On January 7th, 2005, Monolith Productions hosted a dueling event in The Matrix Online starring our friends from the Quality Assurance Team. Yin, Halle, Halfinch and Tester001 took a break from their day-to-day duties of feature testing and bug reproduction to accept duel challenges from our beta players. Over 70 duels were fought at Debir Court, with top marks going to Monolith for the most wins.

Radio Free Zion (RFZ) was on hand to witness the event and Sundog, the founder of RFZ, had this to say: “One of the most impressive parts of watching this community grow and flourish around The Matrix Online is the high degree of interactivity between the players and the development team. Never before have I seen such a two-way street for communicating the desires and dreams of the player community directly to the engineers that are building the game, much less for the players to be given the opportunity to test (and play) right alongside the developers in fun and entertaining ways.”