QuakeCon 2009 is now officially over and id Software's annual free LAN event-game convention reached new attendance records this year. Perhaps it was the promise of the first public demos of id's next game Rage or perhaps the last minute move to the larger Gaylord Texan hotel and convention center caused more people to show up. Regardless, id's Todd Hollenshead revealed to the crowd that QuakeCon 2009 had over 7,000 attendees this year.The final event of the night was the QuakeCon tournament finals. The Evil Geniuses team won the $12,000 Quake Live CTF final match while "Flysher" won the first Quake Live Open Tournament (where anyone could enter) and picked up $1,500. The Quake Live Masters Championship was a truly epic event as "Rapha" came back from losing the first two matches to win the final three over "Spart1e". "Rapha" picked up $14,000 for his first place win.We have some pictures taken during the final day of QuakeCon including shots of the QuakeCon tournament winners picking up their "big checks". Plans for QuakeCon 2010 are still to be determined as id has not yet secured a location for the event.

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