Gaming & E-Sports
ESL Extreme Masters: Finals with €280.000 purse
The latest pressrelease by ESL states that the European Finals will be combined with the Global Finals. While this does not automatically merge the prize purses, this does mean that one event will give out a total of 280.000 euro in prizes. The final will be at the CeBit event in Hannover, not that far from Holland if you look at it that way, but perhaps a little further for you. The two games are World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike 1.6, teams like SK Gaming and mTw are already qualified, these two alone would ensure a fantastic tournament.
I have visited this event about 3 times, and I liked it every one of them. So, looking for a trip into gaming, or any of the other million disciplines available at the CeBit. Go check it out!
The Death of CGS
GGL’s Mahmood wrote an excellent article on the recent death of the CGS, the championship gaming series, by bSky amonst others. Sadly this league burned through huge amounts of money to, in the end, accomplish nothing at all. Read more at the link below.
http://wire.ggl.com/2008/11/21/postmortem-why-the-cgs-is-dead/
Comment spam; quality of links
Recently, I noticed some bots posting comments on my blog posts having links to their websites as reference. This is a way of generating incoming links for a homepage, which is good, but not when noone has actually read my piece. This is not vanity, it’s just that I want google, because it’s google they do it for, to keep generating good quality links for me! So I delete the nonsense messages!
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Cyberathlete Professional League calls it quits
On www.thecpl.com it was announced: the Cyberathlete Professional League ceases operation. The once great organisation with the most prestigious tournaments in both Counter-Strike and Quake 3, has been in a downward spiral since its 2005 Painkiller World Tour. The only reason I make note of this is not because it’s a big gaming company going down, but because this company got me into e-sports, competitive gaming, through its Counter-Strike championships.
Its demise in my opinion was caused by the lack of focus and community backing, pulling CS and Q3 made for an opening in the international circuit, one that ESWC and WCG were happy to fill by basing their tournaments on community attention. The CPL went down because they went from being a organisation of gamers for gamers to one that tried to dictate an upcoming sport. Not a big loss for the current gaming scene, but there is still some sentiment involved.