sp4rky) are all meeting up there. Neb and Kid should already be there and maybe Fleshwelder too but my girlfriend and I won’t be heading out until the morning. We are also meeting up with some of Team AFZ and a few other friends. Quakecon starts tomorrow morning and ends on the Sunday.

If you’d like to follow what all is going on and what we are up to while at Quakecon follow me up on twitter (@sp4rky) and also watch over at my website JustinSanchez.com because I am sure I will be posting pictures and posting a few entries on my blog.

For those that don’t know, djWheat, Live On 3 and QuadV will be streaming live from Quakecon be sure to check that out at the links bellow, not sure which will have a stream up first so just check them all =)

http://www.djwheat.tv/live/
http://www.quake-live.tv/index.php
http://quakecon.quake-live.tv/

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I’ve gotten a few instant messages lately asking if the team is still active and it has been awhile since we’ve posted anything new so I can understand. So I figured I should let everyone know what we are and aren’t up to.

No plans have been made for the next Event Horizon movie so we aren’t actively trying to land new tricks but that is not to say we aren’t getting demos here and there and shooting ideas to each other. We like to have something to release each year for you guys but being that team tricking takes multiple people it makes it hard to get everyone together for long enough to land content. We rushed Event Horizon 3 because of a short demo deadline and it pretty much took the fun out of it, so we are taking things slower this time around.

We’ve talked about doing a documentary type film with commentary from me and few other players about the team and the Event Horizon movies. There is a lot of history and story behind the team that most people don’t even know exist that we think people would like to see. Some very rough footage and audio was put together so we could get an idea for a project like this and it was pretty amazing. Nothing is final for this project but it is definitely something we are thinking about.

Another idea we had, would be to create short 5 to 6 minute films and release them in between big projects.

I’d personally like to bring back the podcast episodes but I haven’t talked to much with the team about this but I’d love to know what you guys think. Feel free to give us some feedback on all this in the comments.

Defrag World Cup:

Some of the team members are participating in the Defrag World Cup that is going on right now. So best of luck to them and kicking some ass. Last year team members nebuLa and KiD won the Derfrag World Cup in the the team section.

Well that is pretty much it for now. Be sure to leave us a comment!

Justin ’sp4rky’ Sanchez

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Fellow team member Amrit just released a Team Fortress 2 tricking video with some impressive tricks and some team tricking as well. The video is called Evolution and it’s definately worth checking out even if you don’t play Team Fortress 2. It stars Amrit, some of his friends and TF2 team mates from Team SWAY.

Evolution – A TF2 Trickjumping Video
Length – 7 Mins

High Quality Download (424mb)
Youtube Stream
Drop your review over at Own-Age.com

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Well Quakecon was a lot of fun and I know this post is overdue but better late than never. So here are the pictures and video from Quakecon.

Go here for the full pictures and titles/descriptions.

Quakecon 2008 – Guitar Hero 3 Finals – Third Place Coop from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Quakecon 2008 – ATI, Flight Sim booth from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Quakecon 2008 – Intel Extreme Gaming Tour booth from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Quakecon 2008 – Phillips AMBX from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

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The Quakecon.org website has finally announced the registration date for Quakecon 2008. If you plan on attending and playing in the BYOC (lan area) then you will need to be ready for registration as soon as it is available.

Registration is April 30th at:

6pm PST (Pacific) – 7pm MST (Mountain) – 8pm CST (Central) – 9pm EST (Eastern)

2am GMT (UK) – 3am CET (Netherlands)

Spots for the BYOC go fast, couple days, within hours or within a day. So be sure to mark your calenders and set an alarm so you don’t forget to be ready to register.

Last years Quakecon was bigger and had more vendors than in the past and this year Quakecon is expecting even more vendors. (SWAG!) Head over to Quakecon.org for more detail on registration.

Team EH plans for Quakecon 2008:
Some of us are planning on attending Quakecon 2008 so if you are going, post in the comments to let us know. We would love to have any fans and friends to come hang out and sit with us in the BYOC, if we can find enough space. We met some of team AFZ last year (pictures) and we are going to try and sit together in the BYOC this year and do some gaming, partying, game of ass grab and who knows what else.

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For release:

Quake 3 tricking team Event Horizon, which focuses on doing team tricks has released their third movie featuring both single and team tricks. For the first time Team Event Horizon decided that it was time to put some single tricks in their movie.

“We’ve got some really talented single trickers and we didn’t have enough content to make a good length film. We have also been asked numerous times why and if we would put single tricks in our videos. So the team and I felt it was a good time and opportunity to do so,” said Justin ’sp4rky Sanchez, team Event Horizon manager.

The team had a beta premiere at Quakecon 2007 of Event Horizon 3 where they gathered some feedback and since then the film has gotten some tweaks here and there, more tricks, longer length and four audio tracks.

“We ran into so some issues with EH3 that as a result caused the release of the film to take longer than expected but we feel it was better for the film. We were able to add more content and Temporal Productions was able to have the time they needed to make the film perfect,” sp4rky reported.

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Feedback! We want it!

Movie File (Event Horizon 3)
-Own-Age.com – All Versions
-QuakeUnity.com – HD 720p (1.6 GB) – High Quality
-QuakeUnity.com – HD 720p (641 MB) – Medium Quality
-QuakeUnity.com – 800×450 (390 MB) – Low Quality

UPDATE: (03/05/08)

Movie Info Database page has been updated with Event Horizon 3 info.

Updated: (03/07/08)

First week download numbers are in and it’s a shocking ~8464 downloads. With EH2 we saw just a little above 5,000 in the first week. Perhaps we should all get wasted and try to do some tricking to celebrate? No? Could make for some funny bloopers for EH4. Anyways thanks guys for all the downloads and comments!

Downloads by week

~8,464 First Week

~10,180 Second Week

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We’ve got EH3 in our hands yesterday evening and we’ve been going non stop into the night working on getting things ready to release in time. All version have been rendered but we still have to get some small stuff done and upload to our mirrors.

Torrent Version – Idea

We’ve been talking about giving people an early release of the EH3 HQ version if they would help seed the EH3 HQ version torrent. If this is something you might be interested in please come idle in #tricking_eh on etg and message me “sp4rky” to let me know you are interested.

Release

As for when it’s all going public, hopefully early Thursday morning but if not it will be Thursday at some point. It may also not hurt to be in our IRC chan if we start to feel like passing out early private versions. ;D

Mirrors, Uploads & News

We are planning to upload to QuakeUnity.com, Filefront.com if you have any recommendations for other mirrors please post in the comments. GeeVee.com YouTube.com, Vimeo.com, Viddler.com online steaming sites will get EH3 but this may take a few days. Right now we are more concerned about using our bandwidth to get EH3 Hq, Mq, and Lq versions up asap.

We will also be hitting up community websites with news and links to EH3. On our radar is Own-Age.com, ESReality.com, QuakeUnity.com. Again if you have any recommendations please let us know in the comments.

Versions

Here a list of the version that will be available. Mobile version (Ipod, Cell, PSP, etc.) will come later but please drop us a comment below of what mobile device you would like to have a version for.

High Quality

• Resolution – HD 720p (1280×720)
• 4 Audio Tracks Mixed by Ebola
• FTP and Torrent (If all goes as planned) options for download.
• Size – 1.6 GB

Medium Quality

• Resolution – HD 720p (1280×720)
• 4 Audio Tracks Mixed by Ebola
• No torrent option for download.
• Size – 645 MB (Lower Bitrate then HQ Version)

Low Quality

• Resolution – 800×450
• 4 Audio Tracks Mixed by Ebola
• No torrent option for download.
• Size – 400 MB

EH3 is so close I can taste it.

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Happy New Year to everyone!

To bring in the new year we’ve given the website a much needed face lift. However I’m sure there is still some bugs to work out and what not, so let us know if you notice anything broken and we will get our surgeons on it. If you haven’t been here in awhile, check out the old site in the picture on the left.

I know you all will ask about the status of EH3 so here is the latest.

Unless a meteor rains down on Ebola or his computer EH3 will be ready to go this month. I can’t imagine EH3 not getting released this month but if it doesn’t I’ll be sure to let Ebola know you guys have your torches and pitch forks ready. We are just as eager as you all are so if it gets to that point we will bring the torches.

I’ll try to get some screenshots from him to tie us all over in the meantime.

Update:

Here are some new screenshots:

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