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Where are the Germans?
Written by _evan in column 1 month ago (73 comments) | Tagged in: evan column cod4 mym esports css
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In the space of nine hours, a bullish Mark Peter 'Mercy' Fries (Chief operations officer) of Meet Your Makers, forced a significant shift in power, by dropping their Danish Counter Strike Source squad in favor of a “very fast evolving eSports game that has captured a lot of fans, gamers and events already, meaning it could be the next big game with-in professional eSports”. Call of Duty 4 won this battle, but where does it go from here?

MYM's recruitment means five of eight g7 members now have Call of Duty 4 teams, more importantly, only one organisation lacks a squad. Now I will explain what I mean by this. The five organisations who already have teams are Four Kings, Fnatic, Meet Your Makers, PGSPokerStrategy and SK Gaming. This leaves Made in Brazil, Mousesports, and wNv (from the g7), but we can discount both MiBr and wNv because they're exclusively Counter Strike 1.6 and Asian organisations respectively.

This leaves Mousesports, and those intelligent enough to notice the title, the point!

Call of Duty has never had a market beyond Europe and North America, and will never reach the same level as Counter Strike 1.6. I need to make this point painstakingly clear, for the purpose of all the idiots in the CSS scene, who seem to cling exclusively to Cadred (you guys aren't even worth the 'fly clinging to shit' metaphor). As there seems to be some sort of conspiracy theory that the g7 organisations deliberately prevent the growth of CSS.
"arent the majority of the G7 teams controlled by 1.6 loving CSS hating people?"
CSS had the misfortune of being the successor to the most popular team based fps of all time, it had the misfortune of having one of the worst developers involved with competitive gaming, it had the misfortune of attracting the Championship Gaming Series. All these and more, have attributed to a saturated market in which no reasonable man with money is going to invest. There's no 'free' CSS market, you've a large scene but no structure, no support, and unfortunately for you, Call of Duty has none of these problems.

Call of Duty is going in one direction and compared to CSS, has a relatively warm relationship between itself and the 1.6' community, highlighted by organisations like SK Gaming and PGSPokerStrategy taking squads in, but opting out of CSS. This would rubbish the claims that g7 members have deliberately held back CSS, since Call of Duty itself, is a direct rival to 1.6'.

However, I firmly believe that in order for Call of Duty to continue to develop as rapidly as it has been doing over the last few months, Mousesports has to sign a team. Why Mousesports? Well, they're the only German organisation in the g7, in reality it could be anyone of the following, hoorai, KomaCrew e.V., mTw.PokerRoom, n!faculty, or Team Alternate.
"G7 teams are scared to move over from 1.6 as they know their dominance is threatened [...] especially when the management knows nothing of the scene thus cant craft a winning team."

There's a whole cluster of professional German organisations who fight in the ESL Pro series, in the varying games like Counter Strike 1.6, FIFA, Warcraft III and Counter Strike Source (as well as the supported titles). I believe if Mousesports make the premature jump (it would've to be one of the bigger organisations initially), then not only the other German organisations, but also the ESL itself could give Call of Duty a place in the pro series.

Again this is just speculative, why would the ESL or Mousesports want to support Call of Duty? Well I'll tell you why, Germany, unlike in other pro series titles such as Warcraft III, Counter Strike 1.6 and Source, actually enjoys quite a high international standard of talent in the Call of Duty series. The likes of SPEEDLINK absolutely dominated the international LAN scene at the beginning of Call of Duty 2, and L-King was in the highly successful TEK-9 team which won WSVG Dallas amongst other things towards the end of Call of Duty 2's lifetime. The team that was making all the headlines at the start of Call of Duty 4? That would be THE6DEVILS, the German team which would later go onto join SK-Gaming.

If this happened, I believe contracts and wages would become the standard, organisations would've to increase wages in order to keep the best players and teams, and Call of Duty 4 would (despite how horrifically I've oversimplified the procedure) become a 'proper' eSports title.




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