With three weeks having now passed since the release of Enemy Territory: Quakewars, new teams have formed, older teams have died and thousands of euros are being invested into tournaments. One can only wonder where quakewars is going, with the amount of players and interest increasing day by day. However, for much longer than 3 weeks now have teams been forming, with many competitions and thousands of dollars being put into the game even before it's release. Teams have been praccing since a closed beta released what feels like years ago now, and we're already beginning to see a hierarchy of clans forming within such little time. With multigaming clans such as 
Eyeballers, 
Speedlink & 
dignitas picking up teams in the early stages, we can only hope that clans such 
fnatic, 4kings & SK will go the same way.
So who is hitting the top of this 'hierarchy' you may be wondering? Well, based on beta performances and individual player experience, I have chosen 8 teams who i feel will be dominating the ETQW scene, atleast for the early days. These are (in no particular order!):
Dignitas
Eyeballers
Speedlink
grof
point blank
Kompaniet
pelit
wArning!
Some of these teams have yet to prove themselves, but most are widely known as the stronger teams playing the game at the moment (excluding the american scene). Over the next pages details are available for each team, including lineups, background, achievements and more.
Eyeballers, Speedlink & dignitas picking up teams in the early stages, we can only hope that clans such fnatic, 4kings & SK will go the same way. So who is hitting the top of this 'hierarchy' you may be wondering? Well, based on beta performances and individual player experience, I have chosen 8 teams who i feel will be dominating the ETQW scene, atleast for the early days. These are (in no particular order!):
Dignitas Eyeballers Speedlink grof point blank Kompaniet pelit wArning!Some of these teams have yet to prove themselves, but most are widely known as the stronger teams playing the game at the moment (excluding the american scene). Over the next pages details are available for each team, including lineups, background, achievements and more.
btw #aMenti
Skuff.
#aMenti
gl with ur clan meight!
And mAus' skill in ETQW would suddenly raise.. (no offence to you good-looking mAus :])
<33333333333333333333333 AHahahAHAHAHHA ROFLMAO
that was AWESOME FuN
(I could understand if :>)
I'm gonna go:
warning! -> RedCode or possibly x6tence
Point Blank -> Reason
Pelit -> Logitech (if old logitech squad sucks)
Kompaniet -> h2k
Think Tek9 would only go for a benelux team
All those are made up, so sorry if I get it right :)
kompaniet > h2k or cph?
pelit > logitech
warning > redcode/x6tence
my cbooky
hmm i loled:D
anyway nice article
I can confirm that SK:
a) Going to be covering ET:QW when the new site comes out.
b) bds knows about ET:QW and 'its interesting' and considers it a possible esports title.
For it to get big though and to be considered by the big guys (NiP is dead by the way and was '1.6 only, so they wouldn't have picked it up anyway), but for the likes of MYM, SK, 4Kings, Fnatic
- Needs a ET:QW TV mod as soon as possible
- At least one of the big competitions to pick it up (WCG has opened up its selection, so this is viable)
- Single language/country teams are a big advantage. Although I think multi-national sides have the most skill, this is just better logistically.
For any of the players from the teams mentioned above, I could try and get contacts for some big organisations [that would be suited for you, eg Warning - redCode] so you could send them a formal email to inquire about joining, although I wouldn't expect anything.
But I hate to ask the question, will ETQW take the backseat as the release of CoD4 comes?
but then again. these are the teams You feel will be dominating, and that's your personal opinion, so i can't say you're wrong either :)
But....
ONE CAN ONLY WONDER!!!
And I'm sure there even are private and personal bots out already to ETQW...
It's not a high price for ET-cheaters to show that they own in other games too.
Well, I don't care really, they can own so much they want in a game, but I don't think anyone is clean until they play on a LAN where its impossible to install cheats..
Yes, paranoid is the word.
but NiP is dead rahul
fnatic, SK, mouz and MYM are the teams, who has the money...
As you can see there :
ET: QW isn't the BIG success awaited, for me and many others RtCW and ETPlayer, ET: QW is a big disappointment.
The game is overhyped at the moment, we'll see if it'll growing up alone, I'm realy septic about that.
I agree the numbers haven't been all that, peaks aren't usually reached for the first 2-3 months of retail on a game anyway, but those numbers can't be coming from a reliable source.
http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/
Haha
2. Gamespy, haha always less then 3K
Now lets look at those teams:
Speedlink nearly all ET
Eye all Bf2
dignitas more than half bf2
Grof all but one bf2
.b not too many from ET there
Kompaniet only one from ET most bf
Pelit nearly all bf2
Warning half of them bf2 players.
Hmm guess none of them will have any style of play :P
Just one ET player to bring that mindset on board when a team is looking at tactics would be a huge help, at least in the initial stages of the game's development, where standard tactics and plays haven't been developed yet, would be extremely useful.
EYEBALLS have another LU, so im not so sure about them.