Why didn't you participate?

[Larenxis]

I assumed you needed some fancy gadget. I have no idea what Kongregate is so I just stayed out of it because I didn't understand. And I didn't see any end results, so I just assumed it was going on somewhere I wasn't.

 

[jebussaves88]

I was away for half of it, gigging in Hampshire. Otherwise, might have been a laugh

 

[Easykill]

Unfortunately, I didn't even know it was happening until late in the events. A bad time to take a break from the Escapist I guess.

 

[vede]

I generally don't play games online. My collection of games mostly consists of older titles, or non-online titles. I agree with Khell. If there were contests for Battlefront 1 or COD1, I might have joined in.

I could have joined the photoshop contest, I'm fairly good at photo-shopping things together when I put effort into it, but I don't have a photo-shop program stable enough to handle images larger than my avatar, and I was lucky to use it long enough to do that before it crashed. On my eighth try. I had all my moves planned out, and executed them quickly to get everything okay, then I had to do the more intensive editing with MS-Pain... t.

 

[Dcarty745]

Sorry, I think it just didn't look that fun...

 

[cleverlymadeup]

i just didn't have time with my new job and such

 

[the monopoly guy]

I didn't want too...
And I wouldn't stand a snowman's chance in hell.

 

[werepossum]

I saw the thread, but I already spend way too much time here, I usually only play first person shooters, I have a large backlog of said first person shooters waiting for me to find time to play (enjoying S.T.A.L.K.E.R. at the moment, an hour at a time), and I'm old - the old razer-sharp reflexes are taking on more and more of the characteristics of a bowling ball.

 

[Danny Ocean]

None of the events really interested me. I lack talent in photoshop or anything like that (the only content creation tools I can use are those from Second Life.).I know jack about anything Trivia Based, and all the games seemed to be casual games. I second what Khell said, but add that it should be Battlefield 2142. Because I just love that game.

 

[zirnitra]

I had a vague idea about it before. but I had know idea what the two things required were and how it would work. and I'm not really an organised competition kind of guy.

 

[kinch]

As "GamerLympics" I appreciate that you want to hand out gold medals to the best gamers... but arent online achievements for that? I will never get a medal in any online game, I simply suck... trivia of something that I specifically know about (about 2 topics) I might have a chance. Flash games, forget it (no hand-eye co-ordination), photoshop contests I don't have the artistic ability to imagine and create works of art. I just can't think of anything that I would actually want to do (entering a contest just to lose isn't as fun as you make it sound).

This isn't meant to be negative, I'll try to think up some ideas that might be actually useful.

 

[Altorin]

I didn't really understand what it was until it was too late.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

And everyone else, keep posting what events you would like to see. The more you let me know, the easier it is for me to make another promotion everyone will enjoy.

Defcon tourney!

I'm also not particularly interested in the online web-based games but am more than willing to splash out for a budget game if it means I can enter a tournament with people I'm already familiar with

I entered the trivia but ended up missing a few of the events. The movie trivia in particular disappeared off the list of events and only reappeared when it was too late. This annoyed me since it was one of the ones I was most looking forward to.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

photoshop contests I don't have the artistic ability to imagine and create works of art.

At the risk of sounding bitter, the winners of the photoshop contests were not the best works of art, they were the ones with the cleverest or funniest idea. Similarly, the winner in the comic competition repeated the same Portal screen shot four times. Whoever made that is a lazy little sod.

 

[Xhumed]

I was oblivious to it really. Must have had other things on my mind at the time.

 

[Spinwhiz]

This is all really great information guys and I appreciate you taking the time to let me know.

Who else has something? Keep the ideas flowing!

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

4 reasons:

1, I would lose, no contest
2, I can't stand failure
3, Barely knew they were on
4, I'm terrible at almost everything and would easily be outpaced by some of our more literate/creative/insane contributors.

 

[shatnershaman]

"Trying is the first step to failure."-Homer Simpson

 

[Zemalac]

I would have entered the comic and PhotoShop contests, maybe some of the others as well if I'd realized they were going on. As is I spent a while cursing my luck when I looked at the schedule and saw that I'd missed them.

I didn't actually look at the GamerLympics posts until about a week after it started, and only actually realized what it was near the very end of it.

 

[KenzS]

I was too busy watching the actual Olympics to bother with such silly things.