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.



















But my point is that mousesports is a "more german" mgc than SK due to SKs international focus.
Nope, CoD4 is USK 18 and so it can't be shown on free streams and coverage stuff before 11pm, which makes it unsuitable for eSports in Germany.
and the esl as a company cant break them x times a week
Competitions work round the organisation (to an extent - at least the good ones do). Look at DotA, MYM and SK (among others) picked it up when there was next to LAN tournaments, and now the ESWC picks it for 2008. Look at ipower series, they dropped all the other games, and basically made it a CoD tournament, and it will be run alongside the ESWC masters. I would guess, CoD having a good chance of being chosen next year for the main event.
Your a good writer by the way, keep it up. Nice read(s)
And like _evan said there are lots of good cod clans in germany even though they are not that famous in generel eSports. I don't think Cod4 is waiting for the germans. I think the germans are waiting for cod4 to have a real breakthrough and appeal to the masses.
But it might have the same problem as UT3. Which has basicly a 90% german community. If you look at international UT3 Teams there is atleast 1 german player signup in the rooster.
The points about easy learning and hard mastering all match quiet well. Since S&D is played, a very simmular Gametype to CS is handed over, so the audiance wouldn't have to be real interisted in cod to understand a regular matchup
cs 1.6 fans are cs fanatics and love this game more then anything else and for not shooter experts its like cs=plant,defuse bomb and codx plant,defuse bomb
you can see that very basic mistake at the cgs team from allianz berlin in your very same country. no one will ever root for that team in germany as they have one german player and no really popular ones. not even the german player is popular or the manager.
There are a lot of free-agents in CoD4 atm who are indeed german
As the old Speed-Link team split up, if they would build a new lineup (AGAIN) with
Let's say..
Trigger
spaR
Someone
Someone
Someone
(Taken into consideration that the 3 other players are top of the top) We'd be looking at another top team who'd be able to do very good carrying the colours of mouz, but that is just my opinion!
also SK are german org lol :P
And please nobody bring up CGS, is a fail of note!
ELC > CGS
Edit button please :P
Just for lulz though, I bet you couldn't say why I 'dislike' CSS :}
nice read evan!
w0w~
seriously germany sucks at 1.6...
1st Mousesports
3rd Alternate
gg
2. mibr can hardly be an Asian team, but your point is still perfectly legitimate as the game hasn't caught the audience there either.
3. The only problem for German organizations is that "killer games" are being frozen out in Germany. This can force organizations to avoid the likes of CoD to be able to keep sponsors (or attract new ones).