Tweaking your FPS (Frames Per Second)
Alright - This will Increase your FPS.
This is done, by LOWERING your graphics.
Thus, allowing you a far greater chance to crush opponents first.
Having 125+ FPS you will quickly find, is FAR better.
 
search your q3config.cfg file, for the following variables:

seta cg_brassTime "0"
seta cg_gunsize "1"
seta cg_marks "0"
seta cg_marktotaltime "0"
seta cg_maxFragments "0"
seta cg_novoicechats "1"
seta cg_sfxbrasstime "0"
seta cg_sfxParticles "0"
seta cg_sfxSurfaceImpacts "0"
seta cg_sfxVisibleItems "0"
seta cg_visibleBleeding "0"
seta com_blood "0"
seta com_maxfps "125"
seta r_detailtextures "0"
seta r_dlightBacks "0"
seta r_dynamiclight "0"
seta r_ext_compressed_textures "1"
seta r_inGameVideo "0"
seta r_lodbias "2"
seta r_picmip "2"
seta r_roundImagesDown "2"
seta r_stencilbits "0"
seta r_texturebits "16"
Depending on your video card, this should increase your FPS.
People have reported gains of +20 to +45 FPS from following these settings.
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Ideally, any person competing at a PRO level, should be pushing 120+ FPS.
Everybody else in the league will be.

Optional:
Depending on your monitors dimensions,
you may be able to increase the Width of your View.

Standard monitors:
seta cg_viewsize "90"

Widescreen monitors:
seta cg_viewsize "110"
Note:
Nvidia users may need to change a setting
in the nvidia control panel:

- disable threaded optimization and/or setting Multi-display/Mixed GPU acceleration to
"Single display performance mode".