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Amateur Interest
By Aaron 'Jinkster' P
Aug 16, 2005 06:35
The United States covers a great quantity of land, stretching approximately 3200 miles in width. Look at a map, and with exception to the bulk of Russia, this is affectively the size of Russia.
CAL have dealt with gamer's demand for spectating eSport brilliantly, with scheduling prime games on certain nights to both cope with player's real life demands as well as spectators interest in tuning in.
Though most competitive players would love nothing more than in their game careers to 'go pro' and get paid to play a game, for most, this isn't going to happen on such a scale as we dream to be. The real market for all games, be them real life or e-related, are the amateurs and novice's.
What I am trying to say and start a discussion and hopefully a movement towards, is a way to start a greater dedication of commitment to supporting those middle of the road players, who by and large, for one reason or another, won't have that salary when it comes time to hang uninstall that old application.
What can we do to benefit the majority of the gamers out there? Maybe a CAL.EU to begin with, now that broadband isn't an issue any longer. Maybe a central news website for those to refer to for things that aren't solely Professionally related, a site for the majority of us gamers
What do you think?
CAL have dealt with gamer's demand for spectating eSport brilliantly, with scheduling prime games on certain nights to both cope with player's real life demands as well as spectators interest in tuning in.
Though most competitive players would love nothing more than in their game careers to 'go pro' and get paid to play a game, for most, this isn't going to happen on such a scale as we dream to be. The real market for all games, be them real life or e-related, are the amateurs and novice's.
What I am trying to say and start a discussion and hopefully a movement towards, is a way to start a greater dedication of commitment to supporting those middle of the road players, who by and large, for one reason or another, won't have that salary when it comes time to hang uninstall that old application.
What can we do to benefit the majority of the gamers out there? Maybe a CAL.EU to begin with, now that broadband isn't an issue any longer. Maybe a central news website for those to refer to for things that aren't solely Professionally related, a site for the majority of us gamers
What do you think?
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You have to look back quite a long time till you see the top 10 European teams all in action in an Online event like CAL is.
Unless the big bucks go into online events the teams wont attend, and when companies get the big bucks together they might as well run a LAN event.
Theres 2 good online tournaments, Clanbase EuroCup and ESL CSCL. But both tournaments struggle to get the big guns taking part, because theres no $30k prize.
Alot of reputation gets built on teams winning online. Why would the top teams risk getting shot down online when they would clearly beat their opponents on LAN.
European teams get better practise LANing than Online events. When the top Swedish teams play against each other on a good quality Swedish server then its the next best thing to LAN. But when a Swedish team has to play against a Russian team for example, their ping jumps up high, they have to play on a server in another country and reg isnt the same, and a high risk of losing, for nothing.
It would be nice for all the top teams to take part in CSCL for example but that just won't happen until the BIG LAN events force teams to qualify online. But then those teams will say they wont attend, nor will the other top 10/20 teams, so organisers change their mind and just run the LAN.
My 2 cents :)
pentagram also
and a lot of skilled russian teams participate
I think for other games like CSS for example, it is a good idea.
The clue is that online gaming sponsorship has a narrow audience. Clansite visitors, shoutouts, clantags.
Online gaming should open up more chances to advert, by for example having sponsors displayed on the Clans/players sheets on league and ladder sites of that particular clan. No need for ppl to actually go to that clan's site, they'll see it when arranging a war, or in the fixtures windows. Another possibility is to change the games played, HLTV or any spectator tool with sponsored messages, UK2 type sprites in spectator tools. Clans configure their servers with it.
Mentallity has to change to, sportsclubs aren't free too... you pay membership, competetive players should accept that it takes money, good material, pay to play leagues (within reason) Offcourse not everyone is able to pay, to young in most cases but the gamer is getting older won't be a problem for long imo.
So basicly money needs to be circulating, not only prize money, memberships, investments and sponsors to help out.