Good morning everybody,
[/b]My first article will be about the three dominating games on the page here. Namely "Enemy Territory" , "Call of Duty 4 " and "Enemy Territory:Quake Wars"!
First of all I want to say that I will be telling about every game from my point of view, but I will as well compare the current signups of the OC/EC Season and the number of Cup and Lans.
I will be starting off with a game many of you played a very long time and some already think it might be dead, so before it fully dies I will give it the first place in my Article.
Happy Reading !
You make statements you shouldn't be making and limit your views too much. For example you talk about ClanBase and ESL for W:ET, but don't talk about the other great cups and leagues like the cup TLR is organizing (will it continue now Impact left the orga? - interesting to find out), you judge ET:QW by EAS signups and dont look at the other cups the ESL organizes, or consider factors like the upcoming Quakecon. Also there is not much of a "red thread" (a returning subject) in the article, which (imo) should be present.
Columns / journals are a better place for your opinion and speculation.
Oh btw, don't take my opinion to offensive - I quitted writing columns and stuff because I sucked at it as well :P
ET got cups like:
+ every week two or three 1-day-cups...
Many oldschoolers come back to play ET again couse of the Pricepurse imo... (urtier, gza, Ganon, mAx, etc)
I dont know much from ET:QW but the statisktik like miTTi told is is speaking clearly against it... imo the Problem of ET:QW is that it got the gamplay from 3 Games. The weapons/fastness from quake, the classes/aim from ET and the gameplay from BF2. A quake player likes the weapons/fastness but he cant start anything with the aim and gamplay. Same for the other gamers from ET and BF2...
A game should have his own style... Before CS came out, most games where fast. Fast like quake but had there own styles. CS was the first game that tried to be as realistic as it can be to this time... So they made it slow but with the anti camper weapon, the flashbang :D
So there is EMS (1000 euro) and the crossfire challenge (No info for a while)
Sounded more impressive when you wrote it :)
your etqw story was so sad !
But anyway thumbs up
But as for etqw ETQWPRO is doing a big job now and in the upcoming months I think a lot of players will return to ETQW just as I have done due to the major improvements in the upcoming release.
well thats really bullshit (sry for teh hard words)... do you really think that any team stating "Wants" expects to get into the EC? not rly but why choose "No" if you would not decline a chance when given + "Wants" is the default one and lazy boys like me dont care about changing it :p
simply wrong.
agree
This article merely seems like a statistic.. you should've kept that a bit shorter but eventhough keep it up :)
The piece is a factual account of a newsworthy event.
The writer is objective and shows all sides to an issue.
The sources for this news story are identified and are reliable.
Show, don't tell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(publishing)
Column
It is personality-driven by the author
It explicitly contains an opinion or point of view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_(newspaper)
So yes this should have been a column :)
why did you say et-ace in the article then? and then told me that it was nearly finished.
this must be the biggest joke I have read in a while
<3
And the ESL/CB are the 2 most known and biggest leagues in Europe...
on the eslpart i read: cb will not give another eurocup for qw - on which facts is this sentence based on? nealry every topteam signed up for the current eurocup - and with 61 teams it will become a interesting cup imo...
additionally why it is too early for cod4 to be played on the eslladders/eps/eas and so on?
nice that you`ve taken an initiative but next time be prepared a bit better / gather more facts/ get deeper into the games/communitys/situations
You are just always stating "Well let's see what the future brings" and then conclude with some random e-sports definition.
Thanks for pointing this out captain obvious!
This is just worth a journal btw...
ROFL, nice research ... >_<
Just as rglaf says: ETQW > cod4 > et
Clarity, economy and simplicity
You wrote 1615 words, saying pretty much nothing. To make things worse, you spread out the topics over different pages. I can see the primitive thinking and structure of your argument but you've to transfer your points and ideas into paragraphs (not pages).
One of the first things you should decide is a word limit. Typically most people on the Internet lose interest after 500 words, but depending on your subject you can stretch anywhere to up to 750 words. Only attempt larger word limits if you're actually a good writer, that goes without saying.
Despite what you think, what you wrote was polemical (strong personal view), and as some have already pointed out, it should've formed the basis of a column, not an article.
For feature articles there's a general structure you can follow, though I'm speaking generally and not about the Internet/competitive gaming or in fact my own writing for that matter.
Readership
Research
Interviews/Vox-pop
Information
Angle
Structure
Spit and polish
But for you, I'm going to give a more general structure to work and practice with.
Introduction (50 words, explaining the What? Where? Who? When? How?)
Bulk (400 words – a paragraph should only have two or three sentences, and the sentences should never exceed 30 words, you'll probably have 5-8 paragraphs)
Conclusion (50 words)
“All round genius Sean Ellis captivates in his first feature film Cashback. Narrating the life of young wannabe artist Ben Willis, (Sean Biggerstaff) who finds himself suffering insomnia in the wake of his break up from the remarkably beautiful Suzy (Michelle Ryans) and finds shelter in a supermarket night shift.”
[An introduction example for a movie review, notice how it answers the essential W's (who, what, where etc etc) and keeps exactly to 50 words]
“E-Sports in general are getting more and more important. Many countries see it as a regular sport and soon it will be supported like a normal sport. If the advertence of eSports grows in general it will be supporting many games, not only a few. So let's see what the future will bring.”
I'll try to break your writing apart and show why people have generally disliked it, I hope you appreciate the effort that I go to in order to explain, rather than just replying 'it sux'.
E-Sports in general are getting more and more important.
You haven't defined eSports, you generalize with abstract adjectives (important) and worse still you actually misuse and create redundancy. More is the comparative, so saying 'more and more' is rather unnecessary, unless you're intending to use it as a stylistic choice, but you said yourself, this is an article so that would make its use inappropriate.
Let's clean it up a bit, before I continue.
E-Sports in general is getting more important.
Now there are still errors, but at least you've removed any language issues and redundancy (Imagine if I removed 2 words from every simple or compound sentence)!
E-Sports is getting more important (important for who and why?).
E-Sports is more important (than?).
E-Sports is important (compared to?).
This is where you've to decide, do you keep more, or remove it? If you keep it, then you've to expand the sentence. If you don't, then you still have to say why it's getting more important. This is where you're really struggling, and your mains ideas are becoming lost.
Actually say something and say why you said it, instead of speculating and saying nothing. You're wasting time and space. Most importantly (at least for this article), stop advertising like a whore, ET-ACE and its success, bares absolutely no relation the popularity of ET, or ET's place in the Crossfire games, neither does the ESL or Clanbase.
There's so many problems here, and I've only tipped the ice berg, but find something you enjoy writing about in real live, try writing and explaining why you love the chill of an early morning, or the smell or diesel, or the taste of chocolate. It warms you up, and hopefully you'll learn the relation between good and bad writing.
Writing isn't by any means easy, and half the effort you don't actually see. Although it's boring and tedious, planning is what makes the difference, at least at this level.
FUCKING LOLZ xD
Yup, but UT'99 Insta 2v2 will still be in NC right?
Only thing that could keep ET:QW alive over the summer is a announcement of a ET:QW tournament @ Quakecon imo... so alot of "topclans" will stay alive for that reason. Otherwise alot of teams will fold after EC/in the summer and there will be even less signups in Fall Season.
I guess summer cup will be the last chance for another ET:QW EC unless this season goes extremely well
+ CDC 5 will be a month or something after Quakecon, so if there is Quakecon teams might stick together for CDC 5 aswell
(and i'm still playing for GaB :x)
shush
In my opinion it is a lot of work for the Eurocup Admins to pick the 16 best teams out of those 161 Teams." and yet i dont agree with your point of view :).
100 of those who wrote "Wants" didnt think about EC at all. they just left it as it was default. Also, why shouldnt you let it 'Wants'? This gives you assurance that you will play in OC anyway (apart from "Only" and the decision of admins that they wont let you play EC, you wont play OC nether) and also gives 1/100000000000 chance that you will play quali :D
imo stupidity is to write "Only" or "No".
and this aint hard to get 24 teams out of those tbh.
yes, admins got hard work but it's obvious. But everybody is thankful to them for that.
blaming closed beta for youre unskilledness made my day. Take Speedlink for example - they never played the closed Beta and when the open beta came the were not even close in the european top ten. But all you have to do is to practise a lot and improve your aim and teamplay.
So dont whine about the game. Ask yourself - if you are not willing to spend time to improve your gameplay maybe the game isnt wrong - YOU ARE WRONG !
CoD > ET > ET:QW
xD
people should know if they are EC-skilled or not.
as for the CoD4 signups, WTF! that's alot
35.000 busts ... MOST HACKED GAME EVER!
ya right! > ALL