ESWC bankruptcy; three in a row
6 Apr
Tag Archives: e-sports
Ultimate Gamer
6 Mar
The World Cyber Games are working on a reality-series, in which 12 gamers are going to battle it out for the title Ultimate gamer, a $100.000,- cheque and a position as ‘the face of the WCG’. The reality TV series will be broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel from March 10th on but will also be viewable on the Ultimate Gamer Website.
“As the 12 contestants share a loft in downtown Los Angeles, they will be tested in real-life challenges inspired by best-selling game titles, compete in the video games themselves, and ultimately must avoid elimination in head-to-head battles in an arena filled with hundreds of spectators. Ultimately, the player who is versatile and strategic enough to best their opponents in both the real-life and virtual gaming worlds will emerge as the WCG Ultimate Gamer.”I´ll probably watch it once to see if it sticks. What do you expect?
Gaming & E-Sports: Manuel ‘Grubby’ Schenkhuizen
20 Jan
Even though I have posted about Grubby before, I thought it would be nice to start the Gaming & E-Sports spree off with him, because he is the most famous Dutch gamer in the world. We are talking about a gamer that has done it all; feature in a Amsterdam Film Festival Documentary Beyond the Game, get admitted to the World Cyber Games Hall of Fame and win the Esports player of the year 2006 award.
The rest of this entry will detail some of his accomplishments and focus on what we can expect from him in the future!
Best Dutch e-sporter
17 Dec
Short update:
E-sports; ‘competitive playing of videogames’, has Grubby as its most famous Dutch community member. He has been interviewed by his team’s website, mymym.com, by using photographs instead of words. Good character piece by the website and worth checking out. By searching through Google you are sure to run into more pieces on this great player to get more insight!
ESL versus ESWC
16 Dec
Yesterday I reported on the ESL Masters prize purse of 280.000 euro, today it appears that the ESWC, another big e-sports organisation, has lost its main sponsor Nvidia. Even though they collaborated on last years finals in LA, the bad attendance and the nature of the on and off the partnership are speculated to be crucial in this final descision.
Nvidia appears to be reducing the amount of involvement in the e-sports scene, lets hope major investors like Intel are not thinking about doing the same. In terms of trends, not much to discover here, nobody knows what to expect from 2009, but it would be sad to see the 2009 season be the season to show a decline in what has been 12 years of growth in the market.
New Acquisition: gamingzoom.com
4 Dec
The domaining market, of which I wrote already some time ago, is also feeling the financial crisis. Because I own a small set of domains (I might publish a list later) I keep checking the numbers, and even though there are still quite a few domains that sell for substantial amounts of money the lower parts of the market have really dropped their price levels.
With that in mind, yesterday, I made my first acquisition in quite some time.
The Death of CGS
22 Nov
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/
