That's what people do at Netscape Communications. About 100 programmers and engineers on Netscape's internal Quake mailing list notify one another whenever they want to pick a fight. Michael Lopp, a Java platform manager, set up a Quake server inside the company firewall.
Speed is everything.
Lopp puts his monitor's resolution at an extremely low setting. He gladly trades visual impact for greater speed. Know the landscape. It's less important to know your opponent than to know the lay of the land. Explore the game when no one else is playing.