As serious gaming waved goodbye to their CoD2 squad, another of Europe’s tier two MultiGaming organisations waved goodbye to the game and it was another rude awakening from the dream of CoD2 entering the pro circuit.

Multigaming organisations exist in a tiered format, on the top tier you have organisations like SK, 4kings & Team 3D who have large budgets to waste on CounterStrike players who have no comprehension of loyalty. With 4kings as an exception, none of the top tier teams have touched the CoD series, and are unlikely to, why? Well there are many reasons and arguments, but one is that it hasn’t been a success with the tier 2 gaming organisations.

In tier 2 you have organisations like Dignitas, Serious Gaming, Check6, digitalMind, H2k who operate usually just under the radar of Intel and AMD’s marketing budget. Here games such as CoD2 have been given an opportunity to flourish to boost these smaller organisations fanbases and trophy cabinets. They are a gamble, but with Dignitas as an example it can pay off. However, for CoD2, Dignitas is becoming an exception rather than the rule.

I am all for organisations championing the smaller game, whenever prompted, I will always give Dignitas a glowing reference, however why should they bother even trying to pickup teams if nobody can stick together long enough?

DigitalMind last week removed their successful CoD division because they couldn’t get their act together. After numerous roster changes over the space of a year the sides constant changes were viewed to be doing more harm than good, despite their current rich vein of form.

Just this week Serious Gaming lost their team to oxid after deciding not to fund their CoD2 team to CPC2. Serious recruited a team with great potential, but ended up with a side who can boast completely gutting the roster that won Eurocup and an extended period of inactivity shortly after joining. Whilst there are rumours they may get back into the game, their first CoD2 experience brought them no exposure and no benefits.

That same side won the Eurocup under the Check6 brand, but Check6 another multi gaming and multi national organisation saw their side undergo massive roster changes throughout their spell.

If you want to believe that becoming the next big game has several obstacles to overcome, then getting past the tier two organisations is one of the big challenges. Whilst Speedlink and Dignitas have been fantastic adverts for the game, just two is nowhere near enough and the problem is not isolated to those examples that have been removed or have since died, it goes on in teams still in existence.

H2k have been guilty of being too unstable despite having now turned the corner. Reason Gaming have also had their difficulties to say the least and just days after Ocrana came back to the fold, their team is embroiled in a cheating scandal.

Believe it or not, gaming managers do their homework and the vast majority of them actually talk to eachother! If you want the money to flow, if you want your game to evolve its time to clean up your act because this cat is running out of lives! CS players are not an example to follow, the fiasco that is the 4kings CounterStrike division cannot be tolerated in new and smaller games.