January 14, 2007 – Enemy Territorys gaming history is quite long. There have been Up's and Down's like in every other online game. For about three years Enemy Territory is competitively played now, three years in which famous clans like mTw, Ocrana, Dignitas, United5, team9 or Check-Six had their own ET squads. Most of them left the scene very soon because there was nothing to win in ET at this time. We had Quakecon and Eurocup – that's it.
But things changed. In his column “Enemy Territory taking off?“ stewie described that chance - which ET has - to become one of the major online games very well. In fact there is a change. With GIGA and GIGA// broadcasting live matches ET got the chance to be watched by thousands of people. In addition GamesTV gave a big support with featuring about 4 to 8 ETTV matches a day. Radiostations like iTG and Headshot Media bring excellent shoutcasts to you. Besides the growing media attention ET gets picked up by more and more big leagues and LANs.
The Electronic Sports League (ESL) started with announcing their International Premiership Series (IPS) and gave a total amount of 1.500 euro for an online tournament. LAN tournaments were created by the community or picked ET as a game. Yet last year there were the Crossfire Prizefight Challenge (CPC) and Poznan Game Arena which offered next to Quakecon cash prizes. Smaller LANs like the ETL Steel LAN Series in Portugal, the LANparty Slask in Poland or the Invex Cup in the Czech Republik brought as well fantastic events to our community. As you can see there is a continuous process - ET becomes more professional. I say process because it wasn't just one shot.
ShgOpen 2007 selected ET besides CoD2 as a new game to their LAN event with an own competition and cash prizes and joined the line of great ET events in 2007.
Fragland3 an ET LAN party with cash prizes will take place in Paris, France very soon. Preparations for the second Crossfire LAN are on the way.
Furthermore we could hope for another edition of the yearly PGA in Poland with great ET matches between Europes best.
The ESL admins confirmed to do all possible they can for bringing another IPS season for Enemy Territory to our community.
Clanbase announced to feature moneyprizes and LAN finals for their next season. The chance to get LAN finals for ET should not be forgotten.
At the end of year 2006 Quakecon 2007 was already announced. Again there is a chance that the quakecon admins choose ET as one of the official games.
As you can see we can look quite optimistically into the future if it depands on tournaments for ET.
But tournaments and leagues won't make a game more professional by theirself. A game needs well known multigaming organisations to become a real competitive online game. And those big organisations have to give ET another chance. And again you might notice a positive change.
Well known organisations around the european gaming scene like zeroPoint! Gaming, cZar Gaming, suXus eSports, FourVisions and Exotic Island - to name just a few - showed their interest in the rising ET scene with taking their own ET squad. Nevertheless I hope these clans are not the only ones entering the scene.
With shgOpen 2007 we have a big event coming our way very soon and it should make every ET fan happy to see such a great event picking up ET as one of their major games. However, the question of how many teams could really make the trip to Copenhagen, Denmark makes me a bit sad again. I might have totally wrong impressions but I heard about just three up to four teams with honest intentions to take part. Finally we have a big event but where are the big clans? Dignitas Manager Fredrik “NewmaN“ Reinius signified once to have a look at our scene and to take a new team when there is the right time for it. But let me ask then, when is the right time if not now? A lot of teams deserve to visit such an event but they do not have the money to pay the trip and their stay. The big clans are the ones who are able to support those teams.
In my opinion it is a shame that there were at least two strong teams without any support of a multigaming clan last year attending Eurocup. I hope this won't happen again next season. A team attending Eurocup should be able to find a proper organisation without major problems. In fact it's up the clans itself, deciding to join or not to join any multigaming organisation to achieve the listed advantages but it should be clear that known multigaming organisations cause more publicity for ET and our community.
When you have a look at the latest changes around the gaming scene of Europe and the USA you might have noticed that Counter Strike 1.6 will slowly but surely die. Publisher Valve gave no TV licences for their most successfull game and prioritised the younger brother Counter Strike: Source. Big leagues like CEVO and the totally new Championship Gaming Series (CGS) support it now and famous teams like Complexity, Team3D, Pandemic and Check-Six followed with announcing their CS:S lineups.
Also Call of Duty 2 gets a real boost these days. With countless LAN tournaments announced for 2007 the CoD2 scene became an example of how much a community can achieve. Whether big leagues like WSVG will pick CoD2 remains to be seen.
It can be assumed that CS 1.6 takes its last breath these days. And with that a lot of other gaming scenes could be happy to get a little slice of the big cake. Enemy Territory got also the chance to become a respected online game. I wouldn't suggest ET being able to beat CS 1.6 or CS:S but we can definitely hope for ET becoming a major eSports title behind CS 1.6, CS:S and CoD2 if you look at the shooters.
Now it is up to the community, the managers and the active teams to improve our state of online gaming. Give ET another chance, have a look at our scene and watch out for stable and successfull teams which deserve to be supported.
Intendet grammar mistakes conduce to amusement ;)
But things changed. In his column “Enemy Territory taking off?“ stewie described that chance - which ET has - to become one of the major online games very well. In fact there is a change. With GIGA and GIGA// broadcasting live matches ET got the chance to be watched by thousands of people. In addition GamesTV gave a big support with featuring about 4 to 8 ETTV matches a day. Radiostations like iTG and Headshot Media bring excellent shoutcasts to you. Besides the growing media attention ET gets picked up by more and more big leagues and LANs.
The Electronic Sports League (ESL) started with announcing their International Premiership Series (IPS) and gave a total amount of 1.500 euro for an online tournament. LAN tournaments were created by the community or picked ET as a game. Yet last year there were the Crossfire Prizefight Challenge (CPC) and Poznan Game Arena which offered next to Quakecon cash prizes. Smaller LANs like the ETL Steel LAN Series in Portugal, the LANparty Slask in Poland or the Invex Cup in the Czech Republik brought as well fantastic events to our community. As you can see there is a continuous process - ET becomes more professional. I say process because it wasn't just one shot.
ShgOpen 2007 selected ET besides CoD2 as a new game to their LAN event with an own competition and cash prizes and joined the line of great ET events in 2007.
Fragland3 an ET LAN party with cash prizes will take place in Paris, France very soon. Preparations for the second Crossfire LAN are on the way.
Furthermore we could hope for another edition of the yearly PGA in Poland with great ET matches between Europes best.
The ESL admins confirmed to do all possible they can for bringing another IPS season for Enemy Territory to our community.
Clanbase announced to feature moneyprizes and LAN finals for their next season. The chance to get LAN finals for ET should not be forgotten.
At the end of year 2006 Quakecon 2007 was already announced. Again there is a chance that the quakecon admins choose ET as one of the official games.
As you can see we can look quite optimistically into the future if it depands on tournaments for ET.
But tournaments and leagues won't make a game more professional by theirself. A game needs well known multigaming organisations to become a real competitive online game. And those big organisations have to give ET another chance. And again you might notice a positive change.
Well known organisations around the european gaming scene like zeroPoint! Gaming, cZar Gaming, suXus eSports, FourVisions and Exotic Island - to name just a few - showed their interest in the rising ET scene with taking their own ET squad. Nevertheless I hope these clans are not the only ones entering the scene.
With shgOpen 2007 we have a big event coming our way very soon and it should make every ET fan happy to see such a great event picking up ET as one of their major games. However, the question of how many teams could really make the trip to Copenhagen, Denmark makes me a bit sad again. I might have totally wrong impressions but I heard about just three up to four teams with honest intentions to take part. Finally we have a big event but where are the big clans? Dignitas Manager Fredrik “NewmaN“ Reinius signified once to have a look at our scene and to take a new team when there is the right time for it. But let me ask then, when is the right time if not now? A lot of teams deserve to visit such an event but they do not have the money to pay the trip and their stay. The big clans are the ones who are able to support those teams.
In my opinion it is a shame that there were at least two strong teams without any support of a multigaming clan last year attending Eurocup. I hope this won't happen again next season. A team attending Eurocup should be able to find a proper organisation without major problems. In fact it's up the clans itself, deciding to join or not to join any multigaming organisation to achieve the listed advantages but it should be clear that known multigaming organisations cause more publicity for ET and our community.
When you have a look at the latest changes around the gaming scene of Europe and the USA you might have noticed that Counter Strike 1.6 will slowly but surely die. Publisher Valve gave no TV licences for their most successfull game and prioritised the younger brother Counter Strike: Source. Big leagues like CEVO and the totally new Championship Gaming Series (CGS) support it now and famous teams like Complexity, Team3D, Pandemic and Check-Six followed with announcing their CS:S lineups.
Also Call of Duty 2 gets a real boost these days. With countless LAN tournaments announced for 2007 the CoD2 scene became an example of how much a community can achieve. Whether big leagues like WSVG will pick CoD2 remains to be seen.
It can be assumed that CS 1.6 takes its last breath these days. And with that a lot of other gaming scenes could be happy to get a little slice of the big cake. Enemy Territory got also the chance to become a respected online game. I wouldn't suggest ET being able to beat CS 1.6 or CS:S but we can definitely hope for ET becoming a major eSports title behind CS 1.6, CS:S and CoD2 if you look at the shooters.
Now it is up to the community, the managers and the active teams to improve our state of online gaming. Give ET another chance, have a look at our scene and watch out for stable and successfull teams which deserve to be supported.
Intendet grammar mistakes conduce to amusement ;)
I roflolled irl :D
Four out of Eight teams already fold while the IPS.
And it will happen again if they don't run the next IPS season at the same time with EC.
It will be very hard for the ESL.et admins to get another season.
If ET have more people who feel things same like you... there will be always big chance to promote our beloved game!
"Today dreams can be tomorrow reality"
it just wasn´t supported the way it would have been good
still, it only depends on the team NOT on the multigamingclan theyre playing for
in rtcw we had infensus paying their trips on their own, and winning quakecon - in other games there a lots of teams doing the same
aslong as players wont take a risk in paying a few hundred euros to participate at a lan with cashprizes there wont be a big future for enemy territory and all other games
pga lan is the best example - we saw the two underdogs in top4 of the tournament coming out at the top.
xDDDD not really since we got too mutch hackers :o i heard that this sesion 14 guys with hacks played in EC. (just heard it dont know if its true :O ) and if u check netcoders.be u see that nexus fusen editoin got downloaded more than 500 times already (hopefully it gets detected soon :x) and u cant even play a 3on3 vs "highskilled" opponents without meeting some guys with 60acc and 100hs per sw round ^^
gj bo =]
nice work @ bo
Never heard of FourVisions or Exotic Island
<3 ET forever!
jien waqaft min wara nc tipo hadd ma jilaba uek :/
jien qieghed pstarZ 6on6
Let's hope someone from "the big multigaming organisations" will read this and make up their minds...
For example there will be that ShgOpen...if I live in Germany, it could be pretty easy to go there by a car. Some hundred kilometers, but if you go with your friends, teammates the full trip could not cost more than 200 Euro / person with hotel room for 3 days, ticket, "die benzin", bridge ticket etc..
From Sweden the same, at least from middle or South-Sweden. Almost the same from the Netherlands, and from West-Poland. And without hotel rooms (if you sleep in mattrasses in the sleeping room of the LAN) its near to 100 Euro + pocketmoney. You can bring your own computer, so you don't need rent one.
If you go by a plane:
- ticket 100-200 Euro / person
- LAN ticket costs 50 Euro / person,
- hotel 70 Euro with 3 beds / night (so if you are there for 3 days, thats 70 Euro / person)
- renting PC 135 Euro / pc + 35 Euro if you want mouse, headset etc too
- pocketmoney
So if a LAN could be in a country near to my home, I could be there that's sure. I hope the German, and Swedish guys think this too.
If those big clans seeing that only 3-4 good teams facing eachother, they will not support the game thats sure. And of course the biggest events will support only if ET teams are parts of the biggest multigaming clans, because thats almost a guarantee for you can travelling around the world, to USA or Asia for example where some of these events are.
You can raise the chance of ET if you go there, and support as many LANs as possible, so don't be lazy!
Too money for a small event.
If will be a LAN with 16teams and with high price money, a big multigaming can spend all these money for travel, hotel and pc rent, but for a small event they can only spit on you.
AND STOP TO HAX AND NETLIMIT FAGGOTS! IT WILL IMPROVE ET FOR SURE!
1. Not all teams mentioned in the article have a very big cashflow. So then can NOT support all communities. (I speak for myself btw)
2. If i had to choose on what community to spend it on i would not pick ET (don't kill me) but instead take Cod2 since it has a larger chance of succeeding.
3. ET has unstable line ups and lots of inactivity periodes (mQ, Vib, noll8, ect) which results in lots of work for the mgc without having real big benefits and many doubts (mgc's dont want a team just FOR ONE lan).
how many teams make it with the same line up to 2 or more events...
almost none...
money talks, freeware walks
not...
we have big power... but we must use it and cooperate together
most of the top teams were in cpc and pga had 4 top teams or something quakecon had 3 good teams so i would call those lans important more so than ec or any online cup
gaming is about lancompetition and we should try to bring ET closer to that
Sadly, that would involve remaking (or upgrading) a whole lot of things, which is not an easy job. Why go through that when we already have ET? Also, ETpron looks too much like ETprone. :D